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2 minutes in, and saying "you understand how it's written, and the words used, but not the concepts involved" speaks volumes. I've been learning a language for almost two years, and the majority of what I've learned has been from reading books and trying to remember. So often, I can hear or read a word, recognize that I've seen it before (because my brain memorized the word), but I have no idea what it means because I didn't actually associate the words with a meaning, I just remembered that the word is a word I should know.

for future reference Fluency of the text < Mastery of the concept -- To Learn, Retrieve (Retrieval Practice) Other methods mentioned: Spacing, Interleaving, Elaboration, Generation, and Reflection

Some 27 years ago I passed The Knowledge of London which is an extremely difficult series of tests one has to pass in order to drive a Black Taxi in London. It entails learning and memorising usually visually approximately 60000 streets and roads plus every train station, hospital club etc etc. what I was initially told everything that has a name, then being able to recite from memory point A to point B naming every road and roundabout you would travel on. Only about 6% of students who embark on this actually pass and it generally takes 3 to 4 years. It is a very methodical process involving many hours riding a moped over and over on the streets of London writing down various points of interest. Then reciting the runs over and over and over. All the exams are verbal in which you sit in front of an examiner and they will ask you two points and you have to recite the journey from A to B without faltering. The number of tests varies I believe, but think I had about 20 of these tests ‘appearances’ as they are called. I guess that the retrieval process is the key to learning something thoroughly. In a study a few years ago on tests carried out on London Black Taxi drivers they found that the drivers actually had larger hippocampi than average the hippocampus plays a major role in studying and remembering.

This is the best book in history, I confirmed that this is science-based information that transformed me into a great student, I read it a few years ago and I learned French, English and even math applying these techniques. It really shows you the art of learning. 😊, thank you so much for your contribution

Defo gonna have to check this out. I’ll read the paper first. Thanks for this Giles, I’m looking forward to putting these techniques into practice.

I hope this book will help me because we live in an extremely competitive world now where intelligence is the biggest asset you can have that will make you survive. It scares me sometimes that I feel i am not smart enough to become successful in life while others can :(

I've learned the book... as a learner, before being a teacher, it helped me a lot.

I loved the way the video is short but still structered in a very educative way

To anyone who hasn't watched the video, don't bother. He just tells you to go read "Make it Stick" in order to learn these magic learning techniques, but still finds the time to plug his sponsor.

For the focus issue, avoid autofocus, generally. Then, avoid long/zoomed shots, as the create a shallow depth of field. Have the focal length just wide enough to ensure a reasonable depth of field, such that your face and whatever you are holding are both in focus, always. Just a tip from my experience. Also, in the room shot, use a lavalier / lapel microphone. The mic needs to be close to the subject to minimzie echo and room noise. Lapel mic works like a champ, and is cheap.

May i say how much I appreciate your channel , truely helpful, great content and wonderful delivery of content

Thanks for doing these learning videos available for everyone, really good job!

Thank you for this video! Really appreciate your efforts, Giles!

Great video, thanks! I just discovered your channel today by watching your intro do Python virtual environments for beginners and knew I found a channel I'd like when you had the Maxwell's equations behind you. I was literally wearing a t-shirt with Maxwell's equations when I watched the video. Really appreciate the great content and presentation style!

Thank you for this video and sharing the link

I liked your walks in nature and talking.Good advises, thank you for sharing them.

As an educator I personally find „it sticks the most“ when I have to explain/teach it (the information or new knowledge) to others; engaging and reflecting the material. I enjoy this type of books so this one made it on my wish list.

