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As it turns out, my university and many teachers prior managed to teach me and encouraged me to use every single one of these. Super glad I was lucky enough to be on the cutting edge of not learning anything. Hopefully this helps others not as fortunate as me
I can't wait to learn nothing from this video 😁 Edit; I'm planning to do a summary of this video right here in this comment. Does anyone want me to? It'll be long and in-depth with additional notes. < - - - - - > The Summary: - Dr Sung is a professional researcher of learning, so you can rest at ease with the information provided if you want to learn NOTHiNG (or learn a lot if you reverse engineer these steps and do the opposite of what is stated). 1) Make Sure What You Study is Completely Irrelevant! - Do the opposite and learn stuff that are very relevant to your life. - Don't study stuff just for the sake of it. It must have meaning to your life, or else your brain will not give a shiiii. Before studying, look 10 steps ahead and see how the knowledge you want to learn right now will apply to your life. - For example, if you want to be a mechanic, but are currently studying mathematics, then visualize how it will aid you in the future when you are fixing a car's engine and you want to figure out a certain angle you need a particular part within that engine to be. You'll mentally extract a formula you are currently learning this very moment, to help 'Future You' solve that specific problem. - You can learn linearly or interconnectedly. - Linear learning refers to stimuli + response facts, which are very straight forward. For example; Name the control tower of a cell. The answer is nucleus. It's very straightforward. - Interconnected learning is much more complex. It requires you to identify the relationships between what you are learning and what you already know, and how you can use what you are learning to to solve a new problem ASAP after it arises. - You can increase linear learning by doing straightforward questions, while interconnected learning requires you to reflect a lot on what you are learning, inorder to make your mental schema of the subject stronger. - To combine these two types of learning, do flashcards + mind mapping + flow-based note taking + active recall (inorder to prove to yourself that you've retained the information). Use flow based note taking and mind mapping as you are learning something, then create flashcards out of the connections you make. - Active recall will happen automatically as you are studying, so don't think too much about it. Only consciously do it when you are randomly going through your day, and you wish to test your knowledge. You could be washing some dishes or doing laundry, and then employ active recall regarding what you are learning, to pass the time. - Don't purely use memorization techniques and isolated facts recall. Integrate them in the way I've stated above. 2. Time is Precious, so WASTE as Much Time as Possible! - You already know how to reverse engineer this, so I won't even bother. - Learn the wrong (right) thing in the wrong (right) way. Let me explain... - Our brain learns by trying to connect what we are currently learning with what we already know. It uses similarities and analogies to make this happen. Therefore, I'll use an analogy to explain this concept, to help you learn it better; Imagine that your focus is like the satellite, and you are looking down on your neighborhood from a bird's eye view. You can see the houses, but probably not the individual humans on the streets. New information that enters your brain but fails to get remembered, are like strangers or people who travel pass your neighborhood without having an house. New ideas that enter your brain and do get remembered, are like new people who come into your neighborhood and build a house. And since they have a house, your satellite (focus) can see them, and therefore they get remembered. The tricky part, is in HOW these houses are constructed. You see, when a new person (idea) enters the neighborhood (your mind), no one knows him, and he doesn't know anyone. However, you want this person to build a house, since that is the only way your satellite (focus) can spot that idea when you need to remember it, maybe later for a test. And to build a house, the person needs to make friends with the other neighbours first. That's the only way for it to obtain the materials necessary to build the house. He may go ask one neighbour for wood, and another for electricity. Maybe one for water supply, and then another to help him construct the roof. Over time, the neighborhood comes together as a community to help this new person settle in. And without even realizing it, this new person (idea) becomes a part of the neighborhood (Your Mind). This once-new-now-old idea can then play a part in helping other newer ideas who come into the neighborhood wishing to build a house for themselves. A dilemma in this whole process is that when new ideas enter your brain, you don't know HOW to direct these ideas properly to the steps necessary to build their house the first time around. That's why you tend to repeatedly study the same information. When you repeatedly read a book or chapter, then it is similar to strangers who repeatedly come in and out of your neighborhood until the people in the neighborhood (Your old ideas) recognize these new ideas and begin making friends with them. This is just a thought, but why don't you train your brain to build houses for new ideas just when they enter your neighborhood? That way, they don't leave as soon as they come in, so your satellite can spot them much quicker when you want to do active recall. - Additionally, if you already have some connections in your brain related to the thing you want to learn, then it will be easier to build a mental house (usually referred to as a schema) for that thing. That is because that idea probably came into your mind a couple of times in the past, but you did not consciously decide to build an house (schema) for it. However, since it came in and out of your neighborhood (mind), some other people (ideas) in your neighboorhood made friends with it. That is why it is much faster to build an house for it. It already knows a couple of the residents, including who the architects, builders, and electricians of your neighborhood are. - With this understanding, now let's get back to the point on relevance..... Our brains don't just bother building houses (remember ideas) for pointless strangers. Only when a certain stranger (idea) will add to one of its goals, does it bother building a house for it. - Put in another context, you don't remember textbook information unless you'll be tested on it. This is assuming your goal is to ace your test. If so, your brain (neighborhood) will likely try to build a schema (house) to accomodate this new subject/idea (stranger) you wish to learn. - But what if the subject is boring? Then apply the Pareto Principle. This principle means that 80% of the results in your tests/exams comes from 20% of your study effort. This means 80% of your study effort is pointless (no offence, this is just scientific observation). When you use the Pareto Principle, essentially you are prioritizing the MOST important information that you NEED to learn to achieve your brain's goal (which is to Ace your test/exam). - And when you prioritize, simply narrow down the topics that you think are going to be covered in your assessments (or else your brain will think of the information as irrelevant), and then identify WHICH of the specific knowledge areas you are weakest at (inorder to know which mental schemas or houses to spend the majority of your time building). - . - . - PS; I'll get back to continue this summary later. My internet connection is shacky 😭... And do leave a comment to remind me to continue this summary, since I might get demotivated and NOT provide You with MORE. If No One cares, then I won't bother giving more than necessary. ( Note; if you want the exact PLUG & PLAY Steps to build your mental house the first time around WITHOUT repeating the same material multiple times, then go here; mailchi.mp/03cf88cc0a3c/7rpfce7bqy )
I have learned two things from this video: 1. Dr Sung read one too-many negative comments and finally chose violence; 2. Reverse psychology works on me just as well as it did when I was 12, it just needs to be more fancy.
