You might not know that I have several blogs. One blog that I want to highlight today is the one called the Mindset Of A Champion. I simply want to ask you to go and check it out because there are a lot of parallels between learning and mastering a sport and getting better grades. Bookmark it or better yet, subscribe to it so you don’t miss any of the posts, you just don’t know which one will be the one that will have the breakthrough idea that will make all the difference.
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You might have taken a look at my study book and considered buying it. If you haven’t bought it yet, listen to David’s experience and ask yourself – if it works for him, why wouldn’t it work for you?
Hello Marc
I have been reading your e book and have only once listened to your speed reading video. The extra emails are great as it keeps me on track otherwise I could wander a bit and lose focus on what I should be doing rather than just go through the motions.
I am working on a better format for my class notes with more drawings/mind maps as this is a better form of learning for me and audio recordings. (Now that I know this from your book that explained how to determine my own learning style).
Exams start end of the month so the next stage is to compile the notes into A3 mind maps layouts.
I am now in a study room not the office which had too many distractions that prevented me from getting into the right mind ‘zone’.
I don’t cold read my study guide and text any more so I pre-read first to get a general understanding then highlight and compose the notes and now I comprehend more. (I can’t believe the difference this makes!)
My assignment grades have increased from about 60-80% to the last one 88% and this was the highest grade. 
My studies are extramural so no lecturers only Webct and study guide/text books.
I am practicing your speed reading techniques and using it the first time I read something but need to work on this more.
Thanking you very much for you help.
David Fisher
The Economist Magazine recently reported that a male university graduate will make $82,000 more in his working lifetime than his non-university graduate peer. This includes the cost of tuition, lost wages while studying as well as extra taxes paid. What this simply means is that it pays to get better grades.
But getting better grades is not just about winging it – you need to be systematic and discipline about it. My study book and this blog are great way to learn to get better grades with less effort. My study book comes with many bonus materials that will help you – go to the product page now and check it out.
Today’s blog post is a clarification from my Speed Learning Video Program. The quote was “The brain stops reading fast it does not want to get dizzy”. It was after I mentioned you can read 200% faster on screen using Rapid Reader because your eyes don’t have to go from left to right.
Someone contacted me and was wondering if this has any thing to do with past negative programming that the brain can work against you. For example if you have not had a lot to do with a subject and tried to take it for a study course, would the brain work against you automatically?
This is a great question – and you’re not going to expect the answer I’m about to give…
Continue reading ‘Your Untrained Brain Can Work Against You’
The Pareto Principle also called the 80/20 rule is one of the most powerful study techniques I teach in my study book. Simply put, success in school is about knowing WHAT to study and WHEN. In my study book, I combine that with a concept from the 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People that takes away all the guesswork for you. It’s priceless to any student stressed about about exams, lab reports, quizzes and term papers.
Today’s post is from Natasha, she is struggling to complete a project and study at the same time.
First things first.
You need to buy my book Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort to learn the strategies that will help you overcome study stress and overwhelm. Here is Natasha’s situation:
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Greetings,Thank you for you information. I am struggling here to finish an ICT project which is due on March 27th. These days I sleep at 12.00 midnight to do the project and wake up at 3.00 am to study ICT till 6.00. I continue then go to school. I have also found that my efficiency and productivity is also less at night, but I can’t help it! At least I do less than doing nothing at all!
But at school I really find it difficult to concentrate as I feel sleepy. My teacher also scolds me…but I still want to finish the project as I started it really late and others are well ahead of me. I am really worried and lost confidence. I have paid a lot of money to sit for this exam. Would you please give me some tips to finish my project as soon as possible so that I have time to study! I went through the section where you said “Important and emergency” please elaborate more on this topic as I’ve got it important and urgent as well.
Natasha, First of all, you’ve painted yourself into a corner. That is one of the things I teach students to AVOID. Once you have painted yourself into the corner, you need to get out of it as quickly as you can.
