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3:13 Qualities of Genius: strong memory and deep understanding 4:15 How to have a good memory. Start with good informational encoding 4:54 Deepen understanding by deep processesing (connecting ideas to other related ideas) 6:59 Higher order learning 7:58 stages/orders of learning 14:52 Steps we can take to improve 16:41 Analyze which level of learning currently at 18:34 Go up a level 19:11 Prestudy structures 23:15 Delay note-taking 25:55 increase cognitive load tolerance 28:09 Critical reflection of technique
Delay note-taking! I always thought this was holding me back. But how long do I delay it for? I feel like by the time I want to write the note, I forget what it is that I learned.
As an educational sciences student I wholeheartedly approve of this content! Just one tip: I would really appreciate it if you could put chapters in your video 😊
Hi, Justin. I'm retired, unemployed, disabled, 70 and a lifelong learner. After watching your video I wondered how I was the top student in my class and graduated with high honors in college being stuck at level 4. What a shame! That probably shouldn't have happened! I immediately started using your technique literally minutes after I watched your video with my Great Courses. This is mindblowing stuff. I'm hungry for more. Keep it coming!
You are incredible, I hope to have that kind of spirit when I get to your age, hell even right now at 19 I struggle to get motivated sometimes. I wish you the best
As a high school student, having been developing this sort of studying pattern for about a year(without realizing it), I can definitely see where you're coming from. I used to be that one couch potato that would binge watch TH-cam videos and play videos games for hours after school, but I completely stopped one day and gravitated my attention towards math. Before, I would only do the minimum work my tutor would assign me, but because I had much leftover time due to giving up video games, and because I didn't have any hobbies, I ended up doing homework my tutor would assign me next class so I'd have more free time. Gradually, I graduated from having to take tutor, and began self studying math entirely for fun and self growth. What I can most agree with your video is that organization and deep level of studying. I found math to especially accel in this department, as math has the tendency to build up understanding as you go to higher levels. What I found most useful for getting into that 1 and 2 level of studying for math and possibly other STEM subjects is to 'understand' how everything works. To give more context, I mean trying to prove theorems, formulas, and what certain principles are implying. Eventually, I gained the ability to prove most of these theorems and formulas myself, and doing so helped me connect the dots within math even further. Additionally, during this period of improvement, I attempted note taking. I was of course only an elementary at the start, and just like what you said in the video, I would take notes as soon as I learned something(just to get that stress out of my head). Overtime, I would take notes only after the end of each chapter, and also came to realize my style of note taking, which was to not just write down formulas for the sake of memorizing, but also add proofs(for those formulas), questions, and what exactly I was thinking while exploring a certain unit or topic within math. This allowed me to look back and my accomplishments, and gain self-esteem from them. But I should also add that I think taking notes in this style is a far more tedious than learning math itself, but that was able to trick my brain into thinking that note taking was far more difficult than learning something in math, when it may not be the case in reality. Lastly, one of the best methods I found for pre-studying is to look over the material before solving any problems. For example, a single level of rudimentary math(geometry, algebra 2, calculus,etc.)normally has 14 chapters in total, and I would attempt to finish about 1 chapter a day. Each chapter can consist of about 5-10 sub-units, and I would just read over them for about 45 minutes just to see the intuition behind each information(as a way of categorizing the information), this not only tricks your brain into thinking the amount you're doing is substantially little, but can give you an idea of what all the informations are 'leading up to'(the end result/kind of like a spoiler). As a closure, math is currently my favorite subject, and I am gaining more interest in other STEM fields because its styles are similar to how I would study math. From my perspective on this matter of "thinking/studying like a genius", I can say with complete certainty that it isn't something you can obtain by studying for school, but is only possible through self-studying. And I should add that this style of thinking shouldn't be too stressed about, but it is rather a natural process as a result of letting your curiosity flow. (I wrote this on my phone, so there will probably be a lot of Grammer errors, but oh well)
I really relate to this alot except I have always gone for higher learning my whole life. It's only getting harder as the teachers are unwilling to answer questions they think are stupid or unessacery to "learning" the material. In spite of this I can still obtain a low level of memory and understanding in my classes as well as in my own personal studies. It sucks seeing that not many people know about this way to learn. I guess it is something we knew innately but chose to ignore because memorizing was faster and easier.
Just to make this clear. I don't wanna be smarter to raise my self esteem. Not that if you do there's anything wrong with that. But I want my self esteem to be built cause of authenticity and acceptance of myself. Want the wits so I can help myself and others more. Recently I've been doing some meditation,deep work and puzzles a lot. And that has helped me understand my mental health much more. Can't explain how much gratitude I feel for this
In a digital sea filled with fleeting interactions, your depth of thought stood out like a beacon, drawing me into a realm of profound conversation. It's rare to find someone who not only appreciates but also contributes to the exchange of ideas with such fervor
Justin what you are teaching/informing is very crucial to students or the learning process . Please continue to provide these video, for those not taking the course, immeanse contribution!
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I love how this guy takes a huge topic and condense it so easily with terms one actually understand. Thank you so much Justin. Please keep doing these videos
This channel is more like my secret weapon for better learning and boosting my grades I used everything literally EVERYTHING he said and it works well for me I changed from that type of a person writes notes mindlessly like a zombie to a student who studies effectively and now I have a really good grasp of the materials and topics in mathematics and physics
@@nigelcardoso3883 Much more complex studies (physics and alike) require an above average IQ, unfortunately - else you'd fail your courses or not learn them effectively.
Long-term 25:58 Increase Cognitive Load Tolerance (Organize information in your head)(Do something with the information on your head)(Simplifying information into 3 or more main ideas and thinking about relationships) 28:09 Critical Reflection of your technique (what parts are working? why are they working? how can I make it work even better?)(and viceversa on the parts not working/contributing) Short-term 16:43 What type of thinking are you activating? (Go up a level) 19:13 Create some pre-study structures (what can you do before hand to make the information you’re about to learn more useful) (Know where the information is going to fit in your organizational structure from the big ideas-(3 or 4 main ideas and figure out the relationships between them)(if possible, from each main idea figure out the 2 to 4 ideas that are within them)-try you learn from an entire topic 23:17 Delayed Note Thinking (Process and organize the information in your head. This what actually produces the learning) 25:03 (Hold on to the information in your head first, thinking about/process/manuiplate it, make your own/make it make senses to YOU, THEN when it makes sense write the notes in your words)
Best study coach ever. Can't believe how this one Man has changed my retention. I noticed that my continuous taking of notes as I read was doing a job that my brain had to do by itself. I'm able to build trees in my head through mind maps all thanks to you. This has drastically reduced the number and time spent on flashcard which I still use to consolidate what I've learnt.
The note-taking part is so true. The analogy of the movers applies here as well; note-taking becomes the movers just throwing everything inside, and I'll process information later.
That’s awesome! I’m also a medical doctor in Taiwan. I can clearly see the neuroplasticity you mentioned. I would not consider myself smart at a young age. But I do want to be smart. So I search through the internet and read much of techniques about fast reading, organizing knowledge, efficient preview, and note taking, to name a few. After practicing and picking out the actual effective methods, I do make the process automatic. It’s great to see you talk through it and make me realize how I achieve it and what I should do to refine it continually! Thanks, bro!
Delayed note-taking is a huge one. We often feel a social pressure to make it look like we're doing something during our lectures. But I've failed courses because I didn't apply this rule, and instead took a lot of notes during lecture and ended up wasting precious lecture time. So make sure to follow this rule! A trick that can help in this is to also make sure to try and ask a meaningful question at a point in the lecture. This can both help you ensure you're taking an adequate cognitive load, when formulating what's hopefully an intelligent question (doesn't need to be rocket science). And it also is "doing something", in case you're like me and feel the discomfort of "not doing anything" during the lecture process.
Justin, please--write a book! The subject matter of your lectures is a really important body of skills, but, as an educational psychologist, you know that lecturing is one of the worst possible ways of delivering them. That's why people say that your videos are long. They are actually no longer than they have to be to cover the content, but listen--we are all highly trained and experienced readers. We read 10, 000 words in 20 minutes, but it takes nearly an hour to listen to them. We can go back and forth in a book, highlight passages, fold down page corners, all that stuff. If you write a book, I promise I will buy it and recommend it to others.
@Jim Mcdonald According to my perspective. The main reason why Justin is not writing books or Blogs as opposed to giving Lecture through TH-cam videos is Unavailability of TIME. For Justin's tight schedule. He is not able to take out time to write the concepts or his teachings. On a side not quite probably he is planning to write a book, gradually. But for now he is taking out some blocks of time in between his routine & schedule to reach out to more people by using one of the faster methods than writing, Lecturing. Of course there are lots of whys to what he is doing, i.e. why is he making youtube videos, 2 of them being: 1. Philanthrophy 2. Marketing/Advertisement for his Course Hopefully this gives some different angle to your request. Regards.
i've been struggling through studies , oll my friends are smarter than me so i have put on a challenge to work on my study level and man your are saviour for me your way of explaing is direct so deep .you understand the actual problem and addressing them . thank you for giving high level information .
