While being among the hardest workers in our class and always putting in the time when the rest of us are ready to throw in the towel, he still manages to make it look easy. So I asked him to share his philosophy, and I was so impressed that I’d like to share it with you.

The A’s are very possible, for anyone who wants them bad enough. However, if you really want them, you have to start back at the basics, which are organization, consistency, and focus. The three variables that lead to Nick’s success in school, competitive swimming, and life.

1. Organization. Understand the work that is expected of you and how long it will take to complete the work. Plan accordingly, be brutally honest with yourself and your abilities, and do not make it overwhelming.

If you plan and actually finish according to your set schedule, you will start to establish small accomplishments, which over the course of a semester will accumulate to huge successes.

2. Consistency. Plan accordingly and frequently. Adjust the plans if needed, but know that your study plans for the next couple of days influence the way that you study right now. It limits your options and motivates you to do really good work both now and throughout your schedule.

Maintain a level of demand from yourself, reinforcing the notion that you need to do this now to do well on the next quiz. One quiz soon accumulates to many quizzes, so consistently planning ahead follows the whole semester and your knowledge accumulates. Consistency also means reviewing what you did a week ago, at least 30 minutes to an hour.

3. Focus. Do not underestimate the value of focus. With consistent organization, you will plan so that you have enough rest, which will affect your energy levels, confidence, and desire to continue to stick to your work.

When you focus, you apply a conscious effort to your work, instead of breaking your studying down into information gathering, studying the information, and a couple of stages of analyzing minor details. Focus initiates from the beginning of a study session, and stays throughout.

Staying organized will allow this system to take place, being consistent with it will turn it into second nature, and focusing and being present at every moment that you’re studying will allow you to reap the maximum benefits of your time.

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My thoughts going into this experiment was that I would have different types of exposure to the material, be able to stay on top of it without falling behind, and be more immersed within the school environment. The alternative to going to class is to watch the recorded podcast video of that same lecture from home (generously uploaded to our iTunes, within 2 hours, as a courtesy from our school- NYUCD).

However, instead of using this method as an alternative, I went to every class without exception, and listened to most of the podcasts to see if there was anything I missed during lecture. The following is my personal experience and account of my perfect attendance at NYU Dental School.

1. Capturing information. While attending class, it is virtually impossible to capture everything a teacher says. Either they spoke too fast, weren’t clear, or you felt tired and spaced out momentarily at which point you missed something significant.

The solution for this is to go to the podcasts, and to re-listen to the lecture. However, lecture time to podcast time is not a 1:1 translation in terms of time spent studying. A 2 hour lecture could easily take 5 hours of podcast study, because you often stop and go back, in order to take notes, look something up, and make sure you do not miss any facts.

Had you skipped class, and listened to the podcast at a time and location of your choice, you would only spend the same 5 hours taking notes from the podcast, and save those 2 hours that you would have sat at lecture. Regardless of the method that you use for capturing the information, you still have to organize it, and repeat it many times in order to retain it.

2. Announcements and Structure. In a way, attending every class has the benefit of giving you a structure. This allows you to get some information for each class every single day, so you are aware of what is being covered, even if you don’t record all the facts.

This structure is good if you cannot motivate yourself to study on your own. If you can sit yourself down daily, and study everything that was assigned to you as per the syllabus, then you are not missing out on the structure at all.

3. Community, Cliques, & Politics. Actually going to class gives you a certain type of experience. However, the type of experience that you have in class is generally up to you. Both the large class size of 240, and the influence of the big city, can play a big role on the way people express their attitudes.

At the same time, there are cliques organized by race and religion, groups that band together based on class politics, and a visible segregation can be observed within the student body. Of course, all the distinctions, whether they be racial, political, or other are just a meaning that someone made up, and we decided to play into, and in my opinion take away from a richer experience that each of us could be taking part in.

4. Energy Management. The biggest negative aspect of going to class, for me, is the ability to manage my energy levels. Without having my energy levels up, my body is in attendance, but my brain is totally drained and not operating at full capacity.

Accordingly to the United States Department of Defense, our brains need at least 3 hours to function. However, that’s not necessarily an optimum amount of sleep for a 10 hour day of classes. It’s important to listen to your body, and to realize that your energy levels will not be the same on any given day.

