You're Not Forgetful: My System for Memorising Everything

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxURe-EUmAs

概要

TLDRThe speaker discusses the misconceptions around memory testing and their personal struggles with memory in academic settings, despite achieving high grades. They emphasize that understanding forgetting as an active process, rather than a passive one, is key to improving memory. The speaker shares insights from the book "Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering" about how forgetting has dedicated pathways and neurotransmitters, meaning it can be influenced and avoided. They discuss the concept of "cue overload" and suggest using unique, novel cues to aid memory retention. The idea of proactive inhibition, where new learning overwrites old memories, is highlighted, suggesting that cramming before exams should be strategic. They advocate for "360° memorizing," which involves connecting information horizontally across themes or characteristics instead of vertically under single topics. Moreover, they stress the importance of mental health, noting that confidence and positive self-beliefs significantly impact memory and learning performance. Lastly, they introduce BetterHelp, emphasizing the value of therapy in improving one's overall well-being and cognitive function.

収穫

  • 🧠 Forgetting is an active process with its own neurological mechanisms.
  • 🔑 Use unique cues to avoid transient forgetting due to cue overload.
  • 📚 Avoid cramming new information last minute to prevent proactive inhibition.
  • 💪 Self-belief and confidence play a crucial role in memory performance.
  • 🌐 360° memorizing involves linking related concepts horizontally.
  • 💡 Learning should focus on understanding and connecting ideas.
  • 🤕 Mental health directly impacts academic and memory performance.
  • 📝 Build intuition in subjects for easier memorization.
  • 💬 Therapy, like BetterHelp, can enhance cognitive function.
  • 📖 Stories we tell ourselves affect our memory and learning success.

タイムライン

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker discusses the challenge of having a poor memory despite academic success. They explain how understanding forgetting is crucial for memory improvement. Forgetting is an active process that can be influenced to reduce its occurrence. The speaker emphasizes the importance of strong, unique cues when studying to enhance memory retention, citing personal experiences and strategies.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The concept of proactive inhibition, which refers to new learning causing forgetting of old information, is explored. The speaker advises against learning new material just before exams to avoid overwriting known information. Instead, they recommend revising previously learned material to improve recall. They cite personal experiences with language learning to illustrate proactive inhibition and suggest strategies for overcoming it, such as simultaneous revision of known information.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:18:14

    The final section highlights the importance of mental health and self-belief in memory performance. The speaker shares personal experiences and stresses the impact of confidence and mental clarity on learning. They discuss the benefits of therapy and introduce BetterHelp as a resource. The speaker describes conceptual memory and how creating connections between pieces of information can enhance memory retention, recommending learning strategies that focus on horizontal integration of knowledge.

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ビデオQ&A

  • How does forgetting work according to recent studies?

    Forgetting is an active process with its own pathways and neurotransmitters, not a default result of failed memorization.

  • What are the common mistakes in trying to improve memory?

    Focusing only on memorization techniques without understanding factors that encourage forgetting.

  • What is "transient forgetting"?

    It refers to memory loss due to cue overload, where too many memories are attached to a single cue.

  • How can one strategically avoid forgetting?

    By using novel and unique cues for each memory to prevent cue overload and enhance retention.

  • What is proactive inhibition?

    Forgetting old information due to learning new material, often seen when cramming for exams.

  • How can cramming affect memory negatively?

    By learning new things last minute, which can overwrite previously learned material.

  • What enhances memory apart from techniques?

    Mental health and confidence have significant effects on memory performance.

  • How does conceptual memory help in better memorization?

    It organizes ideas logically, connecting them so they take up less space in memory.

  • How is 360° memorizing beneficial?

    It involves connecting related pieces of information horizontally rather than in isolation.

  • Why is having a positive self-perception important for memory?

    Believing in one's abilities positively affects memory performance and learning outcomes.