How to get out of study stress and overwhelm
- Pick up my study book and determine which learning style you are. Without learning this, you are wasting too many hours study ineffectively. You need to STUDY LESS and REMEMBER MORE – you can’t do that UNLESS you know YOUR learning style. My study book explains how simple and easy this is.
- Once you know your learning style, you will UNDERSTAND FASTER AND REMEMBER MORE. That will give you EXTRA TIME – to sleep or catch up on other stuff.
- You decision to SLEEP or work on other projects is a priority management issue that I explain with a simple diagram so you can start to do the right things at the right time to reduce study stress, anxiety and overwhelm.
- Once you’ve done that, you will know exactly how to stay out of the URGENT and IMPORTANT quadrant. If you don’t buy my book and apply the study strategies, you’re on your own. The study tips and tools in my book are EASY to LEARN and apply. The book is inexpensive compared to the cost of NOT getting any sleep and getting poor grades and getting stressed out.
You need to start by buying my book, then applying the study strategies and then asking me SPECIFIC QUESTIONS about the strategies so I can help you get better grades with the least amount of effort!
It’s all about applying my 1 percent improvement doctrine!
Of course if you’re not speed reading, you are wasting HOURS AND HOURS reading slower than you should.
I have a Speed Reading Video Program that guarantees you will double your reading speed in less than 2 hours. That means you’ll have all that time to do projects or study. if you don’t learn to speed read, you are WASTING valuable time – time that you are not sleeping or doing something else.
Zina, a concerned mom asks how quickly my study tips can help her son. The quick answer is almost instantly. I would NOT recommend buying it the DAY BEFORE A FINAL EXAM and expecting a miracle, but even the day before an exam can be a great time to LEARN 3 or 4 EXAM TAKING STRATEGIES that work, well instantly DURING your next exam!
Without jumping into 3 or 4 tangential discussions, my book is DESIGNED to help students get better grades IMMEDIATELY. Within 1 hour of reading – even skimming through the book, a student will quickly realise how easy it is to put these study techniques to use RIGHT AWAY.
If you know a student who is struggling, buy my study book, and enter his/her e-mail so he/she gets it AND ALL THE BONUSES directly.
The sooner he/she gets it, the better.
To be straight to the point – the study strategies are so SIMPLE and EASY, some people ask for a refund because they just don’t understand the POWER OF SIMPLICITY. As you can read for yourself on this blog and the fact that my study book has been translated into 3 languages with 2 more coming, AND it’s been sold to students from 29 different countries — these strategies work.
Get the study book for your son ASAP and watch his transformation!
The Speed Learning Video Program which is included FREE with my study book will also help in the short term with short cuts, note taking tips and exam preparation strategies.
The Speed READING Program is also recommended, but if he’s in a panic with exams, it might be best to buy it and let him decide when he has time to practice. The sooner he starts speed reading, the sooner he will get the benefits of faster reading. The time he takes to LEARN he is still READING = there is no time lost. It’s not like he needs to do something else – he will only get faster and faster with no disadvantage beyond the 1 hour video he needs to watch.
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My son is coming home for 3 weeks (from UK Boarding School) shortly. He is
due to sit his FINAL IB EXAMS at the beginning of May 2009. I know he has
been working HARD but is still concerned about some aspects of his 6
subjects. Would your “Best Grades” product be too late to be of any
practical use to him or would it be of significant help? Also, does this
course require a lot of learning of techniques which ultimately takes time
away from valuable revision?
I would appreciate an honest reply at your earliest convenience.
Thank you
(Concerned mum) Zina Bhatia
Today’s ‘question of the day’ comes from Joy in the U.K. Actually, it’s two questions.
Many Thanks Dr Marc,
This seems like a positive start for me, but I’ve got an important question.
I am currently in my penultimate year in the university, studying in the UK. I was just wondering if these study skills to get better grades are skills for only students in The USA or also relates to the students everywhere else.
Study Tips For Better Grades
My strategies have been used by thousands of students to improve their grades in 29 different countries and the book has been translated into 3 languages. Students from grade school, middle school, high school, college, university and post-graduate programs have used the study tips and techniques successfully.
