P&P: Jared Cooney Horvath "Top 5 Tips for Better Faster Learning"

Episode 208: The Prepped and Polished Podcast is an educational and inspirational show that offers tutoring and test prep tips as well as interviews with celebrities and leaders in education. It is hosted by Alexis Avila, founder of Prepped and Polished LLC, a tutoring and test prep firm for K-college. On today's episode of the Prepped and Polished Podcast, Alexis Avila talks to Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, Ph.D., MEd, an expert in the field of Educational Neuroscience. He has conducted research and lectured at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, the University of Melbourne, and over 100 schools across four continents. He is the author of the book "Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick." Today, Jared gives us his top five strategies teens and adults can use to learn faster. Tip 1: Get your mind right. Make sure you tell yourself you CAN learn this and jump start your mind. Tip 2: Match context to the outcome. If you have a test next Friday in a Red room, then study in that red room, wear the same cologne, etc. Routines become highly contextual. Tip 3: Don’t multitask. No one can multitask. Memory and accuracy tanks when you perform more than one task at a time. So if you’re studying, put the phone away, and study. Music is ok to study too as long as it’s just background noise. Tip 4: Less is more. You’ll do better with less but focused study over the course of two weeks, vs. study and multitask for four hours straight. Try 25 minutes of focused study then break for 5 minutes and text friends or grab a snack, then come back for 25 minutes. If after 25 minutes you reach a Flow state and want to keep studying, by all means, go past the 25 minute mark. Tip 5: Recall is everything. The key to a deep memory is you have to pull info out of your brain. So talk a lot about what you learned. Teach someone else some of that info. Bonus tip: You create the narrative or find the story behind the info you want to remember. Jared’s tips for teens: 1. Life is longer than you think. Make decisions in advance but ok to change your mind later. Remain open. 2. Recognize you are in charge of this. The Brain and body are passive and responds to you. Take control. For another related conversation, check out episode 150 with Jessica Yeager on how she got into Harvard and six other Ivy League schools. For More Information Visit: preppedandpolished.com. Enjoy, Thanks for Listening and remember at The Prepped and Polished Podcast, We Empower You to Take Control of Your Education!