I can’t believe this video is 4 years old & I’m just now seeing it. This resonates so highly with me & is by far the best video hands down that I’ve ever come across! My understanding has been transcended! Thank you 🙏
Excellent video. It affected me in a positive way, to realize even more how much damage social media are causing to our brains. An addiction for brain destruction.
"Tell me and I'll forget, Show me and I'll remember, Involve me and I'll learn." A useful quote for all, especially anyone who has to plan lessons or training.
Yes. Case in point: Once long ago a was in a graduate-level seminar class. We were each given complex topics to research and present to the rest of the class. After each presentation we would discuss and ask questions, which the presenter (at least in theory) could answer. Fast forward to exam time... We answered questions about all the topics discussed, and there was also a list of questions, from which we chose one to present an argument about. That one answer was 30% of the exam grade. Luckily, one of the choices involved my class presentation topic! I confidently wrote my argument, because that was the topic I knew inside and out, though it had been weeks since I presented it. I had a hard time with recalling enough about the other presentations to answer any of the other questions. Thanks to this video, I now know how remedy that kind of situation! :D
Some advice for learning 1. Recall within the first 30 seconds of learning something 2. Feymann technique, use what you have learned so you can express it to a 5 year old 3. Use mental repetition, your brain is a muscle, use your time wisely to wire your neurones to be able to effectively remember max capacity. Some extra tips - Don’t try to focus on many things, just one - Don’t try remember everything, understand the use of Quality information over quantity - Develop intellectual humility. Understand and detach from your perspectives to learn others to gain a better understanding. -> fight/argument to find peace
@@FredrickTalks I kinda forgot what tips the video gave, so I'll have to check it out again. In my own experience, the best advice I can give is to be open and honest about your lack of comprehension, and take initiative to refresh your memory when needed. And also, all my important thoughts live in a notepad. The most simple shit. I'll stop people and pull out my notebook, even if they say it's not necessary. It is necessary cause I will fucking forget everything.
I’m a Nigerian by nationality, and every time I read, I always want to understand the content at one go without repetition or rereading. However, I found out that it doesn’t work for me. For me to be able to retain whatever contents I had read in the past, I need to enagage in repetition, as it aids in retaining what had been read and gives a huge understanding of it. And, for one to be able to achieve this, more time needs to be spent on reading and more meditations need to be done on what has been read for the sake of remembrance. THIS IS, INDEED, HELPFUL. Thanks for the hints, sir.
This video really speaks to a problem I’ve been having; feeling like good ideas and information are “slipping away” despite countless meetings, discussions and brainstorming sessions. I remember HAVING good ideas to advance my life but they never “stick” and I’m left puzzled as to why nothing has changed. This got me thinking about using force of will to try and commit the best ideas to long-term memory instead of assuming my brain can act in my own best interest automatically. Thank you!
That's a very good method (at least for me). I've hung on to notes for almost all of my college courses and other online courses. When I go back and re-read them in my own words, I'm surprised by how much I can recall on the subject. I use those same notes to fill in holes that I can't remember. This is what I use to refresh information when I get ready for something like a job interview.
i feel exactly the same. sometimes when i mediated on simple ideas they turn to awesome ideas that make me feel really good and hopeful for my future only to then when i sit to "work" my mind is emptier than my coffee machine lol
You might like the tree-leaf method. Simply speaking if you got a list of the countries in Europe you woudln't remember them. If you got a map of Europe and an article for each country grouped into those close to eachother then you would forget most of the detailed content in the article describing each country (leaf knowledge) but you would more likely remember the names of the countries. (branch knowledge) or the spesific groups of countries. Basically it's harder to forget the words that name large sets of subknowledge. Even harder to forget the words that name sets of sets of subknowledge.
Ben Briggs, Could you give some examples of those ideas that "are slipping away"? Depending on what idea you mean, it maybe the case that those ideas "are slipping away" because they are "built" on originally wrong premises/fundamentals... Example: trying to fix economic problems by using tools built on fundamentally wrong "economic" dogma (today's catch 22). P.S. Wish more details on what I wrote here, let me know, I'll provide links to few TH-cam videos/presentations/documentaries that explain it more thoroughly.
7:05 1. Recall - after you read it - look away from material and try recall it 2. Feynman Technique - explain it to a 5 year old 3. Spaced Repetition - repeat for more myelination - Prioritize the essential - “Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not keep up with every damn thing in the world.”
This, and your video on The Attention Economy should be required viewing for everyone who spends a lot of time on the internet. I think I struggle with wanting to be great at everything, knowledgeable on every subject, but there's just not enough time in the day to be amazing at everything. Man, I'll have to revisit this video many more times, thanks for this Will.
Don't worry mate i feel the same way. Theres just not enough time to learn everything. I have that feeling all the time when i start reading a book of biology or physics or psychology.
Film Radar I feel relieved knowing that I'm not the only one who wants to know everything, and fails to do so because of our nature and way of doing things, and that is trying to learn as much as possible in the shortest period of time possible. I think we should really be patient and follow this guy's advice, that we can never know everything and that we need to learn with quality, patiently over time we will gain the knowledge we strive for.
Not necessarily. One must use active recall to see how much they could remember after watching the video. That way, they could build a stronger neuronal connection in the brain.
@@sirjuke9j yeah this video is amazing. Watch it as many times. But I can tell you: the book by Barbara Oakley I read it 3 times and have no regret (A mind for number on learning how to learn).
Little cheat sheet for myself in a simple manner: Focus on 1 thing Look away and think about it Write out a way of teaching it to someone else in a simple manner Redo, relearn, practice thought
Why does everyone here fail to comprehend the difference between knowing something and understanding it? Have you never been taught the words: knowledge and understanding? Do they seem as synonyms to you? They literally differentiate between what you do normally and what you call a cheat. Its not a cheat. Its literally what we call understanding something. To know something but not be able to comprehend from whence it comes, is not to understand something. That is to know something. Literally 'know something' was the given, should we really be surprised that it is thus the conclusion? No. If you know something you know something. Just because you know something doesn't mean you understand it. Knowledge is data. Understanding is grasping the dynamics (elements and their relations) that give rise to all computable data. Are kids in school really this intellectually impoverished?
@@pamlemm903 Until you understand something, you can not know it. Rather, you either believe it (a sucker), or are considering/evaluating it (one trained in the intellectual self-defense arts). This entire Money Power Monopolists Empire system sits on a foundation of appeal to authority logical fallacy where the debt-based money serfs believe they know what they are told without actually understanding it.
@@wellnesspathforme6236 what are you taking about? You're not really speaking in the scientific sense. What about a data point? If I say: a measurement of 84 degrees Kelvin. You can't know what the measurement was? Obviously you can. So I can't agree with your assertion that you can't know something unless you understand it. But do you understand 84 degrees Kelvin? No. Understanding 84° is not possible because you don't even have established premises to articulate a sense of context. You can know it. It is 84° Kelvin. Just as you and I can and do know it since I introduced its existence and identity. But where it comes from is a matter of understanding. Understanding being the comprehension of elements and their relationships between them in any given context.
@@pamlemm903 The scientific method is curiosity plus a subset algorithm of the trivium method of intellectual self-defense. If you told that to an alien in a thought experiment, would you expect the alien to know what you were talking about in your language? It would seem they have some logically assembling of relevant data to do (language, temperature definitions), right? Is the point more clear now? You do bring up a good point -- there are different levels of understanding. For example, you can understand something in a very real way, or you can understand something in an abstract way with no real world experience -- and those are two very different levels of understanding. ... The Trivium Method of Intellectual Self-Defense -- schoolsucksproject.com/tag/gene-odening/ Logical Fallacy Free Applied Logic -- www.triviumeducation.com/logic/ Note: there is a WAR on the plain meaning of "appeal to authority" logical fallacy because the Empire wants you to implicitly believe (ie, worship) their "authorities'" UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS. Any authority, whether fake or real, who claims something is true because s/he said it was true is utilizing an "appeal to authority" logical fallacy. PERIOD. Real knowledge is the result of logically assembled relevant grammar that is free of both contradictions and logical fallacy dependence. The two biggest logical fallacies that are used to program the unwitting minds of the masses are 1. appeal to authority, and 2. appeal to popularity (popular opinion being formed primarily via appeal to authority, so they are related). Caveat emptor! Gatto Vignettes Courtesy of School Sucks Podcast -- schoolsucksproject.com/john-taylor-gatto/ Underground History Lesson With John Taylor Gatto - AMAZING! 5 Hour Interview! -- th-cam.com/video/uj8f7ycnUtU/w-d-xo.html
This is really relevant to me. I’ve been over-learning to feed my craving for knowledge, but I’m not really as smart as I think I am. Thanks for the great video!
Dude this is one of those rare masterpiece o youtube. The high quality editing to transmit the words and ideas your are tryingto make people understand.. just great man. Thank you so much for all that work. On top of that the 3 techniques given in it are actually reall really useful. I've used the look away and recall quickly what you just read, along with teaching it to somebody asap with great success, definitly increased my retension and mastery about subjects I was learning at a time.