My study tips and tools work for science subjects, social science courses, engineering, law as well as medicine.
Also I’ve got another problem which I find difficult to solve is the interest to study, I think I have the interest as I promise myself to study everyday but as soon as I pick up my books to study I lose interest immediately again it takes me so much time to understand a few lines of words while studying and I can hardly remember them too which is to say I think they do not register. It has been a great concern to me and I have been too shy to speak to anybody. I know and have this confidence in me that makes me think I am intelligent and can make it but as soon as I encounter a difficult task I become weak and just give up. I am afraid I will fail and have to repeat a class if I don’t find a solution quick.
I need your help please and hope to hear from you soon.
Regards
Joy
How To Study Subjects You Don’t Like
There are two issues at play here – the first is you THINK you are interested in the subject matter, but the reality is you’re not. If you were, you’d have NO TROUBLE STARTING. I’ll prove it to you.
If you are a stamp collector and you start to read about the new issue of the new Olympic Stamps for the London Games – you have NO PROBLEM with focus, attention or retention do you?
That’s because you’re INTERESTED.
The challenge we all have as students is that EVERY ACADEMIC PROGRAM has courses we don’t like. I remember hating Thermodynamics in Engineering School, Chemistry in College and Multi-Variate Statistics in Business School (Ph.D.).
But y’know what?
YOU DON’T HAVE A CHOICE. It’s part of the curriculum and you have to pass the course to get the diploma and the degree.
I suggest you do THAT homework FIRST – get it out of the way – DON’T DO WHAT YOU LIKE FIRST. That is a recipe for disastrous grades – it will increase your chance of failure BECAUSE you’ll spend MORE time on what you like and not enough time on what you don’t like…
Don’t do it.
Of course that’s easier said than done. BUT if you start studying what you don’t like, you’ll feel RELIEF and a LOT LESS STRESS. We all have to study stuff we don’t like – we NEED TO. We need to be aware of things because that’s what education is all about. There is NOTHING you can do about it -EXCEPT to get it out of the way FIRST and QUICKLY.
If you want to get through the boring subjects quickly, get your hands on my Speed Reading Video Program so that you spend LESS time on the subjects you hate. Speed Reading will FORCE you to focus and concentrate and get it out of the way in a fraction of the time. Imagine spend HALF the time on chemistry, physics or geography… How cool would that be?!?
Student Self Confidence and Self Esteem
That being said, the SECOND issue you have is with confidence and self-esteem. That is a lot harder to deal with. If you are keen to deal with this, I have a colleague who can help you get a breakthrough. Her name is Yvonne Mcintosh and she has ‘breakthrough sessions‘ for $97 that she can do over the phone. She’s based in Australia, but you can definitely do it through Skype for FREE or via a long distance calling card. Click on the hyperlink if you want to overcome this self-esteem issue quickly.
If you don’t choose to have the breakthrough session, all you need to do is top putting pressure on yourself and focus on the fact that whenever you LEARN something NEW, it’s by definition something YOU DON’T KNOW.
It takes time and effort to learn something NEW.
One of the strategies I teach is to start at the beginning – for example for Statistics, I bought the Cartoon Guide To Statistics to get the basics in a FUN WAY. I bought this as a Graduate School Student to help me with my MBA and Ph.D. courses.
I’m serious. I did the same for other subjects as well.
The “For Dummies” series of books is a GREAT PLACE TO START whenever you’re intimidated with a subject.
Fundamentally – we all put ourselves under pressure – when you put the study tips, techniques and strategies in my book, Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort in practice, you’ll gain self-assurance and confidence within 2-3 weeks.
This will be especially true if you learn to speed read!
Good luck!
Loise Roebeck wants to know how long it takes to get better grades – GREAT QUESTION! Of course you know the answer, but your might not know the SOLUTION to make that happen. Today’s post is what I suggest you do once you’ve bought my e-book.
