Can’t wait to break out of high school and dash off to college? College is a lot of fun. Late nights, parties, sporting events with thousands of people, on-campus concerts and thousands of potential new friends combine to make college some of the best years of a person's life. Yet, in the ...
Learning Skills
Below you’ll find articles on learning skills and related tips, especially ways to boost your grades, prepare for college, figure out what you want out of life, and set your own course.
If you’re ready to start taking charge of your future, the best way to begin is to get control of your learning. Why? Because it’s the biggest part of your “working” life right now. And the number one way that others are sizing you up.
By showing you can excel at learning, you earn the clout to choose your path. The trust to define your next steps. The opportunity to make things happen.
But first, you’ve got to wrap your head around ways to master school content – even when it seems difficult and you don’t really feel up to it. Fortunately, you’re not alone. The learning skills and advice we share come from decades of research that’s been done precisely because so many students have faced challenges similar to your own.
You can read all about learning skills under this topic. Here are 3 essential articles to get started:
5 Study Skills to Accelerate Your Learning
What Intelligence Means to You
21 Study Tips: Learn the Strategies that Set Top Students Apart
Feel free to browse through the articles. Or sign up for our study skills course on Thinker Academy, and take a more focused approach to get in control of your learning.
Want a Deep Understanding? First, Know How Little You Know
It's natural to feel we have a deep understanding of the world. Unfortunately, we most often don't. On the whole, we tend to think we understand how things work in much more detail than we actually do. Scientists continue to show us just how complex the world really is. And the devices we ...
How to Study Efficiently and Remember What You Study
School is unreal. Imagine you’re suffering through an algebra class. Graph this weird function. Can you solve for Y? You move on to physics. The teacher discusses electrons spinning around neutrons and protons. You shake your head. None of this is real. Pure fantasy land. What ...
21 Study Tips: Learn the Strategies that Set Top Students Apart
It’s annoying, isn’t it? You see them in every class. The students who seem to breeze on through. Coolly killing one test after another. How do they do it? Is it something you can master? Yep, it is. You see, scientists have been snooping on these top students for decades. It’s ...
Self-Explanation: A Good Reading Strategy for Bad Texts (& Good)
One of the important study skills we need in our increasingly technology driven world is the ability to learn from hard-to-understand text. Maybe you’re trying to grasp a biology textbook chapter on sexual reproduction. Or perhaps you’re reading articles on the web to figure out how to extend ...