You're Not Forgetful: My System for Memorising Everything

Elizabeth Filips
13 Aug 202318:14

Summary

TLDRThe video discusses the challenges of memorization and how forgetting is an active process in the brain. It covers strategies to improve memory, such as using unique cues, avoiding cue overload, and understanding proactive inhibition. The speaker shares personal experiences with memory struggles and highlights the importance of mental health and therapy in enhancing cognitive performance. The video also emphasizes the role of intuition and conceptual learning in better information retention, providing practical tips for studying and memory improvement.

Takeaways

  • ๐Ÿ˜Œ The speaker admits to having a poor memory despite appearing to excel in memorization tasks, highlighting the difference between appearance and reality.
  • ๐Ÿง  Forgetting is an active process with its own neurotransmitters and pathways, contrary to the old belief that it was a passive outcome of failed memorization.
  • ๐Ÿ” The concept of 'cue overload' is introduced, where too many memories are attached to a single cue, leading to the deletion of information.
  • ๐Ÿ†• Novelty and unique cues are beneficial for memorization, as they help in creating new pathways in the brain for storing information.
  • ๐ŸŽ“ The speaker recommends using different contexts, such as online courses, to create new cues for studying, which can enhance memory retention.
  • ๐Ÿšซ Learning new information can sometimes override old information, a phenomenon known as proactive inhibition, which can be mitigated by strategic studying.
  • ๐Ÿ’ก The importance of mental health and therapy is emphasized for improving memory and overall academic performance.
  • ๐ŸŽผ Intuition plays a significant role in memorization, as demonstrated by the ease with which experts can learn and remember new information in their field.
  • ๐Ÿ—“ Creating a horizontal timeline or framework for information can improve memorization by providing a flexible and connected structure for learning.
  • ๐Ÿง The power of self-perception in memory is discussed, where believing in one's abilities can significantly impact memory performance.
  • ๐ŸŒŸ The video concludes with a reminder of the importance of the narrative we tell ourselves and the impact it can have on overcoming challenges.

Q & A

  • What is the speaker's personal experience with memory?

    -The speaker admits to having a terrible memory, which is contrary to what others perceive due to her successful performances in school and other activities.

  • What does the speaker suggest is a misconception about forgetting?

    -The speaker suggests that forgetting is not a passive process but an active one, with its own neurotransmitters and pathways, which can be influenced and activated.

  • What is the concept of 'cue overload' in the context of memory?

    -Cue overload occurs when too many memories are attached to a single cue, leading the brain to start deleting the information connected to that cue, as it becomes difficult to retrieve specific memories.

  • How does the speaker recommend dealing with cue overload?

    -The speaker recommends using novelty, such as new and unique cues, to help store and retrieve information more effectively, which also activates the attentional control system.

  • What is the term for the phenomenon where learning new information can cause the forgetting of old information?

    -The term for this phenomenon is 'proactive inhibition', where new learning interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.

  • How does the speaker suggest avoiding proactive inhibition when studying?

    -The speaker suggests avoiding learning entirely new information during last-minute cramming and instead focusing on revising previously learned material.

  • What impact does the speaker believe the state of one's brain has on memory performance?

    -The speaker believes that the state of one's brain, including confidence, mood, and happiness, has a significant impact on memory performance, even more so than specific memorization techniques.

  • What role does the speaker believe therapy has played in her life and academic performance?

    -The speaker believes that therapy has been instrumental in managing her mental health, which in turn has positively affected her memory performance and ability to cope with academic demands.

  • What is the difference between 'horizontal' and 'vertical' learning according to the speaker?

    -Horizontal learning involves connecting information through shared characteristics, while vertical learning involves learning details about a single topic. The speaker advocates for horizontal learning as it creates stronger connections and aids in memorization.

  • How does the speaker describe the power of intuition in memorization?

    -The speaker describes intuition as a powerful tool in memorization, allowing for quicker learning and better retention of information within a familiar context or field of study.

  • What is the speaker's advice on creating a timeline for memorizing historical events?

