5 Questions: Making Studying Fun, Unlearning Bad Habits, & Honors Programs (Ep. 98)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On this 5 questions episode, we go over how to make study fun (including some detail on "interest links"), unlearning bad techniques and habits, the value of honors programs, break/rest structures, and more. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Why I killed my standing desk 9 life-changing books That fan-fiction article The Last Ring-Bearer Temporal motivation theory Subjunctive The Discoverers Superstar effect BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits Yoga with Tim 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. 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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0:34.0	What is up everybody and welcome to the college info geek
0:41.0	podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student. And on this episode I'm joined once again by my friend and roommate Martin Vamey and we are doing a five questions episode. So we got five questions from the college info
0:53.7	geek community and we're going to be answering them with some of our personal
0:57.0	experiences and also some general tips that we've known experiments that we've
1:01.1	done our own lives, stuff like that.
1:03.0	And specifically, we'll be talking about how to make studying fun again.
1:06.5	We're talking about how to structure your break times between study sessions,
1:11.0	whether you should give yourself time every single night if you're really
1:13.4	busy to take some time off, or if you should compress all of your work and give yourself an
1:18.3	entire day each week to take a break. We'll also be talking about how to unlearn bad techniques, bad skills, things that
1:24.7	you learn when you were a beginner, how to go down and break down the skills and get rid of those bad
1:29.2	habits you've learned. We're talking about whether or not honors programs are worth it and in general if adding more credentials and things that are impressive quote unquote to your resume is worth it got some cool personal experiences there and lastly we'll be talking about working out how to
1:44.0	structure your time and motivation so you exercise more often and whether or not
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