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70: avoid going blank during IDLE even after months of studying for the interior design board exam · Mindset Magic with Mika

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  The students who panicked the most during ideally are usually
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  the ones who studied the hardest and the reason is because they
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  trained their brain to recognise information, not retrieve it on
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  the spot. Which means the moment pressure
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  enters the room, which is the case Qasemi time limit, their
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  memory collapses mental block. So if you've been studying for
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  months and still feel like nothing is staying in your head,
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  this episode might completely change how you study.
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  So imagine this, it's 6090 days for the exam.
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  You study, you highlight your read, you feel productive.
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  Then 20 minutes later someone ask you about the topic or maybe
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  you're doing a group study and suddenly your brain goes blank.
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  The parabola on the basa. And that feeling messes with
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  people emotionally more than they admit.
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  I've been getting messages now feeling nila they're starting
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  all over again from scratch. The bottom.
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  It's the first time they're studying for an exam and that
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  they study all day. So is that you?
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  Welcome to Mindset Magic with Nika, your space for main
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  character energy, identity shifts, and intentional living.
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  So here's the thing, most students are not studying for
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  attention anymore. They're studying for temporary
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  emotional relief. So what does that mean?
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  I've been there in a parang company.
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  At least familiar at least. But is it really staying or are
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  we just really making ourselves satisfied?
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  Cause but I mean, I've gone through all the reviewers, so
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  maybe that's gonna be enough. But when you're taking the board
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  exam, it's not enough that you're familiar with these
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  things. It's about being strategic,
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  Belaga, with how you study and not just cram all this
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  information in your head. I've been there when you're
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  studying all night for an exam and sometimes may face the
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  Laguna feeling more. Even if you finish studying all
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  your reviewers, you still can't remember anything later.
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  And it's because we just cram all the information in our head
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  instead of being strategic about what we review.
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  And I realise now when I was reviewing for the boards, I
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  realised that it wasn't sticking anymore when I just keep on
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  reading them. But after I close the book, the
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  reviewer, I don't remember anything.
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  And when it S time to do that, Quizlets to Cindy Lahat, Masagot
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  Anco. That's how I know now, okay?
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  There has to be a different way to do this to make sure that I
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  make the most out of the remaining time that I have for
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  my review. So when we are studying, it's so
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  easy to get caught up now, okay, I'm busy studying this for hours
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  and hours and you feel like that's already confidence
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  boosting you, but it's not. It's like an illusion.
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  So how about being focus for a short spins for short traditions
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  of time when you're studying instead of trying to cram it all
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  for a temporary relief? Now banana, so that's not how we
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  tricks. So I remember now when I get
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  mental block, I start panicking and my body feels it.
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  Now I just feel frozen, stuck and I feel like no matter what I
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  do, even in the next few minutes, forget island causing
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  it went long. So that's how we know now.
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  Just because we're familiar with the material doesn't mean that
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  we've mastered it. But when we're going to be
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  taking the board exam, it's important now we master given
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  the fundamentals so that when the time comes, now we have to
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  retrieve the answer. Even if there's time pressure,
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  we can answer it cause if we've mastered the fundamentals.
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  So that's how differently I approach it in my second take.
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  And thankfully it worked and I'm here today.
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  So how do you know now what you studied actually stock and that
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  when the exam is there, you can actually pull up the answer from
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  air diva. So the real study session
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  doesn't look like the highlighting, the rereading, the
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  finishing of thousands of pages of modulus.
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  It's that moment right there. Now you're faced with that paper
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  and you finally see the answer. And now it's time for you to
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  pick an answer. And I'm young, uncomfortable
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  silence where your brain has to really pull information back up.
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  Board exam don't test whether information looks familiar.
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  They test whether your brain can retrieve it under pressure.
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  And that's where attention is still essential to make sure Nah
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  when the time comes, you know how to answer and you can pull
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  it up. And here it is.
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  If the way you are studying only trained recognition causing a
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  you're focusing on familiarity of the concepts rather than
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  really understanding them, really mastering them.
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  And they of course, Sir, brain will expect the answer.
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  It knows only when it's visible. Now, So what if the answer is
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  not visible there? Or what if the answer is not
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  word forward based on what you're reviewed?
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  So that's where all the mental boggling comes in.
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  And I remember that so well during my first take.
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  I'd be like I know this but the word that I studied is not here
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  so I can't answer. So saying important but if I
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  understood the concept it would be easier for me to answer cause
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  even if it's called differently, even if it's not familiar with
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  the word that my brain studied, I know the concept by heart or
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  mastered it so it's going to be easier to answer.
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  So This is why people leave study sessions or reviews
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  feeling smart but panic during exams, Cassie.
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  We just memorise word for word for familiarity and not
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  mastering. So I'm going to call this out
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  because I know what it's like to to be a student and accidentally
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  trained dependents. What do I mean by that?
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  Imagine always needing your notes open, always needing
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  answer to be visible. And there's this fear of testing
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  ourselves. Even though Quizlets, I remember
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  avoiding them because I thought, no, ohh, my gosh, what if it
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  reveals the gap between what I don't know?
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  There's a lot that I don't know versus things that I know.
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  If I don't get it right, it's because recognition feels safe.
