Stress-free Effective Learning for Adults: Crush your goals!
This course on how to learn is designed with life-long learning in mind for you to become a superlearner. Taking a holistic approach, we will explore the different areas and techniques that will make your study sessions engaging, avoid procrastination, and make study fun and stress-free.
The course is targeted for both students and people seeking adult education help, who work and want to increase their productivity and develop their career further. In fact, it is targeted for adults who want to keep learning efficiently for life to achieve personal success.
Within the course, we will first start by looking at time management. Specifically, how to efficiently process the huge amount of information that we receive on a daily basis. We will form the basis of a system that handles all the information. Then, we will talk about the importance of motivation, mood, nutrition, and exercise, and the role they play in learning and how to use them in our favour to enhance our learning capabilities. Then, we will learn a technique to create our study guide, a guide that will turn unstructured documentation into a highly customised learning highway. Effective use of time and recall is the following topic, where we will learn techniques to use time and recall efficiently the information we have previously learned, as well as techniques as important as the use of spaced repetition with software like Anki. Last but not least, we will talk about focus, a very important aspect to learning in order to decrease the study time while maximising productivity.
Tools
The different tools we you will learn in this course are:
- Making lists for high volume task management
- Prioritize in high volume tasks
- Separate the action and the strategy using the actionable tasks list and SMART goals
- The monthly tasks list
- The weekly tasks list
- Conquering your day with the daily tasks list
- Retrospective self-reflection
- Energy as a means of achieving more
- Filtering out harming negative content and news
- Self-care for study efficiency and improvement in performance
- Crafting a study guide
- Mindmaps
- Customized summaries
- Spaced repetition and efficient recalls
- Anki
- Self-testing
- Deep focus as a tool to increase performance
- Habit creation
- Avoiding procrastination
- Study planning
About the instructor
Marcel is an enthusiastic fast learner. He likes to learn everything that makes him happy, even if that involves complicated matters. He is a strong believer that complex things can be simplified into simple ones. After +15 years of experience in continuous fast learning, he holds a bachelor in telecommunications engineering in UPC, Barcelona, as well as a masters in computer vision. A MRes in Medical Imaging at UCL, in London and a PhD also by UCL in medical imaging helping to treat fetal illnesses such as Twin to Twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS).
He is also a certified ACC life coach, and founder of Inspiring Personal Growth where he aims to help people by providing them coaching services as well as mentoring in learning skills. He is also a taekwondo black belt training for more than 10 years, chess player, drummer, and dancer now for 2 years and a half. He likes to take on different learning activities that present a challenge and stimulate him intellectually and physically.
Without further due, let’s crush it!
Mood, nutrition, and exercise
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The Stress-Free Effective Learning Model - Measuring your progressIn this video, I present you the Stress-Free Effective Learning Model to measure your progress along the course.
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How to use this course
In this lecture, we will go through the author's view on the best way of using the course to achieve a maximum advantage.
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Setting up for success! Journaling progressIn this lecture, I encourage you to journal your progress in the course.
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Getting to know you
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Information Overload
In this lecture, we will talk about the huge input of information that is present in our day to day lives. We will start commenting on strategies to make that process efficient and stress-free.
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Information Overload - Practical Example
Practical example for the lecture Information Overload.
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Priorities
Priorities are imperative part of tackling a large list of tasks. In this lecture, we will talk about strategies to classify them by importance level, taking into account also the urgency of the tasks.
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The actionable tasks list
In this lecture, we will learn about the actionable tasks list. In this list, we will separate the strategy and action by making tasks as small as 45 minutes or less.
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The monthly and weekly tasks list
In this lecture, we will create the monthly and weekly tasks list. These lists will be clear subsets of the tasks that we need to do, in a monthly, and subsequently weekly fashon, creating a clear path to having all monthly tasks completed in a stress-free and fun manner.
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Conquer your day
During this lecture, we will talk about the basis of getting tasks done, which is a daily action.
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A day to reflect
We will take a break here to introduce a day to reflect as an additional step in our routine.
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Tightening all the tools together
In this lecture, we summarize of all the tools seen in previous videos.
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Put it in practice!
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Gluing conceptsPutting concepts together
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Recommendations and further reading
Here I propose some next steps to continue exploring the contents of the chapter outside the course.
Crafting your study guide
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Motivation
In this introductory lecture, we will motivate the need a holistic approach as an important part of studying.
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Take care of your mind
In this lecture, we will learn how to take care of your mind in different aspects so that we are in a peak state for learning
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Avoid too many negative news
In this lecture, we will learn how to take care of your the input that we feed to our minds to be in optimal state.
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Put it in practice!
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Take care of your body - Exercise
In this lecture, we will see the importance of keeping a regular exercise rutine in studying.
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Take care of your body - Nutrition
In this lecture, we will talk about how nutrition impacts mood, and ultimately study performance.
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Summary
In this lecture, we will summarize the contents of the chapter.
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Gluing concepts
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Recommendations and further reading
Here I propose some next steps to continue exploring the contents of the chapter outside the course.
Use time and recalls effectively
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Motivation
In this lecture, we will motivate the need for creating our own study guide.
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Crafting the guide
In this lecture, we will go through the process of crafting the guide.
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Crafting the guide
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Build an eagle's view
In this lecture, we will complement our study guide with an eagle's view map to link concepts from above.
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Build an eagle's view
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Summary
In this lecture, we will summarize the contents of the chapter.
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Put it in practice!
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Gluing concepts together
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Recommendations and further reading
Here I propose some next steps to continue exploring the contents of the chapter outside the course.
Focus
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Motivation
In this lecture, we will motivate the need for efficient use of time and recalls.
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Controlling procrastination
In this lecture, we will discuss deep focus and why this is so necessary.
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Design your stress-free productive study environment
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The pomodoro technique
In this lecture, I will introduce the pomodoro technique.
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Memorization - Impossible Associations
In this lecture, I will introduce a mnemonics technique, impossible associations.
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Put it in practice!
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Memorization - The mental palace
In this lecture, I will introduce a mnemonics technique, the mental palace.
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Put it in practice!
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Efficient Recalls
In this lecture, we will discuss different ways of achieving effective recalls.
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Test yourself
Last but not least, testing yourself is a very important part of the learning process which shouldn't be forgotten. In this lecture, we put emphasis in putting your understanding in check through self-testing.
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Summary
In this lecture, we will summarize the contents of the chapter.
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Gluing concepts
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Recommendations and further reading
Here I propose some next steps to continue exploring the contents of the chapter outside the course.
Congratulations and Thank you!
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Motivation
In this lecture, we will touch more on the motivations for this chapter, exclusively centred on the topic of focus.
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Avoid Distractions: Deep Focus
In this lecture, we will create awareness of the importance of avoiding distractions and creating deep focus for our study sessions.
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Habits
In this lecture, we will talk about the importance of having habits and routines, and how to build them.
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Put it in practice!
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Plan your study time and avoid procrastination
In this lecture, we will talk about procrastination, its implications, and how to avoid it.
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Put it in practice!
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Summary
In this lecture, we will summarize the contents of the chapter.
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Gluing concepts
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Recommendations and further reading
Here I propose some next steps to continue exploring the contents of the chapter outside the course.
