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Parkinson’s Law: How To Be The Boss Of Your Own Time

September 13, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Productivity

Isn’t it amazing how busy working parents seem to get everything done so much faster than most people? From taking care of their child to completing all household chores, tasks…

A man writing a simple mind map on mind mapping on a whiteboard

Mind Mapping: Declutter All Your Thoughts Into One Page

August 30, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Learning Strategies

Mind mapping is one of the most effective ways to capture concepts and thoughts. It also serves as an amazing technique to get information both in and out of your…

A photo from a basketball match, where the player is ready to shoot a free-throw. As basketball is a great application for overlearning, the image is used as an illustration of the concept.

Overlearning: Practicing Even After You Can’t Get It Wrong

August 16, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Learning Strategies

One of the quotes that have actually changed the way I see the world is the following: “An amateur practices until they can play it correctly, a professional practices until they…

A splash in a barrel, used as an illustration of achieving more by doing less, the same way that mini habits work.

Mini Habits In Learning: Learn More By Doing Less

August 1, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Learning Strategies, Productivity

Sometimes, the first days (or rarely weeks) of learning something new feel easy and almost effortless. That is true especially when the subject at hand is actually interesting to the learner,…

In school, we used to learn one thing at a time. But, interleaving (a.k.a. mixing up) your learning has been proven to improve comprehension and retention.

Interleaving: Changing The Way School Taught You To Learn

July 19, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Learning Strategies

In schools all over the world, subjects are being taught in the same way: one thing at a time. We first learn one concept of math before moving on to…

A group of students studying outdoors together, used as the featured image for the article on how to motivate yourself to study.

How To Motivate Yourself To Study: The Ultimate Guide

July 12, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Learning Approach

Have you ever found yourself completely unmotivated to start studying? Like it is the hardest thing in the world? Well, I have, multiple times. I can’t even begin to count…

A man flipping through the pages of a book, used as an illustration for skimming

Improve Your Reading Speed And Comprehension With Skimming

June 28, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Speed Reading

Every time I feel like my articles are long, I take a deep breath and refrain from slapping myself. There are many 8000-word monster pieces out there, a size I…

The Power Of Expectations: The Pygmalion Effect

June 21, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Memory, Productivity

The Pygmalion effect was first established in 1965, when a Harvard psychologist named Robert Rosenthal approached the headmaster of an elementary school in order to administer a special IQ test…

A person writing a to-do list, used as an illustration for batching

Batching: How To Transform Your Productivity Forever

June 14, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Productivity

Most of us think of multitasking as a necessary part of life. Not only that, but, in the past few decades, multitasking has been glorified and considered one of the…

What happens after you reduce 12-18 hours of gaming per day to zero? How do you handle achieving your dream at a young age, only to find it's not what you imagined? The journey that led to The Metalearners has both of those. The one thing that helped me navigate all those shifts in my life was learning how to learn.

How The Metalearners Came To Be: The Inside Story

June 7, 2018

Dimitris Gkiokas

Personal Stories

This week I decided to write a personal article, one that talks about my journey until today. There are some insights to be found here, but if you want to,…

Parkinson’s Law: How To Be The Boss Of Your Own Time

Mind Mapping: Declutter All Your Thoughts Into One Page

Overlearning: Practicing Even After You Can’t Get It Wrong

Mini Habits In Learning: Learn More By Doing Less

Interleaving: Changing The Way School Taught You To Learn

How To Motivate Yourself To Study: The Ultimate Guide

Improve Your Reading Speed And Comprehension With Skimming

The Power Of Expectations: The Pygmalion Effect

Batching: How To Transform Your Productivity Forever

How The Metalearners Came To Be: The Inside Story

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Interleaving: Changing The Way School Taught You To Learn

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