Steven Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

How to Study is one of the most important things a student can learn.

It's September in my hometown of Boston, and students are arriving in force everywhere.

Moving trucks are lining the streets, futons are filling the houses,

and Axe body spray is flying off the shelves.

Everyone is here for one thing

to learn what the schools are teaching.

They learn by studying.

Yet, oddly, the one thing the schools aren't teaching

is how to study.

We assume people will magically pick it up without trying.

Um, no.

Learning how to study is simple, but it's not easy.

You can increase your chances of doing well in school, however, by mastering several particular

study skills.

I was the weird geeky kid in school years before geeky was in, so everyone hated me,

and I had no friends.

But because I lacked a social life, I did have

an awful lot of time to figure out how to study. That's why I eventually graduated from both

MIT and Harvard Business School. Here are some of my top study tips, and I hope they work as well

for you, and I hope you have friends, too. Tip number one, how to study, skim the big picture, then dive deep.

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