How to Teach Yourself MORE Than You Thought Possible 

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For me waiting to discover what I "need to learn" based on life has worked well. I'm self taught in oncology, cancer nutrition, general medicine, and psychology. It is amazing what we can learn when we remain focused and consistent.

you can also ask LLM ChatGPT for a course outline... example: create a university course syllabus for a study of philosophy, include; - history and beginning of philosophy - greek and roman philosophy - comparative philosophy across easter and western cultures - I have two hours a week plus reading time - include any web resources, especially RU-vid links - include a week by week schedule for 12 weeks

I'm an amateur violist having studied viola for 40+ years under a teacher. I've been teaching myself music theory and now studying the history of the viola from its origins and early music to modern violas and music & technique.

Very inspiring! Just turned 36 and finally trying to learn how to study, hasn't ever been natural to me, but I LOVE learning and taking notes! Lacking in organize. Thank you for your style and technique!

Love this. I am a life long student myself. I hope to always have a curiosity to learn til i die. I didnt realize i already do all of this just no where near as scheduled. It makes me excited to try these techniques and see what goals i can achieve. Thank you Parker, youve been inspiring the hell out of me lately

I'm a PE major and chose it because I want to teach while being fit. However, I love learning other topics from different fields and was struggling on how to teach myself while being in this course. Thank you so much for uploading this!!!

I can't believe that you are doing this, you are truly someone who has true passion for acquiring knowledge. I have seen people criticize university and acquiring knowledge in general. Teaching yourself seems way more fun than university lectures haha. Just subscribed!

I am also currently working on my computing degree and I am just as excited as you when it comes to learning topics - the auto didact way! Good to hear we are on the same line of topic, Parker.

I struggled throughout undergrad to gain a degree I have barely used. I finished school because it was expected of me, but I didn't enjoy what I was learning about. Now, almost a decade later, I still find that topics that interested me when I was a kid continue to play in the back of my mind. I have a list with scores of topics that I want to either learn about or learn how to do. I really enjoyed watching this video because it's helping me to better structure my self learning. I might never set foot back in a university classroom, but I love the challenge of creating my own curriculum, and maybe even having my own personal graduation. Thanks for the awesome videos! I love this channel!

I'm glad I came across this channel. I can already tell you that you're going to be an invaluable resource to someone who wants to expand his scope of understanding eruditiously.

I want to learn a looot about forests functional ecology. Always love your videos, they're making me fall in love with learning all over again every time, thanks !

Many thanks for your clear dive into your autodidactic life,I gained a lot and am ready for a go at this lifestyle.

I like this idea for my developing my own course. This really focuses epistemic curiosity. Thank you. Yes, I’d like to get your ideas on book reviews and precie (sp?)

Personal fave topic? Probably biblical studies. This was insightful. I’m right at the cusp of doing this but am developing diligence to stick to things I begin and keep intrinsic motivation. I was an F student in school because of chronic depression but after I was saved my life looks so different. I’m alive and building the framework I was made to have despite things that happened to me.

This aligns with some thoughts and aspirations I’ve pondered often. Thanks for sharing. So great to find some new perspective.

Congradulations on your 100k my friend!! You are such an amazing person!! 0:48 🎉🎉🎉

Love this! 💡 Lifelong learner here, and I'm stoked to try these techniques. Thanks for the inspiration, Parker! 🚀🙌

Your channel is awesome! This is exactly the kind of video I wanted to see on RU-vid and here you are. I have been watching your vids for a while now and you are always a source of great inspiration. Thank you for doing what you do and coming up with solid content each and every vid you release. I would love to see your take on how to build on your autodidactic "degree".. How do you choose what to do to build on what you have done? Should there be an overarching goal?

