Study Prof

Rank these professions in order of average IQ, highest to lowest (just give it your best guess).

• Neurosurgeon
• Nuclear physicist
• Professor of Law
• New York cab driver

Yeah, yeah. I know what you’re thinking. There are probably some real idiots in those first three professions, and there are probably some certifiable egg-heads driving cabs. But that ain’t the way to bet.

Now rank them again, this time in order of which will know the best route from Central Park to LaGuardia at 5pm on a Friday afternoon.

This time, I’m betting on the cabbie.

Even your relative dullards in the world of cab-driving havea HUGE amount of information stored in their brains when it comes to driving. And they don’t spend much time–if any–formally studying that information. They know it because they use it … regularly.

The best study schedule should take that into account. Use the information you’re trying to learn–on a regular basis–and it will stick.  In fact, you’ll recall it whether you want to or not if you use it often enough.

The very best study schedule is the one in which you study just enough for the material to stick in your long term memory and no more. You don’t want to study it any more than is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, you’re wasting time!

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