5 Questions: College Reading, Winter Fitness, and Closing the Taste Gap (Ep. 280)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this 5 questions episode, we talk about reading, winter fitness, helping others, schedules, and learning to make something that doesn't suck. Full show notes This week’s episode is sponsored by: Brilliant: Accelerate your learning in math, science, and computer science. Start learning for free at Brilliant.org/CollegeInfoGeek — and if you’re one of the first 200 people to use this link, you’ll also get 20% off your subscription. Hover: Your personal brand is important, and it starts with your domain name. Get 10% off your first domain name purchase by going to Hover.com/cig. Things mentioned in this episode: Kurzgesagt's The Egg - A Short Story video Bodyweight Fitness subreddit The Science Behind Reading Speed 5 Ways to Read Faster That ACTUALLY Work Do Speed Reading Apps & Techniques Really Work? Reading Faster: The Science Behind What Works… and What Doesn’t (Ep. 93) How to Learn a New Skill Quickly: A 4-Step Process CaseyNeistat on YouTube Imposter Syndrome (Ep. 278) Linus Tech Tips on YouTube Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:05:48 - Staying fit during the winter 0:17:28 - Reading silently or out loud when studying 0:22:35 - Sponsor: Brilliant (Learning problem-solving skills) 0:24:54 - Sponsor: Hover (Buying a domain name) 0:26:52 - Getting better at creating 0:40:44 - Planning out your schedule 0:46:50 - Dealing with imposter syndrome 0:54:03 - Conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:36.3	info geek podcast.
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0:39.4	as a student but a terrible resource for learning
0:41.2	how to have a fulfilling career in the arts and also make a lot of money at the same time.
0:46.8	Yep. Still haven't figured it out. Yep. How do you do it? I don't know. You like throw paint splotches on the wall and say it represents the soul of your pet turtle Jimmy and then bam 10 million dollars sold
0:59.5	Oh well first you need to get a pet turtle named Jimmy.
1:03.2	That was easy.
1:04.2	Make sure that this Jimmy turtle has been in sold, otherwise you can't say it represents
1:08.8	a soul of your turtle.
1:09.4	Jimmy, if it's a soulless turtle, this is important.
1:11.6	Wait, don't turtles get a soul when they're born?
1:14.6	It depends on the turtle. There's a little bit of favoritism involved. Is this like Calvinistic
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