I love how this guy takes a huge topic and condense it so easily with terms one actually understand. Thank you so much Justin. Please keep doing these videos 😃
I'm a 25 yo medical student and I find your videos very interesting and useful. Thank you. Unfortunately, I think that most medical students tend to focus very little on understanding things and they just try to memorize as much as they can to get a better mark at the exam.
So true, everytime I wanna apply Justin's methods of learning I ended up being like " uh don't have time for this , I need to memorize as much as I can before the exam" 😢 Btw I'm 25 yo medical student as well!
I totally agree with you; like me, i really want to try his way of studying, but i have a quiz tomorrow and 2 tests following week. I really do not think we have enough time to process course content by these good techniques until we apply them on our work one day in the future.
14:58 is where the steps are shown to train your brain however I suggest you watch the full video without skipping and you will understand the steps and why these steps must be used
This video is basically explaining the question “what is learning “ and explaining it in very simple micro understanding concepts until your able to comprehend that it’s possible for you to maybe improve your way of your thinking and measure where you stand while challenging your current thought process in a friendly manner against yourself
Entering my last “official” college semester I’ve been meaning to change my way of studying implementing more connections between classes but seeing exposed al the theory behind the way you unfold, I’m fascinated. Thanks for sharing your knowledge man, very well earned suscriber. Can’t afford your course at the moment but as soon as I can, I definitely will
I really appreciate that he is not making blithe promises but being clear about both the effort and the reward. Getting better at anything takes time and effort.
One of the best video on your channel, I watched all of them. My learning skills improved from 10 to 1000 in just 2 month without even doing your course. But I am very grateful to you, I signed on your enrollment list to catch it in time, I wanna continue to improve my learning framework. I had very hard time in my life, without knowing how to study properly. You changed my approach to the studying, and now it seems like I have fun studying and learning. Big Thanks to you
I'm working on the making relations level and it has been a week and i have learnt more than i thought was possible. Not only the quality of my learning has improved but my confidence too! I'm even considering my old forgotten dream of pursuing phd in my field again!
I actually do the deep learning thing naturally. Factually everything you say is correct. It is logical that just knowing "1=sin(90)" doesn't get you far, as humans don't operate like a hash table, but knowing that it is a triangle in a circle with a side of it going around the clock is the correct way. This is a huge difference .
Your videos are not long for no reason ! they really help and thank you so much i have improved .... i used your technique , i was used to get 25% for my learner average now im at 87% learner average . i appritiate you man
a. Improve the current level. One step at a time. b. Prestudy (Priming): Prepare for class/coaching/studying/any session. - Lay out basic mind mapping, lay out basic organizational structure. - Do it for an entire topic, instead of individual lessons. Around 15-20 minutes needed only. Big picture first, divide, relation between them, then encode. (Main ideas -> Subideas) c. Receive information, process the information (let it encode & cogniload) first. Ask questions, make it make sense. Then, note down your own idea. X. Increase cognitive load tolerance. Activating mind while studying efficiently, focusing & thinking. Active learning > Passive learning. Strengthen the processor. - Continuing a, b, c increases CogniLoad Y. Critical Reflection. Be critical of your system. Be aware of illusion of productivity. What am I learning, why are they working how can I improve them.
*This is all 100% true. I run an educational website and everything he says is 100% accurate,* if you do these things you will find yourself becoming more intelligent by the day 🙌😊📚
The amount of value you are delivering in this video is incredible! I am blown away right now. So much of what you articulated I have experienced and intuited from my own self teaching process. Everything is laid out so clear and organized! Excellect Channel sir!
Your channel is absolutely insane. Throughout the entire video, I was practicing the donts(the things we shouldn't do like writing to take the load off) and looking back into the video for more information. Instead of listening to the end even though you are confused, you should rewatch it after you're done. to fully confirm the questions you had at the start. If you saw this comment as a viewer and came to this section to look for answers, please scroll back up and rewatch the video so that your question can be answered
Networks are like conversations with yourself. I find that conversations with people often lead to deepening of understanding of concepts and naturally flow into related concepts!
Thank you. It really hit me when you mentioned critical reflection. I'm the type of person to plan out my day, but I often never follow it. I'm sure that changing this process will be really beneficial short and long-term.
In order to be able to relate huge networks of information and prioritize for stage 1 like he said, you need knowledge of a huge network of information. You need to experience many different things. Geniuses are geniuses because they know a lot about a lot of things. Vastly different things, which makes their understanding of individual things more expansive. I've watched this a couple times, and rewatching it now I realize why I struggled so hard to reach those higher levels of learning. I didn't really expose myself to a lot of information, shutting myself out from learning about anything I can. With the internet being so big, I struggled to see that I could learn anything, focusing more on the idea that I will never learn everything.
I've been programming myself to apply your concepts for awhile and I think I finally understand how it can work for me! One thing you said in this video that clicked was that your brain is not ready for that level of detail when you recite small bits of information. Currently I'm trying to learn to code and I find myself trying to master the small sections of my online class (which doesn't help me when i immediately apply what i learn only to fail when I cant solve a Code Wars problem). Instead I'm trying to understand the overall concept and how the information applies to me and how I can use it to build programs and websites. Long story short, learning is a little bit more fun that way instead of cramming detailed information that feels useless to you and haven't build a connection yet. I appreciate you for taking the time out to explain this strategy. You might have changed my life lol
Goodday, I'm in the Forex trading industry and I always feel like going through the course makes my brain feel crammed too, I hope this techniques help and I really like his explanation on why you should take delayed notes and as I reflect I totally can compare to what I was doing and what he was talking about.. Amazing vid
SUPER HELPFUL! Thank you. I sm middle aged woman feeling like my brain is no longer working with all the overwhelm and normal stuff going on. But I need to learn new things for the sake of my career and brain. I will put these into practice. And I appreciate that you are not offering glib, surface-level solutions to a complex issue.
I've been waiting for the course registration to re-open. I'm tired of linear note taking and I'm willing to work incredibly hard for something new. Your methods are so compelling.
@@milliemillie5564 Hey, the course is great. The problem is I've been really inconsistent so I don't have any big results to prove the techniques we are taught work.
I am bad at remembering lists. So, I study them using aconyms. I first take a list of words, or a list of sentences, and for each entry I assign a letter. Next, I combine the letters in a meaningful way to form the acronym. Then, I memorize the aconym, and I quiz myself on what each letter means. Over time, at the start of each study session, I quiz myself on remembering the acronyms themselves, and then on the meaning of each letter of each acronym. Throughout an entire semester, I end up memorizing a page or two of acronyms, and recalling them is no longer difficult. I believe, although I have not tested this, that were I to return to quizing myself on any page of acronyms years later, I could regain the knowledge with only a moderate level of difficulty.
As a mature-age uni student in his 40s, who has been battling his way through his courses using note-taking (primarily), flashcards, and past paper questions, this is the first time in my life that I have actually understood how to study. I always felt deep-down that my time-consuming and highly ineffective note-taking was a way for my brain to chill and be lazy (aka: to not become overly taxed), and because pushing it to perform more active study techniques felt uncomfortable, I just erroneously concluded that for whatever reason (perhaps due to some unknown subconscious psychology I have), unlike other students who were lucky enough to not have to write notes, my brain needed to be nurtured by employing the cathartic process of writing notes. But with the new insights I have just gained from this video, I can kiss goodbye to the tedious process of note taking, and begin growing my cognitive load tolerance. Bravo Justin!
I appreciate the "how and why it works" part of your videos. It definitely helps me retain and apply these concepts in my life. And now after watching this video, I understand why. Also, this is only a 15min video watching it on 2x speed, so we can have our cake and eat it too. :D
JUSTIN! One suggestion for the next video: How to know when cognitive load isn't actually you being tired? How would you find the balance between these?
In my experience, my brain will literally feel like sparks are flying out of it when done right. It's very similar to exercising your body's muscles. Likewise, the brain should feel like it's really been used by the end of it
I’ve been developing my own learning strategy over the years and I have basically discovered most of this myself. This is a good video to complete my research
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR VIDEOS After watching your videos, I felt like I am actually smart, it's just that I have been studying wrongly all these years because although I sometimes see the relationship between concepts, I tend to focus on isolating the concept and memorizing it. Now I am just focusing on learning the bigger picture and trying to see how everything is connected. I also used to just take down notes linearly with a thinking that : since I have all this information written down, I can just memorize these next time (basically notes now, learn later). What I am doing now is actually understanding and encoding things in my head DURING lecture by trying to connect things I have previously studied during my pre-study session
Now this is something amazing. I say this because I believe there is a great need for professionals who can teach good techniques on how to absorb and process information. This is something that will really help a student no matter what kind of teacher he/she has, or whatever the situation is.
