The Top Student Tier List (Ranking 27 Study Skills)
摘要
TLDRThe video evaluates various study techniques, rating them from S (highly recommended) to D (not recommended). It discusses popular strategies like flashcards, which are deemed useful for rote memorization but risky if over-relied upon (rated C). The Feynman technique is praised for teaching through simplification and understanding (rated S). Techniques like Pomodoro are recognized for aiding focus but considered rigid for long tasks (rated A). Practice problems and planning are seen as essential, with planning rated S for aiding balance between study and personal life. Strategies such as interleaving and priming the material before class also receive high ratings (S and A, respectively). The video addresses potential pitfalls in techniques like mind mapping, blurting, and the passive approach of rereading or rewatching content, which are rated lower. Other discussions include the merits of sleep, exercise, group discussions, and using modern tools like ChatGPT for learning support. The creators help guide viewers on how to optimally use these techniques in a structured, effective manner.
心得
- 📚 Flashcards are useful for rote learning but can be counterproductive if overused.
- 🧠 The Feynman technique excels in teaching complex topics through simplification.
- ⏲️ Pomodoro helps maintain focus with structured breaks, but can be rigid.
- 📝 Planning is crucial for effective time management and life balance.
- 🔄 Interleaving boosts understanding by mixing study subjects.
- 🔍 Priming before class aids comprehension by familiarizing with material.
- 💤 Sleep is essential for memory consolidation and effective learning.
- 🚫 Relying solely on rereading is ineffective for long-term retention.
- 🎯 Creating content or projects enhances learning through active engagement.
- 💪 Exercise supports memory retention and focus.
时间轴
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
The video begins discussing the overwhelming number of study techniques available online, emphasizing the need for a systematic approach that combines effective strategies to save time. Flashcards are criticized for promoting rote learning, potentially creating an illusion of familiarity, and they are ranked as C-tier.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
The Feynman technique is introduced as an effective strategy for identifying gaps in knowledge by simplifying topics, ranked as S-tier for transforming teaching into a powerful learning tool. Pomodoro Technique, which involves timed study sessions followed by breaks, is discussed for its simplicity, and ranked A-tier despite its rigidity.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
Practice problems are valued for their ability to enhance test preparedness and understanding, earning them an A-tier ranking. Study planning is highlighted as a critical meta-skill for productivity, deserving of an S-tier. Interleaving, a method to mix study topics to find connections, is ranked S-tier for promoting deeper learning.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
Priming and chunking are discussed for their potential to improve understanding and memory retention, both ranked A-tier. Syntopical reading, however, is seen as a broad investment that can sometimes be overwhelming, thus given B-tier. Blurting, while useful for recall practice, lacks structure and is ranked C-tier.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
Frameworking and visual associations are praised for organizing information into digestible formats, receiving A and A-tier respectively. Group discussions and chat-GPTing (prompting AI) can be beneficial but often depend on structure, both averaging around B-tier. The importance of techniques like sleep for memory consolidation is reiterated as S-tier.
- 00:25:00 - 00:33:14
Negative study practices like rewatching and rereading are consistently ranked D-tier for their passive nature. Reviewing related study strategies such as cramming and music while studying emphasize their conditional usefulness, ranked C-tier. Overall, the importance of strategic, structured learning techniques is emphasized throughout the video.
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视频问答
What is the Feynman technique?
It's a method of learning by explaining topics in simple terms to identify knowledge gaps.
How does the Pomodoro technique work?
You work for 25 minutes and take a 5-minute break, repeating the cycle to maintain focus.
Why is flashcard overuse discouraged?
Overusing flashcards can lead to the illusion of knowing rather than understanding concepts deeply.
What is interleaving in studying?
Interleaving involves mixing different topics or subjects to find connections and improve understanding.
Why is sleep important for studying?
Sleep helps in the consolidation of memories, turning short-term learning into long-term knowledge.
How can planning improve study outcomes?
Planning organizes study time effectively, balancing academics with personal life and enhancing productivity.
What are the dangers of rereading notes?
Rereading can create a false sense of familiarity, without enhancing true understanding or memory retention.
