How CEOs Need to Learn 

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Mastery emerges not from linear repetition, but from first envisioning an interconnected web of ideas that provides context to integrate new knowledge as it arrives..

Learning 1. Create a hypothesis schema (Big picture; based on keywords from resources, pre-existing knowledge, and their relationships; 2-4 mindmap). 2. Expand from the most relevant topic, ideally focused searching for what you WANT to learn. 3. Set a date to review this session. Teaching 1. What they think today's session is about? purpose? big picture 2. what's the most important? black swan?

For anyone who was also confused about the lateral relationships, I found it helpful to think about it like books. In Justin's example of adding laterality retrospectively, it's like getting books then just piling on the ground. There's no relationship other than they are part of one big pile. It also makes things difficult if you need to get a specific book from that pile. But for the example where we should think about laterality from the start, it's like having a bookshelf and a system of how you will categorize new books that come. So when you get books, you can easily organize it into their own categories. Now you can see the relationships and you can also easily get the book you need because they are sorted into their own categories. So the same for learning, you can easily encode and retrieve information if you have that mental "bookshelf". And to make that "bookshelf", you have to understand the super basic structure of what you're learning. And then you'll realize all the new information points back to that basic structure.

This man is a treasure. I can’t thank you enough Dr Sung!❤

44:10 Ok, someone's gotta point out how SMOOTH that was

What I do with info is immediately try to determine the categories or groups it fits into. This is really helpful since knowing the category of one thing immediately helps you understand so many different aspects about said thing. It helps you immediately connect that info to your already existing network of info that you've been building up your whole life.

This is actually pure gold that you are delivering to us. Thank you very much

9:24 heuristics are sometimes related to what's known as "System 1 thinking" in English, a concept popularized by psychologist Daniel Kahneman in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow". "System 1 thinking" refers to our way of thinking that is fast, automatic, and requires little or no conscious effort. It's like when you react to something instinctively or make quick choices without thinking too much about them. Heuristics are an example of this type of thinking because they are mental shortcuts we use to make quick decisions. On the other hand, there's "System 2 thinking", which is slower, more deliberate, and logical. When you solve a difficult math problem or make an important decision after a lot of thought, you are using System 2 thinking. So, "System 1 thinking" is quick and automatic, like heuristics, while "System 2 thinking" is slower and more thoughtful.

This was your best video by far. Thank you. The big takeaway was how to prime effectively, and how to apply your primed schema to learn by bouncing between what you connections you’re curious about

Your so helpful. I been feeling lost when I start studying lately. You boost my confidence and I appreciate that 🙂

Super helpful and concise! Can't get enough of these videos 🙏

Well-connected islands of knowledge that we fail to apply to other domains is a succinct and lovely explanation for failure of far transfer, and perhaps many other cognitive phenomena. In my case, it's learning general physics, but still failing to apply the concepts to everyday situations and inventions. Definitely something to keep in mind!

Justin! You are amazing! Thank God for the gift of you in the world. You are a Blessing to so many people. Your love and passion comes through. To whom much is given, much is required. God is pleased with you. Much love to you and your family 😊❤️

The things, I have get out of this, is that I should focus on adding relevance to the information I have chosen to enter in my brain. Information in isolation just easily vanishes from my memory. An another important theme is to create your own knowldege structure before even diving deeply in something you want to learn. Refining this structure while I'm processing new datas is also necessary. Thanks Justin for this premiere !

I think keys that I take away are always skim through wide range of resources about topic you wanna study before u deep dive into it. And then highlight all the keywords that you dunno, find it out from somewhere else from that to get more relevant information. Then after that link all the things together and imagine if you wanna teach ppl about what you are learning, present them what are the most important parts that you understood from the topic.

Ive picked up a lot from this single video (it really helped me connect a lot of ideas from your previous videos). Im a caribbean medical student and i really appreciate your work Dr Sung. Looking forward to watching more of your videos

Just leaving this for myself 35:28 - workflow 27:00 33:00/36:00 - 2,4 rule Example of bad mindmap(why we use the 2,4 rule) 36:29

The car analogy was a perfect example of how to present information to the audience in a way that makes it amenable to learning and accessible.

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my RU-vid channel 6 months ago about self development. Now I have 423 subs and > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessonsÀ we that I couldn’t have learned without getting started in the 1st place.

I literally watched this video in random order without knowing what's the video about. I started from the part how to learn a new topic then came back to see other parts of the video, since you are explaining this very well.

when I was in the university, sometimes I used to open more than one resource for a topic but i was telling myself this is a waste of time and energy by keeping myself distracted and not organized, however actually what i was missing is to it and think about the appropriate approach like the one you have explain it in this video. in nutshell : sometimes we do good things in the wrong way, why just need to know how and why to do it.

