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Learn More, Study Less
Welcome to Learn More, Study Less: The Course. If you’re not sure where to start, watch the video below for a quick walkthrough as well as what to expect.
If you also got Learning on Steroids with your package, you can access it by clicking here (or by going to the tab “LoS: Content” anywhere on the website). Learning on Steroids is a monthly package, so if you keep your subscription access, check there each month for new guides, walkthroughs, videos and ass-kicking emails.
Wondering what happened to the old course? Get all the archived material from the last edition here.
The Course
The course is divided into three main parts: video lectures, the book and bonus content.
The Video Lectures
The course lectures are divided into short, easy-to-watch lessons divided over ten sections. If you’re just starting out watch the Introduction section, since it will explain the rest. The other sections are organized by what methods they teach. Watch the ones you need and then go practice!
- Introduction – What’s in the course, the philosophy of the program and how to implement the ideas into your studying habits.
- Getting More Done (and Procrastinating Less) – Here I introduce two powerful productivity tools you can’t go without!
- Retain Information Longer – Here I explain the core tactics of holistic learning and how they will help you remember more with less studying time.
- Reading Better and Faster – How to remember more of what you read, active reading and speed reading.
- Flow-Based Notetaking – A notetaking strategy that cuts down the amount of review time you need later.
- Understanding Hard Ideas – The Feynman technique, one of the most powerful studying tactics you can use, with advanced tips
- Remembering Facts and Trivia – Need to memorize huge volumes of information? Here’s how. Good for languages, terminology and trivia.
- Learning and Mastering Skills – Eliminate waste when learning skills by using these methods.
- Adapting the Methods for Your Studies – Standardized exams (GMAT, MCAT, etc.)? University student? Part-time student with a full-time job? Here’s how to tailor these methods to your life.
- Conclusion – Final words of wisdom (and bloopers).
The Book
The book, Learn More, Study Less, is a free add-on when you buy the course. It gives a good introduction to the fundamental concepts of holistic learning along with explanations and examples of many of the tactics in the video lectures. It’s not necessary to read the book to start watching the videos, so you can skip it if you learn better by listening!
Download the book (Kindle and eReader Formats)
The Bonuses
On top of the lectures and book, you get some great bonus content: case studies, interviews with other experts and resources you might find helpful!
Bonus #1: Learn Languages Faster w/ Benny Lewis – Benny Lewis is an international polyglot who speaks over 10 languages fluently. What’s more, he didn’t learn his first foreign language until he was already an adult, convinced that language learning was “too hard” for him. Here he shares how he broke through that barrier to learn languages as diverse as Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and German. If you liked this, check out Benny’s full language learning program Speak From Day One.
Bonus #2: How to Become a Straight-A Student w/ Cal Newport – Cal Newport is a best-selling author, MIT PhD and founder of one of the biggest studying blogs in the world, Study Hacks. In this interview he reviews the main tactics from his exhaustive research of straight-A students who got their grades without the stress. If you liked this, please check out his other books here
Bonus #3: Metaphor Master Class w/ Kalid Azad – Kalid Azad is the math teacher we all wish we had. He takes hard college-level math concepts and digests them into a format a ten year old could understand. More importantly, he does this through the holistic method of metaphors and analogies. Here we discuss what is the best way to form metaphors, particularly for hard math and science subjects. Check out Kalid’s full math-hacking guide, Math: Better Explained
Bonus #4: 4 Hours Per Day to a 4.0 GPA w/ Liam Martin – Liam was a former B and C student who, by changing his habits, became a straight-A student. Here he explains the methods he used to accomplish this feat. (PDF Notes are also available for this recording)
Bonus #5: Case Study Package – How have real students used these ideas? Here’s detailed walkthroughs of how six very different learners used the course to get amazing results. See R.J., the former C student who passed his exam in a fraction of the normal time. Or look at John who cut his studying by 75%, kept his grades high and got into a prestigious university.
Bonus #6: Self-Education Resources – Trying to learn something new? Here’s a page I keep updated with all the self-education resources I find online. It includes links to great open courseware sites and more. If you find something you’d like to add, just email me the link so we can keep this page fresh!
Bonus #7: Free Worksheets – Printable worksheets from the original publication of Learn More, Study Less to help you train some of the tactics! Get them here:
Bonus #8: Still Want More? Check out the Archive Course – This course underwent a major revamp recently, but the old course is still there. And as part of your purchase, you can access it too–completely free. It has over six hours of video and different, archived, interviews with Benny Lewis and Kalid Azad. If you left any of the sections not being entirely sure how to implement a particular tactic, check it out, as I go over dozens of examples you may have never seen before.