Really appreciate for what you taught in this video. I'm a freshman at my university and as you know the beginning is always very tough, challenging. I literally do not know how to learn effectively in university because the information I gained seems too much, and I get overloaded when reading it. Thanks to this video, I really think I know how to analyze the information to deeply understand it instead of trying to passively remember it. Last week, I did a presentation about the decision-making process, and my teacher said that nearly all my presentation was just something I read from the book, not what I knew. I was pretty sad because I truly made effort to understand it in my way but it seemed like I did not understand the lesson enough. After watching your video, I feel more confident to do the next presentation and also gain high scores in the class. Thanks for all your sharing. Your lesson is not something that students like me will have a chance to know it in our lives, but you did it so thank you very much.
Keep up the work. I'm also working on extending my cognitive load and i must say it's really hard when you are already familiar with the old study technique.
Thank you Justin, you really helped me with my studying and after months of applying your methods of learning I can clearly see their effectiveness and I feel a lot smarter than I was before, and before exercising higher level learning, actually trying to deeply understand a complicated topic was hard and exhausting to me, but now it is a pleasure, because I know that I will manage and then be proud that I understood it.
@@popcat6683 I'm not an expert and I think you'd be better off listening to Justin. However, I'm gonna list here the things that helped me the most: 1) whatever I study, I look at topics a couple sections away to see the big picture of what I am currently learning and I try to understand the relation of what I am learning now with the whole thing, and I try to think of what this can be used for, or what questions that might come up on the exam this material that I'm learning will let me answer. 2) When I'm studying, I focus only on studying, and pay as much attention as I possibly can. 3) I believe in myself 4) I take breaks
as a noob 18yo med student who has been endlessly struggling to find a study system that is compatible with the new course, this video is a game changer. Thank you Justin!
I absolutely value this type of content you put out for free. Its always understandable and applicable. I think what would make it even better would be giving some examples with actual content. So that you actually pick a topic and really explain how to "higher order learn" with that.
Thank you. High density of practical information in it. Illusion of studying: "writing a lots of notes and making lots of flashcards is not necessarily good quality learning - it may be not in your brain" Apply critical reflection: "looking at your studying techniques and thinking about what parts are working, why are there working, and how can I make it work even better - what parts are not actually contributing to then remove them to enhance it with what it will make it work better."
I had studied in ingineering school, I have 0 affinity for rote by learning, in fact my memory is so bad once my mother bought me a phone as a gift but had to go back in a shop to change the phone number because no way I would ever remember it :) Though I agree that listening by not taking notes release the brain to focus on understanding, for sure if you don't take some minimal notes at engineering college level there's so much material no way you can remember even one day afterwards if teachers don't have a written copy of their courses and some don't for lazyness or other reasons. If they do then yes it's possible to not take notes right away. As for taking notes I write as few as possible by drawing diagrams (I use figma which has 2 types of document figjam specifically for diagrams), It's free by the way.
I used to think I already know about most things but then my ex left me and it got me questioning myself about things what and who am i really? and it slowly makes me realise i have billions things to learn as a person. I was researching a lot of things, self development, academic research (computer science related), doing self projects to apply my academic knowledge and social expirements. Connecting and relating each information on every aspect I do IRL and Academic. It took me 2 whole years of trial and errors applying the things I learned from paper to IRL that it is possible to learn anything as long you are willing to do the effort of applying it, not just reading/listening to it. The only difference is, I no longer believe I know most things, but I can learn those things if needed and wanted to.
Dunning Kruger Effect in play. It's always in play. There are always multiple Dunning Kruger graphs for all sorts of topics. Those graphs are constantly changing.
I am an Adhd high achiever at uni. I can literally only concentrate 30 minutes without medications a day and 5 hours with medications (and serious side effects, so I don't take it every day), but I am still getting the best marks in my university. I have every technique he said in this video so I think it's pretty accurate!
What refreshing content! I have completed a few degrees in my lifetime and am onto a third. From my own experiences I can definitely see a huge difference from the beginning of my studies to where I am today in terms of my learning abilities. When I just finished school, I had employed largely low-level learning techniques, over the years I can say I am now very familiar with the higher order learning techniques. As always, I am continually aiming to improve my learning techniques, so I'll be greatly looking forward to your content! Thanks!!
People complain about big videos?? This tiktok inspired mindset is so... There's something so delicious about a video that digests scientific background, adds up some professional experience and lays out practical steps, going deep at it is the only way. Thank you for taking your time, your work is super motivating.
i think there is a better solution than short "tik-tik" videos and a massive half hour chunk that must be either watched in its entirety or skimmed through. why not chapters?
I got into otago med this year from health sci. I've been watching your vids to better my study. I was living in the library and I don't want to do that again 😴
When you started talking about mindless note-taking the first thing I thought about were my last history classes. At the past, with the other teacher, we were actually discussing topics, she was asking for our opinion on things we learn, also many times we needed to recall something from long ago lessons and it all was just being placed right in the brain. Some students were most of the time note-taking and they head real struggles when the task was to retell in your own words, they would memorize it... Some, on the other hand were deeply involved in the "story", to me it was like an interesting game, I felt involved and that made me remember parts of Netherlands, Greek and English history, but my own... There was just too much, too shallow, too fast and another teacher who didn't really care or knew how to explain things well, we were listening and writing which was not at all efficient. Grades were fine, although. But I wasn't much interested in all that, thought I'd try to teach myself things, again, by myself. But I still don't remember much from the entire year of History class. I remember a lot in Physics. That was an absolute opposite. No note-taking at all. And very memorable. He was explaining in words anyone understands. And I remember much compared to other subjects. It actually made me very curious about the subject itself after all. If I teach myself something I dive deep, I try to first introduce myself to the topic slowly, then search some related articles, examples, compare various concepts and then I have some kind of upper level understanding, not deep. Because, to actually remember and be able to recall the things I learned I need, and anyone needs, otherwise it's pointless is - practical use. Find ways to do so, maybe some quizzes for the warm up, small projects, problem-solving using the new learned tool. That's what makes the deep understanding and builds some confidence around the thing you're learning.
I agree with everything in this video, but I think that "geniuses" also have a good sense of logic, critical thinking and the ability to draw their own conclusions without explanation from others. I would like a video on those topics.
I think that would be harder to learn. But what I find is that lots of people have pre-fixed idea aobut their selves and they dont dare to allow them selves to think differently. It really means just not thinking how other people think to bring novel information to the world.
That would be intuition, which is a very advanced topic IMO.. and hard to explain because we’re still trying to figure out not only the concept itself, but the methods to explain it as well.
I think in some extent that good "intuition", and specially the good sense of logic, is a result of actually doing high order associations(after some time). Because as you get more organized with your ideas/knowledge, you have all that high order knowledge that could fit with something new. I am not a genius but often times I go to other knowledge when learning something new. And as you get more into high level associations it becomes easier, I am not actually that much into them as I would like so maybe I could make the simple experiment of actually improving in that aspect and check it.
@@neotower420 in that case, you can't become a "genius" with this video alone and the use of the word here would be misleading. Intellect in general is all about logic and critical thinking.
What i realized is that back then (till 8 or 9th grade) i've been using my own techniques to learn and they were the exact things this man's explaining but at 10th grade people around me made me believe that i need to take notes so much or always do spaced repetition and stuff. 10th grade was super hard for me even though in our country it's the easiest grade in highschool. I started 11th grade with this man's videos and my first exams starts 2 days later. I got ready for my exams way more easier with these techniques now and i feel like even the hardest grade will be easier than the easiest grade normally.
I can totally relate. Back till 8th grade, I was the top student in my class, I understood much of the basics, without even trying, I simply enjoyed it. After the lockdown in 9th and 10th grade, I still was the top student, but I couldn't relate the concepts that efficiently, or understand what I'm actually learning. Now I'm in 11th grade, half the year has passed, and I'm totally lost, I, at this point do not even understand what I'm learning, leave relating concepts, it may be bcoz of the increased level of subjects, or because there's a lot lot more to study, but I'm starting from basics anyways, coz I'm not going nowhere with just memorizing formulas and reading stuff I just wrote this, to have some clarity, you don't really need to read this all However,Best luck with your studies ahead, hope you achieve it all
@@JJ-fn8lo as i supposed. I'm in Turkiye. Our education systems are really similiar. India, Turkiye, Korea these countries' students suffer the most in the whole world
Nice! I actually prefer the longer theoretical descriptions so I better understand the "why". To me it's the difference between seeing a sign that says "Don't go beyond this line" and a sign that says "Rattlesnakes on the other side of this line". I don't think people like to be told what to do, but if you give them the reason or theory behind the action, they're more likely to do it.
