Learning Coach Rates Productivity Apps
Summary
TLDRIn this 'Overrated Underrated' episode, Dr. Justin Sung evaluates various learning and self-improvement practices. He deems Obsidian properly rated for its popularity as a second brain app, while considering REM notes overrated due to its linear note-taking limitations. Daily Reflection and free writing are deemed underrated for their reflective benefits, whereas daily affirmations are seen as properly rated. Dr. Sung also discusses the value of writing about anxieties, to-do lists, doodling, and various meditation forms, advocating for a structured approach to maximize their benefits.
Takeaways
- 📚 Dr. Justin Sung, a former medical doctor turned learning coaching consultant, discusses various topics on his show 'Overrated Underrated'.
- 🔍 He considers 'Obsidian' to be properly rated due to its popularity and usefulness as a second brain app, despite its limitations in higher order knowledge structuring.
- 📝 Dr. Sung believes 'Roam' is overrated because it doesn't effectively address higher order learning and non-linear relational note-taking as it should from a cognitive perspective.
- 🤔 He thinks 'Daily Reflection' is underrated, emphasizing the importance of proper reflective techniques and cautioning against negative spiraling.
- ✍️ 'Free writing' is also seen as underrated by Dr. Sung, as it aids in thought documentation, slowing down thought processes, and enhancing metacognition.
- 🌟 'Daily affirmations' are considered properly rated and trending, with Dr. Sung noting their value in positive reinforcement and psychology, while warning of potential overrated mystical interpretations.
- 📝 Writing about anxieties is seen as potentially helpful but also potentially unproductive, depending on the structure and guidance provided.
- 📋 'To-do lists' are viewed as properly rated by Dr. Sung, who emphasizes the importance of prioritization and the misconception that merely having a list equates to productivity.
- 🎨 'Drawing or doodling' is underrated and can be a powerful tool for non-verbal information representation, breaking the linear learning flow.
- 🧘 'Mindfulness meditation' is underrated and misunderstood by many, with Dr. Sung highlighting its long-term benefits and the importance of understanding its purpose.
- 🏃♂️ 'Movement meditation' is even more underrated, as it helps integrate meditative practices into daily life and can be applied in various activities beyond traditional meditation poses.
Q & A
Who is Dr. Justin Sung?
-Dr. Justin Sung is a former medical doctor who is now a full-time learning coaching consultant.
What is Dr. Justin Sung's opinion on Obsidian?
-Dr. Justin Sung believes Obsidian is properly rated. He thinks it is a very good app for certain purposes, such as a second brain, but not ideal for studying due to its issues with linear note-taking and inorganic relational forming.
Why does Dr. Justin Sung consider Rem Note overrated?
-Dr. Justin Sung considers Rem Note overrated because he feels it does not adequately address higher-order learning and non-linear relational note-taking from a cognitive perspective.
What are the benefits of Daily Reflection according to Dr. Justin Sung?
-Dr. Justin Sung believes Daily Reflection is underrated. Proper reflective technique can be very powerful, although it can be detrimental if done poorly. It can help prevent negative spiraling when done correctly.
How does Dr. Justin Sung view free writing?
-Dr. Justin Sung views free writing as underrated. He thinks it is a great way to document thoughts, develop metacognition, and help slow down and critically evaluate thought processes.
What is Dr. Justin Sung's stance on daily affirmations?
-Dr. Justin Sung considers daily affirmations to be properly rated. They are great for positive reinforcement and building positive psychology, but he cautions against their potential drift into unproductive, mystical practices.
Why might writing about anxieties be both helpful and unproductive?
-Writing about anxieties can be helpful if done with proper structure and guidance. However, it can also be unproductive if it feeds into anxiety cycles. Professional guidance can help ensure it is done in a productive way.
What are Dr. Justin Sung's thoughts on to-do lists?
-Dr. Justin Sung thinks to-do lists are properly rated. They are useful for documenting tasks and aiding prioritization, though they should be part of a broader productivity strategy rather than an end in themselves.
