How to Make Your Own Personal Curriculum! Pt. 1

Schauer Thoughts

Sarah Schauer & Studio71

Comedy, Education

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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The time is now! This week we’re discussing how to create your own individual curriculum, an endeavor I happen to have extensive experience with. We will be breaking this series into parts as I want to readjust some understanding, reframe some concepts, and give insight into best practices to maintain longevity. Please have your notebooks out and your listening ears on or just relax tbh (we value personal choice in the communal Schauer) because this refresher will be heavy. Don’t worry, next week will be on creative execution! Make sure to like, subscribe, rate me 5 stars, and follow along, you may learn something new. Please follow Elizabeth! —> https://www.tiktok.com/@xparmesanprincessx Resources: Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions - Temple Grandin The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics - Tim Harford This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making - Elspeth Kirkman Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline - Lori L. Desautels, PhD Below this is the online powerpoint Slideshow for “Applied Educational Neuroscience/Brain, Adversity and Resiliency https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ceee1ee9cd4360001a1cfca/t/5d8e307c5a5a131029422a4d/1569599618600/Desautels+PowerPoint.pdf Struggling to Find a Hobby That Sticks? Try a “Personal Curriculum” https://theeverygirl.com/personal-curriculum-tiktok-trend/ How to Start Researching as a Hobby https://substack.com/home/post/p-168506463 How to Be The Type of Person Who Loves Reading and Learning https://substack.com/home/post/p-179871707 How Words Shape Consciousness: New Research Reveals The Deep Link Between Language and Awareness https://thedebrief.org/how-words-shape-consciousness-new-research-reveals-the-deep-link-between-language-and-awareness/ No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/no-brain-no-gain-neuronal-activity-enhances-benefits-exercise No Child Left Behind: What Worked, What Didn’t https://www.nhpr.org/education/2015-10-27/no-child-left-behind-what-worked-what-didnt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi guys, welcome back to Shower Thoughts. My name is Sarah Shower. This is a podcast for left and right brainers, middle brainers, anyone with the puns, medulla brainstem, cerebrum, any type of cortex. If you have one nerve in your pointer finger, this is the podcast for you.
0:24.0	So we are finally tackling a subject that I am very passionate about and I know a lot about
0:28.9	how to develop a self-curriculum. Now, we will be taking the kind of long way around detailed
0:36.8	because the thing is, I've noticed with a lot of self-curriculum.
0:40.9	The advice is kind of, it's not surface level, but it is very like basic sort of overview.
0:47.7	And when it comes to me, I like adding it a little bit more detail to make, you know, the advice a bit more dense and understood and easier to
0:55.0	apply. And so we're going to go through, you know, how to start approaching curriculum,
1:02.6	like self-curriculum because most of us are approaching it outside of a school system. And
1:07.4	you need discipline and you also need drive and you need passion.
1:12.6	And we're going to circumvent the punishment route because we're doing outside of a school,
1:17.6	at least outside of a school system. Also, you're likely not running this by your parents.
1:22.6	So like the grading system is going to be gone so we need to give ourselves new structure for
1:27.6	understanding and move off of punishment and shift to reward because we do need a very motivating
1:33.1	you know drive to keep us going but before we get into that which I'm very excited about how is my
1:39.8	week my week was incredible so my butch and I um we went to, we like went to, on Saturday, we went to go get some
1:48.8	like macho and like different books.
1:50.6	And I, she pointed out this book that has absolutely changed my life.
1:54.7	And you might have heard of it.
1:56.2	But it's called visual thinking, the hidden gifts of people who Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin.
2:04.6	Oh my God.
2:06.9	This book.
2:08.0	So I, for everyone who's new here, I don't have an internal monologue, internal speech.
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