@@trollenwaffen2055 I think it would be easier if you act on the points above and analyse past papers... then you can get a clear understanding of re occurring questions and can study them first then you can move on to some of the other common facts or details that'll explain a certain incident regarding the the points from the re occurring questions that you collected. They cant compress a whole books worth of knowledge into a paper, so I think following the above 3 points and testing yourself occasionally will work . Hope this helps
@@trollenwaffen2055 for every subject ur not supposed to just memorize stuff, u have to understand what ur learning abt and take notes of important stuff which u will be memorizing after u understand everything
@@trollenwaffen2055 Exactly, at the end of the day, everything starts with memorizing something, because if you don't have the information available in your memory, nothing can't be done. So it's about understanding and memorizing the flow of the information: organise information in your head, visualize it in terms of timeline, cause-efect, etc.
For me, how I got very good at history is I look up videos on the topic, I get engaged like this guy said in the video, and I take few notes. For me, watching video that summarizes the topic up helps me a lot. I used to look at Hamilton(the musical) and it helped me so much in history class because I was engaged and I looked at it from a different perspective. Instead of looking at it like it’s School Work, I looked at it like it’s a movie or something interesting. It helps me memorize much more better! Thanks to this guy, I’m in AP classes, thank you!
Yes I am in AP US history rn and what really helps me to gain an understanding of topics, is thinking of it like an interesting story, as opposed to boring facts.
It would have been great if someone had explained this to me when I was in school. I've avoided reading history coz I get overwhelmed by every detail thank you so much! This will be helpful when I read history from now on! Insha Allah.
@@misanthropyunhinged That depends a lot on your background. Some of us were brainwashed into thinking that memorization is the single handedly what carries you through high school and succedd as a result. I come from a third world country in which virtually no one can speak or read in English and if I were to ask my former classmates about school academics ,they will tell me that all they did was to regurgitate facts into a piece of paper (be it , science or social studies) and then proceed to forget it all soon afterwards , and some of them couldn't care less about it and just made the very bare minimum to make it through highschool and nowadays they can hardly remember anything at all they were taught in high school. Others with a more enriching high school experience and drive to learn , will have a very different perspective. This is especially true for people in developed nations. Try to speak to random people on the street about history , math , or science in general and you'll notice how little the average person knows about anything.
History is very important to know and should treated in same importance as studying English, maths and science. I’m fascinated by ready History that at hindsight why didn’t chose History as my main pursuit of career. May Allah SAW grant me motivation and determination to study history as a hobby so I can talk about History to non Muslims who always have this negative perception of Islam
6:00 Ask yourself question why you do what you do. And move forward to make it so the story is interesting 9:00 Understand the basic field 9:20 Learn the backbone of time like a to b don't worry about details then read it again Understand the fundamentals of the subject you learn
What’s useful about knowing history is that it gives you context for the documents made around the time period studied and helps you gain perspective on what’s being said or written and evaluate the bias of the people making it while also seeing the repetition of patterns in human history and make connections, it’s truly wonderful.
One way I view learning is that there are different levels, and learners do different things at different levels. I would say that memorizing facts is a level 0 activity, associating the facts together is a level 1 activity, creating hypothesis is a level 2 activity, and defending that hypothesis is a level 3 activity. I'm sorry if my argument is poorly explained; I'm actually very new to studying history and I came here for some ideas on how to go about that. Thanks for the insight.
These levels are called the trivium in classical education. There's the first stage, grammar (which is memorizing facts in any and all subjects; grammar means so much more than how to construct a sentence correctly). The second stage is logic, which is relating facts, and the third stage is rhetoric, which is communicating your insights.
i struggle hardcore with leaving all the little details alone. i feel like i need to know everything all at once and retain every piece of information forever as soon as i read it.
Same! If you ever wanna chat about it I’m here to talk with like minded ‘perfectionists’ - always feel like as a historian I should be able to ramble on about a specific topic and include specific names and dates.
I'm on the same boat and it has to do with the subconscious approach that school that has ingrained in us. A bad habit to get rid of but it's easier said than done and I still struggle not to leave every single detail 😅
I am studying for Texes 7-12 social studies exam. R.C. you definitely saved me time. I'm open to any one of you professionals in history to help me study so I can past this test and get a job.
Thanks for reinforcing the way to study history. Did mistake of not pre reading. movies, videos , websites is good way to learn also. Understanding backbone is key
This video has a very simple premise -- Understand the relationships between historical figures and events, rather than the events and figures in an isolated form. Only when you understand the relationships between things or "subthings" within events, you should start thinking about the details. When understanding the relationships between events, you'll start noticing the facts come to you pretty easily. I do need to say, Robin, that I'm thoroughly enjoying your content. I stumbled upon your channel this evening and have wathced like 20 videos already. I'm a computer science/math/physics student currently doing two bachelor's degree, but my true passion lies in history and politics. I have a huge array of books just sitting at home, and I've been unmotivated to fully read any of them. Your videos have shown me the thing I was missing -- the reminder that reading can be done as a learning experience, and not just a reading experience. Taking notes and making summaries is something I attributed to reading papers and doing things for school, but for one reason or another, it never crossed my mind that I could sit at home reading a some book, and take notes at the same time, concluding what I learned and making connections between the ideas in the books I read, through careful notetaking. Lots of love, keep up the amazing work
I always hated History class. Finally after about 40 years I figured out why. The reason: because there were too many contradictions (lies); I was experiencing cognitive dissonance.
@@tombolo4120 may I ask what websites you recommend to study history off of? I’m not sure which ones are facts or which ones leave out particular details to boast their own image of history.
Bravo! Bravo! I signed in to say thank you. The video is rather “comprehensive” than short (as you repeat the word), but I was enjoying how authentic and from-the-heart you spoke! 3 am here and 12-mins of time well spent :-)
Well I saw somewhere that a farmer learned watermelon farming through youtube videos. That was the moment I got the feeling that yes youtube can help you learn things which are important for life. I am a history student from India. Never liked this education system and always thought of changing it. Infact I have to the point where I have started disliking history. Because all my college teach is how to mug up. They literally say mug up so that you can be the first. Every subject exists for a purpose. And you taught the way to discover it rather than just mugging it up. Thanks a lot.