Some days I have the energy to work deep into the night, with perfect clarity and focus. The amount of work I get done will propel me in my studies. The next day, I might be tired, and need to perform lower level activities. The idea of balance, and routine, can be fine for most activities, and even work out on most days, but when the energy level is not there it becomes counterproductive to pretend you can focus perfectly.

Afterthoughts: 30 day trials are a fun way to really learn about something, and give yourself an opportunity to take on a new routine. After 30 days you can give an honest evaluation as to whether the pros outweigh the cons, or vice versa. This experiment has lead me to decide that having perfect attendance is not worth it for me, and that it’s more important for me to manage my energy and learn the material, than to physically be somewhere.

My 30 day trial for the month of February is going to be daily workout- no matter what. This could mean an hour lifting weights, 40 minutes on the cardio machines, or simply going for a run. Regardless, of what the workout is, my goal is to get my blood flowing, work up a sweat, and closely listen to my body as I compare my energy levels from January, to those of February.

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At first, while studying for the Dental Tooth-Anatomy Midterm, I was trying to figure out what questions the teacher was most likely to ask. With this outlook, I was looking through the material that was presented, and trying to rank it in order of importance.

I happened to be in the library, and as I walked by two of my classmates, Alicia Jackson and Sergey Gazarov, I saw them working on some very obscure eruption patterns of the teeth — purely numbers. I asked them if they thought these questions would even come up on our midterm. “If they do, we’ll be ready for them,” they said.

So instead of assigning these obscure facts as unimportant and moving on to the materials we were guaranteed to be tested on, these particular students took the time to perfectly commit this to memory. Having some inside knowledge into the fact that they were both top students, I decided to take on their philosophy about studying.

It became a game as I created an absolutely unique way to remember these eruption patterns by folding all 10 of my fingers in a way I cannot even describe with words. It only took a few minutes to master, and then I went on to teach the technique to several other classmates in the library — I was too excited not to.

I systematically studied, rehearsed, and committed to memory absolutely anything that was presented about the topic at hand. I then looked at previous Board Examination questions for everything I could find from 2009 to 1998, which was hundreds of questions, very similar to what was going to be on the test.

By this point I was very confident. Sergey was also very much on point, so we sat together until almost 4 in the morning bouncing questions back and forth. He would quiz me, I would quiz him, and anything that was even slightly ambiguous would be combated by a witty mnemonic, or a more thorough understanding of why something was possible.

Going into the test at 8 in the morning I felt like I was bringing a machine gun to a fist fight. I had all the information locked up in my head and was radiating with confidence that any variation of anything that could possibly be asked was easily accessible to me.

The studying was purely overkill. However, if I kept telling myself that I want to learn enough to answer the questions, I would have been at a huge disadvantage. This could certainly be applied to anything that you do in life, anything that needs preparation, and anything that deserves to be done with love and diligence.

It should also be noted that students that spend time together develop similar GPAs. Likely due to the way they manage their studying, which stems from their philosophy. Philosophy most definitely rubs off on people, so whatever it is you’re going after in life, see if you can hang with the people that have the overkill philosophy.

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First things first, I need to be an excellent student, so that is where I’m putting 100% of my focus. I’ve run around and asked some of the best students in the school about their time management, success philosophy, and study techniques. Then it came time to integrate everything I’ve learned from them, and from my previous education, into actionable steps.

Keep in mind that the information in this post is very experimental. It’s where I am at the date of this writing, and since I plan to work on these skills daily, I’ll likely be in a new place within a month. Another reason I wanted to write this article is so that I have a place to go back to. If for some reason I wake up tomorrow and forget what I’m doing that’s so effective, I’ll have this, and be able to build on it.

The technique I’m finding effective is what I call Cataloging Information in my mind. It might be a combination of several other techniques known to psychologists as chunking, visualization, simplification and repetition. I’m making up my own word.

I’ll use Biochemistry as an example. What I was previously doing to study for it was taking and looking over 20-30 pages of notes per lecture. My new technique is to write about 4-6 pages of notes, most of which are in the form of diagrams, lists, and keywords. I find this to allow for better repetition, because it’s much simpler to go through 4 pages than 20. I’ll have 5 times the exposure in the same amount of time of repetition.

