3 Ways to Learn Things Faster that Every Tech Enthusiast Should Know
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
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Learning is a superpower. But the problem is that we are all busy, often too busy. However don't let your superpower wane, don't let lack of time become your Kryptonite. Here are three ways that can help you learn things faster!
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How come you filmed this in the Stockholm City Library, or maybe rather with a green screen with an image of the Stockholm City Library as a backdrop?
Thanks Gary! Just used this to get into the world of Blinks! 😂 and this presentation goes a long way as well! Thanks again!
Something what many people don't realise is that main advantage of taking notes, is the sole process of taking notes; ideally hand-written notes. The science behind it, is that it makes you engage many senses, and to make effective notes you need to be able to skilfully summarise them. This whole process benefits long-term retention of information. Note: taking notes is not the same as transcribing.
I am reminded of something Wood Allen said, many decades ago, about a speed reading course he had been on: He said, the trick was to read by just scanning down the centre of the page. One's periphery vision will capture the words to either side. He then said, "It worked!. I have just finished reading 'War and Peace', both volumes, in 10 and a half hours. Apparently, it is about Russia."
You got us in the first half
And to learn even faster you can skip ads on the UA-cam videos you watch lol
Use Sponsorblock! I didn't see any ads :p
😂 True, UA-cam Vanced
AdGuard or UA-cam Premium are other options.
@@Saif0412 And SponsorBlock, to boot. Gets rid of those pesky sponsorship segments that interfere with actual knowledge transfer.
@@Saif0412 yeah! These ads are so invasive! Move back and forth (between videos) and you're confronted with the same silly redundant informacial!
The speed point is interesting. I am 'on the spectrum' and can cope with speeding up some of the time, but miss things a lot. Key things or new concepts I will often rewind if I don't understand the first time. One of the reasons why I like UA-cam is so I can tap twice to repeat the last 10 seconds. You couldn't do that at school or university!
If you experiment with *gradually* increasing the speed, you may find that your comprehension increases and need to rewind decreases as your brain becomes accustomed to it, focus improves, and your mind wanders less and less.
@@Private-GtngxNMBKvYzXyPq true! I'm starting at 1.25x and I'm soundly surprised at comprehending 85% with having to rewind the other 15% a couple of times... the speedway it is! Onwards
There are a number of those Cornell type note-taking, note-formatting systems. Somehow they ares supposed to make you a better note-taker maker, or make your notes 'better." They won't: unless you are the one that came up with the system. There's a whole industry around systems of 'better learning methods' ... a lot of it with no research to back it up... and plenty of people willing to sell it.
Same thought, good i didnt have to type
I like that Cornell approach. In the 3M labs we had hard back lab notebooks and made carbon copies as we filled them so we could keep a copy and the other copy could be archived. They also had to be witnessed. I wonder if that approach has been modernized to fit he tech of these times. I use the speed listening for many things.
Video/audio speed helps receive information faster, but nor necessarily processig/learning/internalising it faster.
Things I wished they tought us in school example number [buffer overflow]: how to take proper notes. All they told us was "take notes" and made sure we "had notes", they never said what to take notes of or how to take proper notes, just told us to do it.
Another useful thing I really love is that I actually have multiple home screens on my Android smartphone, each with a big text widget. Whenever I learn or hear about a particular topic, I summarize it into a single line and add it into corresponding text widget. It's a little mess but keeps all the related topics about a subject into one single text.
I found the third tip fantastic, as non English native, I find it difficult to listen to English videos like yours in more than 1.0X speed.
I always wonder how you manage to be familiar in a wide spectrum of technologies, as i am a technology enthusiast but can’t keep up with new things.
Shout out to you and many thanks for educational content.
I had no idea that you could change the speed of the video like that. Thank you you have just made step-by-step videos so much easier to follow!
I immediately turned this video up to 1.5X, and you are right! I could understand everything you said. I also took a photo of your "notes" guideline... great video, Gary!!
Blinkist didn't work because it got skipped by sponsorblock.
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Great video as usual. I didn't know you were a Deccie. Me too; 15 years. So many fond memories. I took myriad of notes in the DEC years and assembled my own notebooks. Saved so much time and effort. Thanks for the tips!
started watching videos and listening audios at 2x, was about a year and a half later i moved slowly to 2.5x, a year later im watching them at 3x when the speaker is not a fast-talker. I use Video Speed Controller extension for videos
Wow!
My advice would be to learn the fundamentals/basic principles.
Amen. Many students want to be hackers; few want to learn subnetting, deep coding and exploit chains.
I reached the speed of 2.5x when listening to podcasts :D
if you get used to it it works very well
Perhaps a smaller companion to the main notebook, dedicated solely to doodles will keep things neat and tidy.
Additionally a small penknife is useful for carving more permanent initials, hearts on boardroom tables, though caution is advised, engraving particularly valuable mahogany tables may be detrimental to career prospects. Discretion is advised.
