Jul 19, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
In this episode of the Breakfast Leadership Show, I sit down with Tom Vorselen, founder of The Study Coach, to tackle a topic that impacts every leader, professional, and lifelong learner: why we were…
Tom VoslerGuest
Michael D. LevittHostit's ironic in a way that in a place where they teach you to learn things, they don't teach you how to learn.
It's, it's like, it's, it's almost the equivalent of saying, okay, you are going to drive cars or vehicles for a living, but we're not going to teach you actually how to drive.
And you think about it, you go through, you get your degree, you get into your career.
You know, how, what do I need to do? Well, You study and you learn how to do it, but if you didn't know how to do it, then you're, quite frankly, spinning your wheels and not retaining things.
And there's a lot of similarities, and I'll make sure to share a link to the video that I watched this morning in the show notes as well, because it's about 14 minutes, but it's full of ideas of what's transpired and why we struggle learning and why...
Those cram sessions that we did in college and university didn't help us at all because we basically went into the exam and it was as if, you know, the guys from Men in Black came up to us and went, and, you know, pretty much forget everything.
It was like, who am I? What class is this? You just spent the last 15 weeks working in the curriculum on this class and you go in there and you remember nothing.
Someone cold off the street will probably score better than you that didn't attend the class at all just because you taxed
You asked your brain to do something that it's not naturally wired or quite frankly capable of doing.
And like, because of this reason, luckily, Michael, we see that, you know, like these days, kids, they get a bit more education about learning how to learn.
However, there's this huge, you know, gap of indeed people who are in their mid twenties, all the way up to their sixties, seventies, who have missed this information.
So what happens is indeed, let's say indeed you want to get into the C-suites kind of like raw and you want to do an MBA.
it's ironic in a way that in a place where they teach you to learn things, they don't teach you how to learn.
It's, it's like, it's, it's almost the equivalent of saying, okay, you are going to drive cars or vehicles for a living, but we're not going to teach you actually how to drive.
And you think about it, you go through, you get your degree, you get into your career.
You know, how, what do I need to do? Well, You study and you learn how to do it, but if you didn't know how to do it, then you're, quite frankly, spinning your wheels and not retaining things.
And there's a lot of similarities, and I'll make sure to share a link to the video that I watched this morning in the show notes as well, because it's about 14 minutes, but it's full of ideas of what's transpired and why we struggle learning and why...
Those cram sessions that we did in college and university didn't help us at all because we basically went into the exam and it was as if, you know, the guys from Men in Black came up to us and went, and, you know, pretty much forget everything.
It was like, who am I? What class is this? You just spent the last 15 weeks working in the curriculum on this class and you go in there and you remember nothing.
Someone cold off the street will probably score better than you that didn't attend the class at all just because you taxed
You asked your brain to do something that it's not naturally wired or quite frankly capable of doing.
And like, because of this reason, luckily, Michael, we see that, you know, like these days, kids, they get a bit more education about learning how to learn.
However, there's this huge, you know, gap of indeed people who are in their mid twenties, all the way up to their sixties, seventies, who have missed this information.
So what happens is indeed, let's say indeed you want to get into the C-suites kind of like raw and you want to do an MBA.
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