The worst thing is that, when you’re in school/university, you have no choice but to follow a lot of tasks all together........maybe you’d like to spend a little more time on a particular subject to understand it fully but if you get showered with new tasks you need to get done, here comes the “cram everything into your brain” system.
I'm late but if it helps, that's where you can slip in techniques of active learning techniques while taking advantage of efficiency for stuff you don't really have an interest in knowing further. So for example, I use active learning whenever I can like in class when taking notes, I take notes as active as I can like it's a part of learning (repeating or summarizing) and help for later repetition/revision. Also making sure I know the outline/direction/main points and important points of the lesson by underlining them as the teacher usually points out while explaining so I can understand and apply the basics more. Some people can actually understand the lesson straight off and they apply it in class or to everyday life when the thing studied about occurs (they use it in jokes or learn more about it through analysis and further inquiry) I do still do cramming lol but active learning reaps benefits for those no-time-to-even-review or so-much-inbetween-the-lines analytical tests and even after the tests so I prefer to do it if I can
@Imran A That's a bit too harsh i think. Not everyone is born as an autodidact and able to learn alone (yet efficiently). There are a lot of different people out there with various perceptions, abilities, backgrounds, etc.. Some learn better alone and at their own pace, some might not even start to learn given such a free environment, both might be equal able to understand the same topic. Some might just need to sit in a big lecture hall and their brain will start getting focused, others will get tired. We should have room for different learning types and paces.
@Ren This is referred to as "sausage stuffing" in Swedish. I think we need sausage stuffing in school. It's forcing people to learn and remember. It can be quite painful though. I think the school should encourage students to search for deeper knowledge and understanding. But most people aren't like that. They just want to memorize the basic facts and get on with it. While I don't think the education system that we discuss is perfect... I do think that there are just a shit-ton of boring stuff you need to learn. This needs to be prioritized. Once you've done that, you can choose what you want to master. This thinking should be applied on both a micro level (task-to-task; easy and hars questions) and macro level (the individual educational career and intellectual life; boring stuff in ground school, more fucused in uni) and everything in between (e.g. paper-writing at the end each terms.) If you're really into learning, you can recapitulate the things you've learned, on the summer vacation and on free time.
This was really useful. I have been constantly suffering from information retention. The methods explained in the video can be a bit difficult for me as I get distracted very easily.. but I'll definitely try it out. Thank you!
Definitely a popular quote when responding to the inability of remembering the details of past experiences (books here). While I share my sympathy with what it points out, it is hard to confirm by any measure. I'd love to know if someone has unpacked it at a deeper level. Does anyone have some good links for me?
Me too, I always forgot things I'd learned. I have really bad memory and I have no way to prevent this, even I tried very hard to hold it, my memory still "volatile" away.
These are some tips, they work for me. Maybe not for everyone. I've been reading a book a month so far this year (well I've made it to 6 books so far). 1. Mark up your books, take notes in the margins or underline/highlight things that stick out to you. 2. Stop reading and contemplate parts that you feel are important to you. Or are pivotal moments in the story. 3. Try to relate those pivotal moments to current events or state of affairs going on. Compare them to your own personal experience. 4. Takes notes on any profound thoughts you had while reading a chapter. Usually when chapters end, they only take up 1/4 or 1/2 of the page. Write a quick summary of that chapter on the blank part of that page. 5. Once you are done reading, immediately take out a notebook or open up Word, and write your opinions on what you read, while it's still fresh. Doesn't have to be anything fancy or written like a college report. Just WRITE! The last step has helped me immensely. I've made a folder and have written a short report (around 1000 words per book) and have gone back occasionally to add notes here and there from just thinking about the story weeks later. Or when talking to friends who have read the book as well, and made connections and critiques I hadn't thought of. This is a good skill to develop. It's help with listening, critical thinking and helps your writing. Win, win, win. Hope This Helps! Edit: Thank you for the wonderful responses. Yes, these are tips for beginners. I've noticed this method eventually bleeds over to mentally taking notes. Eventually you won't have to do EVERY step, but it builds the "muscle memory" in your brain to help with retaining information later on.
@Jt Hendrix Yes, intelligent people that want to be erudite read books. If you want to bag my groceries or work at Mcdonalds for the rest of your life and hang out with weed-smoking dopeheads -- Go ahead. Some people actually pursue meaning in life and want to be the best they can be.
This definitely helps. A lot I do already but it's great to have them echoed back. Reinforces my practice. And I really hope to write, so your last paragraph gave me hopeful joy.
Why don't you read only what you currently need instead of artificially creating demand for the knowledge presented? I mean, you don't read a book about stoicism when you want to know how to use a welding machine.
I’ve struggled with autism my entire life, but Come to realize that it has helped me greatly with schematizing. I’m so hyper focused on 1 thing. When I learn something I feel like I can remember and generate it fully in conversation. It just takes getting over my trouble with social situations to be able to share it.
@uhh like uhh uhhhh bro what, if anything they are the next line in the modern human. Look at all the research at how autistic brains process intellectual material in different ways then "normal" brains
My best friend (really he's a brother) has ASD (extremely high functioning). He's the exact same way. I've always told him that I genuinely believe that it's one of his greatest strengths, that he can hyper-focus so diligently on one thing. In fact, it's a trait that I envy! 😂 I met him when I was 14 and he was 18, and we're 34 and 38 respectively now, and I actually also function as his main professional support now too (along with my fiancee). If I'm being honest, I've come to rely on his ability to recall specific details, and not just on complex topics. I have so much going on in life that it's been harder and harder to keep some things in order in my memory nowadays (not in a really bad way, just as a function of getting older and having more on my plate so-to-speak). He's with my 90% of the time, and so I just naturally began recruiting his help in remembering things I'd forget, and he seems to appreciate that I rely on him for that. I'm glad for that, as he's the type who derives significant joy from being able to help people or be the thing that solved a problem for them or things of that nature. Anyways, thanks for sharing your input. I thought I'd throw my experience in there too, since it's relevant.
Your mind is NOT a computer, your mind is a muscle, so don't trust your memory! If you want something to get into your long-term memory instead of the short one, see if you can explain to yourself or someone the information you just acquired. If you cannot do, it simply means that you do not know it, so go again and re-watch or read it until you can explain it and it makes sense. We said the mind is a muscle so the more you learn, the more you learn. Quit multitasking and remove distractions so you can focus on quality over quantity. What i also do is, i use post-it notes, i write the very important things that i bump into through my day and i still stick them on my wall in my bedroom or somewhere around my desk so i can see them and read them often. They motivate me, they show to me that i am serious and i keep going to reach my goals. If you read this coment - Be Lengedary !
Incorrect. The mind is a computer that corrupts all files everytime you recall them into your working memory. The prefrontal cortex very much functions like a google search bar but our neural connections are like muscles in that the more we use them, the deeper the pathways are deepened so to speak. I suppose the brain works with both analogies.
Good video. I have often taught that "Repetition is the MOTHER of Learning". Your points about Recall, Feynman, and Spaced Repetition, all speak to that. I also appreciated your closing comments; especially "Life isn't a Book Report".
@@vishwajeetparadva8720 Hello V.P. Yes. I do what i can to remain an eternal student. It helps to always relate to the issues my viewers are dealing with. Thanks for posting your comment.
As someone who loves to read, to learn as much as possible, I sympathize with this video a lot. It's so frustrating when I forget things that I thought I knew very well! Great video!
I have always naturally absorbed information & then imagined explaining it to someone else. It ALWAYS results in better understand & usually produces new insights. If I’m creating something, the act of explaining it, & explaining why i think something simpler won’t work, often allows me to discover how to MAKE it work.
I'm just beginning to self-learn math and physics. And after half a lifetime of various issues, this is amazing advice. I spent the past day learning about Feynman! And as an ex-psychology major, I just want to say thank you so much!
A Masterpiece in its own right. I was like "Its the video that I was searching for the entire time!!". Fantastically precise and concise and beautiful mix of great quotes by some of the best people. Truly hats off!! Can't thank enough.
Feynman’s technique is: studying the thing you want to learn, then summarizing it as if you wanted to teach it to someone. Where you get stuck trying to explain it, you go back to learning about the subject to fill in the gaps in your knowledge! After you write down your explanation, eliminate things that are hard to understand until the final product could be explained to a child. This works because by explaining a complex topic simply, you know that you understand it and if you haven’t already committed the subject to long-term memory (by recalling the information later) you can repeat the process to solidify the memory, perhaps with spaced repetition.
