I started doing higher-order learning after your videos just as an experiment. It was really hard to let go of detailed notes as I was afraid that I will forget everything. But I eventually really tried to use a couple of words and mostly doodles on a mindmap and really think about connections/relationships & patterns. At first, it took me quite a lot of time but as I did more of that, my brain started getting used to this type of thinking. Long story short, I literally didn't even try that hard and definitely didn't spend lots of hours studying, and got 95/100 on my first calc midterm. So thank you, Justin, you opened a whole new world for me!
@Mindychen8 hey, I didn't have to take calc but I used it for physics. You do the same for math. Math is just concepts that you put numbers to. If you understand the concept of whatever you are learning you know what is given in a word problem is important. I believe Math tries to force you to understand this by adding things to a problem that you don't need just so you really understand what is being asked. Concept first then plug in numbers
@@maggi_taeli took the class. Taking note on freeform. As long as i write, the app get lag and lag af. Then my ipad get BOOM, i get NOOO, my mark get B 🤡🤡🤡
Pretty notes overwhelm me more, because I have a messy way of taking notes which I know works and when I'm trying to take the notes I keep thinking about how to make them pretty. The extra thought of trying to make it look nice is so much more overwhelming than the process of learning to me. The moment you accept that no one will look at your notes anyways is so freeing and they do what they need to do for you.
People did this with bullet journals. The sub reddit just ended up with people with "pretty" journals instead of actually use the bullet journal to stop procrastinating. It was ironic and idiotic.
I agree with this. Although to be fair it might be a therapeutic process to somewhat mindlessly draw or colour over things aside from making it just look “pretty”
I'm glad that I never fell onto the bullet journal and aesthetic note taking trends. I'm a graphic designer by day (+ years of experience as an artist/illustrator) and student by night yet I personally don't see the benefits of all that if you're just... taking notes. The only benefit I could think of-as someone else already pointed out-is if you're looking for something therapeutic to do AND you have a lot of time to do that, which is something not a lot of students have. Sometimes you should prioritize efficiency over aesthetic, but that's just my opinion and what works for me
I love that Justin's videos use the words "thinking" and "thought" so often. I've noticed that often people are looking for study strategies that will help them learn without having to think or make connections.
This is how I have been studying lately and it evolved naturally. I discovered this while studying (just consider it as a game and you will be able to discover the most effective and your best method)
Pretty notes always worked for me because they were a good way to keep me engaged. I would always take messy notes in class and rewrote them at home to make them pretty. It actually helped me organize my thoughts and stay interested because I’m a creative minded person with ADHD so I could never get myself to revise my notes before I started making them pleasing to the eye.
00:00:00 Obsession with pretty notes in studying influencers. 00:00:18 Top learners often have messy notes for better learning. 00:00:24 Importance of actively thinking while taking notes. 00:00:29 Writing notes aids in organizing thoughts for better retention. 00:01:33 Skipping the thinking process hinders actual learning. 00:02:33 Creating notes before understanding content is counterproductive. 00:03:00 Effective learning involves understanding, not just creating notes. 00:04:11 Messy notes reflect active thinking and deeper understanding. 00:07:00 Linear notes limit the ability to see connections and relationships. 00:09:01 Starting messy and organizing leads to effective learning.
0:17 I love seeing aesthetic notes and I’ve been inspired by them but the ones that were the most inspiring were the ones where each color/symbol etc actually had a specific meaning/function.
I've wasted so much time in the past trying to colour-code and make my notes neat when I almost never go back and actually read them. It's the process of making them that is useful for me. I love flow charts and diagrams for this reason and then become an active exercise. I do however, still like using colours as a visual aid
I usually never comment, but this video just gave me the biggest reality check. And I realize how badly i needed this. You basically described me at the beginning, I've always been the perfectionist and slowly I've realized it hasn't benefited me at all. I write pretty notes giving me the illusion that I'm being so productive and studying for hours, i used to think so closed mindedly. I've realized that what's the point of the number of hours I'm studying or the pretty notes I've made that are basically like an extract from the actual study text?? what's the point when I don't know the content thoroughly or when I haven't genuinely learned anything?? These these just make me think I'm studying when I'm actually not and just wasting my time, as you said- being a passive learner. Thank you so much, i desparately needed this reality check from someone and you couldn't explain it any better!
i think when you correct your notes many times, and think them through, you appreciate them far more! much more than having linear notes you hardly know :-)
I’ve learned that it’s best follow your brain’s curiosity and answer questions that you have and you’ll retain the information. Even if it’s different from the class you will have a stronger understanding of the concept.
The best way to take notes for me is mind mapping, Cornell method , or annotating on professors slides. I did this and was able to focus on the info and organize it
Justin Sung you are a GODSEND I'm 29 - i was exceptional in high school and terrible after it. And i've been trying to figure out why for years. And your videos have all the answers! Thank you - from the bottom of my heart.
I was the type of student who would want neat and aesthetic notes in order to study well cause im sort of a perfectionist and a neat freak but overtime I realized just writing information without actually having the time to learn it feels overwhelming and all. I was actually afraid of the mind mapping trick cause maybe I would lose track of things but Im definitely trying this new method and see if I have improvements!
Thank you so much I was struggling with this thing for a while now, I get afraid that if I don't write everything I'll end up forgetting it and missing it on exams. so I end up writing my notes for several hours and not actually studying the content I'm writing. This video came for me at the right time😇
YES! I have been doing this without even knowing it. When I encounter something new, I learn it first. Then, once I understand it enough, I begin taking notes (at school). After getting all of my thoughts out, I will come back later and rewrite the notes in a more organized manner (At home). Simply transferring your professors slides/textbook into your notebook doesn't help you much. You need to digest it first, which helps you decide what to write down, and what to not. I recommend having 2 notebooks for every class. One to brainstorm ideas, and one to write your final notes in.