Summary of 4 ways to improve learning: _ Make your study relevant: associate your knowledge to other field, applications of what you will use, create a network of knowledge interconnecting each other _ Learn right thing right way: brain learns from piling up on prior information, try to associate new knowledge with old knowledge, master the order control technique by scanning for relevant knowledge in wall of text first _ Improve: have self awareness and critical reflection, embrace the change in the method of studying, try different techniques for prolong period _ Measure success with the right metrics: Put in metrics to measure the effectiveness of studying, don't use meaningless metrics
On a channel about helping people to study, you’re leaping on someone putting in a summary that may help people study if, somehow, they got confused by the irony. Not everyone is “you”, so let’s not attack someone else for presenting information in a different way. Let’s be thankful someone put a summary that may help someone.
I really enjoyed watching this video. I had an entrance exam and I was the 16th person in my country. My friends were studying for long hours without efficiency, however I was studying differently cuz I watched your videos and they changed my mindset. I couldn’t use all of your techniques but I will practice and I will go out from my comfort zone and I will talk about your channel to my friends in university. Thanks a world.
Congrats girl, I assume the entrance exam was konkur. I was really struggling and I was looking for ways I could study more efficiently and I came across his channel. Do you by any chance do any counselling?
So in summary, 1. Use flashcards active recall to memorize everything. Figuring out how information is connected and important to each other is too much work to organize all this knowledge into a big picture understanding. 2. Learn in the order given by the material because you need the prerequisite material to learn the knowledge lay out further in the material. Focus on the knowledge by itself. 3. Using high cognitive load is too much work. Just do what you have always done or what you feel like doing to get by. 4. Feel good about the amount of material you covered and the amount of notes taken in the day. Also, doing Kolbs is too much work and a waste of time.
Is it just me or the guides are so fitted for Machine Learning - Make your study relevance: define a training objective for the model to learn the data - Not wasting time: define the number of epoch to train the model cause you don't want it to run forever - Improvement: basically back propagation to update model's weights - Measure: evaluate the updated weight with the evaluation dataset
The more I watch these videos the more I appreciate the ideas. It has taken me a lot to start moving from obsessing over details to higher order learning. I never want to skip the details for fear of losing the thread of the ideas. But what's the point if one week later you will forget most of it. I never thought about the idea of "meaningless metrics", it is so true, you watch 2 hours of lectures, read 20 pages of something else, and write tons of notes and by the end of it you feel like Einstein. But it is meaningless...
The story of my life, point no. 2 It actually sounded hilarious when you put it this way.😂 Learn each piece individually without connections! Thats the way of the forgetting curve 😅😅😅
•Method of note taking whixh is connective + isolated methods •Order control by relevance • submerge more into techniques instead of tipping the toe & committing to change • not seeing the problem, not having correct metric system - will it actually make you succeed?
SUMMARY The video discusses four ways to ruin your study efficiency, but in reality, these are things you should avoid doing to improve your study efficiency. Let's summarize each point and see how you can apply them in real life: **1. Make sure the way you study is totally irrelevant:** - **Reality:** You should ensure that your study methods are relevant to what you need to learn and how you'll be tested or use that knowledge. - **Application:** Align your study methods with your learning goals. Use nonlinear and relational methods for complex topics and supplement with direct fact recall methods like flashcards for specific details. **2. Always waste time:** - **Reality:** Efficient studying minimizes wasted time. You should focus on productive learning. - **Application:** Set specific goals for your study sessions, manage your time effectively, and avoid procrastination. Break your study sessions into smaller, focused chunks to maintain concentration. **3. Make sure you never improve:** - **Reality:** Continuous improvement is crucial for long-term success. Staying in your comfort zone will hinder your growth. - **Application:** Be open to changing your study methods if they're not working for you. Embrace challenges and keep seeking ways to become more efficient in your learning. **4. Measure your success using meaningless metrics:** - **Reality:** Metrics should provide meaningful feedback on your progress, so you can identify areas for improvement. - **Application:** Choose metrics that actually reflect your learning quality, such as retention, application of knowledge, and understanding of the material. Avoid using metrics that focus on quantity alone, like the number of pages read or flashcards created. In real life, apply these principles to your study routine: - Set clear learning objectives and choose study methods that align with your goals. - Manage your time wisely to minimize unproductive hours. - Be open to change and continuously seek more effective study techniques. - Use meaningful metrics to evaluate your learning progress, such as self-assessments, quizzes, and practical application.
This was hilarious. You explained bad approaches and encouraging them. I wonder if the aim of this video sometimes slipped from your mind while explaining bad approaches. Funny indeed, except your favourite one, mostly. Stabbed me clean through heart and then advanced to the brain. But that also reminded me on an article I read few months ago. Vanity metrics, which applies to all areas of life including learning. Or at least the lesson can be abstracted away. Easier to accomplish than real goals? Check, students avoiding better methods as explained by misinterpreted effort hypothesis. Frequently encouraged by society? Check, can be seen both in my own life and on social media.
The amount of times I clicked to go back at the beginning to see if he was trolling, but he held through the whole video diving reverse physiological advice
I'm allergic to good marks and learning information, thank you for this video, now I can avoid all forms of retention and deep usable understanding of information
i miss your old thumbnail style. your new ones remind me way too much of steven bartlett's thumbnails from the diary of a ceo. hilarously executed video, though.
The metric one hits home for me. Using the wrong metric to me essentially means “I can prove I’m a total failure” which leads to demotivation etc As for meaningful metrics, I personally think most of it would revolve around things out of your control, such as scoring well on a past paper, getting good feedback from your teacher, co-operating well with group work members. These sorts of things require feedback from others or from some metric set by a professional rather than yourself. Emotional metrics might also be a good place, though is also equally tricky. What qualifies as sufficient happiness or even just stability? What qualifies as proper life fulfilment? What qualifies as a meaningful balance between life, hobbies and work? These are all deeply personal questions of which the answers might be subject to change for whatever reason. There may be a few simple answers for them though. The examples Justin used by students are innately appealing because they are easily quantifiable and don’t need verification of knowledge, but because of not needing to know what was learned, it’s essentially shooting in the dark to know if you’ll actually pass an exam or not. That’s fine for the first couple of weeks when everything is still new content, but later on, it can be horribly difficult to track anything if continually unchecked.