I'm really hoping to use this for Apologetics, Creative Writing, and even learning new languages. I'm really glad you went over this. I've been struggling since I have finished under-grad how to structure my time to keep on learning about topics that will both interest and benefit me

ahh this video is just what i needed, I started finally planning out my own marine biology course last week and this helps a lot

New subscriber here. I loved your take on pocketjournaling and writing soliloquys to me. I'm just starting my journey on self evaluation and self transformation, and I've used your tips to better obsorbs who I am and what I wana learn thank you

Outstanding job, Park. I've developed my own courses before (for my high school students, for our men's discipleship cohorts, and for myself), but you laid this out and explained it really well. I'm going to use this to develop my next couple courses for The Hammer & Anvil Society. And I just realized something: anyone could use this to write a course on dogs, turtles, and swearing about how you're only cool if you watch "Boy Meets World."

Your channel is such a treasure for me, thank you for sharing all you do.

You are brilliantly skilled learner. Your videos have been a tremendous help to me, I pray I’ll be able to implement them and be persistent in carrying them out. God bless you!

I have two I'm working on: Renaissance Philosophy and memory with an emphasis on Giordano Bruno, Eastern philosophy, strategy, and history. I'm doing those alongside the Bachelor's in Forensic Psychology I'm doing through a university and a year-long course on Sherlockian Deduction I'm doing under Ben Cardall. Afterward, I plan on making my own survey course on general human knowledge.

so greatful to have come across your channel at this time, much love

This video was amazing. I’ve thought about structuring learnings for myself but never to the point where I was essentially building a course with a syllabus. I more or less was going the route, I’ll read x book and take notes until I’m finished. Never building quizzes and tests for myself. That’s brilliant. There’s a reason why education was traditionally structured in the way it is and just because we don’t think the education system is optimal doesn’t mean we should throw the baby out with the bath water

Love this video. Thank you so much for making the effort to record it. The content is so useful and inspirational . It has inspired me to set my own course, for personal learning, on sleep. My ‘assignments’ will be in the form of making some interesting blog posts for my website. I will capture all the ideas this method will generate on my digital zettelkasten (which have have on Obsidian). I am looking forward to reading all those books on sleep that have been on my wish list for ages. 🤗❤️

Yes I'd love to hear more about the book reviews please!

Just found your channel an hour ago and I've been watching tons of your videos. I have a personal goal of becoming an incredibly officer in the army when I graduate college, to do that I've been trying to think more about as much as I can, especially about things like what it means to be a leader. Your videos are helping tons in figuring out how to do this! And I gotta say, I love the mustache!

The moment you showed your notebook and organization i was engaged. I'm definitely going to be trying this out, I've been wanting to selg study Internal Medicine, and doing this will help a lot! You're amazing

I love this. I start so many things aimlessly so I love the idea of structuring the learning with defined outcomes. Will definitely be applying this. I need to understand more about pensions and keep putting it off so putting a framework around it will help and I think there will be a ton of content and courses around it that I can mimic too. And your doggy is gorgeous 🖤🤍🖤🤗

Hey sir! It'd be great if you make a video on how you're taking notes from all of those lectures you had watched. I'm seriously having some problem with taking notes while watching/listening to lectures.

So glad I found this channel. I am an editor in the film industry and have been starting to study AI which feels very left of field for me. But seeing people like you boldly exploring new fields is energizing and infectious.

Thank you for this! I never went to school and because of this I never learned to learn. Your channel has been a massive help in my journey to become a software engineer.

i would definitely like to watch a video on book reviews from you! keep up the amazing work

There needs to be a ‘Love’ button…BRAVO Parker; I LOVE THIS!!!❤

Thank you, man! I have just used GPT-4 to come up with syllabus for a topic I have a passion for and it’s done what I couldn’t figure out how to do on my own. So now I have a way to make a learning plan thanks to you!

Thank you for this! This is what I need.

This is exactly the video I needed, because I'm huge on self-learning, but doesn't have the proper motivation/ways to properly get into it!

Creating a curriculum for the things you want to learn is the smartest and most helpful idea I've ever heard. Makes me more motivated to learn the things on my list of interests. Thank you for sharing, this is such a game changer!

Thank you for this insightful video. I have too many diverse topics that I'm interested in and have little connections with each other. Maybe that isn't a problem at all.

