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Hi Justin. Kind request. Please take a topic. Say 3-4 pgs. Go through it infront of us. Follow the whole process. So, we could also read the same and experience your process start to end. The video might get lengthier but I feel we could understand clearly and gain a lot more out of that. Thanks a ton!
It is why I unsubbed from him. All he does is talk generally and promote his paid content. This video has zero substance. Yet it popped in my feed again and I figured I'd see if he said anything substantive. Nope
@@boomson3082 i said it in another comment and ill say it again; you guys want the techniques, so when he gives them, you guys complain that theres not much depth, but when he explains the principles behind them, you guys blame a lack of substance. Seriously its just a shame that the algorithm is this way
@@boomson3082 sorry to hear that this does not meet your expectation. what he does here is actually explaining his methods in a metacognitive way which is way more helpful than js giving out "substance".
Missing a whole chunk of the video. He also talks about being clever about how you organize your knowledge and not taking the first presented organization.
My gosh, why are ppl so negative in the chat? I’m just grateful someone is speaking on something that truly resonates w my style of learning and he is brave enough to share some of his insights w us. He actually has a business doing this, and so if you really feel his free content is not detailed enough, there is opportunity to purchase his course, and it’s not even a steep price. I just feel for the content creator bc you can literally show people a new and better way of doing things and they just jump down his throat bc it’s not delivered exactly in the way they want it to be. Some ppl just love to complain and be negative. Addicted to it. Too much free content here to change your life to at least make your studying habits 2x better… all for free. Some ppl need to check themselves smh.
See here's the thing. I've watched this guy for a few years and NOW things are clicking practically. Now revisiting his content I realise he has LITERALLY EVERYTHING I need to get started, which I didn't realise.His channel has a lot more wealth than people and my former self give him credit for. My advice is to start by getting top level info, then digging in to specifics using curiosity in thr specifics (would you look at that I stole it from Justin) Watch his PERRIO video and use that to inform the high level stuff, then watch more specific stuff on say mindmapping. Trust me if you understand how the thing needs to look like, feel like and you get a little more info from his channel you can almost reverse engineer some aspects of his methods. Just take it one part at a time, don't be afraid to add intermediate steps and break things down, avoid overload. In all honesty God bless you Justin 😇
My Key Takeaways: 🧠 Turn your mind maps into a mind mirror: Use mind mapping not just for note-taking but to reflect your thought process and understanding. This approach helps in identifying knowledge gaps and understanding concepts more deeply. 🔄 Never get it right on your first try: Approach mind mapping with the understanding that your first attempt won't be perfect. Iteratively refine your map, allowing it to evolve as your understanding deepens. 🔄 Never start organizing your ideas the same way it is presented to you: Avoid framing bias by reorganizing the information in a way that makes the most sense to you, rather than sticking to the original presentation format. This encourages deeper understanding and creativity in learning. 🗣 Integrate the Feynman Technique: Simplify complex terms and concepts into language that a 10-year-old could understand. This not only deepens your understanding but also aids in quicker review and retention of information.
I learned it the hard way, there are the things you should not do and thing you must do, Justin explained them really well, I watched and rewatched the long videos of encoding and mind mapping and they really helped me to improve my mind maps .
@@abisolaadeko5231 sure! about encoding: stop relying on active recall & spaced repetition, studying more efficiently with these 2 basic techniques. About mind maps: Are Mind Maps a Waste of Time?
Secret 3, the different thinking frameworks used to explore topics is a really interesting idea! I would love to see a video just dedicated to exploring this idea for different topics(math, physics, languages, etc) 🔥
Since I've started learning using mindmaps, i've noticed that i'm thinking more critically. You até contributing a Lot to this journey, Justin! Greetings from brazil
Justin, congratulations! You made great headway with mind mapping. I’ve been teaching mind mapping for over 30 years. I learned from Tony Bazan himself. But it seems in the past five or so years I actually started making my maps much more mindful. this is why I’m saying congratulations. I’m going to be doing RU-vid mind mapping videos shortly. I hope you come and watch as well. I can show you a bunch of things that would make what you’re doing even better.