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    I think you were taught to memorize
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    things wrong since we first start to
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    speak we begin to get tested on our
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    memory I've sat hundreds of exams
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    memorized tens of pages of scripts for
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    theater learned thousands of new
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    Concepts in four years of medical school
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    and while this all looked effortlessly
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    impressive the truth is beneath it all
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    this girl actually has a terrible memory
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    a friend of mine actually made me
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    summarize a full novel to them because
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    they could not believe I'd read it as I
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    could have tell them the name of a
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    single Char for a place I'd say the main
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    girl her dad the first guy she liked
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    even a medical report of mine from a few
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    years ago noticed and described my clear
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    problem with shortterm memory so
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    needless to say no natural talent in
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    this department but I've never accepted
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    this problem I've always tried to find
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    ways to perform and memorize the way I
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    was expected to in school or university
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    otherwise I wouldn't be able to become a
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    doctor in this process I've read
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    experimented and memorized so much when
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    it comes to the way that our brains
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    store recall and forget information
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    today I'm going to share all of that
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    with you let's get straight into it
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    firstly we cannot improve our memory
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    without first understanding how
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    forgetting works we like to focus on
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    ways to be able to remember and recall
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    things better while completely ignoring
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    the sorts of things that encourage us to
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    forget and therefore end up not really
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    improving overall and we can't be
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    excused for this for the longest time we
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    used to think that forgetting was this
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    passive process that we either were able
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    to memorize something fully and if this
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    memorization failed we were left with
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    the default which was forgetting this is
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    absolutely no longer the case in his
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    book forgetting the benefits of not
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    remembering Professor Scott at Colombia
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    discusses studies with zebra fish to
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    describe how forgetting is actually its
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    own very active process it has its own
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    neurotransmitters its whole own Pathways
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    and there are things that can actively
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    encourage it to become activated and to
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    work and this is amazing because it
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    means we can discover and try to avoid
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    those things memorization and forgetting
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    are two separate active processes let's
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    see what for guessing NS have you ever
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    been in an exam looked at supression and
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    gone oh yeah I know what this is about I
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    remember being taught this but you
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    cannot for the life of you remember the
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    actual answer so this highlights a very
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    important way about how we store
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    retrieve and delete information so the
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    way that memories work in our brain is
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    that they are just not stored in these
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    individual packets almost everything has
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    a cue or a tag attached to it
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    subconsciously or consciously when we're
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    looking for information in our brain we
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    actually go to the CU first and we look
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    at the tag and then we find the memory
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    that's connected to it in this case for
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    example we might go oh it was it was our
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    history teacher but then there's so many
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    things she taught us so we can't find it
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    there and then we go oh it was it was
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    the bottom right hand side of my
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    textbook but there's so many things that
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    are on those pages and then we're like
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    oh it was Christmas but we learned so
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    many things then so all of these cues do
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    not help for us to tag and find the
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    information that we need the answer to
