Let me start by defining the core problem that Simple Study System solves once and for all:

The real reason why most students take too much time to study is because they have a lot of wastes in their study process.

My parents (esp. my dad) have worked for Toyota for more than 30 years now. 

From a very young age, I knew that going back to re-do things is often more time-consuming than doing things right the first time around.

But it's only when I started studying seriously that I realized it — the biggest wastes most students have in their study process:

1. The waste of time and energy because you keep forgetting what you learned after "overstudying"
2. The waste of time and energy trying to restudy what you've forgotten (often 90% of the material)

These amount to probably 50% of your overall study time, so if you're using conventional methods and have 54 hours of lectures for a single subject...

...you'd have to study for more than 108 hours because of these wastes — WITHOUT any confidence that you'll even remember them during your exams.

What if you learned the right way the first time around?

Realistically, instead of being 50% or more of your study time, "studying properly" takes only 15% of your total study time.

With 54 hours of lectures, you'd be spending ONLY 63.5 hours — with TOTAL confidence that you'll remember everything.

That's 44.5 HOURS MORE FREE TIME just for a SINGLE subject.

This, of course, requires a vastly different way of studying.

Different ways of thinking. Different ways of doing. Different ways of being.

Most people think there's no way around "quantity vs quality", but I knew that Toyota had it both. The secret was eliminating the waste.

Removing wastes is permanent, feasible, and asks you to do less of what doesn't provide value.

A very simple concept, indeed — but it's one to take very seriously.

To do that, the course will focus on 3 parts of your study system

Consider these as the three core components of student success:

1. Productivity. The ability to study productively (by being able to eliminate overwhelm and concentrate for long periods without burning out)
2. Processing. The ability to acquire new information quickly; and
3. Permanence. The ability to retain everything you've learned

The crucial part is that they must work together to accumulate knowledge. That's because logically speaking...

• If you can't retain what you've learned, then all the learning time is just waste. You haven't really "finished" your materials.
• If you can't learn new things the first time around, then all your "study productivity" is just waste. Active Recall becomes utterly useless.
• If you can't even make yourself actually learn your subjects because of overwhelm, procrastination, or both, then no learning technique is going to help you.

And to do all that, I broke the course down into 3 core modules:

• In Module 1, you will learn the core skills of a study system that will help you remember information in the long term, packed in a strategy called "Lean Cornell Note-Taking". I designed this module such that it takes the things you may already be doing and tweaks them so you can form a basic study system: a system of study skills.
• In Module 2, you will set up a productivity system that will help you stick to your study routine for good. Your Trello productivity system will also free up your attention for processing information. Take a short vacation without worrying about things falling through the cracks. Feel more in control of your schedule.
• In Module 3, you will discover how to read textbooks in record time. You will learn how to use my "trifecta" of textbook reading — the Goalpost Technique, Bento Box Thinking, and the Bloom Test — so you make sure you absorb textbooks quickly yet never have to go back to them again.

Finally, we'll bring everything together at the very end. But I won't spoil it right here :)

Not everyone can increase their IQ, but anyone can reduce waste in their study process

Anyone can learn small skills, set up a system, learn a new strategy, and implement a few tactics. Along with the mindset of “playing the long-term game,” that’s really all you need. 

You don’t need to be a disciplined genius who’s also the heir of the richest Aristocrat; you only need to be educated enough to understand this course and reduce the wastes in your process.

I've used the same framework and strategies myself, and as you may know already...

They allowed me to go from a college student with 4 failed subjects to ranking at the top 6 out of 2900 takers when I took my Engineering board exams. (With just above 50% passing rate)

And I wasn't "grinding" it, either, or studying for longer hours — in fact, I started to have the best time of my young adult life. 

I was sleeping 8 hours per day most days. 

I was able to free up time whenever I want to. 

I was able to go on dates with my girlfriend, watch entire seasons of anime, and play Pokemon on the side. 

My long commutes stopped becoming a problem — I was learning 1 chapter per day and never had to touch it again. 

I was ranking at the top 1 on some of our classes.

Best of all, I started to love studying again.

All because I eliminated wastes instead of trying to do things faster. Because I helped my psychology become consistent instead of relying on motivation. Because I had strategies to make the most out of my study hours.

I had systems, not talent.

Are you seeing how unconventional and interconnected this way of thinking is? 

Everything is intentional. 

By the time you get to the end of the course, it's like seeing the matrix. 

You'll have a really strong study habit, you'll learn new things quickly, and you'll have full confidence in your ability to retain what you've learned...

...but you get your life back from studying.

Now, I want to make sure that you're getting the most out of this course, so I made a lesson just for that. That's the next one.