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last year i realized i'd forgotten
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everything i was learning i mean
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everything determined to remember at
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least a single thing from the halfway
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sentient daydream that was my covet
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experience i created a system to
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remember
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everything
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fast forward an entire year as it felt
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like 2021 did automatically and i've
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followed this system religiously
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this video is the most important piece
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i've shared so far and this technique is
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really the only reason i've been able to
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learn so much over the past two years
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in this piece i'll explain the memory
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system i've created why it works
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according to science and how it enables
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me to remember every single thing i
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learn without exception
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when it gets right down to it our brains
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work pretty flawlessly as it is our
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brains could have evolved to remember
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every minute detail and event that's
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happened throughout our lives but there
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needed to be a reason to which there
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just never was creatures evolve through
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life or death experiences if we remember
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which mushroom will kill us
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you know we have a better chance of
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living if we remember what the clouds
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looked like on our sixth birthday it
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just doesn't give us a lot of
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information just imagine if one minute
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from now you remembered every little
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detail in this frame every previous
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frame of video you've ever seen also
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99.9 of that would serve no purpose a
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large part of the autistic spectrum
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consists of differences in how people's
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brains are unable to filter out over
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stimulation through the complexities of
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our world but most brains are amazing at
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forgetting useless information you'll
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probably understand the general concept
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and point of this video we won't
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remember what i said word for word in
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the introduction the point of having a
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photographic memory shouldn't just be to
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remember every little detail of
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perception but instead remember what we
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deem as important not what our
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subconscious
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automatically filters out
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this is the reason i developed this
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system
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part one the science
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so how do our brains choose what
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information to store and what to discard
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well it isn't just life or death related
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i'll remember for the rest of my life a
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dream i had when i was five where the
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animated trolls from the original hobbit
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invaded my kitchen and yet that's not
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increasing my chances of survival the
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average layperson trying to learn
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nuclear physics for the first time will
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probably find it very difficult to
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retain that information this is dr sean
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kane explaining his research on the
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cognitive psychology of learning and
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memory what it shows us is two things
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the first is that our brains remember
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importance the second is that importance
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is determined by value relation and
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repetition
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these three items are what all
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non-physical cognitive memory research
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revolves around understanding this is
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critical to understanding how to create
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a photographic memory for yourself value
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our brains decide what is valuable based
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on its use in our lives that's why as
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king said learning nuclear physics is
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difficult
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when i was five my brain subconsciously
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decided that this recurring troll
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nightmare had value now why was this you
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know most of the time what the case is
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is that our brains have an emotion bias
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if we elicit a strong emotion like pure
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terror our brains treat that event as
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valuable otherwise why would we have not
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slept for days just because these stupid
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cartoon drills won't stop entering every
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single dream youtube relation more than
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anything i consider myself a filmmaker i
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remember lens characteristics and
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lighting setups etc because all of this
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information relates to me
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relating information to yourself is
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something that happens consciously but
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still impacts your subconscious
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what's powerful is that if you start
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learning something new like music at
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first it won't relate to anything but
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soon that new information relates to
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previous information in that same
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category repetition now to get back to
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the nightmare trolls another strong
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reason why i remember these little men
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is the repetition of this memory i've
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thought about this memory consistently
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since i was five every time i've seen
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the cartoon hobbit i remember them in my
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kitchen and on top of that i feel like
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this is my first memory so because of
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this whenever someone asks me what my
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first memory is
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i bring up the cold sleepless nights of
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2008. repetition like this ensures any
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memory can stay in your mind no matter
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how bad you want those trolls to leave
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part two the memory system when the
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german sociologist nicholas lumen became
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a professor he was asked what his main
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research project would be
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in these three decades he published 70
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books and 400 academic articles on a
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huge variety of subjects from science to
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art to history to philosophy and
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progressed a multitude of fields to new
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heights
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this german lad is important to our
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story because he popularized method of
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expanding your memory called the
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zettelkasten method now this method
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isn't at all what this video is about
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but to put it simply the method consists
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of writing notes on small pieces of
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paper with a numbering system to be able
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to link new notes to other notes
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since lumen's focus was on writing books
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this makes sense he said books would
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write themselves and if you had 90 000
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notes of various subjects all linked
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together i'm sure that entire books were
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just swimming around the millions of
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words strung together on his desk
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however the zettlecast method failed to
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see a large opportunity here is where my
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memory system comes in