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    this question what has happened here is
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    Q overload each of these cues has too
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    much memories attached to them and they
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    do not like this when it happens they
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    start to delete the information
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    connected to them and this leads to the
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    case that we just saw the technical term
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    for which is transient forgetting now
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    there is a very good solution for this
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    which also activates our attentional
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    control system which was described by
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    the daddy of memory Alan Brady which is
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    basically the thing that grabs things
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    from our short-term memory into our
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    long-term storage where we want to keep
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    them and therefore increases our
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    motivation to do this this is novelty
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    new unique strong cues means memories
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    you don't forget practically what does
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    this mean for your studying when I used
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    to be in school and I was struggling
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    with a topic that I found either too
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    difficult or too dense because it had
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    lots of things to memorize I would drop
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    my textbook which already has too many
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    oversaturated cues and I would go
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    straight to YouTube and watch MIT or
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    Yale open courses which God bless them
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    they've taken me through so much it's
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    amazing but because this is such a
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    different context I would be watching
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    University lectures on one small aspect
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    of that lesson that I found challenging
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    and therefore this is such a difficult
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    context to my normal classroom teacher
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    teaching that it would create a new cue
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    in my mind if it was a particularly
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    important subject to me I would also
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    read extra books or watch extra
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    documentaries so for this one
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    challenging memory I actually would have
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    so many unique new cues attached to it
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    that it became almost impossible for me
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    not to memorize that thing because I had
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    six uqs popped to mind every time I
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    thought of it in an exam I would
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    absolutely smash these topics I still
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    remember so much about the chemistry of
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    cloning because of these lectures I
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    would definitely recommend this next
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    very frustratingly a huge promoter of
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    forgetting is learning itself the
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    analogy here is that our brain is not
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    like a hardrive but like a cassette tape
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    when we are putting new information in
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    it we are very often overriding
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    information that was previously there I
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    was semi fluent in Turkish when I
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    stopped studying it and started French
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    and now I've almost completely lost my
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    Turkish whenever I think of a Turkish
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    word the French one comes to mind this
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    was also replicated much more reliably
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    in a study where mice were made to learn
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    new mazes and the mice that were the
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    quickest and the best at learning new
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    mazes were also the ones that were more
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    likely to forget the old ones the
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    technical term for this is proactive
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    inhibition where there's an interference
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    from previous learning that leads to
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    forgetting you might have experienced
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    this if you've crammed for an exam and
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    learned new material last minute and you
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    actually found on your exam day that
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    you've forgotten or messed up what you
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    previously knew actually quite well and
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    therefore you perform worse overall in
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    your exam now how we avoid this
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    proactive inhibition is not to avoid
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    learning new things all together but is
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    to be strategic about our cramming if we
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    are cramming last minute very last
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    minute for an exam I would recommend
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    that we never learn new things that we
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    have not learned before because this is
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    where we are overriding what we knew in