Going through complex reaction cycles is now a proactive exercise, whereas before I would reread, stare a bit, reread again, and then move on, I am now challenging my memory. I do this by taking something like 3 items into my mind, turning away from the paper, and placing them into an imaginary reaction circle in my mind. Sometimes I even involve my hands as I move the words onto this circle.

I then come back to the paper, and I check out the next 1 or 2 items. I then turn around, back to my imaginary circle, and I start from the beginning, first my original 3 items, and then the next 2. I keep repeating this exercise, starting from the beginning and adding new items, and then repeating the whole thing start to finish a couple of times to make sure I have it down. Repeating it again in the near future to make sure it’s still in my head.

The chunking is relevant to the small size of my notes. I write related information closely together, and I can mentally remember the physical location of these items on the paper, the color of the different items (I use 18 different colored markers, go Sharpie!), and how these items relate to each other. Sometimes I relate them to each other by using a Mnemonic with the 1st letter of each word or something silly that will be memorable to me.

Once I go through all my notes for the lecture, and then all the lectures for the test, I go over them again. I try to recall as much about all the steps that are involved based on topic headings. So say there is a topic heading that says ‘Urea Cycle’, I will then turn away from my paper, and do the whole circle in my mind to know that I have truly grasped it. I’ll then repeat this consecutively, using only the topic headings as a trigger for my memory.

That’s all I have for now. If you’re a WIZ at studying, have a higher education degree that’s heavy on the sciences, or just  want to share something specific that has worked for you, I would love to learn – comment below.

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Whether I’ll get accepted or rejected for this coming cycle is currently up in the air, and a factor that is out of my control. What is in my control is to retake the Dental Admission Test (DAT) and reapply with higher scores.

With over 6,000 people applying for 200 spots, it doesn’t matter that my score is well above average, so now I’m shooting for the 99th percentile. The DAT is a 4.5 hour test that includes 1) Biology 2) General Chemistry 3) Organic Chemistry 4) Perceptual Ability 5) Reading Comprehension and 6) Quantitative Reasoning.

The best methods for studying the DAT might be of little use to you, but the general techniques to optimize studying are important to each of us whether we are studying for school, work, or life. I’ll share the techniques I’ve learned at University, my Masters Program, self-education, and of course my twitter friends (I often ask them for best study techniques).

Start With a Clear Intention

When you start the timer on your study session, it’s important to have a clear intention as to what you expect to get out of and accomplish in the study session. Without a clear intention you’re liable to day dream, spend too much time shuffling and organizing, and ultimately demotivate yourself from having an awesome study session.

You can get yourself into the zone of having a clear intension by starting with the end in mind. Imagine yourself on test day, and create an outline of everything that you have to know and understand by that day. Then back track each day before the exam and figure out how much of the material you need to absorb daily until you arrive back at the current moment.

At this point is should be clear what you need to do today, tomorrow, and each day after until you reach full competency on exam day. This technique will serve to keep your mind organized, and motivate you to make the most of your study sessions.

Timed Studying and the 50-10 Principle

The way I used to study was by arriving at my study destination, whether it was library or my personal desk, and assign myself X amount of hours to study. When I was hungry I ate, when I was tired I took a break, but I generally went through this whole time period studying.

Over the past few weeks I’ve done more of what I call “timed studying” then I’ve ever done in the past. The only extra tool that you need to do this, aside from your books and writing utensils, is a simple timer (whether it’s on your phone, watch, or computer).

There are two things that you will want to time yourself on. Your study times and your break times. I’ve experimented with 30 minute studying, and 5 minute breaks, but ultimately found the 50-10 setup much more productive for my own taste.

50 Minute Study Sessions. Everything I need for this session is in front of me before I begin, and the only thing I do during this time is study. My phone is on silent, my family is alerted not to bother me or use loud noises, and I’m on a mission-unstoppable to get through the 50 minutes as productively as I’m capable of.

Most of the time when the buzzer sounds I’m still in the middle of something. It’s important that you don’t continue to cross your t or dot your i at this point and RESPECT the timer. Respecting the system, and in this case the timer, is the single most important factor in discipline. It’s all about respecting and not giving way to the moral code (timer system), that you have set up for your self and your studying.

