Michael Peterson

#resistance, RN, often wrong but rarely in doubt, proud SJW, believer in canine and feline supremacy. Less handsome one in profile photo

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@GigglingGanon Our well regulated militia out there.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@ItsMrsRabbitToU And watch the replies, “Libs want to kill us all!!!!!!”

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@scarylawyerguy If he does then they can’t plead the fifth and self pardons have yet to be litigated. Also don’t think pardons done pursuant to planning a crime are valid, announcing them ahead of time is solid evidence of conspiracy. Non- lawyer knowledge for the record, expert opinions pls?

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@copiumtrader @anthonyzenkus Genuine LOL. Usually not so high strung but (gesturing vaguely at the world). Thanks for the reminder to relax and not take myself so seriously.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@copiumtrader @anthonyzenkus Ok, that was actually funny. Well done.

[Mark Wright @markeology]

My daughter Annika is proudly autistic and 12 years old.

She drew this butterfly from a photo she took herself — every vein, every scale, rendered by hand on a tablet.

She signs everything she makes. Dates it. Like she already knows it matters.

She's turning 13 tomorrow. Please share this for her birthday. Let's make her day.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@Bexstarr @anthonyzenkus Multiple posts mention degree revocation, it was a general question to anyone who may know about it. Apparently I put it under the wrong post. It was a good faith question, not an attack.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@anthonyzenkus Prof, I have great respect for you and your work. I work in addiction treatment and homeless services and am informed by knowledge produced exactly like what you teach. Please don’t automatically assume malicious intent. Apologies, I put the previous reply under the wrong post.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@copiumtrader @anthonyzenkus Congratulations, if you intend to isolate a movement to Ivy League grads exclusively you’re doing a fantastic job. Not every question is an attack. Jumping straight to lazy faux-superior insults is a great way to get people to disregard you and your message.

[The Babylon Bibi @TheBabylonBibi]

Netanyahu Warns Trump That Vatican City Is Just One Month Away From A Nuclear Weapon

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @MELANIATRUMP / @FLOTUS

I wanted to make sure you saw this.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@Namger12John73 @flounder_MA @demsilent It’s a tragedy that she died but what else could you expect police do? They were tasked with protecting congress, should they step aside and hope people crashing through windows had good intentions? How would you react if someone came through a window with your family there?

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@flounder_MA @bylenasun @roripierpont1 It pisses me off so much I’m up on my soapbox in my living room yelling at my damn phone. Apparently I need to question my own intelligence.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@flounder_MA @bylenasun @roripierpont1 The intentions are legitimately good, they think that they are saving lives but my God the arrogance!! Question the science! That’s great, I love it! It’s integral to the scientific method! Just show some fucking intellectual humility and understand the risk of being wrong!

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet.

His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard.

The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language.

Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort.

Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes.

After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in.

Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter.

She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying.

The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it.

The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works.

Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them.

You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank.

He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort.

Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning.

The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely.

This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique.

The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies.

Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words.

Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work.

His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning.

He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about.

He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that.

The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours.

They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@LePapillonBlu2 @project21words And they will blame democrats.

[Michael Peterson @Michaelresists]

@ma1ybe @emilykmay The tragic thing is that this is a less pathetic claim than when a supposedly liberally biased major mainstream media figure complained that she was too prepared.