Retrieval is such a wrong word. I guess it has been used as we have been misusing the word remember. To retrieve is to bring something back from somewhere (hence Golden Retrievers :0). However, what is actually described is reconstructing what we have learned. More like telling your own story. Information can be retrieved, but learning is more like exercise. The Brain is a muscle and not a computer memory bank. Etymologically remember comes from re+ memor. So it is like retrieval. However, I have given it different twist. When we learn something, the information is stored into different parts (sensory etc) so the process of putting into memory is more like dismembering. When you sit back and ruminate over the learned material, you actually re+member: put all the parts together. These strengths the pathways of learning. If the dis-membered information is pegged with multiple links (like dual coding) The whole process of re+membering becomes rich and deep. See how we can have vivid memories of silly incidence of past which have given us multiple links (smell, color, music etc) and we have relived or retold it to others many times, they seem to just come alive like movies. That is how we can create learning spaces and not by AI driven flat-screen numbness

I came to the realization much to late to do much about it. When I realized that if I'm interested in something, I just seem to absorb it. If and when I'm not interested, it just regardless of what, doesn't stick. After leaning Arithmetic in 8 years of grade school. My first year of high school envolve learning varioius forms of Mathematics. Algabra for one, was like trying to understand someone speaking a different language than the only one I knew. And I failed Math in the first three years of high school. Then in my Senior year, the Math became interesting. And I managed to learn everything the previous three year's had tried to teach me. And everything the current year had to offer in regards to Math. All within the first six months of the school year. I don't know if it was due to the new teacher or something just happened within me. But when Math became interesting to ME. I couldn't get enough of it.

I read the book, a lot of the studies, from what I read, didn’t have computer science or software engineering students involved. There are some things that sounded familiar, like generative learning. By familiar, it sounded like project based learned has parallels to the generative learning in the book. The book talks about spaced repetition and active recall. The thing I’ve learned while working in tech is we may not actively recall things we have learnt (example is DSA, unless your code base or team uses them a lot). I forgot C++ and Java because I don’t actively code in it because my job requires me to use Golang. What I took from it was that it made me feel at ease because I would stress out I would have to remember everything. But the book made me feel better that we naturally forget over time. It did ring true for programming, generative learning and getting your feet wet is very effective, so I changed my approach to learning by writing more code. The book also mentions testing yourself and your understanding, so I’ve applied TDD to assert if things work as I understand. An example is when I’m learning a new package or framework. Another interesting thing I’ve been doing is SQR4 while reading technical books, even when I watch videos. The book by Tiago Forte is also good because when learning technology, is good to get the essentials out. Doing breadth search style learning is good too. Understand the foundational or fundamental stuff and you can choose to go further in depth of a topic later. Given things are abstracted, treat things as a black box and then go deeper by understanding it’s implementation, etc.

Reflect Elaborate Time spaced repetition Testing self Retrieval practice Generating Interweaving

This video had an energy to it that was a joy to watch - and super informative! wonderful :)

Teaching the science of learning , thanks a lot for your videos very helpful.

I love your videos and editing, you are genius!

Use Your Brain by Tony Buzan was the prime reason I was able to go to University as a mature student.

This is such fantastic recommendation for so many different subjects

2:09 Retrieval 4:05 Understanding

While retrieval is an important aspect of learning, one thing I think this book seems to be missing is the entire aspect of encoding strategies and how to minimize extraneous cognitive load when assessing yourself

Thanks for the upload!!

love your taste in video editing

Oh my bad! For weeks I did not see new video from you, I have been waiting it now I came to your chanel to watch your old videos but here you already uploaded a video and I did not get your chanel notivication . I love watching your videos, thanks for sharing with us this amazing informations

Is it better than 'How to learn' by Barbara Oakley in your opinion? Some Chinese Woman said, in response to a video I saw on creating a note card system index ("Zettel-something"), that she was required to memorise a textbook or two in Med School, she just wrote them on note cards and would practice remembering what was on the cards. Spaced Repetition.

I remember about 4 or 5 years ago, my violin professor recommended this book even for the context of violin playing. I never bought it, because shortly thereafter I started a full time job. But yes, it must clearly be good.

Thanks for the video!