Step #1 To Get Better Grades Faster
Do ALL the exercises in the e-book TODAY/TONIGHT. The longer you wait, the longer it will take. I know this sounds self-evident, but without the exercises, you have NO STARTING POINT.
Step #2 To Get Better Grades Faster
Learn to learn faster with the BONUS Video I include for FREE with my e-book, called the Speed Learning Video Program. Watch the video and get started with as many of the suggestions as you can with the HOMEWORK you have RIGHT NOW. If you are keen, GO BACK a week and re-do your notes and revision using these strategies RIGHT NOW.
Step #3 To Get Better Grades Faster
Learn to Speed Read TODAY/TONIGHT by buying my Speed Reading Video Program so you can double or triple your reading speed THIS WEEK instead of in 2-3 weeks or months from now.
I know you might think this is a sales pitch – but c’mon we’re NOT talking about HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS.
BOTH of these programs (three in fact – the e-book, Speed Learning Video and Speed Reading Video Programs) are LESS THAN THE COST OF A TEXTBOOK.
If the cost is holding you back, I have to be blunt – YOU CAN’T AFFORD to get better grades.
Sorry, go somewhere else and try to get ‘FREE’ stuff on the Internet and come back when you can afford my products.
Does it surprise you that I just said that?
I hope it does. Y’see I work with only the most committed students because they are the ones who’ve had enough and want a better way to study.
They want the same or better results than I’ve produced for myself – which are all documented on my product pages.
But let me tell you something – even though this solution and easy-to-follow system is available to anyone who has access to the Internet – only a select FEW ever step up.
People like Loise who wants to get it done as FAST AS POSSIBLE.
So do what I suggest in my e-book and programs, but do IT NOW.
I have to tell you a story about a motivational seminar I attended with a friend about 15 years ago. At the end of the seminar, I told her that the presenter mentioned 3 books that I had not read. So I proceeded to go buy them. My friend objected adamantly declaring “You can buy them tomorrow”.
No I can’t. I have to buy them NOW so that when I get home (at 9 PM), I can start to read them.
The sense of urgency I create for myself is higher than most people => I get results faster than most people.
Loise, just DO IT TODAY!
Today’s post is from Rodney Alexander, an undergraduate accounting student who has a 4.0 GPA which is OUTSTANDING and want to know how my e-book “Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” can help him have a life beyond the endless hours of study… Here are my suggestions:
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Hello Dr. Dussault,
I am a junior in the undergraduate accounting program at my university. I am planning to attend the graduate program to earn my MSA when I finish undergraduate next year. I currently have a 4.0 GPA but spend a lot of my time studying and have trouble squeezing social life, girlfriend, and work into my schedule. In what ways will your product add value to my academic and social life?
Thank you,
Rodney Alexander
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Study Tip #1: Learn To Speed Read
I chose the title of my book specifically to address this issue – it’s not about getting the best grades, it’s all about doing it WITH LESS EFFORT.
The first tip is to learn to Speed Read. If you can read 2, 3 or 4 times faster than you do now, you are going to gain FREE TIME to go out and have fun with your girlfriend or boyfriend. When I was studying for my Ph.D. – and this is all on my product information page…
I was speed reading 6 times FASTER than my colleagues, that meant that if I read for 3 hours on Friday night, my colleagues were spending 18 hours – that’s all day Saturday and all day Sunday reading the SAME MATERIAL.
Rodney, if you are NOT speed reading, you need to get my e-book PLUS get my Speed Reading Video Program.
Study Tip #2: Learn To Speed Learn
In my book I explain this and then supplement it with the FREE BONUS Speed Learning Video that is INCLUDED with my e-book. If you are getting As or High Distinctions, you know how to learn, you just need to do it FASTER.
Some people need to learn HOW TO LEARN, but if you’re getting TOP grades now, you just need BE QUICKER, more efficient.
In my e-book I explain how you currently do this and how you can SYSTEMISE what you do step-by-step to do it better and FASTER. Within 2-3 weeks, you will be able to get the SAME RESULT with a 5 to 10 hour reduction in TIME SPENT if you are an undergraduate student in Accounting.