    -The speaker advises dividing the time period into smaller brackets and learning the main events, people, or contexts for each bracket to build an intuitive understanding that aids in memorization.

  • How does the speaker emphasize the importance of the story we tell ourselves about our abilities?

    -The speaker emphasizes that the story we tell ourselves can be empowering or disempowering, and it's crucial not to view challenges as insurmountable, as this mindset can significantly affect performance.

Outlines

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๐Ÿ“š Overcoming Memory Challenges

The speaker admits to having a poor memory despite appearing to excel academically. They discuss the active nature of forgetting, as described by Professor Scott, and the importance of understanding this process to improve memory. The speaker shares their journey of finding methods to memorize effectively, such as creating unique cues to combat cue overload, which is the brain's tendency to delete information when too many memories are attached to a single cue. They also emphasize the significance of novelty in enhancing memorization and the role of attentional control in transferring information from short-term to long-term memory.

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๐Ÿง  The Impact of Learning on Memory

This paragraph delves into how learning new information can override old memories, a phenomenon known as proactive inhibition. The speaker shares personal experiences and scientific studies that illustrate this effect, such as losing fluency in Turkish after starting to learn French. To mitigate this, the speaker suggests strategic learning, focusing on revision rather than learning new material when time is limited. They also highlight the importance of mental health and therapy in enhancing memory and academic performance, introducing a partnership with BetterHelp to make therapy more accessible.

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๐ŸŒ Horizontal Learning and Intuition

The speaker introduces the concept of horizontal learning, where information is connected across a broader context rather than stacked vertically under a single topic. They argue that this method, which involves creating connections between related concepts, is more effective for memorization. The speaker also discusses the power of intuition in learning, suggesting that having a basic understanding or 'feel' for a subject can significantly aid in memorization and learning, even without extensive expertise.

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๐ŸŽผ Utilizing Intuition and Timelines for Memorization

The speaker continues the discussion on intuition, using the example of learning to play the piano and memorize music. They suggest building an intuitive understanding before diving into detailed memorization, which can provide a framework for attaching new information. The speaker also recommends using timelines as a visual mnemonic device, allowing for flexible and efficient memorization. They emphasize the importance of not viewing memory challenges as insurmountable and the power of a positive narrative in overcoming them.

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Keywords

๐Ÿ’กMemory

Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores, retains, and recalls information. In the context of the video, it is central to the theme as the speaker discusses their personal struggle with having a poor memory and how they have learned to compensate for it through various strategies. For example, the speaker mentions having sat for hundreds of exams and memorizing scripts, which are activities that heavily rely on one's memory.

๐Ÿ’กForgetting

Forgetting is the inability to recall information that was previously known. The video discusses forgetting as an active process rather than a passive one, with its own mechanisms and triggers. The speaker uses the concept of forgetting to explain how it can be influenced and managed, such as through the use of unique cues to avoid 'cue overload' and the potential for proactive inhibition during learning.

๐Ÿ’กCue Overload

Cue overload occurs when multiple memories are associated with the same cue, making it difficult to retrieve a specific memory. In the video, the speaker explains that when cues have too many memories attached to them, they can lead to the deletion of information. This concept is used to illustrate the importance of creating unique and strong cues to facilitate memory retrieval.

๐Ÿ’กNovelty

Novelty refers to something that is new, unique, or original. The video emphasizes the importance of novelty in creating strong memory cues. The speaker shares personal strategies, such as using different contexts like YouTube lectures, to create new cues for learning and memorizing information, which can help to overcome the challenges posed by cue overload.

๐Ÿ’กProactive Inhibition

Proactive inhibition is a form of interference in learning where new information overrides old information, leading to forgetting. The video uses this concept to explain why learning new material immediately before an exam can sometimes result in forgetting previously well-known information. The speaker advises against learning entirely new things at the last minute and instead recommends revising known material.