This video is gold. Your words make viewers sense your passion and complete understanding of history as a subject. In other words, it's like you "have it figured out", as some say. I applaud you for explaining your path in a logical and inspiring way so that others may improve their relationship with a subject you value so much. Well done, and thank you!
I noticed this last school year when I took US History! It was the first history class I ever took, so at first I kept trying to memorize everything and it was super overwhelming and not very fulfilling. A few months into the year, I started really learning about different times in history, seeing how each event affected society and the world at large. Especially during second semester, I really started fully engaging in the class and always got the top score in the class for each test without studying for hours.
I love to study history because of history teachers themselves. My history teacher in freshman year had a strange way of showing us the events. For explaining war, he made group of students represent certain countries and ask us how we feel when we get attacked and what we want to do.
yeah now I kinda understand how to understand history more. I think using critical thinking about the events really is a good way to study like how you said in the video instead of just memorizing while having blank thoughts about it.
To be true, this such content I've been looking for. I'm chemistry student, but recently I'm really into history. It deepens my understanding of literally everything in the course of chemistry. In addition, I can't be more proud of today that I knew what I wanted, being life long learner (at heart). History just awesome. Terima kasih atas video Anda. Lanjutkan!
thanks so much for this video! i've always loved history but a heavy workload and intense academic year had made me start seeing it as something that i had to conquer in three to five focusing questions rather than letting myself be immersed in the greater connecting narratives of the world and people that had drawn me to the subject in the first place. really glad that i found this video and remembered that
This video comes in handy now since I'm just starting my journey to learn about history. Because honestly I hardly know anything at all about it which makes me a bit ashamed since I'm oblivious of so many things that have happened throughout history. Great video
Wow...what a great video. I chose to watch this video to help my niece who has trouble with history...thank you so much for sharing. Love your speaking.
I just graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and majored in history. I so appreciate the light you shined on the subject matter here. Too many people rule it off as boring when they never took the time to really understand...
Thanks for this video, I was one of those students who would memorize history to the T and even though I'd get 10/10 (sometimes 9/10) scores on my exams, the burnout and exhaustion I'd feel while studying bulks and bulks of information was not worth it which gradually made me think of history as a dull subject. I'll be applying this method from now on, thank you! Unrelated but I'm in love with you and your channel 😅
The key word is context: that is the whole reason why history is important in the first place. If you want to know why country A is prosperous, country B is poor, and country C is at war with country D, you’re gonna need some context (which is history). Chances are, just as there are a whole lot of shenanigans and controversies occurring in out time, there will be a lot of shenanigans and controversies in the context, too. So you would need to see the context of the context of now, which leads to learning the context of the context of the context of now, and so on. The context is important because we are dealing with human beings: where context builds an environment on where these human beings had lived. Take an individual contemporary human being, for example. Their ideas, morals, principles, philosophy, and lifestyle did not somehow came out of the blue. On the contrary, all these things came to that person from the environment the person grew up: both individually with influence of their family, friends, and neighbors; and as a more broader social geographic and political scale of the region, country, and to the greater extent, the world. That environment has not came out of the blue either; but rather evolved through the ages where events impacted both the broad and the individual. For the very same reason is why you don’t want to apply modern moral principles to history, otherwise, you’ll see everyone as a whole bunch of “jerks.”
Thank You Man Before watching this video I was very tensed about all historical facts such as dates, places, names and what not. But after watching your video I've got clear cut idea or I can say "path" to study history. I'm gonna study Ancient, Medieval and Modern History. Great. Thank You.
[ BACKBONE ] 1: pick up the structure of history, before class (pre read) 2: take notes during class/after class. It would be easy as you already know what goes where and what is worth memorising
My guy, you literally confirmed my thoughts to be true, I've been telling this thing to all of my friends for years. Thank you for spreading this important notion of how to study, because most of the people don't bother to know if the way they learn is even the correct way. But another sad thing is that many teachers (in my school and many other institutions) teach in the wrong way themselves. They tell us we need to memorize this and that important guy and that event happening somewhere, and then they just have us repeat those pieces of information automatically and get our mark and go. This way, I remember having no clue what did I just retold in front of the blackboard, but I got my mark so that was the most important thing. I really changed the way I approach history since then. Now I definitely consider those books novels and try to read them the way I would normally do with books. So thank you for this helpful video! Appreciate it:)
its just crazy how my life is filled with consequences. Im learning about the Boston Massacre in history literally this week and i was aimlessly skipping around to 7:08 and the deja vu hits
This video helped me a lot!! Last year I struggled a lot with AP World because of the large amount of information we had to unpack that year. I didn’t do well on the test, but now I can see why and apply that newfound information when I enter U.S. history this year! Thank you!
Thank you for the video! I'm interested in history, especially of my country, to know what led to such consequences we have now, but I have problems with both remembering and understanding information I consume as I forget it quickly and feel miserable and inferior in the moments when I can't recall facts I tried hard to memorize. Your speech made me feel inspired and much less desperate, thanks a lot again!
Even though it is rather impossible, I feel like a big historical flow-chart would be helpful or maybe several of them that can link-together. It would be great to keep the relative timelines & time frames of historical world events in a region on a flow chart together. It would easier to see how world events occurring at a point in time had or could have affected other places in the world during or soon there after. I like to see information set into all kinds of charts, it's helpful.
yea its right, understanding every cause and effect of the events in history will give you context about how is this part of history is connected to each other.
I am an undergrad history student in college and I agree fully with this, all you said since the start is so so true and the reason I went in for the career. I always worried about memory, thinking everyone that was a historian had such a bright lucid memory that could remember EVERYTHING and I panicked badly. I recently found this video and it calmed me so much to know this and to learn how to study and do better. Sadly I don't understand why if history is so important cause indeed, it is the source of everything, the jobs opportunities are so low after you graduate, it should be more important and acknowledged just like STEM careers. Before anyone replies, STEM is so so needed too! not throwing that under a train, cause I went to a STEM centered high school ( we had a lot of hours weekly of all that's maths, science, biology, so on) and its needed to keep on evolving, and changing and well due to the actual crisis, get better too. This is literally the backbone of history truly and i couldn't agree more with you! MUCH LOVE!