Study Tip #3: Learn How YOU Learn
Rodney, I don’t know what your learning style is, but whatever it is – there are 3 or 4 things you MUST do to improve HOW you study to get better results FASTER. In my e-book, I show YOU how to find out WHICH STYLE YOU have and what to do to get better results, faster.
It’s NOT ‘one size fits all’ solution.
Every single person has their own style and patterns that THEY need to get the BEST RESULTS. The trick is to find YOUR SECRET COMBINATION so you can unlock the genius that’s within you.
Study Tip #4: How To Understand And Remember More
Most students waste 25 to as much as 50% of their study time memorising stuff for exams. That is ludicrous! In my e-book I teach you the SYSTEM to make sure you are never caught cramming at the last minute trying to learn and remember stuff.
This works in ALL SUBJECTS AT ALL LEVELS. I should know – I have degrees in Pure and Applied Science, Engineering, Business, Psychology, Law, Corporate Governance and Taxation.
The strategies are simple and easy – but they need practice.
Rodney, with a 4.0 GPA, you don’t need better grades, you need to STOP WASTING TIME and get the SAME GRADES with a lot less effort!
My e-book and video programs GUARANTEE you’ll be able to spend more time with your girlfriend and your firends within 8 weeks – or ClickBank will refund you 100%.
But honestly Rodney – think about it this way – you’re getting straight As. I have products that GUARANTEE RESULTS – why not give it a try?
Hundreds of students with WORSE GRADES than you are now getting the SAME GRADES as yours with less effort… Why not join them today/tonight?
I would love to hear you become one of my success stories – I can almost read it now…
“Dear Dr. Dussault,
I wrote to you 6 months ago. Struggling to reduce my study time. I was apprehensive, but decided with your blog post response it was worth a shot. WOW! What a difference your book and videos made! I can now read 3 times faster than I used to, I’ve retained my 4.0 GPA and study about 10 hours less a week – going out with my girlfriend every weekend (Psst! she is also using your strategies and went from a 3.2 to 3.8 GPA!) I, no make that WE, can’t thank you enough.
I wish I had learned these strategies at the BEGINNING of my Accounting degree! Now that I have this skill – I might decide to do a double-major for my Master’s Degree – I’ll keep you posted!
Sincerely Yours,
Rodney.”
Today’s post is from a Pastry Chef in Melbourne. “Speed reading is starting to help me especially with concentration and comprehension, I read through the pages of the document about Host Beneficiaries the other night real easy, normally I am not a reader and would not get through it.”
“The study book “Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” has great power for me, it has been thirty five years since I left school and now I want to start studying again. So I have decided to put it to the test, I am going to study Cooking and Pastry as well as Baking Breads and I am going to do it as though I want to be a Consultant to the Industry so I will see what happens. Also I will try something I know nothing about and that is computers that will be fun!
This is from a ‘baker in Melbourne’… If you are looking to improve your career or your business – learning new stuff is essential. Whether you buy my study book or speed reading video program or BOTH, once you start, you won’t want to stop because getting the Best Business Results With The Least Amount Of Effort gets to be addictive!
Several people have been asking how many videos there are to help them Get Better Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort… There are TWO and the NEW updated pages have just been launched – click below to see them now.
http://www.SpeedLearningVideo.com You get this for FREE when you buy by study book…!
http:www.SpeedReadingVideo.com This is a GUARANTEED program to learn 3, 5 or even 10 times faster than you read now. It’s the single most valuable skill you can learn and it takes only ONE HOUR to learn.
As you can see, each video program is comprehensive and fully contained so you can learn in the comfort of your own home or office and you can revisit ANY segment at your leisure.
Enjoy!
Today’s question of the day is from Parry Yap who asked if the BONUS you get with “Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” is VHS, PAL or DVD format…
It’s none of those – it’s streamed directly to your computer. No disks, no tapes required!
PLUS IT’S INCLUDED FOR FREE when you buy the book!
The Speed Learning Video covers:
The strategies you learn in this video will radically change your results at school and in any area of your life:
With your study out of the way, you’ll have more time to do what you want!
