They'll easily reduce anxiety and stay calm and relaxed under even the most intense pressure so they can fully realise their true potential.

They'll adopt the beliefs, attitude and peak performance mindset of the world's most academically successful students.

They'll develop powerful learning habits to build a strong and reliable foundation for everything they have to learn

Your teen will get organised, learn to manage their time more effectively and stay totally focused to become a highly productive learner.

They'll apply Leveraged Layered Learning to their studies to become a brain friendly learner and work with their brain in mind.

They'll become skilled at deeply analytical, creative and constructive thinking skills they'll use automatically as a habit.

Your teen will learn and become proficient in the secrets of the world's most impressive memorisers and be able to learn, remember & recall anything they study.

They'll implement and benefit from a powerfully effective study and revision strategy to ace any and every test they ever take...and even enjoy the process!

Well let’s just narrow down what we are talking about here.

First of all, if your teenager has got study skills nailed, then you and they probably don’t need my help.

They're confident of their abilities, do well in school and have a track record of methodical and effective preparation for their exams.

Take a pat on the back for giving them the environment to develop like that.

But...

If your teen struggles to remember the things they have to learn...

Then I might be able to help...

Getting stressed out at exam time, being overwhelmed with the sheer volume of stuff to revise and struggling with it all can all be fixed.

If you see that in your teen I appreciate just how frustrating that can be for you.

…especially if you know deep down at the bottom of your heart they've got what it takes...

...they just haven’t tapped into it just yet.

I can definitely help.

My name is Michael Tipper and I am a Memory and Learning Specialist.

 Some would say “expert” though I'm uncomfortable to use that term. 

I have developed a deep understanding of what it takes to learn and remember just about anything.

I have applied that knowledge and developed my own skills.

And now I teach it,  and have taught hundreds of thousands of young people the same.

But...

It hasn’t always been that way.

When I was a 16 years old I thought I had a bad memory.

Like your teen, I was struggling with learning and was overwhelmed by everything I had to study.

But thankfully I was driven enough to find a solution.

And I found there was one.

After investing in a memory improvement course I discovered that I could learn and remember anything I wanted, for as long as I wanted.

It was a choice.

A choice I could make, but only once I was armed with a little understanding about how the brain works.

Knowing that and with a few simple tools and techniques I had a solution.

One that worked.

I had a strategy of how to apply myself to what I wanted to learn.

And so I made what in hindsight was the right choice.

I applied my new found skills and knowledge to my studies.

And as a result I passed every exam I took, usually coming top or at least very close to the top.

I was selected to go to university and I completed a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering achieving a first class (with honours) pass.

And this was by a kid who used to think he had a bad memory and couldn't learn.

My later professional training was littered with awards and prizes for my academic achievement - all because I had a better set of skills.

It wasn’t because I was any brighter than my peers. 

It was because I had a strong work ethic AND more importantly, I had the right tools and techniques to apply.

But...

Throughout my whole experience this one thought nagged me.

None of my discoveries were anything new.

The ideas and approaches had been around for years.

I'd got them from books that were freely available to anyone who looked for them.

So if these techniques for learning and studying were so effective...

Why was I never taught them in school?

In fact at that time, it was very rare indeed for students to be taught HOW to learn. 

They were only ever given the WHAT to learn.

And that frustrated me...

…which is why I chose to do something about it.

I decided to commit the next few years of my life to righting that wrong and help students discover and unleash their true learning potential.

But first I had to develop a degree of credibility in this field.

Because at this time I was a Submarine Engineer Officer in the Royal Navy... 

...not necessarily the sort of credentials for helping students.

The development of my skills and knowledge had taken a scrawny teenager from a council estate who thought he had a poor memory... 

...to the very pinnacle of academic and professional achievement in the Armed Forces.

Whilst that journey in itself is impressive to many (so I am often told), I personally felt more was needed for me to help other students .

So I trained for, entered and won the Silver Medal in the World Memory Championships.

I became one of the best competition memorisers in the world at that time.

Under the intense pressure of the competition environment, in the glare of the world’s media, I achieved what appeared to be some amazing feats of memory.

I correctly memorised and recalled 1 pack of cards in under 3 minutes.

In one hour I learnt the order of every card in 9 packs of cards (that's 468 individual cards)... and then recalled them correctly, in order.

I memorised a 752 digit number also in an hour...and then recalled it.

It took me 30 minutes to absorb the sequence of  966 binary digits in 30 minutes...and then recall them perfectly.

That's a lot of 1s and 0s!

Now I didn’t do all that because I have some weird natural gift for recall.

Remember, a few years earlier I thought, in fact I was convinced I had a poor memory.

But I was wrong.

I just had an incomplete skill set.

But once I discovered what was missing...

...once I understood the techniques, and then got good at applying them (ok VERY good)....

...my achievements at the World Championships were as good as predictable.

BUT...

Even whilst impressing the world's media with what I could do...

The important thing for me was this:

If I could do all that with random sequences of cards and numbers...

Just think what could be achieved with more meaningful information.

That was the hook I then used to launch a career in sharing these ideas with students of all ages.

