@krishnarao1044
1. Active recall 2. Teach yourself or others 3. Mix up topics to make sure you aren’t cheating by knowing the pattern or topic already 4. Think of concrete examples in real world scenarios to apply your topic
@patrickjreid
I have thought for years that learning how to learn is what schools should focus on starting with grade 1, we should be teaching kids how to learn and even how to memorize things from an early age. And since kids don't have to have entire phone books stored in their memory anymore they should memorize poetry and recite it in front of the class. But every subject should be taught such that they are learning to learn. It would be so much more fun!
@AverageGooner-j2s
The video starts at 4:12
@Mzansi74
What works for me. 1. Read it once. 2. Read it again by wRiting the key words. 3. Recite: recall what I can 4. Solve a problem using it 5. Let it Soak for a day or two 6. Create Scenarios to apply it Then you are ready to start the real learning - real 3R 3S
@RahulSoni-xv4cz
saw your video on 'make it stick' about 1 year ago. I started following your method and it and it works really great. I follow that everyday. Thanks a Lot !!!
@gianlucap634
For maths I found that the only way is exercise and interleaving: when faced with a problem you could be using any of the tools learned so far so you have to have understood them to actually do it. Initially it feels like hell but it pays off
@scaredcrower
Re-readingi s the best learning method. As an INTP I get distracted from doing my homework by reading the dictionary. I can't listen in class because the board is far away and students create noise and the teacher stops and starts, but I can open a well written textbook by 12 PhDs from the local province, and read it cover to cover twice to learn the material better than the teacher knows it. The key is to have your mind open not closed, not filter anything out. I've noticed most people have a filter, whatever they don't already know, bounces away and doesn't enter their mind. You must be vulnerable to have outside information change fundamentally who you are and your beliefs about the world. Believe and trust everything you hear. Be like a child. And your mind must be swirling with associations, dreams, connections, ideas, like in that state when you are going to sleep or just waking up. "Too many people have a straight and linear mind, especially the MBTI J types. They don't care about anything irrelevant, they just want to get the job done. Fuc k the job. Get lost, get immersed in a kaleidoscope of information and ideas, become the material that you're learning and then you will learn.
@ArnoldFreeman-n9g
Active recall with flash cards got me through college. I actually remembered so much I could embarrass the professor by remembering more then he did from the course book.
@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time
Also it helps to love what you are trying to learn and understand.
@LandMineFX
5.972 x 10^24kg. I read a book called Mathemagics when I was younger that used a phonetic method of recalling numbers. I didn't practice at it long enough to become good at the math portion, but learned enough to remember long numbers (when I use the technique right)
@bernym4047
5.972 X 10^24. That was a test of my learning skills. (I didn't cheat). My process was thus: 5.9 is just less than 6 so 5 is the most significant number. 9 is 2 greater than 7 so 7 follows 9 & 2 follows 7. Then I only had to remember the exponent of the multiplier 10.... I think the fact that I assigned fairly random attributes to the different parts of the number made my brain do some extra work which cemented it in my memory. I had a similar experience of teachers and early schooling as yourself. Most teachers used 'brute force' teaching of their subject instead of firstly teaching us how to learn. I wonder how many hundreds of hours I wasted... Thank you for a most useful video. Subscribed.
@lylewyant3356
I've been living some of these ideas lately. I am currently working thru several types of computer problems all at once. Rebuilding, upgrading and software compatibility issues. Part of the problem is knowing what you don't know and what questions to ask.
@NaveedaFinkelstein
You always manage to simplify complex topics. Love your content!
@stevenlarsen1875
Thinking rather than consumption
@jeremytipton6076
The only thing that has ever worked for me is to constantly think of questions the whole time I'm reading, especially anytime I hit something I'm not sure of. I often skip around or even get multiple outside sources of info until the meaning stops being blurry and vague.
@adrianned4230
Flashing back to high school being graded on my ability to use a specific note taking system that wasn't doing anything for me but was the majority of daily grade. So glad it wasn't just me
@bepreparedforwhatscoming4975
The poor guy doesn’t look like he sleeps. This doesn’t seem to be a very sustainable way of life..
@mimosveta
I washed dishes after watching this video, and now i will "retrieve" what I remember of this video. To start off, he's again referencing the bloom's taxonomy of learning, which is like a pyramid of stages of learning, with 3 lower stages, remembering, understanding and application (as in solving a math problem with what you just "learned" are lower level's of learning, and as he claims, are what most of us do, and get satisfied with, and don't really go into deeper levels of learning, the upper rungs of a triangle, where are analyze (which I remembered cause I can never remember how to write word analyze), [one other], and finally creation. so, that's pretty much making sense to me, as I keep remembering how I was learning to code, and when I first watched tutorials explaining how "you use loops to repeat some operation many times" or you "use if blocks to only do an operation if condition is met" I was thinking to my self "well, that's easy, that makes perfect sense", but, when I wanted to code something, I couldn't do it. until I watched some odd tutorial about animations, where all those loops and if blocks and what not, were used in context, and they suddenly made sense, I've been coding (creating) ever since. sic: check if there are people complaining about bloom's taxonomy as if it's too simplistic or repetitive or something after that intro, he proceeds to explain how most of us are learning and how "THAT'S ALL WRONG" and at least, it's wrong how we're all doing, and that before we flip out at him, we should wait cause he will explain how to use these "techniques" in a much better way, that will actually work" so those methods that don't work, are 1) re-reading - studies show it doesn't work, yadda yadda, just take twice as much time. 2) highlighting - I can vouch to this, I always highlight things I find most interesting, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the most important or even the part I'm least likely to remember. finally 3) note taking. blasphemy for sure. then he proceeds to explain the most effective ways of learning, the first one being 1) retrieval - which is what I'm doing here. he says to make a 5 minute break after reading (watching video, to wash the dishes) and then "take notes" of everything you can remember, without referencing the original text. you get another 5 minutes to retrieve information. after doing that, you get to "re-read" in order to compare what you just wrote, with what's actually in original text, and at this point you get to "highlight" - which I think we'd all agree is the main reason we even are learning, so we can color in the books, and you highlight the things you missed! duh. he also says to use flash cards for retrieval but not to cheat, but to me, not cheating seems like cheating, cause you can't look at the card until you have an answer, and if you never have an answer, you can go outside and play football 2) elaboration - where we basically explain the topic to ourselves and ask ourselves probing questions man there were 5 of these... 3) mix and match was in there, don't just do one topic, cause if you do, you'll always know what the answer must contain, and if you mix different areas of the subject, you'd have to be on your toes all the time, and after all, when you're taking a test, you're usually asked about different topics, and then mixing while learning, will be another way of preparation for exam. sic: he did say that one of these 5, of which I remember only 3, is similar to feynman method - see what's that all about... well, lucky me, I get to highlight in this case highlighs: the mid rung of bloom's high level learning was: "evaluate" the two missing "good learning methods" are "concrete examples" - this is definitely my weak area, I can never for the life of me think of any example of anything, it's like I don't even live in the world... and something he referred to as "dual coding, or words and pictures" which I didn't "take notes" about at all, and I think at that time I came up with the plan of doing this write-up, hence I wasn't paying attention any more, so, I'm just gonna guess it's to draw things you're learning about so you can see them and that will supposedly help, especially if you're like me a sufferer of aphantasia, good luck doing mind maps when you can't visualize anything - can't even calculate in my head
@andrewcox4324
I think i need to apply this to learning a new programming language, and style. Time to follow those tips on ruby on Rails. I have a busy week ahead of me now.
@imsanj