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see lumen and zedel caston both missed
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out on half a century of research in
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your cognitive memory that i talked
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about in the first part of this piece
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what i realized over a year ago was that
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if you take the science behind why we
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remember what we do and our memory
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biases into account then a new method
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can be created one that works with the
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natural functions of the brain this
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method is the xettlecast method taken to
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a new height one that isn't just writing
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interconnected notes but instead one
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that makes its way back into our brain
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allowing us to remember everything that
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we want to and here's how it works
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the three rules are simplicity personal
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connection and to benefit from human
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specific memory biases the three key
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concepts are information
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translation and representation
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information goes in your head you
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translate it to the real world on paper
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then you represent that information in a
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new way
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let me explain
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step one grab an index card step two
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title it with what you want to remember
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step three fill the card with
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information about the subject make it
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sound personal and very informal now
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this is crucial if the card sounds like
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a wikipedia article you failed
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step four write your own personal
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connection to the information
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this is huge once your brain recognizes
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what you wrote is important it just
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sticks it really is amazing how well
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this small step works
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step five draw a picture this is the
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final step to being able to remember
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literally anything you write down by
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drawing the subject of this note it
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can't remain abstract the idea is able
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to be visualized and the representation
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of the information can now stay in your
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brain
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now this might sound simple after all it
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doesn't seem to be too different from
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jotting down a note like normal well i
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didn't experiment to validate this over
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the last year while building my
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collection of siriani notes i've also
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been making notes on my phone after a
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year of doing this it's remarkable the
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difference of what i remember from
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typing a note versus doing this process
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of the memory system i will literally
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read a note on my phone and not even be
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able to remember how it ends that's how
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little of it remains in my brain
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for the siriani notes on the other hand
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i can't believe how much i remember
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after a bit less than a year the stack
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of notes has grown pretty substantially
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in the past year i've read books that i
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remember basically nothing from but i've
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also read books i took siriani notes on
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and i could literally answer
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any question about it it's gotten to the
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point where anything important enters my
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head i immediately take a note on and so
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far they've all remained in my head
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memory based on intention
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now last part of this video talks about
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the mindset shift that comes with this
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memory system but before that i
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explained value in relation within the
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system but i haven't talked about the
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third concept which if you remember was
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repetition now this is a really cool
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benefit of having this whole system be
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physical see the stack of the notes is
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always sitting on my desk when i'm bored
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i'll flip through the cards if i need to
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find one i'll end up reading dozens
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along the way because of how short they
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are
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you don't get this if the system is
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digital which is why i think that cards
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are the way to go the expansion of my
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memory that i can't even begin to
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describe has made it certain that i'm
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never going back to the normal lame
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version of memory but along with the
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literal benefits of this year-long
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experiment something else surprising
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started to happen a substantial mindset
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shift towards new information
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this channel is about continuous
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learning and expanding your awareness
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what this new memory system has done for
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me is created this strange drive to
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learn more for the first time in my life
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i can literally quantify the knowledge
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in my brain which is like super trippy
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to think about
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the size of the stack is the amount of
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intentional information i've added to my
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mind the bigger the stack gets i just
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get to see
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how much more i'm learning and i get
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more driven to grow it this memory
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system has literally gamified the
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expansion of knowledge which again i
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just can't reiterate is like crazy my
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progress within film photography
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engineering and cgi isn't just measured
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by deadlines and goals now now i can
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measure it by stacks of memory chunks
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sitting on my desk it really feels like
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it makes learning the goal of a project
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even before starting this youtube i've
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made probably over 30 cards on
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storytelling editing channel growth
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thumbnails how to relate complex ideas
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and so on to try and grow this channel
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my goal with this system is to just keep
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growing it in some ways it's changed too
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over the last year i recently started
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writing examples instead of connections
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because i realized an example that
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relates to my life could hold even more
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value for how my brain interprets the
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information
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so to wrap things up i wasn't
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exaggerating when i said that this was
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the most important video i've released
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the system has transformed how i retain
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information and everything i'm able to
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do
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because of that if any of you try out or
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implement this method in your own lives
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let me know i'd be happy to answer any
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questions uh the channel is still like
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really small so i'll see every comment
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um with that being said i've learned a
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lot over this last year and i attribute
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a hundred percent of that to this method
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so give it a shot i think it could
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change your life too
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i'll see you next time
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you
