10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)

Creating Craptons of B-roll
For each of the videos I make for my YouTube channel, I have to create B-
roll - all the graphics, animations, and other things that go over the main footage 
of me talking.

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10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
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Without B-roll, the videos would be much less interesting. However, creating 
it is a lot of work. It’s a messy process and takes a really long time to do. So, in 
order to keep my mind focused, I created this list for my video on active 
reading:
Look at the legend at the top: I’ve broken this list of 20-something B-roll 
items down in to contexts. Some are just text, some are graphics, and some are 
full-blown animations.
They’re also written in the order that they appear in the video. Lastly, the two 
columns of checkmarks let me track my progress on both creating the B-roll in 
Photoshop and including it in my Premiere Pro video project.
With this list in hand, I was able to go down the line on a per-context basis. 
First, I created almost everything in Photoshop, and then I moved onto Premiere. 
This was a lot more efficient than switching between the two for each item.

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Step 8 - Study Smarter
Much of this book has already tackled topics that can help you become better at 
studying. We’ve gone over how to beat procrastination, how to read and take 
notes, how to build your environment, stay organized, plan well, etc.
However, this step will focus on the actual act of sitting down and attempting 
to permanently encode information you’ve already learned once into your brain.
Replicate the Test Conditions
This may seem like an obvious question, but ask yourself: Why are you 
studying? You’re going through your classes and major because there’s a 
specific set of information and skills you want to learn… but there’s a more