Paul Widdecombe

Hit me with your 'ism schtick

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

Starwars fans: create a millennium falcon effect on your smartphone with a champagne cork wire cage

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@Ronseal Having a disaster with your isoflex product - clearly a faulty batch that is still a sticky mess that is showing no signs of curing a week later. Have emailed your support people…

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@VimtoArabia Cmon - don’t be crazy… original vimto every time. They don’t even sell it in the uk anymore! We literally have to import it from Saudi Arabia

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@vimto Has it got the usual poisons in, or original recipe?

[Joselyine Chap❤️ @joselyinechap]

OMG 😱😭 Look what happened to this guy while he was on the toilet 😭
Imagine if it was you!😭😂😂

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

Feel like this guy has waited his whole life to say this. Incredibly eloquent and accurate appraisal of the failure of Western elites.

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@XFreeze At core, it’s moral vanity. The sin of pride. Everybody sympathises with victims, but look at me, I also empathise with the damaged individuals who made mistakes which led to the crime happening.

Good times breed weak men

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@Art4PalestineUK @PulaRJS I believe the word is “Ausroten”

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@PulaRJS Diversity only works one way, it seems. A party can be 100% homogenous & remain “diverse” if non native. The word, as currently used, simply means fewer white parole.

I guess it’s as Lee Kwan Yew observed. Multicultural societies vote along tribal lines

[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.

[Tlahuicole @Tlahuicole_1776]

@newstart_2024 Factual as always

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@Mr_Boffin Launched on 1st April.

Somebody is having a good laugh.

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@MbarkCherguia Swede

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@daisyldixon Freedom is slavery. Your ancestors were evil. We need more power & will control what is aesthetic.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

How does one acquire this skill?

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@HonestReporting Thanks for posting the email where mossad super spy Epstein says he “hates Israel”

This isn’t the big own that you think. In fact, the idea that the foremost Jewish supremacist hates (hated?) Israel speaks to sacrificial trauma based around genital mutilation

Even he hates it

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@oliviamaifoley Braaaaaaaaaaaaap

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@RealDonKeith Hart
Celler

Thanks guys!

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@FreddyBurrman @wideawake_media The reason being a government monopoly on violence, which is misused to give intellectual property ownership to those with the most expensive lawyers. This extended to persecution of hackers who bypass license controls on software.

[Paul Widdecombe @peawiddy]

@VividProwess We already have one Ben Shapiro & that’s more than plenty.

Ben seems to be the one who needs us, for various reasons.