I know this video is old, but yes. That makes a ton of sense as to how to fully understand a time period. General idea and main story first, then the extra bits to easily digest and put them where they need to go. I've been studying Ancient Mesopotamia for 2 weeks now. Only 2 weeks. I found myself wanting to learn World History with a little more elaboration. Not skipping over the battles that were fought, the lands that were lost. I decided to pick a point, and branch out from there. I started with the Akkadian Empire. Not fully understanding what made them Akkadian, not understanding the whole who was who, and what was what. All I knew was that there was a guy named Sargon that ruled over the Akkadian Empire. I thought "Well, I better learn about this guy." So I stopped reading that book, and read a book solely based on Sargon. It built the pieces up- But I couldn't quite get what it was leading up to. He had two sons that later rose to power, learnt about them, learnt about the previous rulers that he had conquered. Had to do some backtracking. I found myself tired out, and not fully understanding it. So I decided to go back to the first book, and read the whole picture. Sargon ruled, got land, his son took over, was assassinated, his older son took over, was assassinated as well, Sargon's grandson rose to power, was egotistical, got the blame for the decline of the empire by "Upsetting the gods" His supposed Son took over from there, Gutians from the Zagros Mountains and raided the place after many failed attempts. That, partnered with rebellions, and climate change causing the Euphrates River to dry up/move further away caused the actual disappearance of the Empire. Fascinatingly, knowing that linear progression- I was able to be like "Ah. So I know how this goes. I wonder how this guy will react to the outcome that I already know." makes it a tad bit LESS exciting, but still exciting. History to me is like a never ending story, and to get the big details and main idea down and understood first- Actually does surprisingly help. I am able to branch off of that, and next I will be able to learn about the Third Dynasty of Ur with Ur-Nammu. : ) Thank you for this video.
People do seem to get memorization and understanding confused. If you can memorize something all your doing is robotically repeating something back to someone. If you cannot explain the event, idea, or concept in your own words and explain who, what, where, when, and why then your memorization means nothing. You are nothing but an audio recording. Great video this youngin is more intelligent than most adults you come across these days.
History is my worst subject. They just throw a bunch of information in my face and they think that im gonna remember it all in a month. Im not Wikipedia hello?
I too also think like that, and I hate history so much..but I want to learn it so bad from TH-cam instead of school bcs it sounds interesting and it seems to be a fun topic to discuss with your friends
In my school most f the exams was with an open text books and most of the questions was about expressing our opinions, examining posters or political expressions from the past. Nothing about remembering dates and so on. That’s so ever I’m not from the U.S…
History was always my weak subject. I always loved the courses itself but I could never understand the information no matter how hard I tried and it always frustrated me. Thank you for this video, I hope to improve and understand more
Good practical video, will help me with my History notes. Thanks. I enjoy history, so being able to do better in school and enjoy my history reading to a further extent will be great, Mr. Waldun.
Damn, this video is amazing. It’s not only helped me to understand a new way to learn and remember things in history, but also in programming(with the frankenstein example) I’ve noticed why it was so hard for me to make complex projects - I wanted to make every single smallest detail without creating a first general structure first, so it was becoming too hard and boring to do.
great vid! been looking for something like your channel lately. one suggestion, can you make an intro vid wherein you tell us what you do, your course in college, etc. stuff like that to know you more
I have a B.A. in History, am 58 years old, have a Masters in Liberal Arts emphasizing history, and have been reading or studying history for 45 years. I wish I knew how old R.C. Waldun is, and if he is in high school or college. It would help me to make comments about him. He is obviously well educated and bright. One, I could not agree more that students who highlight everything on the page, in pink and yellow highlighter, are missing the point of highlighting. In addition, they may never proceed to the level of “understanding.” Two, If you are going to talk about how you learn something at a high level, you should talk about the educational theorists. Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner, Erickson, Maslow, information processing theory, dynamic systems theory, and ecological systems theory. One part of Piaget’s theory was schema, which is has two subcomponents, equilibrium and disequilibrium. This part seems most relevant to what Mr. Waldun is proposing. Waldun should be advised that Piaget has been surpassed in many ways by Vygotsky, ecological systems theory, and other more recent theories or revisions. An excellent educational psychology textbook is Educational Psychology, by Anita Woolfolk and it has sections on all the educational theories I mentioned above. The book is very expensive (19th ed.) and I suggest buying an earlier edition used for a much lower price. Three, Mr. Waldun proposed a framework or skeleton upon which the student could arrange his facts/information. Yes, that is good, but what is the framework? A good, general survey textbook has a framework in it, which facts can be arranged on. A college professor should be provided such a framework. This is good enough for me. Going a step further, most students under 25 are not capable of creating a framework, e.g. for all of US history. Four, now let’s talk more casually. One approach to learning history is the “bull and the cow”. The bull is the theory (the bull*#4!) and the cow is the facts. You always need both when you learn history, write about it, and take tests. This connects back to point one by Mr. Waldun. Simply to learn the facts is not enough. You need to think conceptually, in terms of cause and effect, to think in terms of periodization, great men versus large historic forces, etc. at all times while you are learning the facts. The post, two below mine by “aRoomForEpsilon” says, “One way I view learning is that there are different levels, and learners do different things at different levels. I would say that memorizing facts is a level 0 activity, associating the facts together is a level 1 activity, creating hypothesis is a level 2 activity, and defending that hypothesis is a level 3 activity.” Excellent! In a related subject, Mr. Waldun and his viewers might consider the spiral theory of knowledge. In this theory there is one, two, or three vertical strands of subject matter, e.g. history, literature, and philosophy. The student studies these three subjects constantly, and repeatedly (covering the same material again and again each year, but at a deeper level of understanding), and as he does this, he rises up in a spiral around the three strands, and his knowledge of the three subjects increases. Five, still talking casually, one way to study history is to study what you like, e.g. WWII or black history. This is what I did since the beginning and still do today. I would say it is essential to studying history. However, it is absolutely joined by the need to study facts and concepts that YOU DO NOT LIKE. If you do not like WWII, you are going to have to study it regardless. Six, a less important point. Mr. Waldun speaks positively about Michel Foucault. Mr. Waldun should research the last years of Mr. Foucalt’s life in San Francisco, what he did to people there, how he got AIDS, and how he died. For me, it is very important that a philosopher practice what he preaches otherwise his theories are invalid. Mr. Waldun should not advocate philosopher’s theories which are invalid. Lastly, lastly, Mr. Waldun needs to pronounce a few words correctly. Other is not udder. Together is not twogedder. A man of Mr. Waldun’s sophistication, education, and bilingual capacity should not make these basic mistakes. Sincerely, David
I've been doing it wrong. I was wondering why I'm feeling unmotivated to finish reading my 700 page world history textbook. I was only focusing on memorizing random names, dates, and facts. Welp, this is a wake up call. Thank you man.
