What if Schools Taught Us How to Learn | Jonathan Levi | TEDxWhiteCity
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2015
- Why is it that schools teach us WHAT we need to learn, without ever teaching us HOW? Memory and Speed Reading expert Jonathan Levi takes us through his personal journey from a failing student to a SuperLearner in this provocative and inspiring talk.
Jonathan Levi is an experienced entrepreneur and angel investor from the Silicon Valley.
After successfully selling his Inc 5,000 rated startup in April of 2011, Levi packed up for Israel to gain experience in the Venture Capital industry. While in Israel, Levi enlisted the help of speed-reading and machine learning experts. Since acquiring superlearning skills, he has become a proficient life-hacker, optimizing and "hacking" such processes as travel, sleep, language learning, and fitness.
Since 2014, Jonathan has been one of the top-performing instructors on Udemy and has launched a rapidly growing information products company, SuperHuman Enterprises.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
People watching this all the very best for your future endeavors.
Thanks
You too!
I feel you are being sarcastic because tomorrow i have an assingment
I just started his superlearning course in udemy, two days ago. I have wanted to increase my memory and reading/learning ability for a majority of my 45yrs. I am looking so forward to this. Even with a strong artistic ability, one weakness has always been my ability to visualize. This Tedx video has been inspiring. Thanks
Bubba Whoo Hi, how was the course? is it worth it?
Bubba Whoo How did it go? Are you benefiting from taking the course?
@@gkk6334 I took the same course, didn't seem to pay out at least for the things that you want to apply practically, if you just want to memorize a deck of card then it will be fine.
@@BeGoodToEachOther I took the same course, didn't seem to pay out at least for the things that you want to apply practically, if you just want to memorize a deck of card then it will be fine.
So, how did it go?
Great talk Jonathan. Congrats on the TED talk. I've been following your work for a year now, great stuff (love the podcast). Keep up the great great work.
Spreading the word here in Colombia.
What a great talk, as an educator and someone interested in learning techniques there is a lot to think about. Thanks Jonathan!
I just bought your course on Udemy, Jonathan Levi. I am excited to really learn these techniques, I have been diagnosed with ADD too. I know what you're talking about being depressed and frustrated in school.
I enjoyed your talk Jonathan and hopefully, people will apply the ideas you shared. This stuff works.
I have implemented these techniques to accelerate my learning to new heights. It would do the world well to adopt such techniques into the mainstream. Brilliantly presented Jon.
How many techniques have you implemented? In which ways have you improved your learning? And by how much?
Great Job Jonathan.... Expertly delivered, just like your Super learning course.
The discovery of the ideas 'Neuroplasticity' represents the physical system understanding with dynamic implications. Thank you for putting in terms easily understood with a great mapping of the concepts involved and giving attention to the connections concerning those concepts.
I think the title may be better laid out as "What if schools taught us how to memorise information differently". Learning how to learn is a very different concept to memorisation. In an age where information is available at the click of a button, forward thinking education boards are rightly trying to phase out memorisation as a redundant skill.
Can you point me to some resources plz
This man is amazing. My new role model
+Kristen Pfaffe, he's a real world superhuman!
If you want to hear about the Memory Palace or memory training, watch Ed Cook or Joshua Foer. If you want to hear about actual research on dual encoding and other learning strategies, visit the learning scientists blog. This sounded canned and was boring and fluff heavy. Also, I've taught kids memorization for a couple of years now, including the Memory Palace and the PAO system, it's not easy at all. Young kids say things like, they feel like their lifting weights in their mind and can tire out easily. Getting to using the Memory Palace for more practical things like procedures and concepts becomes difficult quickly too -- for language learning it's actually easy and straightforward though.
That 1 button on the chest trying its hardest to keep both side of the clothes together.
Lmao!
Reminds me of jk's shirt button 🌝
@@suurvii6217 Literally what I thought when i saw this.
LOL…thank you so much for this comment.
A great book about this is Joshua Foer's "Moon Walking with Einstein". I very much enjoyed it. It's only like 300 pages so you can probably read it in 15 min.