I am dyslexic low level learner. I did manage to complete my bachelor's degree in Business administrations. I will take your course hopefully it will help me learn more deeply as I try to go from having a job to having a career.
Trust me, I've tried competing with bonafide geniuses before who didn't even have to study for them to ace their exams (well, some of them only need to look once into to the topic to retain everything what they have learned) and why I know this is because I hang out and became close with these people. It became a habit to compare our academic test scores every now and then. Occasionally, I can beat them but most of the circumstances? They always held the majority of higher scores in comparison to mine. If I take an estimated win rate ratio in terms of these overall competition I'd say its 35:65, with them winning 65% of the time. I've also thought of changing my study habits back then to surpass these kind of people but nothing really worked in the end. That's where I accepted the fact that natural born geniuses are way superior to those who're just trying to become one (like me ofc lol) Overtime, I lost my edge in competitiveness and I no longer harbor any inspirations to achieve something far bigger than I used to be. Something about that realization made a mentality that I should take things comfortably because there's always someone out there who's better than you. If you're reading this, I sincerely wish for you to have a bountiful day and may your brain level up by listening to Dr. Sung's advice 😊
Man now I don't know if I can outperform some of my friends that are same geniuses about which you are talking about. But still we do not know if we do not try yes? I guess I should spend around 2-3 years to at least show the same level as you. But overall I think it is possible to reach level of that geniuses as they ain't spending that much time on studying due to their overconfidence in their intelligence
topics to start practicing with: i'll start with focus cuz it will help you practice more efficiently in the future , WHILE already practicing. Focus 1- Deep work/flow state , what is it&the science behind it and How to access it more frequently. Health 1- Sleep , what is it , what happens during it , why important & How to improve. Mind 1- How do mind & memory work , what is iq and what's the connection here , How to improve our brains and why is it possible. Fitness 1- How does muscle growth happen , How to optimize it and what are the benefits & risks of that process.
Thank you for the concise instructions! Got a better glimpse of how to construct that mental schema thingy... it's like a pre-built shelf, designed for specific books. And I appreciate the theory behind why these things work, since it helps *me* think critically about *why* it works which is the whole point of higher-order learning. For those that would prefer shorter videos, a simple time-stamp will be quite sufficient. The longboi vids are much-appreciated!
Your videos are not long, they are helpful you are changing people’s lives Days ago i had lost all my will to study because i just couldn’t memorize it i was studying 17 hours straight and getting average grades while my goal was a straight A But your videos helped me alot I will edit this comment when i will get my first A Thank you for your hard work
I do this way of thinking naturally of course not exactly all in a way you explain it and i am certanly not a genius. But whenever I learn on my own, my retention and my learning is 100x higher than in shcool. In school i dont even rermeber the classes we had, maybe it is becuse I dont care or that the information taught to us isnt really deep its just pure facts. Anyone experienced this ?
I am not an expert myself on the subject, but as everything it seems in your case there are many factors. Its probably both things you said. You dont care enough to do as If you were alone and just recieved raw data that must be "encoded", but is also true that depending on the teacher they could only promote memorization, maybe is the only way they know it lol. In my personal experience most of them promote to some extent memorization and almost nobody does the same with making associations, the video said similar things. So pretty much you get used to low level learning at least in the school environment. Depends on the school though, in the past I changed to a high school that did try to prepare us for university, they were noticeably less dependent on trying to make people memorize things. Although still there was not that much effort on actually making students make associations and do high level learning. The easiest solution I could see is that you saw teachers as preprogramed google searchers, they just give information that could be relevant or not, long or concise, etc. And homework and so on, you have to try to not only answer the question but also give some association or extra information that is still related enough to not be out of topic.
I'm currently in my last year of secondary school in Germany (12 grade) and it seems to me like the german education system is very much based on blooms taxonomy. Our exams (which are usually text based) consist of three areas of requirement that are equivalent to the levels in blooms taxonomy. For example if you were to take an exam in any kind of social study (englisch, political science, history, german, philosophy etc.) your exam will be based on a controversial question (optionally your provided with a text) and instructions made up of three parts. The fist part will ask you to outline information you learned in class, the second part is about critically analysing either text you've been provided or the knowledge you just outlined and in the end you have to discuss the controversial question and take a stand. (Germany probably isn't the only country to use this system. I just don't have other example's.) This video helped my gain a better perspective of how I can deal with the different teaching styles my teachers have and I know what to priorities while studying for my finals. Thank you.
This is what I'm looking for. A comprehensive breakdown of the process to learn. Not quick-hacks that work for seconds or not at all. You have my vote and respect for what it's worth!
I can't believe all of this is actually a thing! Every setbacks I had when it came to consistency that I knew somehow was all just explained with definition, tnx for making these clear guidelines! This is truly unique, it's like now I know what to aim at, my problem is more the long term and wow u just explained them so precisely! I so rarely praise and u deserve it 👏
I really love the length of your videos. I don't want a short clip that I will walk away and forget. Also, I appreciate that you list your references. I think not enough content creators do this. Also, none of this is a quick fix. I appreciate that as well.
Great video, Justin. It's easy to understand when an idea is this well explained. One question: could you go a little deeper into the subject and exemplify the higher learning strategies for med school? For example, how do I approach learning topics such as "leprosy"? Thanks
I absolutely love your content, I am in my first year of medical and am working to use these techniques in my studying. I have classmates who spend hours everyday in that lower learning level and I am working hard to challenge my cognitive load and not resort to just Anki like several of my classmates. Keep up this great work!
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3:13 Qualities of Genius: strong memory and deep understanding
4:15 How to have a good memory. Start with good informational encoding
4:54 Deepen understanding by deep processesing (connecting ideas to other related ideas)
6:59 Higher order learning
7:58 stages/orders of learning
14:52 Steps we can take to improve
16:41 Analyze which level of learning currently at
18:34 Go up a level
19:11 Prestudy structures
23:15 Delay note-taking
25:55 increase cognitive load tolerance
28:09 Critical reflection of technique
Thank you pal
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I knew someone would do that, thankyou :)
Delay note-taking! I always thought this was holding me back. But how long do I delay it for? I feel like by the time I want to write the note, I forget what it is that I learned.
@@omelettecrap from what I've heard from him. Hold it in until you can't hold it anymore. Push a little longer for each time
As an educational sciences student I wholeheartedly approve of this content! Just one tip: I would really appreciate it if you could put chapters in your video 😊
Yes! Great idea
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Yeah I had the same thought since it's a long video
Very good tip
He has said it many times that like he wants us to watch the whole thing cuz or they won't understand why they're doing stuff and just use tips
Hi, Justin. I'm retired, unemployed, disabled, 70 and a lifelong learner. After watching your video I wondered how I was the top student in my class and graduated with high honors in college being stuck at level 4. What a shame! That probably shouldn't have happened! I immediately started using your technique literally minutes after I watched your video with my Great Courses. This is mindblowing stuff. I'm hungry for more. Keep it coming!
I wish you could live for more than 20 years, 😘😘 so you can enjoy more lige
Better do it in next life 😔
You are incredible, I hope to have that kind of spirit when I get to your age, hell even right now at 19 I struggle to get motivated sometimes. I wish you the best
This is the exact right spirit
Never to late inspiring bro
As a high school student, having been developing this sort of studying pattern for about a year(without realizing it), I can definitely see where you're coming from. I used to be that one couch potato that would binge watch TH-cam videos and play videos games for hours after school, but I completely stopped one day and gravitated my attention towards math. Before, I would only do the minimum work my tutor would assign me, but because I had much leftover time due to giving up video games, and because I didn't have any hobbies, I ended up doing homework my tutor would assign me next class so I'd have more free time. Gradually, I graduated from having to take tutor, and began self studying math entirely for fun and self growth.
What I can most agree with your video is that organization and deep level of studying. I found math to especially accel in this department, as math has the tendency to build up understanding as you go to higher levels. What I found most useful for getting into that 1 and 2 level of studying for math and possibly other STEM subjects is to 'understand' how everything works. To give more context, I mean trying to prove theorems, formulas, and what certain principles are implying. Eventually, I gained the ability to prove most of these theorems and formulas myself, and doing so helped me connect the dots within math even further.
Additionally, during this period of improvement, I attempted note taking. I was of course only an elementary at the start, and just like what you said in the video, I would take notes as soon as I learned something(just to get that stress out of my head). Overtime, I would take notes only after the end of each chapter, and also came to realize my style of note taking, which was to not just write down formulas for the sake of memorizing, but also add proofs(for those formulas), questions, and what exactly I was thinking while exploring a certain unit or topic within math. This allowed me to look back and my accomplishments, and gain self-esteem from them. But I should also add that I think taking notes in this style is a far more tedious than learning math itself, but that was able to trick my brain into thinking that note taking was far more difficult than learning something in math, when it may not be the case in reality.
