Learning Expert plays Overrated Underrated with Study Techniques
Summary
TLDRIn this episode of 'Overrated Underrated,' Dr. Justin Sung, a former medical doctor turned coaching consultant, shares his brief insights on various topics. He discusses the value and misconceptions of brain dumps, self-care, hell yeah/hell no decision-making, studying ahead, virtual meetings, and more. Dr. Sung highlights the underrated aspects of these practices while addressing common misunderstandings. He also provides his take on New Zealand, manifestation, the Feynman technique, spaced repetition, group assignments, gaming, and study groups, emphasizing the importance of proper utilization for maximum benefit.
Takeaways
- 🧠 Brain dumps are considered underrated by Dr. Justin Sung as they are underutilized and effective for different orders of learning.
- 💆♂️ Self-care is very underrated, often misunderstood, and essential to avoid burnout, especially in high-pressure environments.
- 🤔 The 'hell yeah, hell no' decision-making practice is underrated as it simplifies decisions with low consequence of failure.
- 📚 Studying ahead of class is underrated, but it should be done effectively by focusing on higher-order structures rather than just lower-order details.
- 💻 Virtual meetings are underrated despite being disliked by many, as they save time and allow for remote work and interaction.
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand is seen by Dr. Sung as overrated due to its 'Utopia' image, but he acknowledges issues like institutionalized racism and climate change policies.
- 🤷♀️ Manifestation is overrated compared to goal setting and planning, which Dr. Sung believes are more effective and aligned with actions.
- 🔥 The Feynman technique is underrated and a good method for developing higher-order relational thinking.
- 🔄 Spaced repetition is overrated in the sense that it is necessary but should not be overused or relied upon as the sole learning method.
- 👥 Group assignments are overrated because they often involve unequal work distribution and may not effectively contribute to learning.
- 🎮 Gaming is properly rated; it's fun and should be enjoyed in moderation, with addiction to gaming being the real issue.
- 👨🏫 Study groups are generally underrated and can be beneficial when used correctly and facilitated well among participants.
Q & A
What is Dr. Justin Sung's professional background?
-Dr. Justin Sung is a former medical doctor who has transitioned into being a full-time running coaching consultant.
What is the main topic of the 'overrated underrated' series by Dr. Justin Sung?
-The 'overrated underrated' series discusses various ideas and concepts, with Dr. Sung providing his perspectives on whether they are overrated or underrated.
Why does Dr. Sung consider brain dumps to be underrated?
-Dr. Sung believes brain dumps are underrated because they are not commonly known or utilized, yet they are an effective technique for different orders of learning.
What does Dr. Sung suggest about the practice of self-care?
-Dr. Sung suggests that self-care is very underrated and misunderstood, often neglected to the point of burnout, especially in high-pressure environments like Asian countries.
What is Dr. Sung's view on the concept of 'hell yeah, hell no' in decision-making?
-Dr. Sung considers the 'hell yeah, hell no' approach to decision-making to be underrated, as it simplifies decisions where the consequence of failure is not significant compared to the potential benefit.
How does Dr. Sung feel about studying ahead of class?
-Dr. Sung believes that studying ahead of class is underrated, but it should be done effectively, focusing on higher-order structures rather than just lower-order details.
What is Dr. Sung's opinion on virtual meetings?
-Despite the common dislike for virtual meetings, Dr. Sung considers them underrated because they save time and allow for remote work and interaction, which would not be possible without them.
Why does Dr. Sung think New Zealand is overrated?
-Dr. Sung feels New Zealand is overrated due to its perceived utopian image, which may not fully account for issues such as internalized racism, climate change policies, and the country's actual level of proactiveness.
What is Dr. Sung's stance on the practice of manifestation?
-Dr. Sung considers manifestation to be overrated, as he believes it lacks the critical thinking and action alignment found in proper goal setting and planning.
What does Dr. Sung think about the Feynman technique for learning?
-Dr. Sung believes the Feynman technique is underrated, as it is an effective introductory method for higher-order relational thinking with simple instructions.
How does Dr. Sung view spaced repetition as a learning tool?
