Study More Efficiently With These 2 Basic Steps 

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I'm a physics PhD student, but if you cannot do this, you just would not survive doing physics. The professors are typically experts in what they are teaching, and you would notice that they are trying to build the big picture for you during class. At this point, I have not taken any notes in over 2-3 years, and I just listen to professor and try to understand the map that the professors are trying to create for you. Then, I typically just jump straight into homework, and try to do it. At this point, you notice that you are missing part of the big picture and cannot answer questions, so you go back to textbook/lecture notes to fill in that gap. 9 times out of 10 you still have significant holes or missing connections between the patches of understanding/knowledge you have, so go to the office hour and ask for help from your professor to connect the dots. Added benefit is that you get close to your professors so you already got your recommendation letter set if you ever need one. This method really helps because going to class is really easy, you just sit there and listen, so you have a lot of energy left at the end of the day to tackle the homework with full attention.

Summary: In this video, Sung broke down the two steps to effective encoding: higher-order learning and increasing memory tolerance. First, we analyzed higher-order learning which can be visualized with a taxonomy of processing ideas and concepts. The lower order learning skills involve techniques of learning that don't connect new content to known concepts and information. We can skip lower-order learning and go right to higher-order learning, looking at the big picture and the lower-order learning concepts will fill in almost automatically. Higher-order learning sets up an organizational system to allow information to be processed and remembered. The levels of higher-order learning include applying, analyze and evaluating. Apply is interpretation, sketching where the concept fits, analyze is comparing and contrasting other concepts and facts to new information, and evaluate is discriminating which connections between concepts are the most important. Increasing memory tolerance is also important in the encoding process. A key mistake many people make is consuming information individually or committing information into notes prematurely. One consumes information individually if they try learning pieces of information before a higher-order learning organization has been established. This disadvantages one from the start and frequently means reorganization and encoding will be required to learn the concepts. Additionally, we should not commit information into notes before our mind has processed, sorted, and organized the information. This involves asking 2 questions before taking a note: how does this relate to what I learned, how does this fit into the big picture? By emphasizing higher-order learning and working on increasing memory tolerance, we can more effectively encode and learn concepts and information.

This is amazing. No other youtuber comes close to your expertise when it comes to actually learning information efficiently and effectively. Everyone just regurgitates the same stuff of doing "active recall and spaced repepition". Thank you so much for creating this video.

The way I like to learn: I jump straight to practice problems. Even if I don’t know anything about the subject, being quizzed on a topic automatically reveals to me what is important to know. I immediately begin filling in gaps in my knowledge to help me answer the practice problems. To fill in the gaps I read lecture slides, google stuff, and jot down important points. When I’ve exhausted one set of practice problems, I try to find another set. I like the challenge of trying to answer questions. Just memorizing stuff bores me!!

1. Basic principles of encoding Takes 1-3 months at max. Orders of Learning: Higher-order, Lower-order See Bloom's Taxonomy. Create -> Evaluate -> Analyze -> Apply -> Understand -> Remember. Get to higher order as early as possible. 2. Increasing cognitive load tolerance a) If you tend to write lots of notes, get into the habit of holding onto it for a little longer in your head before writing it down. b) Then consume a little bit more information, process this and ask questions like "how does this relate to what I learned?" and "how does this fit into the big picture?" If you're not proficient with higher order learning, this may be overwhelming and lead to excessive confusion. For these cases, start with slightly lower - order learning and work upwards

I’m someone who has always naturally been good at school and testing and you have finally revealed to me why. I am always trying to figure out where a new piece of information fits in with what I already know. And now that I am aware of this, I am excited to deliberately apply this to my ongoing studying!

I'm focusing on writing up the full research report at the moment because there were a surprising number of people that were interested! So that should hopefully be up in a week or so. There are about 400 references to go through so it is taking some time to organise it all. I've previously only had this information collated non-sequentially so putting it into a single... reasonably concise report is proving quite a challenge. Will be done soon though :)

Justin’s idea of focusing on upper levels of thinking is spot on. I apply it consistently with a piece of advice my uni professor once shared to us, and the results are unbelievable! A professor once told us that when reading any given chapter of a topic in a textbook, it is best practice to read the objectives and also the summary of that chapter before diving into its core of the chapter. This triggers the high levels of learning Justin is talking about. It works folks!