Really curious on how to do those learning through layers effectively.. it seems we need more tutorials on how to do it in the right way to achieve those lateral connections in learning. Anyway, thank you Justin for your top notch content!

Cannot emphasize enough how valuable this actually is.

Simply excellent, Justin!

Just some ongoing self notes on first pass by. - In the root, there are fundamentals that our brains followup to learn anything. The way we exhibit such information makes it more appealing for one or another. Me, as an example, transitioned preferences from mostly video media to general text, where i can prioritize quick read scan, quick and precise recaptulations (the least liked being audio only). - Being a mechanic of your own brain: Use what you know of yourself to your favor. Stick to what engage you. - Know how you perceive your own thoughts. - The retrieval of Information can be categorized based on the truly graspness of such subject. It can be: ---Low Order Retrieval: Attaching the word/concept to just the meaning/terminology, ---Middle Order Retrieval: Where we understand a subject and one applicability of it. But not enough to provide a rich development or other examples. For instance, most school students find out pythagorean theorem to be just a simple formula for finding out triangles. Where in fact way more is used in distances and circles. ---High Order Retrieval: The level at such subject can and must be understood connecting many other subjects in the way. The three great tools mostly used to properly demonstrate envolves comparisons, the application of such and the context. Back to pythagorean triangles, it's useful for any engineer, triangulation of bodies, light or data that may or may not be under our common Newtonian mechanics or Einstein's Relativity and above as found in astronomy and GPS Systems. -Pattern detection. Patterns help us connect what we already have known for to ease our understanding. (Might be wrong on the book title) theres even a humoristical book about game development: Blood, Sweat and Pixels, where under the eyes of who designs them and vividly say that we search patterns all the time to fulfill our innate needs of perceiving and understanding not so far away same as cave men (funny momke brain). Games do this really, but really often. And that works like a charm with a little effort to create a new resemblance of an already impregnated pattern in our minds. -Metacognition exercises: well, my personal take on this. The way it mostly goes is when reaching anything new is acknowledge it, and then try to find what other common thing I can correlate to ease the process. May have or not some place to write, and writing does indeed help a lot, as with it, scribbles come by and go. It doesnt matter if i got it truly at first, but i keep checking if I really understood reading twice, thrice and in other references. The more bits of information that can give either a new view or a shared common ground already existing in my head makes it easier. In the end, if its something that i want to learn out of necessity, it greatly increases the chance that I'll trully get to understand or at least keep saved for a longer time. Fear not, this process isnt always for educational or professional means, often may be for recreational purposes as well. 11:25

Thank you for your talk Justin! I had two questions-one about how exactly thinking at the analyze level of Bloom’s taxonomy differs from the evaluate level, and which techniques activate those levels when creating this scheme? I also wanted to ask what importance means-importance to your job/career, or how important/large a concept is within a topic? For example, learning about trigonometric functions I could imagine a use case for in engineering, but it doesn’t feel relevant enough, as opposed to thinking about why trigonometry is important the other concepts in precalculus. Should I keep trying to find more relevant reasons, or does “importance” not depend on how important I feel the information is?

First time I came across your work, can't wait to share with my son who is doing his Law articles and my daughter preparing to start University 🙌 Namaste 🙏

This video is literally the lightbulb moment to all of your other videos haha. I found this video massively helpful ❤!

I love your videos! I am a Student in Germany and I realized that I learned my whole life in wrong way

This is so true! We dont have the time to learn slowly. Just the same we dont have the time for make up test. It is best to pass it the first time around. Go in there with the intention of passing. I know my learning styles. I know the way I can get it when a Teacher, or Professor is lecturing. Write lessons down while its fresh in your head. Because later, you may not remember.

Amazing video! The one guy manipulating comments in session, though could using a little more listening and a little less talking. The facilitator handled it all well and delivered a great class!

This changes EVERYTHING

one of the best 49 minutes of learning i have ever received. Thanks Justin!

عجبني جداً رد فعلك وتنظيم أفكار الفيديو، فعلاً كل إناء ينضح بما فيه، ورد يفعل يوضح إنك متربي وما شاء الله عندك قدرة جميلة على ضبط النفس، تحياتي.

Very excited to expand on this model of learning. I have used a similar model to organize data intense subjects like my MLO exam. This method seems to expand even further.

Amazing!!!!! Amazing!!!! Amazing!!! thank you Dr Sung

This has to be the most meta, confusingly sensible presentstion

You dont have time to learn slowly, so you learn everything half-assed and leave it up to your employees to fix your half-assed work. Very inspirational indeed

This was excellent. Thanks so much for sharing!

An excellent video! Also loved the questions the CEO's posed because it was similar to the ones I had whilst watching. This vid also helped connect many of the other concepts I've picked up from you other videos! Thank you so much!!

Amazing work as always!

