The Unique Behaviours of Top 0.1% Students
Summary
TLDRThe speaker discusses the qualities that distinguish top students from their peers, emphasizing that success in learning is not just about knowing techniques but implementing effective habits and overcoming barriers. They highlight the importance of critical thinking in refining study methods and the pitfalls of relying on luck or copying others' strategies. The transcript contrasts the reactive, hope-based approach of average students with the proactive, methodical strategies of top learners, who focus on understanding and addressing the root causes of poor performance.
Takeaways
- đ Top students have often been successful long before achieving top results, indicating that success is a process and not just a single event.
- đ Different individuals can have vastly different outcomes from the same teaching method, suggesting that personal attributes and habits play a significant role in academic success.
- đ The speaker's personal journey from being a student to an educator highlights the evolution of learning strategies and the importance of adapting to one's own learning style.
- đĄ Quick tips and tricks may not be impactful enough for long-term success; instead, a deeper understanding of effective learning practices is necessary.
- đ The enjoyment of the learning process is crucial; top learners often find studying engaging and enjoyable, which is a key to their success.
- đ Barriers to improvement are often more significant than the lack of knowledge about the best techniques, and addressing these barriers is essential for progress.
- đ The prerequisites of excellence, such as a growth mindset and the ability to adapt, are more important than specific techniques themselves.
- 𧩠Fixed habits and preconceived notions about learning can hinder progress, especially when they are not based on effective methods.
- đ Top learners are less attached to their methods and more focused on refining them based on outcomes, showing a willingness to experiment and adapt.
- đ€ The importance of challenging one's own learning methods and doing more with less, rather than simply increasing study time or techniques, is emphasized.
- đ When faced with poor exam results, top students critically analyze their methods and make necessary adjustments, rather than relying on luck or hope.
Q & A
What is the main theory presented in the script about top students?
-The main theory is that top students have been top students long before they achieved top results, suggesting that their success is not just about the techniques they use, but also about their inherent habits and attitudes towards learning.
Why do two people taught the same technique sometimes have different outcomes?
-Different outcomes occur because each person's habits, attitudes, and approaches to learning are unique, which can affect how effectively they implement the technique.
What is the speaker's view on quick tips and tricks for learning found on social media?
-The speaker believes that while quick tips can be helpful, they are often not impactful enough to produce a sustainable, long-term impact on learning.
What does the speaker suggest is the key to becoming a top learner?
-The speaker suggests that the key to becoming a top learner is to find a method of studying that is engaging and enjoyable, and to focus on removing barriers to improvement rather than just acquiring new techniques.
Why do most people struggle with studying even though they love to learn?
-Most people struggle with studying because the methods they use are not helping them learn effectively, making the process less enjoyable and more of a chore.
What is the difference between knowing how to be good at something and actually being good at it?
-Knowing how to be good involves understanding the techniques and methods, while actually being good requires implementing those methods effectively and overcoming personal barriers to improvement.
Why are some students resistant to changing their learning habits?
-Some students are resistant to change due to preconceived notions about what learning should look like, cultural influences, and the fear of the unknown that comes with trying new methods.
What is the speaker's advice for students who are struggling with learning and not achieving the desired results?
-The speaker advises these students to be more critical of their current methods, to experiment with new approaches, and to focus on doing more with less rather than simply doing more.
What is the role of barriers to improvement in the learning process?
-Barriers to improvement can prevent students from becoming better learners. The most successful learners are those who can systematically remove these barriers, allowing them to improve over time.
How do top learners differ in their approach to learning compared to average students?
-Top learners are more critical of their methods, less attached to them, and more focused on the process of refining their techniques. They are also more open to change and experimentation to find what works best for them.
What is the common mistake that average students make when facing bad exam results?
-The common mistake is relying on luck for improvement, hoping the next exam will be better without critically analyzing why they performed poorly and making necessary adjustments to their study methods.
How should a top learner respond to feeling overwhelmed during studying?
-A top learner should analyze the causes of their overwhelm and adjust their methods accordingly to improve their learning efficiency and address the specific issues causing the feeling of being overwhelmed.
What is the importance of not copying success directly from other top learners?
-Copying success directly can be ineffective because each individual has different learning styles, experiences, and contexts. It's important to find what works best for one's own brain and situation.
What is the speaker's final advice for students looking to improve their learning effectiveness?
-The speaker advises students to challenge their methods, focus on doing more with less, and seek to understand and apply effective learning strategies rather than just accumulating more techniques or hours of study.
