Mike & Matty – Study Quest (plus notion quest)

From a young age, we both knew we wanted to be doctors, so grades were very important to us. While we did well in high school, college was a different story…

We dedicated more hours to studying than our peers, often to achieve similar or even lower marks. Despite the challenge, we persevered, sometimes spending over 10 hours a day studying. This diligence eventually paid off, as we were able to gain admission to medical school. We finally made it!

Or so we thought…

Once we started medical school, the workload more than doubled. We had to learn entire semesters’ worth of material in just a couple of weeks. Working harder was not a viable option. Studying 20 hours a day was impossible. Soon, we realized we had hit a wall. We knew something had to change, or we would end up failing medical school. And that’s when we discovered the one subject often overlooked in school: learning how to learn.

Fast forward a few years, we became so efficient at learning that we were able to create an education company and grow a study Youtube channel to 800,000+ subscribers, all while working as doctors.

What was the difference?

How did we go from struggling in school to teaching others how to succeed in school?

The secret was discovering the science of learning, productivity, and self-improvement. Rather than studying harder, we learned how to study smarter.

Look…

Learning how to learn is not easy. It doesn’t help that school doesn’t teach you how to study, but it’s unrealistic to expect students to teach themselves while they’re already overwhelmed with their usual coursework.

We’ve taught thousands of students, and we’re not going to sugarcoat it: learning how to learn requires significant time and effort. However, if your current methods aren’t working, then doing more of the same won’t change things. School inevitably gets harder, and sooner or later it will catch up to you.

From our experience, students waste much more time having to relearn material because they didn’t learn it effectively the first time. The truth is, investing time now to study smarter will save you much more time (and stress) in the future.

Learning how to learn changed our lives, and is the reason why we created Study Quest.

It gave us peace of mind that our efforts were not going to waste. Imagine not having to spend long hours studying. What would you do with all that free time? But most of all, imagine falling in love with learning again, and using it to build a fulfilling life.