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- 00:00:00there are so many different study
- 00:00:01techniques and skills and things that
- 00:00:04people share all over the Internet hard
- 00:00:06to know which one's good which one's bad
- 00:00:07which one's should you completely ignore
- 00:00:09which ones you should be using every
- 00:00:10single minute of every single day in
- 00:00:12your life if you find the right
- 00:00:13combination of learning strategies and
- 00:00:15put them together into a system that can
- 00:00:17like easily save you 10 15 hours a week
- 00:00:20but you have to be doing them the right
- 00:00:21way so I put out some feelers this
- 00:00:22morning asking a lot of our community
- 00:00:25members what are like their favorite or
- 00:00:26what they call their best study
- 00:00:28strategies and their worst ones I think
- 00:00:29the worst are and so we got some pretty
- 00:00:31interesting answers but we just wanted
- 00:00:32to make this video to help guide some
- 00:00:36students so s tier means definitely
- 00:00:38definitely do it everyone should be
- 00:00:40doing s tier stuff and then D tier is
- 00:00:42absolutely do not do this run away run
- 00:00:44for the hills don't even touch them do
- 00:00:45not be disturbed by by the D tier stuff
- 00:00:48so looks like the first one here we got
- 00:00:49is flash cards oh boy Mike and Maddie
- 00:00:53and flash cards go way way back everyone
- 00:00:56remember remn note we came from medical
- 00:00:58school and Med students love using flash
- 00:01:01cards yeah basically what I was taught
- 00:01:02in med school was you just make 5,000
- 00:01:04flash cards and then you just spend all
- 00:01:06day all night doing flash cards
- 00:01:08everywhere you go in the bathroom in the
- 00:01:09bathroom on in in class when you're
- 00:01:12supposed to be paying attention I think
- 00:01:14flash cards have a pretty specific
- 00:01:16purpose which to me is trying to
- 00:01:18memorize a piece of information mhm
- 00:01:20that's what we call rote learning yeah I
- 00:01:22was going to say like flash card is just
- 00:01:24inherently rot learning yeah you're just
- 00:01:26you repeating something the same way mhm
- 00:01:28but rely over relying on flash cards
- 00:01:31eventually reaches a point where it
- 00:01:32becomes counterproductive MH and this is
- 00:01:34because of a pretty well studied
- 00:01:36psychological Effect called the illusion
- 00:01:38of familiarity you remember that there
- 00:01:40is a flash card that you've created
- 00:01:42about this idea yeah and then you just
- 00:01:44associate oh yeah I made a flash card
- 00:01:46about that that's going to be the answer
- 00:01:47that's never how you're tested on it I
- 00:01:49would honestly give it even if you do it
- 00:01:51well a c I don't think it should be a
- 00:01:52core part of your system what do you
- 00:01:53think about that um yeah I think uh C is
- 00:01:56fair so the next one here um the findan
- 00:01:59technique mhm and I think it's named
- 00:02:02after Richard feeman but not created by
- 00:02:04Him the fan technique is a way of
- 00:02:06teaching something to yourself picking a
- 00:02:08topic and then you're trying to break it
- 00:02:09down into the simplest terms and then
- 00:02:11you're really looking for where the gaps
- 00:02:13in your knowledge and so if you do this
- 00:02:15enough then you'll identify all your
- 00:02:17weak spots and then you can go back to
- 00:02:19your notes and then you can learn more
- 00:02:21about what you missed the thing about
- 00:02:22the fan technique is I don't think
- 00:02:23there's really a wrong way to do it like
- 00:02:26at least if you try to do it then you're
- 00:02:29getting benefit I think the more
- 00:02:31important thing about fan is to just
- 00:02:33understand that teaching itself as a
- 00:02:36strategy is a very powerful strategy and
- 00:02:40fan is not the only way to teach yeah I
- 00:02:42think something that fan does pretty
- 00:02:44well is it gives good stepbystep
- 00:02:46instructions for how to think about
- 00:02:47teaching yeah I think that giving
- 00:02:49structure to how to use techniques is a
- 00:02:51great way to to learn how to use it
- 00:02:52correctly and get the most out of it so
- 00:02:54with all of that I would almost say that
- 00:02:56we just transformed the fan technique
- 00:02:58into teaching
- 00:03:00right so what would you rank teaching as
- 00:03:02oh definitely um s tier yeah I was
- 00:03:05actually going to say the same thing and