Outlines
đ Understanding What Makes a Top Student
The speaker proposes that top students have always had the potential to be top students long before they achieve high results. Through personal experience and working with numerous students, the speaker emphasizes that while quick tips may offer temporary help, sustainable improvement comes from deeper, more impactful changes. A major insight is that effective learning involves removing barriers and creating engaging, enjoyable study methods. The focus is on systematic improvement rather than just knowing techniques.
đĄ Adapting Learning Methods for Better Outcomes
The speaker discusses how top learners critically evaluate their study methods and adapt them to enhance effectiveness. Unlike average students who stick to familiar yet ineffective methods due to anxiety and fear of change, top students are more flexible and open to experimentation. The importance of understanding one's unique learning needs and avoiding blind imitation of others is highlighted, as personalized approaches lead to better results.
đ Key Strategies for Academic Success
Three common scenarios are examined to illustrate the difference between average and top students' approaches to learning. For bad exam results, lack of confidence, and feeling overwhelmed, top students analyze and adjust their methods, focusing on targeted improvements rather than just increasing study hours. The speaker offers a step-by-step program for effective study techniques and emphasizes the importance of learning about learning to make informed decisions. The overall message is that becoming a top student is about cultivating the right habits and responses rather than innate ability.
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Keywords
đĄTop students
đĄAcademic success
đĄLearning methods
đĄBarriers to improvement
đĄHabits of learning
đĄCritical thinking
đĄStatus quo bias
đĄOverwhelm
đĄEfficiency
đĄPrerequisites of Excellence
đĄLeaders vs. Followers
Highlights
Top students often exhibit traits of excellence before achieving top results.
Different individuals can have wildly different outcomes using the same technique.
The speaker has been academically successful and evolved their learning strategies over time.
Quick tips and tricks often lack the impact for sustainable, long-term academic success.
Patterns of effective learning emerge from working with students one-on-one over the years.
Most people love to learn but dislike studying due to ineffective study methods.
A small percentage of viewers will achieve top results despite educational content consumption.
The importance of educators producing wide-reaching impact through their teachings.
Most people have barriers to improvement rather than a lack of knowledge on techniques.
Successful learners systematically remove barriers to progressively improve their skills.
The prerequisites for excellence are more critical than the techniques themselves.
High school and university students often have fixed habits that hinder their learning effectiveness.
Entrepreneurs and CEOs have more flexible learning habits and wider beliefs about success.
Outdated mainstream learning techniques may not be effective based on current brain research.
Top learners are critical of their methods and open to refining them for better outcomes.
Struggling learners often attach insecurity to their methods, hindering experimentation.
Copying success is not effective due to individual differences in learning styles and contexts.
The goal is to challenge methods and do more with less, focusing on efficiency over quantity.
Three scenarios illustrate the differences between average and top students' responses to challenges.
Top students focus on cause and effect relationships to understand and improve their results.
The speaker offers a step-by-step program for improving study skills based on evidence and experience.
Reflection on one's habits and tendencies is crucial for aspiring to be a top learner.
Transcripts
okay I have got this Theory and that is
that top students have been top students
long before they ever got a top result
so I have known for a very long time
that you can teach two different people
the exact same technique and they can
have wildly different results what is it
that makes a top student at the top and
just for some context I think I've
managed to be reasonably academically
successful in my own life but the
version of me like 18 years old trying
to plaw my way into medical school is
very different from the version of me
that graduated medical school and then
after working with so many students
trying to help them to become
academically successful as well I've
learned a lot of things because yes
there are tips and tricks that you could
see on like a 30-second Tik Tok but at
the end of the day a lot of those really
quick tips and tricks are not impactful
enough to produce a sustainable
long-term impact and when you work with
so many students oneon-one for so many
years there are certain patterns that
you see in terms of what works and what
doesn't now when it comes to being a top
learner most people can train themselves
to use a method of studying where it
feels more engaging and more enjoyable
where they are good enough at it that
they actually find the process to be
enjoyable because most humans really
love to learn but most people really do
not like to study because the way they
study is not actually helping them learn
effectively and I talk about this topic
literally all the time in all my other
videos however I also know that only a
very small percentage of the people that
watch my videos will be able to achieve
those really top results and as an
educator what's really important for me
is that I'm producing as much of an
impact as widely as possible because
obviously just watching a video on
learning is not really enough otherwise
everyone will be a super efficient
learner it's different between knowing
how to be good and actually being good
so I think the first part is to
understand that the reason most people
don't get bitter in the first place is
because they have barriers to
Improvement rather than not knowing the
next best Technique No one is really
good when they first start learning