Hello, I'm an Artist and I just want to talk about some of the things in this video from the perspective of someone who does creative work, in case anyone wanted to know how these things might work for less "academic" pursuits. One of the main things I was pleased to hear is just how many parallels I could draw from the artist's idea of a "visual library", which is basically what we would call the long-term memory, but for visual stimuli. Character design is something I often get asked about, and there's a lot of reasons why character design is difficult. How do you create something from scratch? So this is where the visual library comes in, because if you have a large visual library, then it shouldn't be difficult to not only come up with ideas, but to compare ideas and even combine ideas that might seem strange at first, and forcing them to belong together in an aesthetically pleasing way. A novice illustrator might ask, "how do I draw X?", well, you need reference. This would essentially be the learning material you encode and use, and one of the neat things about illustration is you typically try to apply what you see as soon as you can, you look at the reference and you attempt to draw it, trying to transfer visual information by your own two hands, and not only that, but applying it to perhaps a new environment or alternative use, like a piece of clothing for a character. For example, and especially for character design, you could say "well, what if the front bumper for this car was a jacket?" and forcing that kind of association in an attempt to marry it into a visually appealing design is probably one of the best things you could do for trying to remember the important aspects of it's design; you pay attention to the details, what aspects of the front bumper are visually interesting enough to keep? which details are sacrificial? what makes these shapes interesting? This kind of thinking not only forces you to make creative decisions, but they are also decisions unique to you that you are trying to justify for the sake of design. This is a ridiculous example, but it's exactly the kind of thinking that is rewarded in something as esoteric in the wider field of illustration as character design. You can't do this without growing your visual library, or at least you wouldn't be able to do it as well as someone who does. Sure, you can draw a camera and learn what a camera looks like, but in the wider context of design, what could the camera also look like? You don't have to compare it to just other cameras, what if the camera was shaped like a bird? how about the colors of an exotic bird, would that look good on a camera? Would this camera be a character's head? Again, these are the sorts of creative visual/mental links that people in visual design fields would come up with despite the objects or references being completely unrelated to each other, and is how design in general expands. One thing I like to remind people who come to me for advice is that "everything is inspired by something", and what I mean by this is that nothing in the world exists that hasn't been seen by human eyes at some point, and while you could say "well this thing doesn't exist" doesn't mean it isn't in some way a mishmash of the totality of every piece of visually inspiring thing the designer had come across throughout their entire lifetime. All of this, in my opinion, very much fits with this idea that taking a concept, reproducing it visually, applying it to your own work in a novel way by combining it with other ideas and therefore creating something new, makes illustration a very hands-on approach as an example of how the information in this video can be directly applied in the real world. Every time you're looking at reference to create something new, means that you are in that higher level of thinking, and the more you do this the more you get better at things, even looking at reference, you eventually begin to understand which design elements are more significant to the aesthetic appeal, and you can be sure that the very best artists and designers will be people who are very good at deconstructing design and reconstituting it as a part of a different, bigger picture. On some level, you could probably replace a lot of the words in this video and it would be very good advice for design students. Thank you for this content.

I would love to try this out. However, we need to always remember the context and learning environment students are exposed to. The reason why active recall is widely used is because it's what the education system wants us to do. Tests are more about remembering than connecting, with the exception of problem-solving. Other than that, most of the tests we go through look at how we recall specific terms, definitions, dates, figures, etc. Combine this with a VERY rushed curriculum that feels like you never stop getting new material to read, then you could understand why so many learn so little.

5:40 apply+! 6:40 analyse: compare w other ideas 7:00 evaluate: judging/prioritising concepts 7:15 synoptic links 8:20 encoding: higher order learning relating info to each other + the bigger picture! 9:30 how to get the bigger picture without understanding: u cant, but higher order will allow ur brain to get it along the way 10:35 🕐 11:30 12:00 summary 12:40 relations

Overall I think your videos are revolutionary- witness me who's turned a 6 hour textbook chapter read into a 2 hour textbook chapter read with 10 times the amount of understanding and retention I previously had. It's a real shame, how other than 2 viral videos, how little exposure Justin's videos have to the public. I cannot put to words the tremendous amount of stress and the unfathomable amount of productivity his videos have brought to my life, and I only wish the same situation to millions of other struggling students scouring youtube for study enlightenment. Its a true miracle that I stumbled upon this channel. I will forever root for the growth of your channel, Justin. You definitely deserve it, and its a real injustice how you don't have the channel attention that you irrefutably deserve.