Love this. Reminds me of Seymour Papert (MIT Media Lab prof, co-inventor of the Logo language) on the value of kids learning to program: it teaches them "a debugging approach to life." At age 82 and a writer/editor for 52 years, the most valuable lesson I've learned is the wonderful value of the SFD (s**tty first draft). This talk was inspiring. As a word nerd I'm inhaling all the info I can get from you on non-linear scribbling to clarify info and inspirations.
i want to thank you for making so many different videos on mind mapping. my parents heavily shamed me for wanting to make/use them, so i stopped doing it. then when i tried to get back into them, i had panic attacks and couldn't do them. your videos normalize using mind maps and it's really really nice to be validated. my parents have a lot of weird and in some cases harmful beliefs... but i digress. thank you again!
Don't listen to them anymore...the fact you posted this issue is your proof that they are a net Negative NOT a net positive... Once they flip the equation IF they do...then you listen again
Thank you! I have incorporated mind maps with iPad but still making many mistakes. It’s still an improvement for sure in terms of increasing cognitive load and using delayed note taking, condensed notes etc etc
One of the first videos of studying tips that actually makes a lot of sense. Really liked the idea of not putting any labels on the arrows to push yourself further. Great video
Justin, you have shared a goldmine of insights in this video. Keep it up! Thank you for your time and effort. The day is near when I'll be able to buy your courses and benefit from them.
Thanks so much Justin! I have loved mind maps for years but your advice really lets me take it to the next level. I am giving a major speech and it helped gain a world of confidence from just feeling the command over the key topics covered and their relationships to provide solid meaning.
Thank you! This is the mind mapping tutorial I’ve been looking for all along!! I can now see how my detail-oriented and perfectionistic qualities have held back potentials to develop and refine my understanding when mind-mapping.
AGAIN AND AGAIN. Thank you for your ideas. I see that i did the same mistakes as you. But also same experience and conclusions. You really have a deep impact on my learning and thinking.
I've been following you for a few years now. Thanks to your videos, yesterday I finally got my first "functional" mind map. Yesterday was also the first time I didn't give in to the panic of sitting in front of the white sheet and to the fear of losing essential info given in the lecture. I decided I would take your advice and start with acknowledging this mental map would not meet any high standard. So, without indulging my attention to ponder on the usual mental uneasiness, I instantly dived into the doing (most helpful tip). The first mind map (introductory part of the lecture) was rather messy and I could already feel a rush of frustration. But I was also determined to face as many clumsy ones to come as needed in order to finally see some progress. So, I immediately started anew. This time, I "fastened" my mind into a "flexible focus", zooming out of the particular unfamiliar units (words, notions as such), while doing my best to rather open the span of my attention on their flow and the different configurations they would blend into my understanding. This small adjustment resulted into a pretty, complete and clear map of a 2 hour lecture. This tool is incredibly powerful, indeed. Thank you, really!
im gonna dedicate this next semester to trusting everything this channel promotes. ive always been skeptical of mindmapping because i felt like memorization was the thing im really good at so im able to memorize my linear notes. but i'm going to drop all of my methods and follow you and see where it gets me
I feel like another helpful video for you is "6 levels of thinking every student must master". It covers something called Bloom's Taxonomy, which is basically just six different levels of how you're thinking. Memorization is actually the first level on that list -- in other words, the weakest out of six. You might wanna upgrade a few levels, and that video has really helped me figure out how to do it! He even specifically talks about mind mapping for levels four and five, although they're not really a focus there. Instead, in Bloom's Taxonomy, the focus is more on how you activate your brain, rather than any specific techniques to study. Mind maps just happen to be a helpful way to achieve levels four and five.