The best video I’ve watched in weeks. Thank you so much for showing us these techniques, I’ll now stop looking everywhere but focusing on one thing at a time and learn it forever
I'm really grateful for this video. The notion of not really remembering thus not even processing or understanding all the information I try to consume has bothered me for a while, and this will definitely be something I use to improve my ability to learn, both in the reminder this is a widespread problem and the tools you provide in the video. So thanks :)
my summary of memory techniques: 1. Recall - after you read it - look away from material and try recall it 2. Feynman Technique - explain it to a 5 year old 3. Spaced Repetition - repeat for more myelination also do remeber too look away and remeber any information you have just taken in. spending little as 30 seconds or less going over the main points will help you vastly understand it better after you watch some educationial videos and convert it into long term memory. the feynman technique is basicially chosing something you want to understand and write out an explanation of it as if it a person did not know the subject. it is also whenever you stuck go back to the material and re learn it then after you should be able to write about it without using the material source, simplify it by removing the technical wording, so that a child could get what your teaching. analogies connect complex idea with something more relatable. the spaced repetion is exactly what i know it is. focusing one thing at a time in learning would make it easier.
@@tenminutetokyo2643 wat. Tell it to people who are the most knowledgeable and proficient at the epitome (computer duh) of literally switching between single tasks sequentially to make illusion of multitasking. (Yes, I'm aware of multiple cores of processor, they still perform single tasks at a time)
The irony of the title and video is stellar. The entire video stresses not to try & learn everything, but instead prioritize, quality over quantity, depth over breadth, slow and steady over fast, single-tasking over multitasking, master of one, instead of a jack of all trades, and so on. This is made for me.
8:20 I don't think you even need to write it down. I've found just speaking out loud to yourself or having an argument with yourself in your head (like you do in the shower) works quite well too. (some of the smartest people in history would talk to themselves, so while some people see it as crazy, it's not really. Just do it when you're alone or just do it in your head)
@Pavel Loginov What about babies? What about deaf people? What if you were locked in a cage and fed though a tube from birth? Then you would not have an internal monologue.
I’ve got strong feelings about this topic, but I don’t think I can express them. I know what I think about it, but I don’t think I can explain it. So, uh, nice video.
As you read this, you are holding the access to vast knowledge in your hand. At 81 years, I appreciate this. A shame that the young squander it’s potential.
1. Recall: spend 1min recalling the key points after each section 2. Feyman: write an explanation for a 5 year old (use analogies) 3. Spaced repetition (muscle/neuro pathways)
Amazing, this is why the BIBLE says I must meditate on God's word day and night.!! I will be spending more time thinking of one verse at a time.. To have the humility before God and await for revelation from God. To diligently seek and wait upon God is pleasing to Him, to obey His commands. Thanks
Listened to this 8 times in a row while cleaning the house. Can’t recall a damn thing about it, but I’ve now got a very strong view on it that I can’t explain.
It’s about grades, and stats and status of the school. But people know this so should be responsible enough to do the work for their children to fill in these gaps. Schools aren’t perfect.
We are trapped inside of the moldy standards of schools in particular and of society in general. But that doesn't mean we can't learn to become what we want, how we want to approach the core matter of the problems. Even though I completely agree with you about the shallow methods schools are applying, what you are saying above is external locus of control, you put schools in the controlling position, think that it's the roots of everything happening in your life, affects how our minds even, which means you are reliant on it. Your argument is that schools make us learn less effectively, that's the truth to some cases, but if it's not effective learning the way schools make us do and you are reliant on schools, doesn't that mean you are putting yourself in a dangerous position? Believe that you are the roots of things occuring in your life, being in charge, you will acknowledge the fact that you are the master of your life and you can turn the table no matter where you are right now in life.
I used the technique taught in this video for this video and I think I understand the concept after recalling and rethinking it. I am going to relisten a few more times and think of a way I could teach this to my former self. Ps. I felt what it really feels like to learn something and apply it rather then only see it and let my ego justify how I've got it. Great video! 🔥
Man, I think this is an important video. I spend a lot of time multitasking thinking I'm being productive and now I lament all the time I wasted and all the things I've half learned. Looking forward to trying these strategies out, hope they work.
Man, I can't believe you're calling me out like this but I love it. I met someone who still remembered things like quick division & all I could think was, "how in the world does she still remember that?"
Woah, this video is so spot on, I can't even express how much I can relate. It feels like it always was a present problem, but I couldn't recognize it. I can literally spend hours and days watching TH-cam, getting so many 'valuable information', but at the end of the day, I can't remember shit. If you think, the internet really destroys your attention span, with these dopamine injections, I always find myself getting distracted very easily, having a couple of tabs opened, hopping from one to another. I checked Facebook like 3 times while watching this video, scrolled through the whole suggestion bar, even though it is very interesting and new topic to me, but still couldn't control my attention at all. And the scariest thing - it creates an illusion like I'm progressing and learning, but in fact, in the best scenario, I can only recall the idea, not actually explain how it works and why. It feels like you need to train your ability to resist and not to be tricked to clickbait. And also always have an intention and consciously think through before clicking on something.
I feel your pain sir, I'm an overthinker. To know anything I can throw most of a day away in the effort. While I was listening to this video I mused to myself that you probably come back to your video over and over to reference the information about knowing things 😁 Thank you for the video.
This just made my day. I have learned the course "Learning how to learn" and thanks to your video I have been reminded of essential key points. Now I will close my eyes and recall what you just said:)))))
This is so true! After watching or reading something and someone asked me to apply what I learn to a diff context I probably wouldn't be able to. PROBLEM: We're informed but we're not competent/fully understand it. We trick ourselves into thinking we know what we just read or watch (illusions of competence) but in reality, when someone asks us to explain or give our opinion/argument against it we can't. (+1 on seeing/hearing someone come to a conclusion doesn't mean you know how to get to that conclusion or explain their argument.) This is the diff between informed vs comprehension. Someone who's informed says "I know what it is, but I can't explain it" versus someone who comprehends says "I'll explain it to you as if you're 5 years old." SOLUTION: 1.get rid of: distractions, multitask and avoid information overload. 2. Let's use the litmus test of understanding to being able to explain it to 5 years old. After watching or reading, pause, and try to recall what you just learn and ask yourself does this make sense? can I make a connection to something I already know? This helps to grow dendrite connections.
I feel that some people may know something but do not know how to articulate it or convey it properly. There is also the anxiety that the pressure of "performing" when confronted with it in a social setting. Many times people leave a situation totally recalling valid points and thoughts afterwards. I don't think it it always applies but its something that this video left out. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed watching this video.
What’s funny is that I watched this video hoping it would help me retain things better. Then I discovered I had already liked and favorited this video years ago... I know nothing.
This video came to me as a direct call to action. I've been thinking about how to improve the way I study and to understand better and more deeply the ton of content I have to have assimilated for my finals in a few weeks. It seemed impossible. This video reminded me how loaded with junk I get my brain while I study (music, cellphone next to me, etc) and how obvious is now the reason why I feel I will never remember anything I'm reading. I am not engaging with the content. As a response, this will be the last video and piece of media I will consume while I study. Great video, like all the others. I'm glad I found your channel.
I think I might have learned this stuff years ago somewhere else. The best part about knowing how the memory works, and detaching from biases can help actually learning. Learning the same thing helps strengthen your knowledge of it
Edit: I think I now have complete, utter understanding of this topic, thanks youtube! But for real: thought provoking as allways, will come back to this over periods of time
When the student's ready , the master appears . A timely video for myself in a time of need . I have my electrical exams next week and was struggling to retain certain pockets of information . This should make the difference. Thank you
Feynman technique simplified: 1. Take something you didn't understand 2. Explain what you know 3. Relearn if you don't know something. 4. Simplify it. *I'm awesome* oh wait that's an illusion..
Interesting to hear that there is a name for my learning technique. My mother taught me that you know you understand something when you can explain it to someone else. Now I know that's called the Feynman technique. I've always done this. When I was in school, studying for something and even now that I'm in university, I still call up my mom and explain whatever advanced mathematics concept I'm learning to her, so I can be sure I understand it myself.
I just got done explaining this video to my mom lol. I've recently come to grapple with the reality that I've committed very little (if anything) to long-term memory. I really am a "mindless consumer of data". I used to explain it away as having phenomenal short-term memory at the expense of my long-term memory, but it's time I started learning what I'm paying exorbitantly for.
TO SUM IT UP, *JUST REMEMBER THIS* : *The Four Stages of Learning* *1) Unconscious Incompetence.* *2) Conscious Incompetence.* *3) Conscious Competence.* *4) Unconscious Competence.*
Theory: People don't notice they are forgetting (things so easily) THUS people don't value the act of reviewing and re-watching because they forget that they can forgetting.
Yeah I practice zen buddhism and I have watched alot of vids countless times and i always find somthing i missed. I think it's silly to think that someone can expect to understand and appreciate anything they read or listen to unless they go over it multiple times.
There is a rule when doing public speaking to get the audience to retain more of the speech and it goes like this. "Tell them what your going to tell them. Then tell them. Then tell them what you just told them."
