Articles and Blog Posts
5 Acacemic Coaching Strategies for Deep Learning
Subconscious Learning – Distribute your study time throughout the day. Block out study sessions into 2, 3, and 4 sessions each day. Why? Learning occurs constantly. Blocking out segments allows you to re-engage the material, dig up what you already know, and re-store it. For example, one four hour study session is not as beneficial as 2x2 hour sessions, or 3x90 minute sessions. Rest or sleep at some point during the day. Why? Learning occurs constantly. Study every subject every day!
Context Effect – Vary your routine and study locations.
4 Ways to get in the Performance Zone and Stay There
When swimmers are asked to recall their best performances, they typically describe a feeling of effortless power, excitement, and readiness for the upcoming challenge. In Sport Psychology terms, this is known as achieving a State of Flow.
Academic Coaching Strategies for Exams
Plan your review strategy, and study schedule, well in advance. Assuming you do this, your exam review strategy might look like this:
1. Overview your strong points, and areas where there are knowledge gaps. Accept that it is
never possible to know everything. Think more about how to make use of what you do know.
2. Rehearse.
Book Recommendations
Winning the Mind Game
John Edgette
Mindset
Carol Dweck
Willpower
Roy Baumeister
Flourish
Martin Seligman
iGen
Jean Twenge
The Art of Mental Training
Gonzales
Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Millman
The Evolving Self
Kegan
Daring Greatly
Brown