Do you think that the audiobook version would be just as good, or just use the paper version? Thank you for all your videos, they are truly inspiring. Could you also do one on being able to memorize as well?

Thank you sir for Great information 🙏

retrieval technique was always natural to me. never knew it was a learning technique.

For what it's worth, here's my approach. When I read a text book, from time to time, I will stop and think about what I just read, how it fits into whatever I already know about the subject and what questions I have that haven't been answered. In class, I never took notes, I listened to the teacher and thought about what he said and asked questions, lots of questions. It's not about retrieval, though that's often what they test you on. It's about understanding the subject. In the end that is the purpose of learning.

I have already read make it stick and in my opinion ' learn like a pro ' by barbara oakley is better overall and it had provided me more useful knowledge then make it stick . I would recommend everyone to read learn like a pro , after that if u have time then u can read books like make it stick .

Besides automated annual subscription, you can also provide an option for monthly or quarterly subscriptions. Kindly consider.

Excellent book and an excellent review and encapsulation of the core concepts.

Is the material applicable to learning a musical instrument? If not, have you encountered any good resources in that regard?

Retrieval is recitation with explanations and reusing and then repurpose what was memorized and learned for something more than just facts taken from a book or tutorial or a classroom lecture?

Henry Roedigger, an OG Riverside military and Yale alumni. I hope to one day follow similar steps.

Six strategies for effective learning from the mentioned article “Teaching the science of learning”: 1. Spaced practice - Instead of studying it all within a short time. 2. Interleaving - Switching between topics while studying. 3. Retrieval practice - Bringing learned information to mind from long-term memory. 4. Elaboration - Asking and explaining why and how things work. 5. Concrete examples - illustrating abstract concepts with specific examples. 6. Dual coding - Combining words with visuals.

Thank you for this video...

The first time through the book, mark everything that seems important. Then if you felt the book was good in general, revisit it later to read just the parts you marked, and copy out your understanding in your own words, to a journal. Revisit it when you read other books on the same or related subjects.

One Simple Technique to "Absorbing Information/Knowledge is to star with what you DO KNOW about a subject, however Simple. Then ADD directly to that Knowledge something new. Repeat your new information and go on. Secondly it can be very useful to not learn in a "Linear" fashion, like reading through a book on a sequence of Kings and Queens , although of course the links are there. Going g to a library for example and Reading what takes the MOST INTEREST about a given Subject in a relaxed manner very quickly builds knowledge. Regard this as like a giant picture puzzle poured out on a desk, the more those aspects of a Subject take your interest in an "ad hoc " way, the quicker the overal "picture" - base knowledge grows!!!!

Thanks for suggesting this book.

I read this book when it came out. It‘s a top top book many educators out there ignore. Do yourself a favor and read this… it‘ll change it all for you. Good luck!

This is one of my favorite books of all time. 🎉

What i'd like to know is how much basic human function differs when neurodivergence is taken into account do peope with adhd and/or autism learn the same?

Thank you !

I havent read the book, but will. But from the first few minutes of the video (I will watch it through), I knida dont accept the main assertions. when I read a book I dont read it to remember the contents. I dont care about the content. Most books (ironically except the one I am currently reading) contains just a handful of useful information that can be distilled to 1-4 A4 pages. The main takeaways from those 1-4 pages I always remember. ALWAYS. because this is the information that is specific to my situation and the reason I read the book, or thought I should read the book. The value is gleened from the concepts that relate to my situartion or progress. because at the end f the day, Im interested in progress, not remembering words. I remember concepts. because I FEEL them and how they relate to me and my situation and growth. But like I said, I will read the book and watch the rest of this video. An as I said, I am not intereested in being tested on the books contents because the questions never focus on the information I took as value from the book. Any book. However, if you're more interested in recalling data solely related to a specific job (what I call school learning) then this is probably a good fit.

What's the difference between practice and retrieval practice?

I never highlight text inside books. Alternatively, I write notes on loose paper slips and use them as bookmarks inside the important pages.