- 00:03:06we have our first s tier still right
- 00:03:08there so the next strategy on this list
- 00:03:09is pomodoro Pomodoro is where you work
- 00:03:12for a short period of time usually 25
- 00:03:14minutes you take a 5minute break and
- 00:03:16then you just rinse and repeat that
- 00:03:17cycle and I think Pomodoro honestly for
- 00:03:20like the barrier to entry to do it which
- 00:03:21is incredibly low all you need is a
- 00:03:23timer it can get you pretty far I
- 00:03:25actually like how like it is such a
- 00:03:27simple tool that can get someone to
- 00:03:28focus I do think that pomodora runs into
- 00:03:31some issues down the line especially um
- 00:03:34once you get more comfortable with
- 00:03:36focusing for longer stretches of time
- 00:03:38that you don't necessarily want to break
- 00:03:39at 25 minutes or even 50 minutes if
- 00:03:42you're able to like sustain good flow
- 00:03:44and Rhythm for a long time and so
- 00:03:46because it has that limitation of being
- 00:03:48too rigid I wouldn't give it an S tier
- 00:03:50but actually I would think Pomodoro is
- 00:03:52like an a tier yeah I was going to say a
- 00:03:54tier actually because it's a very
- 00:03:57userfriendly technique go to cage and
- 00:04:00.focus just go there that's the best
- 00:04:03place to go to actually that's the best
- 00:04:05one next is practice problems or
- 00:04:07practice tests of self assessment
- 00:04:10basically having some sort of material
- 00:04:11that reflects what you might see on the
- 00:04:14day of the exam the bad way to use it is
- 00:04:16you're just trying to Breeze through and
- 00:04:17passively memorize the answers to the
- 00:04:20questions but the good way to use it is
- 00:04:22to actually understand why the right
- 00:04:25answers are right and why the wrong
- 00:04:26answers are wrong if when you're doing a
- 00:04:28practice problem like a multiple choice
- 00:04:29practice problem M it could potentially
- 00:04:31be five questions all packaged into one
- 00:04:34so it's like five learning points that
- 00:04:36you could possibly benefit from I think
- 00:04:38practice problems are something that
- 00:04:39depending on the subject you're studying
- 00:04:40of course is going to be like the
- 00:04:42default resource that's given to you any
- 00:04:44kind of calculation based class like
- 00:04:46math physics chemistry you're going to
- 00:04:47be given practice problems same thing in
- 00:04:49medicine like CU Banks of thousands of
- 00:04:51practice problems and the reason why I
- 00:04:53would encourage people to use them is
- 00:04:55because that is exactly how you are
- 00:04:56going to be tested aside from like the
- 00:04:58does it help you learn better versus
- 00:05:00does it help you get better grades I
- 00:05:02think those are two different outcomes
- 00:05:03it does get you better grades MH because
- 00:05:06it's how you're going to be tested I
- 00:05:07will give this an a tier okay moving on
- 00:05:09to the next one this is kind of a broad
- 00:05:11category but it's called study planning
- 00:05:13and this is really just because from
- 00:05:15Discord I got so many people saying that
- 00:05:17the best strategies they use is
- 00:05:18literally like I like planning my day I
- 00:05:20like uh uh planning my next big day so
- 00:05:23like the whole thing about planning is
- 00:05:24that you want to have a balance between
- 00:05:26your studying and your social life mm
- 00:05:29your personal life right so so planning
- 00:05:31is extremely important planning is just
- 00:05:33one of those meta skills that will help
- 00:05:34you just be a more productive human most
- 00:05:37people their idea of planning is oh I
- 00:05:39need to study sometime today like that
- 00:05:42is their their version of planning MH
- 00:05:44where you don't know when you're going
- 00:05:45to be studying you don't know what
- 00:05:46you're going to be studying you don't
- 00:05:48know how long you're going to be
- 00:05:49studying those are the three questions
- 00:05:50you should definitely answer for every
- 00:05:52single study session when how long and
- 00:05:54what and most most people don't do that
- 00:05:56if you're doing it with the
- 00:05:57intentionality that we just talked about
- 00:05:59study plan in is easily s tier oh for
- 00:06:02sure yeah I agree with that okay so the
- 00:06:04next one on the list here is inner
- 00:06:05leaving so inner leaving is not really
- 00:06:08like a technique more like a yeah like a