I've always struggled with learning, because I start with isolated pieces of information about a given subject and try to mold them into an efficient system for gaining proficiency in said subject. I've quite literally spent hours upon hours trying to understand how to learn so I can fuel my thirst for practical knowledge, which is ironic. So far, the information and insight you've provided is second to none. You've given me a new perspective on how to learn, and for that I thank you. I just subscribed, and I'm looking forward to future content. Keep up the good work!

Part 1: (8:50) Engage in higher order learning Part 2: (14:50) Train cognitive load tolerance

Simply put. Keep thinking about the information you're trying to learn after the lesson is over. Connect the info. Relate it to something bigger or something in your life. Figure out how to use it and create with it. I think when we create things we have a fundamental understanding of said items and how they "play" with each other.

Just chiming in to say this series and channel is highly appreciated! So far this has been the most helpful and well-explained framework ive come across on YT in regards to effective study. The concepts of encoding vs recall and its sustainability and limitations really resonated. Only from watching this did I realize that I was doing the “relate it to other things and the bigger picture”. Your note that it is more mentally taxing also helps me feel less guilty lol I used to wonder why it was easier to do recall techniques like rewriting notes or creating passive study guides for longer periods of time, but when going thru concepts and how they relate to previously studied subjects, i would tire out faster… despite feeling like the latter took more time and was slow going, it really helped cement concepts in my mind. Even the other vids talking abt delayed note taking increasing cognitive load- i could clearly recall this happening in certain classes before but never realized it was an actual study technique. This whole series will help anyone who wants to be more deliberate with effective study going forward. You deserve way more subs! It must be challenging to share what must be years of deep study and experience on this platform but just wanted to thank you all the same! been looking for videos on effective learning with more depth than just the usual “turn off notifications” type of aesthetic vlogger vid, so this has been really helpful

I have this feeling of learning faster than the majority of the people around me, but now I have understood how to learn even faster and reach those minority who are always ahead of me. Even more,this explains how now that I am becoming a teacher I am learning even faster things that I had forgotten and how to share this with my students. Thank you very much, Justin!

I remember I had 14 days for upcoming hard test for Saudi Aramco company, and it was about high level of algebra and calculus , so what I did that I took a big board and everything I learn I would make like a mind map and I would just try to connect every concepts with my mind at the end of the day I will do the same on the board, eventually I was able to teach myself all of the lessons in a short amount of time, and did REALLY GREAT in the exam. I just remembered also that I did the comparing and constricting in Geology and got full mark Thank you for the video I will start doing it again

I discovered this channel a few days ago and binge watched a lot of the videos, I'm so excited to apply this and finally learn in a efficient way I have been watching self improvement content for so long, and people always say the same shallow things, you give depth to it all and it finally makes sense!

I came here after your active recall video and I've just looked at some of your older videos and ooooh boy your channel is a gem!! Thank you so much for making videos and sharing your knowledge! 💎💖

I wish I found your channel earlier. You’re amazing. I’ve just about started year 13 of school in the UK (18 years old) and it is great that I can start employing all this and the upcoming advice now. I’m aspiring to become a medical doctor like yourself!!

a really interesting video breaking out concepts and showing up practical tips that I needed for so long. Thanks for the video, doc! my main takeaways : - try to think in Higher order thinking first, the Lower order thinking (memorization, understanding) will automatically follows - practical HOT way : connect every concept and try to relate it w/ the bigger picture - try to Organize the things you've learned first before taking Notes - don't rely that much on your Notes. Instead, try to learn more without jotting down the things that you've learned - don't take notes blindly (especially linear model) . Figure out how you'd structure your notes first before you write it down - start making Mind Maps for your note taking - practical ways : improve your cognitive load tolerance by reading/watching smth without taking any notes

I’ve been searching for this type of video for a long time. One that engaging and straight to the point. Not only does he explains the fundamental of encoding but showing viewers how to do it is even better. Looking forward to all your examples. Hoping this will change my studying habits for good!!

