Have you ever spent a ton of time and energy studying all night for a quiz, only to totally blank out and forget everything in the testing room? Yeah, me too.

What most students don't realize is that the way they're studying or trying to learn material usually contradicts the way the brain is naturally wired. This is why you feel like you're forcing things and trying SO HARD, but don't have any results to show for it. So today I want to teach you how the brain actually works - so you can learn faster and easier than before.

How the Brain Thinks

And How to Use it to Your Advantage

The brain has two modes of thinking, active thinking and passive thinking. We can call active thinking focus mode and passive thinking diffuse mode.

Focus Mode (Active Thinking)

The brain relies on focus mode when actively trying to solve a problem or processing new information step-by-step. We use this type of thinking when we're solving a math problem, taking a test, or answering reading...

As we near the end of first semester, many students are starting to feel academic burnout creep in. With seasonal challenges and the holiday rush, many students can start to feel unmotivated, overwhelmed, unproductive, and burnt out. 

This type of burnout can affect students mentally, emotionally, physically, and academically. In this post, we'll help you move past burnout and prevent it from happening again with these actionable tips.

First, what is student burnout? 

Burnout is a state of chronic stress that can hinder someone's ability to function, both in their academic and personal life. 

Some common signs of burnout include:

• physical and emotional exhaustion
• lack of motivation
• feeling detached, alone, or depressed
• sense of failure or self-doubt
• feeling helpless, trapped, or defeated
• increasingly negative outlook
• decreased satisfaction and sense of accomplishment

If you are experiencing any of the above symptoms, you may be experiencing academic...

Procrastination: the bane of every student’s existence.

Everyone – even highly-driven and accomplished individuals – struggles with procrastination. So, what’s the key to conquering it? A mindset shift. Everyone thinks, learns, studies, and works differently. The only way that anyone can overcome procrastination is by changing the way they think about their work and learning some common strategies about what works for them. 

Recognize that you’re procrastinating 

As mentioned above, everyone thinks, learns, studies, and works differently. Consequently, the strategies that help someone else overcome procrastination may not instantly help you. To start, you’ll want to stop and acknowledge:

• That you are in fact procrastinating
• Why you’re struggling with procrastination 

 Often, procrastination is painted as “laziness,” but this is an oversimplification of the issue. There are numerous reasons why people...

If you’re a student at any level, you know that investing absolutely zero effort is a surefire way to performing poorly in your classes. Skipping classes, ignoring assignments, never reading and avoiding studying means not passing.

To some extent, the energy you invest determines the results you get. So at some point, we accept that doing nothing gets you nothing. 

Over time, we start to believe that the inverse is true: Doing EVERYTHING will get you the results you want. 

But what if “more is more” is really more of a fallacy than a study strategy? 

Now, I understand that doing more can feel powerful, inspiring, and productive. But it can also be exhausting and undermine your confidence. When you are legitimately unable to dedicate a million hours to something (because there’s only so many hours in the day), you’ll inevitably feel unprepared or not good enough.

This “more is more” obsession runs rampant in all areas of our...