Brilliant use of irony as trigger for the smart ones who get it from the ones who don't, thereby enhancing the higher level output of the smart ones. If you didn't get this, then you're not his target audience.
Prediction - 1) one obvious one is lower order thinking 2) Another is not reviewing information or reviewing in wrong ways (lower order or anything that’s not full retrieval) 3) Another thing might be avoiding distractions/optimising the environment. Hoping for at least 33% accuracy
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📚 *Introduction to video and speaker background* - Dr. Justin Sung introduces himself as a learning coach and researcher, emphasizing his experience in helping people learn more efficiently. 01:06 🎓 *Section 1: Study Methods Alignment* - Align your study methods with the type of knowledge you need to acquire. - Distinguish between direct fact recall questions and interconnected, high-level synthesis questions. - Use a combination of methods, such as non-linear relational studying and flashcards, for comprehensive learning. 05:19 🔄 *Section 2: Order Control for Relevance* - Prioritize learning based on relevance to existing knowledge. - Scan through material to identify the most connected and relevant information. - Build knowledge progressively, similar to completing a jigsaw puzzle starting with edge pieces. 07:49 💡 *Section 3: Avoid Improving and Choose Comfort* - Resist the temptation to improve and grow by sticking to familiar, comfortable methods. - Emphasize the importance of self-awareness and critical reflection for growth. - Share an example of a student who chose comfort over making strategic changes to study methods. 10:05 📉 *Section 4: Inefficient Metrics for Learning* - Warn against measuring success with irrelevant metrics that don't reflect knowledge quality. - Encourage considering metrics' meaningfulness and relevance to actual learning. - Share an anecdote about a student who focused on inefficient metrics and struggled to improve. 13:31 🚫 *Conclusion: Embrace Inefficiency* - Emphasize the importance of using meaningless metrics to ensure blindness to learning problems. - The speaker's favorite way to ruin learning efficiency is by not even recognizing the existence of the problem. - A playful reminder that using all four methods guarantees a perpetual struggle with learning efficiency. Made with HARPA AI
This video about "4 Ways to Learn Nothing While Studying" is a humorous yet insightful take on common study habits that may hinder learning. It emphasizes the importance of active engagement, understanding concepts, and finding effective study techniques. The video serves as a reminder that studying is not just about spending time with books but about meaningful learning.
Hey Justin! Love your content! Wanted to see if you could help. I'm a first year med student struggling to get through content fast enough. I try to take notes in a question format (to use for active recall later) and reframe content in my own words to engage higher order learning - how this fits into big picture. However, I find myself slipping out of higher order learning quite frequently, resulting in basically just retyping PowerPoints into OneNote. What can I do to maintain higher order learning? When I'm struggling with a new topic, what do you suggest I do to better trigger higher order learning? How can I get through content faster and truly "understand" the material? I would love your advice and analysis on my situation! Thank you!
You can reflect on this problem by writing down how exactly you felt when you slipped out out of higher order learning, what were you doing that made you change to your old way of doing things , if you answer that questions deep enough you can arrive at potential solution to your problem try it in the next session and if it fails reflect on why it failed, do it until you get to the solution
I have an extension on chrome that makes a message pop up every 7 minutes that says "No learning is efficient if we aren't aware of the thinking processes happening in our brain. So be metacognitive", and it's good because after 7 minutes of HOT, I tend to slip up out of it, so the extension reminds me (oop it just popped rn). As for initiating HOT in the first place, you need to think hypothetically about the information. What I do is, find important keywords through scanning the information, then trying to relate the information solely on the knowledge I know currently, without looking at the material. Now, even if the connections are false, I made the information relevant by having a "hypothetical" knowledge schema, that I can modify and alter constantly. Whenever a new information comes into the brain, I want you to digest it, ferment it, degrade it, by exploring it's exceptions, it's implications, it's function and purpose as to "why was this information created for?". Good luck.
Hey Justin, all very helpful tips. I wonder how I could ruin my results even more...I am a first year Traditional Chinese Medicine students and I do not study in my native language. I do speak my learning language very well, but still, I find myself reading at a snail's pace, especially due to the novelity of all those Chinese terms and new concepts that are fairly difficult to graps. How could I be even slower with my reading?
"How can I know if my metric makes a difference or not?", not gonna lie, I was expecting an example of a good meaningful metric after you saying this 😅
One could say if you want to be a lifelong learner, your goal is to increase your prior knowledge all the time to gather more prior knowledge for future information 😅
Man, you helped me so much. I have been using these techniques for the past month and oh man, oh wow, it works like a charm. Previously i was using all of the methods you mentioned, so I was the master at efficiently wasting my time. I would not care to put the new information into the bigger picture, I would not make an effort to make connections between different principles. But i think that the major problem here could not just be the way we encode information but WHO we are as a person.
Its request to the creator of the video, that please provide the Pdf notes of this kind of lectures. Just the points. And few lines explanation. It will be really helpful. I mean you can post it in a article and provide the link.
Another question. Could the same information be relevant to us but irrelevant to others? It's just a matter of what I think it's relevant or the same information will have the same amount of relevance for everyone? I'm gonna try and answer this myself. I think the prior knowledge may vary so that makes your brain not to notice the relationships, even if they might be relevant.
Yes, that is infact the entire point. The information is supposed to be relevant for you . The same information won't have the same amount of relevance for everyone, that's why you need to go out of the order sometimes and build a path of relevance slowly.
please help me out this confusion , he used to teach memory palace , mindmaps , blooms taxanomy and many more how one can learn without nowing how to implement where to impliment it and when to impliment ?
