The Most Important Thing Students Are Never Taught in School (and It's Destroying Their Time, Health, and Hobbies)

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During pharmacy school, I noticed that most healthcare students believe that re-reading lecture notes and writing notes was how students should study.

Yet, these are the most ineffective, time-consuming study methods.

Despite learning and studying being a student's job, students are never taught how to learn and study effectively. From primary to higher education, students are not introduced to the psychology of learning and effective study methods in their general curriculum.

The result is that students:

• Spend hours studying with ineffective methods

Spend hours studying with ineffective methods

• Forget what they learned right after exams

Forget what they learned right after exams

• Don't have time to develop hobbies/side projects by the time class ends and they finish their studies/assignments

Don't have time to develop hobbies/side projects by the time class ends and they finish their studies/assignments

This is like putting a new employee to work without training and expecting outstanding results.

Students would be much more effective learners if they were taught to employ the latest science behind learning and studying.

I used to be a terrible