something and everyone is going to have
some kind of challenge as they're trying
to improve so the people that are the
most successful are the ones that are
able to systematically remove those
barriers progressively so that one day
they actually get to being good everyone
is capable of improving but no one can
improve if the barriers are not removed
and this is why I think these
prerequisites of Excellence are actually
more important than techniques
themselves and one of the biggest
barriers that I see especially with
students that are in high school and
University becomes really clear when I
think about working with students versus
working with like entrepreneurs and CEOs
one of the biggest differences is that
often when I work with like an
entrepreneur they haven't necessarily
done amazing in school and they haven't
been in school for like potentially
decades so when I teach them to learn
more efficiently it's a little bit more
of a blank slate they don't have such
strong habits of learning and they're
not so fixed and also their belief about
what they can do and how they can
succeed is a little bit wider it's a
little bit more holistic there isn't a
preconceived notion that I have to do
this in order to be successful whereas
often when I work with students they
have very very fixed habits partially
like cultural and from their own
previous history as well as what like
teachers and the education system around
them tells them this is how you need to
learn this is what you need to study
this is how many hours you need to study
and they're comparing themselves with
their friends and you know their family
friends you know like distant cousin or
whatever whereas when I work with these
high power really successful
entrepreneurs they know that they don't
have to do the same thing as everyone
else like they're free to explore and
experiment and understand themselves and
then build something that works for them
and here's a really really good reason
why you should not really place that
much value and important on your
existing habits of learning they are
probably not that good and I'm not
saying that in like a way like I'm not
like indirectly dissing you the point is
that most of the habits that we form on
learning are based on just our prior
experiences like you learn a certain way
going you know through early childhood
and then entering into like primary
school and secondary school and our
habits of learning are often not really
based on someone teaching us a right
method they're just things that we tried
and then the people around us did and
then teachers told us that we should do
and it's just kind of a mix of all of
these things if you asked me like 20
years ago what's the best way to study
there just really wasn't a lot of
research to know and the research that
was there was honestly like not very
good and so the techniques that have
become
mainstream are really like outdated and
we know a lot more about how the brain
works and how learning should be now
than we did a decade ago and then now
when we add in the idea of like
competition and insecurity and anxiety
we really lean into the status quo bias
which is this cognitive bias that means
that we don't like to change we like to
keep things the same and stable and when
we introducing change if there's an exam
coming up around the corner that creates
insecurity and anxiety and then we're
not willing to experiment and that means
that our habits just get
with a top top learner one of the things
that I very consistently find is that
they are much more critical about what
works and what doesn't and they are much
less attached to their methods and they
are more attached to the process they
use to refine their methods when I talk
with people that are like really
struggling with learning and they
haven't had great experiences and
they're not achieving great results
there's a lot of dependency and like
insecurity attached with their learning
there are certain methods that they've
been told work that they have used and
they know it doesn't really work that
well for them however they just continue
to attach themselves to it because the
idea of moving on to something else
creates a lot of that anxiety really top
Learners they are much more focused on
just producing the result like if
they're using a method and it's not
quite producing the outcome that they
want they are much faster and more
aggressive and more open to changing it
up and experimenting on it to figure out
the combin that does work for them and
they don't care so much about what other
people are doing they are in a way I
suppose more like leaders rather than
followers and so in a way it's kind of
like a poetic irony because a lot of
lower Achievers you know people that are
like really really struggling they're
just trying to get the pass or they're
like putting in like 100 hours a week
studying and they're still not getting
the results as that other like top
learner their main method of trying to
improve is to just copy success they see
a top learner doing something and they
just straight away copy that not
realizing that you can't do that because
you're not the same and so finding what
works for your brain and your level of
processing experience is really
important because if you don't you're
going to be continually trying to copy
this other person using their techniques
and wondering why you're not getting the
same results it's kind of like trying to
learn how to drive a car for the first
time by watching Formula 1 races a lot
of what they're doing is just not going
to be applicable to you because you
either do not have the vehicle or you're
not operating in that kind of context so
one of the biggest pieces of advice that
I would give is don't try to copy
success don't use that as your Milestone
the goal for any learner trying to
become more effective and more efficient
is to challenge their methods and to try
to do more with less it's not about
having more techniques it's not about
having more hours it is is about using
the same number of hours and the same
number of techniques but trying to get
more value out of it if you're using
like four different techniques for
studying and you're already studying
like 50 60 hours a week doing more is