thank you so much, so right about the education system/memorisation. i'll make sure to implement this for further reading in regards to my entrance exams.
I agree with you. Today I had a history question and talked about the birth and rise of fascism in Italy ( my country ). I didn't dwell on the dates - although I had obviously studied them - but I preferred to talk about the causes that led to the birth of this party and the different drives that led to the rise of the fascist movement in Italy. The professor told me that he appreciated the fact that I did not dwell on the dates but focused on the causes and consequences
IMOW: In studying history it is crucial to understand the significance of the general time period rather than focusing on specific aspects first. When you focus on the details it is like an ant that can only see the blob of ink of a single written letter rather than the whole narrative essay. You are missing the mark. Once you provide context then the details will become easier to remember because they are anchored to a skeletal frame of meaning first. When studying history read the books like a novel to get the general jist, the ethos, the significance, the spirit of the age and then go back and examine the details and see what they meant in context to the larger picture. When you do this history is no longer a recollection of facts but a living rich story that contains the meaning of our species, what we were, what we are now, and possibly what we can/will be.
i have a goal in mind atm, i wanna track the human race, from where it started till where we are rn, how did we evolve (physically, psychologically, intellectually, ....) all the major branches, idk what's out there and i wanna know what's out there , i wanna travel from stone age to the phone age and all what happened in between, and analyzing which major actions we took that influenced us
This helped a lot I hate details like names or phrases but Instead, I remember years and matters easily but my teacher wants those details but you gave me a good tip I'm going to read a textbook like a novel before the teacher talks about it in a class genius ideaaaa🍃
You are on th mark. I am an older parent, so I learned things differently. My younger son has dyslexia and I have been trying to find ways to help him learn and understand. I preread what he will learn and then put chunks of information in a meaningful way so he doesn't get overwhelmed. BTW, I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that they don't ask questions on most batltes in the AP exam. Whew!
Lol, i'm taking an art course and i want my works based on historical events but i just realized i definitely slept throughout my elementary & highschool classes in history. 😬 thank god i'll be able to study everything effectively
Thank you! My friend's are really interested in world history, it's sounded interesting and I'd love to join conversation. This helped me a lot, this should help me get into it. :)
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overview:
1. read the entire story
2. make a timeline
3. memorize the most important things
4. repeat 1,2 and 3 until you know it.
This still means you have to memorize everything, because apparently according to the teachers "this has only the most important things"
@@trollenwaffen2055 I think it would be easier if you act on the points above and analyse past papers... then you can get a clear understanding of re occurring questions and can study them first then you can move on to some of the other common facts or details that'll explain a certain incident regarding the the points from the re occurring questions that you collected. They cant compress a whole books worth of knowledge into a paper, so I think following the above 3 points and testing yourself occasionally will work . Hope this helps
@@trollenwaffen2055 for every subject ur not supposed to just memorize stuff, u have to understand what ur learning abt and take notes of important stuff which u will be memorizing after u understand everything
thanks i was too lazy to watch the whole video lol
@@trollenwaffen2055 Exactly, at the end of the day, everything starts with memorizing something, because if you don't have the information available in your memory, nothing can't be done. So it's about understanding and memorizing the flow of the information: organise information in your head, visualize it in terms of timeline, cause-efect, etc.
This video is fundamental. I'm a history phd student and this video is the back bone of physically studying history.
how is your study going (dont know why, but im genuinely curious)
What websites do you recommend to study off of?
This video is incredibly informative but now I'll definitely make sure not to put the car in front of the horse so to speak
Hi, what is researching history like? (We find you interesting as you can see from previous comments hahaha)
@@shaneplante6963 cars needs horses?
It's helpful for students like me that do not know how to be more successful at history exams. Thanks a lot.
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@@groot6409 no one cares
For me, how I got very good at history is I look up videos on the topic, I get engaged like this guy said in the video, and I take few notes. For me, watching video that summarizes the topic up helps me a lot. I used to look at Hamilton(the musical) and it helped me so much in history class because I was engaged and I looked at it from a different perspective.
Instead of looking at it like it’s School Work, I looked at it like it’s a movie or something interesting. It helps me memorize much more better!
Thanks to this guy, I’m in AP classes, thank you!
Thanks for helping me ee!!
Yes I am in AP US history rn and what really helps me to gain an understanding of topics, is thinking of it like an interesting story, as opposed to boring facts.
A great TH-cam channel is Overly Simplified.
It would have been great if someone had explained this to me when I was in school. I've avoided reading history coz I get overwhelmed by every detail thank you so much! This will be helpful when I read history from now on! Insha Allah.