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    the past what we can do instead is cram
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    revise which is learn only the things
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    that you knew previously revise those as
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    fast as you want that's absolutely fine
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    and pray that they're the ones that
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    going to come in the exam and on the
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    other hand if we have a longer time to
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    cram or learn information or if we are
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    learning things that are in a similar
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    field it's really essential to do a mini
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    memorization and comparison with what we
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    knew before if when I learned French I
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    also revised the Turkish equivalent word
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    I'm giving a signal to my brain that I
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    actually need both of these and can you
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    store them separately and it's much more
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    likely that I remember both rather than
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    overriding and forgetting things from
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    the past before I progress onto the ways
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    to address memorizing specifically I
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    have to say that actually the thing that
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    has had the biggest impact on my memory
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    learning and performance is
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    unsurprisingly the state of my brain
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    itself as I mentioned earlier I should
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    have always known I didn't have an actal
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    talent for memorization because as a
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    girl in class I would refer to people as
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    the second row on the right and someone
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    would tell them their name and i' would
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    be like yeah that's the person because I
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    couldn't memorize names at all and yet
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    because I was compensating so much and
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    trying all of these strategies I don't
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    think I even realized how bad my memory
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    was and everyone saw my A+ and my
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    theater and all the things that I did
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    and assumed that I had an excellent
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    memory when it came to facts this
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    progressed all the way way into my
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    University years and it was only
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    recently when I was told by a medical
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    professional that I genuinely have a
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    poor memory that my memory became so
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    much worse now that I found out that I
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    was labeled this way there's a study
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    that shows that young girls that are
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    told that they're bad at spem subjects
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    perform a lot worse than those that are
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    told that they are good at them and I
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    truly believe this is what happened to
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    me and I'm still slowly rebuilding and
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    focusing on improving my memory and
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    overcoming this year or so of having
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    just really bad memory performance
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    General when you tell yourself that
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    you're stupid or you're less capable
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    than other people or that you're just
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    going to struggle with something you
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    genuinely do end up performing a lot
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    worse my confidence mood and happiness
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    determines so much more about my memory
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    and performance than any other specific
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    technique as much as I love everything
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    I'll be mentioning today I'll probably
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    refer a bit more to that doctor's Le and
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    diagnosis and effect in the end of this
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    video but for now I do want to say that
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    you do need Clarity and peace in order
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    to study things properly and the biggest
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    difference you can make your academic
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    performance is sorting out your mental
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    health almost half of the on this
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    channel are in some form related to
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    therapy I've been in therapy for years
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    now both both online and in person and I
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    truly believe it is the only reason I am
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    able to cope with making these videos
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    alongside studying a quite an intense
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    degree and dealing with all of the
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    problems both internal and external off
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    my brain this video is a paid
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    partnership with bre help and I'm so
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    but also for making therapy more
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    accessible which is something that I am
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    incredibly passionate about so back to