Recall: There are two types of memory , short term and long term , understanding lies in long term , and to reach to that part it has to go through short term and a phase working memory in which the information is quickly vanishes , if information survives in this part it'll make it to long term memory and to do it there are several techniques first technique is to whenever you do some learning do it in parts, don't try to overwhelm yourself by reading 2 pages if you can't recall them , the main thing to do is to recall it by closing the book and telling to your brain what you have read about and if you can't recall it just read it again with focus and you will see that now you can recall it , repeat this process over and over again with the content you consume daily , due to large stream of informations , it is impossible for our brain to focus that results in no grasp over any single information, so the best thing to do is to switch your phone off (unless you are consuming content on it xd ) and get rid of all t e distractions when you are consuming content, Now after this , here comes the second technique called feymann technique , in which you try to write down the explanation of what you have learned , and if you can not write an explanation of it, go back to the source and again try to repeat the process of recalling, and after you are successful in writing that explanation , simplify it down and get rid of difficult terms. Now you have to make analogies of this simpler version of your explanation , which means you have to implement in such a way that whenever you see or recall that analogy , the whole topic comes in to your mind, that's the goal of it. Now after this you will have pretty solid knowledge and to solidify it more you HAVE to make a schedule of a month, in which you re read the same damn book after three days and when the month is about to end, CRUSH it for 3 THREE consecutive days and now you know that you have become a better version of yourself. Thanks for reading this so far, i hope that i have summarized the video in a good manner as my practice of feymann technique xd, Cheers
What I've also learned is when you learn a new concept, play it through in your mind with examples, at least two different ones, no matter how superfluous it seems, just to build some associations.
One thing to note is if you learn something using these techniques or any other, but you don’t use that information by it self or in relation to other things you will, sooner or later, forget it
I literally have to relearn everything that i've learned when learning something new because i end up forgetting and its frustrating because it feels like ive made no progress...
Well, like the video said, part of learning is re-learning until its imbeded into your long term memory. You'remaking progress even when it doesn't feel like it.
I have a PhD in chemistry. I can't explain how to break a simple aldehyde or perform simple substitution or elimination reactions and those things are super basic. I can do them practically and see it in my had but fuck if I can explain it to people. I'm 30 and I've forgot more terminology than most people learn. How do you think that makes me feel? I can do things very well but I suck at explaining.
2:25 packaged info - dn really let people "make up your own mind" at all. Lets explain your own ( not influenced ) 3:00 I know my life would be fuller... 4:40 bottle neck - ( Whats lost - exiled - too much) 7:11 Recall - Practice - post session - practice with review and recall 8:00 What do you want to understand - Simply - 8:54 Spaced Repetition 10:00 What to do If youu want to understand something (Self) long term. -review your key notes( the quality insights) daily < weekl
I have a disability where if someone teaches me the first time I will forget everything the next day. That's when everyone judges or ppl get mad at me because I than forget. I need constant repitition to understand a thing
Thank you for this wonderful video! There's so much real wisdom packed into thirteen minutes here. I _feel_ like I understood it all, but it's obviously going to take a rewatch or two and some recall to really get the most from what you said.
Most videos like this never give me a bit of information which is not common sense. This video however was perfectly made, and I learned a lot. So thank you!
So I'm an artist, I do art, draw, and other things The one major concept that hits hard to me was the 'Spaced Repetition' and specifically "Spaced" because I tried to practice a lot and study the human anatomy that I draw every night, and because I was repeating things over and over again, I've gotten better BUT It led to me being burnt out because I didn't add spaces to those practices and didn't take a break from it If you wanna learn something quickly and in an efficient way, don't just repeat it over and over again, tale a break from the topic for a day or two and it will be better
This is really a great video! It proceeds in a way that anticipates every single one of my questions and answers them in a clear and to the point manner. Thanks!
Summery Read- focus on direct source Recall- practice remembering the information without the source material Feynman technique- Build schemes to integrate the information until you can explain it to a child. Great video. And I like to think this comment helps me better learn from this video.
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Great Video!
Yayyyyy recognition for my man willbo swaggins
Lol
In a nutshell awesome video
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"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
-Epictetus
And close to impossible for someone to deny that which he formerly believed to be true.
Oh so wise
Happening to me right now
Damn Greeks! - they’re everywhere...
That's deep
What's scary is finding this video for the "first time" and seeing it's already liked......
😂😂😂😂
This was the 5000th video lol
You forgot you saw it
Oh shoot, me too…
I came here for a learning tip, came out with a new approach to life.
@Amna Abbas same
This comment is underrated. 100% agree with you
I’m prepared to change
Oh, I beg to second that please... 🙂
Literally same !!
I can’t believe this video is 4 years old & I’m just now seeing it. This resonates so highly with me & is by far the best video hands down that I’ve ever come across! My understanding has been transcended! Thank you 🙏
"I have a big brain"
"Does that mean you're smarter?"
"No, I'm stupid faster."
😂😂
Lol
Shen is a genius
Lmao
I don't comment often, but when I do... That shit was hilarious.
"I tricked myself into thinking I was competent" story of my life
If you push that far enough, you could have a promising career in politics.
Story of 99.9% of our lives I think
You were competent enough to comment!
same 😢
@@slappy8941 or any other job where you have to be socially competent (just keep talking like you know all about it XD)
Excellent video. It affected me in a positive way, to realize even more how much damage social media are causing to our brains. An addiction for brain destruction.
"Tell me and I'll forget,
Show me and I'll remember,
Involve me and I'll learn."
A useful quote for all, especially anyone who has to plan lessons or training.
I like that
"Tell me and I'll forget,
Show me and I'll remember,
Involve me and I'll learn."
Yes. Case in point: Once long ago a was in a graduate-level seminar class. We were each given complex topics to research and present to the rest of the class. After each presentation we would discuss and ask questions, which the presenter (at least in theory) could answer. Fast forward to exam time... We answered questions about all the topics discussed, and there was also a list of questions, from which we chose one to present an argument about. That one answer was 30% of the exam grade. Luckily, one of the choices involved my class presentation topic! I confidently wrote my argument, because that was the topic I knew inside and out, though it had been weeks since I presented it. I had a hard time with recalling enough about the other presentations to answer any of the other questions. Thanks to this video, I now know how remedy that kind of situation! :D
@@coachian.m
"Tell me and I'll forget,
Show me and I'll remember,
Involve me and I'll learn.
Wish all teachers implemented this into their classrooms
Some advice for learning
1. Recall within the first 30 seconds of learning something
2. Feymann technique, use what you have learned so you can express it to a 5 year old
3. Use mental repetition, your brain is a muscle, use your time wisely to wire your neurones to be able to effectively remember max capacity.
Some extra tips
- Don’t try to focus on many things, just one
- Don’t try remember everything, understand the use of Quality information over quantity
- Develop intellectual humility. Understand and detach from your perspectives to learn others to gain a better understanding.
-> fight/argument to find peace
Thank you so much @OTIUM
This is an insecurity that has plagued me for years. You're brave for sharing your downfalls. Thank you.
Enormous. Anxiety added. I’m trying this from tomorrow. How’s your training going on?
@@FredrickTalks I haven't practiced jackshit actually.
Moh K oh man ! Haha I hope this works out. Imma come back here after a month. Let’s see if things change. Quite inspirational actually.
@@FredrickTalks I kinda forgot what tips the video gave, so I'll have to check it out again.
In my own experience, the best advice I can give is to be open and honest about your lack of comprehension, and take initiative to refresh your memory when needed. And also, all my important thoughts live in a notepad. The most simple shit. I'll stop people and pull out my notebook, even if they say it's not necessary. It is necessary cause I will fucking forget everything.
Moh K 😂hell yeah.
I’m a Nigerian by nationality, and every time I read, I always want to understand the content at one go without repetition or rereading. However, I found out that it doesn’t work for me. For me to be able to retain whatever contents I had read in the past, I need to enagage in repetition, as it aids in retaining what had been read and gives a huge understanding of it. And, for one to be able to achieve this, more time needs to be spent on reading and more meditations need to be done on what has been read for the sake of remembrance. THIS IS, INDEED, HELPFUL. Thanks for the hints, sir.
This video really speaks to a problem I’ve been having; feeling like good ideas and information are “slipping away” despite countless meetings, discussions and brainstorming sessions. I remember HAVING good ideas to advance my life but they never “stick” and I’m left puzzled as to why nothing has changed.
This got me thinking about using force of will to try and commit the best ideas to long-term memory instead of assuming my brain can act in my own best interest automatically. Thank you!
That's a very good method (at least for me). I've hung on to notes for almost all of my college courses and other online courses. When I go back and re-read them in my own words, I'm surprised by how much I can recall on the subject. I use those same notes to fill in holes that I can't remember. This is what I use to refresh information when I get ready for something like a job interview.
i feel exactly the same. sometimes when i mediated on simple ideas they turn to awesome ideas that make me feel really good and hopeful for my future only to then when i sit to "work" my mind is emptier than my coffee machine lol
One way to fix that is to start writing when an idea comes up or tought
You might like the tree-leaf method. Simply speaking if you got a list of the countries in Europe you woudln't remember them. If you got a map of Europe and an article for each country grouped into those close to eachother then you would forget most of the detailed content in the article describing each country (leaf knowledge) but you would more likely remember the names of the countries. (branch knowledge) or the spesific groups of countries. Basically it's harder to forget the words that name large sets of subknowledge. Even harder to forget the words that name sets of sets of subknowledge.