-Dr. Sung considers spaced repetition to be necessary but overrated, advising that it should be used correctly and not relied upon as the sole method for learning.
What is Dr. Sung's opinion on group assignments in education?
-Dr. Sung finds group assignments to be overrated, often due to uneven participation, questionable educational value, and logistical challenges.
How does Dr. Sung evaluate the current status of gaming?
-Dr. Sung believes gaming is properly rated; it is fun and enjoyable, and its bad reputation is not necessarily deserved, similar to any other activity that can be overindulged in.
What does Dr. Sung think about the effectiveness of study groups?
-Dr. Sung considers study groups to be underrated, as they can be beneficial when used correctly and facilitated effectively among participants.
Outlines
🧠 Brain Dumps and Self-Care: Underrated Practices
Dr. Justin Sung discusses the underrated nature of brain dumps, a technique not commonly known or utilized, emphasizing its effectiveness in various learning orders. He also touches on the importance of self-care, which is often misunderstood and neglected, leading to burnout. Dr. Sung points out that self-care is crucial, as one cannot pour from an empty cup, and highlights the societal pressures, especially in Asian countries, that contribute to overworking and depletion.
🤔 Decision-Making and Study Techniques: Underrated and Overrated
The video script addresses the underrated aspect of simple decision-making, suggesting that not all decisions require deep thought, especially when the stakes are low. Dr. Sung also talks about the underrated practice of studying ahead of class, but notes that it should be done effectively to prime the mind for higher-order learning. He mentions virtual meetings as an underrated necessity, despite the common dislike for them, due to the time-saving benefits they offer. Lastly, he expresses his personal opinion that New Zealand is overrated, pointing out issues such as internalized racism and climate policy shortcomings, while acknowledging its natural beauty and free healthcare.
🚫 Overrated Concepts: Manifestation and Group Assignments
Dr. Sung critiques the overrated concept of manifestation, arguing that it lacks the practical benefits of proper goal setting and planning. He advocates for a more strategic approach to achieving goals. The script also labels group assignments as overrated, mainly due to the uneven distribution of work, questionable educational value, and logistical annoyances. Dr. Sung suggests that educators may not fully consider the effectiveness of such assignments in their curriculums.
🎮 Gaming and Study Groups: Properly Rated and Underrated
Gaming is discussed as a properly rated activity that is fun but can be problematic if addictive. Dr. Sung defends gaming against its negative reputation, stating that addiction to any activity is harmful. He then highlights study groups as generally underrated, suggesting that they can be highly beneficial when facilitated correctly. The script concludes by inviting viewers to comment on topics they wish to see expanded upon in future videos, emphasizing the need for specificity in feedback.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Brain Dumps
💡Self-Care
💡Hell Yeah/Hell No Decision-Making
💡Studying Ahead of Class
💡Virtual Meetings
💡New Zealand
💡Manifestation
💡Feynman Technique
💡Spaced Repetition
💡Group Assignments
💡Gaming
💡Study Groups
Highlights
Brain dumps are underrated and underutilized as a learning technique.
The importance of higher order learning in addition to lower order retrieval practice for brain dumps.
Self-care is often misunderstood and underrated, with many pushing themselves beyond the point of exhaustion.
The concept of 'hell yeah, hell no' in decision-making as a way to simplify choices with minimal consequences.
Studying ahead of class is underrated, with effective priming being key to higher order learning.
Virtual meetings are underrated despite being disliked, as they save time and enable remote work.
New Zealand is considered overrated due to its clean image, but there are concerns about policy and institutional issues.
Manifestation is seen as overrated compared to goal setting and planning with aligned actions.
The Feynman technique is underrated for its simplicity in promoting higher order relational thinking.
Spaced repetition is necessary but overrated; it should be used correctly and not over-relied upon.
Group assignments are often overrated due to uneven participation and questionable effectiveness.
Gaming is properly rated despite its hype, with addiction being a concern but not unique to gaming.
Study groups are underrated and can be beneficial when used and facilitated correctly.
A call to action for viewers to comment on what they want expanded upon in future videos.
