Mindset and Experience
Transclude of Academic-potential
General Tips
Periodic review of mindset and tips
You CAN achieve superb academic performance AND all other awesome things you’re working on
Productivity
- Productivity system and workflow
- Check in must be done early
- Getting things done: ZERO procrastination
- Productivity toolkit: when where and how long
- Productivity++: efficiency
Actually make use of lectures, tutorials, and labs
- Check problems in exams and sheets
- Pre-read before the lecture
- You should need almost no extra studying after class; only review and articulation
- Ask cool questions
- Make connections with the professor
Actually make use of your assignments
- Check before studying
- Capture and plan straight away
- Start it from the day of the assignment to distribute the load
- Don’t get stuck
- Attempt for a reasonable time
- Ask classmates and TAs but don’t look at the answer
- Let go and do other questions or even something else
- Retry
- Set the deadline at least 1 day before the actual deadline
- Genuinely solve it
- Look for similar questions elsewhere
- Lectures and tutorials reminder
Studying Tips
Meta Tips
- Constantly reflect (genuinely) and make sure things are going fine
- Practicing cool high class mindset
- Polymath aspirations
- Genuine learning
- Deep learning
- Deep thinking
- Academic beast
- Geniuses
- Accelerated Learning
- High-achieving
- …
- Practicing cool abilities
- Practicing cool tips and tricks
- Practicing hard work and routines
- Continuous improvement
Exam Success
- Solve exam questions early on as the course progresses
- Practice solving by hand early on
Learning Tips
- Studying Tips
- Academia
- Articles - Google Drive
- Learning | Learning, thinking, and mindset
- Academic potential Spaced Repetition
- Do periodic reviews (weekly articulation, in-between studying as an easy study task, as a recap before new material) Feynman Style
- Genuinely think about it
- Active learning
- Make sure to articulate your learning and internalize the material after/while breezing through them
Be Efficient
- Solve hard problems on the go
- Tackle hard concepts in passes instead of one setting
- Interleave multiple subjects/studying material for staying active and avoiding fatigue
- Avoid getting stuck in a dark alley
- Make use of valuable time. Do not let minutes slip away unless you know what you’re doing. Make us of it for high priority tasks instead of wasting it at low priority ones
- Make use of valuable resources
- Don’t get stuck studying inefficiently
- Dark alley
- Dark resources
- Dark concepts
Excelling Tips
- Covering advanced
- Be ahead
Routines
Daily Routine
- Check in
- Check out
- Pre-reading before sessions
- Quickly review outcomes of the day (max next day)
Weekly Routine
- Weekly articulation
- Weekly exams check
- Make sure to prepare before sessions
Monthly Routine
Reflection Checkpoints
- Midterms
- Projects
- Finals