>I've avoided reading history coz I get overwhelmed by every detail
for real
mad sad that you need common sense explained to you
@@misanthropyunhinged That depends a lot on your background. Some of us were brainwashed into thinking that memorization is the single handedly what carries you through high school and succedd as a result. I come from a third world country in which virtually no one can speak or read in English and if I were to ask my former classmates about school academics ,they will tell me that all they did was to regurgitate facts into a piece of paper (be it , science or social studies) and then proceed to forget it all soon afterwards , and some of them couldn't care less about it and just made the very bare minimum to make it through highschool and nowadays they can hardly remember anything at all they were taught in high school. Others with a more enriching high school experience and drive to learn , will have a very different perspective. This is especially true for people in developed nations.
Try to speak to random people on the street about history , math , or science in general and you'll notice how little the average person knows about anything.
@@misanthropyunhinged in a nutshell the average person doesn't know how to approach studying at all. That's my point lol
History is very important to know and should treated in same importance as studying English, maths and science. I’m fascinated by ready History that at hindsight why didn’t chose History as my main pursuit of career. May Allah SAW grant me motivation and determination to study history as a hobby so I can talk about History to non Muslims who always have this negative perception of Islam
6:00
Ask yourself question why you do what you do.
And move forward to make it so the story is interesting
9:00
Understand the basic field
9:20
Learn the backbone of time like a to b don't worry about details then read it again
Understand the fundamentals of the subject you learn
What’s useful about knowing history is that it gives you context for the documents made around the time period studied and helps you gain perspective on what’s being said or written and evaluate the bias of the people making it while also seeing the repetition of patterns in human history and make connections, it’s truly wonderful.
And having an overall idea of what events occurred during a specific time period will help you evaluate sources.
One way I view learning is that there are different levels, and learners do different things at different levels. I would say that memorizing facts is a level 0 activity, associating the facts together is a level 1 activity, creating hypothesis is a level 2 activity, and defending that hypothesis is a level 3 activity. I'm sorry if my argument is poorly explained; I'm actually very new to studying history and I came here for some ideas on how to go about that. Thanks for the insight.
Hi daddy. Search on google blooms taxonomy, what you're saying is somewhat similar.
These levels are called the trivium in classical education.
There's the first stage, grammar (which is memorizing facts in any and all subjects; grammar means so much more than how to construct a sentence correctly). The second stage is logic, which is relating facts, and the third stage is rhetoric, which is communicating your insights.
i struggle hardcore with leaving all the little details alone. i feel like i need to know everything all at once and retain every piece of information forever as soon as i read it.
Same! If you ever wanna chat about it I’m here to talk with like minded ‘perfectionists’ - always feel like as a historian I should be able to ramble on about a specific topic and include specific names and dates.
I'm on the same boat and it has to do with the subconscious approach that school that has ingrained in us. A bad habit to get rid of but it's easier said than done and I still struggle not to leave every single detail 😅
I am studying for Texes 7-12 social studies exam. R.C. you definitely saved me time. I'm open to any one of you professionals in history to help me study so I can past this test and get a job.
You are a life savor. I went from a 4.0 to a 6.6 in less than a year! It’s still hard, but it’s easier than before. Thank you :)
Good job friendd
Bruh what you scared about with a 4.0 I got a 3.1
I’m still struggling 🥺 I want to be your friend?!?
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you went from straight A's to above and beyond. wowie. impressive
Thanks for reinforcing the way to study history. Did mistake of not pre reading. movies, videos , websites is good way to learn also. Understanding backbone is key
This video has a very simple premise --
Understand the relationships between historical figures and events, rather than the events and figures in an isolated form.
Only when you understand the relationships between things or "subthings" within events, you should start thinking about the details. When understanding the relationships between events, you'll start noticing the facts come to you pretty easily.
I do need to say, Robin, that I'm thoroughly enjoying your content. I stumbled upon your channel this evening and have wathced like 20 videos already. I'm a computer science/math/physics student currently doing two bachelor's degree, but my true passion lies in history and politics. I have a huge array of books just sitting at home, and I've been unmotivated to fully read any of them. Your videos have shown me the thing I was missing -- the reminder that reading can be done as a learning experience, and not just a reading experience.
Taking notes and making summaries is something I attributed to reading papers and doing things for school, but for one reason or another, it never crossed my mind that I could sit at home reading a some book, and take notes at the same time, concluding what I learned and making connections between the ideas in the books I read, through careful notetaking.
Lots of love, keep up the amazing work
watching this for my class. never understood how tf to get into history. fuck the education system
I always hated History class. Finally after about 40 years I figured out why. The reason: because there were too many contradictions (lies); I was experiencing cognitive dissonance.
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@@tombolo4120 may I ask what websites you recommend to study history off of? I’m not sure which ones are facts or which ones leave out particular details to boast their own image of history.
Most useful “how to study history “ video ever . Give this kid a History Seat Now .
My teacher sent me here, and now i have a understanding of what to do in history class, thanks
I’m going to start homeschooling my first grader and I’m so glad I came across your video. Thanks!
Bravo! Bravo! I signed in to say thank you. The video is rather “comprehensive” than short (as you repeat the word), but I was enjoying how authentic and from-the-heart you spoke! 3 am here and 12-mins of time well spent :-)
Well I saw somewhere that a farmer learned watermelon farming through youtube videos. That was the moment I got the feeling that yes youtube can help you learn things which are important for life. I am a history student from India. Never liked this education system and always thought of changing it. Infact I have to the point where I have started disliking history. Because all my college teach is how to mug up. They literally say mug up so that you can be the first. Every subject exists for a purpose. And you taught the way to discover it rather than just mugging it up. Thanks a lot.
I fully agree with you.... I am from India also which part of India are you from? Are you a history student ?
@@soumopatra6392 Yes I am from India and also a history student.
Just say that your memory is weak and you can't memorize.
This video is gold. Your words make viewers sense your passion and complete understanding of history as a subject. In other words, it's like you "have it figured out", as some say. I applaud you for explaining your path in a logical and inspiring way so that others may improve their relationship with a subject you value so much. Well done, and thank you!
Dude, you’re so brilliant and so good at communicating💯💯💯
I noticed this last school year when I took US History! It was the first history class I ever took, so at first I kept trying to memorize everything and it was super overwhelming and not very fulfilling. A few months into the year, I started really learning about different times in history, seeing how each event affected society and the world at large. Especially during second semester, I really started fully engaging in the class and always got the top score in the class for each test without studying for hours.