Great video! I have been mind mapping for years. They make it so much easier to follow a topic. When you use a mind map app, you can temporarily hide all but your current train of thought. I’m really impressed that you can take notes using a mind map. I taught math at a university for 25 years. You now have me thinking about how I would have taken notes during my own lecture. I retired two years ago but am thinking about teaching thr Mac ecosystem at the local senior center. I will now structure my thinking process using a mind map. That will make my lectures so much clearer. Keep up the good work. I will now be following your videos.
11:06 Interesting Point In a podcast a cognitive neuroscientist did say something similar “It’s good that you have an outline and structure in a textbook But on the other hand it takes away your learning process to understand it”
I think the biggest learning for me from this video is: frameworks. It is important to individually learn a way to think about things. How to think about something is more important than what to think about.
Very very great video justin...❤ It covers many important things I do which actually help me get great depth of knowledge without stressing out about everything
My mind resisted this kicking and screaming every second so I had to watch three times. This is great. The perfectionist in me stops me. Maybe we need to start at the generalist then reduce to the particular
Please make a video on how to study math at all levels- concept learning, grasping procedure, practising on the concepts, and revising on the concepts. All of tips have accelerated my learning journey, but I am still confused on how to progress in math. Please make a video, it will be highly appreciated across your viewers I think.
Thank god I found this channel literally the week I started learning Japanese [well, Hirigana and Katakana..for now]. The few videos I've watched have helped me visualize and better map out what I want from my lesson plans and how to tackle them in the next few months.
This was amazing. I have for some reason hated mind maps since I was a child, thought it was useless. I got into it now and it really is great, and I know after implementing this it'll be even better!
Just wanted to say that this was truly engaging. I have been fascinated with how my brain works and how to help teachers and students with optimal learning techniques. The first program I found that helped me understand the brain was based on mri and is found in France with a concept that used it to develop the neurological behavior approach. The man that taught me about the brain was Gregory Caremans who launched a training program called the brain academy . I am not sure if there is any one like him out there and he seemed to know more about the subject than any I had found . But what you are saying matched what he taught but you have gone deeper than him in this regard . Just curious if you had any experience with Greg ? Do you think Maybe we can use the mri to validate your theory
at 17:30 you suggest creating an alternative representation that is "just as logical but more intuitive". I would go further, especially when aiming for high-level thinking; it often works to compromise logic for intuition while remaining true (obviously). An overall remark on your video, you should emphasize the fact that re-organizing information and improving representations is time-consuming and that it's ok, because it immensely rewarding on the mid-term and long-term perspectives. Also great video ❤
I also find that writing less words on my mind maps initially helps me zoom out and focus more clearly on the bigger picture. ... and see where l have knowledge or resource gaps. I love your explanations.... especially the observation that the messier parts of the map often relate to the "not yet organized" thought processes...❤❤ that are inviting us to deep dive into them with an open and playful attitude to the experience.
Again I'm great full for being dyslexic and therefore giving myself permission not to learn in the way suggested by the teacher or lecturer but the way that works for me totally agree with the basic principles way of thinking for physiology and pathology and many many other things!
Thank you. Excellent presentation of the essentials you've learned over the years. You bring healing to people in using your gifts and experience this way. God bless you.
Love the mind mapping videos❤️🙏I tried some mind maps after learning your free video and they do work awesome. The problem though is that I'm very inefficient in making these mind maps(it takes me a while) and also sometimes my mindmaps aren’t very effective (it's a bullseye or complete miss) either. I'll try to learn further through your videos.