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    memorizing now an important reason
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    memorizing is hard is because our brains
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    were never meant to do it the way that
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    we are expected to JN at the University
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    of Toronto describes that our memories
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    are not there for us to go oh she
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    remember that time but they're there to
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    help us make decisions we're supposed to
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    store what we understand or what helps
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    us understand things to make better
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    decisions this is called conceptual
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    memory but it is not what we commonly
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    think it is conceptual memory can be so
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    powerful because when done properly it
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    also means that ideas connect so well to
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    one another that they end up kind of
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    collapsing and taking less space in our
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    brain therefore making it easier for us
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    to store larger amounts and volumes of
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    data so how do we actually do this I
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    always think of learning as either being
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    horizontal or vertical and the way that
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    we are often taught to learn or taught
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    things is in a vertical way what this
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    means is that we are given a topic and
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    then we are given details about this
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    topic that come underneath this is a
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    vertical form of things to learn and
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    this is terrible because it remains one
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    discret thing and we just have to learn
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    about it it might even be turned turned
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    into a mind map but still it will have
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    one main topic and everything underneath
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    it and this is just very hard to
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    memorize all of these details it's super
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    likely that I'll forget one or a lot
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    more of these points here and sometimes
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    I'll forget that the whole condition
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    exists and it will be gone in the sea of
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    endless vertical conditions I have to
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    learn inste I learned things in a
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    horizontal way so let's say I have to
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    learn about retinal artery occlusion I'm
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    not going to learn this topic I'm going
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    to go and look at one of the symptoms
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    that stands out to me which is painless
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    loss of vision because I know that
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    there's at least least one more type of
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    painless loss or Vision so what I'm
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    going to do is I'm going to take one of
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    the characteristics in this vertical
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    list and try to find all of the
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    conditions that have this characteristic
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    and this now creates a whole group of
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    eye conditions related to painless loss
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    of vision all of them connected by this
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    one fact already this is much more
  • 00:12:17
    logical I'm much more likely to remember
  • 00:12:18
    that these conditions exist and when I
  • 00:12:20
    see them I know at least one important
  • 00:12:22
    thing about them which is that they are
  • 00:12:24
    painless loss of vision next as I start
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    vertically slightly expanding with one
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    of them when I see things that they have
  • 00:12:30
    in common either tests that need to be
  • 00:12:31
    done either cures that need to be done I
  • 00:12:33
    create another horizontal layer that
  • 00:12:35
    connects them with one another and in
  • 00:12:36
    this way I haven't just studied retinal
  • 00:12:38
    artery occlusion I studied a whole bunch
  • 00:12:40
    of things which are all connected to
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    this very strong visual cue of this
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    whole group this is
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    360° memorizing because when we memorize
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    things in a book or when we take notes
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    usually it's very vertical it's top to
  • 00:12:54
    bottom it's never a bottom to top that
  • 00:12:55
    would be very confusing but all of these
  • 00:12:58
    conditions exist in this hor izontal
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    plane and there's no beginning or end up
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    or down left or right they're all there
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    together and therefore I can kind of
  • 00:13:06
    rotate it in my brain and connect it
  • 00:13:08
    with other medical conditions so it's
  • 00:13:10
    compressed it's flippable it's
  • 00:13:11
    expandable everything is really well
  • 00:13:13
    connected and I'm much more likely to
  • 00:13:15
    remember a lot more about these
  • 00:13:17
    conditions than if I was creating
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    separate mind maps for them or learning
  • 00:13:21
    them completely as vertical lists the
  • 00:13:23
    next rate to improve your memory has to
  • 00:13:24
    do with the immense power of intuition I
  • 00:13:27
    used to play piano when I was younger
  • 00:13:28
    and sometimes times I would take a piece
  • 00:13:30
    of new sheet music to my teacher and ask
  • 00:13:32
    them if they would let me learn it with
  • 00:13:34
    them and they might have never seen this
  • 00:13:36