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  That's why it's easier to just memorise and familiarise versus
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  this ourselves and let ourselves retrieve.
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  So that's why most people avoid the very thing that would
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  improve their memory, even though it's going to be helpful
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  Telegate to take those mock exams to really test ourselves,
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  increase ourselves versus just grab all the reading of the
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  modulus. Try to complete them all.
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  And here's how you know now you're study method is failing
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  you. First is you feel productive but
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  can't explain the topic, simply sobbing Annella.
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  You only really know that you mastered it once you can explain
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  it to another person. And how can you explain it to
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  another person? You come to that point when you
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  are able to explain that to yourself first too.
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  So that's how you know you are learning.
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  And another sign that you're studying method is failing is
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  when you reread more than you retrieve.
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  So it means now you just keep on coming.
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  All this information, as I keep on saying before, but when it
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  comes to retrieving them Alibaba, you're testing with the
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  mock exams and they're asking you for the answer and you can't
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  answer. You can't retrieve it.
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  That's how you know the study method is ineffective and
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  through this you study longer, but trust yourself less Napata
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  bang. The more and more you go through
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  all these review modules, the more and more you get all these
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  resources in this damaging confident about the exam.
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  It's growing self doubt and you start feeling like not on the
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  GAA. So that's how you know not the
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  method is not serving you. If you feel like you check on
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  all those 3, here are some retrieval shifts that and love
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  for you to try while you still have time before the board is so
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  first is retrieval before you reading.
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  So whenever you're suddenly ask a question while you were
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  reviewing and you feel like you don't know the answer.
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  Instead of having this mechanism now hang up in small thickness
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  will admire what drama will not really remember it first.
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  Like maybe give yourself 30 seconds to one minute to try
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  recalling it before reopening your nose to check if Tamahama
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  before customer got so really a lawyer herself to make a
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  mistake. And that's how you know when you
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  make a mistake. Now Okay, that's a gap and I
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  feel like I can master that concept more but I'm just
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  meditating Kusha and must meditative cushy under pressure
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  during the exam. And 2nd is blank page method.
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  So imagine really train yourself seeing a blank paper and not
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  being mental block the moment that you see it.
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  So whenever you see the blank paper imagine it's proof.
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  Now you tested your brain honestly because they got too
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  many notes. Malika, you're really tried
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  answering talaga first. Another recommendation is to
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  teach it out loud. So whenever we try to speak our
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  mind, our brain actually organises it first.
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  So your brain strengthens the more it has to organise.
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  So whenever you have study sessions with maybe a group or
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  if if you're reviewing your family or asking them to help
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  you with that, it would be lovely if you try to teach it
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  out loud. Na Sabihin Mona young gypsum
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  board into your epic Sabina young partition wall etosha you
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  materials. So the moment that you can teach
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  it out loud and to simplify it, believe me, that's gonna be
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  creating more attention to your brain compared to just reading
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  and reading all over again and never having to verbalise it.
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  Another is weak spot mapping. So whenever you encounter those
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  questions now feel more Hindi malam talaga yung sagot, that
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  confusion is your sign to go back and to reread more
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  strategically and try to find ways on how you can associate
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  these things with the things that you already know like
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  aluminum method na bagato. But there's a familiar thing.
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  But when you combine them both, you get to recall it with your
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  brain more easily. Cousin now Madam association and
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  the brain works by association. Another that I would recommend
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  is topic grouping. So before I would do like a mind
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  map nahna 21st century elements, Etosha rococo, renaissance,
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  Athumani elements don't do that. It's easier for the brain to
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  remember patterns, Casa isolated fragments, lung nahin dimo
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  alarms and choco nected. And that's where the studying by
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  association comes in again. Whenever you encounter Halimbawa
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  rococo concept, One Hackney I do is to watch Beauty and the Beast
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  because I know that that's rococo and whenever I see an
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  element there, Nah. Association of brain connected
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  to young power, charity and friendship.
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  And since Beauty and the Beast is already familiar to me, it
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  becomes more easier to retrieve it and to study it and to
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  actually recall it when the moment comes.
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  So if it's sixty days before the exam and you're panicking, you
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  feel like, no, that's not true. You're just running out of ways
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  to really test yourself of how much you already know this
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  thing, and that's fixable. So imagine in the next few days,
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  if you really change the way you approach your study, you're
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  gonna be able to change the way your brain performs, but only if
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  you stop mistaking familiarity for mastery.
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  So remember now, you don't need to know everything right now.
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  You just need to know where your brain is actually weak.
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  So identify those weak spots. So your effort finally has
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  direction. Hindiyo effort, colonial effort.
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  But there's really no concrete results, there's no concrete
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  outcome on whether or not it's effective for you.
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  So if you're the kind of student who spirals after one bad study
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  session, I want you to keep on watching and I'll see you in the
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  next 1 so you can really see how you won't collapse from
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  pressure. I also have a link below if you
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  want more resources to train yourself on for the upcoming
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  Interior Design Board exam. And of course, the Season 1 of
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  the Illest Special is also available and you can use that
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  study buddy, maybe put it on repeat even while you're
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  sleeping or doing something else.
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  So your subconscious gets to familiarise and at the same time
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  master all the energy from the top natures and the pastors to
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  really help you with your journey.
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  This is mine