- 4 keys to help you accomplish any goal faster (a new twist that will make this automatic for you)
- How to meet deadlines with ease and without driving yourself crazy!
- How to get into the peak performance ‘zone’ on command, that makes you feel unstoppable.
- What an Olympian can teach you about how to tap into your own unique brain “programming” to MAXIMISE your grades or any performance in life.
- Should you cram at the last minute or study one week in advance? – this will blow you away!
- What to do if you’re a PROCRASTINATOR and how to use it to your advantage.
- How to absorb and remember even banal and boring information that can be critical to achieving top grades.
- 2 little-known questions you must ask yourself to help you read faster and with better comprehension.
- Should you use a highlighter when reading? – most people do this wrong!
- The #1 reason why many students fail and what you must know to master any subject or any skill faster than most people!
- The Rubik’s cube strategy to solve complex problems quickly and without effort.
- How to immediately tell information that’s true from information that’s inaccurate so you can make the right decisions at school and in life.
- How to speed-read ON SCREEN 200% faster than even quick readers and master the skill in 60 seconds or less!
- Why people stop half way and don’t finish what they start and what to do so that it doesn’t happen to you.
- How can the clothes you wear wreck or improve your grades – something your Maths teacher never told you!
- The reason why you keep forgetting important things when under pressure and how to recall important details when you need them most.
The #1 study technique to instantly improve your grades using only a pen and paper- One 9-letter word to turbo-charge your memory and help you remember things like calculus, physics, maths, geography or history without breaking a sweat!
- Should you study early or late at night?
- Should you do the easiest or the hardest exam questions first?
- How to do multiple exams one after the other and get top grades without freaking out.
- A system to help you remember and recall quickly tons of information on demand.
- The Case Method used by Harvard Business School and how it can help you to develop analytical skills, sound judgment, and leadership potential.
Thanks Parry for that GREAT QUESTION!
If you aren’t reading more than 400 to 500 words per minute, I’ll tell you why…
First, you need to purchase my Speed Reading Video Program, because what I’m about to say isn’t going to make much sense unless you know the technique of SPEED READING…
Once you have purchased it, you’ll understand that the #1 reason you haven’t doubled or tripled your reading speed is because you are still sub-vocalising.
Today’s post is from Max Namgung who asked an excellent question – What’s included in the Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort e-book?…
You get all of the following:
- The powerful, grade-changing eBook electronically delivered to your inbox
- Access to this blog so you can ask ANY QUESTION you have that I will personally answer, like your private tutor.
- The Speed Learning Videos, which are valued at $47 – see the site that sells them – but YOU GET THEM FOR FREE with the e-book!
The Speed Learning Video Includes:
- 4 keys to help you accomplish any goal faster (a new twist that will make this automatic for you)
- How to meet deadlines with ease and without driving yourself crazy!
- How to get into the peak performance ‘zone’ on command, that makes you feel unstoppable.
- What an Olympian can teach you about how to tap into your own unique brain “programming” to MAXIMISE your grades or any performance in life.
- Should you cram at the last minute or study one week in advance? – this will blow you away!
- What to do if you’re a PROCRASTINATOR and how to use it to your advantage.
- How to absorb and remember even banal and boring information that can be critical to achieving top grades.
- 2 little-known questions you must ask yourself to help you read faster and with better comprehension.
- Should you use a highlighter when reading? – most people do this wrong!
- The #1 reason why many students fail and what you must know to master any subject or any skill faster than most people!
- The Rubik’s cube strategy to solve complex problems quickly and without effort.
- How to immediately tell information that’s true from information that’s inaccurate so you can make the right decisions at school and in life.
- How to speed-read ON SCREEN 200% faster than even quick readers and master the skill in 60 seconds or less!
- Why people stop half way and don’t finish what they start and what to do so that it doesn’t happen to you.
- How can the clothes you wear wreck or improve your grades – something your Maths teacher never told you!