Ben Briggs,
Could you give some examples of those ideas that "are slipping away"?
Depending on what idea you mean, it maybe the case that those ideas "are slipping away" because they are "built" on originally wrong premises/fundamentals... Example: trying to fix economic problems by using tools built on fundamentally wrong "economic" dogma (today's catch 22).
P.S.
Wish more details on what I wrote here, let me know, I'll provide links to few TH-cam videos/presentations/documentaries that explain it more thoroughly.
7:05
1. Recall - after you read it - look away from material and try recall it
2. Feynman Technique - explain it to a 5 year old
3. Spaced Repetition - repeat for more myelination
- Prioritize the essential - “Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do,
not keep up with every damn thing in the world.”
You did it buddy :)
kudos for being a helpful person......respect
I Appreciate the summary man.
Thanks ; )
:)
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This, and your video on The Attention Economy should be required viewing for everyone who spends a lot of time on the internet. I think I struggle with wanting to be great at everything, knowledgeable on every subject, but there's just not enough time in the day to be amazing at everything. Man, I'll have to revisit this video many more times, thanks for this Will.
There is much wisdom in the proverb: ‘he who grasps at too much loses everything’.
Don't worry mate i feel the same way. Theres just not enough time to learn everything. I have that feeling all the time when i start reading a book of biology or physics or psychology.
I know the feeling all to well, it's almost overwhelming. So much choice so little time :'(
Same! Don't know what to do so much to study but no time, I want to become like toppers good at everything and more intelligent than them.
Film Radar I feel relieved knowing that I'm not the only one who wants to know everything, and fails to do so because of our nature and way of doing things, and that is trying to learn as much as possible in the shortest period of time possible.
I think we should really be patient and follow this guy's advice, that we can never know everything and that we need to learn with quality, patiently over time we will gain the knowledge we strive for.
Thanks! It's easy to feel alone and isolated with memory challenges. Great to know everyone struggles with the same thing.
So I have to watch the video again... SWEET
Not necessarily. One must use active recall to see how much they could remember after watching the video. That way, they could build a stronger neuronal connection in the brain.
Knosis You right but one must also use the Feynman Technique to fill in the gaps of knowledge *watches video for a 5th time*
@@sirjuke9j yeah this video is amazing. Watch it as many times. But I can tell you: the book by Barbara Oakley I read it 3 times and have no regret (A mind for number on learning how to learn).
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@@DanyIsDeadChannel313 +1 for the book: A mind for numbers: How to excel at math and science , by Barbara Oakley
Little cheat sheet for myself in a simple manner:
Focus on 1 thing
Look away and think about it
Write out a way of teaching it to someone else in a simple manner
Redo, relearn, practice thought
This is my pre video preview to prepare so that I can remember it better. Ok, now to watch the video.
Why does everyone here fail to comprehend the difference between knowing something and understanding it? Have you never been taught the words: knowledge and understanding? Do they seem as synonyms to you? They literally differentiate between what you do normally and what you call a cheat. Its not a cheat. Its literally what we call understanding something. To know something but not be able to comprehend from whence it comes, is not to understand something. That is to know something. Literally 'know something' was the given, should we really be surprised that it is thus the conclusion? No. If you know something you know something. Just because you know something doesn't mean you understand it. Knowledge is data. Understanding is grasping the dynamics (elements and their relations) that give rise to all computable data. Are kids in school really this intellectually impoverished?
@@pamlemm903 Until you understand something, you can not know it. Rather, you either believe it (a sucker), or are considering/evaluating it (one trained in the intellectual self-defense arts).
This entire Money Power Monopolists Empire system sits on a foundation of appeal to authority logical fallacy where the debt-based money serfs believe they know what they are told without actually understanding it.
@@wellnesspathforme6236 what are you taking about? You're not really speaking in the scientific sense. What about a data point? If I say: a measurement of 84 degrees Kelvin.
You can't know what the measurement was?
Obviously you can. So I can't agree with your assertion that you can't know something unless you understand it.
But do you understand 84 degrees Kelvin? No. Understanding 84° is not possible because you don't even have established premises to articulate a sense of context. You can know it. It is 84° Kelvin. Just as you and I can and do know it since I introduced its existence and identity.
But where it comes from is a matter of understanding. Understanding being the comprehension of elements and their relationships between them in any given context.
@@pamlemm903 The scientific method is curiosity plus a subset algorithm of the trivium method of intellectual self-defense.
If you told that to an alien in a thought experiment, would you expect the alien to know what you were talking about in your language? It would seem they have some logically assembling of relevant data to do (language, temperature definitions), right?
Is the point more clear now?
You do bring up a good point -- there are different levels of understanding. For example, you can understand something in a very real way, or you can understand something in an abstract way with no real world experience -- and those are two very different levels of understanding.
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The Trivium Method of Intellectual Self-Defense -- schoolsucksproject.com/tag/gene-odening/
Logical Fallacy Free Applied Logic -- www.triviumeducation.com/logic/
Note: there is a WAR on the plain meaning of "appeal to authority" logical fallacy because the Empire wants you to implicitly believe (ie, worship) their "authorities'" UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS.
Any authority, whether fake or real, who claims something is true because s/he said it was true is utilizing an "appeal to authority" logical fallacy. PERIOD.
Real knowledge is the result of logically assembled relevant grammar that is free of both contradictions and logical fallacy dependence.
The two biggest logical fallacies that are used to program the unwitting minds of the masses are 1. appeal to authority, and 2. appeal to popularity (popular opinion being formed primarily via appeal to authority, so they are related).
Caveat emptor!
Gatto Vignettes Courtesy of School Sucks Podcast -- schoolsucksproject.com/john-taylor-gatto/
Underground History Lesson With John Taylor Gatto - AMAZING! 5 Hour Interview! -- th-cam.com/video/uj8f7ycnUtU/w-d-xo.html
This is really relevant to me. I’ve been over-learning to feed my craving for knowledge, but I’m not really as smart as I think I am. Thanks for the great video!
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If your not as smart as you think you are dont you enter a loop in which you are exponentially stupid?
@@probablyryan8151 you figured it out
@@probablyryan8151 whoa
I'm still in the process of denying it and I plan to do so forever.
Dude this is one of those rare masterpiece o youtube. The high quality editing to transmit the words and ideas your are tryingto make people understand.. just great man. Thank you so much for all that work.
On top of that the 3 techniques given in it are actually reall really useful. I've used the look away and recall quickly what you just read, along with teaching it to somebody asap with great success, definitly increased my retension and mastery about subjects I was learning at a time.
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself"
- Albert Einstein
Its feymann quote
Is it actually true tho?
@Aliyan ✪ in my basement. There's a lot to choose from ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Good luck explaining special relativity to a six year old
@@Telltaletracks XDDD
The worst thing is that, when you’re in school/university, you have no choice but to follow a lot of tasks all together........maybe you’d like to spend a little more time on a particular subject to understand it fully but if you get showered with new tasks you need to get done, here comes the “cram everything into your brain” system.
I'm late but if it helps, that's where you can slip in techniques of active learning techniques while taking advantage of efficiency for stuff you don't really have an interest in knowing further. So for example, I use active learning whenever I can like in class when taking notes, I take notes as active as I can like it's a part of learning (repeating or summarizing) and help for later repetition/revision. Also making sure I know the outline/direction/main points and important points of the lesson by underlining them as the teacher usually points out while explaining so I can understand and apply the basics more. Some people can actually understand the lesson straight off and they apply it in class or to everyday life when the thing studied about occurs (they use it in jokes or learn more about it through analysis and further inquiry)
I do still do cramming lol but active learning reaps benefits for those no-time-to-even-review or so-much-inbetween-the-lines analytical tests and even after the tests so I prefer to do it if I can
@@rosesforhanjisung4161 thank-you so much your comment was helpful to me 😊
@@gogoplu aw ofc, you're welcome, really glad it helps 💫☺️
@Imran A That's a bit too harsh i think. Not everyone is born as an autodidact and able to learn alone (yet efficiently). There are a lot of different people out there with various perceptions, abilities, backgrounds, etc.. Some learn better alone and at their own pace, some might not even start to learn given such a free environment, both might be equal able to understand the same topic. Some might just need to sit in a big lecture hall and their brain will start getting focused, others will get tired. We should have room for different learning types and paces.
@Ren This is referred to as "sausage stuffing" in Swedish. I think we need sausage stuffing in school. It's forcing people to learn and remember. It can be quite painful though.
I think the school should encourage students to search for deeper knowledge and understanding. But most people aren't like that. They just want to memorize the basic facts and get on with it.