I think the most important thing for me is to understand that the main purpose of studying is the organisation of the given Material in a way that makes sense to my brain. It took me a long time to get this. In some way we have to play Compiler to a foreign language. First translate the material into syntax and semantics you understand and then check if there are any Problems during runtime.
1. Consuming information 2. Track your thoughts on a mind map (organize) and think about the pieces of information you've learned to improve your memory (relationships/understanding). 3. Improve notes (redo your mind map but this time in a more organized way for relationships)
Engage your brain, use your brain when learning (don't be distracted or just writing notes for the sake for writing notes (you have to think about it)) Summary: Start messy and think about the pieces of information you've consumed, then clean it up. (It helps with memory & understanding)
This practical videos is really helpful especially in explaining nuance problems in making mindmaps that I fail to identify like how to tackle multiple chunks and relate it. Thank you so much Justin, really love this format!
Well, my notes are cognitively great as well as look visually stunning. Even though I know that I could probably do more in less time I’m stubborn to do it my way. I think thoroughly about how I organise my notes and in the time that I colour things I think about and recapitalise my notes again. For me that’s what works best. Then again, I don’t mind to take twice as long as others. I’m in medschool in Germany and I’m one of the best, if not the best student. All I want to say is that different things work for different people, but if you want to learn the most efficient way the described one is the way to go. My way is just the most effective for me :)
Thank you so much for this video! Love that you not only talked about the video's purpose but also gave a guided walkthrough, step by step on what you were doing and why.! I also remember from a previous Mind-map video that your first mind-map should be a rough draft. Makes sense since in this video people are too attached to pretty notes. Do your mindmap as a 'rough draft' and since your brain is making connections (which your mindmap should be a reflection of whats going on in your mind) and then the 2nd draft would be the prettier, organized note sheet. Love it!
Thanks for the great video Justin! I thought that the live demonstration was really helpful and it would be great if you could do a few more of those! Thank you!!
Actually in starting of my 11th grade i used to perform a similar technique of rough mindmapping but seeing others around me makes me feel its inefficient & not useful so i dropped that idea , but after your video i'm gonna continue that ... Thanks 😊
I doubt it is a good example, because I don't believe he doesn't know the basics of antibiotics since the first year of the med school. I mean, the example works, but feels like cheating.
@@inevespace it can still be used for any new topic, extensive prior knowledge or not. Hes demonstrated it already on accounting and psychology. Plus he also demonstrated on the ottoman empire
Consume information actively by reading it thoroughly. Think critically about the information to organize and retain it effectively. Write notes to facilitate thinking and prevent cognitive overload. Avoid skipping the step of processing information while taking notes. Spend time cleaning up and organizing your notes for better understanding. Engage in trial and error to build a conceptual web of knowledge. Start with messy notes and progressively clean them up for deeper learning.
I would generally write extremely messy notes (to get something down on paper) and sometimes with my eyes closed. I felt this method allowed me to rely on a sort of visualization that increased my understanding of the problems I was working on; I have done well in engineering using it.
Done with undergrad and noticed my note-taking process is a lot like this now and it evolved from an unlikely place… I picked up piano my senior year and it made me think about how I process large amounts of information and make sense of it in the big picture (ex: hundreds of notes -> music)
I was trying to study antibiotics too. Personally ppl put so much emphasis on memorization that i was unsure if we could use the approach you usually mention. Im glad that doubt was cleared up a bit
I didn't even know that this was a really a method all along but I've been studying this way and believe me it's a superb way to study as well as to remember a particular concept. Doodles, diagrams and Flowcharts really helps to understand a difficult topics. It really saves your valuable time and grasp more information in less time. Loved this video. ❤
Hey Justin I have been watching your videos and i have notice that the best approach to math according to Bloom's taxonomy would be to create our own questions and solving it which would enable us to connect it to our prior knowledge and make it more relevant. Since, creating our hypothesis enable us to evaluate information automatically at higher order .👍👍
I usually pick a marker and colored pen with the same colour, and that's as aesthetic as it gets lol just the combo and good paper is enough to please the eye but is not distracting either.
Iam watching ur videos from so 3:44 long time but ur videos about learning is very efficient can make difference in ones learning ability maximum amount of people learn just through low level of learning understanding and remembering but after some time they forget and struggle to relearn and rereading I'm also one of this people just learning through low order learning but when I'm starting implementing high order learning it's makes drastic improvement in my learning Thank you dr justin for helping lot of students
i’ve always been a super conservative and admittedly sloppy note taker. i generally don’t even try to spell or form cohesive sentences, it’s sort of just a series of jotting i use to represent concepts. i still draw arrows and connect relevant info between the concepts, but i find it helpful to not write out the entirety of words. 1) it forces you to form the concepts mentally as opposed to solely on paper and 2) it forces you to break the linguistic association barrier and learn the concepts for what they are instead of over focusing on syntactical associations. i still recommend writing out new and necessary terminology though. my handwriting is honestly so illegible at this point w/ my notes that i learned to conceptually understand stuff with even just a couple of letters of notes. it works really well for me at least. it lets me reserve so much time and cognitive load to connect ideas and make other associations during lecture and form high level questions.
❤I hope DR. Justin Sung could be happy every day. Every time I feel tired, I will listen to Justin Sung’s videos. These videos are bringing me back energy.
