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Imagine what it would be like, if each day we got up and treated everyone just a little better than we had planned.

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@ElenaBee0 Though I don’t think the graphic would be accurate the way that it is drawn

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@ElenaBee0 120

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@WildPure_ 2100

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@Kinza1278 Gang
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@Aestheticsn1 Toast
Trust
Tit
Trait
Tent
Tort
I am sure there are a few more

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@rolandsmartin Seems like you could find something better to do with your time.

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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.

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@ykholod7720yasm It’s even stranger since he appears to have three arms.

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@OfficialJoel4_ I can see 99 right side up I can see 56 upside down. There is also an occasional 36 upside down. I can see a 92 right side up which is basically the same age as that 56 upside down. Once in a while, I can see a 66 upside down, which is the same 99 is right side up.

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@MayMayspeaks The name of the fifth child is “What”