- 00:06:10mindset strategy of how you can
- 00:06:13Implement different study skills inter
- 00:06:14leaving basically means mixing up what
- 00:06:17you're studying so that you can find
- 00:06:19connections and relationships between a
- 00:06:21lot of potentially related Concepts but
- 00:06:24you wouldn't have found that unless you
- 00:06:25were thinking about how is this related
- 00:06:27to something else mhm the visualization
- 00:06:29that I like to keep in my head for
- 00:06:31interleaving would be like let's say
- 00:06:34that you're trying to be like a master
- 00:06:36chef at cooking fish you know this
- 00:06:39analogy yeah I know this I love this
- 00:06:40analogy so let's say that you're trying
- 00:06:42to like become the best um fish Chef in
- 00:06:45the world if you keep cooking the same
- 00:06:47the same dish the fish dish the same
- 00:06:49fish dish over and over again then
- 00:06:51you'll only get good at that one fish
- 00:06:53dish but interleaving means you're
- 00:06:54cooking the fish in many different ways
- 00:06:56so you could make sushi for example mhm
- 00:07:00you could make uh fish and chips I don't
- 00:07:03know what that looks like fish and
- 00:07:04chips or you can make baked fish you can
- 00:07:06make steamed fish there's so many ways
- 00:07:08to cook a fish and by doing it in so
- 00:07:10many different ways you see how each way
- 00:07:13is different you see how each way is
- 00:07:14related to each other you can compare
- 00:07:16and contrast which ways are easier
- 00:07:18harder which ways are more valuable
- 00:07:20right so all those things is what you
- 00:07:22get from interleaving yeah and I guess
- 00:07:24comparing the chef to you as a learner
- 00:07:26what Chef do you think knows fish better
- 00:07:28the one who only knows how to make
- 00:07:29really good what was this one foret uh
- 00:07:32baked fish I guess a baked fish expert
- 00:07:36or a chef that knows how to make all of
- 00:07:37these and knows why that why the flavors
- 00:07:40of these different dishes goes together
- 00:07:42clearly I would want that Chef who knows
- 00:07:44the wide range of things in my kitchen I
- 00:07:46would say as toar so next on the list is
- 00:07:48priming priming basically means this is
- 00:07:50actually a term that comes from
- 00:07:52psychology behavioral psychology which
- 00:07:53is the way that you experience something
- 00:07:56where it shapes the next time that you
- 00:07:58see it so with studying priming means
- 00:08:01getting familiar with some of the stuff
- 00:08:03that you're about to study or learn
- 00:08:05before you actually get deep into
- 00:08:06learning it like skimming through the
- 00:08:08lecture slides skimming through the
- 00:08:09textbook chapter or like watching some
- 00:08:11short YouTube videos about the topic
- 00:08:12just to get like an overview or general
- 00:08:14idea about it before you go to class so
- 00:08:16that you're not completely lost uh and
- 00:08:18seeing it for the first time mhm you're
- 00:08:20surveying you're scoping so many words
- 00:08:22for it I would say that priming is
- 00:08:24really underrated because if you go to
- 00:08:27class and you didn't Prime the material
- 00:08:29and you're going to be so lost exactly
- 00:08:31if the teacher like once you get lost
- 00:08:33you're going to fall so behind that
- 00:08:34you're not going to be able to keep up
- 00:08:36then most students are just going to
- 00:08:37zone out and just kind of give up
- 00:08:39primate can be very very effective but I
- 00:08:40think it is actually really difficult to
- 00:08:42do well yeah I would actually let's just
- 00:08:44give it an a how about that I would give
- 00:08:45it an a yeah this next strategy is
- 00:08:48called chunking what's chunking so
- 00:08:49chunking is basically reducing the
- 00:08:52amount of information that you need to
- 00:08:53learn group them together this is really
- 00:08:55interesting analogy that I heard from um
- 00:08:58one of the business podcast I was
- 00:08:59listening to okay but so there are these
- 00:09:02human beings who actually have eaten
- 00:09:05entire trains and planes like airplanes
- 00:09:09oh I I think I've seen this somewhere
- 00:09:10I've seen this article wow this is like
- 00:09:12pretty interesting and so what they do
- 00:09:14is like they take the entire plane and
- 00:09:16they grind it down into powder break
- 00:09:17break it apart yeah yeah so they have
- 00:09:19like this little container of like it's
