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Work with Your Brain, Not Against It

November 11, 2025 / 01:00

This episode discusses learning strategies, personal experiences with learning disabilities, and effective techniques for studying. Key topics include working with one's brain, understanding learning differences, and practical tips for reading.

The guest shares their journey through high school, highlighting the pressure to conform to traditional learning methods. They reflect on feelings of inadequacy and the realization that everyone learns differently.

Specific strategies mentioned include setting timers for reading sessions to maintain focus and breaking tasks into shorter, manageable segments. The guest emphasizes that having a learning disability does not equate to being less intelligent.

TLDR

The episode covers learning strategies and personal experiences with learning disabilities, emphasizing the importance of adapting study methods.

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.

Episode Highlights

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

  • Embracing Differences00:25
  • Learning Strategies00:52