I started my master study of musicology. I want to deeply learn about the philosophy behind music. Discovering your channel was like finding treasure on youtube. Now i have a notebook everywhere i go and write down everything comes up to me. Noting what i am reading, how many pages ect. I studied trombone before so i am not familiar with the theoric aspect of learning that much. This helps a lot. So thank you😅

Thank you for this amazing video! ❤ I want to learn more about diplomacy. And I wanted to say that it will be great, if you could create a video about critical reading.

This is fantastic! Thank you! There's so much I want to learn and this gives me some structure and a strategy to approach it. And omg I loved iTunesU and was so sad when it disappeared.

Love the video, I'm already in the beginning stages of designing my own jewelry design master course, utilizing material I already had and a variety of short classes I've purchased.

looking forward to more helpful videos, hope your work gets more recognition here

Hey Parker, areas of academics I would like to study are linguistics, playwrighting, theater dramaturgy, world war I and II, history, reading, English language arts, ethics, poetry, musical arts and stage management.

14:40 I can’t shake the though that he filmed himself throwing his hands around everywhere then did a voice over 😂😂

What a great video! I have been doing something similar on my own but now I understand that I have been doing it in the most boring way. I'm 30 and I want to study Psychology at uni but since I wasn't the best student in school and my previous bachelor's degree I decided that I'm going to study the textbooks from the Psychology syllabus every day for 1 hour. This has been going great for 2 years now, however, it would be so much fun to search for videos of actual professors who are teaching the material. Thank you for this video and the ideas.

I would love a video about how to book review and such! I liked this video as well. I took notes and will create a course structure for myself.

I want to learn everything i can about languages. My passion has always been learning languages. I want to be a polyglot, and this video really helped. Thank you for changing my life!

Definitely make those videos you offered!

GREAT vid en very inspiring how u went about it , organizing your own education. Must watch for all kids too 💞

OMG I JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL AND ITS AMAZING

this is a great video...thank you!

Man, I've become a great admirer of your work, and I think you should produce a book recommendation video.

likely one of the most valuable channels on yt right now,

thank you for the idea, im making my fictious university that study about physics in order to boost my understanding of physics class during my high school years and get satisfying results on the examination.

I went through a whole lecture series on the history of industrial design. It’s was super fascinating and the professor was truly excellent

I've been self-studying much of my life. History was (and is!) important to me. Celtic especially which evolved into medieval history due to my love of sci-fi/fantasy books. I love studying culture. Where did a culture evolve from? What influenced it, history, beliefs, laws, etc. Does it all make sense - why? Why not? Self-Taught some basic coding in college. Wanted to make cool websites, and not with drag & drop to rearrange type editors. I want to return to Psychology and Philosophy but I'm currently working my way through Creative Writing.

I think learning as a hobby, especially about a wide range of topics, is great and expands your world and your ability to connect ideas and be inspired. I would caution there are few things you can learn to a high level that don't get put to practical use and tested by repeated failures during attempts to put them to practical use. Applying knowledge is critical to really understanding it. As the saying goes, "knowing just enough to be dangerous."

Love the channel brother. Keep up the great content

A book review how to video as you mentioned above would be amazing!

Definitely going to follow this advice. The first subject that came to mind was fairy tales/fairy stories. I already have a compiled book of Grimm's Fairy Tales that's been on my shelf for quite some time now.

What great content! Recently, I became interested in the question: ‘Why do universities create syllabi, and how do they do it?’ Then, I came across this video. I have one question about the discussion part of the video. What do you think about using a language learning model (LLM) to discuss a book or a concept?

7:30 I am glad to answer this question because it literally challenges myself to make an answer here 😅. Well basically I'm a freshman and i have my bachelors on secondary education major in english. I chose english because i am living in the Philippines 🇵🇭 where english language is our 2nd official language and I am also planning to work further outside my country. But other than that, basic english was taught starting in elementary which I really understand if most of the basics would be forgotten later on. That's why, I wanted to study the english language since it'll be beneficial for me, thus it also my goal to systematically and professionally study this language again. Thank you for this video ❤ it helped me a lot!

