Debbie Herndon

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

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[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

One Hand in my Pocket. Alanis Morrisette on repeat

[Rohit @heyrohitai]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[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.

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

I need this exact shirt. Is that possible?

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

Every time I hear “Simple Man”, I think of my former superintendent’s son. Good kid.

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@Dontyouworrtaboutit

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

Happy birthday, Dalton Lantrip!

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

I share a birthday with one of my 8th grade teachers. She calls me every year. Makes my day.

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

The story of My Lai is coming on pbs at 8. Remember In the Lake of the Woods?

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@CamSpradling I tried to email my rep and it was an @noreply address. Is that normal?

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@BethHart cancelled again at Tulsa Theater on May 7?

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@BethHart cancelled again in Tulsa? Was supposed to be May 7 at the Tulsa Theater. Any info appreciated.

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@CBSNews *to

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@BethHart Will tickets from the cancelled Tulsa show be honored at this next concert in May?

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@Cami_Kloo Do it

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@Cami_Kloo Fascinating. Hope you wrote it all down.

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@SenatorLankford @SenMullin @RepBice @repkevinhern What are you doing to help your constituents in this crisis? I know you won't answer because your portfolio is safe--but mine is not. Please do something.

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

There's drama in professional fishing apparently. lol

[Debbie Herndon @herndon04]

@RepBice Pre-tariff numbers, @RepBice