How does drawing or doodling aid learning, according to Dr. Justin Sung?
-Dr. Justin Sung believes drawing or doodling is underrated. It allows for the representation of information non-verbally and non-linearly, which aligns better with how knowledge is inherently structured.
What is Dr. Justin Sung's view on mindfulness meditation?
-Dr. Justin Sung considers mindfulness meditation underrated. He emphasizes its long-term benefits and the importance of understanding that getting distracted is part of the process.
How does Dr. Justin Sung differentiate between focus meditation and other forms of meditation?
-Dr. Justin Sung views focus meditation as a subset of mindfulness meditation. He notes that the benefits of different forms of meditation are not clearly differentiated by research, and the intention behind the practice is what varies.
Why does Dr. Justin Sung think movement meditation is particularly underrated?
-Dr. Justin Sung thinks movement meditation is very underrated because it helps people understand that they can maintain a meditative state during everyday activities, not just in traditional meditative poses.
Outlines
🧑⚕️ Introduction and Ratings on Note-taking Apps
Dr. Justin Sung, a former medical doctor and now a full-time learning coach, introduces the video series 'Overrated Underrated.' He provides his take on various ideas briefly. He discusses Obsidian, a popular note-taking app, stating it is properly rated for its utility as a 'second brain' but not ideal for studying due to its linear nature. He also talks about REM Note, deeming it overrated as it fails to address higher-order learning and non-linear note-taking effectively.
📝 Reflection Techniques and Writing Practices
Dr. Sung explores the underrated nature of daily reflection, emphasizing the importance of proper reflective techniques to avoid negative spiraling. He also highlights free writing as an underrated practice beneficial for documenting thoughts and developing metacognition. Daily affirmations are considered properly rated currently, though he warns of potential future overrating due to its trendy nature. Writing about anxieties is seen as underrated when done with proper guidance, helping with metacognition.
🗒️ To-do Lists and Drawing for Learning
Dr. Sung reminisces about his extreme use of to-do lists in university and evaluates them as properly rated. They are essential for task documentation and prioritization but not sufficient alone for productivity. Drawing or doodling is highly underrated as it allows for non-linear information representation, enhancing visual processing and learning.
🧘♂️ Meditation Practices: Mindfulness, Focus, and Movement
Mindfulness meditation is considered underrated due to its long-term benefits, despite being well-known. Focus meditation, viewed as a subset of mindfulness, is also praised but lacks distinct research-backed benefits. Movement meditation is highlighted as even more underrated, offering practical applications in daily life and helping integrate meditative practices outside conventional poses.
📢 Conclusion and Viewer Engagement
Dr. Sung wraps up the episode, inviting viewers to comment on topics they want to explore further. He emphasizes the need for specific questions to address particular aspects of interest. He encourages engagement through likes, comments, and subscriptions, teasing more content in future episodes.
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Keywords
💡Obsidian
💡Rim Notes
💡Daily Reflection
💡Free Writing
💡Daily Affirmations
💡To-Do Lists
💡Doodling
💡Mindfulness Meditation
💡Focus Meditation
💡Movement Meditation
Highlights
Dr. Justin Sung discusses his perspective on various learning tools and methods in the 'overrated underrated' series.
Obsidian is considered properly rated due to its popularity and effectiveness as a second brain app, despite not being ideal for studying.
REM notes are deemed overrated as they don't address higher order learning and non-linear note-taking effectively.
Daily Reflection is underrated, with proper technique being crucial for its effectiveness and potential to improve cognition.
Free writing is underrated, beneficial for metacognition and slowing down thought processes, but often underutilized.
Daily affirmations are properly rated, gaining popularity for positive reinforcement and psychology, yet may become overrated in the future.
Writing about anxieties is underrated and can be helpful with proper guidance, contrary to common avoidance.
To-do lists are properly rated for task documentation and prioritization, despite misconceptions about productivity.
Drawing or doodling is underrated as a non-linear learning technique, allowing for faster and more comprehensive information intake.