Listen... you're my favorite content creator at this point. I appreciate your realistic way and easy-to-understand language to pass on your knowledge on us. Thank you!

Thank you very much for all the work that you are putting to make this videos, I'm looking forward to evaluate more things about learning.

Wow I never thought looking at the big picture and relating things to each other was actually a study method. It’s really really effective the few times I’ve actually tried it (I only tend to do this when I’m really interested in a topic/subject). I am so lucky I found your channel a few days ago. This is the second video of yours that I’m watching and I right away clicked the subscribe button. Never have I done that before! Blooms taxonomy is an amazing educational structure! Higher order learning feels really really good; it’s like something actually clicks and has filled the space of a mystery rather meaningfully. But I’ll keep the advice of actually holding onto and analysing information for a longer time into mind; it makes you understand the dynamics of the big picture and you will have so many questions that would be left unanswered! The feynmann technique works really well here. If you somehow get how the whole thing works, innovation and application come as an easy thing. Thank you so so much for all this valuable knowledge! You are awesome! ❤️

Justin. This 20min video you made just changed my whole life. It changed how I think and changed my belief in my capabilities of learning. You just freed me from 20+years of being shackled to a wrong thinking. Man, you are living your purpose. Thank you very much! Out of all the videos on improving learning that I watched, yours is the best!

As someone with brain fog and cognitive difficulties, such finding specific words and retaining memory. I learned about active learning which now allows me to remember what I read, words and less confusion in my speech. After, 10 yrs I can fall back in my love of reading. And now encoding! Gives me hope of recovering my IQ level has before. It feels great to find my old brain back and maybe even better. I will definitely be working on the cognitive loading tolerance. Thank you so much for putting time aside to make these videos.

Thank you RU-vid algorithm for showing me this gem out of nowhere and of course you for making this. I just started studying Japanese at my Uni and now that you explained it i could completely relate to that. Im having a hard time finding the right words but essentially in retrospect I have experienced both the high and low level learning by now and high level was vastly superior. But i didn't even realize what i was doing right. This showed me what i have to focus on in order stay in that high level that will actually benefit me. You just gave me the tools to recognize my own behavior and not drift off into worthless time wasting while thinking im actually doing something.

It's exactly what I need!!!! For all these years, I've been just remembering and forgetting, by the time exam strikes, I basically have to study Everything for every subject all over again within a few days. And throw them all away after the exams are finished. I have been wondering how, and what I should do to make what I've learned and remembered to stay in my head. Please upload more videos on encoding, I have feeling it's going to change my life

justin, you are actually my hope to get out of my harsh circumstance now, thank you so much for the videos that you've been contributing to the online community

Hi Justin! I think your channel is really underrated. There must be more and more viewers and subscribers. You give us very valuable information. As a medical doctor like you, I have always thought that why no one teaches us how to learn and study in a correct way. I think these should be lessons in every major. Thank you for your all efforts!

The use of Luhmann Slip-Box for notes is a must. The relations to the other notes and the bigger picture occurs in a very organic way; almost an easy one! Highly recommended.

Omg this is astonishing. I have been overwhelmed with doing active recall because there are too many flashcards and answering questions; oh my god! I literally get so exhausted doing that method. Thank you so much for this it will make studying so much easier for me!

I just want to thank you justin.. I am so grateful to the youtube algorithm as your video somehow came on my feed one day. your learning techniques helped me immensely. though I know I could have learnt more through your paid course but I am not a sophomore but a high schooler and don't really earn anything. I will definitely get myself enrolled in your course someday in future. once again.. you are doing great work to help student coming out of this rut kind of learning.. so very grateful I am.

Thank you so much for taking your time and energy to put this on RU-vid for us!

16:55 - This sounds similar (listening instead of reading) to the Mensa exam I took. Nice to hear about and try to understand some of the principles. Thank you for the vid! Looking forward to more.