I love this! I'm also add and have always been a visual learner. I've always had an amazing memory and have a photographic memory which is great but was no luck for me in school. I got good grades in school but it wasn't without struggle in some areas because of how they forced me to learn. I really wish they would start using pictures and visuals to teach things rather than just lists and the way they do it now. I have a 4 year old daughter and shes super creative and visual and an out of the box thinker like me so im glad I saw this now and will definitely be looking into it for myself and her! Thank you 💜💜
how tf do you have a photographic memory and not do good in school
@@hippo-cryp342 also I stated I got good grades but struggled with SOME areas because of how they forced me to learn...mostly math because they wanted it(at the time, I'm 33 years old so things we're obviously different) to be done a specific way. I could visualize the numbers and equations and do it in my head, however for it to count they made it mandatory to show it in paper even if in front of them I cpuld solve different problems and that is not a concept that was easy for me to grasp. At home my mom did math visually with me with hands on and visual items because in school it just being on paper or on a chalkboard/markerboard didn't always click with me...math was a huge struggle for me and its not that I'm nit good at it, it's that I don't figure it out the way they want, still now on paper its harder for me, but in my head or using math in real life I can do quickly and quite well. It's called everyone's mind is different.
@@jessicaabbassi1140 oh now i understand sorry if i seemed insensitive before
@@hippo-cryp342 it's okay, thank you😊💜
I went to 19 different schools growing up, somewhere along the way I realised I didn't know how to learn, I developed my own techniques that were more encumbering than effective. I finally understood also that I couldn't concentrate, the harder I tried the worse it became and when someone tried to teach me something I'd become very anxious and everything would shut down. Even when I tried to teach myself something, I would tell myself repeatedly I wouldn't drift but then I'd become so anxious about it, again I would just shut down. I'm still unsure if it may be ADHD related as I haven't sought a diagnosis but I think I am a kinesthetic learner. That's part of the problem solved but now I'm trying to find information on how to utilise it, which lead me here, which I find interesting as your speech was exactly what I needed to hear, I couldn't have imagined how on the nose it was going to be lol. It's given me some hope that maybe I can go back to school and turn things around for myself. So thank you, I look forward to finding out more about your technique.
I watched this for the first time today and enjoyed listening. I am a teacher, however, and have set up 'The Knowledge' Course with a colleague at my school, to help our learners know the 'science behind learning' and then 'how to learn effectively'. It is proving to be very effective to support life long learning.
Hi Murphy, do you have a background in teaching? Where are u based, and developed this course..online or offline.
[I believe it as I had a similar suffering in my childhood .. Those who criticizes may be didn't go through being different and need another access to learning
I was not a 'tradition' learner. I had ADHD with PTSD (ACOA) back in the 70's. Couldn't sit still, always talking, no focus. Struggled in GS, MS, HS. Was placed in 6th grade, 5th grade reading in 9th. College was HARD! Finally after lots of years I received my AGS never got my BA. Reached 50 wished I could get my BA now but don't want the expense....the education system is SAD!
Hey! Did you ever get the chance to go back to college?
That speech was HUGE Jon !
thanks for everything
Merci Jonathan ! I will try to adapt your vision to my coaching workshops with teenagers :-)
And... to me.
Brilliant Jonathan! This made me sign up to your SuperLearner course with Anna and Lev.
How'd that go ?
@@Artificial.Unintelligence To be honest I didn't keep it up. Life got in the way.
This is the "let them eat cake" mentality. Knowing how to learn is quite advanced.
What’s the “let them eat cake” mentality? I’m curious on how you would summarize it.
the only thing I loved about the whole vid, was the way he delivered his speech, very calm.
Plus the pic he showed, a 7 yrs old could write two or pages about it. Is a well known history pic.
An eye opener video. It is an informative and valuable video .
I'm following his course on udemy, I started training myself with memory exercises and started to believe he's right!
Can you give an update?
How did it work?
I just registered for your course on udemy. Can't wait to complete it !
I did well in school too with my brain injury from birth, now today I have had 2 years of college. I hope to go back to school and start a associates or bachelors degree in communications.
Can't wait to start my accelerated learning journey!
