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Hey there! I'm Justin Sung, a learning coach (for the last decade), former doctor, top 1% TEDx speaker, education author, and social entrepreneur.💡
I'm also the co-founder and Head of Learning at iCanStudy, where we've pioneered the world's first cognitive retraining program, focusing on self-regulated higher-order learning (i.e. learning to learn REALLY efficiently) 🚀. We've helped transform over 15,000 learners across 120 countries 🌍
Before this, I spent 7 years working in the non-profit education space in a social enterprise I founded in NZ, helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds enter healthcare careers.
On my channel, I share evidence-based learning strategies and self-management methods that I've tried and tested for busy students and professionals.
Justin, Thanks for your effort to post great content for free for those who can't afford the program Yes please explain more how studying at higher orders of learning fills the lower levels
Her "interruption" was a cue for Justin to know he needed to reframe or clarify his points. This is completely normal and it's better than listening quietly when you stopped understanding half way through.
Please go deeper. I’m so perplexed about studying History. When I understand, I forget facts. When I learn facts, I do not remember what it was about. And in history both are important, esp. remembering facts is so difficult.
super useful vid, would love if you can go deeper on this. in the ib curriculum, levels 5-6 of thinking are commonly tested & correspond with the highest levels of achievement.
Guys,/Girls, May be we should start a thread where we explain how we use Level 4 and Level 5 in our own specific field? It'd help consolidate the idea. I started with mine as a researcher student in neurosciences (below)👇
1. Since I'm writing neuroscience papers, I have to basically make a bold claim and justify it with a series of convincing arguments, based on evidences: Claim -> Argument -> Evidences. 2. I create a Mindmap with my Claim at the center say "Loud sounds can Improve attention in the short term. " At this level, I will read papers, or my own findings, and write arguments supporting or not the claim 3. Then I will read each argument and question myself: - So what? How does this argument support my claim? - WHat are other arugments that make my claim stronger - Does stacking Argument 1, 2 , 3, after another have an additive effect? 4. Then I'll draw relationships among Different Arguments, How All arguments support a claim (Zooming in), and how strong the evidences are (Zooming in). The relationship can be supportive (they complete themselves), opposite, adressing caveats,. 5. I go back and forth between Evaluating arguments relationships, digging up more infos, critizicing their strengths, until I reach a point where I have a clear Mindmap, OR I lack critical information. :) How do you guys do it?
Can you please make the same video in a harsh subject like economics? Congratulations about this video. I want to ask you something. How is level 6 useful for exams studies?
I'm ngl, I think (hear me out) plenty of people with adhd do go through the levels of thinking in this when learning something. The main problem is that dang chaos in the brain, can't seem to prioritize which should come first 😅
Fact:- To be in ivy league colleges or perform good, students must reach the highest lvl before 14 yrs. Otherwise even after college, preparation for a competitive exam, students realise the mere way of Discipline & Strategy to study the syllabus , after failing two or more attempts in the exam.
Now I understand because of this level of ,way of thinking I fumbled with my exam papers, I tend to analysis the principal I'm suppose to learn as it is with my own judgement ,I did properly spend time reading ,analysing it comparing it,then judging it , but the asked questions requirements were just to state how it is existed ,or somehow they ask , compare between them, I overly compare them which makes my answers quite confusing, Cause I was attempting the same ,I was also confused, then ends up getting most of answers not noticed by teacher, I noticed this pattern years ago but still unable to get any help , there may be more to it I'm slowly learning, I always felt like a dumb for never getting any better marks even though people around me complement me that I explain very well.
I fell back in love with learning when I started to invest more time in level 4 and 5, and I definitely felt more confident with my knowledge and able to play with the informations, but even though you learn things this way it still doesn't bring the best grades just because some teachers in universities are so focused on rote memorisation and only examine you on this.. like cite me back this example seen in class even though you have another correct one you came up with (true story during an oral exam 😂) Nonetheless thanks Dr. Sung great video as usual
Thanks a lot, Dr. Justin. I've thought of the taxonomy this way before. And yes, please do go deeper. I'm interested to see how I can apply it better for my learning.
I want to understand the science behind why it's easier to memorize starting from Bloom's revised taxonomy level 5 and then filling in the other levels. I am memorizing the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit. Initially, I thought I needed to learn Sanskrit first, but I found that memorizing the shlokas first and then understanding their meaning worked better. This method has allowed me to memorize 42 shlokas in Chapter 1, and I think I can memorize the entire text in a year. What is the scientific basis for this approach?
I watched a ton of your videos and I can say without a doubt that If I were to ever advice ONLY ONE video about learning, this would be it, you just summarise your 4 years of contents creation into one video. Thanks again for the value and the work.
wow! I also learnt English this way to level up from B2 to C1! Now I can understand your generalized method to apply for studying other fields! Thank you very much ❤❤❤
I like this. I was exposed to this during one of my stats quality management classes last semester in my senior year. gladd to see it again. Ill have to use this with gpt. hopefully I will remember.
folks here seem to miss the overall top take away : you need to Mind map chunk EVERYTHING, coding, encoding, some heading..... mentally on the first information influx. and mentally draw conclusions, with other learned or experiences.... taxonomy is just a gauge on where your tested output on thinking is, when you mind map chunk, breaking it in small chunks and link it to [ other mind maps or theories] , you will recall more. but if you divert, and start creating, from the encoded information, to ask, say im learning taxonomy for the first time, hearing it, i broke it down, i know the layers, does layers 3 to 1 make up layer 6 itself or a mix can it be tested and do i recall everything just be remembering the middle child, since everything links back and goes through level 5 ? etc end of it all, everything can be related, to a degree just via association or analogies, which in terms of story telling, gives your more detail and clarity, to fit into all the videos, justin has given for free already. and it all fits nicely with each other, like the globe of wikipedia.
Hi, I'm from brazil, student of public school, and the education here isn't good, I found the idea of these levels of thought very interesting, even though it was created a long time ago it is very natural, because I can think about every level I have ever been to, thanks to the Obsidian software It helped me get to level 4: Analysing, as it helps me cross and compare notes on different ideas and concepts.
Hey Justin...Iam using these high yield techniques but seeing results very slowly..my competative exams in few days...what should i focus on improving techniques and sacrificing exams or something else...Iam in a very frustrating,lonely situation