I used to take a lot of notes in uni when I listened lectors. The thing is, there weren't recordings or books or preprinted notes, which is why I wrote everything down. And when I came home, I used to color my notes and draw maps of them to better understand ideas, priorities, connections e.t.c. The result looked pretty for me, but idk. I wouldn't bother with it if it didn't help me to remember everything
Mad respect to those who actually have pretty notes and learn from them. I think it's different from person to person. Personally, I like a very organized notes, like super black and white text with bullet points, but that's because it's straight to the point and I can highlight to whenever I wanted to. Pretty notes have the added perk of readability and easier to remember stuff, (visuals help me memorize) but I just can't spend time making the title page look fancy and well designed. Function over form.
Please, a video about how to do procedural learning. Or how to deal with numbers and equations in mindmaps and how to do mindmaps for problem specific subjects like physics or math
Physics is just concepts with numbers. For example if an object is static you have to know whatever force is being applied to an object and equal and opposite force is taken place. If you get a number higher or lower then it has to be wrong. Understanding the concept of the subject is much more valuable. Try doing word problems without numbers. I believe numbers distract people because they use them to just plug and chug and hope to get the right answer. Understanding why acceleration has specific units is important. Use the mind map for the concepts and then practice problems after.
Hey Justin, I am in your course and I have to say thank you so much! I’m currently in ascent 1 and I am nearly at the point of studying entire areas of study (which is insane), I can’t believe the efficiency gains. I am really excited for everything else in the course and can’t wait for more efficiency gains!
I just took a microbiology class in spring. It's so satisfying to understand these terms and what they actually mean. I also found a few gaps in my knowledge, and thought of a few new ways I can go fill those gaps! Brb I'm gonna go draw some comics about cell wall inhibitors and their different mechanisms
Ahora estoy intentando leer, poner las palabras clave y empezar a relacionarlas. Despues empiezo a organizarlas mejor para ver que no he entendido. Buen Video
Just a personal thought, if you wanna try digital note taking but feel like the hand writing is weird or it suck, turn off the dynamic pen thickness function which they sens the pressure of the pen. This actually motivated me a lot afterwards.
I did this by accident once when I was having a mental breakdown bc I didn’t understand the pathways in some cell bio class and I created this messy map and then it FINALLY MADE SENSE. I started doing this with everything and even used a big white board sometimes to organize all these pathways and connections in my head and I do this with almost everything now
Thank you for that vid. Had this experience with pretty notes. I tried to make a clear clean mindmap on paper and then remember it in my mind, instead of using mindmaping on paper as a tool to develope a mindmap in mind. Learnd so much from that vid. Thank you very much
Thank you so much for making this. I have watched so many videos, and this video, with you actually showing how you do it, gives me so much clarity on how to actaully do it. Thank you!
I am a very average student who somehow passed school. I've never actually taken any effort to study everyday. I took an effort to study only when we had board exams. I learnt how to study from study with me vlogs on TH-cam and at that time pretty notes were all the rage. I still use pretty notes, but I am never able to retain whatever I learn that way. Now I know why. I've been struggling with this for so long!!
I was a bit afraid that I was probably too fussy about my mindmaps that I continuously make it neat for clarity's sake but I realized that my mindmaps also do start very messy 😂. I strongly agree on the cleaning and reorganizing part of mindmapping helped improve memory of the content. I remember that during exams I would visualize not only the final placement of key terms and icons on my mindmap but how I deliberately chose to organize and represent these things through trial and error.
Hi Justin, just wanted to thank you so much for this video as well as the rest! It really gave me a new outlook on how to make notes that may take the same amount of time but get more out of it! I would like to ask if you can maybe in the future make more videos where you showcase your thought process and mindmapping, helps alot!😅
Having fun watching this instead of studying…..will say this is a great way to study for medical careers because thinking conceptually solves most issues.😊. I like this idea but I have thousands of pages to get through so not sure how I’m mind mapping that much material.
I wish I learned such technique 20 years ago. My notes from university lectures were terrible and non-readable, and I was always ashamed looking at neat notes of others.
Great video. These YT videos really add to the course material. Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall the course videos saying make messy mindmaps and then clean them up. I have picked a few good tips from these YT videos that help me understand the course material better.
How would you approach learning the individual names of the antibiotics after creating the mindmap? A lot of my medical school exams expect us to have that level of understanding but also ask us first-order questions where we need to memorize little details like the names of all the third-gen cephalosporins.
Long time paramedic on this one - often drug name endings help a LOT. Beta blockers are usually lols, etc. I'll admit I don't have as good a grasp on my antibiotics, but there may be similar patterns in generic names. This is also why PDRs and UpToDate exist - which doesn't help you with exams, of course, but does help with knowing that even "great doctors" need references. Sorry I can't be more helpful - good luck!
I agree with the idea of learning, but as i'm going to have psychology lessons, there are many terminologies that i'm not familiar with. So i'm quite anxious that i skip the definition of these terms and want to highlight them all and jot them down. my Q is how the mind map helps to deal with it? becoz this method seems to suits those who are familiar with the terms and make a connection with the ideas/concepts, what shd I do if I'm no familiar with them at first?
I mean there's nothing wrong with taking pretty notes after you capture the important stuff first. I just think that pretty notes are satisfying! So long as it does not affect your learning then I guess it's fine!
