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How Professional Athletes Prepare vs How Students Prepare

How Professional Athletes Prepare vs How Students Prepare

Picture this. Cristiano Ronaldo wakes up the morning of the Champions League final. He’s got no routine, no warm-up planned. Instead, he frantically watches highlight reels from matches he played three years ago. He stays up until 3am the night before, desperately trying to remember how to take a penalty. On match day, he tells […]

The Physics of Peak Performance: Why Your Brain is a Quantum Computer During Exams

The Physics of Peak Performance: Why Your Brain is a Quantum Computer During Exams

Here’s something peculiar that every exam invigilator has witnessed but nobody talks about: the student who freezes completely, stares at the ceiling for thirty seconds, then suddenly starts writing furiously and produces a near-perfect paper. MIT researchers found that students who experience these momentary “blank outs” before exams often perform 23% better than those who […]