Mindfulness meditation is underrated, with growing recognition and normalization in society, but still undervalued for its long-term benefits.
Focus meditation is viewed as a subset of mindfulness meditation, with intentions being the key differentiator.
Movement meditation is even more underrated, emphasizing the application of meditative practices in daily life.
The importance of understanding the purpose of meditation, whether for focus, calm, or dealing with anxiety, is highlighted.
An invitation for viewers to comment on what they want to see expanded on in future episodes is extended.
A call to action for likes, comments, and subscriptions to engage with the content and support the channel.
Transcripts
hey everyone it's Dr Justin sung here
I'm a former medical doctor and now
full-time learning 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
I'd say it's obsidian is properly rated
uh because I know it's getting popular
and it is popular there are lots of
other people and there's other you know
YouTubers and influence and stuff that
can talk about obsidian much better than
I can I think it's a very good app I use
it for for some purposes I think for
studying specifically I don't think
obsidian is great because it runs into
the same issues as linear note taking
and inorganic relational forming and it
doesn't reflect your higher order
knowledge structures as it would if you
were to encode it properly from a
cognitive perspective but I think as an
app to help you as a second brain
especially I think it's a great app so
I'd say properly rated it's got a lot of
popularity it's growing and I think it's
well deserved
Rim notes
um
okay well look I'm gonna have to say
sorry to Mike and Maddie because I I
know the guys and I like the guys I I
think the software REM note is a little
overrated
um I don't think it really tackles the
issues of higher order learning and
non-linear relational note-taking or the
higher order knowledge structures that
we've been talking about I don't think
it covers those things very well um
again it does it from a software
perspective like how can we create
relationships from a database
perspective rather than looking at it
from how can we do it in a way that
actually facilitates the right cognitive
process which is really a different ball
game
um so I would say that I think it is a
little overrated yeah
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Daily Reflection I think is underrated
because not many people do it just to
note that just because you are doing
Daily Reflection doesn't mean that
you're getting all the value of daily
reflection and in some cases Daily
Reflection can actually make things
worse especially if you're using that as
like a a trigger point for negative
spiraling so I think proper reflective
technique is super super super
underrated and if you have proper
reflective technique and daily
journaling I think that can be a very
powerful combination how about free
writing I'd say it's probably underrated
as well it's a great way of just getting
your thoughts out and helping you
document and helping you slow down your
thought processes and be a little bit
more critical it's great for developing
metacognition as well so for those
reasons and because of the fact that
most people don't use it and actually
probably most people don't even know
what it means I would say it's
underrated daily affirmations uh
uh daily affirmations it's quite a trend
these days it's quite trendy these days
so for that reason I'd say it's I'm
gonna say it's properly rated I think I
think it was underrated I think it's
right now it's properly rated because
it's it's becoming more popular and
people are starting to understand that
it's great for positive reinforcement
and building that positive psychology
um and helping to sort of break out of
learn helplessness behaviors maybe if
you asked me a year from now I might say
it's overrated because there are
branches of daily affirmation to sign a
branch out into this kind of like
mystical hippie like woo like I'm gonna
do my daily affirmation as I look and
rub into my magical crystal ball and
like rub salt all over my hair like it's
starting to Branch into this weird
territory that's a little off so
especially on Tick Tock it's it's very
like you know kills my faith in humanity
so uh at the moment I'm gonna say
properly rated but maybe in the future
it's going to become overrated writing
about no anxieties I I think writing
about anxieties is again it's it's
helpful if you have structure and
guidance and you know how to do it in a
pro active way but I also know that
writing about anxiety is not always
productive and it can in some cases feed
into anxiety and anxiety cycles and
anxiety spirals I'd say
um the guidance of like a psychologist
or a clinical clinical psychologist or
therapist even is going to be helpful
for you to know how you can reflect in a
more productive way but overall I'd say
it's I'd say it's underrated because
most of the people that I know with
anxiety do not write about it or
document it or try to be metacognitive
or that reflective about it at all
to-do lists when I was in my first year
of uni I used to have this thing I
called the to-do list of death which
meant that I would write things on my
to-do list and I would either get them
done or I would die that was my mindset