Transcripts
hey everyone it's Dr Justin sung here
I'm a former medical doctor and now
full-time running coaching consultant
and welcome to another episode of
overrated underrated where we're going
to be going through lots of different
ideas and I'm going to be explaining my
take on them as briefly as possible
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brain dumps are underrated because most
people don't know them I'm pretty sure
it's not a commonly known technique it's
one of the more common ones I think but
it's still fairly underutilized yeah
brain dumps are good they're effective
you need to be able to do different
orders of learning for brain dumps don't
just do the lower order ones like low
order brain dams are good for lower
order retrieval practice but you you
need to make sure that it's not the only
method of retrieval practice like make
sure to hit the higher rotors because
you're going to get tested at the higher
orders anyway self-care self-care is so
misunderstood and for that reason I'd
say it's very underrated and and I say
this as someone who like probably
doesn't do enough self-care myself and
I'm also internally saying I'm
underrating it myself but you know you
can't pull out an empty Cup right but
most people is not like empty cup it's
like the cup is broken and the hand is
cut and then like the person is scars
from ever holding a cup ever again like
people will push themselves to the point
not of tiredness not of exhaustion not a
fatigue not at the point that they
should rest but way beyond that point
and they'll cycle through that point
again and again and again through
burnout to get to the point where now
they're just like completely depleted
especially in Asian countries where
there's a lot of pressure to just have
that like success of whatever that means
so self-care is underrated really
underrated
hell yeah
hell no in terms of the decision-making
uh practice I'm presuming this is
definitely underrated yeah yeah there
are so many decisions that you can make
that are so much simpler when you've
realized that this decision doesn't
require me to think too much because the
consequence of failure versus the
potential benefit is not significant
enough for this question for this
decision to be that meaningful the idea
is that if it's not a hell yeah or how
no decision then it doesn't really
matter just make the decision and go
with it it's not worth just like mulling
over it too much and oh this is a really
really complicated field I don't want to
go into it too deep because to keep it
brief but overall look it up underrated
studying ahead of class yeah definitely
underrated but you don't have to like be
studying everything ahead of class I
think the issue is that most people
don't know how to study ahead of class
in a way that's effective for them that
is good priming when people study ahead
of class they still study at lower
orders ahead of class and that is
honestly like a little bit pointless
like there is still a benefit but that
amount of time could have been used for
something that's so much more productive
and people aren't used to working with
purely higher order structures before
filling in lower order detail but if you
were able to do that then that method of
Presidio priming is very helpful and
also all the ways that I teach about
pre-studio priming any of my other
videos
are teaching the more effective way FYI
virtual meetings
people hate virtual meetings
I think they're underrated because
people hate them
I don't love having virtual meetings but
honestly like be being able to have a
virtual meeting saves so much times like
you know like physical meaning always
takes more time and yes you're losing
out on these other benefits yes I
understand that and if you're only doing
virtual meetings I know it's like kind
of
you know it kind of affects you but like
it's it's still like a good thing like
you know you're able to work remotely
you're able to you know interact with
all these other people and not have to
like imagine if virtual meetings didn't
exist
like what would your life look like you
know would you be able to even do the
work that you do could you interact with
the people that you interact with for
that reason I'd say it's underrated even
though people hate them it's like it's
necessary evil
New Zealand New Zealand is
um
hmm you know what
you know what I I like living in New
Zealand you know I live in New Zealand
not because I have to but because I I
want to I think it's a beautiful country
I think in a lot of ways though I think
it is overrated I think it's always that
grass is greener on the other side type
of thing and I say this knowing that the
entire world sees New Zealand as almost
like this Utopia I think anyway I think
that's the impression that a lot of
people have is like this like like a
beautiful amazing place where like
everything is really great and the
healthcare is free and that's good the
fact that Healthcare is free is good
um like I'd much rather live in New
Zealand than in the US for example where
like I don't know if I get hit by a car
I'll probably just die
um but uh there's a lot of stuff that
goes on in terms of New Zealand's like
policy like Politics as well as
um like the nature of the policies and
sort of internalize and
institutionalized racism
um the climate change policies and level
of proactiveness it's like this clean
green image is like hmm do we really
deserve that really or are we just