Another trick which kinda helped me a lot in understanding your method is trying to think how I understood the topics which I have good command over and I took months to understand them. I realized that I could put down that understanding quite easily on a paper without using much words. Truly intuition does not work in terms of words but in terms of things which our 5 senses can experience and imaginative structures which are easy to visualize. And a mindmap is simply a structure which is easy to visualize and navigate and not a relation between different sub-structures(which in themselves are easy to navigate through). Using your example of heart as a pump with tubes connected to it, the mindmap is basically the tube structure itself and not interconnected relationships between intuitive sub-structures(that's what I earlier thought it to be). The arrows and boxes and diagrams are meant to be the intuitive tubes that connect the heart and not the links between thoughts/ideas to revise and revisit and fit into your memory just because they exist. That is why it is important for MM to be as neat and simple and prioritized.
Thank you very much for what you do and your work, Justin! And I hope you have fun playing FF7 Rebirth! Again, would love to see your playthrough and your reactions as a FF7 fan myself (recorded on a gaming channel or something like that). I hope you consider it. Nonetheless, I hope you have a great time with the game!
Спасибо! Очень свежие идеи, давно знал и даже пробовал использовать mind maps, и только ваши мысли и этот ролик помогли мне понять, что всё это время было не так с тем, как я делал майнд карты. Спасибо за вашу работу.
Really helped, I am stuck in this viscious cycle of perfectionism myself, then at the end of a study session i feel like the information on the mind map is really not enough and i just wasted time
This video you made cleared so many of question about mind maps and also good job at the sponsoring(its better then most of the other times you try to do it, through it could still be a lot better. I really think you should show more confidence when sponsoring. I know it works the course sadly i dont have enough money to afford it right now but thats beside the point when you sponsor it kinda feels awkward and like you dont want to sponsor it and have no idea how the hell are you suppose to act) anyway thx for the video
In the age of information overloading, knowledge organization is very poor, i am affirmative that sketch noting helping in a lot of ways. This video by @justin Sung is really nicely ilustrated nicely in an organized manner, while not ruling yet providing a good guideline. I hope the knowledge shared has nothing to do with commercial aspect. Classrooms are literally exploding with tools for personal knowledge organization, and those who start with that without practicing mind mapping and sketch noting, are beginning to bury under tool overloading. Every map that i made so far have helped me self reflect my growth, my trajectory, also many times listen and follow my interpretation, ideas that bubble up, critics that burn underneath, and map as people speak around me..... making me a good active listener, while reducing the noise in the mind... while i think through. Really helpful video.
Thanks for the great video. Id want to ask you if, you have ever tried to apply these to learning a new language, specially the ones that are totally different to the native language.
I not only like and suscribe. I'm gonna do my ultra win move: comment. Learn from your videos while actively mindmaping them is the best. Thanks a lot! :D
As a teacher I would just add, for the last technique, make sure vocabulary is still an integral part of the learning process. One of my very first teaching jobs I focused all on conceptual understanding and almost ignored the subject vocabulary and my students did horribly on their finals. The next semester I made sure to dedicate a day in each unit to all the important vocabulary words (at the time they just made flashcards one day and I quizzed them on them a week later) My class’ average on the finals went up 30%.
0:00 First point - Make you Mind Map a Mirror of your Mind. 7:43 Second Point - Never get it (your Mind Map) right the first time. 11:04 Third Point - Never ever start organising your ideas the same way it is presented to you. 19:45 Final Point - Integrate the Feynman Technique (Explain it to a 10 year old)
Mind mapping, or memory palace/loci on paper. You often recall the mind map while remembering the information. I often used similar note taking in grade school in the 80s. I recalled notes I took often because I could visual the page where I wrote them down in short form. My notes were always 3 or 4 words at most for given ideas, and my grades were regularly A+. I used to call it all diagram learning because I didn't have a term from somewhere else to call it. Make a picture in some way, and you can often remember the picture of the connection readily.
Bomb video as always. This is gold. We would need more clarification on a few variations though like for studying math and physics, how do we go about representing equations in our mind maps?
Found the same thing answering questions on quora. Would write a draft with just word-points. Save it and come back later, find the gaps as well as other angles that would answer the question from different angles. Basically draft, draft and redraft. Kind of like the Pen-sieve of Harry Potter that asked you to pour some distance between you and your thoughts on paper. This allows one to be objective and trim here and there. Add something, remove something. Rewrite something from a totally different point of view. If you can't explain it simply then you haven't understood it yourself in it's essence. "Explain like I'm five".