- The reason why you keep forgetting important things when under pressure and how to recall important details when you need them most.
- The #1 study technique to instantly improve your grades using only a pen and paper
- One 9-letter word to turbo-charge your memory and help you remember things like calculus, physics, maths, geography or history without breaking a sweat!
- Should you study early or late at night?
- Should you do the easiest or the hardest exam questions first?
- How to do multiple exams one after the other and get top grades without freaking out.
- A system to help you remember and recall quickly tons of information on demand.
- The Case Method used by Harvard Business School and how it can help you to develop analytical skills, sound judgment, and leadership potential.
In this 61-minute recording, I reveal my personal strategies to help you get the best grades with the least amount of effort. These are strategies that are difficult to explain on paper but are an absolute MUST to help you unleash your full potential.
You’ll learn how to tailor the techniques contained in Get the Best Grades With the Least Amount Of Effort to your own unique style and personality.
The strategies you learn in this video will radically change your results at school and in any area of your life:
Because I KNOW this video has the potential to supercharge your results and grades the moment you watch it, I’m including it with How To Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort.
Get your copy of the book now, BEFORE this $47 bonus video is taken away
You’re in school to learn HOW to learn.
I am pretty sure it was Albert Einstein said it best when he said “Education is what you remember after you’re forgotten everything”.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t study to get As or High Distinctions.
It just means that if you adopt a ‘bigger picture’ of why you’re there, you’ll enjoy the process a lot more, find it easier and you will achieve better grades.
I had a professor of strategy in my MBA program who, once I had been accepted into the Ph.D. Program asked me “are you enjoying the Ph.D. Program as much as your MBA?”
My automatic response (at the time) was “No”.
He said “I know why.”
Of course I pushed him for the revelation (that changed my academic career forever)…
He explained “When you did your MBA, you knew, when you started exactly when you would finish (my program was a 2-year Executive MBA with a pre-set schedule). With a Ph.D. Program, it’s an individual pursuit with a beginning, but no pre-set end. In fact most students never finish/graduate. That’s why you are not enjoying it as much as you should/could. There is no ‘timeline’ to it.”
“Wow!”
I couldn’t believe how true that was. From THAT DAY ONWARD, I cherished every single day I was a Ph.D. student, or a student of Law, or a student of company governance or student of squash.
I know that if you’re in grade school or high school this may be reaching a little beyond your current consciousness, but TRUST the process and TRUST that you need to ENJOY the journey to make it as successful as it can be for you.
Give it some thought and don’t rush to a conclusion.
Onward and upward!
Dr Marc Dussault
P.S.
I am getting quite a few e-mails from readers of my book “Get Better Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” – please respond via comments to this blog – that way you can get backlinks to your sites, get exposure as well as help others in the process.
I am really enjoying your feedback -the breakthroughs people are having are very inspirational – I am amazed at how many foreign students are buying my book. If English is not your first language, my book’s easy to read and the strategies are simple and easy to implement.
The very first post to this blog explains how you can focus on what you don’t know you know to get INSTANT and powerful results.
I was reminded of this by khamha Sithirajvongsa via an e-mail he sent me. (Ideally, you should post a COMMENT TO THIS BLOG at the bottom of each post).
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Hi Dr Marc,
Thank you for your great advice. I believe It helps me to think about
myself to know about what I don’t know and I know I. These great
lessons you give help me to develop myself and what I know.I’m sorry, I am very limited in the words to explain myself… Thank you.
Kind regards,
khamha Sithirajvongsa__________________________________________________________________________________
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Australia’s #1 Exponential Growth Strategist
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Today’s post is a series of questions from Virginia Buratto.
You say “use coloured pens” (by the way almost everyone knows this technique) but you don’t say if one should read a text first and then highlight it or if he should highlight straight away or if it is better to read the whole book a couple of time before dividing into sections and start studying.
First, just because ‘almost everyone knows this technique’ doesn’t mean I should ignore it. In fact quite a few students either don’t know it OR don’t do it. Just look around at your classmates’ note books and you’ll see most STILL DON’T DO what works.