10 Minute Break Sessions. As important as it was to have an intention for your study session, it is important to have an intention for your break session. The ultimate intention of a break session is to refresh yourself so you can have a focused uninterrupted study session right after.

I use my study sessions to use the restroom, eat, drink, and do exercises and breathing techniques in order to have my body be at 100% once I begin studying. If I am hungry, the food I’ll get will be light, such as a small bite of leftovers, or a fruit.

Exercising During Break. It’s important to get the heart rate up, and to get blood and oxygen to our brains to invigorate our brains for the next study session. Exercises enables our brain to release a special protein that is conducive to creative new neuron connections and thus learning better.

Some of the exercises I do are running up and down the stairs, jumping jacks, perfect pushups, pull ups, squats, bicycle sit ups, handstands, and various dumbbell exercises. You can be creative here, and use part of your break to work on whatever you want.

Breathing Exercise. Recently I have started to implement Yoga breathing techniques, based on advice from my friend Cynthia. You can breathe in for a 4 count and breathe out for an 8 count and then increase these numbers as you get better. The main thing to remember about breathing is to forcefully exhale every last bit of air (and thus Carbon Dioxide) out of your lungs, creating room for much more Oxygen.

The Magic of the 50-10. When I go through the 50-10 technique something amazing happens. I have complete concentration and motivation throughout the whole 50 minute study session. When the buzzer rings to tell me the 50 minutes are up, I think “ohh man, not yet, I still want to study more.” I get up right away regardless. I go through my 10 minute break routine, and then it hits me – the 10 minutes of ‘break’ feel longer than the 50 minutes of studying, and I’m excited to get back to studying.

Daily Exercise

Memory and brain function have been linked to exercise in many official scientific experiments. If you’re healthy, you could easily be doing a minimum of 30 minutes of light cardio every single day, and eventually work up to an hour of intense cardio workouts.

Know your body, consult a doctor for advice before starting, and remember to take baby steps when first starting up the exercise habit. Instead of starting really strong, hurting yourself, and not coming back to the exercises, it’s smart to start slow and progress whenever you’re comfortable enough to take the next step.

There are 80 and 90 year olds finishing Marathons, so there’s no reason why you can’t build yourself up to doing just 1 hour of cardio every day. I understand that if you’re handicapped in some way this presents more of a challenge, but it’s important to reach higher levels from your own baseline and not compare yourself to others.

Don’t forget about strength training. It’s very important to have the other muscles that aren’t involved in your cardio routine being firm, not flabby. If you spend your days studying, then you can throw in a few good sets of strength training several times a day during your 10 minute breaks.

Using Multiple Senses

Certain people are keener on certain study modes over others, such as auditory versus visual. It’s important to remember that visual learning is still the best way to learn, and that the other modes of studying are excellent supplements.

Since vision is dominate in learning, it’s important to get the most use out of that by using flash cards, using different colors to make notes, draw diagrams, and create mind maps. The different shapes and colors can all serve to give your memory extra triggers.

Just reading the material is usually not enough for more complicated topics. It’s important to write down notes, in your own words, in ways that will make sense to you and trigger recall of information.

When it comes to auditory learning, attending lecture might be important, but it’s not absolutely necessary. There are two different methods that I use to incorporate other senses, which are speaking, and listening.

Sometimes I read what I’m studying out loud. Other times I read the notes that I’ve made out loud. I also make personal audio recordings of myself reading my notes, and then I play them back to myself when driving, exercising, or in the background of other things that I’m doing.

I normally encourage single-tasking when studying, but I look at this as an extra supplement that doesn’t take away from your normal study time. This type of personal recording is also different from other people’s lectures, because you don’t feel compelled to stop what you are doing and takes notes – the notes are already there from when you personally created them.

Engaging the different senses helps the memories to be formed through different incoming avenues. It also allows you to recollect the information through different parts of your brain, making it more likely that you won’t forget the facts on test day.

Single-Tasking

In our consciousness, our brain is only capable of focusing on one thought at a time. Try it. Focusing in on two different thoughts is virtually impossible. While it is possible to switch rapidly between thoughts and actions, it takes time to get into a deep state of focus and concentration that is conducive to studying, memorizing, and understanding.