What I learned from the video is that I have what is called a framing bias, related to the number 34... Well, that and that trying to do a mind-map in one iteration with big, scary words on it was a terrible idea. As usual, thanks for the gem, Dr Sung!
🪞Mind mirror - if your map is messy your mind is messy- but don't avoid it- messy part visualizes where you are not clear - put them down - clean up, reorganize it 🏗You can't perfect in one go - build on as you go 🖼Don' be caught up in the frame that you are presented with - find a system that is most intuitive, clicks to your brain 🧒Feynman Technique - explain it as if you were talking to a child - by nontechnical words 21:54
Hi Justin! In my university years, loads of learning I had to do were basically training: Statistic methods needed a lot of practice. How would you handle stuff like that in your learning mind maps? There were hundreds of tasks ("homeworks" each week taking several hours plus the Friday lecture in whicht the correct solutions were presented so that you could check whether your own approach was correct) we had to complete, some of which required basic or higher math skills plus some understanding of statistic vocabulary and concepts. But the learning (for me) took place when I started comprehending what I was doing there by solving these statistics tasks step by step. Would you have chosen a different approach - maybe a less time consuming one? Same thing in Micro and Macro Economics (in the early 2000s). Lots of calculations presented on overhead projectors scribbled at close to light speed by a professor. Either you had extreme math skills and were able to anticipate the next steps to come or you had to be extremely quick in notetaking (while trying to listen to what the professor said which is not too easy when your phonological loop is occupied by what you write down. No idea how I would have done that with your method. I scribbled like hell to have notes helping me to process what I had been lectured step by step and thus understand what I had been taught faster than my mind was able to process it in the lecture. And all this filled with loads of scientific vocabulary you had to learn to use properly. So what should I have done to make all this easier? In contrast to today's lectures there were no pdfs summing up the konwledge - all we had was what we saw in the lecture. Either be quick enough to write down all of that stuff or fail in the exam.
My time working w 4-10yr olds rly helped my communication skills bc i realized if i can explain something in a nice way to a kid then i could do the same w adults
I can clearly see that the application of this in bio and history . But about the 3 point i don't think that it can be used in physics and chemistry it can be used in chemistry . I don't know😅 it just what i think , correct me if i am wrong.
Interesting to hear this new on RU-vid. All of it was around before computers, but now is somehow dependent on them at least in the minds of some. Maybe that is the vector that makes it all sound so complicated.
This is actually very similar to how LLMs work. The latent space between words is it organizes the world's knowledge and how the LLM guesses what word to choose next.
Knowing and understanding are very different. Similarly, journaling is a gateway into meditation. Written self-reflection provides a material resource to familiarize yourself with, to then be able to begin to grasp around in the darkness.
For those who are wanting something concrete, as an example of how this method lead to a breakthrough in thinking, skip ahead to 14:37. It is a beautiful example of taking what you are learning and extrapolating the important parts to make that information incredibly useful. Otherwise, I was confused by all the negative comments on this video, but then I had this realization. Most people click on videos because they think it will help them solve a problem. They have a problem and they want the solution packaged up all neat and tidy with a bow. And that’s not what this video is. For me it’s exactly what I’m looking for. It’s process based and helps me to connect with your experience. I struggle with mind maps. You struggled with mind maps. The title of the video is “This is what I have learned” not “This is how you make a Mind map that works for you.” For me it’s the whole fish analogy. People are coming here for a fish (give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day) BUT what you are actually doing is showing us how you learned how to fish (teach a man to fish and they will eat for a lifetime). And maybe this might be where people are getting confused, because mind mapping is very personal, i.e. it has to be created in a way that works for you, and one version of it working for someone will not necessarily work for someone else. So in a sense you are showing us how you learned how to fish. And we can take some lessons from how you taught yourself how to fish, and apply it to our own journey. I really appreciate your posting this video. I liked how you were able to look at your journey of finding this tool, and figuring out how to make it work for you. You may not have taught us how to fish, but you certainly taught us how to learn to teach ourselves how to fish in a way that works for us.
