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Work with Your Brain, Not Against It

May 03, 2025 / 01:00

This episode discusses learning strategies, brain function, and personal experiences with learning disabilities. Key topics include working with one's brain, internalized pressure, and effective reading techniques.

The guest shares their journey through high school, highlighting the pressure to conform to typical learning methods. They reflect on feelings of inadequacy compared to peers and how this affected their self-esteem.

They emphasize the importance of recognizing individual learning styles, particularly for those with learning disabilities. The guest explains how adjusting their approach to reading, such as using timers, has improved their focus and productivity.

This conversation aims to encourage listeners to embrace their unique learning processes and to understand that different methods can lead to success.

TLDR

The episode focuses on learning strategies and embracing individual learning styles, especially for those with learning disabilities.

Episode

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The most important thing that I have learned is to work with your brain, not against it. I think in like high school
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especially, I put a lot of pressure on myself to be able to learn the way that everybody else or like a lot of other
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people's people do. Like I kind of internalize that and be like, well, I'm
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not, you know, I'm I'm kind of dumb compared to them. Like I can't uh learn
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as well as them. And kind of internalized that and then just realizing years later like there's
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nothing wrong with you. like if you have, you know, uh a learning disability or whatever, um it's like you just have
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to work a little bit differently. You just have to learn a little bit differently and just like reading, like
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I can read, but it's like I have to do little short spurts. I can't ever just
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like sit and read something for like an hour. Um and so like if I'm trying to
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read something or trying to get something done, uh like setting a timer just is really simple thing that has
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helped me a lot. Just like helps my brain get back on track being like what was I doing again? Oh yeah.

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Episode Quotes

  • There's nothing wrong with you.
    Work with Your Brain, Not Against It
  • You just have to learn a little bit differently.
    Work with Your Brain, Not Against It

Key Moments

  • Realization00:25
  • Learning Differences00:32
  • Adapting Techniques00:52