Awesome presentation. So many valuable points!!

I believe that when you want to learn something, it's essential to feel confident after each study session. If you have doubts, it might hinder your ability to effectively use the information you're trying to learn. To overcome this, it's crucial to be analytical about your learning process. By discovering your learning preferences and mapping out the most suitable methods for yourself, you can learn almost anything. Personally, I am convinced that when people say they lack motivation or interest in a subject at school, it's often just an excuse to avoid putting effort into learning. It's possible that the information is not presented in a way that aligns with their learning preferences.

It's ironic that for the things I want to learn on my own, I become a "general" expert in a short time, where I aware of my competency and shortfalls. Most of all, enjoying the process of learning. In contrast, the things I'm academically trying to learn is such a struggle, because I'm trying to linearly learn a concept written by a different person, that is then distilled into a book. Of course I'm going to struggle!

I enjoyed your video, but can you make a separate video on how to annotate and take notes from books in a non-linear fashion? I somewhat understand what you explained in the video about how to approach learning a new topic. However, I hope somewhere in the future; you can make a video about how to learn from what you read and how to annotate it.

Excited🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

It's a fast talking, and i think we can be happy and content with simple stuff too, to each their own

This was amazing! I'm about to start go into python, so I will definitely be using this.

Your best video yet. Good job

So well presented. He speaks so consisely, amazing, def admire that quality.

Thanks for this video! I learnt something valuable and it helped me evaluate how I've done some of my recent trainings in a linear and knowledge building structure and left wondering if that was the most effective way to deliver the training. Your video gave me great insights to the individual learning process and how I could help my participants elevate their learning experience as well as making these sessions more meaningful to them!

Justin, I have a question: when learning a completely new topic, is it helpful to map out my existing conceptions of that topic, i.e. what I think I know about it (at a very surface level) in order to build relevance? Or is this likely to encourage an innacurate schema if my preconceived notions are incorrect?

very helpful. thank you Justin and team :D

I knew that i have to add relevance to my information , i always have problems with the information I have kept in my mind , just in seconds it vanishes from my mind. Thank you for the brilliant information you delivered to us . ❤❤

This info is so valuable. Had several lightbulb moments listening to you. I wish we learned these techniques in school.

Wow, I've been doing this without knowing it is a technique, simply because I work in IT. A lot of times, we have to get things working, and if the problem resides in an area we don't have expertise in, we need to get help from the people who are more intimately familiar. But in order to work together, we all have to form some kind of mental images of how things work first then take guesses.

Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate what you said about being comfortable with uncertainty in learning. Facing uncertainty with comfort was my biggest challenge during my MS.c studies.

Understanding how I receive information. Thinking, breaking it down to my own. comprehending it, and understanding it. Simplifying it even more. I just learned a lot today just by watching this video. Love how you explain and teach us.

So pretty much running scenarios in your brain and picking the right close one that is correct? Then adjust based on what you learn on the way.

00:04 Optimize learning processes and improve efficiency. 01:54 Optimizing the fundamentals is the key to learning. 05:19 Optimizing information communication for efficient cognition 06:56 Retrieval of information can be categorized into higher order and mid-order retrieval 10:31 Consolidating knowledge through activities 12:15 Summarizing information to its minimal form for better understanding. 16:04 The time it takes to form a good mental model in a schema is one of the biggest delays in learning. 17:54 Relevance is assigned by us, not inherent to information 21:04 Start with understanding the relevance of the information 22:42 Summarize a book quickly by making an unordered list of important words and concepts. 25:47 Creating a hypothesis helps in forming an overarching structure for knowledge. 27:20 Learning creates connections and relationships. 30:16 Increase knowledge relevance and revise knowledge more productively 31:51 Organize information into a clean structure 34:44 Optimizing the learning process through self-driven approach 36:10 Avoid waterfalling and ensure laterality of thinking 39:30 Learning through higher order thinking allows for both high and low levels of mastery. 41:02 Building a connected knowledge schema is important to apply knowledge effectively. 43:59 The more you think like this, the more you're able to consolidate information and learn from multiple sources simultaneously. 45:28 Asking probing questions and discussing Black Swan scenarios can enhance learning and critical thinking. 48:22 Building a mental model helps navigate uncertainty

Sir, you are my guy!! With this lesson you will excel my achievement a few years. Thank you so much for sharing!

Apart from literally taking your course, this kind of format is the most digestible. Not gonna mince words, I'm a freeloader, there are places like Twitch where I've been a subscriber for 16 months in some channels with just gift-subs from others. And on that note, I would appreciate workshops like this one whenever you feel like sharing because freebies are awesome!😁

This is like a quick reminder for me about the binge watching of Justin's videos 😅

Thank you, Mr. Sung, for this very illuminating and mind-altering content!