Lastly, one of the best methods I found for pre-studying is to look over the material before solving any problems. For example, a single level of rudimentary math(geometry, algebra 2, calculus,etc.)normally has 14 chapters in total, and I would attempt to finish about 1 chapter a day. Each chapter can consist of about 5-10 sub-units, and I would just read over them for about 45 minutes just to see the intuition behind each information(as a way of categorizing the information), this not only tricks your brain into thinking the amount you're doing is substantially little, but can give you an idea of what all the informations are 'leading up to'(the end result/kind of like a spoiler).
As a closure, math is currently my favorite subject, and I am gaining more interest in other STEM fields because its styles are similar to how I would study math. From my perspective on this matter of "thinking/studying like a genius", I can say with complete certainty that it isn't something you can obtain by studying for school, but is only possible through self-studying. And I should add that this style of thinking shouldn't be too stressed about, but it is rather a natural process as a result of letting your curiosity flow.
(I wrote this on my phone, so there will probably be a lot of Grammer errors, but oh well)
Grammar* , lol
Great college essay 👍
underrated comment
Well written :)
I really relate to this alot except I have always gone for higher learning my whole life. It's only getting harder as the teachers are unwilling to answer questions they think are stupid or unessacery to "learning" the material. In spite of this I can still obtain a low level of memory and understanding in my classes as well as in my own personal studies. It sucks seeing that not many people know about this way to learn. I guess it is something we knew innately but chose to ignore because memorizing was faster and easier.
Just to make this clear. I don't wanna be smarter to raise my self esteem. Not that if you do there's anything wrong with that. But I want my self esteem to be built cause of authenticity and acceptance of myself. Want the wits so I can help myself and others more. Recently I've been doing some meditation,deep work and puzzles a lot. And that has helped me understand my mental health much more. Can't explain how much gratitude I feel for this
Woah this is me 4 months ago?? Must've been having a good time back then
Can we connect?
@@sakuranovaryan9261So relatable 😅
In a digital sea filled with fleeting interactions, your depth of thought stood out like a beacon, drawing me into a realm of profound conversation. It's rare to find someone who not only appreciates but also contributes to the exchange of ideas with such fervor
@@Being_anonymou lil bro yapping
Justin what you are teaching/informing is very crucial to students or the learning process . Please continue to provide these video, for those not taking the course, immeanse contribution!
Top comment without reply?let me fix that
Let me also do that😅😅😅😅
Indeed
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so how can he be able to produce high quality videos free on youtube when nobody buys his course? he probably learns how to inhale air to live
I love how this guy takes a huge topic and condense it so easily with terms one actually understand. Thank you so much Justin. Please keep doing these videos
This channel is more like my secret weapon for better learning and boosting my grades I used everything literally EVERYTHING he said and it works well for me I changed from that type of a person writes notes mindlessly like a zombie to a student who studies effectively and now I have a really good grasp of the materials and topics in mathematics and physics
How did you do it in maths and physics?
@@nigelcardoso3883 Much more complex studies (physics and alike) require an above average IQ, unfortunately - else you'd fail your courses or not learn them effectively.
@@AsgardTheFatcel who told you that?
@@AsgardTheFatcel Lol that's not true
@@nigelcardoso3883 Multiple proven studies corroborate my statement, prove it false otherwise.
Long-term
25:58 Increase Cognitive Load Tolerance (Organize information in your head)(Do something with the information on your head)(Simplifying information into 3 or more main ideas and thinking about relationships)
28:09 Critical Reflection of your technique (what parts are working? why are they working? how can I make it work even better?)(and viceversa on the parts not working/contributing)
Short-term
16:43 What type of thinking are you activating? (Go up a level)
19:13 Create some pre-study structures (what can you do before hand to make the information you’re about to learn more useful)
(Know where the information is going to fit in your organizational structure from the big ideas-(3 or 4 main ideas and figure out the relationships between them)(if possible, from each main idea figure out the 2 to 4 ideas that are within them)-try you learn from an entire topic
23:17 Delayed Note Thinking (Process and organize the information in your head. This what actually produces the learning)
25:03 (Hold on to the information in your head first, thinking about/process/manuiplate it, make your own/make it make senses to YOU, THEN when it makes sense write the notes in your words)
Hi i have a question about putting the information into groups and trying to find relationships. What does that mean?
@@_anime_shawty7654 it means u have to connect each informations to others into one in order that u can remember those all easily
Best study coach ever.
Can't believe how this one Man has changed my retention.
I noticed that my continuous taking of notes as I read was doing a job that my brain had to do by itself.
I'm able to build trees in my head through mind maps all thanks to you.
This has drastically reduced the number and time spent on flashcard which I still use to consolidate what I've learnt.
I see, I do the same as well, but I use the Feynman Technique to consolidate the information right before I sleep.
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@@vinodbharti5366 ah i have already tried one already, hows yours different
The note-taking part is so true. The analogy of the movers applies here as well; note-taking becomes the movers just throwing everything inside, and I'll process information later.
That’s awesome! I’m also a medical doctor in Taiwan. I can clearly see the neuroplasticity you mentioned. I would not consider myself smart at a young age. But I do want to be smart. So I search through the internet and read much of techniques about fast reading, organizing knowledge, efficient preview, and note taking, to name a few. After practicing and picking out the actual effective methods, I do make the process automatic. It’s great to see you talk through it and make me realize how I achieve it and what I should do to refine it continually! Thanks, bro!
Delayed note-taking is a huge one. We often feel a social pressure to make it look like we're doing something during our lectures. But I've failed courses because I didn't apply this rule, and instead took a lot of notes during lecture and ended up wasting precious lecture time. So make sure to follow this rule!
A trick that can help in this is to also make sure to try and ask a meaningful question at a point in the lecture. This can both help you ensure you're taking an adequate cognitive load, when formulating what's hopefully an intelligent question (doesn't need to be rocket science). And it also is "doing something", in case you're like me and feel the discomfort of "not doing anything" during the lecture process.
Justin, please--write a book! The subject matter of your lectures is a really important body of skills, but, as an educational psychologist, you know that lecturing is one of the worst possible ways of delivering them. That's why people say that your videos are long. They are actually no longer than they have to be to cover the content, but listen--we are all highly trained and experienced readers. We read 10, 000 words in 20 minutes, but it takes nearly an hour to listen to them. We can go back and forth in a book, highlight passages, fold down page corners, all that stuff. If you write a book, I promise I will buy it and recommend it to others.
Have you tried to simply 2x the video speed?
well, for myself, i'm not an "experienced reader"
not everyone likes to read, and not everyone likes to watch
Not an "experienced reader" but I'd love to have a book around
@Jim Mcdonald
According to my perspective.
The main reason why Justin is not writing books or Blogs as opposed to giving Lecture through TH-cam videos is Unavailability of TIME.
For Justin's tight schedule. He is not able to take out time to write the concepts or his teachings.
On a side not quite probably he is planning to write a book, gradually.
But for now he is taking out some blocks of time in between his routine & schedule to reach out to more people by using one of the faster methods than writing, Lecturing.
Of course there are lots of whys to what he is doing, i.e. why is he making youtube videos, 2 of them being:
1. Philanthrophy
2. Marketing/Advertisement for his Course
Hopefully this gives some different angle to your request.
Regards.
What I find about this is that this is not only good for your memory, but it makes topics more interesting too
How?
For those looking for time stamps
Theory 0:00
Practice 16:40
Thank u dude
Thank you
Thx
Thank you Patrick!
i've been struggling through studies , oll my friends are smarter than me so i have put on a challenge to work on my study level and man your are saviour for me your way of explaing is direct so deep .you understand the actual problem and addressing them . thank you for giving high level information .
Need practical examples very much ;) Also I like this tree behind the window dancing in sun bath like a humanlike being
I love how this guy takes a huge topic and condense it so easily with terms one actually understand. Thank you so much Justin. Please keep doing these videos 😃
I'm a 25 yo medical student and I find your videos very interesting and useful. Thank you.
Unfortunately, I think that most medical students tend to focus very little on understanding things and they just try to memorize as much as they can to get a better mark at the exam.
So true, everytime I wanna apply Justin's methods of learning I ended up being like " uh don't have time for this , I need to memorize as much as I can before the exam" 😢
Btw I'm 25 yo medical student as well!
I totally agree with you; like me, i really want to try his way of studying, but i have a quiz tomorrow and 2 tests following week. I really do not think we have enough time to process course content by these good techniques until we apply them on our work one day in the future.
