Love the lottery aspect. I realized I find it hard to stick to one "thinking tool" so using a lottery will help me persevere. Thank you for the very useful video. Looking forward to using it.
Great that it was so useful! Don't fell like you need to "stick" to just one thinking tool. In fact if you use several tools to think through the same topic / problem you will be able to think much deeper and much more creatively than if you just use one.
Awesome videos! This would be great to have. Video of each of the thinking tools you use and find useful. The ABC, CaWa, and CaGa videos were great, more of these please :)
Awesome that you like them! More videos on thinking tools will be upcoming. Have a look at this playlist for now (if you don't know this already), these are all the thinking tool videos published so far: th-cam.com/video/mBXYy3OHOy8/w-d-xo.html
Very good video. I hope you will get more subscriptions and likes. I am posting this comment to let you know that your efforts will be admired by other researchers and can really help a lot of people like me (although we are in different disciplines). I really hope this video gets more than 10,000 likes, it totally deserves it. Your videos are very sincere and convey a lot of effective information.
Glad it was helpful! I also noted that going back through your notes to extract the most essential concepts gives you many interesting insights in its own right.
Thank you for your great videos and inspiration! You mention ’rhodopsin effect’ (?) in this video. I did some googling but I did not quite get the connection. Can you elaborate on that? Or if you already have a video about it, I am happy with a link…
Rhodipsin is the chemical in our eyes that helps us to see in the dark. Have a look here: th-cam.com/video/KEReP_7kwpg/w-d-xo.html In addition, I recently learned that the mechanism that allows experts to see (and indeed remember) more patterns seems to be an interplay between working and long-term memory. Experts scan the (visual, conceptual...) information they're presented with for elements that proved salient in the past and pass that information on to the long-term memory. If there's a suitable pattern stored in long-term memory, a sort of anchor to that memory is passed back and stored in the working memory. This allows the working memory to use part of the long-term memory to carry out its processes more efficiently. And since the items in our long-term memory are interconnected, that allows expert to quickly narrow down potential solutions to a handful which are likely to be successful or, if its a new pattern, to see its potential more quickly (unless they overlearned their subject and fall victim to expert blindness).
Better for what? In which situation? What do you want to accomplish? What problem are you trying to solve? ABC-lists, CaWas, concept maps, flow diagrams, block text and a lot of others are only tools. Asking whether one is better than the other is like asking whether a drill is better than a band saw. It all depends on what you want to do. ABC-lists are great as a "brain-storming" tool. They're for taking stocks which ideas and concepts are already in your mind. To create a "mental product" (to keep with the metaphor), you'll usually need to use several tools in combination. You can, for instance, first use ABC-lists to collect a list of concepts and then build a concept map with those words. What I'm showing in this video, though, is not necessarily meant to lead to finished products. It's just meant to keep a topic active in your mind and explore it without purpose. So, you're "just" playing with the topic. But that can lead to new insights or new ideas you might not have had during "purposeful" engagement with the topic. The examples I showed were drawn at random from a pack of cards with tools. You can totally add concept map to that stack.
Interesting - I am not sure whether or not you could adjust this for a "normal" study/review task. Anyway, I just saw something very similiar to this: "Oblique strategies", you might want to give it a look :)
Thanks for the info! I'll check "oblique strategies" out. :-) As for how this works for "normal" study. I don't really believe that there's a fundamental difference between learning for school / university and learning for becoming an expert or a scientific literature research. I rather think that this shows that our approach to "school learning" is fundamentally flawed. We've become so obsessed with passing exams and taking shortcuts (i.e. study hacks), that we lost track of what's important. If we really know what we're doing (i.e. if we're really learning), passing exams is easy. But only if we really learned it will we be able to utilise that knowledge in situations that are different from what we encountered in the classroom. Even if your teacher accepts only one specific way of expressing a definition or a solution (I had one like this), it's much easier to learn that way when you already know why something is the should be the answer. But if you try to cram, man, that's not only hard and painful - even if you pass the exam, you'll most likely "forget" most of the material after a week or two. So if you used the strategy lottery "as is" for "school learning" what would happen? Firstly, you keep the subject(s) active in your mind and see new connections. This helps you to take much more out of a textbook or a lecture (because experts see structures where non-experts see nothing). Secondly, if you continue to use the strategy lottery throughout the academic year, you'll be much better prepared when exam time rolls around. This is again because you're keeping what you learned active, so you won't run into the problem "I completely forgot what we talked about 3 months ago". Lastly, because games like this are much more enjoyable than cramming, it's likely that you'll also enjoy the subject(s) much more and voluntarily seek out additional information which, in turn, will help you to become better. So in conclusion: No need to adjust the strategy lottery for "normal" learning. Just add relevant concepts to your pool as you encounter them and take it from there. ^_^
@@bf-thinking I tried it a couple of times now. You were right. I am still not quite comfortable with having it in such an institutionalised way, but I guess I am getting there. :D Especially the ABC lists are an excellent tool for me to review or take in new information!
Thanks for the feedback! I'm happy that ABC-lists seem to be working for you. Don't worry if you don't follow what I'm doing to a tee. Since people are different, it's only natural that they will do things differently as well. I'm just trying to show you what's possible. You can then go and make it your own, keep what's working, chuck out the rest and add something else if necessary. It's awesome that you're experimenting, however. Most people give up without even trying.
What are your favourite thinking tools to keep your knowledge active?
God .. this is outstanding 👌👌👌👌⚡️⚡️ please continue explaining such mind blowing games sir…
Great that you like it so much!
u deserve more viewers and subscribers.