Watching this video after 4 years of its publication. Good overall find from me. Great to know there are people ACTUALLY thinking like me. ❤
Wow dude! Thank you! The idea of “building a backbone” makes sense and seems effective! I can’t wait to put it to use! Again, thank you!
I love to study history because of history teachers themselves. My history teacher in freshman year had a strange way of showing us the events. For explaining war, he made group of students represent certain countries and ask us how we feel when we get attacked and what we want to do.
Great explanation of one of the fundamental problems with education.
yeah now I kinda understand how to understand history more. I think using critical thinking about the events really is a good way to study like how you said in the video instead of just memorizing while having blank thoughts about it.
To be true, this such content I've been looking for. I'm chemistry student, but recently I'm really into history. It deepens my understanding of literally everything in the course of chemistry. In addition, I can't be more proud of today that I knew what I wanted, being life long learner (at heart). History just awesome.
Terima kasih atas video Anda. Lanjutkan!
thanks so much for this video! i've always loved history but a heavy workload and intense academic year had made me start seeing it as something that i had to conquer in three to five focusing questions rather than letting myself be immersed in the greater connecting narratives of the world and people that had drawn me to the subject in the first place. really glad that i found this video and remembered that
This video comes in handy now since I'm just starting my journey to learn about history. Because honestly I hardly know anything at all about it which makes me a bit ashamed since I'm oblivious of so many things that have happened throughout history. Great video
Wow...what a great video. I chose to watch this video to help my niece who has trouble with history...thank you so much for sharing. Love your speaking.
I've always been a history lover but only this year I want to really get into it, thank you so much
I definitely needed to hear this advice. Learning history can be overwhelming because there is so much information but this is the best approach.
I just graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and majored in history. I so appreciate the light you shined on the subject matter here. Too many people rule it off as boring when they never took the time to really understand...
Thanks for this video, I was one of those students who would memorize history to the T and even though I'd get 10/10 (sometimes 9/10) scores on my exams, the burnout and exhaustion I'd feel while studying bulks and bulks of information was not worth it which gradually made me think of history as a dull subject. I'll be applying this method from now on, thank you!
Unrelated but I'm in love with you and your channel 😅
The key word is context: that is the whole reason why history is important in the first place. If you want to know why country A is prosperous, country B is poor, and country C is at war with country D, you’re gonna need some context (which is history). Chances are, just as there are a whole lot of shenanigans and controversies occurring in out time, there will be a lot of shenanigans and controversies in the context, too. So you would need to see the context of the context of now, which leads to learning the context of the context of the context of now, and so on. The context is important because we are dealing with human beings: where context builds an environment on where these human beings had lived. Take an individual contemporary human being, for example. Their ideas, morals, principles, philosophy, and lifestyle did not somehow came out of the blue. On the contrary, all these things came to that person from the environment the person grew up: both individually with influence of their family, friends, and neighbors; and as a more broader social geographic and political scale of the region, country, and to the greater extent, the world. That environment has not came out of the blue either; but rather evolved through the ages where events impacted both the broad and the individual. For the very same reason is why you don’t want to apply modern moral principles to history, otherwise, you’ll see everyone as a whole bunch of “jerks.”
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Now, I'm pleased with the results.🎉
Great work bro 👏
as someone indignantly studying for her humanities final, this is a gem.
One of the best video about learning history, thank you.
Thank You Man
Before watching this video I was very tensed about all historical facts such as dates, places, names and what not.
But after watching your video I've got clear cut idea or I can say "path" to study history.
I'm gonna study Ancient, Medieval and Modern History.
Great.
Thank You.
[ BACKBONE ] 1: pick up the structure of history, before class (pre read)
2: take notes during class/after class. It would be easy as you already know what goes where and what is worth memorising
My guy, you literally confirmed my thoughts to be true, I've been telling this thing to all of my friends for years. Thank you for spreading this important notion of how to study, because most of the people don't bother to know if the way they learn is even the correct way. But another sad thing is that many teachers (in my school and many other institutions) teach in the wrong way themselves. They tell us we need to memorize this and that important guy and that event happening somewhere, and then they just have us repeat those pieces of information automatically and get our mark and go. This way, I remember having no clue what did I just retold in front of the blackboard, but I got my mark so that was the most important thing.
I really changed the way I approach history since then. Now I definitely consider those books novels and try to read them the way I would normally do with books.
So thank you for this helpful video! Appreciate it:)
its just crazy how my life is filled with consequences. Im learning about the Boston Massacre in history literally this week and i was aimlessly skipping around to 7:08 and the deja vu hits
I am studying history in my local University, this fall. Thanks for this video, guys!
This video is incredibly informative and absolutely stunning; thanks a lot brother!
This video helped me a lot!! Last year I struggled a lot with AP World because of the large amount of information we had to unpack that year. I didn’t do well on the test, but now I can see why and apply that newfound information when I enter U.S. history this year! Thank you!
I’m starting APUSH this school yr, how did it go for you?
Taking art history this semester for my BFA in photography. Thank you so much, you’re a life saver.
Thank you for the video! I'm interested in history, especially of my country, to know what led to such consequences we have now, but I have problems with both remembering and understanding information I consume as I forget it quickly and feel miserable and inferior in the moments when I can't recall facts I tried hard to memorize. Your speech made me feel inspired and much less desperate, thanks a lot again!
Even though it is rather impossible, I feel like a big historical flow-chart would be helpful or maybe several of them that can link-together. It would be great to keep the relative timelines & time frames of historical world events in a region on a flow chart together. It would easier to see how world events occurring at a point in time had or could have affected other places in the world during or soon there after. I like to see information set into all kinds of charts, it's helpful.
Yeah, put in all into a computer!
Eventually Wikipedia will know all we're allowed to know!
Check out the YT channel Useful Charts - they actually have some videos like this!
this guy is a genius, i'm very impressed and mesmerized by the way he talks.