This is great for when you’re doing homework/studying but what type of notes are proper for class? How can I organize my learning and thoughts from information gained from the teacher
Justin, can you maybe make a super short tutorial for how you use this app you use? I forgot it's name, but I downloaded it and I was lost on how to use it like you use it and stuck to notability/goodnotes and procreate (experimented around) and it was so hard, because those are not endless canvases. I would appreciate it so much. And thank you for another gem yet again to help us study more effectively...🙏
Do you know that concepts have an entire TH-cam channel with lots of free tutorials? You can check that out here: youtube.com/@ConceptsApp?si=PQIL6KWopGnJ34yc
Justin, you're literally a life changer. I just have one question. I see how this works when studying concepts, but how can this be applied to history related subjects????
Just my personal thing, but I remembered history a lot better when I understood the context of things. Getting background and understanding makes things fit together like puzzle pieces. If I tried to just learn "The Cold War started in 1947" that would fall out of my head so fast. But if I learn that the Cold War began in the fallout of WWII where the US and Europe wanted to contain the Soviet Union and the spread of communism, then I know it's going to be around the mid 40's. And every progressive step of that conflict makes sense because history all comes down to cause and effect. For Example: North America and Western made NATO to bind the participating countries into an alliance, largely as defense against the Soviet Union's spread of Communism. SU was like, yeah I don't know about *that* and made their own pact (Warsaw Pact) with communist nations in return. Cause: Nato -- Effect: Warsaw Pact... Then that had the effect of solidifying the divide between the eastern western "blocs" of Europe which resulted in things like the Berlin wall. Wanna remember when the Berlin wall fell? Well cause and effect works. BUT you can also remember what was happening at the time. Just look at some pictures of people tearing down the wall and see the totally fierce late 80s/early 90s clothing and you'll definitely remember when it happened. Cheeky example, but it works.
hmm just throwing it out, i agree on making things too complicated for learning, especially when trying to beautify it, perhaps, maybe the use case, for such would be the [ 5min recollection and do other things ] moment, for your brain to subconsciously reconsolidate for later retrieval. this creates a [ needed gap ] , [ allows your other muscles or things to move] and [distracts ] away. It works in tangem with the curve and creates for web ?
Hey Dr. Justin Sung, your videos are so life changing. I don't know what I would have done if I didn't discover your channel. It's a shame I can't enroll in your course, but I'll try and get the best value out of your TH-cam channel. I do have one question though. For some reason, whenever I take your learner type test, I don't get a pdf report in my email. Is there something I can do about it?
Great material. There is a struggle for us neurodivergents that have extreme difficulties "organizing" concepts. I have ADHD and a learning disability, dyslexia is believe, and it is almost impossible to organize categories.
It was also a constant OCD for me to write 1000% Aesthetic notes but that thing alone killed almost all of my deepwork sessions as it is nearly impossible to make those notes while in a fast lecture or without pausing the video lecture in mid way.
I promise you that you can have organised notes (pretty?) and still score good. Here’s the thing, just listen very carefully in class so that half of everything you understand in the class itself and then you revise at home it becomes fully understood and then do absurd amounts of practice questions. Seriously your notes have to legible and organised in a manner that you understand that’s all. But please do spend more time on practice questions, it’s going to help you save time,
In Chemistry there are a lot of long mathematical equation kindly give some suggestions about what should be done about long chemical reaction mechanisms and long mathematical equations.
I am a first-year Bolivian medical student studying at a private university, I dream of going to do my specialty in another country but I have had problems when taking notes since many of the methods I see on TH-cam are oriented to use from an iPad, (which I don't have) I only have a laptop and my notebooks, so I would like you to recommend a way to study efficiently with only this equipment
Not sure if I get it right .. but the whole idea is that note taking should be about creating a small concept map and all the other details of a textbook will fit in. It is not an easy thing to do because we can have a lot of concepts and never know which one is more important than the other to be added to our notes .. this is where I get lost and I end up adding too many details to my notes .. “Bad habbits die hard” RS.
I started doing higher-order learning after your videos just as an experiment. It was really hard to let go of detailed notes as I was afraid that I will forget everything. But I eventually really tried to use a couple of words and mostly doodles on a mindmap and really think about connections/relationships & patterns. At first, it took me quite a lot of time but as I did more of that, my brain started getting used to this type of thinking. Long story short, I literally didn't even try that hard and definitely didn't spend lots of hours studying, and got 95/100 on my first calc midterm. So thank you, Justin, you opened a whole new world for me!
That's fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!
is clac = calculus? if so, how did you do a mindmap for math? :) I would love if you could share some example
@Mindychen8 hey, I didn't have to take calc but I used it for physics. You do the same for math. Math is just concepts that you put numbers to. If you understand the concept of whatever you are learning you know what is given in a word problem is important. I believe Math tries to force you to understand this by adding things to a problem that you don't need just so you really understand what is being asked. Concept first then plug in numbers
@@Mindychen8 basically what @aztecmeza9234 said
how did you applied it to calc?
1. Consume and read
2. Think and process on paper
3. Organize notes
@@literarystudies1861 bad note-taking, you fail this class
@@maggi_taeli took the class. Taking note on freeform. As long as i write, the app get lag and lag af. Then my ipad get BOOM, i get NOOO, my mark get B 🤡🤡🤡
Pretty notes overwhelm me more, because I have a messy way of taking notes which I know works and when I'm trying to take the notes I keep thinking about how to make them pretty. The extra thought of trying to make it look nice is so much more overwhelming than the process of learning to me. The moment you accept that no one will look at your notes anyways is so freeing and they do what they need to do for you.
couldnt agree more
People did this with bullet journals. The sub reddit just ended up with people with "pretty" journals instead of actually use the bullet journal to stop procrastinating. It was ironic and idiotic.