writing off of it because the country
naturally happens to be beautiful and
we've got such a small population that
these problems don't seem too massive
yeah
so a little overrated I think
but still great
manifestation
I feel like I'm going to get hated on by
like every single
um I don't know like Tick Tock Instagram
um like I don't even know what you call
them they're just influencers for the
sake of influencing
um but I think it's like super overrated
I really think it's very overrated I I
think I don't I don't see the benefit of
like all this manifestation stuff that
is better than just doing like proper
goal setting and planning you know like
you get all the benefits you know it
allows you to like focus in and
centralize in and visualize where you
want to go and think about it critically
and then and make sure that everything
is aligned to it but at least in that
when you do proper goal setting and
planning for it you're actually aligning
your actions and behavior for it as well
whereas manifestation can be Broad and
some people are like literally thinking
they can manifest anything by just like
speaking it into the universe
well let's do this you speak into the
universe I'll do things we'll meet up in
10 years and see where we got okay let's
just empirically test it
Feynman technique I think it's
pronounced but uh a fireman technique is
underrated the fireman method is very
good it's a great introductory way of
learning about how you can actually
start breaking into some levels of
higher order relational thinking in a
very simple easy to understand set of
instructions
again and this is kind of the the case
with any type of self-regulated learning
technique is that there's always nuances
and there's always different ways that
it can go like you can try to do the
technique but you can interpret it wrong
or you might not be able to do the
processing required to get the benefit
from it and then you wouldn't find it
very effective and so from an individual
level there's lots of other things to
consider but generally if you're just
shotgunning an approach if I was talking
to like a a 13 year old or a 14 year old
that's just getting into study
strategies for the very first time
finding technique would be definitely
maybe top 10 on the list of things that
I'll get them to start working with
yeah okay well look I think most people
if you're watching this video you
potentially subscribe to me uh and if
you subscribe to me you probably already
know what my views are on Space
repetition let me be super clear
space repetition is overrated
space repetition is necessary you can't
avoid it but you shouldn't abuse it you
need to know how to use it correctly and
you need to know how to use it for the
right types of knowledge you cannot
space repetition your way you cannot
wrote spaced repetition your way to
success right like just think about how
easy it would be to succeed if that's
all you needed to do especially now with
AI low order learning is becoming less
and less valuable anyway data
availability and just knowing things is
going to be less and less important
space repetition if you're not using it
use it if you're not using it use it if
you are using it you're probably using
it enough already you don't have to do
more and more so
having some lower order space repetition
active recall just retrieval practice
coverage is good once you've covered it
you're done you don't have to just keep
covering it more work on the other
things that are going to increase your
initial encoding or your ability to have
interleaved retrieval or higher orders
of retrieval those are the things that
are going to get you more bang for buck
roof assignments uh yeah they're
overrated for sure because most people
in your group are not pulling their
weight and and number two most people
that are giving you the assignments
don't really know if their time is even
going to help you in the first place uh
and then number three they're often very
annoying logistically and just to get
your head around to try to complete them
there are some exceptions obviously but
just as a blanket statement and I'm
saying this like I've looked through
lots of different curriculums and I've
looked through different ways that
Educators and different institutions at
both secondary and tertiary education
tend to think about assignments well I
don't think it's very well thought out
in a lot of ways so I'm going to say in
general group assignments are kind of
overrated they can be really tokenistic
as well gaming
gaming
I mean gaming is so hyped at the moment
right like it's such a popular thing
like
um I think gaming is properly rated
it's fun I like gaming
um you know if you're addicted that's
not good but so is being addicted to
anything I think it gets a bad rip
um but I don't think that bad rep is
necessarily deserved actually so I'm
gonna say that it's super hype and it
has a bad rip property rated
study groups
study groups are generally underrated I
think people tend to avoid study groups
in some situations because they haven't
had good experiences with study groups
before and as a result they don't feel
like they
will get benefit from it so they avoid
it but I think if you know how to use
study groups in the right way and you
know how to sort of facilitate it with
each other then I think study groups can
be really beneficial actually
so yeah underrated
so that's it for this episode of
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