What started as a way to earn money while finishing her undergraduate studies at Harvard University soon became a full-time profession when Nina realized her passion for helping students thrive in the rigorous environment of contemporary education.
She soon discovered her niche when she saw that most students needed help not merely mastering the material they were studying, but also overcoming the psychological barriers to success whether they be a lack of confidence, a tendency to make careless mistakes, or a lack of mental endurance required to excel in the 3.5 hour marathon that a standardized test constitutes.
Her studies in cognitive psychology informed this novel approach wherein students learned how to buttress their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses. She found that many of her students knew more than they thought they did, and she set to work developing exercises for them to tap into the knowledge that they already had.
As she worked with more students, she these exercises coalesced into a system for building up the complete set of mental muscles. Soon this system was paying massive dividends as her students saw their SAT scores increase 300-700 points by focusing not just on the content of the test, but the mentality of test-taking.