😂😂😂😂😂😅
This was genuinely helpful
Excellent, I'm using the x1.5 speed for years.
Listening to this video @ 300% speed with all silences cut out 😂
Except for the advertising BS, some useful stuff. I use 1.5 for Gary, and 1.75 for slower, less coherent speakers. (I've done that for years.)
Also, I think chat gpt can help as well. With more complex topics you might have gaps in knowledge that are difficult to understand(you could use stack overflow for programming and others) and asking chat gpt will give you an answer fairly quickly, even though it might not be perfect, the fact that you get answer in few seconds is great.
I have recently tried this as a sort of explanatory search tool. For example, I asked ChatGPT to consider the documentation wiki of a particular open source software project, and tell me how to write a Dockerfile to instantiate a particular result. Not perfect, but saved me hours or possibly days of time and effort, and taught me what I needed to know.
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The moment he mentioned the faster way, I tried it and works!
Yeah I watch everything at least at 1.25, depending on how fast they're talking. And my podcast at 1.5 usually all the time except for audiobook novels. Mostly because English isn't my native language so I can't go 1.5 on everything yet.
That background, I believe, is a book store in Argentina.
Not good for the UA-cam algorithm if you watch the video at higher speed, but perhaps more then gets to watch more of it than playing it at normal speed.
This worked great. I only had to listen to Gary for about 5.5 minutes. 😅
I watch YT at x2 speed on my phone and with a browser extension on my laptop, I watch at much higher speeds depending on the person speaking.
Really bad advice about playback speed, because you won't retain as much information while listening to it with increased speed.
Taking notes however is an excellent way to increase retention.
I disagree. I have done it for years now and I retain just as much information comparted to listening at normal speed. John Carmack says the same as me.
If you don’t have the best listening skills or it is already at a high speed, sure, but for many they should be able to listen to a lot of content at quicker speed, especially if they don’t do other things as well.
@Ben Utzer start with smaller increments to the 'speedway'!
How long you have been making videos? I saw your first video around 4-5 years back on Android Authority
i have a huge problem that i watch yt with speed of 5x on PC but my modified android yt app add crackling noice at that speed making it impossible to hear properly, Any idea how to make android process audio at 5x corretly?
Sounds way too quick for what most would use, lol
@@AndersHass years of training.
i have been using 2x speed since 2017, so much helpful
I would refrain from dividing your attention while driving. Some might be able to do that, but not all people. And it's not obvious you can't do it properly, until somethiing happens.
I just watched this at 1.5 speed, could still get the message, and I'm in my 70's. Although it was quite fast it was still slower than astronomer, Sir Patrick Moore, used to speak. 🤣
Not a fan of note books. (They're more for other people, than they ever were/did for me.) They're big time in commercial research (but, that's for the benefit of the company) Trust me... unless you worked for Bell Labs, or equivalent (back in the day)... or you are da Vinci... and you get hit by a bus (or the equivalent) ... all those notebook(s) are the first thing to land in the bin.
Yes, I fully expect my notebooks to go straight in the bin when I die, but while I am alive I use and refer to my notebook daily and refer to the previous (now full) notebook about once a month. That is the point. They are useful in the present.
listening to you at 2x like always
I frequently listen to things at 2x speed (even to this video/blinklist commercial 😀). And i like to brag about that whenever possible. The moral of the story is that one might be efficient but still an arshole sometimes. 😂
Immediately I increased the speed 😁
Gray the chipmunk 😂
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4th way: Open up the TOC and skip to the summary
Make speed test G videos sir, we have been waiting
Sorry no more Speed Test G videos for the moment. They weren't popular enough.
@@GaryExplains okay I understand that. I would like to suggest you one thing that, if you feel like making such videos include geekbench, CPU throttling because people watch such videos. And slowly and slowly they will like your speed testing methods because it's way better than anything else.
Thanks for the feedback.
Just watched this video in 1.5x... its weird and fast. But I think I understood everything.
I watched this at 1.5x 🙂
1.9x, bet comprehension level is low.
anyone else watching this video at 1.5x?
I would hope everyone is! 😜
energy is the constraint, not time, so i think speeding things up is kind of pointless
I disagree. Why is energy the constraint and not time?
Both time and energy can be constraints. Energy is important for mental focus and optimal retention.
@@GaryExplains because you are awake far more than you are able to be "productive"
Wrong way to measure it. You should measure time as a constraint within your productive (working) hours. Still time is the constraint, not energy.
@@GaryExplains you didnt even try to question your pov. i promise you it makes more sense to consider energy first, you dont have to try to make some kind of pedantic rule that will still fail. just think about it for a while. if you really dont think so, im happy to hear something about it that actually has a reason. what you just said doesnt really mean anything.
I watched this video at 2.0x speed 😀
is this whole video an add?
Eh? How is listening to a video or audiobook at 1.5x an ad?
@@GaryExplains feels like the video is made around blinkist promotion...but ignore me