The question on highlighting is a GREAT ONE. I suggest you SPEED READ your material FIRST. Then and ONLY then will you know, AFTER reading it what is important and what is NOT. Then you can go back and highlight accordingly. Ideally, you do this BEFORE your class as the SECOND pass.
Because I teach SPEED READING, I suggest you learn that skill. If you haven’t yet bought my video program, it’s only $47, buy it now. It’ll pay for itself with the first hour when you at least DOUBLE your current reading speed. If you don’t SPEED READ, that’s unfortunate because it’s an easy skill to develop so I don’t really have suggestions for non-speed readers. Sorry.
Moreover you never mention any memory techniques (and that surprised me a lot). Why? Do you think they are overrated? I truly expected the book to present a system that combined speed reading for comprehension and memory techniques for remembering was able to make the difference for every student.
When I wrote this book, I wanted to keep it SIMPLE and to the point. Otherwise it ends up being a big, thick, complicated book. The strategies I teach WORK for EVERY SINGLE PERSON who applies them. I have not found the need for memory ‘systems’ and you are the first person to mention this. BUT I have to be honest – if you are NOT SPEED READING, comprehension and memory will be a problem. SPEED READING decreases the time it takes to read, but it also dramatically improves comprehension and memory WITHOUT having to learn any systems.
Before ending this letter I would like you to know that I didn’t mean to be rude or to offend you in any way. I truly admire you and look up to you for what you have been able to do in your life. I simply feel like that in this book “the meat ” isn’t there (let me point out that instead the speed reading course is very well done).
Virginia, I understand your perceptions and I know many people would like it to be ‘more complicated’, but it’s not. That is the POWER of the book’s message. Once you ‘own’ these strategies, your grades will improve and you’ll come to realise the GIFT I am giving you – Getting Better Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort is all about “The Least Amount Of Effort” bit.
This is lost on many people and I know you haven’t missed that message. You are not alone – people WANT it to be more complex and complicated, that way they won’t feel as bad about what they haven’t done all this time. Once they get over it, they realise the STRATEGIES are SIMPLE, EASY and STRAIGHT FORWARD. That is why they are so powerful and within EVERYONE’S REACH.
Complex memory techniques are not – they require training – training that can be avoided with what I teach.
In your book you say that we should model those who are better than us in a particular field by asking them questions. So if you don’t mind I would like to ask you some questions. When you where studying law what were you doing? Did you study in the morning or late night? How long was every study session? Did you find it hard to concentrate after a certain amount of time studying? Did you read the whole book a couple of times before highliting it or what? How did you remember things?
I always study at night. You need to determine what works best for you. I prefer to study for several hours at a time and get into the ‘groove’ of my thoughts. I will read whenever and wherever I have the opportunity. On a plane, waiting for a plane, for an appointment, etc. I carry my reading material with me EVERYWHERE I GO. That is the KEY to optimal time management. I only SPEED READ the material ONCE. I then highlight it AFTER I have read it. Memory is not a problem when you SPEED READ and use the strategies in my book. No one who has applied the strategies has ever asked for memory or comprehension ‘assistance’.
Thank you so much. English isn’t my first language that’s the reason why my English isn’t always correct and easy to understand.
Thanks again
Virginia Buratto
Virginia, thank you for taking the time to respond. I know you will be successful and please add comments to the blog at your leisure.
Onward and upward!
Dr Marc Dussault
Australia’s #1 Exponential Growth Strategist
P.S.
I will answer anyone’s question that posts it as a comment on the blog. As you can tell, speed reading is a must-learn skill for any serious student…
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Hi and thank you !
I did what you told me to, and I did NOT stop after 8 minutes…..
Thank you for this reminder.
Kind regards,
Evy Anette Korsnes
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What the heck is she talking about?
It’s called the 8-minute rule and it’s one of the many BONUSES I include when you buy my book.
Go on, you know you want to know how 8 minutes can possibly be so powerful that someone actually e-mails me to tell me they did it!
Onward and upward!
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