Schauer Thoughts How to Make Your Own Personal Curriculum! Pt. 1
Feb 25, 2026
A lively guide to building your own personal curriculum with practical design tips. Topics include visual thinking, top-down vs bottom-up learning, and using movement and gestures to teach math. Hear strategies for researching as a hobby, data literacy, and framing goals as metacognitive growth. Also: linking physical health, memory techniques, and creative parallels like fiber arts to boost learning.
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Build A Feelings First Foundation For Learning
- Do prioritize feelings, identity, movement, and essence before fine-tuning aesthetic habits.
- Sarah frames these as musical 'gross motor' dimensions to rebuild a safe, motivating foundation for study.
Make The Goal The Journey With Incremental Steps
- Insight: Make the goal the journey by building incremental steps so approaching goals feels manageable.
- Sarah uses a skyscraper metaphor where constructing stairs (small steps) makes the building no longer daunting.
Treat Study Like Physical Training
- Do treat studying like physical training: sleep, nutrition, hydration, stretching, and walking matter for cognition.
- Sarah cites research and listener reports that standing desks, protein, and walks improve focus on dense material.