Thanks!

the problem that, there is no learning method that fits everybody, one method may work for you, the other may not. There is no boiler plate methods that fits everybody. Learning requires motivation and effort.

I laughed when you said your homework was to learn how to focus a camera because I was just thinking it. Brilliant!

Thanks for the great video

Thanks. Are you still studying with the OU?

You've named half a method in 6:20 seconds. Not sure if it helps to make a video when your message is "Just read it"

This is really interesting. No one had to ever teach me this stuff. How do you know if you know something? You have to test yourself. It's weird to me that people think just reading something over and over would ever do anything. Why would you think that would work? How would even know if it worked?

Reading first chapter, thanks

My favorite part was when he said "Butt doodoo" 2:40

True retrieve or trying teach it some one is helpful

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That books sounds quite "heavy". I recommend "Moonwalking with Einstein". It's an excellent non-fiction book on memory, imagination, perception and the relationship between these attributes of intelligence. It's really about making learning fun and that I think is the real key to learning anything. When you can figure out how or why you should genuinely care about something, that's it, things fall into place and you do the work, except doing the work doesn't feel like work, it feels like fun.

Thnaks a lot

Pimsleur language courses are based on the retrieval method.

Ngl, I forgot I had this book. It's fair to say I probably need to read it again.

Gracias!!

These work. In fact, you will transform into a world detective using them because you will have to actually understand the principles of what you are learning. Want to be known as a deep thinker? Be a deep learner. Want to be seen as the one who can really explain an idea and win people over? Practice explaining to yourself!

I think you won't believe that I already applied the technique before getting this video and before knowing about this book. What a coincidence.

Read the paper and bought the audiobook!

How can I apply this as a software developer?

Memorizing things is in the past, like university all you need to know is how our where to lookup info

so does this really works? or only works on few?

Love this / btw, were you walking in Oversley Woods ?

What’s the name of the book:What is the book called?

Is it good for math/science, it seems to me for non-science is ok.

thank you

Zettlekasten method and “how to read a book” is all you need

The paper's abstract, alone, makes me want to pull my hair out. By the time I'm on the third sentence, I've completely forgotten the first. It's far too wordy and there's a lot of extra guff in there that I don't need to know. Why couldn't they just write: "Science can help us find effective techniques for learning. This tutorial review explains six that have been robustly researched and tested." That's all I needed from the abstract. I'll certainly remember the gist of it now that I've translated it to something my Aspie/ADHD brain can handle.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand! --Confucious

What do you think is the most effective way to learn from video lectures ?

Amazing as usual 🙂

If Brilliant did an electronics course I'd sign up for it

The concept after the retrieved is spacing

Interesting, I've just ordered the book. I'm always a little cautious with "advice for life"-books. Even based on "solid scientific research". Take Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali. The best of the best. What made them so good? None of them was "textbook" boxers. Very personal and unusual styles. Neither of them would probably have their unique career, if they boxed the traditional way. The scientific and "tested and approved" way. They were allowed to develop differently because of very smart and skilled trainers seeing their natural talent. Build for someting else. But I ordered the book, I have my style of learning, learned through practice, but I always seek new information and improvement.

i tried my best but i just forget everything and i accept it

I was going to buy this book but I forgot the title.

Basically practice and apply your learnings - that’s it.

can i learn my syllabus and appear tomorrow?

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What you provided was correct but the video should have provided at least 3 concrete examples of how to put it into practice. For textbooks: 1. Memorize the vocab words by covering the answer and being able to recite it accurately without struggling. If some are more difficult, incorporate tricks like grouping, visualizing, or associating. 2. Do the same with the questions at the end of the chapter. 3. Do the same with notes on the side of the page if those seem important. It's actually easy once you've done it a few times. Ace your test.

2:00 retrieval. Test yourself

Thank you very much for a paper.

Amazing

I tend to doubt anything that claim to be scientific.