This is a great video! My personal list of what I would want to learn is extensive lol. I would like to start with a course on how to become a world class researcher. learning how to study. I would think this would be the perfect primer to learn absolutely anything after this. If you have any insights on books or papers I could look into I would certainly appreciate it.

Glade I'm not the only one making imaginary curriculums for subjects I'm studying but I like how seriuosly you're taking this step to me it's a mere waste of time that I constantly pull myself away from it whenever I dive in too deep but I should try your method since it's fun to me 😁😁

I’m bookmarking this video so I can reference this later. I start grad school this month and I’m excited and nervous all at once. I want to do really well. If I could teach a class it would be on WW1. That war had a huge impact on the world and there’s so much that is skipped over and I would love to have a class where I can teach and focus on the importance of that war. I’m getting my masters in Higher Education with a teaching emphasis in History. I want to see how I would like teaching in college. I would definitely take any course you taught. You have a great way at breaking down information. Btw I love your mustache.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎓 Creating Your Own University Courses - Learn how to teach yourself effectively through creating your own university-style courses. - Make your own syllabus, find like-minded peers, and discover content for self-study. - Utilize Brilliant, a platform for interactive learning in math, data science, and computer science. 02:47 📚 Parker's Autodidactic Journey - Parker shares his personal journey of self-learning philosophy using iTunes U. - Developed a history of philosophy course, combining lectures and assigned readings. - Emphasizes the importance of setting goals and tracking progress in self-study. 05:17 🎓 Transition to Academic Studies - Entering grad school after five years of self-study, Parker continued creating his own courses. - Highlights the concept of guided readings and how it allows for personalized research. - Stresses the importance of self-study in both informal and formal academic settings. 07:10 🌐 Choosing Your Topic - Guidance on selecting a topic of personal interest for your self-created university course. - Encourages viewers to explore diverse subjects beyond traditional academic choices. - Emphasizes the significance of genuine curiosity for an engaging learning experience. 08:48 📝 Planning and Assignments - Discusses the importance of planning course credits, schedule, and assignments. - Recommends creating a course description, syllabus, and setting clear objectives. - Suggests writing papers as a method of synthesizing and applying acquired knowledge. 11:24 📚 Sourcing Reading Material - Provides strategies for finding recommended books and papers for your course. - Advocates seeking advice from peers, professors, or online communities. - Recommends leveraging social media platforms for crowdsourcing reading lists. 12:31 🎥 Choosing Lecture Material - Advocates using RU-vid for finding lectures corresponding to your course. - Suggests creating playlists to organize and structure your lecture content. - Highlights the abundance of educational content available on RU-vid. 13:55 🧠 Incorporating Brilliant in Your Course - Introduces Brilliant as a valuable resource for math, data science, and computer science. - Recommends integrating Brilliant into your course for interactive problem-solving. - Emphasizes the flexibility of Brilliant's content for customization in self-study. 14:51 🗣️ Facilitating Discussions - Encourages engaging in discussions on platforms like Discord, Facebook, or Twitter. - Recommends forming a study cohort or inviting others to take the course with you. - Emphasizes the importance of interactive learning and sharing ideas with peers. 15:46 📆 Structuring Your Learning Time - Guides viewers on planning the duration and schedule of their self-created course. - Stresses the importance of weekly meeting times, mimicking traditional university courses. - Emphasizes the psychological benefit of setting a clear start and end date for the course. 16:44 📓 Taking Effective Notes - Recommends dedicated notebooks for taking notes during lectures and podcasts. - Advocates for a structured approach to note-taking, including annotations and reflections. - Shares preferred notebook choices for effective and organized note-taking. 17:28 🌐 Lifelong Learning - Concludes by emphasizing the limitless potential for self-learning throughout life. - Encourages viewers to continue planning and organizing their self-study journey. - Highlights the commencement of one's education beyond formal academic programs. Made with HARPA AI

Well. This was something Parker. I have been starting my journey to Journalling, Commonplace Notebooks etc. This is a great way to think about my learning and try and codify what it is I'm doing, and how I'm doing it. Of course, you are now going to upset my wife when I start buying even more notebooks and resources. Absolutely loved the idea of structuring the learning more, with an actual syllabus, reading list and presenting the findings at the end.