I agree with this. Although to be fair it might be a therapeutic process to somewhat mindlessly draw or colour over things aside from making it just look “pretty”
indeed. i was an insta study blogger and those pretty journals are actually ugly. ugly in a way that does literally nothing.
I'm glad that I never fell onto the bullet journal and aesthetic note taking trends. I'm a graphic designer by day (+ years of experience as an artist/illustrator) and student by night yet I personally don't see the benefits of all that if you're just... taking notes.
The only benefit I could think of-as someone else already pointed out-is if you're looking for something therapeutic to do AND you have a lot of time to do that, which is something not a lot of students have. Sometimes you should prioritize efficiency over aesthetic, but that's just my opinion and what works for me
So I guess you can say they became the very thing they swore to destroy huh...
Same thing happen with Notion, beautiful template sale a ton but core concept is missing
I love that Justin's videos use the words "thinking" and "thought" so often. I've noticed that often people are looking for study strategies that will help them learn without having to think or make connections.
This is how I have been studying lately and it evolved naturally. I discovered this while studying (just consider it as a game and you will be able to discover the most effective and your best method)
Pretty notes always worked for me because they were a good way to keep me engaged. I would always take messy notes in class and rewrote them at home to make them pretty. It actually helped me organize my thoughts and stay interested because I’m a creative minded person with ADHD so I could never get myself to revise my notes before I started making them pleasing to the eye.
Self-diagnosed ADHD?
same here-- and i also have ADHD!! i'd never review my notes if they weren't highly organized and "pretty", my eyes would glaze over lol 😭
This man deserves an award for creating the best and most valuable content on TH-cam.
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Obsession with pretty notes in studying influencers.
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Top learners often have messy notes for better learning.
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Starting messy and organizing leads to effective learning.
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By doing high level learning experiment i jumped to 150 to 180 marks in about 20 days getting the highest marks in ANATOMY!! thankuhh doctor ❤❤
0:17 I love seeing aesthetic notes and I’ve been inspired by them but the ones that were the most inspiring were the ones where each color/symbol etc actually had a specific meaning/function.
I've wasted so much time in the past trying to colour-code and make my notes neat when I almost never go back and actually read them. It's the process of making them that is useful for me. I love flow charts and diagrams for this reason and then become an active exercise. I do however, still like using colours as a visual aid
I usually never comment, but this video just gave me the biggest reality check. And I realize how badly i needed this. You basically described me at the beginning, I've always been the perfectionist and slowly I've realized it hasn't benefited me at all. I write pretty notes giving me the illusion that I'm being so productive and studying for hours, i used to think so closed mindedly. I've realized that what's the point of the number of hours I'm studying or the pretty notes I've made that are basically like an extract from the actual study text?? what's the point when I don't know the content thoroughly or when I haven't genuinely learned anything?? These these just make me think I'm studying when I'm actually not and just wasting my time, as you said- being a passive learner. Thank you so much, i desparately needed this reality check from someone and you couldn't explain it any better!
This is literally the video that all the haters were asking for.. don’t see them saying thank you.. lol. Appreciate you bro, always !
i think when you correct your notes many times, and think them through, you appreciate them far more! much more than having linear notes you hardly know :-)
I’ve learned that it’s best follow your brain’s curiosity and answer questions that you have and you’ll retain the information.
Even if it’s different from the class you will have a stronger understanding of the concept.
Curiosity is a good starting point
That’s the crux of Dr Justin’s teaching to learning
The best way to take notes for me is mind mapping, Cornell method , or annotating on professors slides. I did this and was able to focus on the info and organize it
Justin Sung you are a GODSEND
I'm 29 - i was exceptional in high school and terrible after it.
And i've been trying to figure out why for years.
And your videos have all the answers!
Thank you - from the bottom of my heart.
Pretty notes are pretty notes until the low level learning come to the conversation 😢
I was the type of student who would want neat and aesthetic notes in order to study well cause im sort of a perfectionist and a neat freak but overtime I realized just writing information without actually having the time to learn it feels overwhelming and all. I was actually afraid of the mind mapping trick cause maybe I would lose track of things but Im definitely trying this new method and see if I have improvements!
Thank you so much I was struggling with this thing for a while now, I get afraid that if I don't write everything I'll end up forgetting it and missing it on exams. so I end up writing my notes for several hours and not actually studying the content I'm writing. This video came for me at the right time😇
YES! I have been doing this without even knowing it. When I encounter something new, I learn it first. Then, once I understand it enough, I begin taking notes (at school). After getting all of my thoughts out, I will come back later and rewrite the notes in a more organized manner (At home). Simply transferring your professors slides/textbook into your notebook doesn't help you much. You need to digest it first, which helps you decide what to write down, and what to not. I recommend having 2 notebooks for every class. One to brainstorm ideas, and one to write your final notes in.
I think the most important thing for me is to understand that the main purpose of studying is the organisation of the given Material in a way that makes sense to my brain. It took me a long time to get this. In some way we have to play Compiler to a foreign language. First translate the material into syntax and semantics you understand and then check if there are any Problems during runtime.
1. Consuming information
2. Track your thoughts on a mind map (organize) and think about the pieces of information you've learned to improve your memory (relationships/understanding).
3. Improve notes (redo your mind map but this time in a more organized way for relationships)
Engage your brain, use your brain when learning (don't be distracted or just writing notes for the sake for writing notes (you have to think about it))
Summary: Start messy and think about the pieces of information you've consumed, then clean it up. (It helps with memory & understanding)
This practical videos is really helpful especially in explaining nuance problems in making mindmaps that I fail to identify like how to tackle multiple chunks and relate it. Thank you so much Justin, really love this format!