While I don't think the education system that we discuss is perfect... I do think that there are just a shit-ton of boring stuff you need to learn. This needs to be prioritized. Once you've done that, you can choose what you want to master. This thinking should be applied on both a micro level (task-to-task; easy and hars questions) and macro level (the individual educational career and intellectual life; boring stuff in ground school, more fucused in uni) and everything in between (e.g. paper-writing at the end each terms.)
If you're really into learning, you can recapitulate the things you've learned, on the summer vacation and on free time.
Recall: 7:10
Feynman: 7:50
Spaced repetition: 8:50
Thaaaaaaaanks
thanks man!
I hope you all watch the whole video though.
Thanks so much.. he took 7 minutes to get to the point OMG!!!
@@MsCreativePurpose Why would you blindly follow techniques without providing reasoning for them, which is what the 7 minutes are about.
This was really useful. I have been constantly suffering from information retention. The methods explained in the video can be a bit difficult for me as I get distracted very easily.. but I'll definitely try it out. Thank you!
I don't get it. How do you suffer from information retention? Isn't it a good thing?
@@augusto9012you can have bad or good information retention
"I cannot remember the books I've read more than the meals I've eaten, even so they have made me". -Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Very brilliant
Definitely a popular quote when responding to the inability of remembering the details of past experiences (books here). While I share my sympathy with what it points out, it is hard to confirm by any measure. I'd love to know if someone has unpacked it at a deeper level. Does anyone have some good links for me?
Me too, I always forgot things I'd learned. I have really bad memory and I have no way to prevent this, even I tried very hard to hold it, my memory still "volatile" away.
Well said.
This is an amazing quote!
These are some tips, they work for me. Maybe not for everyone. I've been reading a book a month so far this year (well I've made it to 6 books so far).
1. Mark up your books, take notes in the margins or underline/highlight things that stick out to you.
2. Stop reading and contemplate parts that you feel are important to you. Or are pivotal moments in the story.
3. Try to relate those pivotal moments to current events or state of affairs going on. Compare them to your own personal experience.
4. Takes notes on any profound thoughts you had while reading a chapter. Usually when chapters end, they only take up 1/4 or 1/2 of the page. Write a quick summary of that chapter on the blank part of that page.
5. Once you are done reading, immediately take out a notebook or open up Word, and write your opinions on what you read, while it's still fresh. Doesn't have to be anything fancy or written like a college report. Just WRITE!
The last step has helped me immensely. I've made a folder and have written a short report (around 1000 words per book) and have gone back occasionally to add notes here and there from just thinking about the story weeks later. Or when talking to friends who have read the book as well, and made connections and critiques I hadn't thought of. This is a good skill to develop. It's help with listening, critical thinking and helps your writing. Win, win, win.
Hope This Helps!
Edit: Thank you for the wonderful responses. Yes, these are tips for beginners. I've noticed this method eventually bleeds over to mentally taking notes. Eventually you won't have to do EVERY step, but it builds the "muscle memory" in your brain to help with retaining information later on.
thanks for sharing intelligent experience
That's awesome thanks for the insight. Let me try some of the things you are doing.
@Jt Hendrix Yes, intelligent people that want to be erudite read books.
If you want to bag my groceries or work at Mcdonalds for the rest of your life and hang out with weed-smoking dopeheads -- Go ahead.
Some people actually pursue meaning in life and want to be the best they can be.
This definitely helps. A lot I do already but it's great to have them echoed back. Reinforces my practice. And I really hope to write, so your last paragraph gave me hopeful joy.
Why don't you read only what you currently need instead of artificially creating demand for the knowledge presented? I mean, you don't read a book about stoicism when you want to know how to use a welding machine.
I’ve struggled with autism my entire life, but Come to realize that it has helped me greatly with schematizing. I’m so hyper focused on 1 thing. When I learn something I feel like I can remember and generate it fully in conversation. It just takes getting over my trouble with social situations to be able to share it.
I became hyper focused on social skills and human behavior. I made my weakness a strength.
Autism has it's good sides too. But the social anxiety disorder associated with autism is bringing people down.
@uhh like uhh uhhhh true
@uhh like uhh uhhhh bro what, if anything they are the next line in the modern human. Look at all the research at how autistic brains process intellectual material in different ways then "normal" brains
My best friend (really he's a brother) has ASD (extremely high functioning).
He's the exact same way. I've always told him that I genuinely believe that it's one of his greatest strengths, that he can hyper-focus so diligently on one thing. In fact, it's a trait that I envy! 😂
I met him when I was 14 and he was 18, and we're 34 and 38 respectively now, and I actually also function as his main professional support now too (along with my fiancee).
If I'm being honest, I've come to rely on his ability to recall specific details, and not just on complex topics.
I have so much going on in life that it's been harder and harder to keep some things in order in my memory nowadays (not in a really bad way, just as a function of getting older and having more on my plate so-to-speak). He's with my 90% of the time, and so I just naturally began recruiting his help in remembering things I'd forget, and he seems to appreciate that I rely on him for that. I'm glad for that, as he's the type who derives significant joy from being able to help people or be the thing that solved a problem for them or things of that nature.
Anyways, thanks for sharing your input. I thought I'd throw my experience in there too, since it's relevant.
And I’m sat here listening at 2x speed whilst cooking a meal
Your mind is NOT a computer, your mind is a muscle, so don't trust your memory!
If you want something to get into your long-term memory instead of the short one, see if you can explain to yourself or someone the information you just acquired. If you cannot do, it simply means that you do not know it, so go again and re-watch or read it until you can explain it and it makes sense. We said the mind is a muscle so the more you learn, the more you learn.
Quit multitasking and remove distractions so you can focus on quality over quantity.
What i also do is, i use post-it notes, i write the very important things that i bump into through my day and i still stick them on my wall in my bedroom or somewhere around my desk so i can see them and read them often. They motivate me, they show to me that i am serious and i keep going to reach my goals. If you read this coment - Be Lengedary !
Your mind is not a computer, your mind is a muscle, so don't trust your computer!!!
Incorrect. The mind is a computer that corrupts all files everytime you recall them into your working memory. The prefrontal cortex very much functions like a google search bar but our neural connections are like muscles in that the more we use them, the deeper the pathways are deepened so to speak. I suppose the brain works with both analogies.
Ok what are some subjects I should study?
Срасибо :)
awesome,thank you for trans it into words
Good video. I have often taught that "Repetition is the MOTHER of Learning". Your points about Recall, Feynman, and Spaced Repetition, all speak to that. I also appreciated your closing comments; especially "Life isn't a Book Report".
ANKI
Can't believe that you my sir, are here too! Well, we all need to gain knowledge & explore new things, there's nothing wrong with it.
@@vishwajeetparadva8720 Hello V.P. Yes. I do what i can to remain an eternal student. It helps to always relate to the issues my viewers are dealing with. Thanks for posting your comment.
nice, thanks a lot mr. Matt
omg i watched that "how to absorb textbooks like sponge" it's rlly good
As someone who loves to read, to learn as much as possible, I sympathize with this video a lot. It's so frustrating when I forget things that I thought I knew very well! Great video!
I have always naturally absorbed information & then imagined explaining it to someone else. It ALWAYS results in better understand & usually produces new insights. If I’m creating something, the act of explaining it, & explaining why i think something simpler won’t work, often allows me to discover how to MAKE it work.
You're telling me the 30-second ads between the videos i watch finally have a good purpose for my learning? This is the best news, man.
Half full
Hahaha
But if you keep atention to the ads you'll forget the info of the video.
Mute the ads and look away.
Or just get TH-cam Red ... Can't believe people still deal with ads😱
This is one of the most valuable videos on youtube.
The problem is that I want to learn EVERYTHING. I think you are right, we need to focus on one thing to make the best of it.
I'm just beginning to self-learn math and physics. And after half a lifetime of various issues, this is amazing advice. I spent the past day learning about Feynman! And as an ex-psychology major, I just want to say thank you so much!
I'm doing the same but can't remember anything 😕
A Masterpiece in its own right.
I was like "Its the video that I was searching for the entire time!!".
Fantastically precise and concise and beautiful mix of great quotes by some of the best people. Truly hats off!! Can't thank enough.
Feynman’s technique is: studying the thing you want to learn, then summarizing it as if you wanted to teach it to someone. Where you get stuck trying to explain it, you go back to learning about the subject to fill in the gaps in your knowledge! After you write down your explanation, eliminate things that are hard to understand until the final product could be explained to a child. This works because by explaining a complex topic simply, you know that you understand it and if you haven’t already committed the subject to long-term memory (by recalling the information later) you can repeat the process to solidify the memory, perhaps with spaced repetition.
Now the challenge is coming back to this tomorrow or next week to study what was already learned and maybe learn some more to study later.
now, that is the best news yet and you did not have to make a video. thanks shaun.
It’s a good feeling filling in those gaps as it just happened reading your comment 😂🧩🤯
This feels like a tutorial on life.
th-cam.com/video/b9FunEkhTNo/w-d-xo.html
Kinda wish I saw this tutorial when I first spawned
The best video I’ve watched in weeks. Thank you so much for showing us these techniques, I’ll now stop looking everywhere but focusing on one thing at a time and learn it forever
*Watches the video*
Sometime later...