There are certain things that I like to do in order to enable single-tasking and optimize focus. I like to sit at a very large desk that has a lot of open space. I have all the necessary tools in front of me, so at any given time I don’t have to get up and retrieve them from another location.

Colored markers, notebook, index cards, text books, review books, water bottle, and anything else I might need in the course of a study session are right at my grasp. My computer stays at another location. I write down my questions and make a separate research session with the computer when the need arises.

The only thing I’m really doing while I’m studying is focusing in on one very narrow topic. I’m proactively reading the information and then figuring out ways to store the information, whether it be in some kind of mental chamber, or in some creative way on paper.

Nourishment and Hydration

Whether you’re vegan, kosher, or carnivore, eating heavy foods and overeating is going to make you less alert. Not something you want while going through big study sessions. For this I recommend eating a big meal in the morning, and then having really small snack size meals several times throughout your day.

Never eat to the point where you’re full. See if you can get a sense of your stomach capacity and eat to 60-75% capacity. In the morning this means a large meal, but during the small meals in your day (during your 10 minute breaks for example), it’s going to take less food to get up to 75%.

When we eat, our digestive system uses a tremendous amount of energy to digest the food, our blood sugar can get a bit wacky, and we get tired. Tired isn’t bad when we want to rest, but we don’t want to rest while we’re studying.

Your brain takes up about 2% of your body weight, and it uses 20% of your daily energy. If you spend the day studying, I would argue that your brain uses even more energy. Combine that energy consumption with the exercise you do in the morning, during your 10 minute breaks, and during digestion and you’re going to burn a lot of calories.

You need to get those calories in by eating a lot of fresh and healthy food. Since your body and each individual cell is literally made from the food you eat, it makes sense to eat healthy. Don’t forget that your brain needs a lot of healthy fats to consume, which you get not from fried fatty foods, but from avocados and various nuts and seeds.

Make sure you stock up on the nutritious essentials. Just like you want to have everything on hand for your 50 minute study session, you want to have things ready for your 10 minute breaks.

Our body requires about 3+ liters of water every day. You’ll get some of it from eating a lot of fruits, but you still need to drink a lot of water to keep your body functioning like a well oiled machine. Water will make you feel more alert and well in general. Make sure you don’t forget to drink, drink, drink!

Turn off Distractions

While I do use my iPhone as a timer, I put it on silent and turn off vibrate mode. This way I don’t get distracted and look up each time I get a phone call or text message. This is important because each distraction that looks like it weighs an ounce actually costs a ton in lost focus.

When I’m studying at home, I ask my family members not to interrupt me, and not to turn the TV on too loud. Some people hate studying at home and they assume the role of a victim. They say that their family is so distracting, and there are so many other distractions in the house. I used to say this too.

I stopped being the victim by speaking up. Family doesn’t always realize they are distracting you, and are not doing it intentionally. Kindly ask them to be quieter and they will happily oblige. It’s your job to keep your study environment distraction free, not anyone else’s.

All other distractions can wait after you’ve gone through all your 50-10 study sessions. Your study is really important, and all the little distractions that pop up are usually just urgent. If you’re constantly putting out the fires and letting urgent tasks get your attention, you’ll never get to what is really important.

Reviewing

Reading something and taking notes is just not enough. Definitely not enough when dealing with such high volumes of information as the DAT. This means that it’s necessary to review, and to do this often.

After you’ve finished your study sessions and written notes, it’s important to look over the notes right away. Within 12 hours of your session, it is important to review all the information again. This is the key to getting things from short-term to long-term memory.

I also recommend reviewing things from day one every day until test day. This involves extra review for things you aren’t 100% certain about, and minor review for things you feel confident about. If you’re taking notes on a word document or paper, you will want to condense your notes each time you look at them.

Condensing your notes means using less words to explain the same concept, such as trigger words that would make sense only to you. You might also consider cutting out things that have become a complete no brainer.

When dealing with a longer study time, you might want to keep one document that is absolutely complete, and another one that you keep condensing. During the week of the test you’ll take a peek at the longer document to make sure you didn’t forget anything.

Practice Questions

Whenever studying for a test it’s important to pretest what you really know. Get your hands on any old tests, practice tests, or similar text book questions. Don’t just casually browse through the practice questions. Instead, play a game where you treat the practice questions as a real test.