- 00:09:20like pepper so every meal they eat they
- 00:09:22just sprink a little bit of the plane or
- 00:09:24train onto their meal and they'll eat
- 00:09:26that yeah chunking is basically just
- 00:09:27like making it easier for you to lots of
- 00:09:30information yeah so anything like longer
- 00:09:32than a sequence of four or five is
- 00:09:33really difficult for our brain to wrap
- 00:09:36its head around but that's why if you
- 00:09:37think of like phone numbers they break
- 00:09:38it up into like three-digit four digigit
- 00:09:40four-digit instead of just like 10 in a
- 00:09:42row so they're chunking it by little
- 00:09:44groups like that so it's easier for you
- 00:09:45to remember and anything that you're
- 00:09:46trying to learn is to break it down into
- 00:09:49different categories and try to see what
- 00:09:50is the flow and the Order of information
- 00:09:52what would you give chunking kind of be
- 00:09:53a tier or higher okay I would say let's
- 00:09:56give it an a tier so the next skill on
- 00:09:59the list is syntopical reading this is
- 00:10:03actually something that came from
- 00:10:04Mortimer Adler is that Mor Adler yeah
- 00:10:06Mortimer Adler morer Adler how to read a
- 00:10:08book so syntopical reading simply means
- 00:10:11consuming multiple different resources
- 00:10:13at the same time to understand a topic
- 00:10:16so instead of just using your lecture
- 00:10:18slides it's also watching some YouTube
- 00:10:20videos reading some other textbooks I
- 00:10:22know that no one wants to think about
- 00:10:24reading multiple textbooks for class um
- 00:10:26using chat GPT chat GPT talking to your
- 00:10:28professor or or your classmates um that
- 00:10:30is supposed to give you a better
- 00:10:32perspective to that subject I think it's
- 00:10:34incredibly valuable cuz when you go to
- 00:10:35school your professor gives you one
- 00:10:38point of view that's the professor's
- 00:10:39point of view yeah if they wrote the
- 00:10:41book then that's still that's just their
- 00:10:43point of view that's true but if they
- 00:10:45like assign you like a textbook that was
- 00:10:46written by someone else then now you
- 00:10:48have two points of view and I know a lot
- 00:10:49of people like are averse to syntopical
- 00:10:52reading because at least when I was in
- 00:10:53college I hated it when my professor
- 00:10:55would be like oh there's all these
- 00:10:56optional readings you can do and as a
- 00:10:58student I'm like
- 00:11:00I'm do extra if I don't have to I'm just
- 00:11:02going to give it a b you get pretty far
- 00:11:05withour and you can get lost you can get
- 00:11:07lost for sure so the next technique on
- 00:11:09the list is blurting blurting so this is
- 00:11:12basically another word for brain dumping
- 00:11:15I guess that's right it's just like
- 00:11:17you're just trying to write everything
- 00:11:19that you know about a topic I think with
- 00:11:21blurting the whole point of it is that
- 00:11:22there's no structure to it the good part
- 00:11:25about it I think is that it's forcing
- 00:11:26you to try to recall things right you're
- 00:11:28pulling it yeah from the Dome exactly
- 00:11:31recall retrieval whatever you want to
- 00:11:33say but the danger of using blurting is
- 00:11:36like you could just be recalling facts
- 00:11:38uhhuh and not really thinking about how
- 00:11:41everything relates together yeah and
- 00:11:42that's that's the problem with not
- 00:11:43having structure but if you're just like
- 00:11:44randomly recalling everything you know
- 00:11:46about like Japan in a random order then
- 00:11:48it's probably not going to be very
- 00:11:49useful there's like no Direction like
- 00:11:51why are you doing this mhm yeah so
- 00:11:53having some kind of structured approach
- 00:11:56to blurting would make it very much
- 00:11:58would make it a lot better yeah but then
- 00:11:59at that point it just becomes teaching
- 00:12:01right not even as good as teaching
- 00:12:02because you're necessarily like using
- 00:12:05simple words uh I would probably say
- 00:12:07like a c yeah I'm good with giving it a
- 00:12:11c so the next one on the list is
- 00:12:15frameworking frameworking maybe we can
- 00:12:17also call this like modeling uhhuh so
- 00:12:19frameworking basically means giving
- 00:12:22structure to the way that you think
- 00:12:23about something the most common types of
- 00:12:25Frameworks that you might be familiar
- 00:12:26with from anything like a table a Gra