@Graveyard Spliff indeed it is, and hey nice to meet u!
I don't have enough time to get better 😂
14:58 is where the steps are shown to train your brain however I suggest you watch the full video without skipping and you will understand the steps and why these steps must be used
Thanks
Thanks ❤
This video is basically explaining the question “what is learning “ and explaining it in very simple micro understanding concepts until your able to comprehend that it’s possible for you to maybe improve your way of your thinking and measure where you stand while challenging your current thought process in a friendly manner against yourself
I am learning how to learn how to learn; this is amazing. I highly enjoy your videos and the lessons that you're teaching all of us. Thank you Justin!
Awesome. Shared with all my Grandchildren. Many thanks 😊
Entering my last “official” college semester I’ve been meaning to change my way of studying implementing more connections between classes but seeing exposed al the theory behind the way you unfold, I’m fascinated. Thanks for sharing your knowledge man, very well earned suscriber. Can’t afford your course at the moment but as soon as I can, I definitely will
I really appreciate that he is not making blithe promises but being clear about both the effort and the reward. Getting better at anything takes time and effort.
One of the best video on your channel, I watched all of them. My learning skills improved from 10 to 1000 in just 2 month without even doing your course. But I am very grateful to you, I signed on your enrollment list to catch it in time, I wanna continue to improve my learning framework. I had very hard time in my life, without knowing how to study properly. You changed my approach to the studying, and now it seems like I have fun studying and learning. Big Thanks to you
@@harvardgraduate6496 watch his videos, start to this one, cmon man
Learning how to learn on Coursera is free of cost it's the exact same thing
@@aks8953 This comment was sponsored by Coursera!
Are you and actual human or a paid bot??
@@tabularasa9576 if you really thought to offend me with this sort of comment, I suggest you stop being so ridiculous
Priceless, one of the most important channels on TH-cam.
I'm working on the making relations level and it has been a week and i have learnt more than i thought was possible. Not only the quality of my learning has improved but my confidence too! I'm even considering my old forgotten dream of pursuing phd in my field again!
I personally love the long videos I want in-depth understanding, thank you for making BEAUTIFUL content!
1Priorities/judgement create?
2 relationships/groups
3 applied/related
4 isolation
This episode was immensely helpful to me as a serious stroke survivor. Thank you Justin.
I actually do the deep learning thing naturally. Factually everything you say is correct. It is logical that just knowing "1=sin(90)" doesn't get you far, as humans don't operate like a hash table, but knowing that it is a triangle in a circle with a side of it going around the clock is the correct way. This is a huge difference .
Your videos are not long for no reason ! they really help and thank you so much i have improved .... i used your technique , i was used to get 25% for my learner average now im at 87% learner average . i appritiate you man
Great to hear!
Appreciate the comment!
This speach is pure GOLD 😳
Pity that nobody told me that 20 years ago.. But better late than never.
Thank you very much good man ! ❤️
Yes it is GOLD. I am also wondering how all my teachers missed this strategies.
a. Improve the current level. One step at a time.
b. Prestudy (Priming): Prepare for class/coaching/studying/any session.
- Lay out basic mind mapping, lay out basic organizational structure.
- Do it for an entire topic, instead of individual lessons. Around 15-20 minutes needed only.
Big picture first, divide, relation between them, then encode. (Main ideas -> Subideas)
c. Receive information, process the information (let it encode & cogniload) first. Ask questions, make it make sense.
Then, note down your own idea.
X. Increase cognitive load tolerance. Activating mind while studying efficiently, focusing & thinking.
Active learning > Passive learning.
Strengthen the processor.
- Continuing a, b, c increases CogniLoad
Y. Critical Reflection. Be critical of your system. Be aware of illusion of productivity. What am I learning, why are they working how can I improve them.
*This is all 100% true. I run an educational website and everything he says is 100% accurate,* if you do these things you will find yourself becoming more intelligent by the day 🙌😊📚
This all should be mandatory viewing for every teacher on earth. Dr Sung is the King of Learning.
The amount of value you are delivering in this video is incredible! I am blown away right now. So much of what you articulated I have experienced and intuited from my own self teaching process. Everything is laid out so clear and organized! Excellect Channel sir!
Your channel is absolutely insane. Throughout the entire video, I was practicing the donts(the things we shouldn't do like writing to take the load off) and looking back into the video for more information. Instead of listening to the end even though you are confused, you should rewatch it after you're done. to fully confirm the questions you had at the start. If you saw this comment as a viewer and came to this section to look for answers, please scroll back up and rewatch the video so that your question can be answered
The fact you added the source list for the papers on this is amazing, you've got my subscription. and i hit the bell notification
Networks are like conversations with yourself. I find that conversations with people often lead to deepening of understanding of concepts and naturally flow into related concepts!
Thank you. It really hit me when you mentioned critical reflection. I'm the type of person to plan out my day, but I often never follow it. I'm sure that changing this process will be really beneficial short and long-term.
In order to be able to relate huge networks of information and prioritize for stage 1 like he said, you need knowledge of a huge network of information. You need to experience many different things. Geniuses are geniuses because they know a lot about a lot of things. Vastly different things, which makes their understanding of individual things more expansive. I've watched this a couple times, and rewatching it now I realize why I struggled so hard to reach those higher levels of learning. I didn't really expose myself to a lot of information, shutting myself out from learning about anything I can. With the internet being so big, I struggled to see that I could learn anything, focusing more on the idea that I will never learn everything.
I've been programming myself to apply your concepts for awhile and I think I finally understand how it can work for me!
One thing you said in this video that clicked was that your brain is not ready for that level of detail when you recite small bits of information. Currently I'm trying to learn to code and I find myself trying to master the small sections of my online class (which doesn't help me when i immediately apply what i learn only to fail when I cant solve a Code Wars problem). Instead I'm trying to understand the overall concept and how the information applies to me and how I can use it to build programs and websites.
Long story short, learning is a little bit more fun that way instead of cramming detailed information that feels useless to you and haven't build a connection yet. I appreciate you for taking the time out to explain this strategy. You might have changed my life lol
Goodday, I'm in the Forex trading industry and I always feel like going through the course makes my brain feel crammed too, I hope this techniques help and I really like his explanation on why you should take delayed notes and as I reflect I totally can compare to what I was doing and what he was talking about.. Amazing vid
SUPER HELPFUL! Thank you. I sm middle aged woman feeling like my brain is no longer working with all the overwhelm and normal stuff going on. But I need to learn new things for the sake of my career and brain. I will put these into practice. And I appreciate that you are not offering glib, surface-level solutions to a complex issue.
I've been waiting for the course registration to re-open. I'm tired of linear note taking and I'm willing to work incredibly hard for something new. Your methods are so compelling.
Exactly similar course Learning how to learn is available for free on coursera
Its been 7 months since you last commented, and I’m curious, may i ask how did your course experience go?
@@milliemillie5564 Hey, the course is great. The problem is I've been really inconsistent so I don't have any big results to prove the techniques we are taught work.
I am bad at remembering lists. So, I study them using aconyms. I first take a list of words, or a list of sentences, and for each entry I assign a letter. Next, I combine the letters in a meaningful way to form the acronym. Then, I memorize the aconym, and I quiz myself on what each letter means. Over time, at the start of each study session, I quiz myself on remembering the acronyms themselves, and then on the meaning of each letter of each acronym. Throughout an entire semester, I end up memorizing a page or two of acronyms, and recalling them is no longer difficult. I believe, although I have not tested this, that were I to return to quizing myself on any page of acronyms years later, I could regain the knowledge with only a moderate level of difficulty.
Nah I love it when the videos are long and in-depth Justin, hope it stays like that :)
As a mature-age uni student in his 40s, who has been battling his way through his courses using note-taking (primarily), flashcards, and past paper questions, this is the first time in my life that I have actually understood how to study. I always felt deep-down that my time-consuming and highly ineffective note-taking was a way for my brain to chill and be lazy (aka: to not become overly taxed), and because pushing it to perform more active study techniques felt uncomfortable, I just erroneously concluded that for whatever reason (perhaps due to some unknown subconscious psychology I have), unlike other students who were lucky enough to not have to write notes, my brain needed to be nurtured by employing the cathartic process of writing notes. But with the new insights I have just gained from this video, I can kiss goodbye to the tedious process of note taking, and begin growing my cognitive load tolerance. Bravo Justin!
It's a good day when Justin posts a video, they're so helpful, hopefully I can take the course at some point
Talking in analogies in itself is a sign of a genius because it shows you understand the topic well enough to reproduce it in different ways.