For those saying there's nothing here that's not true. He tells you that in order to memorize use visuals. And for anyone who works with memorization techniques, this is a given. And for those saying there's no substance here, it's just a commercial. What do you think Ted Talks is for? These talks are mostly just brief overviews of products and services offered. Do you think he's just going to give it all away for free? Do you go to work to just volunteer your time? Stop looking for handouts and get to work! :O)
Yeah. Learning and understanding is an Natural cycle which Continen throughout the whole life. It's should also point out the stimuli of life is also a part of learning. Less comparmentalizing, more freedom and filters remained open.
Very inspiring. Thank you
Great speech and a life changing Udemy course!The funny thing is by the time I've done 40% of it, not only my memory and reading speed improved, but I also got better (a lot better) in controlling my weaker hand😃😃😃Why? Because there's a part when he insists on learning new skills = creating new connections (Brain GYM). I love it.
When you believe in something, and you put some work towards it with great desire - you will succeed. Doing something while believing it doesn't work "but I'll try any way" will make you fail most of the times.
I spent more of that video hoping his pecs were going to finally overwhelm that button and burst out of his shirt than actually following his argument... On the other hand it was interesting how much of the memory palace idea jives with some of Willingham's ideas.
I always drew pictures as notes to remember in school, especially history, phylosophy and astronomy, it just came natural and was more effective than seeying lines and lines of writing. For me it worked. Place memory is not something I like to do that much but for me word associations with mental images work well.
Hope we will go to the better future by your idea Jonathan :)
Este video es una importante reflexión sobre la evolución de la educación a través de varios años, es interesante mencionar que la educación es una de las ciencias que menos ha transcendido, los estudiantes, en la mayoría de sistemas aprenden igual que hace años. Este tema, sone un aprendiaje efectivo y rápdio a través de distintas estrategias (mapas, fotos, diágramas, fotos) invita a la innovación educativa, en términos de que ajuste de mejor forma a las necesidades actuales de la sociedad. De acuerdo al plan de mejora, los TICS y el establecimiento de portaoflios electrónicos serían buenas herramientas para fortalcer la educación, atraer más personas interesadas a los centros educativos y sobre todo, se aportaría en la innovación y mejora educativ, que evidentemente, la aplicación de estas técnicas requiere de capacitación docente.
As someone with aphantasia, I feel a little left out. I literally can't "picture" things in my head, and while I can recall details about photos I cannot recall the photos themselves. So frustrating when people assume this is a universal ability.
Wonderful put together, but nothing concrete about the techniques.
That's just what i thought. I have been looking some techniques latley and i feel like some are probably working but then i find things out there like Linda Brain Power System which at first sound verry promising but more likley are a scam. How to know what method will work and what is just a made up storry with not having month of effort to invest before knowing it?
LOL He's not running a charity.
Maybe not but how can you tell if he tells the truth if there is that many scam out there. How are you supposed to know that this is not just a scam like skype ad's or so? I mean, personally i would pay him money for learning the thechnique but only if i know that it is true.
I did never say that i dont invest into myself, i just dont want to waste my time but invest into mysels instead. You have totally no idea of who i am or about how i think and still you assume alot.
Most of the people writing comments like you do, just do that to show themselfes that they are better then the ideot that wrote that dumb comment. Actually adding "Lord" before your name already is a good indicator for that.
Yes, I agree. I was disappointed about that.
I've been watching videos about dyslexia & ADHD, both of which I believe have affected my life. I do well learning visually, but I can learn soem by reading. One of my issues is my attention span. I fall into the distraction problem, even the side panel here on this page distracts me. I am looking for the next vid that will be THE ONE that will give me what I need/
Nice talk !
Great talk!
BTW - nice shirt you've got on there Jonathan, May I ask what the brand is?
Amazing. I never realized using images, is such an effective tool to speed our ability to read, learn & memorize.
FreedomToPeople: The speaker is about the billionth person to realise this and tell others about it.
@@zoetropo1 And? The world should still be educated about such discoveries!
I'm also ADD and am so glad that my teachers are understanding and let me accommodate myself, (specifically sense i don't like medicines, lol) but i like to make my own yarn which is small, i can hide in the back keeping my hands busy and no one even bats an eye any more!