Thanks for the video. I’m a medical student having trouble and frustration with spaced repetition / Anki. Am looking forward to your next videos. Please keep it up!!

this whole thing makes sens just perfectly in my brain, that in everytime you're giving an example I find myself saying yes I can highly relate. you actually helped me to know where exactly I need to put more effort in. thank you for existing

I was always so impressed by the geniuses in my class who never needed to spend many weeks learning complicated definitions by heart. They just read it once and memorise it. I understand now that they have a very good understanding of the topic in general.

Oh my god. As someone with ADHD that organization monologue under Step 2 just BLEW my mind. Holy shit. Like- you just described the way I learn down to the nittiest grittiest details such as even the way I write my notes- in SECONDS no less. Wow. I am honestly so glad I came across this video because now I'm slowly starting to get glimpses as to why I've always been an effective student without much overt effort on my behalf. I feel like Louise from Arrival- everything is just sort of starting to click into place and I can see why I think the way I do- even for non-academic stuff. In your words; I'm immediately beginning to see the big picture. Just WOW. I know you said this isn't a silver bullet but I totally do feel like Yoda right now, lol.

Great stuff. I’m not sure I agree that RU-vid isn’t great for sequential learning. You can literally create a playlist that goes in order.

Thank you, Justin! You are helping me a lot! I'm getting motivated to study after a long time, that thing of being overloaded with memorization just happenned to me and I got stuck at some point... Even so, I succeeded in get into medical school, but as you said things get more complex there and the bad routcomes just start to appear. I think I can overcome this now, thanks to you. Hugs from from Brasil! God bless you.

I love your channel! Thanks for all of the great advice and effort you put into your videos!

One of the things that I like about this person is that he has his first priority working with students irl which leads to using techniques that are actually working, because theory doesn't always work but when something works with real students your interact with, it's something real.

I have been through many RU-vid channels but what I see in all those is just "spaced repetition" or "understand it and you'll never forget" Justin, you are really helping thousands of students like me. Keep making videos ❤

I am amazed by this video. I just realized why sometimes on high school I would actually end up finnaly understanding the subject on a "higher level" while I was taking the exams. It would be like I had an idea about a formula but I wouldn't really get how to apply it until the enconding was necessary. Thanks for this video!! I've been struggling with med school lately because I felt like so much repetition was needed and actually hate learning things word by word and by heart, so this video helped me get through the discouragement. Thanks!

Thanks for all of this Justin, i'm going to start applying it. I look forward to the others videos.

Changing the world is about changing education. I look forward to working with you in the future 😉

Just stumbled upon your videos and everything makes sense now. I discovered mind maps when I was 12 and been using them ever since in school, uni and at work. Never in my life had I spent hours and hours studying something, it was always easy to pick up any subject and organize it visually with mind maps, drawing connections and chunking, applying it all in solving real problems. Hopefully more people will discover more efficient ways to learn, so they can spend more time enjoying life .✨🤗

I can't wait to hear more! I agree with some others in the comments, you should most definitely write a book about this entire topic in great detail. My cognitive function has always been pretty terrible, I would love to change that.

Thank you, Justin! For sharing some of you knowledge with us.

I'm applying to med school in may and the entrance exam has a 3% acceptance rate... I have always been a pretty good student but struggled a lot in high school because I was so interested in everything and actually did almost double the amount of courses that was needed. I started watching these videos a few weeks ago in the hopes of improving my study techniques to actually get into med school next year. I am shocked by how much my studying has improved. I can learn twice the amount and I actually understand the thing I studied and I'm able to apply the information instead of just kinda knowing what I'm talking about. I'm really waiting for those subject by subject encoding technique videos!

Now, your points in this video does make sense compared to the spaced repetition & Ali Abdaal. As a medical student, it's true that every information is isolated, in consequence during clinical years we unable to apply things that we've learnt during preclinical years. Not having a chance to quickly apply the information & facts, we tend to forget them easily.

Man,I sort of already suspected that the encoding part is an important part in the learning process,but I never really actively put my focus on that part. Now I wish I had known this earlier! Thanks man!

Thanks a lot sir.... I have been a high schooler who rely on repeatition and wondering about a friend of mine who remembered almost everything and after watching this its like a magic.... It's such a master piece and this helped me a lot..

Fantastic memory encoding video. So much information here!