I appreciate the "how and why it works" part of your videos. It definitely helps me retain and apply these concepts in my life. And now after watching this video, I understand why. Also, this is only a 15min video watching it on 2x speed, so we can have our cake and eat it too. :D
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Thank you for this video. The delayed note taking strategy (as well as many other statements) is nothing short of profound and game-changing.
Terence Tao, I'm coming for your throne as the greatest living mathematician. With Justin Sung in my corner, I can't be stopped!
You mean second, right? :)
Glad I came across your channel Justin, thanks for all the knowledge
JUSTIN! One suggestion for the next video:
How to know when cognitive load isn't actually you being tired? How would you find the balance between these?
one simple trick i apply is just taking a break every hour
In my experience, my brain will literally feel like sparks are flying out of it when done right. It's very similar to exercising your body's muscles. Likewise, the brain should feel like it's really been used by the end of it
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I’ve been developing my own learning strategy over the years and I have basically discovered most of this myself. This is a good video to complete my research
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR VIDEOS
After watching your videos, I felt like I am actually smart, it's just that I have been studying wrongly all these years because although I sometimes see the relationship between concepts, I tend to focus on isolating the concept and memorizing it.
Now I am just focusing on learning the bigger picture and trying to see how everything is connected.
I also used to just take down notes linearly with a thinking that : since I have all this information written down, I can just memorize these next time (basically notes now, learn later). What I am doing now is actually understanding and encoding things in my head DURING lecture by trying to connect things I have previously studied during my pre-study session
Now this is something amazing. I say this because I believe there is a great need for professionals who can teach good techniques on how to absorb and process information. This is something that will really help a student no matter what kind of teacher he/she has, or whatever the situation is.
Really appreciate for what you taught in this video. I'm a freshman at my university and as you know the beginning is always very tough, challenging. I literally do not know how to learn effectively in university because the information I gained seems too much, and I get overloaded when reading it. Thanks to this video, I really think I know how to analyze the information to deeply understand it instead of trying to passively remember it. Last week, I did a presentation about the decision-making process, and my teacher said that nearly all my presentation was just something I read from the book, not what I knew. I was pretty sad because I truly made effort to understand it in my way but it seemed like I did not understand the lesson enough. After watching your video, I feel more confident to do the next presentation and also gain high scores in the class. Thanks for all your sharing. Your lesson is not something that students like me will have a chance to know it in our lives, but you did it so thank you very much.
Keep up the work. I'm also working on extending my cognitive load and i must say it's really hard when you are already familiar with the old study technique.
Well, thankfully that served you as inspiration, but... what a shit of a professor, huh? Goddamn
I really enjoy the format of 30-minute videos (and longer). I'm glad you can dig deep into a subject and talk about it thoroughly.
Thank you Justin, you really helped me with my studying and after months of applying your methods of learning I can clearly see their effectiveness and I feel a lot smarter than I was before, and before exercising higher level learning, actually trying to deeply understand a complicated topic was hard and exhausting to me, but now it is a pleasure, because I know that I will manage and then be proud that I understood it.
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Please! Can you tell me step for step how you study? From reading something for the first time to being prepared for an exam?
@@popcat6683 I'm not an expert and I think you'd be better off listening to Justin. However, I'm gonna list here the things that helped me the most:
1) whatever I study, I look at topics a couple sections away to see the big picture of what I am currently learning and I try to understand the relation of what I am learning now with the whole thing, and I try to think of what this can be used for, or what questions that might come up on the exam this material that I'm learning will let me answer.
2) When I'm studying, I focus only on studying, and pay as much attention as I possibly can.
3) I believe in myself
4) I take breaks
as a noob 18yo med student who has been endlessly struggling to find a study system that is compatible with the new course, this video is a game changer. Thank you Justin!
I absolutely value this type of content you put out for free. Its always understandable and applicable.
I think what would make it even better would be giving some examples with actual content. So that you actually pick a topic and really explain how to "higher order learn" with that.
Thank you. High density of practical information in it.
Illusion of studying: "writing a lots of notes and making lots of flashcards is not necessarily good quality learning - it may be not in your brain"
Apply critical reflection: "looking at your studying techniques and thinking about what parts are working, why are there working, and how can I make it work even better - what parts are not actually contributing to then remove them to enhance it with what it will make it work better."
I had studied in ingineering school, I have 0 affinity for rote by learning, in fact my memory is so bad once my mother bought me a phone as a gift but had to go back in a shop to change the phone number because no way I would ever remember it :)
Though I agree that listening by not taking notes release the brain to focus on understanding, for sure if you don't take some minimal notes at engineering college level there's so much material no way you can remember even one day afterwards if teachers don't have a written copy of their courses and some don't for lazyness or other reasons. If they do then yes it's possible to not take notes right away.
As for taking notes I write as few as possible by drawing diagrams (I use figma which has 2 types of document figjam specifically for diagrams), It's free by the way.
Great stuff can’t believe this content is free
I used to think I already know about most things but then my ex left me and it got me questioning myself about things what and who am i really? and it slowly makes me realise i have billions things to learn as a person. I was researching a lot of things, self development, academic research (computer science related), doing self projects to apply my academic knowledge and social expirements. Connecting and relating each information on every aspect I do IRL and Academic. It took me 2 whole years of trial and errors applying the things I learned from paper to IRL that it is possible to learn anything as long you are willing to do the effort of applying it, not just reading/listening to it. The only difference is, I no longer believe I know most things, but I can learn those things if needed and wanted to.
Dunning Kruger Effect in play. It's always in play. There are always multiple Dunning Kruger graphs for all sorts of topics. Those graphs are constantly changing.
I am an Adhd high achiever at uni. I can literally only concentrate 30 minutes without medications a day and 5 hours with medications (and serious side effects, so I don't take it every day), but I am still getting the best marks in my university. I have every technique he said in this video so I think it's pretty accurate!
You’re gonna be huge one day. Thank you.
We love your videos regardless of its length. Remain blessed.
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What refreshing content! I have completed a few degrees in my lifetime and am onto a third. From my own experiences I can definitely see a huge difference from the beginning of my studies to where I am today in terms of my learning abilities. When I just finished school, I had employed largely low-level learning techniques, over the years I can say I am now very familiar with the higher order learning techniques. As always, I am continually aiming to improve my learning techniques, so I'll be greatly looking forward to your content! Thanks!!
People complain about big videos?? This tiktok inspired mindset is so... There's something so delicious about a video that digests scientific background, adds up some professional experience and lays out practical steps, going deep at it is the only way. Thank you for taking your time, your work is super motivating.
Your comment is so delicious XD Professional Experience, Lays out, Going deep and taking your time. Phew you have a way with words
i think there is a better solution than short "tik-tik" videos and a massive half hour chunk that must be either watched in its entirety or skimmed through. why not chapters?
I got into otago med this year from health sci. I've been watching your vids to better my study. I was living in the library and I don't want to do that again 😴
First of all,
I want to thank you for all your good teachings, you have impact me so much, god bless you sir
Thank you thank you so much.
When you started talking about mindless note-taking the first thing I thought about were my last history classes. At the past, with the other teacher, we were actually discussing topics, she was asking for our opinion on things we learn, also many times we needed to recall something from long ago lessons and it all was just being placed right in the brain. Some students were most of the time note-taking and they head real struggles when the task was to retell in your own words, they would memorize it... Some, on the other hand were deeply involved in the "story", to me it was like an interesting game, I felt involved and that made me remember parts of Netherlands, Greek and English history, but my own... There was just too much, too shallow, too fast and another teacher who didn't really care or knew how to explain things well, we were listening and writing which was not at all efficient.
Grades were fine, although.
But I wasn't much interested in all that, thought I'd try to teach myself things, again, by myself. But I still don't remember much from the entire year of History class.
I remember a lot in Physics. That was an absolute opposite. No note-taking at all.
And very memorable. He was explaining in words anyone understands. And I remember much compared to other subjects. It actually made me very curious about the subject itself after all.
If I teach myself something I dive deep, I try to first introduce myself to the topic slowly, then search some related articles, examples, compare various concepts and then I have some kind of upper level understanding, not deep.
Because, to actually remember and be able to recall the things I learned I need, and anyone needs, otherwise it's pointless is - practical use. Find ways to do so, maybe some quizzes for the warm up, small projects, problem-solving using the new learned tool. That's what makes the deep understanding and builds some confidence around the thing you're learning.
20:06 lay a basic organizational structure
I agree with everything in this video, but I think that "geniuses" also have a good sense of logic, critical thinking and the ability to draw their own conclusions without explanation from others. I would like a video on those topics.
I think that would be harder to learn. But what I find is that lots of people have pre-fixed idea aobut their selves and they dont dare to allow them selves to think differently. It really means just not thinking how other people think to bring novel information to the world.
That would be intuition, which is a very advanced topic IMO.. and hard to explain because we’re still trying to figure out not only the concept itself, but the methods to explain it as well.