I have ADHD too. I found out in university.. Listen to me if you want, take your medication do whatever you want on the side but try it for two weeks.. it makes a huge difference.. It will make a big impact on your academic career and your future. It makes you feel like normal people. I take methylphenidate (called concerta)
Thank you
Ted is being used as marketing platforms nowadays. this is the second video of the type that saw this week.
Do little R&D about it, his teachings are quite well acclaimed and acknowledged.. More than advertisement, it's letting people know of the amazing possibilities in this area.. Don't be just an sceptic..
Why all the Indians are backing him? BECAUSE they are HIS EMPLOYEES. You can buy the indian for a penny to say anything.
Technology and Innovation, You really seem to have a pathetic relationship with brains..Y can't you just take it as a fair appreciation for his methods & techniques..You seem to be strongly biased about him, or do you really have a reason? If you don't know anything about him, some simple googling would do good to you..
It's part of content marketing, but if it's done honestly is it a bad thing?
I’ve watched several of these Ted talks about why our educational system isn’t doing as well as it could. These people while very smart fail to realize that the system they want to educate about improvement is refused. The leaders from top to bottom stand on the small yet eager shoulders of children to pass legislation and other issues with no intention whatsoever to actually improve anything with education. It is a stepping stone to them and their own self improvement financially or politically. The root issue is not lacking the capability of improvement but the refusal to want any improvement. Only to speak to those supporting this leadership and play on the emotions of children and education being most important. It’s immoral what the government and the educational system down to principals and teachers do to ignore the value of education. Then again if it was addressed and solved the learners would become wise to the scheme of their leadership further failing the most important part of learning. Trust. If you are any part of this system of learning take my words to heart and remind yourself that our world only improves as far and as fast as the education of its future leaders are taught to take it.
Love it
very good points ... and agreed present teaching methods are "outdated", well, partly at least ... but i believe the root of the problem is in "too much information" offered (by the 'educational authorities' that is!) while expecting people (students namely) to learn them in almost no time! (and most of the 'too much info' is commercial rather than educational btw: the so-called Infomercials!)
then there is 'motivation', which many people (young students more than others) don't have for learning, partly due to the reasons mentioned in the previous paragraph but mostly because they need kindness and attention (again, in case of the younger learners) more than anything else and from those 'parenting' them ...
I've realized that my biggest concern in this world is our health and education (wish I would have paid more attention to this). In order for me to make a difference in education in the U.S. what should I do? Are there organizations or social movements out there that support 'changing the school system'.
Denise Duran - Absolutely! In fact, there are many. First, decide what, exactly, needs changing; next, decide how you want to enact those changes; and lastly, decode what you want to change it INTO. Then, you can find organizations whose goals are compatible with your own.
Do you believe that our public education system was designed to educate children? That's what most people think --- but they're wrong. It was designed to create compliant, agreeable workers, who'd do as they were told and follow the rules without question. Obviously, it hasn't been a complete success, but eventually, most people do fall into line. (Watch the movie "THRIVE" here on UA-cam.)
You may think that things have changed: a few schools have, and there've always been a few great teachers sprinkled around the system. But the ultimate goal, sadly, remains unchanged.
From early childhood, parents need encourage children to be inquisitive. Motivate them to be interesting in something. Take them out to the nature and get engaged with the fathomable biodiversity and the universe. Everyone is talented with something, even a tiny thing that ordinary and average people overlook and look down at. Parents are most responsible with their kids academic and emotional development. School teachers are secondary. When parents are not interested in exploring the truth and life, you cannot expect very much. Life is an endless learning process. Pursue your beneficial interest, no matter what others think.
school is 100% brainwash - this guy looks like is a transman same as donald trump and barack obama and prince charles and arnold schatzernigga and chris helmsworth and all the other freaks in control and from hollywierd
This is a very good video and i enjoyed it.
Where can we learn what the techniques are? I am a teacher and I would like to teach my students how to learn.
Lisa Carney-Farwell, if you have students with learning disorders, forget about it. I, myself, have an LD and it goes completely ignored. Nobody wants to slow down and take the time to teach us. The end result is we go through life watching everyone else living theirs. We don't accomplish anything.