0:00:32 Turn your mind maps into a mind mirror by simplifying and organizing your notes effectively. 00:09:44 Avoid trying to get it right on your first try when creating mind maps. Instead, use them as a tool to build and refine your ideas gradually. 00:11:05 Never start organizing your ideas the same way they are presented to you; reframe the information in a way that makes the most sense for your brain. 00:18:00 Organize information into categories like drivers, mechanisms, and consequences for better retention. 00:18:22 Consider dividing information based on mechanisms, severity, and management for certain topics like medicine or dentistry. 00:19:07 Challenge yourself to find more intuitive ways to organize information, even if it differs from traditional methods taught. 00:19:29 Reflect on alternative ways to arrange information if you feel stuck with your current organization method. 00:20:26 Integrate the Feynman technique by simplifying terminology to explain complex ideas in a more understandable manner. 00:21:49 Enhance your mind maps by using non-technical words that a 10-year-old could comprehend alongside technical terms. 00:23:02 Apply these strategies to improve memory retention and deepen your understanding of complex topics. Generated by: yousum.live/generate_insights
I am struggling a lot with this mindmap idea, like i totally understand your point but when i try to apply it i end up either ignoring many details to make is less wordy and less overwhelming or following the structure presented to me in the lecture 😥I just seem to not be able to find the relations even tho i understand every idea on its own, it always feels inaplicable in the lecture i am studying X) anyways thanks a lot for your videos doc, I will keep trying to reach my learning goal
00:30 Secret 1-- turn your mind maps into a mind mirror the more messy in mind the more messy map. the maps should clean and organized. 07:37 Secret 2-- Never get it right on the first try 11:06 Secret 3 -- Don't organise ideas the same way it's presented 20:26 Secret 4 -- Integrate the Feynmann Technique.
Insights By "YouSum Live" 00:00:32 Transforming mind maps into a mind mirror. 00:09:25 Embrace imperfection, refine over iterations. 00:11:13 Avoid organizing ideas as presented, find own frame. 00:18:00 Organizing information for intuitive learning. 00:18:22 Categorization may hinder information retention. 00:19:01 High-level learners find intuitive organization methods. 00:19:21 Independent conclusions on information organization are crucial. 00:20:26 Utilize the Feynman technique for effective learning. 00:21:49 Simplify complex terms for better understanding. 00:23:02 Enhance memory and understanding through challenging learning. By "YouSum Live"
Insights By "YouSum Live" 00:00:13 Effective mind mapping secrets for better learning 00:00:32 Turn mind maps into a mind mirror 00:02:18 Focus on key words for better understanding 00:07:01 Identify knowledge gaps through messy maps 00:08:40 Embrace messiness; refine ideas over time 00:09:44 Avoid perfectionism; iterate your mind maps 00:13:07 Organize ideas in your own way 00:19:39 Repackage information for better retention 00:20:26 Integrate Fineman technique for deeper understanding 00:22:04 Use simple language to explain concepts Insights By "YouSum Live"
Remember professor langdon when he was deciphering the cryptex (Da vinci code)? Remember how he visualized the statue and the stellarium right in front of him, being able to connect the pieces together, seeing where they could fit? That's you with your mindmap! We cannot really let it flow in front of us, like in the movies, but we can materialize it on a paper and even more so in a digital space!
My notes: * Improve mind-maps by ITERATIONS. * There's always another way to ORGANIZE or LOOK AT information. The NEW WAY could be even more intuitive. * Use SIMPLE words to make revision fast. e.g. AWAY (Anaphase)
