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If you’re studying for a big test, put a bit of a particular essential oil on your wrist while you’re studying and then make sure you do the same thing before you take the test.

music can put us in conditions that improve our ability to learn.

“Baroque music, such as that composed by Bach, Handel or Telemann that is 50 to 80 beats per minute creates an atmosphere of focus that leads students into deep concentration in the alpha brain wave state. Learning vocabulary, memorizing facts, or reading to this music is highly effective.”

Listening is critical to learning, and we spend a large percentage of our waking time listening. But most of us are not particularly good at it.

Do everything you can to tune all of this out and to be completely present with whomever you’re listening to.

listening involves more than just the words a person is saying; vocal inflection, body language, facial expressions, and more create additional context and provide additional information.

to it. Your enthusiasm for what you’re hearing will greatly increase your potential of truly hearing

to it. Your enthusiasm for what you’re hearing will greatly increase your potential of truly hearing it.

directly engage with the speaker,

to be repeated. If you’re in the position to take notes,

Ask clarifying questions or maybe even for a point to be repeated. If you’re in the position to take notes,

Ask clarifying questions or maybe even for a point to be repeated. If you’re in the position to take notes, do so.

imagine yourself teaching it to someone else. Doing so will solidify it in your mind.

information in a way that makes it most likely that you can use this information afterward.

be sure that you understand the purpose for taking these notes.

if you take notes

if you take notes with a goal in mind, every note you take will have relevance.

take an active approach to note-taking. Listen with the intention of getting exactly what you need, and write your notes in ways that will benefit your recall later.

use your own words wherever possible.

If you’re copying what someone is saying verbatim, you’re probably not processing any of it.