I was very extreme I was very very
extreme 18 year old okay
um now thinking about it I think to-do
lists are properly rated I think it's a
very good way for helping you to
document obviously your tasks it's a
good springboard for helping you with
prioritization the prioritization part I
think is underrated and people aren't
really doing it just having it on a
to-do list is not enough a to-do list by
itself in isolation is not enough but
it's a prerequisite for good
prioritization which is one of the most
high yield things that you can be doing
in your life it's properly rated for
that reason people use it people love it
it's good for all of those reasons the
only overrated part about it would be if
people are just thinking that having it
on a to-do list actually means that that
means you're going to be productive
drawing or doodling is overall
underrated but most people aren't really
doodling in a way that is productive
like most people are doodling like
making the you know organic chemistry
it's like oh yeah history like they're
drawing out you know making it really
pretty but growing and doodling is a
great way of representing information
non-verbally which is important because
your visual processing has tens of
thousands of times faster than your
written word processing but also because
of the fact that it allows you to
express more information in a way that
is non-directional which is the way that
knowledge is inherently sort of
non-linear and omnidirectional so trying
to represent it linearly means that you
lock yourself into learning it in a
linear flow whereas drawings and doodles
can actually break that open you can
look at like an image all at once and
one go and take in lots of information
all in one go and that is a very
underrated part of of learning
techniques mindfulness meditation
overrated or underrated mindfulness
meditation is underrated mindfulness
meditation used to be something that was
like not well known and now it is
something that's very well known by lots
of people I'm continually surprised by
how much like people are starting to
know this and I think apps and things
have done a great thing to try to push
that out to more people and popularize
and normalize it so that's that's a good
thing I think people still underrate the
value that it has mindfulness meditation
is not one of those things that usually
provides a short-term immediate benefit
especially if you're a beginner to it
it's kind of like working out you need
to work out for a period of time before
you can use that transferably and the
other thing is that when you're training
mindfulness meditation uh like it's the
getting distracted is the point bringing
yourself back from the distraction and
letting that go and being mindful that's
actually the point so some people are
put off by the fact that they're so
easily distracted it's like going into a
gym and being put off by the fact that
you need to move so that was the point
of it so I think if you didn't
understand that you would severely
underrate it and I think that the way
that most people do underrate it so
therefore I think it is still underrated
Focus meditation
well focused meditation is really a I
think personally I I think it could be
viewed as really a subset of mindfulness
meditation in fact all these meditative
practices kind of
end up sort of blending together the
only difference is the intention behind
it and also there isn't really clear
research that differentiates the
benefits of different forms of
meditation from each other so if you
look at something like
um like very secular meditation
practices versus something that's more
like religious or Transcendental
Meditation you're not really seeing that
there are unique differences for each of
these at least not when you look at the
research as a whole
so I think meditation as a as a whole is
just good to do and if you're wanting to
use it for Focus whether you wanted to
use it to calm down whether you want to
use it to detach or just you know deal
with anxiety or whatever it is I think
that's just up to you to pick your
intention but it's just good overall
movement meditation
hmm movement rotation I'm going to say
is actually even more underrated than
the other ones and I'm going to say this
because I know lots of people that will
meditate and they'll practice
mindfulness but they won't understand
how they can translate or transfer or
use that technique in their daily life
so for example they may do their
meditation like every evening or
something for like 20 minutes and then
but during the day when they have like
oh I'm getting stressed or flustered or
anxious they don't think they use that
same technique at the time one thing
that I think movement meditation helps
you to do is understand that you can be
in a meditative state of mind without
being in a meditative conventional pose
you can embody meditative practices just
just you know while you're walking while
you're cleaning while you're doing the
dishes while you are you know whatever
and just breaking it into the mode of
everyday life as a skill that you can
use and a tool that you've just got in
your toolkit I think that's a view that
people often don't have about meditation
and so I'll say it's underrated for that
reason so that's it for this episode of
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