"What was that video about again?"
Rio Manson-Hay “Have I watched this video before?”
Story of my life 😌
I'm really grateful for this video.
The notion of not really remembering thus not even processing or understanding all the information I try to consume has bothered me for a while, and this will definitely be something I use to improve my ability to learn, both in the reminder this is a widespread problem and the tools you provide in the video. So thanks :)
"...our bias towards novelty is strong, and forces us towards the trivial, rather than the essential."
Felt that.🖤❤️
my summary of memory techniques:
1. Recall - after you read it - look away from material and try recall it
2. Feynman Technique - explain it to a 5 year old
3. Spaced Repetition - repeat for more myelination
also do remeber too look away and remeber any information you have just taken in.
spending little as 30 seconds or less going over the main points will help you vastly understand it better after you watch some educationial videos and convert it into long term memory. the feynman technique is basicially chosing something you want to understand and write out an explanation of it as if it a person did not know the subject. it is also whenever you stuck go back to the material and re learn it then after you should be able to write about it without using the material source, simplify it by removing the technical wording, so that a child could get what your teaching. analogies connect complex idea with something more relatable. the spaced repetion is exactly what i know it is. focusing one thing at a time in learning would make it easier.
Thanks Will. I now know everything I need to know about how I don't really know what I think I know.
- is what I believe but I cannot really tell you why...
This comment is golden :D
@payton But how do you know you know this? Rewatch the video, recall it, rewatch it recall it.
"Our brain is made to take 1 task at a time"
*Hold my ADHD.*
Davide Uguccioni Tell that to computer programmers.
lollll made me laugh so hard
@@tenminutetokyo2643 wat. Tell it to people who are the most knowledgeable and proficient at the epitome (computer duh) of literally switching between single tasks sequentially to make illusion of multitasking. (Yes, I'm aware of multiple cores of processor, they still perform single tasks at a time)
@@tenminutetokyo2643 I have ADHD and I'm learning programming just now. Kill me.
Adhd is fake
I love the level of self awareness your videos have. Great work!
Psychodelic Fat Dude Thank you, thank you!
The irony of the title and video is stellar.
The entire video stresses not to try & learn everything, but instead prioritize, quality over quantity, depth over breadth, slow and steady over fast, single-tasking over multitasking, master of one, instead of a jack of all trades, and so on.
This is made for me.
Been reading Mortimer Adler for years now. _How to Read a Book_ is a must read if you're a serious reader or learner.
Agreed!
How to read a book
@DrumWild funny
Great Reading. Loved It & Enjoyed it.
@DrumWild for real. Did you read or learn from said high light
8:20 I don't think you even need to write it down. I've found just speaking out loud to yourself or having an argument with yourself in your head (like you do in the shower) works quite well too.
(some of the smartest people in history would talk to themselves, so while some people see it as crazy, it's not really. Just do it when you're alone or just do it in your head)
@Pavel Loginov Doctor: "Do you hear voices in your head?"
Inner voice whispers: "tell him you don't"
Patient: "No, I don't"
@Pavel Loginov What about babies? What about deaf people? What if you were locked in a cage and fed though a tube from birth? Then you would not have an internal monologue.
Talking to yourself because you are your own consulant, nice!
This is.totally true, I do this orally and I didnt realize until now.
@@alexandersantana24 same!
I’ve got strong feelings about this topic, but I don’t think I can express them. I know what I think about it, but I don’t think I can explain it.
So, uh, nice video.
VARIOUS hey, I was just talking about you.
:) Good to see you here TheSugarRay!
VARIOUS Is this like running into someone at the market? Good stuff.
Haha, I don't know, probably, but it's really cool to see a familiar face (er, profile pic?) in the crowd :)
Thats actually funny
As you read this, you are holding the access to vast knowledge in your hand. At 81 years, I appreciate this. A shame that the young squander it’s potential.
1. Recall: spend 1min recalling the key points after each section
2. Feyman: write an explanation for a 5 year old (use analogies)
3. Spaced repetition (muscle/neuro pathways)
This could be one of the most important videos one could watch in our time.
Amazing, this is why the BIBLE says I must meditate on God's word day and night.!!
I will be spending more time thinking of one verse at a time.. To have the humility before God and await for revelation from God. To diligently seek and wait upon God is pleasing to Him, to obey His commands.
Thanks
Listened to this 8 times in a row while cleaning the house. Can’t recall a damn thing about it, but I’ve now got a very strong view on it that I can’t explain.
So basically In school, we are taught to just cram information and forget, damn
:(
Its all about grades n money above the teachers
@@kimwarburton8490 good point 🤗😉😉🤗💞❣️🤗😉😉😉
It’s about grades, and stats and status of the school. But people know this so should be responsible enough to do the work for their children to fill in these gaps. Schools aren’t perfect.
You only cram if you're bad. They do repetitive learning.
We are trapped inside of the moldy standards of schools in particular and of society in general. But that doesn't mean we can't learn to become what we want, how we want to approach the core matter of the problems. Even though I completely agree with you about the shallow methods schools are applying, what you are saying above is external locus of control, you put schools in the controlling position, think that it's the roots of everything happening in your life, affects how our minds even, which means you are reliant on it. Your argument is that schools make us learn less effectively, that's the truth to some cases, but if it's not effective learning the way schools make us do and you are reliant on schools, doesn't that mean you are putting yourself in a dangerous position? Believe that you are the roots of things occuring in your life, being in charge, you will acknowledge the fact that you are the master of your life and you can turn the table no matter where you are right now in life.
Don't mind me:
✓ 3 days gap in learning something (for a whole month)
✓ Read, Recall, Repeat
✓ Write it out like how you're teaching someone
I used the technique taught in this video for this video and I think I understand the concept after recalling and rethinking it. I am going to relisten a few more times and think of a way I could teach this to my former self.
Ps. I felt what it really feels like to learn something and apply it rather then only see it and let my ego justify how I've got it. Great video! 🔥
You write like you are an alien and this is the first thing you have ever written in English
@@olliefoxx lmao
@@olliefoxx lmfaooo
@@olliefoxx rude.
@@runicthor4105 Funny white knight. Only you found it that way
The value of understanding your opponent's views cannot be overstated.
Man, I think this is an important video. I spend a lot of time multitasking thinking I'm being productive and now I lament all the time I wasted and all the things I've half learned. Looking forward to trying these strategies out, hope they work.
Man, I can't believe you're calling me out like this but I love it. I met someone who still remembered things like quick division & all I could think was, "how in the world does she still remember that?"
She uses it to budget her money...
Woah, this video is so spot on, I can't even express how much I can relate. It feels like it always was a present problem, but I couldn't recognize it. I can literally spend hours and days watching TH-cam, getting so many 'valuable information', but at the end of the day, I can't remember shit.
If you think, the internet really destroys your attention span, with these dopamine injections, I always find myself getting distracted very easily, having a couple of tabs opened, hopping from one to another. I checked Facebook like 3 times while watching this video, scrolled through the whole suggestion bar, even though it is very interesting and new topic to me, but still couldn't control my attention at all.
And the scariest thing - it creates an illusion like I'm progressing and learning, but in fact, in the best scenario, I can only recall the idea, not actually explain how it works and why.
It feels like you need to train your ability to resist and not to be tricked to clickbait. And also always have an intention and consciously think through before clicking on something.
I feel your pain sir, I'm an overthinker. To know anything I can throw most of a day away in the effort. While I was listening to this video I mused to myself that you probably come back to your video over and over to reference the information about knowing things 😁 Thank you for the video.
This just made my day. I have learned the course "Learning how to learn" and thanks to your video I have been reminded of essential key points. Now I will close my eyes and recall what you just said:)))))
This is so true! After watching or reading something and someone asked me to apply what I learn to a diff context I probably wouldn't be able to. PROBLEM: We're informed but we're not competent/fully understand it. We trick ourselves into thinking we know what we just read or watch (illusions of competence) but in reality, when someone asks us to explain or give our opinion/argument against it we can't.
(+1 on seeing/hearing someone come to a conclusion doesn't mean you know how to get to that conclusion or explain their argument.)
This is the diff between informed vs comprehension. Someone who's informed says "I know what it is, but I can't explain it" versus someone who comprehends says "I'll explain it to you as if you're 5 years old."
SOLUTION:
1.get rid of: distractions, multitask and avoid information overload.
2. Let's use the litmus test of understanding to being able to explain it to 5 years old. After watching or reading, pause, and try to recall what you just learn and ask yourself does this make sense? can I make a connection to something I already know? This helps to grow dendrite connections.
Seriously, one of the very best videos I have ever seen, and to which I can totally relate...
A huge thank you !
I feel that some people may know something but do not know how to articulate it or convey it properly. There is also the anxiety that the pressure of "performing" when confronted with it in a social setting. Many times people leave a situation totally recalling valid points and thoughts afterwards. I don't think it it always applies but its something that this video left out. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed watching this video.