Lisa Carney-Farwell you can google for “superlearner” and you will find their website. For a beginner I would start with the Udemy course. It’s way cheaper and covers a lot. I am doing this course myself and I have to say that’s the best one about Speedreading I have seen so far. I can’t say what the more expensive courses contain (cause I didn’t enrolled them) but i think they are promising. Hope that helps you
EDIT:
The exact name on Udemy is "Become a SuperLearner V2: Learn Speed Reading & Boost Memory". I covers 50/50 Memory Training and Speedreading.
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@@f.s.2869 is that a free course? i googled it but only finde the pay version..
@patikuuu As far as I know there is no free course. The Udemy video is around 10$ and the website offers a free trial. Hope that helps.
Thanks
Decided to experiment: watching the last 5 minutes of Ted talks.Memory is key, try anki flash cards. The palace concept has lasted millennia, and if you can visualise, it is definitely a concrete learning toll.
I really like Jonathan Levi. Seems like a legit dude.
exlent
A personal story and sales pitch for his course. No techniques were given.
Need a technique? Learn what YOU find interesting. School can't teach you, YOU are the only person that can teach you.
Tip for life, if they come from Israel be quicker to ignore them because most likely they want something from you before they give you anything
I took his course and i will say worth every penny
Exactly. irrelevant video. I signed up for the course. Including this video, so far it has been almost an hour of personal story and appraisal of his course.
Half of a million wow!
I could read at 2, so never learned the "sound it out" method, just could look at a word and just know how to say it, I don't get a voice in my head, unless I'm writing and making sure my sentences will make sense.
See? There ya go! You probably taught yourself to read, as well :D
If students learned how to learn, where do the possibilities end?
I’m currently going into 10th grade and have come up to the fact that I’m not learning, but just memorizing and forgetting. I didn’t take a moment to think that learning requires one to comprehend information given to oneself in order to learn. If you memorize information, can you even understand how that information can be?
I learnt to speedread via his superlearning course in udemy
+Parvinder Nijjar (LearnSQLFree) what is your speed and retention rate?
800 wpm at about 70-80%. It would be better if I practised more.
Great !!
The speedreading is only a small aspect of the course. Jonathan, Anna and Lev help you learn more effectively.
Thank you for your insight !
Learning and memorizing are two very different things. What he is talking about are ways to improve memorization, not learning.
Aww, but I like the little narrator in my head when I read.
Great video on learning. Taking the course on Udemy!
Totally enjoyed this talk! Thanks, Jonathan!
I REALLY LUCKY TO FIND AND TO WATCH THIS VIDEO BECAUSE I BECOME INSTRUCTOR FOR THE NEXT TIME
Personal Talking, Speech must be taken in to more control. Pst And Super learning yourself through video therapia.
Simple and short but really awesome speech.
I tried out these techniques and the teachings of Jonathan's course, didn't seem to pay out at least for the things that you want to apply practically, if you just want to memorize a deck of card then you can follow the techniques in the course. And as per the title of the course I feel schools actually teach us the right way to learn.
That was really boring -- felt like I was watching an infomercial. What he's saying is true though, it is simple to improve learning capacity/skill if you put your mind to it ;)
How is this boring?
teaching kids this is what needs to happen and adults this to bridge the gap between generations
Just search the “method of loci.” It sums up all about this talk
I enjoyed the video but everything he is talking about cannot happen over night. It will take a long time to make changes like these because the teaching method that is used in school now is going on since ages. It would be great to implement these techniques and help students.
tks
I'm so happy
Levi's course in Udemy (SuperLearner) and book is a life chaging experience for anyone, no matter your education level or expertise within your field. I am 100% sure that societies will start to understand how important it is for future mankind to teach learning techniques.
Go outside,feel!and you ll understand what you see!! then you ll have curiosity for what you dont
What I think: Most of the comments are asking for the technique and kind criticizing the guy about not giving it. Oh well, TED is about to give you a point of view, not teaching you something. His point of teaching how to learn is important. Now you know what is possible, it is up to you to go get it.
