Tim Simpson

President- The Polo Fields Golf & Country Club, Tecumseh Golf Club, and

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views.

He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult.

The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework.

Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed.

Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference.
He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition.

This is why elaborative encoding works so well.

Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens.

His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your
behaviour, you have not actually learned it.

The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

[Tecumseh Boys Golf @THSIndiansGolf]

The Indians take on Bedford Valle for the D2 State Finals.

Simpson lead the team with a 76.

[Tecumseh Boys Golf @THSIndiansGolf]

STATE BOUND!!!

Indians advance for the finals for the 3rd straight year.

[Tecumseh Boys Golf @THSIndiansGolf]

The Indians finish off the season as runner ups in the SEC.

Grant Simpson is the leading medalist In the SEC White year long points race (matches+tournaments).

[Kristopher Lodes @LenaweeLodes]

After coming in second by a single stroke the last two years, Tecumseh's Grant Simpson got his Lenawee County boys golf title while leading his team to a fifth win in six county meets: https://t.co/nwGAQPQkkc

[Tecumseh Boys Golf @THSIndiansGolf]

Another CLOSE SEC match against Bedford in tough windy conditions.

Back at it Monday for the county invite.

[Tecumseh Boys Golf @THSIndiansGolf]

The Indians go 1-1 in today’s TRI at Lenawee Hills.

Grant and Kellen lead the team in scoring with a 38 and 41.

[Tecumseh Boys Golf @THSIndiansGolf]

Tecumseh wins the Tecumseh 2025 invite!

Grant Simpson is the medalists with a 77, Jake Barrie and Colin McDowell both posting top 10 finishes.

[Tecumseh Boys Golf @THSIndiansGolf]

Good start to the season for the Indians. Simpson shooting a 72 to take home medalist honors. McDowell coming in second with a 76.

Indians take home 2nd out of 18 teams.

[RealVinnieJames @RealVinnieJames]

BREAKING: If you share NOTHING else this year... please make sure everyone that matters to you sees this. What's revealed in it should make anyone watching it grateful for what DOGE is doing. What DOGE is discovering is truly disturbing. -VJ

[Tim Simpson @SimpsonTimM]

Thank you @elonmusk and @DOGE for saving our government from bankruptcy. It’s truly inspiring what you are doing.

https://t.co/JTKUrZ7EwX

[STATE CHAMPS! Michigan @statechampsmich]

Tecumseh senior and Eastern Michigan commit Alli Zajac led the way with 21 points in their Division 2 Quarterfinal win over Goodrich on March 18th, 2025. Check out her highlights, powered by @Reactiontech

@Azajac04 | @statechampsw | @TecumsehGbball

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I've written this a couple times and deleted it, but here it goes...

I live in Western North Carolina.

I watched Joe Biden hand out billions of dollars to Ukraine.

Yet, nearly every single day here, we would get calls from families with young kids who lost their homes, begging for shelter.

During those months, I truly lost all hope.

I watched BILLIONS of dollars go out the door to another country's war, while we were driving RVs to KIDS AND THEIR PARENTS living in tents, garages, a tool sheds.

You will never convince me that Ukraine deserved billions while American citizens in Western North Carolina had to beg each other for help.

Unless you lived through that experience... unless you personally dropped off an RV at the doorstep of American mountain momma and her kids who lost everything, like I did...

...you do NOT get to tell me what we "owe" Ukraine

I wasn't a MAGA person back then. I was honestly a stuck-up jerk who thought I was better than you because I got my news from "the experts".

I couldn't have been more wrong.

Once you see the media turn on you, your own government abandon you, the bubble begins to burst.

Then, you can't unsee it.

"America First" isn't just a slogan.

It's a blood-curling-scream into the night for all of us who were abandoned by our own government when we needed it the most...

That's why I'm MAGA now.

[Tim Simpson @SimpsonTimM]

@SenAdamSchiff You are a liar

[Tecumseh Athletics @TecAthletics]

Congrats to Kierra Pinter. State Champion in bowling today!! Great Job!!

[Tim Simpson @SimpsonTimM]

@TecAthletics Congratulations

[Tecumseh Boys Golf @THSIndiansGolf]

HUGE congrats to Grant Simpson for committing to Delta State in Mississippi. Big things coming!!