116. Understanding What You Read and How to Know If You’re Performing Well at Work (Q&A)
Episode 116
You're putting in the work. You're doing the readings. You're showing up. So why does it still feel like you're missing the mark? In this month's Q&A episode, I'm answering two listener questions that are completely different on the surface, but have the same core issue.
Question one comes from a grad student who's annotating and highlighting every reading but still feels lost in class discussions
Question two comes from someone two years into their first corporate job who keeps getting decent reviews but can't shake the feeling they're underperforming.
Different situations. Same root problem. And today I'm giving you the strategies to solve it.
What You Learn:
The 3 levels of reading comprehension — and why most students are stuck at level one without knowing it
Why annotation only works when it has a specific purpose (and how to set that purpose before you read)
The two self-check questions to ask after every chunk of reading that will tell you exactly where your comprehension stands
Why "priming your mental schema" before you read dramatically improves how much you retain and understand
Why the transition from school to work is harder than people give it credit for — and the cognitive distortion that makes it worse
The 4-question audit for collecting real data about your actual performance (instead of running on anxiety)
How to reverse-engineer the rubric your workplace will never hand you
What a personal performance dashboard is and how to build one that helps you self-evaluate over time
🔗 Resources + Episodes Mentioned:
⭐SchoolHabits University: (SchoolHabitsUniversity.com)
⭐The College Note-Taking Power System (CollegeNoteTakingSystem.com)
⭐Assignment Management Power System (AssignmentManagementSystem.com)
Episode 71 - Grad School Overload
Episode 37 - How to Accept Feedback (and What to Do With It)
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