- 00:12:30yeah um a flowchart those are all
- 00:12:31different kinds of Frameworks vend
- 00:12:34diagrams love V diagrams I will also say
- 00:12:36though that Frameworks is pretty hard to
- 00:12:38do it is very stressful it can take a
- 00:12:40lot of time and especially if you're
- 00:12:42drawing it could be like what you just
- 00:12:44saw Mike doing you could spend a lot of
- 00:12:45time trying to draw a framework before
- 00:12:48you even get to a shape that you like
- 00:12:49and so because of that I would actually
- 00:12:51probably give it a b okay what would you
- 00:12:53say you want to go higher I was going to
- 00:12:55say a but I think B is fair okay moving
- 00:12:57on to the next one we have rereading we
- 00:13:00have so I don't know if we need to spend
- 00:13:02too much time on rereading I think the
- 00:13:03world at this point the internet knows
- 00:13:05that it's not very strong and I stand
- 00:13:07behind it yeah you're basically just
- 00:13:10wrote learning like passive wrote
- 00:13:12learning it's passive because it is not
- 00:13:14challenging your brain in any capacity
- 00:13:16you're just reading words it's playing
- 00:13:18into this thing called the illusion of
- 00:13:19familiarity so when you read something
- 00:13:22your brain actually believes that it
- 00:13:24understands what you read the same thing
- 00:13:25is if you watch something your brain
- 00:13:27understands thinks that it understands
- 00:13:28what what you watched for example like
- 00:13:30if you watch a documentary you will be
- 00:13:32entranced in that documentary like oh my
- 00:13:34God I'm learning so much about history
- 00:13:35an hour later I guarantee you will have
- 00:13:37forgotten like 80% of it like the
- 00:13:38students who reread their notes over and
- 00:13:39over and over they're just like giving
- 00:13:40their brain dopamine like yeah yeah I
- 00:13:42know all this I know this so easy so
- 00:13:43easy so easy the moment you take it away
- 00:13:45and they try to recall it they're
- 00:13:46they're stuck and so rereading is just
- 00:13:48dangerous for those for those reasons
- 00:13:51and for that I can't give it anything
- 00:13:53lower than a d I would have give it an F
- 00:13:54if I could like d for detrimental d d
- 00:13:58for damage d just major damage so the
- 00:14:01next one here we can quickly talk about
- 00:14:03going to class what do you think about
- 00:14:05going to class I mean it depends like if
- 00:14:07it's mandatory or not like that's like
- 00:14:10the thing we always see like in our
- 00:14:11community like I have to go to class I
- 00:14:13have to sign in or also I'll fail I
- 00:14:15think going to class for the typical
- 00:14:17student in the US cuz that's all most of
- 00:14:20the students I know is not very good
- 00:14:23because they do not prime they go in
- 00:14:25completely blind to class usually in
- 00:14:27college after terrible night of drinking
- 00:14:30and partying M and or being hung over
- 00:14:32and or maybe being drunk in class who
- 00:14:33knows like what kids do nowadays but for
- 00:14:35all those reasons if you go to class
- 00:14:37without preparing without having even a
- 00:14:39pencil and a notebook without knowing
- 00:14:40anything it's a wasted hour mhm or or
- 00:14:43more depending on how long the class is
- 00:14:45yeah but if you do all the things you're
- 00:14:46supposed to do which is like Prime and
- 00:14:47then like be prepared and then pay
- 00:14:49attention and ask questions then it can
- 00:14:50be pretty useful so it's pretty in the
- 00:14:53middle for me like I don't know what I
- 00:14:54would say I don't know I have nothing
- 00:14:55more to add to that I would agree it's
- 00:14:58just hard because like coming from med
- 00:14:59school it wasn't mandatory yeah it was
- 00:15:01great so I never went to class yeah and
- 00:15:04the thing is like it actually made me
- 00:15:05more self-reliant yeah and it made me
- 00:15:07like more autonomous with my studying
- 00:15:09because I didn't go I'm going to give it
- 00:15:10a c yeah c for class yeah next one on
- 00:15:13the list highlighting basically just
- 00:15:15highlighting over words and sentences
- 00:15:17that you think are important yeah going
- 00:15:19to highlight this here I generally don't
- 00:15:22think it's too useful like if you're
- 00:15:24reading rereading your notes and you're
- 00:15:25highlighting important things in your
- 00:15:27notes then it's already passive you're
- 00:15:29not really adding much more if you're