Thank you 🎉

this is very very helpful videos , really appreciate you share it with us.

Curious if anyone else can recommend other videos/resources that show a general outline/overview of Justin's learning methodologies/system? Glad to have found this one - it's pretty thorough and good , but wanting to see if there are others

This was simply BRILLIANT even though the majority of info covered here I already knew by watching (& rewatching 😅) your previous videos Also I just realized I need to work more on lateral relationships in my mind maps One of the best tips I learned from this workshop is to remember that “mastery of layers is the key, instead of mastering the order of learning that is presented to you as in lectures, books, courses, etc”

They is no one in youtube who knows about learning more than u.

So much of what you said is so intuitive of the way i already think...wow i didnt realize how much this made sense until you put it into words. Youve made me conscious of this now its time for me to practice these methods.

What an intro to a presentation. We can all learn from that. Best 1 minute intro for a workshop/presentation I heard in a long time. Thanks and great job

This has been the way I have been learning things my entire life. I understand now why I have been a top student most of my life. I actually came up with this model of learning. But he is more formal in his explanation method than I would have probably been. I am glad to have found that video. It reinforces me in what I have been doing so far. There are few things that could be added to this such as: * Breaking down big concepts into manageable and composable concepts, and focus on one at a time (divide and conquer). * Pattern recognition - most things (physical or logical) in life are defined by patterns. The sense of beauty stems from recognizing patterns in apparent "chaos". Once you recognize the underlying pattern in anything, you understand that thing (physical or logical).

For the "aha-moment" when the scheme starts to make sense - does it help further learning? For example, would it be helpful to solve some simpler (and possibly not directly related) problem to get into the zone and then switch to a more difficult topic? Thanks!

Hi Justin, I'm going through your content in the hopes of teaching my kids ( two under 2) wondering if you have any counterparts in the child learning space. I've found using the terminology you use in searching when searching has significantly increased the quality of resources I've found so thank you

Can't wait

Thanks a lot. 🙏

I would like to learn more about how I can optimize my students’ learning, such as what you talked about briefly at the end of this video.

Super excited

This method is the real deal.

This is a fantastic piece of video. If you like the video, you are likely to like the book " Thinking, Knowing, Doing and Being".

this information was invaluable

great talk! very interesting i'm working on dev course for kids and thought similar to this way and in this talk you open my eyes to the value of see the whole picture and then break it apart

This is a really, really, good talk. Thank you for your great efforts!

#1 thing that matters for learning: mental state. Get your brain into the right frequently brainwaves for the type of learning activities. Focused vs creativity are different, dancing while singing vs playing flute are different. Figure out the specific mental state, and the right time to repeat. You want to know you attention. If your mind is clear, focused and alert, then you will do better no matter what. Ok I'm def gone now. Good luck kids.

I noticed at 40:19 there is the old version of Bloom's Taxonomy when you demonstrated Higher order thinking vs lower order thinking. In the course, you primarily use Bloom's revised taxonomy, with "create" as the highest level (PhD level) as opposed to "evaluate" in the old version. Is there something wrong?

This was fire! 🔥🔥🔥

This is good information. I am trying to see how I can incorporate these ideas in my Bible Studies for personal study and sermon preparation. I want to learn and teach so much, but it takes me such a long time because I like to handwrite everything. I'm going to try these tips and see how it goes.

so useful video to make brain active for learning things, it is the most important things I learn today. Thank you

I'm struggling in grad school and I can say I'm down to try this, got nothing to lose at this point

19:00 Learning is extremely energy consuming 22:47 skimming the book

38:38 Contains a nice example. Wonder if there are more. Always have used a directory tree to frame information, this seems to be water falling. Forcing me to queue before boot, so to say. I'll have to figure out more on this lateral relationships thing. This presentation is insightful, appreciative it was recommended.

A great video and idea of approaching the new knowledge and align with how to train machine learning, how the modelling suppose to be. I also believe this method will suitable for a PhD student preparing their research proposal. 😊

This is incredible helpful. Thank you for your teaching and for sharing this video.

Really helpful sir. Thanx a lot. U helped me a lot with what i wanted to achieve. If someone replies, plz do mention if u r the editor or Justin himself.

TRUE THINKING FAST IS IMPERATIVE BUT TO KNOW THE TIME TO SAY THINGS IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT SO NEVER BE RUNNING YOU BETTER SAY THINGS ON THE RIGHT TIME, ALWAYS ...

very nice video, Justin is pretty smart and knows what he's talking about. I didn't know I was already kind of applying these concepts in my learning, this made many things more clear to me now. Thanks for posting.

This was great!

Thats a great way to learn my German ! I was looking for each individual little bit of word trying to translate the meaning to italian or english checkig if it makes sense in portuguese. But is better to feed the mold on the way tha you explained ! Well played Justin!