How to Study Like a Learning Expert
Summary
TLDRThe speaker emphasizes the importance of prioritizing tasks, particularly focusing on studying despite administrative duties. They discuss using 'Concepts' for mind mapping and 'Rome Research' for note-taking to enhance study efficiency. The video showcases the speaker's study process, including simplifying information and utilizing techniques for better memory encoding. They advocate for studying in a way that provides mental freedom and breaks the cycle of constant revision, suggesting more efficient coding and retrieval strategies over traditional methods like flashcards.
Takeaways
- đ Prioritizing tasks is crucial for productivity, and starting with the most mentally challenging or important tasks can prevent procrastination.
- đŒ Admin tasks, like payroll and invoice management, are necessary but should be balanced with more meaningful activities.
- đ Time management is key; using available time wisely, such as an hour before a consultation, can lead to significant progress on tasks.
- đ§ Recognizing the mental barrier of studying and addressing it by scheduling dedicated study time can enhance learning efficiency.
- đ The importance of studying is emphasized over routine tasks, as it contributes to long-term skill development and personal growth.
- đ Using apps like Concepts for mind mapping and Rome Research for relational databases can aid in organizing and retaining information effectively.
- đ Simplifying notes by reducing unnecessary words and creating clear visual representations can enhance understanding and recall.
- đ The concept of 'encoding' versus 'retrieval' is introduced, highlighting the need for efficient learning techniques beyond just memorization.
- đ Space repetition and active recall are mentioned as supplementary techniques to an effective study system, rather than the sole reliance for learning.
- đ The video script suggests that breaking free from the 'study grind' requires adopting different strategies and techniques than those commonly used by most students.
Q & A
What is the primary task the speaker considers as the biggest mental challenge for the day?
-The primary task the speaker considers as the biggest mental challenge for the day is studying, which they find to be the most important task.
What administrative tasks does the speaker mention needing to complete?
-The speaker mentions needing to complete payroll, send out invoices, and follow up on about 30 different emails.
How does the speaker plan to prioritize their tasks for the day?
-The speaker plans to prioritize their tasks by starting with the most mentally challenging task, which is studying, before moving on to the administrative tasks.
Why does the speaker believe it's important to start with studying even though they have administrative tasks?
-The speaker believes it's important to start with studying because it's a task they might put off due to fatigue from consultations later in the day, and not doing it would make them feel like they lost the day.
What is the speaker's perspective on the relationship between studying and time management?
-The speaker views studying as a task that can lead to a spiral of never having enough time if not approached correctly, emphasizing the need to learn how to study efficiently to avoid being trapped in a cycle of constant busyness without progress.
What note-taking app does the speaker recommend for mind mapping and why?
-The speaker recommends the app 'Concepts' for mind mapping because of its good organization features, infinite canvas, and pen pressure sensitivity, which are not commonly found in other note-taking apps.
How does the speaker use the app 'Rome Research' in their study process?
-The speaker uses 'Rome Research' as a relational database app to annotate and organize information from different sources, which is helpful for research and postgraduate studies.
What is the speaker's approach to reducing cognitive load during studying?
-The speaker's approach to reducing cognitive load is to simplify the mind map by reducing unnecessary words and organizing complex ideas into simpler, more visual representations.
Why does the speaker choose to study before their consultations even though they have limited time?
-The speaker chooses to study before their consultations to ensure that the important task of studying is completed, and the remaining work acts as motivation to finish it after consultations.
What is the speaker's advice for students who feel overwhelmed by the amount of content they need to learn?
-The speaker advises students to focus on higher efficiency in coding and understanding, rather than relying solely on retrieval practices like flashcards, to break away from the constant grind of forgetting and relearning.
How does the speaker feel about the amount of content covered after their study session?
-The speaker feels satisfied with the amount of content covered, equating it to what a final year high school student might cover in three to four weeks, despite having studied for only about two hours in total.
Outlines
đ Prioritizing Tasks and Overcoming Procrastination
The speaker begins by acknowledging the various tasks they need to accomplish, highlighting studying as the most mentally challenging and important task for the day. They also mention administrative tasks such as payroll and responding to emails. With limited time before a consultation, the speaker decides to tackle the administrative tasks first. They discuss the importance of prioritizing tasks and the common issue of feeling unproductive despite completing many tasks. The speaker emphasizes the significance of starting with tasks that are often postponed, like studying, to ensure they contribute to personal growth. They also touch on the mental barrier students face when studying and the need to learn effective study techniques to avoid being trapped in a cycle of insufficient time and skills. The speaker decides to start with studying, using an app called 'Concepts' for mind mapping, which they find superior for organization and canvas flexibility. They also mention using 'Rome Research' for note-taking and information organization, which is particularly useful for research and postgraduate work.