You're very welcome!
Well, my notes are cognitively great as well as look visually stunning. Even though I know that I could probably do more in less time I’m stubborn to do it my way.
I think thoroughly about how I organise my notes and in the time that I colour things I think about and recapitalise my notes again. For me that’s what works best.
Then again, I don’t mind to take twice as long as others.
I’m in medschool in Germany and I’m one of the best, if not the best student.
All I want to say is that different things work for different people, but if you want to learn the most efficient way the described one is the way to go. My way is just the most effective for me :)
I wanna see your notes now
Thank you so much for this video! Love that you not only talked about the video's purpose but also gave a guided walkthrough, step by step on what you were doing and why.!
I also remember from a previous Mind-map video that your first mind-map should be a rough draft. Makes sense since in this video people are too attached to pretty notes. Do your mindmap as a 'rough draft' and since your brain is making connections (which your mindmap should be a reflection of whats going on in your mind) and then the 2nd draft would be the prettier, organized note sheet.
Love it!
Glad you got some value from it : )
Thanks for the great video Justin! I thought that the live demonstration was really helpful and it would be great if you could do a few more of those! Thank you!!
Sounds good, thanks for the feedback!
Actually in starting of my 11th grade i used to perform a similar technique of rough mindmapping but seeing others around me makes me feel its inefficient & not useful so i dropped that idea , but after your video i'm gonna continue that ... Thanks 😊
thank you, Dr. Justin, I just want you to know you are making a big difference in my education, thank you from my heart.
Keep making such video where you are practically showing example along with the explanation
Exactly
Exactly
I doubt it is a good example, because I don't believe he doesn't know the basics of antibiotics since the first year of the med school. I mean, the example works, but feels like cheating.
@@inevespace it can still be used for any new topic, extensive prior knowledge or not. Hes demonstrated it already on accounting and psychology. Plus he also demonstrated on the ottoman empire
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I will try to do more of that in future videos : )
Consume information actively by reading it thoroughly.
Think critically about the information to organize and retain it effectively.
Write notes to facilitate thinking and prevent cognitive overload.
Avoid skipping the step of processing information while taking notes.
Spend time cleaning up and organizing your notes for better understanding.
Engage in trial and error to build a conceptual web of knowledge.
Start with messy notes and progressively clean them up for deeper learning.
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I would generally write extremely messy notes (to get something down on paper) and sometimes with my eyes closed. I felt this method allowed me to rely on a sort of visualization that increased my understanding of the problems I was working on; I have done well in engineering using it.
Done with undergrad and noticed my note-taking process is a lot like this now and it evolved from an unlikely place… I picked up piano my senior year and it made me think about how I process large amounts of information and make sense of it in the big picture (ex: hundreds of notes -> music)
I was trying to study antibiotics too. Personally ppl put so much emphasis on memorization that i was unsure if we could use the approach you usually mention.
Im glad that doubt was cleared up a bit
This is an amazing video, I have struggled so much with my methods of studying but this actually gave me everything I needed to know about it !
I didn't even know that this was a really a method all along but I've been studying this way and believe me it's a superb way to study as well as to remember a particular concept. Doodles, diagrams and Flowcharts really helps to understand a difficult topics. It really saves your valuable time and grasp more information in less time. Loved this video. ❤
Hi justin, before starting my new semester fortunately I saw your videos and now I am using your techniques …. That’s amazing i really leveled up 🎉❤
Happy to hear this!
Hey Justin
I have been watching your videos and i have notice that the best approach to math according to Bloom's taxonomy would be to create our own questions and solving it which would enable us to connect it to our prior knowledge and make it more relevant.
Since, creating our hypothesis enable us to evaluate information automatically at higher order .👍👍
I usually pick a marker and colored pen with the same colour, and that's as aesthetic as it gets lol just the combo and good paper is enough to please the eye but is not distracting either.
Iam watching ur videos from so 3:44 long time but ur videos about learning is very efficient can make difference in ones learning ability maximum amount of people learn just through low level of learning understanding and remembering but after some time they forget and struggle to relearn and rereading I'm also one of this people just learning through low order learning but when I'm starting implementing high order learning it's makes drastic improvement in my learning
Thank you dr justin for helping lot of students
This channel is ridiculously underrated. I swear to god this lad had an exceptional impact on my grades in no time.
Where were you, back when I was a Medical Student 😂 !!! LOVE THIS! Subscribed! Fan!
i’ve always been a super conservative and admittedly sloppy note taker. i generally don’t even try to spell or form cohesive sentences, it’s sort of just a series of jotting i use to represent concepts. i still draw arrows and connect relevant info between the concepts, but i find it helpful to not write out the entirety of words. 1) it forces you to form the concepts mentally as opposed to solely on paper and 2) it forces you to break the linguistic association barrier and learn the concepts for what they are instead of over focusing on syntactical associations. i still recommend writing out new and necessary terminology though. my handwriting is honestly so illegible at this point w/ my notes that i learned to conceptually understand stuff with even just a couple of letters of notes. it works really well for me at least. it lets me reserve so much time and cognitive load to connect ideas and make other associations during lecture and form high level questions.
❤I hope DR. Justin Sung could be happy every day. Every time I feel tired, I will listen to Justin Sung’s videos. These videos are bringing me back energy.