1. Study in a way that is relevant to the type of knowledge you need to acquire 2. Focus on building connections between new information and your existing knowledge 3. Choose growth over comfort 4. Reflect the quality of your knowledge
Way 1: Only memorize the definition of concepts, regardless of the way your knowledge will be tested. Way 2: The more time you spend focused on memorizing the individual and unfamiliar details of a concept or topic without understanding the big picture, the better you will get at spending more time memorizing those unfamiliar details while not understanding the big picture and guarding your brain's resources against long-term storage of seemingly irrelevant details. 14 hours/day of studying the definition of all the glossary terms and rereading the paragraphs? Genius! Way 3: Stick to the method and content that makes you feel smart during the study sessions. Highlight? yaasss! Take word-for-word notes? gimme more! My favorite topics? I can't wait to do it again! Way 4: Fix the wrong problem: important problems like attending as many lectures as possible, and taking beautiful and complete notes must take priority over problems like understanding the big picture concepts covered in the lectures, which notes are relevant, and how they are relevant.... what aspects of the big picture are lectures focused on, and how do they relate to one another? Meh.. these are just nice-to-know things...
Justin, I found the jigsaw puzzle not aligning with me🤔. Like the for a single subject, maybe. In it we maybe able to define which chapter are the edges, where does the edge lie and what to do with the left over chapters, which by your definition would be to place in the middle. But when I try to link multiple subjects, and understand one course as a whole, I am starting to feel overwhelmed. And I wanted to learn at least 3 masters course. But I am starting to fear that I won’t be able able to encompass/handle/hold all the checkpoints points I have in my brain to tether new information to. I was thinking of making notes for that but you said notes are not the place to keep the information but it’s in Brain? But will a human be able to hold up 1 whole master course in mind (effective holding btw, higher level which can be retained for a long time)
1. Stem de mate en vormen van synthese af op de manier waarop je deze kennis in de toekomst wil gaan gebruiken voor maximale relevantie. 2. Zorg vanaf het startpunt voor zo veel en robuust mogelijke referenties tijdens het studeren voor het creëren van een relevant aanknopingspunt. Neem daarna de controle door de diepte in de leren in plaats van de lengte. 3. Zet in op harder groeien dan de mate waarin het leven meer moeite vergt door te focussen op zelfkennis, het uitproberen van nieuwe methoden en kritische reflectie op de effectiviteit ervan, in plaats van te blijven hangen in comfort. 4. Stem de manier waarop een toets de effectiviteit van een leermethode zo af dat deze de mate meet waarmee het gestelde doel van het opnemen van de kennis behaald wordt. Extra notities: Denk na over de inhoudsvaliditeit van de toets: Een effectieve leermethode bestaat uit: - Minimaliseren van het besteedde aantal tijd - Maximaliseren van de tijdsspanne waarin de leerstof opgehaald kan blijven worden - Maximaliseren van kennis over details van de leerstof - Maximaleren van kennis over de connecties tussen onderdelen van de leerstof etc. etc.
It's just difficult not to associate things so isolating things is a challenging! Due to the way the brain works connections made wether you want them to or not it is realy hard not to learn. But sometimes dueto anxiety impossible to recall in exams !
Thanks but i dont need advice im already a master at this lol. Ever since i dropped out i couldnt even begin to try and learn *anything* and that was 2+ years ago. As i age itll only get worse too esp with no hope in sight
I'm not gonna lie I've watched a lot of the videos on studying, yet 80% of them flew me by, and I feel like I can't even do half of them regardless, but it is what it is 😊
not related to this. Im scared to start studying ... I dont know. I avoid it as much as i can. I thought i was addict to the phone. But it isnt the case. As soon as i start studying my body filling up with this fear.
What if you're studying in a isolated way because the exam requires it. My history exam is based on recalling events and not really on studying the relationships between the concepts. Then studying by memorising is still aligned with the type of knowledge I need to have because it is isolated.
Hey Justin I have a question. Do you suggest to find the keywords by our own so going trough all the book or to use ChatGPT, giving some background and ask for the more relevant one
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Currently working on my bachelor's on learning nothing while studying. Thank you!
Me too lol but it is taking very long
@@Animeclips4me i thought learning nothing required NOTHING.
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I somehow learned the concept of learning
As it turns out, my university and many teachers prior managed to teach me and encouraged me to use every single one of these. Super glad I was lucky enough to be on the cutting edge of not learning anything. Hopefully this helps others not as fortunate as me
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I can't wait to learn nothing from this video 😁
Edit; I'm planning to do a summary of this video right here in this comment. Does anyone want me to? It'll be long and in-depth with additional notes.
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The Summary:
- Dr Sung is a professional researcher of learning, so you can rest at ease with the information provided if you want to learn NOTHiNG (or learn a lot if you reverse engineer these steps and do the opposite of what is stated).
1) Make Sure What You Study is Completely Irrelevant!
- Do the opposite and learn stuff that are very relevant to your life.
- Don't study stuff just for the sake of it. It must have meaning to your life, or else your brain will not give a shiiii. Before studying, look 10 steps ahead and see how the knowledge you want to learn right now will apply to your life.
- For example, if you want to be a mechanic, but are currently studying mathematics, then visualize how it will aid you in the future when you are fixing a car's engine and you want to figure out a certain angle you need a particular part within that engine to be. You'll mentally extract a formula you are currently learning this very moment, to help 'Future You' solve that specific problem.
- You can learn linearly or interconnectedly.
- Linear learning refers to stimuli + response facts, which are very straight forward. For example; Name the control tower of a cell. The answer is nucleus. It's very straightforward.
- Interconnected learning is much more complex. It requires you to identify the relationships between what you are learning and what you already know, and how you can use what you are learning to to solve a new problem ASAP after it arises.
- You can increase linear learning by doing straightforward questions, while interconnected learning requires you to reflect a lot on what you are learning, inorder to make your mental schema of the subject stronger.
- To combine these two types of learning, do flashcards + mind mapping + flow-based note taking + active recall (inorder to prove to yourself that you've retained the information). Use flow based note taking and mind mapping as you are learning something, then create flashcards out of the connections you make.
- Active recall will happen automatically as you are studying, so don't think too much about it. Only consciously do it when you are randomly going through your day, and you wish to test your knowledge. You could be washing some dishes or doing laundry, and then employ active recall regarding what you are learning, to pass the time.
- Don't purely use memorization techniques and isolated facts recall. Integrate them in the way I've stated above.