๐Ÿ’กMental Health

Mental health refers to the state of an individual's psychological and emotional well-being. The video discusses the impact of mental health on memory performance, with the speaker sharing their personal experience of how therapy has helped them cope with the challenges of studying and making videos. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of addressing mental health as a means to improve academic performance.

๐Ÿ’กConceptual Memory

Conceptual memory is the type of memory that stores information based on understanding and the ability to make decisions. In the video, the speaker explains that our brains are designed to store conceptual memories rather than specific details, which is why connecting ideas and understanding concepts can lead to more efficient memorization and better decision-making.

๐Ÿ’กIntuition

Intuition is the ability to understand or know something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. The video highlights the role of intuition in memorization, especially for experts in a field who can quickly memorize information due to their deep understanding and familiarity. The speaker uses their own experience with piano playing as an example of how intuition can aid in learning and memorizing new pieces of music.

๐Ÿ’กHorizontal Learning

Horizontal learning refers to a method of learning where information is connected across different topics or categories, as opposed to vertical learning, which focuses on details within a single topic. The video describes how the speaker prefers to learn by creating connections between different conditions or concepts, which can make memorization more efficient and comprehensive.

๐Ÿ’กTherapy

Therapy is a professional service that provides treatment and support for individuals with mental health issues or emotional difficulties. The video mentions therapy as a crucial part of the speaker's life, helping them manage their mental health and improve their memory performance. The speaker also discusses their partnership with BetterHelp, an online therapy platform, and the importance of making therapy accessible.

๐Ÿ’กSelf-Fulfilling Prophecy

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief or expectation that influences a person's behavior in such a way that the belief or expectation comes true. In the video, the speaker reflects on how being told they have a poor memory has negatively affected their memory performance, illustrating the concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy and its impact on personal abilities and confidence.

Highlights

The speaker admits to having a poor memory despite appearing to excel in memorization tasks.

Forgetting is an active process with its own neurotransmitters and pathways, not just a passive failure to remember.

Memorization and forgetting are two separate active processes that can be influenced by various factors.

Cue overload can lead to the deletion of information, highlighting the importance of effective memory retrieval.

Novelty and unique cues can enhance attentional control and improve the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory.

Learning new information can sometimes override old information, a phenomenon known as proactive inhibition.

Strategic learning and revising previously known information can help avoid proactive inhibition.

The state of one's brain and mental health significantly impacts memory performance.

Negative self-perception can hinder memory performance, as evidenced by the speaker's own experiences.

Therapy and mental health support are crucial for improving memory and overall academic performance.

Memories are meant to aid decision-making and understanding, not just to recall past events.

Conceptual memory, which involves understanding and decision-making, can be more efficient and take less cognitive space.

Learning in a horizontal manner, connecting concepts, can improve memorization and understanding.

Intuition plays a significant role in memorization, allowing for quicker learning in familiar subjects.

Building a foundational understanding before memorizing specific details can enhance learning efficiency.

The power of storytelling and the self-narrative can either empower or disempower an individual's ability to overcome challenges.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of not believing everything one thinks, especially regarding self-imposed limitations.

Transcripts

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I think you were taught to memorize

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things wrong since we first started to

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speak we begin to get tested on our

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memory I've sat hundreds of exams

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memorized tens of pages of scripts for

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theater learn thousands of new Concepts

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in four years of medical school and

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while this all looks effortlessly

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impressive the truth is beneath the

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tools this girl actually has a terrible

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memory a friend of mine actually made me

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summarize a full novel to them because

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they could not believe I'd read it as I

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couldn't tell them the name of a single

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character or a pace I'd say the main

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girl her dad the first guy she liked

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even a medical report of mine from a few

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years ago noticed and described my clear

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problem with short-term memory so

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needless to say no natural talent in

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this department but I've never accepted

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this problem I've always tried to find

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ways to perform and memorize the way I

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was expected to in school or university

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otherwise

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I wouldn't be able to become a doctor in

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this process I've read experimented and

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memorized so much when it comes to the

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way that our brains store recall and

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forget information today I'm going to

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share all of that with you let's get

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straight into it firstly we cannot