I used to take a lot of notes in uni when I listened lectors. The thing is, there weren't recordings or books or preprinted notes, which is why I wrote everything down. And when I came home, I used to color my notes and draw maps of them to better understand ideas, priorities, connections e.t.c. The result looked pretty for me, but idk. I wouldn't bother with it if it didn't help me to remember everything
Mad respect to those who actually have pretty notes and learn from them. I think it's different from person to person. Personally, I like a very organized notes, like super black and white text with bullet points, but that's because it's straight to the point and I can highlight to whenever I wanted to. Pretty notes have the added perk of readability and easier to remember stuff, (visuals help me memorize) but I just can't spend time making the title page look fancy and well designed. Function over form.
Please, a video about how to do procedural learning. Or how to deal with numbers and equations in mindmaps and how to do mindmaps for problem specific subjects like physics or math
Physics is just concepts with numbers. For example if an object is static you have to know whatever force is being applied to an object and equal and opposite force is taken place. If you get a number higher or lower then it has to be wrong. Understanding the concept of the subject is much more valuable. Try doing word problems without numbers. I believe numbers distract people because they use them to just plug and chug and hope to get the right answer. Understanding why acceleration has specific units is important. Use the mind map for the concepts and then practice problems after.
He is criticisised because he really want to change the trend
Well thankuh so much ❤
Hey Justin, I am in your course and I have to say thank you so much! I’m currently in ascent 1 and I am nearly at the point of studying entire areas of study (which is insane), I can’t believe the efficiency gains. I am really excited for everything else in the course and can’t wait for more efficiency gains!
Awesome to hear!
I just took a microbiology class in spring. It's so satisfying to understand these terms and what they actually mean. I also found a few gaps in my knowledge, and thought of a few new ways I can go fill those gaps!
Brb I'm gonna go draw some comics about cell wall inhibitors and their different mechanisms
Ahora estoy intentando leer, poner las palabras clave y empezar a relacionarlas. Despues empiezo a organizarlas mejor para ver que no he entendido. Buen Video
I'm really enjoying this content! Your videos are becoming increasingly engaging and easier to follow
Glad to hear it!
My method is i take messy notes during class, then rewrite them neatly later so that i can study them easily for exams and tests.
Just a personal thought, if you wanna try digital note taking but feel like the hand writing is weird or it suck, turn off the dynamic pen thickness function which they sens the pressure of the pen. This actually motivated me a lot afterwards.
I did this by accident once when I was having a mental breakdown bc I didn’t understand the pathways in some cell bio class and I created this messy map and then it FINALLY MADE SENSE. I started doing this with everything and even used a big white board sometimes to organize all these pathways and connections in my head and I do this with almost everything now
Thank you so much, amazing video. Need a part 2 and a step by step guide 💯
Thank you for that vid. Had this experience with pretty notes. I tried to make a clear clean mindmap on paper and then remember it in my mind, instead of using mindmaping on paper as a tool to develope a mindmap in mind.
Learnd so much from that vid. Thank you very much
Thank you so much for making this. I have watched so many videos, and this video, with you actually showing how you do it, gives me so much clarity on how to actaully do it. Thank you!
I am a very average student who somehow passed school. I've never actually taken any effort to study everyday. I took an effort to study only when we had board exams. I learnt how to study from study with me vlogs on TH-cam and at that time pretty notes were all the rage. I still use pretty notes, but I am never able to retain whatever I learn that way. Now I know why. I've been struggling with this for so long!!
I was a bit afraid that I was probably too fussy about my mindmaps that I continuously make it neat for clarity's sake but I realized that my mindmaps also do start very messy 😂.
I strongly agree on the cleaning and reorganizing part of mindmapping helped improve memory of the content. I remember that during exams I would visualize not only the final placement of key terms and icons on my mindmap but how I deliberately chose to organize and represent these things through trial and error.
For the love of good tell me the app you are using to create those notes! Looks very clean and simple! No distractions!
Very helpful remider, that the process of learning is a messy and fun one.
Hi Justin, just wanted to thank you so much for this video as well as the rest! It really gave me a new outlook on how to make notes that may take the same amount of time but get more out of it!
I would like to ask if you can maybe in the future make more videos where you showcase your thought process and mindmapping, helps alot!😅
I think this used to be my hang up with mind maps. My first exposure was with a book full of beautiful, colorful ones
already done in the icanstudy channel for psychology
Having fun watching this instead of studying…..will say this is a great way to study for medical careers because thinking conceptually solves most issues.😊. I like this idea but I have thousands of pages to get through so not sure how I’m mind mapping that much material.
Thank you Justin Sung. You are an inspiration for me ❤
Justin you are a best teacher.
I wish I learned such technique 20 years ago. My notes from university lectures were terrible and non-readable, and I was always ashamed looking at neat notes of others.
Great video. These YT videos really add to the course material. Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall the course videos saying make messy mindmaps and then clean them up. I have picked a few good tips from these YT videos that help me understand the course material better.
Exactly
Depends on your stage.
How would you approach learning the individual names of the antibiotics after creating the mindmap? A lot of my medical school exams expect us to have that level of understanding but also ask us first-order questions where we need to memorize little details like the names of all the third-gen cephalosporins.
Long time paramedic on this one - often drug name endings help a LOT. Beta blockers are usually lols, etc. I'll admit I don't have as good a grasp on my antibiotics, but there may be similar patterns in generic names.
This is also why PDRs and UpToDate exist - which doesn't help you with exams, of course, but does help with knowing that even "great doctors" need references.
Sorry I can't be more helpful - good luck!
I agree with the idea of learning, but as i'm going to have psychology lessons, there are many terminologies that i'm not familiar with.