What’s funny is that I watched this video hoping it would help me retain things better.
Then I discovered I had already liked and favorited this video years ago... I know nothing.
I did the techniques described in this video on this video and I need to do it again in three days.
I DID IT!!!!
Hahahaha yess!!!!
yes.
I've been using these techniques with pretty decent and consistent results recently.
This video came to me as a direct call to action. I've been thinking about how to improve the way I study and to understand better and more deeply the ton of content I have to have assimilated for my finals in a few weeks. It seemed impossible. This video reminded me how loaded with junk I get my brain while I study (music, cellphone next to me, etc) and how obvious is now the reason why I feel I will never remember anything I'm reading. I am not engaging with the content.
As a response, this will be the last video and piece of media I will consume while I study.
Great video, like all the others. I'm glad I found your channel.
I think I might have learned this stuff years ago somewhere else. The best part about knowing how the memory works, and detaching from biases can help actually learning. Learning the same thing helps strengthen your knowledge of it
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Sun Tzu
Yess new content from Will! Keep on going my man
Edit: I think I now have complete, utter understanding of this topic, thanks youtube!
But for real: thought provoking as allways, will come back to this over periods of time
I opened this video, saw that I've already liked it, that proves I've watched this video before, but couldn't recall anything.
When the student's ready , the master appears . A timely video for myself in a time of need . I have my electrical exams next week and was struggling to retain certain pockets of information . This should make the difference.
Thank you
As someone who is diagnosed with ADHD and is not keeping up much with therapy, this video was rly rly rly helpful!^^✨ thnx for the advice and tips!
Feynman technique simplified:
1. Take something you didn't understand
2. Explain what you know
3. Relearn if you don't know something.
4. Simplify it.
*I'm awesome* oh wait that's an illusion..
captain bluestar Sure.
Black Dagger
Jean Woolvet you got a problem?
Black Dagger what is smith?
you created a simplification of a method to simplify information. You are mad bro!
Congrats on 100k dude, your channel deserves it 1000%
Interesting to hear that there is a name for my learning technique. My mother taught me that you know you understand something when you can explain it to someone else. Now I know that's called the Feynman technique. I've always done this. When I was in school, studying for something and even now that I'm in university, I still call up my mom and explain whatever advanced mathematics concept I'm learning to her, so I can be sure I understand it myself.
Is that so. . .
@@antoniofuller2331 Yes?
I just got done explaining this video to my mom lol. I've recently come to grapple with the reality that I've committed very little (if anything) to long-term memory. I really am a "mindless consumer of data". I used to explain it away as having phenomenal short-term memory at the expense of my long-term memory, but it's time I started learning what I'm paying exorbitantly for.
maybe it should be called the Saylor Twift’s mom technique
@@dinofrog926 Yeah it really should.
TO SUM IT UP, *JUST REMEMBER THIS* : *The Four Stages of Learning*
*1) Unconscious Incompetence.*
*2) Conscious Incompetence.*
*3) Conscious Competence.*
*4) Unconscious Competence.*
Can you simplified it?
Surely an underrated comment :)
That was a f*cking loop.
thank you! very well put!
I don't think this summarizes the video in any way.
Theory:
People don't notice they are forgetting (things so easily) THUS people don't value the act of reviewing and re-watching
because they forget that they can forgetting.
So double think?
Hypothesis
Yeah I practice zen buddhism and I have watched alot of vids countless times and i always find somthing i missed. I think it's silly to think that someone can expect to understand and appreciate anything they read or listen to unless they go over it multiple times.
There is a rule when doing public speaking to get the audience to retain more of the speech and it goes like this.
"Tell them what your going to tell them. Then tell them. Then tell them what you just told them."
Recall: There are two types of memory , short term and long term , understanding lies in long term , and to reach to that part it has to go through short term and a phase working memory in which the information is quickly vanishes , if information survives in this part it'll make it to long term memory and to do it there are several techniques first technique is to whenever you do some learning do it in parts, don't try to overwhelm yourself by reading 2 pages if you can't recall them , the main thing to do is to recall it by closing the book and telling to your brain what you have read about and if you can't recall it just read it again with focus and you will see that now you can recall it , repeat this process over and over again with the content you consume daily , due to large stream of informations , it is impossible for our brain to focus that results in no grasp over any single information, so the best thing to do is to switch your phone off (unless you are consuming content on it xd ) and get rid of all t e distractions when you are consuming content, Now after this , here comes the second technique called feymann technique , in which you try to write down the explanation of what you have learned , and if you can not write an explanation of it, go back to the source and again try to repeat the process of recalling, and after you are successful in writing that explanation , simplify it down and get rid of difficult terms. Now you have to make analogies of this simpler version of your explanation , which means you have to implement in such a way that whenever you see or recall that analogy , the whole topic comes in to your mind, that's the goal of it. Now after this you will have pretty solid knowledge and to solidify it more you HAVE to make a schedule of a month, in which you re read the same damn book after three days and when the month is about to end, CRUSH it for 3 THREE consecutive days and now you know that you have become a better version of yourself. Thanks for reading this so far, i hope that i have summarized the video in a good manner as my practice of feymann technique xd, Cheers
What I've also learned is when you learn a new concept, play it through in your mind with examples, at least two different ones, no matter how superfluous it seems, just to build some associations.
@@ratbullkan thanks for replying
I'm happy to see the comment I made an year ago
One thing to note is if you learn something using these techniques or any other, but you don’t use that information by it self or in relation to other things you will, sooner or later, forget it
Thank you It helped.
This helped me in passing my Board Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers back in September 29, 2019. Thanks, Will!
The way you explained this things shows how thoroughly you have understood, observed, thought about, read, listened the concepts and its impacts.
I literally have to relearn everything that i've learned when learning something new because i end up forgetting and its frustrating because it feels like ive made no progress...
Well, like the video said, part of learning is re-learning until its imbeded into your long term memory. You'remaking progress even when it doesn't feel like it.
thats fkng my story dude!
It’s just spaced repetition 🤷🏻♂️
you need to apply it. Memorizing is never enough
I have a PhD in chemistry.
I can't explain how to break a simple aldehyde or perform simple substitution or elimination reactions and those things are super basic. I can do them practically and see it in my had but fuck if I can explain it to people.
I'm 30 and I've forgot more terminology than most people learn. How do you think that makes me feel? I can do things very well but I suck at explaining.
2:25 packaged info - dn really let people "make up your own mind" at all. Lets explain your own ( not influenced )
3:00 I know my life would be fuller...
4:40 bottle neck - ( Whats lost - exiled - too much)
7:11 Recall - Practice - post session - practice with review and recall
8:00 What do you want to understand - Simply -
8:54 Spaced Repetition
10:00 What to do If youu want to understand something (Self) long term. -review your key notes( the quality insights) daily < weekl
I have a disability where if someone teaches me the first time I will forget everything the next day. That's when everyone judges or ppl get mad at me because I than forget. I need constant repitition to understand a thing
Relateable
You're not alone.
@Liz bth That's somewhat normal for math. "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." (John von Neumann)
Nicholas Carr is legit. His article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” was one of the best things I read in high school- and anywhere else.
Thank you for this wonderful video! There's so much real wisdom packed into thirteen minutes here. I _feel_ like I understood it all, but it's obviously going to take a rewatch or two and some recall to really get the most from what you said.
The irony is that this was stuck in my Watch Later playlist for a month lol
Most videos like this never give me a bit of information which is not common sense. This video however was perfectly made, and I learned a lot. So thank you!
So I'm an artist, I do art, draw, and other things
The one major concept that hits hard to me was the 'Spaced Repetition' and specifically "Spaced" because I tried to practice a lot and study the human anatomy that I draw every night, and because I was repeating things over and over again, I've gotten better BUT
It led to me being burnt out because I didn't add spaces to those practices and didn't take a break from it
If you wanna learn something quickly and in an efficient way, don't just repeat it over and over again, tale a break from the topic for a day or two and it will be better
This is really a great video! It proceeds in a way that anticipates every single one of my questions and answers them in a clear and to the point manner. Thanks!
I appreciate how well paced you were in speaking, it kept me engaged the entire time.
Much like your Mr Rodgers video, I’m going to watch this several times to understand it so I don’t just absorb it.
Vince2390 this video is the love child of my Attention Economy video and the Mr Rogers one
Uploads from both Will and exurb1a? Today is a good day
PlexyPanda I love that dude!
Will Schoder Same! And congrats on 100k btw! :D
Haha I thought the same thing.
I see you're a man of culture as well!
Also, that latest exurb1a video is strangely similar to Will's previous one. Same theme
This is an issue I've been facing my whole life. But I'm still very young so I still have plenty of time to fix it. Thanks for this video.
Summery
Read- focus on direct source
Recall- practice remembering the information without the source material
Feynman technique- Build schemes to integrate the information until you can explain it to a child.
Great video. And I like to think this comment helps me better learn from this video.