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improve our memory without first

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understanding how forgetting works we

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like to focus on ways to be able to

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remember and recall things better while

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completely ignoring the sorts of things

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that encourage us to forget and

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therefore end up not really improving

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overall and we can't be excused for this

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for the longest time we used to think

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that forgetting was this passive process

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that we either were able to memorize

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something fully and if this memorization

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failed we were left with the default

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which was forgetting this is absolutely

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no longer the case in his book

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forgetting the benefits of not

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remembering Professor Scott at Columbia

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discusses studies with zebrafish to

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describe how forgetting is actually its

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own very active process it has its own

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neurotransmitters its whole own Pathways

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and there are things can actively

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encourage it to become activated and to

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work and this is amazing because it

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means we can discover and try to avoid

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those things memorization and forgetting

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are two separate active processes let's

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see what progressing Norms have you ever

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been on an exam looked as oppression and

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gone oh yeah I know what this is about I

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remember being taught this but you

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cannot for the life of you remember the

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actual answer

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so this highlights a very important way

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about how we store retrieve and delete

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information so the way that memories

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work in our brain is that they are just

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not stored in these individual packets

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almost everything has a cue or a tag

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attached to it subconsciously or

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consciously when we're looking for

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information in our brain we actually go

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to the queue first and we look at the

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tag and then we find the memory that's

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connected to it in this case for example

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we might go oh it was it was our history

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teacher but then there's so many things

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she taught us so we can't find it there

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and then we go oh it was it was the

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bottom right hand side of my textbook

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but there are so many things that are on

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those pages and then we're like oh it

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was on Christmas but we learned so many

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things then so all of these cues do not

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help for us to tag and find the

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information that we need the answer to

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this question what has happened here is

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Q overload each of these cues has too

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much memories attached to them and they

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do not like this when it happens they

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start to delete the information

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connected to them and this leads to the

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case that we just so the technical term

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for which is transient for guessing now

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there is a very good solution for this

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which also activates our attentional

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control system which was described by

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the daddy of memory Alan Brady which is

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basically the thing that grabs things

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from our short-term memory into our

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long-term storage where we want to keep

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them and therefore increases our

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motivation to do this this is novelty

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new unique strong cues means memories

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you dirt practically what does this mean

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for your studying when I used to be in

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school and I was struggling with a topic

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that I found either too difficult or too

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dense because it had lots of things to

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memorize I would drop my textbook which

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already has too many oversaturated cues

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and I would go straight to YouTube and

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watch MIT or Yale open courses which God

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bless them they've taken me through so

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much it's amazing but because this is

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such a different context audio watching

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University lectures on one small aspect

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of that lesson that I found challenging

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and therefore this is such a difficult

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context to my normal classroom teacher

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teaching that it would create a new cue

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in my mind if it was a particularly

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important subject to me I would also

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read extra books or watch extra

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documentaries so for this one

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challenging memory I actually would have

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so many unique new cues attached to it

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that became almost impossible for me not

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to memorize that thing because I had six

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new cues popped to mind every time I

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thought of it in an exam I would

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absolutely smash these topics I still

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remember so much about the chemistry of

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cloning because of these lectures I

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would definitely recommend this next

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very frustratingly a huge promoter of

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forgetting is learning itself the

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analogy here is that our brain is not

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like a hard drive but like a cassette

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tape when we are putting new information

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in it we are very often overriding

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information that was previously there I

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was semi-fluent in Turkish when I

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stopped studying it and started French

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and now I've almost completely lost my

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Turkish whenever I think of a Turkish

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word the French one comes to mind this

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was also replicated much more reliably

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in a study where where mice were made to

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learn new mazes and the mice that were

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the quickest and the best at learning

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new mazes were also the ones that were

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more likely to forget the old ones the

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technical term for this is proactive

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inhibition where there's an interference

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from previous learning that leads to

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progressing you might have experienced

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this if you've scrammed for an exam and

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learned new material last minute and can

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actually find on your exam day that

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you've forgotten or messed up what you