đ§ Streamlining Study Techniques and Information Management
The speaker continues by discussing their study process, emphasizing the importance of starting with the most challenging tasks to avoid procrastination. They explain their use of 'Concepts' for mind mapping, focusing on the app's features like organization and pen pressure sensitivity. The speaker then shares tips on simplifying mind maps by reducing unnecessary words, which helps in visualizing the flow of ideas more clearly. They also demonstrate how to simplify complex diagrams by identifying common elements and reducing redundancy. The speaker advocates for efficient coding techniques during study sessions, which can reduce the reliance on spaced repetition for memorization. They suggest that by improving the initial encoding of information, one can retain more and forget less, thus needing less revision. The speaker concludes this part by reflecting on their progress after two study sessions, noting that they have covered a significant amount of content in a short time, thanks to their study techniques.
đ Achieving Mental Freedom Through Effective Study Habits
In the final paragraph, the speaker discusses the benefits of effective study habits, particularly the mental freedom that comes from not having to constantly worry about studying and revising. They suggest that by studying in advance and then spending the rest of the time practicing and working with the knowledge, one can break away from the daily grind. The speaker contrasts this with the common approach of relying on spaced repetition and active recall, which they argue is less efficient. They encourage viewers to learn more about these techniques through their course or other videos. The speaker emphasizes the need to change the study process fundamentally to achieve higher efficiency in learning and memory encoding. They conclude by reiterating the importance of adopting different study methods to achieve academic success and break free from the cycle of constant studying.
Mindmap
Keywords
đĄPrioritization
đĄAdmin tasks
đĄConsultation
đĄMental barrier
đĄMind maps
đĄInfinite canvas
đĄPen pressure sensitivity
đĄRelational database
đĄEncoding
đĄSpace repetition
đĄActive recall
Highlights
The speaker emphasizes the importance of prioritizing tasks, suggesting starting with the most mentally challenging ones to avoid procrastination.
Admin tasks such as payroll and invoice management are acknowledged as necessary but not as fulfilling as more meaningful tasks like studying.
The speaker decides to tackle studying first, despite having only an hour left before a consultation, to ensure it gets done.
Studying is described as a common task that people often put off, which can lead to a feeling of unproductivity at the end of the day.
The importance of not just filling time but doing meaningful work that changes one's situation or status is discussed.
The speaker advocates for starting with tasks that are likely to be postponed but are crucial for personal growth.
The concept of mental barriers to studying and the need to overcome them is introduced.
The speaker shares their strategy for studying, which includes using an app called 'Concepts' for mind mapping.
The benefits of 'Concepts' app, such as its infinite canvas and pen pressure sensitivity, are highlighted.
The speaker explains their approach to studying by building on previous knowledge and using mind maps for organization.
The use of 'Rome Research' app for annotating and organizing research materials is recommended.
A tip for simplifying mind maps by reducing unnecessary words to improve visualization and idea flow is given.
The speaker demonstrates how to simplify complex ideas in mind maps for better understanding and memorization.
The importance of studying efficiently to gain mental freedom and avoid the daily grind of constant revision is discussed.
The speaker shares their progress after two hours of studying, covering a significant amount of content.
The benefits of studying in advance to free up time for practicing and applying knowledge are explained.
The speaker concludes by encouraging viewers to learn more efficient studying techniques to break away from the typical study grind.