I left the Navy and helped set up a company that went on to help over 2 million students discover these techniques. 

I personally worked with over 100,000 students and young people myself.

I went on to write 2 books on study skills and 3 books on memory improvement translated into 7 different languages.

I have a list of media appearances that would make my Mom proud were she still alive.

Sky News, BBC, Channel 4, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, Men's Health, Wired Magazine to name just a few...

I am regularly contacted by the press about these issues and that helps me share these ideas with more and more people around the world.

Here's one of my more recent TV appearances:

In fact even as I write this I've just been contacted by Sky News to comment on recent memory related research.

The research has identified it is possible to learn and remember just about anything we choose to.

But I digress.

This is not about me, it is about what I can do for teens like yours.

The journey of helping students discover far more effective ways of learning and revising has been an absolute joy.

It is so rewarding to see the light brighten in their eyes when they suddenly realise they can do it too.

That learning stuff can be much easier, far more enjoyable and MUCH more effective than the  random and ineffective ways they've stumbled into.

They realise they still have to work but now they know how to work SMARTER instead of HARDER.

And of course these skills are useful to everyone because as the saying goes - “A rising tide raises ALL ships"

"So why aren’t these skills taught and developed at school?” you might be asking.

Well that is a great question.

In some schools they are introduced to them. 

In fact the company I helped found when I left the Navy has worked with thousands of them.

BUT…

This vital knowledge is often shared with students in a single lesson in the run up to exams...

 ...at a time when the last thing they want to be doing is learning SOMETHING ELSE!!!!!

But there is another reason.

One which might be a bit controversial in some circles.

It might ruffle a few feathers.

But sadly it is the truth.

It is my opinion, based on working with hundreds of schools myself...

...that a school is NOT a learning environment.

Yes, I will repeat that because it doesn't initially make sense.

A school is NOT a learning environment.

"But...But...But...."

"Isn't a school all about learning?" you might ask.

Well you'd think that.

But in reality it is about something else that masquerades as learning.

A school, and all those who staff it, has one purpose.

And that is to teach.

That's all a school is.

It is a teaching environment.

Despite what the glossy brochures and websites say, schools, colleges and universities are geared up to TEACH. 

Learning may or may not go on - it is not guaranteed.

There are some fabulous teachers out there (I have met loads) but every teacher (including the good ones) suffers from the curse of knowledge.

They know their subject so well, and find it so easy, and have been a master of it for so long...

…that they've forgotten what it's like to stumble through the discovery phase of their subject.

Instead, they present their subject from the position of “knowing it” rather than from the position of “learning it”.

It’s not their fault. 

Every subject matter "expert" suffers from the Curse of Knowledge.

Teachers are also under pressure.

They focus on what is important for them to do.

That focus is to get through the material of the curriculum in the time allocated.

This is called COVERAGE.

They have to cover their bit of the curriculum before the end of the school year.

And to be fair, many do a really good job of doing so.

But what they do is transmit content (=TEACHING).

For the student it is about receiving and turning that content into knowledge (=LEARNING).

Unfortunately the time taken to TEACH is usually much less than the time necessary to LEARN it.

Learning is a completely different thought process...

Education is a two sided coin of TEACHING + LEARNING.

Students are usually left to their own devices to figure out the LEARNING part of the education experience.

And unfortunately the majority of them struggle with finding ways effective for them.

They end up using last minute cramming and inevitably get HUGELY stressed by doing so.

In their younger years they might have been able to get away with "night before study” to prepare for a test.

This was because the subject matter was relatively light and there was less of it early on...

...although today even that is changing as so much pressure is put on even the youngest students these days.

It gets more challenging as they approach some of the most important exams of their lives in their mid to late teens.

The subject matter is far more complex and there's just far too much of it to leave things until the last minute.

But they do because they know no different.

They get stressed.

They don’t perform as well as they could because they are stressed.

They don’t get the results they are capable of, because they haven’t performed as well as they could have.

All because they are ill-equipped.

It's not their fault.

And as a caring and concerned parent (otherwise you wouldn’t still be reading this) I know it will pain you to see them fall short of their potential like this.

OR if they do manage to pull it off, it hurts you to see your loved one go through so much grief and stress... 

...especially if you know they don’t have to.

But...

and it is a big BUT!

It doesn’t have to be like that.

There is a better way.

It still requires work.

BUT it is working SMARTER and not HARDER.

It is about working in a way that is aligned to the brain’s NATURAL learning mechanisms.

SPOILER ALERT - sitting passively staring at a text book or a set of notes for hours on end is NOT natural.

I call it the Unfair Student Advantage System.

It is an approach to harvesting, indexing, memorising and embedding new knowledge for long term recall.

I've personally developed it over the last 20 years.

It works!

And it is the only one I now teach and one that I still use myself today when I am learning.

It is a unique approach to learning that will separate your teenager from the other “Ordinary Students” who don’t have the advantage.

That's why I call it the Unfair Student Advantage.

It is a game changer for those who embrace it.

And I know your teen can benefit from it too.

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