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The Inforium

5 Reader Questions: How I Email Well-Known People, Note-taking, and Relaxation (Ep. 76)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Questions have piled up in my inbox and now I'm answering some of them. Today we'll talk about how I reach out to podcast guests, how to study physics and statistics, methods of relaxing between study sessions, and more. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: CGP Grey Cortex Podcast Simon Clark Jamie Miles My video on skill acquisition The Personal MBA The First 20 Hours Refillable note binder Evernote hacks for lectures Paper vs. computer notes Japanese note-taking hack Listen Money Matters - the other podcast I co-host Habitica Beeminder Coach.me Interview with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan 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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0:00.0

Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.

0:03.2

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0:34.0

Hey what's up everybody.

0:39.0

Welcome to the College Info Geek Podcast.

0:42.0

My name is Thomas Frank and this is the show that helps

0:43.8

you become a more effective student. We talk about study tips, ways to get internships and

0:48.8

jobs, ways to master your money, pay off your debt, and all sorts of other stuff on this show, and to be quite honest,

0:54.4

I just want to ramble a little bit about something that's been on my mind before we get in today's topic,

0:59.2

because I've been thinking about, I don't know, maybe you can agree with this or you've had something in your life that

1:03.7

uh this kind of like meshes with you getting from zero percent to like 80 or 90 percent in any sort of skill in life is so much easier than getting from that 80 to 90 percent point to nearing perfection.

1:21.2

I don't think perfection is ever really attainable. There's always something you can improve but

1:25.6

instead of perfection let's use the word professional level. Getting from

1:30.8

amateur enthusiast level to professional level is so much harder and there's so many more

1:36.4

fiddly details and just weird things that you have to figure out how to deal with than

1:41.9

there are when you're getting from zero to the point at which most

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