Bring on the follow-up videos! I'd happily pay to a patreon for this content if it would help it come sooner. I'm a huge anki lover so am very excited at the idea that using these higher order techniques immediately could be much more effective. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!

I’ve been looking for this kind of information and a video like yours for AGES thank you so much for showing up and sharing your knowledge with us, this is gold !! Keep going, can’t wait for future videos

It'd be really interesting if you write all this knowledge on a book instead on doing it on youtube. Much less of a headache for everyone and more useful. For sure I'd read it!

i just started doing this which has been working really well so far (in high school), just after i went through a topic, for example in physics, i tried to simulate and understand why the equations make sense and all that (because i naturally am curious, but tbh, my encoding is a little slow), and then jump on to the questions. when i couldnt do it, i went back to understand what i missed, and figured out what i had previously thought was either incomplete, or partially wrong, so i corrected it and tried to explain it to myself like i would to a child. i found out what most students suffer with is making sense of what theyve learnt in general (aka relating the concepts to the bigger picture) . i did realise some flaws in how i am learning (for example, wasting too much time in taking notes and stuff) which i am currently trying to change. your video helped me a lot, thanks!

You're the best learning coach I've come across.You are really an expert

I tried incorporating your techniques over various videos and i absolutely enjoyed them! I felt so much more connected with the topic and even when my session was done i still wanted to keep learning. Thank you so much for this!

Sounds legit. My sister is in med school and I'm still in highschool, I want to get into med and I asked her how she studies and she says she writes her own questions and answers them in as much detail as she can off by heart and then adds in any missed detail after. Thats all and she memorizes facts.

I want to learn this way of learning for myself, but I mainly want to be able to teach this way of learning to my students. I showed one of your mind mapping videos to my son, who is in Physical Therapy school and he started learning on a deeper level just from that one video. Wow. I’m really impressed with you smart people!🤓

I've always thought that understanding is far more efficient and satisfying than regurgitating what you memorized because I've noticed that it takes a lot longer to forget it, so when I'm learning something, I usually try to understand it and then contrast it with seemingly related ideas to force myself to have a sense of clarity about the subject. And funnily, I do that out of either curiosity or fear of being challenged in a conversation and embarrassing myself when discussing it, but I haven't delved into it anywhere near the level of depth you have, so it was rather eye-opening to hear someone elaborate on that more professionally. I'm eager to know more about this!

I'm learning how to be better in a my hobby and my study before going in university next year and man youtube recommend your channel really help me a lot.

I'd love to learn more about how to apply this to foreign language learning. I've been able to retain grammar really easily but vocabulary has always been such a struggle.

Realise this is the first of a series but spaced repetition is useful for allowing your brain to find the associations and connections making further connections when you review. When used with techniques like mind mapping.

it's been so so so soooo long since the last time i found such a genuinely kind, helpful and especially knowledgeable expert on such a fascinating topic! thx so much for the videos regarding encoding! hope you'll feed us more with such life changing learning principles! i'm hyped!!!

Found this video very helpful, looking forward to your upcoming videos and thank you for the time your putting to make these videos.

So I have friends who are really good at remembering stuff and when we read together I noticed I have a better understanding of the concepts, comparing and applying but I still don't remember during exams and these guys don't forget anything even if they cannot explain it It makes me feel like they're just naturally smarter or have better memory than I do or maybe I just don't have good recall cause I during exams I understand this thing and I know what it does but I can't just recall the definition or the exact things it does and I can explain it in layman terms or simple words but then I will be marked down... I don't quiet know if I explained it properly... I want to try to implement active recall see it that helps my recall, then do analysis more often I will be on the look out for more videos Unfortunately I have less than a year in school left and I am pretty much already disappointed in my GPA but I know I have a lot more ahead of me Thanks you

you are literally saying everything that I feel!! This is why school is so annoying because we are learning backwards🙄 I need to see the goal so that I can connect and piece it together like reverse engineering.