Thank you! Finally someone put it to words...
yea its right, understanding every cause and effect of the events in history will give you context about how is this part of history is connected to each other.
thank you from someone who ends up highlighting almost the whole paper!
I am an undergrad history student in college and I agree fully with this, all you said since the start is so so true and the reason I went in for the career. I always worried about memory, thinking everyone that was a historian had such a bright lucid memory that could remember EVERYTHING and I panicked badly. I recently found this video and it calmed me so much to know this and to learn how to study and do better. Sadly I don't understand why if history is so important cause indeed, it is the source of everything, the jobs opportunities are so low after you graduate, it should be more important and acknowledged just like STEM careers. Before anyone replies, STEM is so so needed too! not throwing that under a train, cause I went to a STEM centered high school ( we had a lot of hours weekly of all that's maths, science, biology, so on) and its needed to keep on evolving, and changing and well due to the actual crisis, get better too. This is literally the backbone of history truly and i couldn't agree more with you! MUCH LOVE!
My history teacher making me watch this and i love it
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I like this guy, and all his videos are great including this one, but doesn't his voice make u wanna click off
I know this video is old, but yes. That makes a ton of sense as to how to fully understand a time period. General idea and main story first, then the extra bits to easily digest and put them where they need to go. I've been studying Ancient Mesopotamia for 2 weeks now. Only 2 weeks. I found myself wanting to learn World History with a little more elaboration. Not skipping over the battles that were fought, the lands that were lost. I decided to pick a point, and branch out from there. I started with the Akkadian Empire. Not fully understanding what made them Akkadian, not understanding the whole who was who, and what was what. All I knew was that there was a guy named Sargon that ruled over the Akkadian Empire. I thought "Well, I better learn about this guy." So I stopped reading that book, and read a book solely based on Sargon. It built the pieces up- But I couldn't quite get what it was leading up to. He had two sons that later rose to power, learnt about them, learnt about the previous rulers that he had conquered. Had to do some backtracking. I found myself tired out, and not fully understanding it. So I decided to go back to the first book, and read the whole picture. Sargon ruled, got land, his son took over, was assassinated, his older son took over, was assassinated as well, Sargon's grandson rose to power, was egotistical, got the blame for the decline of the empire by "Upsetting the gods" His supposed Son took over from there, Gutians from the Zagros Mountains and raided the place after many failed attempts. That, partnered with rebellions, and climate change causing the Euphrates River to dry up/move further away caused the actual disappearance of the Empire. Fascinatingly, knowing that linear progression- I was able to be like "Ah. So I know how this goes. I wonder how this guy will react to the outcome that I already know." makes it a tad bit LESS exciting, but still exciting. History to me is like a never ending story, and to get the big details and main idea down and understood first- Actually does surprisingly help. I am able to branch off of that, and next I will be able to learn about the Third Dynasty of Ur with Ur-Nammu. : ) Thank you for this video.
People do seem to get memorization and understanding confused. If you can memorize something all your doing is robotically repeating something back to someone. If you cannot explain the event, idea, or concept in your own words and explain who, what, where, when, and why then your memorization means nothing. You are nothing but an audio recording. Great video this youngin is more intelligent than most adults you come across these days.
A fool learns from mistakes, and a wise man learns from history.
-Girls und Panzer, History Buffs Club.
Mistakes could only be in the past though. Therefore it makes mistakes history. Its all the same fool and wise... 🤯
Well that's just dump
@? Well it's from Girls und Panzer. THat's a pretty shit anime
This is so helpful,
In Satisfied,
thank you for your counsel
Glad I found this video start my journey into history I’ve collected so much now it’s up to me to make the necessary steps to bring it to the world.
History is my worst subject. They just throw a bunch of information in my face and they think that im gonna remember it all in a month. Im not Wikipedia hello?
I too also think like that, and I hate history so much..but I want to learn it so bad from TH-cam instead of school bcs it sounds interesting and it seems to be a fun topic to discuss with your friends
Thank you!! It helped me a lot! I was wondering how to study history and was wanting to just memorise everything lol.
In my school most f the exams was with an open text books and most of the questions was about expressing our opinions, examining posters or political expressions from the past. Nothing about remembering dates and so on. That’s so ever I’m not from the U.S…
History was always my weak subject. I always loved the courses itself but I could never understand the information no matter how hard I tried and it always frustrated me. Thank you for this video, I hope to improve and understand more
I am the same way! I try so hard to understand but it’s so difficult….
Did u gather any tips ?
Good practical video, will help me with my History notes. Thanks. I enjoy history, so being able to do better in school and enjoy my history reading to a further extent will be great, Mr. Waldun.
Damn, this video is amazing. It’s not only helped me to understand a new way to learn and remember things in history, but also in programming(with the frankenstein example) I’ve noticed why it was so hard for me to make complex projects - I wanted to make every single smallest detail without creating a first general structure first, so it was becoming too hard and boring to do.
great vid! been looking for something like your channel lately. one suggestion, can you make an intro vid wherein you tell us what you do, your course in college, etc. stuff like that to know you more
I have a B.A. in History, am 58 years old, have a Masters in Liberal Arts emphasizing history, and have been reading or studying history for 45 years. I wish I knew how old R.C. Waldun is, and if he is in high school or college. It would help me to make comments about him. He is obviously well educated and bright.
One, I could not agree more that students who highlight everything on the page, in pink and yellow highlighter, are missing the point of highlighting. In addition, they may never proceed to the level of “understanding.”
Two, If you are going to talk about how you learn something at a high level, you should talk about the educational theorists. Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner, Erickson, Maslow, information processing theory, dynamic systems theory, and ecological systems theory. One part of Piaget’s theory was schema, which is has two subcomponents, equilibrium and disequilibrium. This part seems most relevant to what Mr. Waldun is proposing. Waldun should be advised that Piaget has been surpassed in many ways by Vygotsky, ecological systems theory, and other more recent theories or revisions. An excellent educational psychology textbook is Educational Psychology, by Anita Woolfolk and it has sections on all the educational theories I mentioned above. The book is very expensive (19th ed.) and I suggest buying an earlier edition used for a much lower price.
