Week 4: Renaissance Learning and Unlocking Your Potential

Week 4: Renaissance Learning and Unlocking Your Potential

1. How to become a better learner

   • Physical exercise
   • Critical periods

2. Create a lively visual metaphor and analogy

   • A fun illustration of monkeys in a benzene ring

3. The imposter syndrome - a feeling of inadequacy

4. Change your thoughts, change your life

   • Santiago Ramón y Cajal: "The key to my success is my perseverance"

5. Studying with friends and teammates

   • powerfully effective
   • can easily catch where your thinking has gone astray
   • explaining to friends helps build your own understanding

6. Testing

   • extraordinarily powerful learning experience
   • wonderful way of concentrating the mind
   • Doctor Felder checklist

7. The hard start - jump to easy technique

   • useful trick that can empower your test taking

8. Helpful hints for tests

   • the breathing technique
   • double check your answers
   • how you interpret
   • face your fears
   • look over the materials to brush up on them the day before the test