2. Time is Precious, so WASTE as Much Time as Possible!
- You already know how to reverse engineer this, so I won't even bother.
- Learn the wrong (right) thing in the wrong (right) way. Let me explain...
- Our brain learns by trying to connect what we are currently learning with what we already know. It uses similarities and analogies to make this happen. Therefore, I'll use an analogy to explain this concept, to help you learn it better;
Imagine that your focus is like the satellite, and you are looking down on your neighborhood from a bird's eye view. You can see the houses, but probably not the individual humans on the streets.
New information that enters your brain but fails to get remembered, are like strangers or people who travel pass your neighborhood without having an house.
New ideas that enter your brain and do get remembered, are like new people who come into your neighborhood and build a house. And since they have a house, your satellite (focus) can see them, and therefore they get remembered.
The tricky part, is in HOW these houses are constructed. You see, when a new person (idea) enters the neighborhood (your mind), no one knows him, and he doesn't know anyone. However, you want this person to build a house, since that is the only way your satellite (focus) can spot that idea when you need to remember it, maybe later for a test.
And to build a house, the person needs to make friends with the other neighbours first. That's the only way for it to obtain the materials necessary to build the house. He may go ask one neighbour for wood, and another for electricity. Maybe one for water supply, and then another to help him construct the roof.
Over time, the neighborhood comes together as a community to help this new person settle in. And without even realizing it, this new person (idea) becomes a part of the neighborhood (Your Mind). This once-new-now-old idea can then play a part in helping other newer ideas who come into the neighborhood wishing to build a house for themselves.
A dilemma in this whole process is that when new ideas enter your brain, you don't know HOW to direct these ideas properly to the steps necessary to build their house the first time around. That's why you tend to repeatedly study the same information.
When you repeatedly read a book or chapter, then it is similar to strangers who repeatedly come in and out of your neighborhood until the people in the neighborhood (Your old ideas) recognize these new ideas and begin making friends with them.
This is just a thought, but why don't you train your brain to build houses for new ideas just when they enter your neighborhood? That way, they don't leave as soon as they come in, so your satellite can spot them much quicker when you want to do active recall.
- Additionally, if you already have some connections in your brain related to the thing you want to learn, then it will be easier to build a mental house (usually referred to as a schema) for that thing. That is because that idea probably came into your mind a couple of times in the past, but you did not consciously decide to build an house (schema) for it. However, since it came in and out of your neighborhood (mind), some other people (ideas) in your neighboorhood made friends with it. That is why it is much faster to build an house for it. It already knows a couple of the residents, including who the architects, builders, and electricians of your neighborhood are.
- With this understanding, now let's get back to the point on relevance..... Our brains don't just bother building houses (remember ideas) for pointless strangers. Only when a certain stranger (idea) will add to one of its goals, does it bother building a house for it.
- Put in another context, you don't remember textbook information unless you'll be tested on it. This is assuming your goal is to ace your test. If so, your brain (neighborhood) will likely try to build a schema (house) to accomodate this new subject/idea (stranger) you wish to learn.
- But what if the subject is boring? Then apply the Pareto Principle. This principle means that 80% of the results in your tests/exams comes from 20% of your study effort. This means 80% of your study effort is pointless (no offence, this is just scientific observation). When you use the Pareto Principle, essentially you are prioritizing the MOST important information that you NEED to learn to achieve your brain's goal (which is to Ace your test/exam).
- And when you prioritize, simply narrow down the topics that you think are going to be covered in your assessments (or else your brain will think of the information as irrelevant), and then identify WHICH of the specific knowledge areas you are weakest at (inorder to know which mental schemas or houses to spend the majority of your time building).
- . - . - PS; I'll get back to continue this summary later. My internet connection is shacky 😭... And do leave a comment to remind me to continue this summary, since I might get demotivated and NOT provide You with MORE. If No One cares, then I won't bother giving more than necessary.
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Note; if you want the exact PLUG & PLAY Steps to build your mental house the first time around WITHOUT repeating the same material multiple times, then go here; mailchi.mp/03cf88cc0a3c/7rpfce7bqy
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Sure, go ahead!
@@csiu5051 Okay. I hope you learn "Nothing" From it!
Yess
I pray for your inefficiency!
@@JustinSung 😂😂
Justin giving us ways to uno reverse ourselves
I have learned two things from this video: 1. Dr Sung read one too-many negative comments and finally chose violence; 2. Reverse psychology works on me just as well as it did when I was 12, it just needs to be more fancy.
Summary of 4 ways to improve learning:
_ Make your study relevant: associate your knowledge to other field, applications of what you will use, create a network of knowledge interconnecting each other
_ Learn right thing right way: brain learns from piling up on prior information, try to associate new knowledge with old knowledge, master the order control technique by scanning for relevant knowledge in wall of text first
_ Improve: have self awareness and critical reflection, embrace the change in the method of studying, try different techniques for prolong period
_ Measure success with the right metrics: Put in metrics to measure the effectiveness of studying, don't use meaningless metrics
No dude, you’re supposed to do the opposite of these things.
You are really good, youjust learned absolutely nothing from this video, just as promised
On a channel about helping people to study, you’re leaping on someone putting in a summary that may help people study if, somehow, they got confused by the irony.
Not everyone is “you”, so let’s not attack someone else for presenting information in a different way.
Let’s be thankful someone put a summary that may help someone.
@@TheCactuar124 No dude, you're the one who's supposed to do the opposite. He already does the opposite. Mic drop please.
I really enjoyed watching this video. I had an entrance exam and I was the 16th person in my country. My friends were studying for long hours without efficiency, however I was studying differently cuz I watched your videos and they changed my mindset. I couldn’t use all of your techniques but I will practice and I will go out from my comfort zone and I will talk about your channel to my friends in university. Thanks a world.
Congrats girl, I assume the entrance exam was konkur. I was really struggling and I was looking for ways I could study more efficiently and I came across his channel. Do you by any chance do any counselling?
So in summary,
1. Use flashcards active recall to memorize everything. Figuring out how information is connected and important to each other is too much work to organize all this knowledge into a big picture understanding.
2. Learn in the order given by the material because you need the prerequisite material to learn the knowledge lay out further in the material. Focus on the knowledge by itself.