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previously knew actually quite well and

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therefore you perform worse overall in

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your exam now how we avoid this

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proactive inhibition is not to avoid

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learning new things altogether but is to

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be strategic about our crowning if we

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are cramming last minute very last

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minute for an exam I would recommend

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that we never learn new things that we

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have not learned before because this is

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where we are overriding what we knew in

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the past what we can do instead is cram

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revise which is learn only the things

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that you knew previously revise those as

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fast as you want that's absolutely fine

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and pray that they're the ones that

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going to come in the exam and on the

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other hand if we have a longer time to

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cram or learn information or if we are

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learning things that are in a similar

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field it's really essential to do a mini

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memorization and comparison with what we

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knew before if when I learned French I

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also revised the Turkish equivalent word

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I'm giving a signal to my brain that I

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actually need both of these and can you

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store them separately it's much more

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likely that I remember both rather than

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overriding and forgetting things from

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the past before I progress onto the ways

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to address memorizing specifically I

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have to say that actually the thing that

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has had the biggest impact on my memory

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learning and performance is

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unsurprisingly the state of my brain

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itself as I mentioned earlier I should

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have always known I didn't have an

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actual talent for memorization because

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as a girl in class I would refer to

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people as the second row on the right

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and someone would tell them their name

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and I'd be like yeah that's the person

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because I couldn't memorize names at all

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and yet because I was compensating so

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much and trying all of these strategies

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I don't think I even realized how bad my

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memory was and everyone saw my e-pluses

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and my theater and all the things that I

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did and assumed that I had an excellent

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memory when it came to facts this

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progressed all the way into my

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University years and it was only

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recently when I was told by a medical

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professional that I genuinely have a

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poor memory that my memory became so

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much worse now that I found out I was

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labeled this way there's a study that

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shows that young girls that are told

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that they're bad at stem subjects

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perform a lot worse than those that are

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told that they are good at them and I

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truly believe this is what happened to

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me and I'm still slowly rebuilding and

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focusing on improving my memory and

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overcoming this year or so of having

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just really bad memory performance in

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general when you tell yourself that

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you're stupid or you're less capable

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than other people or that you're just

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going to struggle with something you

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genuinely do end up performing a lot

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worse my confidence mood and happiness

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determines so much more about my memory

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and performance than any other specific

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technique as much as I love everything

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I'll be mentioning today I probably

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refer a bit more to that doctors lesson

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diagnosis and effect in the end of this

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video but for now I do want to say the

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Eugene charity and peace in order to

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study things properly and the biggest

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difference you can make academic

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performance is sorting out your mental

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health almost half of the videos on this

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channel are in some form related to

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therapy I've been in therapy for years

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now but both online and in person and I

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truly believe it is the only reason I am

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able to cope with making these videos

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alongside studying quite an intense

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degree and dealing with all of the

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problems both internal and external of

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my brain this video is a paid

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partnership with better help and I'm so

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excited to finally have links to give

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that are related in some form to therapy

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I'm sure everyone already knows that

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better Hub is a platform that connects

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us to credentialed therapists for online

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remote therapy the beauty of it in

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particular is that you are a match a

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therapist based on your preferences from

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the get-go if you know what you like I'm

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a particular fan of family systems and

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bowler Theory so I can look for that but

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if you don't know what you don't know

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they will ask you questions that can get

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you matched in the best way it's almost

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expected that you shop around and you

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find the best therapist for you and

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because there are so many available it

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makes switching the easiest that I've

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seen anywhere before I could genuinely

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go on for days about how much therapy

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has changed my life and how much I

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encourage it so because of that I've

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made another separate mini video which

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is unlisted on my channel and links

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below so if you want to see the reasons

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that I think people should go to therapy

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that I do not hear mentioned a lot

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elsewhere and also my top tips for

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either starting as a complete not this

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or if you've been out of the game for a

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while kind of what advice I would give

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myself if I was starting again that's

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listed in that video below there's also

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a notion template for free which will

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have all of the top tips summarized