    before and they just sit down and learn
  • 00:13:38
    to memorize the piece so easily even
  • 00:13:40
    though this was a song they'd never seen
  • 00:13:42
    it before so I think it's fa
  • 00:13:44
    non-controversial that experts in a
  • 00:13:45
    field are a lot B and a lot quicker at
  • 00:13:48
    memorizing information in that field
  • 00:13:50
    than someone who is a complete novice
  • 00:13:52
    now you don't need to spend 20 years to
  • 00:13:53
    become an expert in a subject to benefit
  • 00:13:55
    massively from this intuition because
  • 00:13:57
    this is what I realized
  • 00:13:59
    I used so much when I was younger in
  • 00:14:01
    school now there's something I have to
  • 00:14:03
    admit when I was in school and I was
  • 00:14:05
    younger I would really be a lot quicker
  • 00:14:07
    at learning and memorizing things than
  • 00:14:08
    other people and everyone would think oh
  • 00:14:11
    my gosh like she's so smart this is not
  • 00:14:12
    true it's not true this is not the
  • 00:14:13
    reason this is not the reason I was
  • 00:14:15
    memorizing things well the reason I was
  • 00:14:16
    memorizing things well was because I had
  • 00:14:19
    less to remember people who were seeing
  • 00:14:22
    things for the very first time had no
  • 00:14:24
    intuition no concept of what was
  • 00:14:26
    happening in their brain as I do for a
  • 00:14:28
    lot of things had to learn a whole bunch
  • 00:14:30
    of information me I'd done prep if I
  • 00:14:33
    have to learn something I need to learn
  • 00:14:35
    a tiny bit of it because I know what
  • 00:14:36
    became before what came after I say oh
  • 00:14:38
    yeah that's probably where it happened
  • 00:14:40
    so me learning it is a lot easier which
  • 00:14:42
    is why I can learn more memorize more
  • 00:14:44
    and do things in a way that appears to
  • 00:14:46
    be so smart to other people so let me
  • 00:14:49
    explain how to do this let's say you
  • 00:14:51
    have to learn the wars in France in the
  • 00:14:52
    1800s if I had to do this now do not
  • 00:14:54
    have a clue if I would see a year ad
  • 00:14:56
    plus- 60 70 years 200 100 years I don't
  • 00:15:00
    know when that happened so before even
  • 00:15:03
    approaching this if you want to memorize
  • 00:15:05
    it well in a logical way because you can
  • 00:15:07
    use visual neonics but that's a separate
  • 00:15:09
    topic if you want to learn it well what
  • 00:15:10
    you can do is you divide the whole 1800s
  • 00:15:13
    into like 10y year brackets and for
  • 00:15:16
    every 10 years you write the main thing
  • 00:15:18
    that happened the main person that was
  • 00:15:20
    in charge or the main political context
  • 00:15:22
    and you just learn this and so when
  • 00:15:25
    you're in an exam and you have a
  • 00:15:26
    multiple choice question for example you
  • 00:15:28
    don't have to approach every new date as
  • 00:15:29
    though it's just a bunch of scrambled
  • 00:15:31
    numbers and go like oh is it this one
  • 00:15:33
    and try to remember what the number
  • 00:15:34
    looked like in the textbook but you can
  • 00:15:36
    use this intuative logic when you
  • 00:15:37
    approach it where you go well it can't
  • 00:15:39
    be then because then that was resolved
  • 00:15:41
    and it can't be here because that was
  • 00:15:42
    way too soon they were fighting about
  • 00:15:43
    something else so that's the correct
  • 00:15:45
    date and this is helpful for exams this
  • 00:15:47
    is helpful for learning the information
  • 00:15:49
    because you already have this thing
  • 00:15:50
    built which does not take that long you
  • 00:15:52
    can then memorize things a lot earlier
  • 00:15:55
    because you have this Skeleton on which
  • 00:15:56
    to link things the same thing can be
  • 00:15:58
    said for languages before learning a
  • 00:16:00
    language it's great to just hear it a
  • 00:16:02
    whole lot because you build intuition
  • 00:16:04
    and when you're studying it or trying to
  • 00:16:06
    speak you can sense that you're saying
  • 00:16:07
    something wrong because your intuition
  • 00:16:09
    is like I've never heard that that that
  • 00:16:10
    that sounds wrong even though you don't
  • 00:16:12
    know the grammatical rules the way we
  • 00:16:14
    all speak our native languages fluently
  • 00:16:16
    even though we might not necessarily be
  • 00:16:18
    able to tell you why to use that tense
  • 00:16:19
    or form of a word these things could
  • 00:16:21
    also be stacked with one another to
  • 00:16:23
    create crazy efficient memorization and
  • 00:16:25
    learning when you're creating dates
  • 00:16:27
    that's a horizontal timeline and instead
  • 00:16:29
    of learning things about one War what
  • 00:16:31
    happened in one date vertically you now
  • 00:16:33
    put it in the space where it can be
  • 00:16:34
    really flexible and moved around because
  • 00:16:37
    you have a timeline this is a visual
  • 00:16:38
    representation it's a really strong cue
  • 00:16:40
    because you have to find this
  • 00:16:41
    information potentially outside of your
  • 00:16:43
    textbook to build the timeline this is
  • 00:16:45
    where you're researching and adding
  • 00:16:47
    external cues the uniqueness to your
  • 00:16:48
    methods of study the intuition you build
  • 00:16:50
    make it so much easier to memorize this
  • 00:16:52
    in a way that your potentially will not
  • 00:16:54
    forget for the next 30 Years very lastly
  • 00:16:56
    I eared and OD so much in this video
  • 00:16:58
    about adding that little doctor's note
  • 00:17:00
    and about talking about the negative
  • 00:17:02
    effects that some things that doctors
  • 00:17:04
    say have to us as someone who in a few
  • 00:17:06
    months hopefully will be a doctor
  • 00:17:07
    themselves I thought in the end it's
  • 00:17:09
    really important to mention just how
  • 00:17:11
    empowering or disempowering the story
  • 00:17:12
    that we tell ourselves can be and how
  • 00:17:15
    easy it can be to overcome challenges
  • 00:17:17
    when you don't think of them as
  • 00:17:19
    challenges and I was struggling with
  • 00:17:21
    this realistically I should have
  • 00:17:22
    realized a long time ago that I was
  • 00:17:23
    struggling with this I have a terrible
  • 00:17:25
    memory and I never knew it because of
  • 00:17:27
    the fact that I was compensating working
  • 00:17:29
    hard at it and believing that I could do
  • 00:17:32
    this and I wanted to do this and in this
  • 00:17:34
    last year it's just been really hard and
  • 00:17:36
    I I feel like I've forgotten more than
  • 00:17:38
    ever because I just accepted the fact
  • 00:17:39
    that I'm worse than other people at this
  • 00:17:41
    thing this is a huge topic I'd
  • 00:17:43
    potentially want to do a whole other
  • 00:17:44
    video on if but if you do want a bit
  • 00:17:45
    more information about how therapy
  • 00:17:47
    specifically has helped me with this
  • 00:17:48
    that extra video I've made below should
  • 00:17:50
    help and clarify things and also if
  • 00:17:52
    you're cautious about therapy I know
  • 00:17:54
    it's really scary it takes a while to
  • 00:17:55
    get into it especially when it's online
  • 00:17:58
    so if you made it so far thank you so
  • 00:18:01
    much for watching me and I here to the
  • 00:18:03
    end of this video I hope you have a
  • 00:18:04
    wonderful rest fore day be kind to
  • 00:18:06
    yourself and others and don't believe
  • 00:18:08
    everything you think thanks bye
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  • memory improvement
  • forgetting
  • cue overload
  • proactive inhibition
  • mental health
  • 360° memorizing
  • therapy
  • novelty in learning
  • conceptual memory
  • self-perception