3. Using high cognitive load is too much work. Just do what you have always done or what you feel like doing to get by.
4. Feel good about the amount of material you covered and the amount of notes taken in the day. Also, doing Kolbs is too much work and a waste of time.
Thank you, I appreciate your existence
Fail out of school speed run
Difficulty Level: Amateur
As a student of inefficiency i attest to the effectiveness of these techniques to make me giga chad level inefficient.
I like how Justin makes this in a way that you will have to apply your critical capacities to extract to true meaning of his.
Is it just me or the guides are so fitted for Machine Learning
- Make your study relevance: define a training objective for the model to learn the data
- Not wasting time: define the number of epoch to train the model cause you don't want it to run forever
- Improvement: basically back propagation to update model's weights
- Measure: evaluate the updated weight with the evaluation dataset
That's because the process of machine learning is a simulation of human learning too.
Say the thing you learning is new how do you apply the relevance principle of connecting the information...?
In mind mapping, is it important to place the keywords at the top of a branch or at the end of the branch, and does this really matter?
The more I watch these videos the more I appreciate the ideas. It has taken me a lot to start moving from obsessing over details to higher order learning. I never want to skip the details for fear of losing the thread of the ideas. But what's the point if one week later you will forget most of it. I never thought about the idea of "meaningless metrics", it is so true, you watch 2 hours of lectures, read 20 pages of something else, and write tons of notes and by the end of it you feel like Einstein. But it is meaningless...
The story of my life, point no. 2
It actually sounded hilarious when you put it this way.😂 Learn each piece individually without connections! Thats the way of the forgetting curve 😅😅😅
•Method of note taking whixh is connective + isolated methods
•Order control by relevance
• submerge more into techniques instead of tipping the toe & committing to change
• not seeing the problem, not having correct metric system - will it actually make you succeed?
This was absolutely hilarious. I live this tongue in cheek approach. 😂 Actually makes the main points memorable. 🤦🏻♂️ Uh-oh!
Appreciate your advice Justin! Thank you and I find your content helpful to my study habita
A comprehensive video on how to be as f up as possible in your study years.😂😂
SUMMARY
The video discusses four ways to ruin your study efficiency, but in reality, these are things you should avoid doing to improve your study efficiency. Let's summarize each point and see how you can apply them in real life:
**1. Make sure the way you study is totally irrelevant:**
- **Reality:** You should ensure that your study methods are relevant to what you need to learn and how you'll be tested or use that knowledge.
- **Application:** Align your study methods with your learning goals. Use nonlinear and relational methods for complex topics and supplement with direct fact recall methods like flashcards for specific details.
**2. Always waste time:**
- **Reality:** Efficient studying minimizes wasted time. You should focus on productive learning.
- **Application:** Set specific goals for your study sessions, manage your time effectively, and avoid procrastination. Break your study sessions into smaller, focused chunks to maintain concentration.
**3. Make sure you never improve:**
- **Reality:** Continuous improvement is crucial for long-term success. Staying in your comfort zone will hinder your growth.
- **Application:** Be open to changing your study methods if they're not working for you. Embrace challenges and keep seeking ways to become more efficient in your learning.
**4. Measure your success using meaningless metrics:**
- **Reality:** Metrics should provide meaningful feedback on your progress, so you can identify areas for improvement.
- **Application:** Choose metrics that actually reflect your learning quality, such as retention, application of knowledge, and understanding of the material. Avoid using metrics that focus on quantity alone, like the number of pages read or flashcards created.
In real life, apply these principles to your study routine:
- Set clear learning objectives and choose study methods that align with your goals.
- Manage your time wisely to minimize unproductive hours.
- Be open to change and continuously seek more effective study techniques.
- Use meaningful metrics to evaluate your learning progress, such as self-assessments, quizzes, and practical application.
Those whose English is weak shouldn't watch this video
This was hilarious. You explained bad approaches and encouraging them. I wonder if the aim of this video sometimes slipped from your mind while explaining bad approaches.
Funny indeed, except your favourite one, mostly. Stabbed me clean through heart and then advanced to the brain. But that also reminded me on an article I read few months ago. Vanity metrics, which applies to all areas of life including learning. Or at least the lesson can be abstracted away.
Easier to accomplish than real goals? Check, students avoiding better methods as explained by misinterpreted effort hypothesis.
Frequently encouraged by society? Check, can be seen both in my own life and on social media.
I’ll watch this later! It’s 1018 PM in TX gotta get some rest. Have a beautiful blessed week
The amount of times I clicked to go back at the beginning to see if he was trolling, but he held through the whole video diving reverse physiological advice
I'm allergic to good marks and learning information, thank you for this video, now I can avoid all forms of retention and deep usable understanding of information
So fun this video, thank you!!! I´m not looking forward to apply any of this advice😂😂😂
Thanks, I needed this one.
Sounds promising
The smile at the end 😁
Another great video ✨😁
i miss your old thumbnail style. your new ones remind me way too much of steven bartlett's thumbnails from the diary of a ceo. hilarously executed video, though.
The metric one hits home for me. Using the wrong metric to me essentially means “I can prove I’m a total failure” which leads to demotivation etc
As for meaningful metrics, I personally think most of it would revolve around things out of your control, such as scoring well on a past paper, getting good feedback from your teacher, co-operating well with group work members.
These sorts of things require feedback from others or from some metric set by a professional rather than yourself.
Emotional metrics might also be a good place, though is also equally tricky. What qualifies as sufficient happiness or even just stability? What qualifies as proper life fulfilment? What qualifies as a meaningful balance between life, hobbies and work?
These are all deeply personal questions of which the answers might be subject to change for whatever reason. There may be a few simple answers for them though.
The examples Justin used by students are innately appealing because they are easily quantifiable and don’t need verification of knowledge, but because of not needing to know what was learned, it’s essentially shooting in the dark to know if you’ll actually pass an exam or not. That’s fine for the first couple of weeks when everything is still new content, but later on, it can be horribly difficult to track anything if continually unchecked.
Compared to all your other videos that I've watched this one really helped me a lot. Many thanks Justin 🙏
Brilliant use of irony as trigger for the smart ones who get it from the ones who don't, thereby enhancing the higher level output of the smart ones. If you didn't get this, then you're not his target audience.