not going to make a difference you need
to do less and get the same result or
greater that's the way that you're going
to increase your Effectiveness because
you can always study more once you
figured out how to get more value out of
the time that you are spending so here's
what I want to do now so that it drives
the point home in terms of what a normal
student does versus how a top student
uniquely behaves I'm going to give you
three different scenarios common
scenarios that most students will find
themselves in I'll tell you what a
normal student tends to do versus what
I've seen these top students doing
instead so first scenario is getting
repeatedly bad results in an exam one of
the things that I would like always see
that the average student do is as soon
as they get a bad exam they just hope
that the next exam will be better and
this is going to be a recurring theme
you'll see that most students a lot of
their responses and strategies rely on
luck whereas the top students are much
more critical and methodical over time
the normal student
inevitably is not going to change much
unless they get lucky whereas a top
student over time they will inevitably
get better and better and better and the
gap between them and everyone else will
just continue to widen so typical
student when they repeatedly get bad
results in an exam they will just get
stressed they will hope that the next
exam is better that certain questions
are not going to be answered uh and then
they're just going to try to study more
they think I must not have studied
enough for this exam next time I'm going
to study more or in some cases they may
try to copy success they'll look at what
someone else that's doing well in their
class is doing and they'll just try to
add that on to what they're already
doing with their studying and actually
just giving themselves more work to do
which kind of makes them even more
stressed and if they're lucky the method
they copied is going to help them and if
they're not lucky then that method is
not going to help them in fact it's
going to be worse because now they're
just doing more stuff that isn't
effective on the other hand a top
student is going to look at why they got
that bad result and try to understand
what is not working they're going to be
focused on a cause and effect
relationship the the cause is the
processes and the methods they're using
and the effect is the result that
they're getting so what about their
processes and methods is not leading
them to get the result that they want
are they redundant with some of the
strategies that they're using are they
missing a certain type of strategy are
they not hitting the topic from a
certain angle or not enough they're
going to be thinking about the variables
and trying to figure out why they're
getting this bad result what the bad
result means for their process and then
changing the process and a lot of the
time this means learning learning more
about learning in order to make those
informed decisions and for those of you
that are interested I do have a
step-by-step program where I distill the
last decade of me looking at these
patterns and packaging what works in a
guided step-by-step program going
through your note-taking skills and what
you need to be thinking about and doing
in class and lectures and how you should
be studying after them how you should be
revising how you should be using your
inter leing a start to finish study
system that is evidence-based and tried
and tested you also have the opportunity
for feedback so you can actually send
through your work and then one of our
coaches can have a look at it and
actually tell you at an individualized
level what you need to be doing with
your studying to make it more efficient
you can check that out at I insite.com
the link is in the description scenario
number two is if you're not confident
before entering into an exam the typical
student that's not confident before
entering exam is going to respond in
much the same way they're going to Hope
certain questions don't come up and
they're going to just study more do more
questions do more past papers do more
flash cards more hours at top learner
understands that doing more doesn't
necessarily translate into a better
result so they're going to be much more
focused and targeted with their time
they're going to try to do more with
less they'll think where are my gaps why
am I not feeling confident what is the
angle on testing myself that I have not
looked at before what is actually
missing so that the time that they do
spend studying is really focused on
those weaknesses that are preventing
them from being confident rather than
just hitting it again and again from the
same way with the same method hoping
that with repetition it getss better
which normally it doesn't in scenario 3
when you're feeling overwhelmed in
lectures or just overwhelmed in general
while you're studying like there's too
much content like you're not remembering
anything and like you know things are
just slipping in this scenario a typical
student is going to respond and I think
you're going to see the pattern here
they're either going to stop because
they're too overwhelmed or they're going
to overcompensate again just by doing
more of the same you see the trend here
whereas a top learner is going to think
about why they are overwhelmed what are
the things that are contributing to
their overwhelm and they're going to
make adjustments to their methods to see
if that improves their overwhelm and So
based on those scenarios you can see
that a top student is not born a top
student necessarily they had the
characteristics and the attributes and
the behaviors of someone who will one
day be at the top 1% even before they
were at the top 1% and so that is a
point of reflection for you how have a
look at your habits your reactions your
responses your behaviors and your
Tendencies and think are these the
habits of someone who will one day be
excellent or are these the habits of
someone who will stay stuck or trapped
and when we recognize that we may not
have the prerequisites for being a top
learner that's when the journey can
really start thanks for watching and
I'll see you next
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