In order for this game to work, you have to assign a time limit to a certain number of questions in order to keep the pressure on yourself. You’ll go through the entire question set first, and then look at the answer key to check your answers.

You’ll encounter three important types of scenarios when you go over the questions. A) You will be 100% confident in the answer and get it right. In this case, you move on. B) You’ll get the question wrong. In this case, you go back to the text book and reread the whole section to fully understand why you got the question wrong. C) You got the question right, but it was sort of, kind of, maybe a guess. You might not be so lucky on the test, so you must go back to your text and fully understand this area.

Final Words

Please note that different techniques will work better for certain individuals, that’s why it is important to both find what works for you and optimize your techniques daily.

My current daily mission, until I take this test, is to proactively study my material, in a distraction free environment, keeping up with the pace I set for myself when I was thinking with the end in mind. This allows me to be confident in my abilities, zone in and focus on the content, and do this all with a clear intention and purpose.

I like to start studying early, remain distraction free, and work into the evening. This doesn’t leave too much side room for day dreaming, or thinking of great topics to write here, so I hope you enjoy this one, which is a good reflection of what my life is looking like at the moment.

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1. Emergency Situations

If you’re going to be involved in a life or death situation, in which you have a limited time to make a decision, you need to take many outcomes into consideration.

2. Happy Spouse

If you want to be in a good relationship, critical thinking may prove to be a better idea compared with snap judgments. Thinking a situation through will have you NOT sleeping on the couch.

3. Keep Your Job

If you want to hold on to your job, you’re going to have to think through various assignments as well as think about not lashing back at your boss. Another alternative is to look into being self-employed.

4. Learning

One of the best learning techniques is to ask yourself questions while learning material. Thinking in such a way helps you to tie information together and have it easily accessable on demand.

5. Fighting

Let’s assume you are in a competition and not getting into trouble. Thinking critically will enable you to out manuever your opponent, instead of relying on brute strength.

6. Planning

When planning major events, such as where you will live, you need to think critically to assess a wide variety of variables. Consider all the major consequences of this decision; commute to work, family, stores, entertainment, crime rate, education, etc.

7. Values

Some people have the belief that their moral and ethical paradigm is the best. Consider reevaluating this paradigm. Don’t wait until the next time someone has to tell you that you’ve messed up. Think critically before you act.

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1. Shake a leg. Lack of blood flow is a common reason for lack of concentration. If you’ve been sitting in one place for awhile, bounce one of your legs for a minute or two. It gets your blood flowing and sharpens both concentration and recall.

11. Do walking meditation. If you’re taking a hike (#25), go one step further and learn walking meditation as a way to tap into your inner resources and your strengthen your ability to focus. Just make sure you’re not walking inadvertently into traffic.

23. Map your task flow. Learning often requires gaining knowledge in a specific sequence. Organizing your thoughts on what needs to be done is a powerful way to prepare yourself to complete tasks or learn new topics.

26. Learn by osmosis. Got an iPod? Record a few of your own podcasts, upload them to your iPod and sleep on it. Literally. Put it under your pillow and playback language lessons or whatever.

35. Motivate yourself. Why do you want to learn something? What do want to achieve through learning? If you don’t know why you want to learn, then distractions will be far more enticing.

49. Think holistically. Holistic thinking might be the single most “advanced” learning technique that would help students. But it’s a mindset rather than a single technique.

56. Be engaging. Lectures are one-sided and often counter-productive. Information merely heard or witnessed (from a chalkboard for instance) is often forgotten. Teaching is not simply talking. Talking isn’t enough. Ask students questions, present scenarios, engage them.

The next one really hits home for me:

68. Write about it. An effective way to “teach” something is to create an FAQ or a wiki containing everything you know about a topic. Or blog about the topic. Doing so helps you to realize what you know and more importantly what you don’t. You don’t even have to spend money if you grab a freebie account with Typepad, WordPress, or Blogger.

These are some of my favorites but in reality the rest are just as good. Go read the article, Hacking knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better and see for yourself.

I have personally read many of these things in accelerated learning books, but this is a nice list to sum things up. Do not be overwhelmed by the large amount of information in this list, work through it chunk by chunk.

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