So i'm quite anxious that i skip the definition of these terms and want to highlight them all and jot them down.
my Q is how the mind map helps to deal with it? becoz this method seems to suits those who are familiar with the terms and make a connection with the ideas/concepts, what shd I do if I'm no familiar with them at first?
Does anyone know the app he is using?!
I love the simplicity of it.
I mean there's nothing wrong with taking pretty notes after you capture the important stuff first. I just think that pretty notes are satisfying! So long as it does not affect your learning then I guess it's fine!
PLEASE TITLE THE VIDEO, 'THE PROBLEM WITH PRETTY NOTES'
This was very insightful, thanks.
This is great for when you’re doing homework/studying but what type of notes are proper for class? How can I organize my learning and thoughts from information gained from the teacher
He really went all out with the 5-minute Linear writing.
What note taking Programm do you use? I've been looking for one like this for such a long time and i could not find anything
What’s the computer app you’re using to take notes?
Justin, can you maybe make a super short tutorial for how you use this app you use? I forgot it's name, but I downloaded it and I was lost on how to use it like you use it and stuck to notability/goodnotes and procreate (experimented around) and it was so hard, because those are not endless canvases. I would appreciate it so much. And thank you for another gem yet again to help us study more effectively...🙏
The App Name Is "Concepts" , Search Tutorials On TH-cam There Are Many
Do you know that concepts have an entire TH-cam channel with lots of free tutorials?
You can check that out here: youtube.com/@ConceptsApp?si=PQIL6KWopGnJ34yc
@@JustinSung oh thank you! definelty will!
What tablet + infinite canvas program do you recommend for this type of studying?
What tools does Justin use?
Thanks in advance!
Same I want to know it too
Justin, you're literally a life changer.
I just have one question. I see how this works when studying concepts, but how can this be applied to history related subjects????
Just my personal thing, but I remembered history a lot better when I understood the context of things. Getting background and understanding makes things fit together like puzzle pieces. If I tried to just learn "The Cold War started in 1947" that would fall out of my head so fast. But if I learn that the Cold War began in the fallout of WWII where the US and Europe wanted to contain the Soviet Union and the spread of communism, then I know it's going to be around the mid 40's.
And every progressive step of that conflict makes sense because history all comes down to cause and effect. For Example: North America and Western made NATO to bind the participating countries into an alliance, largely as defense against the Soviet Union's spread of Communism. SU was like, yeah I don't know about *that* and made their own pact (Warsaw Pact) with communist nations in return. Cause: Nato -- Effect: Warsaw Pact... Then that had the effect of solidifying the divide between the eastern western "blocs" of Europe which resulted in things like the Berlin wall.
Wanna remember when the Berlin wall fell? Well cause and effect works. BUT you can also remember what was happening at the time. Just look at some pictures of people tearing down the wall and see the totally fierce late 80s/early 90s clothing and you'll definitely remember when it happened. Cheeky example, but it works.
@@itsbecca makes sense, thanks mate
Whats is the name of the app that u used on the video to take notes?
what system are you using for the mindmap?
hmm just throwing it out,
i agree on making things too complicated for learning, especially when trying to beautify it,
perhaps, maybe the use case, for such would be the [ 5min recollection and do other things ] moment, for your brain to subconsciously reconsolidate for later retrieval.
this creates a [ needed gap ] , [ allows your other muscles or things to move] and [distracts ] away. It works in tangem with the curve and creates for web ?
Does someone know which app he is using? Thanks. I am defenitly gonna try this method
What is the app you used to take notes in this video?
Amazing!!! Thank you
please add subtitle (not auto-generated) for every video, its very helping 🙏
This is your best video so far
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Hey Dr. Justin Sung, your videos are so life changing. I don't know what I would have done if I didn't discover your channel. It's a shame I can't enroll in your course, but I'll try and get the best value out of your TH-cam channel. I do have one question though. For some reason, whenever I take your learner type test, I don't get a pdf report in my email. Is there something I can do about it?
Great material. There is a struggle for us neurodivergents that have extreme difficulties "organizing" concepts. I have ADHD and a learning disability, dyslexia is believe, and it is almost impossible to organize categories.
It was also a constant OCD for me to write 1000% Aesthetic notes but that thing alone killed almost all of my deepwork sessions as it is nearly impossible to make those notes while in a fast lecture or without pausing the video lecture in mid way.
thank you.
I promise you that you can have organised notes (pretty?) and still score good. Here’s the thing, just listen very carefully in class so that half of everything you understand in the class itself and then you revise at home it becomes fully understood and then do absurd amounts of practice questions. Seriously your notes have to legible and organised in a manner that you understand that’s all. But please do spend more time on practice questions, it’s going to help you save time,
Yeah, you can do "absurd" amounts of that but it's not efficient
In Chemistry there are a lot of long mathematical equation kindly give some suggestions about what should be done about long chemical reaction mechanisms and long mathematical equations.
I am a first-year Bolivian medical student studying at a private university, I dream of going to do my specialty in another country but I have had problems when taking notes since many of the methods I see on TH-cam are oriented to use from an iPad, (which I don't have) I only have a laptop and my notebooks, so I would like you to recommend a way to study efficiently with only this equipment
Not sure if I get it right .. but the whole idea is that note taking should be about creating a small concept map and all the other details of a textbook will fit in. It is not an easy thing to do because we can have a lot of concepts and never know which one is more important than the other to be added to our notes .. this is where I get lost and I end up adding too many details to my notes .. “Bad habbits die hard” RS.
What app is he using it looks so good
@@DAVE-lz9vd I want to know it too