You really know what you're doing!! Thankyou sooo much ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I used to do this when I was younger subconciously but when i grew up i suddenly just fell in with rot learning now i know how to reconnect to that study technique thank u for going in depth...so glad that I found this channel

I can't believe something. One time I tried using this method in 10th grade without even knowing this technique existed. This was for a math class, and I skipped the memorization and understanding part. I tried solving it along the way and it really helped to remember and understand the problem. It was until I was told otherwise that it wasnt effective and I needed to study another way. I've been failing ever since most classes but now I'm ready to take control of my academic success and in the work force. Justin, you've served as a big reassurance to me that I'm not stupid. I'm taking your course soon, I couldn't thank u enough. I will try to update before the new school year and grades to see how much I've changed to motivate others. 2021 senior high school: Stats- 67% English 101- 70%

Effective Encoding (Notes for myself) - Higher order learning (NOTE: GO THROUGH HIGHER ORDER LEARNING, skip lower order learning) Analyzing - Relating a idea to another one or multiple ideas, comparing and contrasting. Seeing the relationship between all of this ideas to each other. Evaluating - How we can judge them, how we can prioritize them. What's the nature of the relationship, how important it is to the big picture. Which = Learning outcome shows are made and parts are synthesised with the overall meaning. To engage higher order learning - create more efficiently encoding, ALWAYS relate info to each other and to the bigger picture - increasing memory tolerance If u tend to write lots of notes, get into the habit of holding on it for a whilein your head before actually writing it down (this is very helpful tbh) Then consume a little more info and ask yourself "how does this relate to what i've learned?" "How does this fit to bugger picture?" Some important keypoints Sung said in this video.

Brilliant! I’ve always found teaching someone else the thing I was trying to learn worked better for me then just studying and memorizing flashcards. This awesome video explains why. Thanks!!

After watching some of your videos this one really did it for me and clicked about higher order learning.

I hope you will elaborate on specific techniques of "higher learning", because "Faynman technique" or flascards are easy to implement (so we can use active recall almost immediately). Its really interesting that there are even more efficient methods. But I am still confused how can I do "applying, evaluating etc." while studying content for the frist time. For now I am bewildered xd. Looking forward to your next video!

6:00 9:34 - we don't need to follow the lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy, we don't need to try remember or to try to understand or even apply anything. Why? This is because when you do the higher levels of the bloom taxonomy then your brain will automatically cover the lower levels on it's own without your intervention 10:27 - focus on the bigger picture, it will make things more organized, because of you do it step by step or do individual pieces of info one after the other it will make things less organized and more confusing since you have to unlearn and reorganize which puts more strain on self 12:33 - don't read something and just write notes on it right away coz you're not letting your brain organize it in relation to other concepts 14: 53 - increase cognitive loads Technique for ⬆️ 16:31 - instead of writing immediately after reading, hold onto the concept a bit longer in your head before writing, then read a bit more and ask questions like "how does this relate to what I learned" and "how does this fit into the big picture"

After watching this video, I immediately tried it by studying some philosophy. The whole "evaluate right away, and analyze, apply, understand, and remember will come naturally" idea suddenly made sense because *it* *worked.* I feel enlightened, stunned, and super excited right now for learning this method. It's hard to describe lol. I also couldn't help but ask: "how come I never thought of this before? It's so true and obvious." For references, I was reading about Socrates' view on death, how it separates the body and soul, how opposites (life and death) come from each other.

I just explained all of this to my friend and it made me extreamly happy when he told me he sees it in our tutoring and study scessions

This should be explained to the children in first grade, this is the thing to start, this would help so many people After this video I got your point, why this is better than active recall and spaced repetition, you don't need to do these two, when you encode with quality, when you use the high order learning techniques When you evaluate for example, you automatically do the ones below evaluate (One of the ones below evaluate is "remember") "Remember" describes active recall for me The remembering part falls away because you encoded with quality, which will benefit the forgetting curve, so no active recall and spaced repition is needed The feynman Method is a good starting point, but when you create, evaluate, analyze you will create a even deeper understanding and connection of the learned information Thank you for the video, this explained the thing I do when I study normally and have 100/100 score, now it makes all sense to me -> To engange high-order learning (Bloom's Taxonomy) and create efficient encoding, we need to relate information to each other and to the bigger picture. (Solo Taxonomy) -> Deep understanding, quality encoding > Active Recall, Spaced Repition

This is kinda depressing. It seems like a hard skill to learn if one is used to being in lower order learning for years and years :( My husband is a higher order learner NATURALLY since he was a kid. I am so in awe of how he does it. Until I watched your videos I just thought he was a genius and now I see the how of that ability discussed in your videos. I hope I can get there sooner than later. Right now it seems a very far fetched thing but I am willing to put in the work...because I understand neuroplasticity.