Prediction -
1) one obvious one is lower order thinking
2) Another is not reviewing information or reviewing in wrong ways (lower order or anything that’s not full retrieval)
3) Another thing might be avoiding distractions/optimising the environment.
Hoping for at least 33% accuracy
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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 📚 *Introduction to video and speaker background*
- Dr. Justin Sung introduces himself as a learning coach and researcher, emphasizing his experience in helping people learn more efficiently.
01:06 🎓 *Section 1: Study Methods Alignment*
- Align your study methods with the type of knowledge you need to acquire.
- Distinguish between direct fact recall questions and interconnected, high-level synthesis questions.
- Use a combination of methods, such as non-linear relational studying and flashcards, for comprehensive learning.
05:19 🔄 *Section 2: Order Control for Relevance*
- Prioritize learning based on relevance to existing knowledge.
- Scan through material to identify the most connected and relevant information.
- Build knowledge progressively, similar to completing a jigsaw puzzle starting with edge pieces.
07:49 💡 *Section 3: Avoid Improving and Choose Comfort*
- Resist the temptation to improve and grow by sticking to familiar, comfortable methods.
- Emphasize the importance of self-awareness and critical reflection for growth.
- Share an example of a student who chose comfort over making strategic changes to study methods.
10:05 📉 *Section 4: Inefficient Metrics for Learning*
- Warn against measuring success with irrelevant metrics that don't reflect knowledge quality.
- Encourage considering metrics' meaningfulness and relevance to actual learning.
- Share an anecdote about a student who focused on inefficient metrics and struggled to improve.
13:31 🚫 *Conclusion: Embrace Inefficiency*
- Emphasize the importance of using meaningless metrics to ensure blindness to learning problems.
- The speaker's favorite way to ruin learning efficiency is by not even recognizing the existence of the problem.
- A playful reminder that using all four methods guarantees a perpetual struggle with learning efficiency.
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This video about "4 Ways to Learn Nothing While Studying" is a humorous yet insightful take on common study habits that may hinder learning. It emphasizes the importance of active engagement, understanding concepts, and finding effective study techniques. The video serves as a reminder that studying is not just about spending time with books but about meaningful learning.
Hey Justin! Love your content! Wanted to see if you could help. I'm a first year med student struggling to get through content fast enough.
I try to take notes in a question format (to use for active recall later) and reframe content in my own words to engage higher order learning - how this fits into big picture.
However, I find myself slipping out of higher order learning quite frequently, resulting in basically just retyping PowerPoints into OneNote. What can I do to maintain higher order learning? When I'm struggling with a new topic, what do you suggest I do to better trigger higher order learning? How can I get through content faster and truly "understand" the material?
I would love your advice and analysis on my situation! Thank you!
You can reflect on this problem by writing down how exactly you felt when you slipped out out of higher order learning, what were you doing that made you change to your old way of doing things , if you answer that questions deep enough you can arrive at potential solution to your problem try it in the next session and if it fails reflect on why it failed, do it until you get to the solution
@@jakubkonopa5840how to apply Justin technique on maths
I have an extension on chrome that makes a message pop up every 7 minutes that says "No learning is efficient if we aren't aware of the thinking processes happening in our brain. So be metacognitive", and it's good because after 7 minutes of HOT, I tend to slip up out of it, so the extension reminds me (oop it just popped rn). As for initiating HOT in the first place, you need to think hypothetically about the information. What I do is, find important keywords through scanning the information, then trying to relate the information solely on the knowledge I know currently, without looking at the material. Now, even if the connections are false, I made the information relevant by having a "hypothetical" knowledge schema, that I can modify and alter constantly. Whenever a new information comes into the brain, I want you to digest it, ferment it, degrade it, by exploring it's exceptions, it's implications, it's function and purpose as to "why was this information created for?". Good luck.
Hey Justin, all very helpful tips. I wonder how I could ruin my results even more...I am a first year Traditional Chinese Medicine students and I do not study in my native language. I do speak my learning language very well, but still, I find myself reading at a snail's pace, especially due to the novelity of all those Chinese terms and new concepts that are fairly difficult to graps. How could I be even slower with my reading?
Justin trying to explain things in a different way.
Wait! that actually maybe more efficient. 🙀
Please iCantStudy when?
"How can I know if my metric makes a difference or not?", not gonna lie, I was expecting an example of a good meaningful metric after you saying this 😅
One could say if you want to be a lifelong learner, your goal is to increase your prior knowledge all the time to gather more prior knowledge for future information 😅
Omg I’ve doing this the whole year and my finals are in 20 days…..can I actually try new things now?
Man, you helped me so much. I have been using these techniques for the past month and oh man, oh wow, it works like a charm. Previously i was using all of the methods you mentioned, so I was the master at efficiently wasting my time. I would not care to put the new information into the bigger picture, I would not make an effort to make connections between different principles. But i think that the major problem here could not just be the way we encode information but WHO we are as a person.
This is too good and should be the new meta for metacognition😂
Its request to the creator of the video, that please provide the Pdf notes of this kind of lectures. Just the points. And few lines explanation. It will be really helpful. I mean you can post it in a article and provide the link.
damn this should be on april 1st
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY !!!!! SOUNDS INTERESTING ... WAITING ...
The number 3 got me cracking 😂, We don't wanna improve😂
Oh yeah he finna make a banger with this one
Why does your voice sound a little higher pitched than usual, Dr Sung?
This reverse psychology is so top-notch 😂😂😂
More learning and less studying is dae wae
No, because if this was the first video of Justin that I'd watch, I'd be so confused lmao
You can’t April Fools me on September 26th!
Justin Sung if he was evil:
Another question. Could the same information be relevant to us but irrelevant to others? It's just a matter of what I think it's relevant or the same information will have the same amount of relevance for everyone? I'm gonna try and answer this myself. I think the prior knowledge may vary so that makes your brain not to notice the relationships, even if they might be relevant.
Yes, that is infact the entire point. The information is supposed to be relevant for you . The same information won't have the same amount of relevance for everyone, that's why you need to go out of the order sometimes and build a path of relevance slowly.
How to apply non linear or higher order learning into equational subjects
Wahaaat? I ain't nvr watched something reverse. Wait...
