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How To Become A Top-Level Student Without Killing Yourself Studying
The best students can recall information when it’s needed. The problem with school is there’s too much emphasis on tests and homework to show the intelligence of a student. What if you could be at the top of your class without sacrificing your social life.
One of the most powerful ways of showing your intelligence, is taking the complex and being able to reduce it to a level of a 5-year old.
Let’s take the word sisyphean. If I showed this to a 5-year old, who’s in Kindergarten, has a limited vocabulary, and can’t read a word larger than 3 letters. I would first have to break down the pronounciation.
sisyphean- (siss-si-fee-an)
Once the 5-year old can pronounce the word correctly, we need to know what the meaning is. We can do this by telling a little story so the word can stick in the child’s mind. Sisyphus (siss-si-fuss) was a a figure from Greek Mythology who was forced to push a boulder up a hill eternally in Hades (that’s pronounced ‘hay-deez’). You can show an image of Sisyphus to the child so they can get a picture of who this Greek mythological figure is. You can go into detail saying that Sisyphus was condemned (or cursed or punished) to push this boulder up a hill in Hades because the goal was to have never-ending failure because the boulder’s…
