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Learn how Jeremy switched careers and lived a happier life.
"I used to hate learning about everything. After I learned to learn, I love learning about everything and everything in my life is much easier. Hooray."
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Chau Tran: Endless Study to "Surprisingly" Little in Medical School

Student
Medicine/Healthcare
It’s so much volume of work to just memorize everything over and over again, I eventually never finished studying for the test... It would be the day before, and I was like, ‘Oh, no, I just have to go in and wing it now because I can’t remember anything.’
I remember the first time I tried some of the mind mapping techniques and then, I went to review the content about a week later. I was like ‘Oh, my god, I can actually remember everything.’
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Too Busy to Not Change: How Oscar reclaimed his time

Professional
IT/Software
I thought here's another influencer who is going to persuade me that they have this secret bullet. I don’t think there’s any more bullets left, right?
Learning to unlearn the things that I thought were absolutely ground truth… that undoing of learning actually freed me.
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Outlearning Talent: Khoi's Road to Stanford University

Student
IT/Software
I did what they did, sometimes even more. So what was wrong with me?... My whole life was studying. I didn’t do anything else.
iCanStudy was the most I had ever spent on a program. But it was worth more than any tutor, because it gave me something I could use in every subject and every part of life.
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Burn-out to First in Class at Oxford University: Kirsten's Journey

Student
Arts and Humanities
It’s sort of like flicking through page after page of notes with no memory of making it, no idea what it’s about, going, ‘I have no idea how to study.’
I had a few exams where I came out of it knowing I’d completely smashed it... three out of four of those written exams I did with iCanStudy skills, I got a first in.
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How Derrick Aced IB and Med School (While Studying Less Than Ever)

Student
Medicine/Healthcare
I was getting by just grinding through with flashcards… putting in hours and hours a day, probably like six to eight hours… just pure memorisation.
Instead of eight hours a day, I was doing maybe three to four... I was even working 15–20 hours per week.
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