يالهي انني لاافهم شيئا اضعت الكثير وياست من دراستي بدا الاوان ينفذ مني وطاقتي نفذت انا منهكه 💔
What is your best technique for learning math?
i learnt the LEAST things from this single video i ever had
Justin, You don't know how much you've helped me in learning and getting better grades!
Thank you fot everything xx
please help me out this confusion , he used to teach memory palace , mindmaps , blooms taxanomy and many more how one can learn without nowing how to implement where to impliment it and when to impliment ?
@@phanikatam4048 send me ur email i have a pdf for that englobs all studying techniques and when and how to apply them compiled.
Oh no they let Sustin Jung out of his enclosure
1. Study in a way that is relevant to the type of knowledge you need to acquire
2. Focus on building connections between new information and your existing knowledge
3. Choose growth over comfort
4. Reflect the quality of your knowledge
First i didn't use to understand what to do after watching your videos
But i completed understand what to do and what not to do
😂😂😂....Damn Justin!
You are ultra smart!
Brutal 😂
this is the best video for 1st april xD
reverse psychology is crazy
Way 1: Only memorize the definition of concepts, regardless of the way your knowledge will be tested.
Way 2: The more time you spend focused on memorizing the individual and unfamiliar details of a concept or topic without understanding the big picture, the better you will get at spending more time memorizing those unfamiliar details while not understanding the big picture and guarding your brain's resources against long-term storage of seemingly irrelevant details. 14 hours/day of studying the definition of all the glossary terms and rereading the paragraphs? Genius!
Way 3: Stick to the method and content that makes you feel smart during the study sessions. Highlight? yaasss! Take word-for-word notes? gimme more! My favorite topics? I can't wait to do it again!
Way 4: Fix the wrong problem: important problems like attending as many lectures as possible, and taking beautiful and complete notes must take priority over problems like understanding the big picture concepts covered in the lectures, which notes are relevant, and how they are relevant.... what aspects of the big picture are lectures focused on, and how do they relate to one another? Meh.. these are just nice-to-know things...
This is actually really really useful. 😂
Thank you for the video but can you dive deeper into the metrics. I don't understand. You can give examples of metrics
Justin, I found the jigsaw puzzle not aligning with me🤔.
Like the for a single subject, maybe. In it we maybe able to define which chapter are the edges, where does the edge lie and what to do with the left over chapters, which by your definition would be to place in the middle.
But when I try to link multiple subjects, and understand one course as a whole, I am starting to feel overwhelmed.
And I wanted to learn at least 3 masters course.
But I am starting to fear that I won’t be able able to encompass/handle/hold all the checkpoints points I have in my brain to tether new information to.
I was thinking of making notes for that but you said notes are not the place to keep the information but it’s in Brain?
But will a human be able to hold up 1 whole master course in mind (effective holding btw, higher level which can be retained for a long time)
Sorry, I disappointed you
1. Stem de mate en vormen van synthese af op de manier waarop je deze kennis in de toekomst wil gaan gebruiken voor maximale relevantie.
2. Zorg vanaf het startpunt voor zo veel en robuust mogelijke referenties tijdens het studeren voor het creëren van een relevant aanknopingspunt. Neem daarna de controle door de diepte in de leren in plaats van de lengte.
3. Zet in op harder groeien dan de mate waarin het leven meer moeite vergt door te focussen op zelfkennis, het uitproberen van nieuwe methoden en kritische reflectie op de effectiviteit ervan, in plaats van te blijven hangen in comfort.
4. Stem de manier waarop een toets de effectiviteit van een leermethode zo af dat deze de mate meet waarmee het gestelde doel van het opnemen van de kennis behaald wordt.
Extra notities:
Denk na over de inhoudsvaliditeit van de toets: Een effectieve leermethode bestaat uit:
- Minimaliseren van het besteedde aantal tijd
- Maximaliseren van de tijdsspanne waarin de leerstof opgehaald kan blijven worden
- Maximaliseren van kennis over details van de leerstof
- Maximaleren van kennis over de connecties tussen onderdelen van de leerstof
etc. etc.
When's our wedding?!
😂Feel like this might mess with my subconscious too much and undo all your hard work! Gonna skip this one Dr Sung! 😂😂😂
Wow! Consistent, information dense and high quality content.. maybe you weren't kidding when you said you were insecure about the channel statistics😂
Whatever you said in the video is being diligently followed in the current education system, it’s nothing new to them.
It's just difficult not to associate things so isolating things is a challenging! Due to the way the brain works connections made wether you want them to or not it is realy hard not to learn. But sometimes dueto anxiety impossible to recall in exams !
reverse psychology is definitely an effective technique for persuasion
Thanks for the video.
Thanks but i dont need advice im already a master at this lol. Ever since i dropped out i couldnt even begin to try and learn *anything* and that was 2+ years ago. As i age itll only get worse too esp with no hope in sight
this channel changed my life. no joke. Thank you Justin!
I'm not gonna lie I've watched a lot of the videos on studying, yet 80% of them flew me by, and I feel like I can't even do half of them regardless, but it is what it is 😊
last one is always your personal favourite 🦝
hey not always!
not related to this. Im scared to start studying ... I dont know. I avoid it as much as i can. I thought i was addict to the phone. But it isnt the case. As soon as i start studying my body filling up with this fear.
Passive agressive Justin:
I love you, please marry me!
My brain is not braining in this video
Its just me watched the video while subtitles off. I cant listen without subtitles Lol
What if you're studying in a isolated way because the exam requires it. My history exam is based on recalling events and not really on studying the relationships between the concepts. Then studying by memorising is still aligned with the type of knowledge I need to have because it is isolated.
I think you need to do both. The recalling of facts will become easier if the facts are familiar and relevant. That's my take - good luck!
Charlie Munger's inversion thinking framework
watching to this video is super weird, my brain is expecting tips for studying, but its getting the opposite😂😂
Because this mf video,I learn to be not efficient in the perfect way.Thanks a lot man lol
Hey Justin I have a question. Do you suggest to find the keywords by our own so going trough all the book or to use ChatGPT, giving some background and ask for the more relevant one
He was just promoting reverse goal setting the other day. ☠️