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together so if you're thinking about

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this that might hopefully be slightly

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helpful I also have a link in my

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description which is betterhelp.com for

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first month so if you are interested in

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starting or thoughts about this before

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the sooner honestly the better because

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platform better help can remain one of

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the cheaper options of therapy out there

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and I've had an amazing personal

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experience trying them out for a few

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months actually before making this video

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so I want to thank them so much for

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supporting this channel but also for

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making therapy more more accessible

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which is something that I am incredibly

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passionate about so back to memorizing

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now an important reason memorizing a

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sword is because our brains were never

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meant to do it the way that we are

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expected to Professor Justin at the

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University of Toronto describes that our

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memories are not there for us to go oh

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she remember that time but they're there

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help us make decisions we're supposed to

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store what we understand or what helps

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us understand things to make better

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decisions this is called conceptual

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memory but it is not what we commonly

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think it is conceptual memory can be so

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powerful because when done properly it

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also means that ideas connect so well to

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one another that they end up kind of

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collapsing and taking less space in our

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brain therefore making it easier for us

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to store larger amounts and volumes of

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the data so how do we actually do this I

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always think of learning as either being

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horizontal or vertical and the way that

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we are often taught to learn or taught

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things is in a vertical way what this

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means is that we are given a topic and

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then we are given details about this

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topic that come underneath this is a

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vertical form of things to learn and

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this is terrible because it remains one

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discreet thing and we just have to learn

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about it it might even be turned into a

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mind map but still it will have one main

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topic and everything underneath it and

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this is just very hard to memorize all

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of these details it's super likely that

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I'll forget one or a lot more of these

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points here and sometimes I'll forget

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that the whole condition exists and it

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will be gone in the sea of endless

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vertical conditions I have to learn

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instead I learn things in a horizontal

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way so let's say you have to learn about

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retinal artery occlusion I'm not going

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to learn this topic I'm going to go and

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look at one of the symptoms that stands

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out to me which is painless or Vision

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because I know that there's at least one

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more type of painless loss or Vision so

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what I'm going to do is I'm going to

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take one of the characteristics in this

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vertical list and try to find all of the

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conditions that have this characteristic

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and this now creates a whole group of

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eye conditions related to painless loss

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or Vision all of them connected by this

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one backed already this is much more

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logical and much more likely to remember

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that these conditions exist and when I

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see them I know at least one important

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thing about them which is that they are

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painless loss of vision next as I start

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vertically slightly expanding with one

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of them when I see things that they have

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in common either tests that need to be

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done either cures that need to be done I

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create another horizontal layer that

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connects them with one another and in

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this way I haven't just studied retinal

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artery occlusion I studied a whole bunch

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of things which are all connected to

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this very strong visual cue of this

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whole group this is 360 degree

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memorizing because when we memorize

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things in a book or when we take notes

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usually it's very vertical it's top to

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bottom it's never a bottom to top that

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would be very confusing but all these

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conditions exist in this horizontal

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plane and there's no beginning or end up

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or down left or right they're all there

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together and therefore I can kind of

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rotate it in my brain and connect it

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with other medical conditions so it's

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compressed it's flippable it's

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expandable everything is really well

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connected and much more likely to

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remember a lot more about these

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conditions than if I was creating

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separate mind maps with them or learning

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them completely as vertical lists the

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next way to improve your memory has to

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do with the immense power of intuition I

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used to play piano when I was younger

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and sometimes I would take a piece of

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new sheet music to my teacher and ask

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them if they would let me learn it with

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them and they might have never seen this

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before and they just sit down and

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learned to memorize the piece so easily

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even though this was a song they'd never

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seen it before so I think it's very

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non-controversial that experts in the

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field are a lot better and a lot quicker

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at memorizing information in that field

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than someone who is a complete novice

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and you don't need to spend 20 years to

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become an expert in a subject to benefit

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massively from this intuition because

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this is what I realized I used so much

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when I was younger in school now there's

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something I have to admit when I was in

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school and I was younger I would really