Three, Mr. Waldun proposed a framework or skeleton upon which the student could arrange his facts/information. Yes, that is good, but what is the framework? A good, general survey textbook has a framework in it, which facts can be arranged on. A college professor should be provided such a framework. This is good enough for me. Going a step further, most students under 25 are not capable of creating a framework, e.g. for all of US history.
Four, now let’s talk more casually. One approach to learning history is the “bull and the cow”. The bull is the theory (the bull*#4!) and the cow is the facts. You always need both when you learn history, write about it, and take tests. This connects back to point one by Mr. Waldun. Simply to learn the facts is not enough. You need to think conceptually, in terms of cause and effect, to think in terms of periodization, great men versus large historic forces, etc. at all times while you are learning the facts.
The post, two below mine by “aRoomForEpsilon” says, “One way I view learning is that there are different levels, and learners do different things at different levels. I would say that memorizing facts is a level 0 activity, associating the facts together is a level 1 activity, creating hypothesis is a level 2 activity, and defending that hypothesis is a level 3 activity.” Excellent!
In a related subject, Mr. Waldun and his viewers might consider the spiral theory of knowledge. In this theory there is one, two, or three vertical strands of subject matter, e.g. history, literature, and philosophy. The student studies these three subjects constantly, and repeatedly (covering the same material again and again each year, but at a deeper level of understanding), and as he does this, he rises up in a spiral around the three strands, and his knowledge of the three subjects increases.
Five, still talking casually, one way to study history is to study what you like, e.g. WWII or black history. This is what I did since the beginning and still do today. I would say it is essential to studying history. However, it is absolutely joined by the need to study facts and concepts that YOU DO NOT LIKE. If you do not like WWII, you are going to have to study it regardless.
Six, a less important point. Mr. Waldun speaks positively about Michel Foucault. Mr. Waldun should research the last years of Mr. Foucalt’s life in San Francisco, what he did to people there, how he got AIDS, and how he died. For me, it is very important that a philosopher practice what he preaches otherwise his theories are invalid. Mr. Waldun should not advocate philosopher’s theories which are invalid.
Lastly, lastly, Mr. Waldun needs to pronounce a few words correctly. Other is not udder. Together is not twogedder. A man of Mr. Waldun’s sophistication, education, and bilingual capacity should not make these basic mistakes.
Sincerely, David
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As A Christian History is very Important. Thank You.
I've been doing it wrong. I was wondering why I'm feeling unmotivated to finish reading my 700 page world history textbook. I was only focusing on memorizing random names, dates, and facts. Welp, this is a wake up call. Thank you man.
thank you so much, so right about the education system/memorisation. i'll make sure to implement this for further reading in regards to my entrance exams.
Great video, I found this very informative. I'll give it a go!
I agree with you. Today I had a history question and talked about the birth and rise of fascism in Italy ( my country ). I didn't dwell on the dates - although I had obviously studied them - but I preferred to talk about the causes that led to the birth of this party and the different drives that led to the rise of the fascist movement in Italy. The professor told me that he appreciated the fact that I did not dwell on the dates but focused on the causes and consequences
IMOW: In studying history it is crucial to understand the significance of the general time period rather than focusing on specific aspects first. When you focus on the details it is like an ant that can only see the blob of ink of a single written letter rather than the whole narrative essay. You are missing the mark. Once you provide context then the details will become easier to remember because they are anchored to a skeletal frame of meaning first. When studying history read the books like a novel to get the general jist, the ethos, the significance, the spirit of the age and then go back and examine the details and see what they meant in context to the larger picture. When you do this history is no longer a recollection of facts but a living rich story that contains the meaning of our species, what we were, what we are now, and possibly what we can/will be.
i have a goal in mind atm, i wanna track the human race, from where it started till where we are rn, how did we evolve (physically, psychologically, intellectually, ....) all the major branches, idk what's out there and i wanna know what's out there , i wanna travel from stone age to the phone age and all what happened in between, and analyzing which major actions we took that influenced us
Music history rn is kicking my ass, I'm going to implement this between now and my exam
Its just like making a movie. If a character is not built properly you will less care for the character and forgot it.
nah cuz i'm having a history test on sunday and this helps so muchh THANK YOU ♡
This helped a lot I hate details like names or phrases but Instead, I remember years and matters easily but my teacher wants those details but you gave me a good tip I'm going to read a textbook like a novel before the teacher talks about it in a class genius ideaaaa🍃
You are on th mark. I am an older parent, so I learned things differently. My younger son has dyslexia and I have been trying to find ways to help him learn and understand. I preread what he will learn and then put chunks of information in a meaningful way so he doesn't get overwhelmed. BTW, I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that they don't ask questions on most batltes in the AP exam. Whew!
I love your metaphor about Frankenstein related to structure of history
I'm not exactly a historian but I completely agree with what you say!
Philosophy is logically prior to history. How to interpret depends on the ultimate nature of reality.
Thank you so much!! This video was very helpful to me who often sees history as a subject of memorising facts.
Lol, i'm taking an art course and i want my works based on historical events but i just realized i definitely slept throughout my elementary & highschool classes in history. 😬 thank god i'll be able to study everything effectively
Yo that's actually useful deep gratitude m8
Thank you! My friend's are really interested in world history, it's sounded interesting and I'd love to join conversation. This helped me a lot, this should help me get into it. :)
Im glad to notice this thumbnail earlier ,
Thank you for this video, was fundamental for me
oh boy, ı just found you you re the channel ı was looking for. greeeat. love you ı think this is a revulotion for me . believe me it is. anyway keep going ı m gooing to suggest you to all my friends thank sa lot byeeeee
Fantastic explanation, man! Thank you very much
Man you are awesome you think exactly the way i think
What an adorable intellectual.
Thanks a lot for making such a video!! It gives me relief as a student.
i learned alot from this video, thank you very much for making this.
Nice video ❣️❣️.Much love
I've never watched your videos before, you're good.
Dude, thank you so much. You rock :)
Watching this 4 days before the history exam on the Cold War.