Great video. Could you do a video on how to get the most out of books? How to take notes, highlight system, etc..

I am so so interested in the history of the Indian civilization and the scriptures written by those sages which contain immense knowledge about alot of subjects & disciplines, but I was holding back as there's no structured course on it... but thanks now I'm motivated again to start creating my own course and finding how I'll go about exploring this.... I want this to be the first place for recommendations... please if anyone sees this, give me recommendations of some books or articles or papers I can read and refer to...

This is such a cool idea. I am going to do this in preparation for when I go for my masters in a few years.

Very inspirational! I want to do self-education so much! I love learning, but I'm too socially anxious to go to university. I want to study art forms and languages.

The most difficult part is the time. There's no time in the day where I both have control over my schedule and also have energy to really study. I'm thinking to try 7pm-8pm every day but I know from my Japanese classes at that time that it's really hard for me to focus, I'm just not in learning mode anymore.

Thanks!

Thank you

Beautiful ideas

For free courses on coding, Harvard posts their lectures online! I’m not sure about other subjects but their first coding class is fun and something everyone could enjoy and learn from.

Hey man, great video. Would you ever consider doing a notebook flipthrough video? Would love to see a more in depth look at some of your notes if you are open to that.

This video will change my life ❤ Appreciate your effort And good luck in your Philosophy Course I'm interested in English Literature

Period bestie. You ate with this video. After my break from my current learning i will definitely try this out.

Absolutely loved this bit of knowledge! Thank you so much! (Greetings from a fellow autodidact :))

Please do a video on how you use your Kindle Scribe.

I am interested in literature and i found the proposed bibliography in a university's website. Also some free courses offered by universities are also a good way to start.

Great use of B-roll I’m ashamed that I did not subscribe before this. Lot of good things going on in this video.

Love your channel 🔥

I loved this video so much I looked for it a month after I first saw it. Scrolled through my RU-vid history for one months worth of videos. I watch 10 hours a day so it was not easy.

Fascinating! College never worked out for me because I never found a cohort. I was a "commuter" student so I went home after classes. The university was still on the quarter system so just about the time I would start to get to know some of my classmates, the class was over. I've always been fascinated with computers so I took classes at the local tech school, initially in low-level assembly language (which I loved) and in other higher-level programming languages. I later married a woman who had just started a home-based desktop publishing/graphic design business. Suddenly my experience with computers took a major turn. It was all about word processors, page layout programs, and image editors. How can you say you know about computers if you don't know Photoshop! Now that I'm retired, I appreciate all the free time but I'm looking for a bit more structure. My sister is still teaching and still getting advanced degrees to enhance her employability. My idea is to expand my understanding of programming languages, enhance my knowledge of document creation, and (finally) learn 3-D modeling and animation because that's what got me interested in computers in the first place. As a former desktop publisher, I'll make my own notebooks, thank you.

Hi Park. Thank you for your videos. I know what I’d like to learn and how to share it so others like me can benefit (neurodivergence) , but it’s a huge topic and I don’t know where to start and how to sort it into chapters to learn. all is fascinating, it is all equally important and giving one topic importance over another feels wrong. so how do you do that?

Love your videos! Your dog is beautiful!

Loved this video. I try to stay curious and learn as much as possible, but never thought to organize my education like this.

i have wanted to create my own course and teach myself for so long and could never find where to start. thank you!

Hey ! I am keen on delving into the realm of self-development and the psychology behind individuals holding onto past traumas, developing negative emotions, and effectively tackling the myriad of life's challenges. Might any of you fine folks have any recommendations on how I could acquire such knowledge? Any resources, materials, or books, perchance?

Awesome stuff

Such a vibe

Beautiful doggo you have!