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Mike Zagelmeyer retweeted
Must Watch! 🚨 What college professors are saying to Gen Z students. This doesn’t shock K-12 teachers at all!
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The video is AI-generated and part of a viral series of fabricated "professor crashout" clips. instagram.com/p/DWevqnvDwkw/ youtube.com/shorts/w24MW0i… instagram.com/reel/DQpysfxAO…
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Top of the eighth inning in a one run game… and we walk the leadoff guy on 4 pitches. #mntwins
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Mike Zagelmeyer retweeted
A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet. His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard. The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language. Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort. Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in. Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter. She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying. The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it. The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works. Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them. You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank. He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort. Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning. The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely. This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique. The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies. Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words. Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work. His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning. He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about. He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that. The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours. They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.
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The #mntwins have just become something to poke fun at and complain about until football season begins. #noonecares #selltheteam
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Mike Zagelmeyer retweeted
“Don’t tell people about your problems. 90% of them don’t care and the other 10% are glad you have them.” -Lou Holtz 📸 Getty Images
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Mike Zagelmeyer retweeted
This is Pure Gold. I had the pleasure of spending time with Coach Holtz. I wanted to hear him explain his Three Rules for Life! 1) Do what’s right - trust. 2) Do everything to the best of your ability- commitment. 3) Show people you care - love. It’s pretty simple. He goes on to highlight why the transfer portal is ruining college football. The kids are losing out on the life lessons learned- how to persevere, how to be committed to a program and a group of people. You miss out on the bonds you create over 4 years. If you leave, you still have the problem, you are changing the address. These are words to live by.
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In a world full of corruption… Even at the college level… at least they got The Heisman correct….
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How we doin’? #Nebraska
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#skers ?????
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Do we have enough guys to field a team tomorrow? #MNTwins #memoriesofsummerball
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At least with the fight that this #mntwins team has shown this year… I know I don’t have to waste my time listening… and now it enables me to move on to my favorite fishing podcasts while packing for 🇨🇦… #winning
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It’s a tough watch… sure miss the days of Herb and John while mowing the grass. This product is not close. #mntwins
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When the #mntwins are down by 6 … can we just like stop playing?
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👀👀👀 #MNTwins
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Hey Baldelli… stand up for your pitchers once in a while!!! @Twins #MNTwins
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