Become a SuperLearner
on Udemy is a great course. Thanks Jonathan!
michelle dee I will check that out.
The main problem with memory is that we live in a dynamic changing World and not a static one which memory is a product of.
Interesting talk but there were no practical tips to learn at least one tiny method that he's so proud to talk about.
There are people who could easily learn to sight-read things other than words. I am one of them. I absolutely love words, but read quite slowly. I absolutely LOVE music, and can sight-read music (without hearing the notes first). I'd never become a composer though; that particular dream had been killed by my late mother, forever ...
But, speak to me, baby:
More about the windows-of-perception concept you raised. I'd had a speed-reading teacher who'd-once she got my money-never answered that question ...
[450 wpm when under major duress ]
"Memory Palaces" do not work well for everyone. I can remember maybe 10 locations to place new memories on, that's it. And I can ONLY use it for remembering eg. a shopping list, NOT things like new concepts. Some people DO have bad memories. I believe that those people who claim to be able to use Memory Palaces successfully must be doing something else as well, or just have a 'better' brain for using that technique. I've spent a few years practising with a Memory Palace and trying to expand it, but getting absolutely nowhere. And don't start me on the Peg system. Most of these techniques are useless for a person like me, and the pedlars of these techniques just don't seem to want to acknowledge that. I'm stuck with passive reading and rote memorization, bad techniques according to these people. Yes, I find them bad as well, but at least they work to some degree. Count yourself really lucky if memory techniques work for you, because some of us are stuck with "techniques" that just take any fun out of learning something new. I'm looking forward to the day when we REALLY begin to understand the brain, not just let some lucky few fool around with Memory Palaces etc., but find something that more people can use for real.
A.k.a., the loci method ... Mind-mapping works better, but not much better. Could not remember my 5-minute pitch notes; I'd had to improvise. Whether I'd convinced the prospect or not (in a tight market) was more of a crapshoot.
I've used mind maps with some success but only to learn relations between things (like micro organisms) or how something is organized, and here mind-mapping is great. Some people say that they can be used in many other ways to memorize eg. unrelated things, but I've had no luck doing that with mind maps. Memorizing a speech using memory palaces or mind mapping seems to me to be a waste of time. But some people are able to memorize long speeches. I just have a feeling that they're either biologically "better equipped" for such a task or that they're perhaps unconsciously using other methods as well.
Yeah, I used to know someone like that in my Toastmasters group - she never improvised a speech and in very short order, knew her speeches verbatim at different times w/ the same speech. In all my 7 years with them, I'd never found a Toastmasters group in several geographically quite diverse American cities that more than barely tolerated the use of notes or flashcards while delivering in front of the group.
Yes, some people just seem to have almost superhuman abilities in some areas. I've never had to give a real speech, but only a few work related presentations of 5-15 mins now and then. I never have any kind of notes with me, and if I use Powerpoint I never simply read out loud what everyone else can read for themselves, but put it differently. Notes seem to be viewed by some as being for people who are unsure about the topic theiy're talking about, so I just try to build a simple "road map" in my mind about what I'll say. This probably takes much more work than others can get away with, but I'm usually very satisfied with the result. The Powerpoint presentation could of course be viewed as being my "notes", but I rarely look at it when I start talking, and besides, what I say is more in depth than the Powerpoint. It would however be nice if there were some kind of technique that would work for most people. Perhaps something will be developed as the brain gets understood more in depth.
Well, please do not laugh - as Powerpoint was already popularly being used - I did deliver a speech for Toastmasters that relied on using "Props" as the assignment. I manually drew transparencies for the presentation and - finally - use of notes was not criticized by them. I did not need to use a single note. However, I do draw well (at the time, I'd been recently in practice with that art); so any slight phumpheting my improvisations were characterized by, went unnoticed.
I continued with Toastmasters even after I'd found my speechwriting "voice" ... but rehearsed speeches several hours every day. Even though I'd written them, because the actual words became at least as important by that time.
people don't need to be taught to learn, they need to be allowed to learn useful info . they learn by exploring asking questions witnessing and expirencing.
money wasted on school should be spent on job training that only teaches what is needed for the job the kid wants so there will more Drs and engineers at a younger age. people should be encouraged to do jobs like dr.
traditional school teaches mostly useless info they forget after the test.