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be a lot quicker at learning and

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memorizing things than other people and

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everyone would think oh my gosh like

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she's so smart so this is not it's not

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true this is not the reason this is not

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the reason I was memorizing things as

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well the reason I was memorizing things

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well was because I had less to remember

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people who were seeing things for the

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very first time had no intuition no

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concept of what was happening in their

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brain as I do for a lot of things had to

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learn a whole bunch of information me

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I'd done prep if I have to learn

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something I need to learn a tiny bit of

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it because I know what became before

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what came after I say oh yeah that's

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probably where it happened so me

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learning it is a lot easier which is why

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I can learn more memorize more and do

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things in a way that appears to be so

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smart to other people so let me explain

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how to do this let's say you have to

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learn the wars in France in the 1800s if

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I had to do this now do not have a clue

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if I would see a yard plus minus 60 70

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years 200 years

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I don't know when that happened so

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before even approaching this if you want

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to memorize it well in a logical way

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because you can use visual mnemonics but

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that's a separate topic if you want to

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learn it well what you can do is you

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divide the whole 1800s into like 10-year

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brackets and for every 10 years you

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write the main thing that happened the

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main person that was in charge or the

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main political context and you just

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learned this and so when you're in an

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exam and you have a multiple choice

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question for example you don't have to

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approach every new date as though it's

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just a bunch of scrambled numbers and go

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like oh is it this one and try to

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remember what the number looked like in

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the textbook but you can use this

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intuitive logic when you approach it

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where you go well it can't be then

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because then that was resolved and they

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can't be here because that was way too

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soon they were fighting about something

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else so that's the correct date and this

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is helpful for exams this is helpful for

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learning the information because you

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already have this thing built which does

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not take that long you can then memorize

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things a lot earlier because you have

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this Skeleton on which to link things

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the same thing can be said for languages

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before learning a language it's great to

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just hear it a whole lot because you

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build intuition and when you're studying

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it or trying to speak you can sense that

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you're saying something wrong because

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intuition is like I've never heard that

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that that sounds wrong even though you

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don't know the grammatical rules the way

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we all speak our native languages

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fluently even though we might not

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necessarily be able to tell you why to

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use that tense or form off a word these

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things would also be stacked with one

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another to create crazy efficient

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memorization and learning when you're

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creating dates that's a horizontal

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timeline and instead of learning things

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about one War what happened in one day

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vertically you now put it in the space

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where it can be really flexible and

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moved around because you have a timeline

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this is a visual representation it's a

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really strong cue because you have to

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find this information potentially

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outside of your textbook to build the

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timeline this is where you're

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researching and adding external cues the

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uniqueness to a methods of study the

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intuition you build make it so much

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easier to memorize this in a way that

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you potentially will not forget for the

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next 30 Years very lastly I earned an

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odd so much in this video about adding

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that little doctor's note and about

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talking about the negative effects that

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some things that doctors say have to us

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as someone who in a few months hopefully

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will be a doctor themselves rifles in

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the end it's really important to mention

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just how empowering or disempowering the

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story that we tell ourselves can be and

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how easy easy it can be to overcome

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challenges when you don't think of them

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as challenges and I was struggling with

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this realistically I should have

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realized a long time ago that I was

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struggling with this I have a terrible

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memory and I never knew it because of

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the fact that I was compensating working

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hard at it and believing that I could do

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this and I wanted to do this and in this

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last year it's just been really hard and

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I feel like I've forgotten more than

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ever because I just accepted the fact

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that I'm worse than other people at this

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thing this is a huge topic I'd

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potentially want to do a whole other

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video on if but if you do want a bit

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more information about how therapy

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specifically has helped you with this

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that extra video I've made below should

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help and clarify things and also if

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you're cautious about therapy I know

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it's really scary it takes a while to

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get into it especially when it's online

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so if you made it so far

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thank you so much for watching me and I

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hate to the end of this video I hope you

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have a wonderful recipe day be kind to

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yourself and others and don't believe

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everything you think thanks bye

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