Transcripts
so there are a number of things that i
need to do today and i could start by
working on the thing that i know is the
the biggest mental thing for for me
which is going to be studying studying
is going to be the big task it's the
most important thing that i need to do
today but i've also got a ton of admin
stuff i need to do i need a payroll for
my stuff
i need to stand out a bunch of invoices
i need to
follow up on like 30 different emails i
know that's all stuff that has to happen
today
so right now i've got like an hour left
i'm pretty sure before my consultation
begins so i could probably get all of
that admin stuff done right now before
my consultation and there will be time
done and that's one approach of how to
prioritize your tasks and some people
will do that it depends you know how i
would feel that day but right now i know
in myself that the studying is something
that i find is really really important
and it's something that i might end up
putting off because i've got four hours
of consultations back to back by the end
of that i may be so damn tired that i
just cannot be bothered studying and
then
even if i get my admin stuff done i
still feel like i lost that day because
i didn't do the stuff that was important
this is a really common thing is to have
a lot of things that you need to do in a
certain day however by the end of the
day you may have been filling that time
but you still don't feel like you got
anything meaningful that was done
anything that changed the situation or
change the status and often studying and
learning is one of those things like for
example
students often find it a mental barrier
and
put off by having to spend time to learn
how to study properly but not spending
that time and learning how to study
properly is actually detrimenting
overall because then you're just
constantly trapped in the spiral of
never having enough time because you're
never increasing your skills beyond the
the challenges of what you need on a
day-to-day basis and so for me i always
like to start with the things that i
know these are the things that i'm going
to end up either putting off but they're
the things that are going to make a
difference i know that tomorrow it's not
going to be any easier to find time for
me to study i've got plenty of things i
need to do tomorrow and i know the day
after is going to be the same and the
future is unknown you know i may have a
total like today today was meant to be
completely free but it ends up being
really packed full of things i need to
do so
therefore i'm going to start by doing
some study and i know i'm not going to
finish however the work left undone is
also going to further motivate me to
finish it after my consultations are all
finished rather than the procrastination
of having to start something knowing
that i'm kind of halfway through
is going to further motivate me as well
so i'm going to start with the studying
and i'm going to show you exactly how i
do it and how everything builds um and
then hopefully
through these videos you'll see a little
bit more about how this whole system
kind of builds on itself so let's get
into that
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now because people always ask me uh the
app that i'm using for my mind maps and
everything is called concepts it's
available on
windows or
ios it's the best note-taking app as far
as i know because of the fact that it
has reasonably good organization and
it's also got infinite canvas and there
are not many note-taking apps that have
true infinite canvas and also nice
looking pen pressure sensitivity and so
that that's why and uh those of you that
are going through the course you'll
you'll realize why it's so important and
the vast majority of the students going
through the course do end up using
something like concepts so if you're
interested in downloading i'll check a
link uh down below in the description as
well
um so the first thing i'm going to do is
just chuck up all my tabs onto my other
monitor over here so i can use this just
as a
drawing tablet
and you can see that there's quite a lot
of reading that i need to do and i've
now got 52 minutes to go
uh but i'll be building on the prime the
set of understanding that i had from my
previous session which is still mentally
very very strong it's been a few days
since i've done this um however i'm
feeling very very comfortable with the
topic um and when i look at the my map
it's just straight away there and you
can see there's a lot of blanks and
spaces in between
uh the map which allows me to have a lot
of freedom
when it comes to filling things in and
moving things around and arranging
things in space a little bit better and
it means that i've got a backbone that i
can build stuff on and so i can
basically start from any one of these
points and just expand on it because
i've got the fundamental flow of
information there i don't have to really
worry about the organization so much you
know my previous videos i'm really
focusing on the organization aspect with
these ones i already know how the
information is going to fit so again
i've already got the organizational
system so this part should actually be
surprisingly much faster and so i don't
know exactly how much i've got to get
through there is quite a significant
amount of reading to do here
now one thing that i do uh because i
know that i'm not going to have to
recall a lot of this detail from memory
because that's not the way that i'm
really being assessed anymore and
actually as you continue to go through
the years less and less of what you need
is through just memorization of things
because you usually have it on reference
on hand or something like that um so the
the way that i do it is i use a app
called rome rome research um and i
uh will annotate things and i'll put it
into rome as i go and it's a it's a
relational database type of um
of an app that's better for kind of
relating multiple different concepts
that come from different sources
together really really good for research
or postgraduate stuff and actually if i
knew about this i would have used it all
throughout med school as well well it
didn't actually even exist back then but
it's a really good uh app to use i think
at the moment it's probably the best
that what it does in terms of creating
like relational information it's much
better than notion in that case notion
is more for just general organization of
ideas
so what i'm doing is i'm offloading a
lot of that onto that
however if i wasn't using that and i did
need to have it off memory uh off for
recall for like a test or exam then i
would spend this time to put those
little things potentially onto
flashcards or integrate them into my
mymap in a way or use some other kind of
memorization technique of there are you
know multiple different methods or
systems available out there for use
depending on the type of information i
want to memorize and how i want to
memorize it and again if you're wanting
to know exactly that start to end
process of how i go through studying and
exactly what information i use in
different ways and all the techniques
associated with that in a step-by-step
way
you can check the link below to have a
look at the study skills course that i
have
you can interact with me and learn my
techniques and ask me questions as well
anyway back to it