Thanks, man! You can help spread the word...😀
Love the lottery aspect. I realized I find it hard to stick to one "thinking tool" so using a lottery will help me persevere. Thank you for the very useful video. Looking forward to using it.
Great that it was so useful! Don't fell like you need to "stick" to just one thinking tool. In fact if you use several tools to think through the same topic / problem you will be able to think much deeper and much more creatively than if you just use one.
Awesome videos!
This would be great to have. Video of each of the thinking tools you use and find useful. The ABC, CaWa, and CaGa videos were great, more of these please :)
Awesome that you like them!
More videos on thinking tools will be upcoming. Have a look at this playlist for now (if you don't know this already), these are all the thinking tool videos published so far: th-cam.com/video/mBXYy3OHOy8/w-d-xo.html
That was interesting. Cheers
Very good video. I hope you will get more subscriptions and likes. I am posting this comment to let you know that your efforts will be admired by other researchers and can really help a lot of people like me (although we are in different disciplines). I really hope this video gets more than 10,000 likes, it totally deserves it.
Your videos are very sincere and convey a lot of effective information.
Thanks, mate! What scientific discipline are you in?
Great videos, thanks for sharing. I like the systems you describe and also the summaries of topics you use are very valuable on its own!
Glad it was helpful! I also noted that going back through your notes to extract the most essential concepts gives you many interesting insights in its own right.
Thank you for your great videos and inspiration! You mention ’rhodopsin effect’ (?) in this video. I did some googling but I did not quite get the connection. Can you elaborate on that? Or if you already have a video about it, I am happy with a link…
Rhodipsin is the chemical in our eyes that helps us to see in the dark. Have a look here: th-cam.com/video/KEReP_7kwpg/w-d-xo.html
In addition, I recently learned that the mechanism that allows experts to see (and indeed remember) more patterns seems to be an interplay between working and long-term memory. Experts scan the (visual, conceptual...) information they're presented with for elements that proved salient in the past and pass that information on to the long-term memory. If there's a suitable pattern stored in long-term memory, a sort of anchor to that memory is passed back and stored in the working memory. This allows the working memory to use part of the long-term memory to carry out its processes more efficiently. And since the items in our long-term memory are interconnected, that allows expert to quickly narrow down potential solutions to a handful which are likely to be successful or, if its a new pattern, to see its potential more quickly (unless they overlearned their subject and fall victim to expert blindness).
@@bf-thinking thank you very much for a thorough answer. Fascinating connections!
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Would it be not better to make a concept map instead of ABC list?
Better for what? In which situation? What do you want to accomplish? What problem are you trying to solve?
ABC-lists, CaWas, concept maps, flow diagrams, block text and a lot of others are only tools. Asking whether one is better than the other is like asking whether a drill is better than a band saw. It all depends on what you want to do. ABC-lists are great as a "brain-storming" tool. They're for taking stocks which ideas and concepts are already in your mind.
To create a "mental product" (to keep with the metaphor), you'll usually need to use several tools in combination. You can, for instance, first use ABC-lists to collect a list of concepts and then build a concept map with those words.
What I'm showing in this video, though, is not necessarily meant to lead to finished products. It's just meant to keep a topic active in your mind and explore it without purpose. So, you're "just" playing with the topic. But that can lead to new insights or new ideas you might not have had during "purposeful" engagement with the topic. The examples I showed were drawn at random from a pack of cards with tools. You can totally add concept map to that stack.
Interesting - I am not sure whether or not you could adjust this for a "normal" study/review task.
Anyway, I just saw something very similiar to this: "Oblique strategies", you might want to give it a look :)
Thanks for the info! I'll check "oblique strategies" out. :-)
As for how this works for "normal" study. I don't really believe that there's a fundamental difference between learning for school / university and learning for becoming an expert or a scientific literature research. I rather think that this shows that our approach to "school learning" is fundamentally flawed. We've become so obsessed with passing exams and taking shortcuts (i.e. study hacks), that we lost track of what's important.
If we really know what we're doing (i.e. if we're really learning), passing exams is easy. But only if we really learned it will we be able to utilise that knowledge in situations that are different from what we encountered in the classroom. Even if your teacher accepts only one specific way of expressing a definition or a solution (I had one like this), it's much easier to learn that way when you already know why something is the should be the answer. But if you try to cram, man, that's not only hard and painful - even if you pass the exam, you'll most likely "forget" most of the material after a week or two.
So if you used the strategy lottery "as is" for "school learning" what would happen? Firstly, you keep the subject(s) active in your mind and see new connections. This helps you to take much more out of a textbook or a lecture (because experts see structures where non-experts see nothing). Secondly, if you continue to use the strategy lottery throughout the academic year, you'll be much better prepared when exam time rolls around. This is again because you're keeping what you learned active, so you won't run into the problem "I completely forgot what we talked about 3 months ago". Lastly, because games like this are much more enjoyable than cramming, it's likely that you'll also enjoy the subject(s) much more and voluntarily seek out additional information which, in turn, will help you to become better.
So in conclusion: No need to adjust the strategy lottery for "normal" learning. Just add relevant concepts to your pool as you encounter them and take it from there. ^_^
@@bf-thinking I tried it a couple of times now. You were right. I am still not quite comfortable with having it in such an institutionalised way, but I guess I am getting there. :D
Especially the ABC lists are an excellent tool for me to review or take in new information!
Thanks for the feedback! I'm happy that ABC-lists seem to be working for you.
Don't worry if you don't follow what I'm doing to a tee. Since people are different, it's only natural that they will do things differently as well. I'm just trying to show you what's possible. You can then go and make it your own, keep what's working, chuck out the rest and add something else if necessary.
It's awesome that you're experimenting, however. Most people give up without even trying.