You clearly didn't understand the point of the video but I agree with you
In fact, the only message of this Ted-talk was, that we don't learn how to learn. And that is very true. For people not aware of this message it can be mind wondering, but for those knowing this message already a long time these 15 minutes is a waste of time. He would rather come with how we could tackle that issue. Calling a cultivated disease an entrepreneurial disease is somewhat daft, which indicates his mental model about entrepreneurship is somewhat disturbed.
I think people misunderstand the point of TED talks. The only really required point of a TED talk is to inform the listener of some topic that is noteworthy. This means that it is not required to teach the listener how to, in this case, learn more effectively, but rather simply that they probably could learn better than they currently do and that it's worth their time to develop this skill. On this basis, it is up to you whether the talk succeeded. But if you do want to learn how to learn better, then one cannot hope a 14 minute talk will tell you how to do this. Now it is up to you to find the resources to accomplish this task. Yes, the speaker has a course/company that does this but it's just like any other company in that it might not be the best product. Like Tesla might have a very noble cause but there are other electric car companies out there. With respect to the Udemy course that this guy created, I've started it recently so I cannot vouch for its efficacy, but the topics it discusses are definitely things you can find online so you do not need to buy the course. What the course gives you is the following: a structured approach to learning how to learn better, tells you WHAT things are the most important (chunking, subvocalization, etc), and provides you with most of the resources to do so easily provided you put the time in. In short it does the research for you so that there is a better chance you actually go through with this endeavor. That's all. Go read the syllabus to see what you will learn and if you think you'll be able to get the same thing by researching yourself (and have enough self drive to do so) then do that.
I’m watching this instead of writing college application essays
Oh look, an advertisement for a paid service. How "enlightening."
+Peter Walsh it's nor the speaker's fault. Otherwise, I don't know what do you mean?
You are the type of client he is looking for .... DUH!
What does anybody do when they have a good idea? Sell it. Why? Because it's valuable and there is no sense in spending all of one's time on something only to not be paid for it. Good luck trying to change the world without some money to live on.
I'm sure if you shared how you live for free he would give you a copy.
Wouldn't you do the same when you have a chance like this ?
he is so fit
AHHHHHH, YEAHHHHHHHHH !!!!
I think schools should teach more real life things to find fulfillment in life.
I use that technique and it can change your life
One group of the people here thinks it's bs another that it's wonderful, some don't believe in visual memory strategies, others think the memory palace doesn't work. Some think you have to be born with a great memory to use this, some think TED talks never gives specifics, some think the speaker is cute or he has a great shirt, wow!
All I know is that if when I am thinking of something in one room and I leave that room I magically remember it when I walk back to that room.
Also, if you are laying in bed on one side obsessively thinking about something, you will find the thoughts will disappear when you lay on the opposite side.
music and pictures normally stick in the head better than reading because it appeals and it's "easier". I don't think it makes you more or less intelligent but it's a far more effective way of teaching and memorizing over trying to memorize the definition of something that's in the back of a text book.
I can’t even watch this, the title brings too much to mind my own experiences of formal education, I will come back to it when I have moved on a little further.
schools just basically teach us to remember but not to think for our selfs😥🤔🤔🤔
Laura Alexander >>>> Agree. A lot of talk and absolutely no hints or teaching that can make one try it on one´s own hand. Wouldn´t it be what everybody wants? To be as great as possible. One can get the suspicion that they don´t want everybody to be that great.
Here in Russia, 'Education' - as it's called at generic school - is the most slow-chaging goverment institution. It replicates itself and the ways it operates through schooling in formal, boring, stupefying and derogatory way. The school will have a chance to change only when the government will change. And as every capitalist goverment in the world, it's too greedy, scared and lost in its insufficiency. So the school is too is stuck in insufficiency and old-fashion way of coping with life. What we really need is a global spiritual revolution, but this is a completely different story.
wow i can think of probably less than 5 more well known photos than the one he used as an example.