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@jrzscodes @launch_llama Appreciate the shoutout 💜 Here's to many good days ahead!

@launch_llama Swap Spotify for @brainfmapp and you have yourself a good day

name a better combo

@SaraCsit @kyronis_talks Iconic duo. 💜 Thanks for the shoutout!

@kyronis_talks Pomodoro & @brainfmapp -

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views. He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult. The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework. Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed. Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference. He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition. This is why elaborative encoding works so well. Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens. His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your behaviour, you have not actually learned it. The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

Full breakdown of open office vs. work-from-home focus, plus the audio fix for each: brain.fm/blog/open-offi…

The fix isn't silence. Silence often makes internal distractions louder. The fix is sound with a job. Audio engineered to mask intelligible speech AND support the brain state focused work needs. Not entertainment. A tool.

You can focus in a coffee shop but not in your open office. You can focus in your home kitchen but not at your home desk. Same brain. Different rules. Here's why, and what to do about it.

@axeexcess Ha, we love the energy! 😄 A Chrome sidebar experience is a really interesting idea, definitely passing this along to our product team. Appreciate you thinking out loud with us!

@brainfmapp Surprised you guys don't have a Chrome extension yet. BrainFM in the Chrome sidebar would be an ideal use case. Time to vibecode something on the quick. 😅

Someone on here mentioned @brainfmapp and I thought, why would I use that if there is Youtube. Anyway, I downloaded it, and it's amazing. Sorry for doubting.

@jamiegarzi OMG! This made our day 😄 From skeptic to believer, our favorite kind of story 💜 Thanks for giving us a shot, and so glad it clicked for you!!

Officially in love with @brainfmapp Binaurals and I go way back and the team at brain FM took all the work for me to find good ones and solved it. Big thanks.

executive function isn't consistent; some days you have it, some days you don't. that's how ADHD brains work, not a discipline problem. save this for the next time the comparison thing kicks in. more on this → brain.fm/blog/neurodive…

Cuteness overdose. But @brainfmapp is still the best!

@julia_in_purple Aww, thank you so much!☺️

new on Brain.fm: Late Nights. if some of your sharpest work happens after dark, this one's for you. listen to Late Nights here: tinyurl.com/LateNightsBFM 🎧

@niraj5hah @JesseSchoberg @carolinelupini @MantaSleep Honored to be in this lineup 💜 Sleep music for planes is exactly the use case we love. Also: Chapter 2 of Rockefeller's autobiography is now our #1 sleep hack, thank you for the inspired methodology 😄

Sure. 1) All the basic sleep hygiene stuff, but just do what you can. My bedroom isn't blackout (long story), doesn't matter. 2) @MantaSleep - goes everywhere with me, SO so good. Also a pair of ear plugs, but I don't use them unless there's noise. 3) It's MORE about mental management - learning to deal with a racing mind, what to do when you wake up etc. Breathwork for sleep and yoga nidra are amazing things to learn, hat tip to @othership_us app & @InsightTimer. (Jennifer Piercey's sleep course on Insight Timer is incredible). @brainfmapp has great sleep music for planes etc, on which noise cancelling headphones are a must. 4) Hail mary option... when nothing else works: I fire up Audible, set a 30 min time out, put one headphone in on barely audible volume, and dial up Rockefeller's autobiography at 0.7x speed. It is incredibly long and boring. I never last more than a few minutes. I've been 'listening" for 3 years, and am still on Chapter 2 🤣

Some of the fittest friends I have seem to be missing the mark on the sleep optimization thing. If you can’t sleep without the perfect temp, light, noise, time, meal time… you have made yourself weak and fragile. Resistance training prepares us for sub-optimum conditions right? That applies to more than just weights. We should also be able to eat different foods on different schedules when needed. Sleep at different times in different places. The goal is agility in all the aspects.

@albertkinng Music has a way of unlocking memories like that. Glad our beats are bringing the good vibes (and the flashbacks)! 💜

@brainfmapp bro! This beat brought flashbacks of this track back when I was a teenager. Is it me or does your beat also have the same vibe? check this out: media.albertkinng.com/DOuZEN7w