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The Smartest People I Know Are Obsessed With a Skill Many Were Told Is Useless

Jul 30, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Why You Forget What You Read (And How to Fix It)

Mar 19, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

The Smartest Way to Go From 'I Read That Somewhere' to 'I Know This'

Apr 2, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

How I Lost (and Rebuilt) My Focus for Working & Learning: A No-BS Guide

Feb 19, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Get a decade of learning research distilled into one 5-minute strategy each Wednesday

Think & Learn with AI

How Prompting Science Moves from Magic Hacks to Mental Models

Emerging research dismantles the "expert role" myth and reveal four principles that work.

Dec 22, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

AI Can Make You Look Brilliant While Your Skills Quietly Decay

Let AI raise the ceiling of possibility without lowering the floor of your understanding.

Dec 17, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Build Expert Schemas That Catch AI Hallucinations in Seconds With This Matrix

A practical map for deciding in seconds what to encode and what to safely offload.

Dec 8, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

How Learning Faster With AI Can Make You Forget More

High retrieval strength fools you; storage strength needs desirable difficulty and spaced testing.

Nov 24, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

How to Pick the Perfect AI Tool for Research, Writing, Learning, or Analysis

Prompts included.

Nov 17, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Remember What You Read

Part 2: How to Remember Anything You Want From What You Read Forever

Select, comprehend, and formulate and how to build cards that require under eight seconds to review, keeping your system efficient and sustainable.

Jan 13 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Part 1: How to Remember Anything You Want From What You Read Forever

The 15-Minute Setup to Stop Forgetting What Matters

Jan 5 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

5 Underestimated Principles for a Mind That Compounds Knowledge Instead of Forgetting It

You cannot apply what you do not know.

Dec 29, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Bad Memory,’ Only an Untrained One

You may not become a memory Olympian, but you can train your brain to stop forgetting what matters.

Nov 26, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Master Hard Skills Faster

Use This Science-Built Prompt To Learn a Language in 12-Weeks

Ditch Duolingo for a copy-paste prompt that builds an evidence-based system from zero to conversational fluency.

Dec 1, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Turn Vague Learning Goals Into Clear Skill Trees With This AI Prompt

Define your why, starting point, and time commitment for a blueprint that closes intention-action gaps.

Oct 20, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

The 4-Layered Thinking Non-Coders Use to Go From Vague Idea to Working App

Because the hottest new programming language is English.

Oct 13, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Why Your Language Classes Failed (And How AI Finally Fixes Them)

A 3-pillar, evidence-based system using AI to acquire a language that works under pressure—not just memorize words for a test.

Sep 10, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Follow Through When Motivation Fails

The Reflection Ritual That Saved Me from Workaholism (Template + Prompt Included)

Use this four-part template to design a life of purpose instead of default drift.

Dec 15, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

How to *Not* Stop Learning When Things Get Hard

Four strategies to master any skill, even when your brain is screaming "you don't belong here."

Nov 10, 2025

Three Small Steps to Turn Silent Longing Into Expressive Freedom

And why a single cracked note kept me silent for 15 years.

Aug 27, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

3 Prompts to Turn Discipline Into a System You’ll Actually Stick With

The self‑inquiry loop that helped me run a half‑marathon after decades of hating running and can help you stick to any goal.

Aug 4, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

The Science of Learning

Harvard-Trained Neuroscientist Tommy Blanchard On Curiosity and Habits That Make Learning Stick

Knowing all the scales won’t help you hear music.

Jan 7 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc and Tommy Blanchard

A Curated Map of the Best Thinking on Learning How to Learn

Researchers, educators, and practitioners worth your time.

Dec 24, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Three Science-Backed Books That Turn One Hour Of Study Into Real Progress

Escape the illusion of learning and build deep expertise using strategies from three cognitive science books.

Dec 10, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

How This Teenager Got a Perfect 1600 SAT Without Having a Teacher Since Fourth Grade

This interview with Austin Scholar shows the future of learning might already be here.

Nov 19, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc and Austin Scholar

EdTech Is Optimized for Your Engagement, Not Your Competence—Here's the 3-Question Test

A research-backed mindset shift to move from consuming information to building skills.

Oct 29, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

Sharpen Your Judgment

Complex Problems Are Riddles To Be Solved, Not Character Flaws To Be Punished

How systems thinking turns chronic stuckness into solvable riddles.

Dec 3, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

The Hidden Fear Driving Billion-Dollar AI Systems (And How to Break It)

The same scarcity logic that dominated classrooms now drives tech empires but shared intelligence could change everything.

Nov 5, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

A Practical Guide to Developing Critical Thinking (Instead of Just Consuming Information)

Build the durable mental models that let you go from recognizing ideas to generating your own original insights.

Nov 4, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

The Hidden Prices of Every ChatGPT Prompt You’ve Ever Written

$2/hour Kenyan moderators, water-hungry data centers, and the expertise you lose with every shortcut.

Oct 15, 2025 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc

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