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a small point and a quick tip that i'll
like to point out uh just fyi here's
where i am in terms of my mind map so
far
[Music]
so i've got i've got here um some words
it says social emotional climate social
emotional competencies and educational
outcomes and commonly what i'll see a
lot of students doing even when they're
going through their mind maps and stuff
is they'll be writing those exact words
down and it's a very quick tip what you
can do is just reduce the words that are
unnecessary and it'll just simplify the
picture a little bit so you can see for
example i've only written climate
competencies and outcomes because it's a
topic about social emotional learning
i'm not going to forget that it's a
social emotional climate i'm not going
to somehow think that it's actually
talking about the temperature and
outcomes it's a topic about education i
know it's an educational outcome so if
there was an exception to that then
maybe i'd write that down like a mental
health outcome but i know it's not so i
don't need to write that down it just
reduces the words a little bit it just
simplifies the picture and it makes it
easier to visualize the flow of ideas
and how things are moving and another
quick example of how thinking about what
you're writing down for a moment can
really help to simplify and organize
more complicated ideas easily you can
see in this graph that there are a bunch
of different arrows here and it can be a
little bit hard to follow but and
students would often actually just write
this or draw this down exactly but if
you look at it really carefully what you
can notice is that actually all of these
arrows lead to kind of the same thing so
it can actually be simplified like this
right so now we have a much clearer
image of exactly what's going on
and it's just a little bit the shape you
can see is straight away it looks a
little bit simpler and a little bit
easier to remember and it's just not as
confusing so just like a tiny little
things that just a little bit of
thinking can really help to simplify now
this applied across an entire subject
you can imagine that the actual total
load that is reduced by even though in
this particular instances just a little
bit uh it really starts to stack up and
a more simplified understanding in your
mind means that as you're reading and
learning more it's easier to make those
connections and organize information
because you're just less burdened by
miscellaneous isolated facts floating
around and they're you know frantically
trying to organize them if you organize
as you go it's a lot easier to encode it
it's a lot easier to retain it you
forget less of it and therefore you need
to rely less on things like space
repetition in order to maintain that
awareness now you still will need things
like space repetition like i always say
it's a good adjunct to an existing
system but it's not going to be the
thing that really separates you out
unless you're doing absolutely no
revision but if you are you may find
that space repetition actually makes it
overwhelming in terms of how much you
need to study on a weekly or monthly
basis and this is the way that you break
out of that spiral you work on that
higher efficiency in coding and and all
of the different techniques that i teach
that are related to that
and it probably seems like no time has
passed but actually it's been four hours
i've had all of my um consultations and
things for the day and it's all done i'm
feeling surprisingly not very tired but
i forgot to have lunch so i'm just gonna
have some food right now and get back
into it but i thought i'd just show you
where i'm at at the moment in terms of
the system that i'm using and what the
situation is i'm at a level where my
knowledge of this topic is definitely
getting down to those details and it's
much more in depth and i feel like i
really could seriously discuss some of
these topics in them a lot of a lot of
detail and and remember at this point in
time i've only actually studied this
once a few days ago uh for like just
over an hour or actually just under an
hour and then once today for
50 minutes so in total there's only
about two hours of studying that's being
done
however i have covered a very
considerable amount of content probably
equivalent to a
final year high school
uh
three or four weeks of school now
obviously you know this video is not
really designed to be viewed in
isolation so if there are any techniques
i'm using that you're not really 100
sure about or you're just totally
confused about check out my other videos
or just leave a comment down below if
you want to get into it straight away
and you just want to learn how to do all
of this stuff for yourself then again
check the link below and um you can sign
up for my course so that's my study for
the week for this paper that's i'm
pretty much done now and that that
obviously gives me a lot of mental
freedom uh and that mental freedom is
the
knowledge that i don't have to worry
about you know studying more and reading
more things i can have the knowledge in
my head and i can spend the rest of the
week working with that knowledge you
know doing assignments things like that
so those of you that are still in school
you know it's the the idea would be like
okay study the the month in advance and
then for the rest of the month all
you're doing is practicing that
knowledge working with that knowledge
asking yourself challenging questions
things like that other revision
techniques that i um you know teach in
the course or we'll go through in other
youtube videos
so that's the idea is that in order to
break away from the crowd in order to
in order to um
be in a position where you're free from
the rat race of the daily grind you need
to be doing something that's actually
gonna free you from it you can't do the
same thing that got you into the grind
and then expected doing more of the
thing that got you in the grind is gonna
take you out of the grind uh you have to
do the thing that people that are in the
grind are not doing and at this current
state of time
uh people on the grind are on the space
repetition active recall
flash cards past papers grind they are
just relying on this endless retrieval
and fighting uphill against this like
wave of constant forgetting
but if you're just fundamentally
changing the process by having a higher
efficiency in coding and then you're
using the retrieval again as well and by
the way if these are terms that are not
that familiar to you you're not really
sure what i mean when i say encoding
versus retrieval and all that sort of
stuff then watch my other video about
how memory works and uh how how we can
use that to our advantage and then
you'll realize how it doesn't make
mathematical sense to be relying on
something like flash cards uh for like
the rest of your life or to get you know
top grades when the the vast majority of
students that are using flashcards are
not getting those grades that you want
to be great getting unless you the grade
you want to be getting is just the past
which is totally cool if that's your
thing but most of the people are
watching this probably that's not where
your goal lies thanks for paying
attention and i will catch you in the
next one
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