Optimal Learning Strategies & The State of Academia | w. Pranoy Mohopatra
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Pranoy Mohopatra is the the Founder and CEO of PMTutoring LLC, Manager of Medical Education at Monmouth Medical center and a full-time student at an IVY league school. Pranoy has helped 400+ students at every level increase their standardize testing scores by an average of 20%. Pranoy helps us uncover how to anything, make it stick, and directly apply it to our own goals.
Time Stamped Show Notes
[0:50] Pranoy decides to leave medical school to start scaling his tutoring business
[3:54] The challenges of our current primary school system
[5:15] Pranoy dives into his strategies for learning optimally
[6:30] Pranoy’s approach to successful time-management to maximize learning
[7:40] How Pranoy applies cross-domain learning to make facts stick
[9:15] The challenges of a static curriculum and what we should do about it
[11:40] The importance of individualized solutions, student-directed learning
[14:10] Why we need to invest in our teachers and empower our teachers to find ‘the why’
[16:35] How to learn something sustainably and retrieve and apply it over a long period of time
[20:20] How would Pranoy approach learning how to weight train
[22:15] Why strategy is so important for testing, especially standardize testing
[27:10] The biggest mistakes Pranoy observes when learning anything new
[29:45] Pranoy’s advice on learning multiple, complex skills at the same time
[33:00] “Find your American Dream”
[33:45] Pranoy roasts Neal
Mentioned Resources
Learning to Learn - Supercharge your learning with scientific research
PMtutoring - Delivering a modern approach to tutoring