one of the most common topics I get asked to speak about is studying so I decided to do a deep dive
and look for some unique strategies to share with you today these are studying tips that you
probably haven't heard of some of them are going to sound strange but I think it's worth a shot
to try these out and see if they work for you a lot of this information is repackaged from Andrew
Huberman's work I went through roughly eight hours of his content to Source these tips all of which
I will link to in the description box below with that being said let's Jump Right In the first tip
is to use certain sounds to increase your focus and learning a study was conducted in 2020 where
they took groups of people and showed them dozens of letters of the alphabet extremely quickly one
of these letters was colored red afterwards they were asked what the red letter was and
also if they saw another letter which was colored black you can imagine that this exercise is quite
hard unless you're extremely focused on what's happening in front of you while performing these
exercises the participants were subjected to 40 Hertz binaural beats 16 Hertz binaural beats and
also no binaural beats aka the room was silent the researchers found that the group who performed the
exercise while listening to the 40 Hertz performed much better than the other two groups which
suggests that 40 Hertz binaural beats improves our ability to focus and learn huberman recommends
using 40 Hertz either 5 minutes before study session or even during it to help you focus there
are also studies on other types of sounds such as white and pink noise both of which have been shown
to help you focus and even improving your sleep I suggest you try each of these types of sounds out
you can find free apps and YouTube videos of such sounds and see if any works for you now before we
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the topic at hand the second tip is called overt visual Focus this is something that is useful for
those of you that struggle with getting into the flow of studying if you're easily distracted in
the first few minutes of a study session this is definitely something you should try out all you
have to do is stare at something for 30 seconds it could be a DOT on the wall a water bottle on your
desk your plant across the room it doesn't really matter what it is as long as you are maintaining
your focus on that specific spot and if you're wondering yes you are allowed to Blink now the
reason this works is because over 50 of our brain plays a role in processing visual information so
when you purposely direct the focus of your vision onto a single point for an extended period of time
a bunch of mechanisms behind the scene in your brain start to activate this simple little 30
second exercise will mentally prepare yourself for the study session it makes it easier for
you to focus for a longer period of time it's almost like revving up the engine of of a car
before you start a race the trick gets your body and mind ready for the session doing this for just
30 seconds a day will also improve your ability to focus over time and you can even combine it
with the tip from before by listening to 40 Hertz binaural beats while staring at something before
you start studying and finally the last tip we're going to go over today is in regards to improving
your memory so that you actually remember what you study now memories are formed through the
strengthening of certain neural Pathways in our brain and there's basically two ways to go about
doing this the first is through repetition the more times a certain neural pathway is activated
the stronger the connection becomes the second way is through intensity Studies have found that
the red correlation between adrenaline and the formation of memories this may sound surprising
as adrenaline is most commonly known as something that is released when we're stressed or shot but
this actually makes a lot of sense some of the clearest memories that we have from our
past are from traumatic moments times where we said something embarrassing witness something
horrific or got into a fight moments like these release adrenaline and it turns out that when
adrenaline is released the neurons in our brain fire intensely making it into a lasting memory
that's why why soldiers who come back from war often suffer from PTSD they have extremely Vivid
memories of the horrific things they saw on the battlefield and they can't erase those images no
matter how hard they try now how do we take advantage of this in a healthy way well the
key according to studies is to spike adrenaline right after you learn and we don't have to put
ourselves in life-threatening situations to do this you can actually pump your adrenaline by
jumping in a cold shower or doing something that scares you such as approaching a random
stranger and starting a conversation right after a study session and if you're someone who likes
to drink coffee it turns out that caffeine also releases some adrenaline so the actual
best time to drink coffee would be towards the middle or end of a study session as compared
to before I hope this video is helpful try out some of the three strategies that we've gone
over today and let me know if any of them ended up helping you out besides that guys stay tuned