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Be your best self.

Gain the perspective and habits you need to realize your full potential as a student.

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How to Be a Bright(er) Student

Be your best self.

Gain the perspective and habits you need to realize your full potential as a student.
Buy it on Amazon.

Five-minute tune-ups

Got an few extra minutes? Read one essay and become a better student instantly.

The best of education, organization, will power, psychology, and planning.

“Wes Carroll’s streamlined guide for high achievers delivers bite-sized tools that high schoolers can use to optimize their learning and grades. Ambitious students take note–you’ll want to read this book from cover to cover. Probably more than once.”

– David Montesano, Admission Strategist
College Match

“Wes Carroll manages in a straightforward manner to dig in to the issues facing ordinary intelligence to which everyone can relate. It’s a book about the practical parts of everyday smarts. Myriad tips on how we can take day-to-day steps in our lives to get ‘smarter,’ with coy examples of the types of poor thinking that live right under our noses.”

– David K

Quick tools for lasting brilliance

Here are some examples of how you’ll improve.

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Practice perfectly.

How well you practice matters more than how much. I’ll show you how.

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Improve where it's easy.

You don’t need more smarts. You need better perspectives and habits.

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Change your intelligence.

Yes, it can be done. It starts with mindset.

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Use paper wisely.

I’ll teach you how working memory can make you careless … or unstoppable.

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Trust yourself, trust the process.

Learn to be your own pilot. Guide yourself towards excellence in everything you do.

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(Math competitions also provide students with unique avenues for entrance into some of the best schools in the country.)

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