Ahh! Absolutely cannot wait for the next videos to come out! Thank you Justin!

No wonder it makes so much sense for me when i answer problem sets first before actually trying to understand the topic. Or i use the activities and quizes to learn instead of using the learning materials step by step by going to those learning materials where I need it in the activity or quiz and kinda just figure things out. I've honestly always done this automatically aparently because of my ADHD as I tend to never do things in procedure, but I've always been guilty for doing so because i was always so worried that id miss something because I didnt study the material first or took notes and summarised that info or something. Honestly this video just flipped a switch in my brain and made me change my mindset about the way i always feel like im supposed to study. Thank you.

Hi, I have a quick question about this - Im a med student from Germany in my second year now. How can you really integrate this technique in subjects like Anatomy, e.g. muscles. When we have to learn like every muscle, and from where to where they go and what nerve innervates them. Thanks for the answers!

Can you give more concrete examples? While this content is really good, you should also give contexts on how and where to use these techniques. Thank you so much!

This video is so interesting to me, since I realized that when I took AP Biology, my teacher taught us to think this way. The class was a constant act of interconnecting concepts and defending stances taken on them. Eventually, we had to create our own outcomes in experiments. Memorization was definitely helpful, but it never cut it when it came to non-active recall questions. I'll have to pursue the rest of my undergraduate experience with this mentality from now on. Definitely a revelation for me.

These videos are so well made , thankyou for going into the technicalities

8:44 video starts 10:00 higher order thinking Dont isolate information....relate it to bigger picture 12:30 take notes not at the moment of reading first time 15:41 linear notes is not good 16:16 what to practice to increase cognitive load and better notes 17:15 expansion of mind for learning 18:50 video ends

Here's an issue that many students struggle with: I'm studying a very technical subject in a top university with people way smarter than me that understand stuff very quickly. So professors explain complex concepts very quickly and it's hard to retain information because, by the time I try to process info by linking it to another concept + the bigger picture, the professor has already moved on to explaining something else. That is why I use wordy notes before unlearning what has been said in the lecture to relearn in a more efficient way (i.e. higher-level learning as you say). Please how would you cope with this situation? I'm sure I'm not the only one facing this issue, as some of my friends told me they use the same strategy, which I find quite inefficient (super time-consuming). As a result, I ended up (i) pulling all-nighters (which turned out to be very VERY unhealthy in a long run) or (ii) not showing up in lectures and learning from textbooks (i.e. not benefiting from interacting with super-smart professors and not building useful connections with them - not the point of going to uni).

This 20 minute video took me about an hour to get through, but I'm okay with that. I was trying to really encode this information properly. I realized that I am SO prone to just transcribing what I see and read. Even at the start of this video, I was transcribing, but at the point where you discussed increasing your cognitive load threshold, I took my fingers off the keyboard and just listened. It was uncomfortable -- I now realize I've been hurting myself by avoiding this discomfort! Thank you for this video, I look forward to watching everything else on your channel!

You have had a very big impact on how I see the approach to learning. Extremely helpful knowledge. Thank you

my friend asked me whether you had a video on encoding yesterday 😭 psychic

I know you have future videos coming, but I’d love to hear an example of how this might relate to language learning. Anki/SRS and active recall seem to be the “gold standard” right now for that…

I just want to say, thank you. This video has opened my eyes and mind to learning and actually enjoying the process. I've always been a linear note taker and easily getting lost in the details whether or not how important they are. As far as learning, I can reach a good understanding and some application but not actually evaluating the information. I would even struggle with long term memory and work way too hard to retain it with little result. Thanks to your advice, I can know how to learn effectively and retain what I know.

Thank you Justin, I keep slipping back to my sick habit of decades of writing notes as I listen lectures. you made me realize it's literally crappy photocopying what lecturer says, yielding nothing. I now tend to actually learn something during lectures, and write lil bit notes in the end of a lecture. Thanks