I think in some extent that good "intuition", and specially the good sense of logic, is a result of actually doing high order associations(after some time). Because as you get more organized with your ideas/knowledge, you have all that high order knowledge that could fit with something new. I am not a genius but often times I go to other knowledge when learning something new. And as you get more into high level associations it becomes easier, I am not actually that much into them as I would like so maybe I could make the simple experiment of actually improving in that aspect and check it.
@@marceorigoni6614 Hi I agree with you on this one thanks for sharing, look at my other comment its something I would like to hear your opinion about.
@@neotower420 in that case, you can't become a "genius" with this video alone and the use of the word here would be misleading. Intellect in general is all about logic and critical thinking.
My technique is to remember everything or where to access anything because you never know when you might need it later
What i realized is that back then (till 8 or 9th grade) i've been using my own techniques to learn and they were the exact things this man's explaining but at 10th grade people around me made me believe that i need to take notes so much or always do spaced repetition and stuff. 10th grade was super hard for me even though in our country it's the easiest grade in highschool. I started 11th grade with this man's videos and my first exams starts 2 days later. I got ready for my exams way more easier with these techniques now and i feel like even the hardest grade will be easier than the easiest grade normally.
I can totally relate. Back till 8th grade, I was the top student in my class, I understood much of the basics, without even trying, I simply enjoyed it. After the lockdown in 9th and 10th grade, I still was the top student, but I couldn't relate the concepts that efficiently, or understand what I'm actually learning. Now I'm in 11th grade, half the year has passed, and I'm totally lost, I, at this point do not even understand what I'm learning, leave relating concepts, it may be bcoz of the increased level of subjects, or because there's a lot lot more to study, but I'm starting from basics anyways, coz I'm not going nowhere with just memorizing formulas and reading stuff
I just wrote this, to have some clarity, you don't really need to read this all
However,Best luck with your studies ahead, hope you achieve it all
@@JJ-fn8lo oh ofc i read it, where do you live? You sounded like you're living where i live lol
@@dontaskmynameifyoucantpron4280 India
Wby?
@@JJ-fn8lo as i supposed. I'm in Turkiye. Our education systems are really similiar. India, Turkiye, Korea these countries' students suffer the most in the whole world
Nice! I actually prefer the longer theoretical descriptions so I better understand the "why". To me it's the difference between seeing a sign that says "Don't go beyond this line" and a sign that says "Rattlesnakes on the other side of this line". I don't think people like to be told what to do, but if you give them the reason or theory behind the action, they're more likely to do it.
This was extremely helpful. I’m going to start applying these techniques today.
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This channel and it's videos has changed my life. Thank you so so so much.
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Short-term
What level of learning are you at?
18:34 - 1 Up a Level
19:11 - 2 Prestudy structures
23:16 - 3 Delayed note taking
God bless you!
25:55 long term
25:58 Increase cognitive load tolerance
28:14 critical reflection of your technique
Thank you
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I am dyslexic low level learner. I did manage to complete my bachelor's degree in Business administrations. I will take your course hopefully it will help me learn more deeply as I try to go from having a job to having a career.
Trust me, I've tried competing with bonafide geniuses before who didn't even have to study for them to ace their exams (well, some of them only need to look once into to the topic to retain everything what they have learned) and why I know this is because I hang out and became close with these people. It became a habit to compare our academic test scores every now and then. Occasionally, I can beat them but most of the circumstances? They always held the majority of higher scores in comparison to mine. If I take an estimated win rate ratio in terms of these overall competition I'd say its 35:65, with them winning 65% of the time. I've also thought of changing my study habits back then to surpass these kind of people but nothing really worked in the end. That's where I accepted the fact that natural born geniuses are way superior to those who're just trying to become one (like me ofc lol)
Overtime, I lost my edge in competitiveness and I no longer harbor any inspirations to achieve something far bigger than I used to be. Something about that realization made a mentality that I should take things comfortably because there's always someone out there who's better than you. If you're reading this, I sincerely wish for you to have a bountiful day and may your brain level up by listening to Dr. Sung's advice 😊
Man now I don't know if I can outperform some of my friends that are same geniuses about which you are talking about. But still we do not know if we do not try yes? I guess I should spend around 2-3 years to at least show the same level as you. But overall I think it is possible to reach level of that geniuses as they ain't spending that much time on studying due to their overconfidence in their intelligence
topics to start practicing with:
i'll start with focus cuz it will help you practice more efficiently in the future , WHILE already practicing.
Focus
1- Deep work/flow state , what is it&the science behind it and How to access it more frequently.
Health
1- Sleep , what is it , what happens during it , why important & How to improve.
Mind
1- How do mind & memory work , what is iq and what's the connection here , How to improve our brains and why is it possible.
Fitness
1- How does muscle growth happen , How to optimize it and what are the benefits & risks of that process.
Thank you for the concise instructions! Got a better glimpse of how to construct that mental schema thingy... it's like a pre-built shelf, designed for specific books. And I appreciate the theory behind why these things work, since it helps *me* think critically about *why* it works which is the whole point of higher-order learning. For those that would prefer shorter videos, a simple time-stamp will be quite sufficient. The longboi vids are much-appreciated!
Now you just need to apply these principles on the rift so you can get out of elo hell :O
Your videos are not long, they are helpful you are changing people’s lives
Days ago i had lost all my will to study because i just couldn’t memorize it i was studying 17 hours straight and getting average grades while my goal was a straight A
But your videos helped me alot
I will edit this comment when i will get my first A
Thank you for your hard work
I do this way of thinking naturally of course not exactly all in a way you explain it and i am certanly not a genius. But whenever I learn on my own, my retention and my learning is 100x higher than in shcool. In school i dont even rermeber the classes we had, maybe it is becuse I dont care or that the information taught to us isnt really deep its just pure facts. Anyone experienced this ?
I am not an expert myself on the subject, but as everything it seems in your case there are many factors. Its probably both things you said. You dont care enough to do as If you were alone and just recieved raw data that must be "encoded", but is also true that depending on the teacher they could only promote memorization, maybe is the only way they know it lol. In my personal experience most of them promote to some extent memorization and almost nobody does the same with making associations, the video said similar things. So pretty much you get used to low level learning at least in the school environment. Depends on the school though, in the past I changed to a high school that did try to prepare us for university, they were noticeably less dependent on trying to make people memorize things. Although still there was not that much effort on actually making students make associations and do high level learning. The easiest solution I could see is that you saw teachers as preprogramed google searchers, they just give information that could be relevant or not, long or concise, etc. And homework and so on, you have to try to not only answer the question but also give some association or extra information that is still related enough to not be out of topic.
Yeah this happens to me in pretty much every class I usually just study before class and use the lecture to reinforce the information
I'm currently in my last year of secondary school in Germany (12 grade) and it seems to me like the german education system is very much based on blooms taxonomy. Our exams (which are usually text based) consist of three areas of requirement that are equivalent to the levels in blooms taxonomy. For example if you were to take an exam in any kind of social study (englisch, political science, history, german, philosophy etc.) your exam will be based on a controversial question (optionally your provided with a text) and instructions made up of three parts. The fist part will ask you to outline information you learned in class, the second part is about critically analysing either text you've been provided or the knowledge you just outlined and in the end you have to discuss the controversial question and take a stand. (Germany probably isn't the only country to use this system. I just don't have other example's.) This video helped my gain a better perspective of how I can deal with the different teaching styles my teachers have and I know what to priorities while studying for my finals. Thank you.
This is what I'm looking for. A comprehensive breakdown of the process to learn. Not quick-hacks that work for seconds or not at all.
You have my vote and respect for what it's worth!
I can't believe all of this is actually a thing! Every setbacks I had when it came to consistency that I knew somehow was all just explained with definition, tnx for making these clear guidelines! This is truly unique, it's like now I know what to aim at, my problem is more the long term and wow u just explained them so precisely! I so rarely praise and u deserve it 👏
This is specially prevelent with math!
I use most of these techniques whenever I'm studying science or math but now I have an even better understanding of why these works thanks man!
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I really love the length of your videos. I don't want a short clip that I will walk away and forget. Also, I appreciate that you list your references. I think not enough content creators do this. Also, none of this is a quick fix. I appreciate that as well.
Great video, Justin. It's easy to understand when an idea is this well explained. One question: could you go a little deeper into the subject and exemplify the higher learning strategies for med school? For example, how do I approach learning topics such as "leprosy"? Thanks
I don't know how in the world people can complain about your videos being "too long", they are as long as they are helpful
I absolutely love your content, I am in my first year of medical and am working to use these techniques in my studying. I have classmates who spend hours everyday in that lower learning level and I am working hard to challenge my cognitive load and not resort to just Anki like several of my classmates. Keep up this great work!