- 00:15:30like uh tree noting or mind mapping and
- 00:15:33you're using highlighting like color
- 00:15:34coding in your mind maps to to make
- 00:15:36things pop out then I think that's
- 00:15:39pretty useful I think what they're
- 00:15:40referring to is what you said before you
- 00:15:41think it might be useful so you
- 00:15:42highlight it to come back to it again
- 00:15:44later but that is the problem right
- 00:15:46there if you're highlighting something
- 00:15:47because you don't want to forget it
- 00:15:48because you want to come back to it
- 00:15:50again then you're just not learning then
- 00:15:51you are basically just delaying learning
- 00:15:54and that's D is D like you're not
- 00:15:56learning you're waiting you're delaying
- 00:15:59deeper delaying delay next one on the
- 00:16:01list rewatching didn't we just do this
- 00:16:03similar to rereading I guess we talked
- 00:16:05about it already I'm also going to give
- 00:16:06this one a d we can just Breeze by it do
- 00:16:08we even need to talk about it no not
- 00:16:09really D re rewatching is a d if you
- 00:16:12didn't get anything the first time then
- 00:16:14if you re-watch it without any new
- 00:16:16information then you're also not going
- 00:16:17to get anything out of it yeah so the
- 00:16:19next one on the list here is space
- 00:16:21repetition so space repetition I don't
- 00:16:23even know if it's like actually like a
- 00:16:24study strategy strategy it's a strategy
- 00:16:26and it basically is the opposite of
- 00:16:29cramming so you can be spending the same
- 00:16:31overall amount of time on a subject but
- 00:16:33you're just doing it either all at once
- 00:16:34which is cramming or spacing which is
- 00:16:37over time and what science has shown us
- 00:16:40is that spacing is far superior to
- 00:16:42cramming I think I'll add a little bit
- 00:16:44to it I tried to draw a brain here I
- 00:16:45don't know if that I mean there a shape
- 00:16:47of a brain and I've have labeled this
- 00:16:49working memory and this is long-term
- 00:16:51memory those are not like the actual
- 00:16:53accurate locations but just we'll just
- 00:16:56go with it for now they're actually
- 00:16:57flipped but oh okay when you space
- 00:16:59things out it gives your brain a chance
- 00:17:01to take the information you learn and
- 00:17:02put it into long-term memory so that's
- 00:17:04like you need time for your brain to
- 00:17:07connect the ideas M to long-term memory
- 00:17:10the reason you want to do it a little
- 00:17:11bit every single day is because during
- 00:17:13the time that you're not like the in
- 00:17:15between time is when your brain actually
- 00:17:17moves information into long-term memory
- 00:17:19so if you don't give your brain some
- 00:17:21time to like debrief process information
- 00:17:23then it actually just forgets it and so
- 00:17:25if you cram it all at once and then you
- 00:17:26take your exam and you never look at it
- 00:17:28again most of that stuff didn't go to
- 00:17:30your long-term memory so you're going to
- 00:17:31lose it all M so spacing is just like a
- 00:17:33way to incrementally add building blocks
- 00:17:35to what you know without losing at all
- 00:17:37if your if your goal is long-term
- 00:17:38retention then it's pretty high yeah
- 00:17:41maybe an a yeah let's give it an A or an
- 00:17:43S I mean it depends I going to give it
- 00:17:45an A so the next one on the list is mind
- 00:17:47mapping well basically the point I was
- 00:17:50trying to make with like mind map mind
- 00:17:52mapping uh is that it's similar to
- 00:17:54blurting a lot of people want to use it
- 00:17:57uh because it's like a trendy uh
- 00:17:59technique but without very clear
- 00:18:03protocol or guidelines or structure on
- 00:18:04how to use it then you can use it
- 00:18:06incorrectly and waste a lot of time
- 00:18:08here's like a typical mind map you would
- 00:18:09see it's like it's hard to know like
- 00:18:12what the ideas are because everything
- 00:18:14just looks so monotonous because the
- 00:18:18passive way to mind map is like you're
- 00:18:19just reading oh I'm reading chapter 1
- 00:18:22and chapter 1 has like three subsections
- 00:18:25and you're just you're just literally
- 00:18:26like transcribing the entire chapter
- 00:18:30into like a different layout without
- 00:18:32really thinking about how how like how
- 00:18:33does this relate with this how does this
- 00:18:35relate with this one over here how does
- 00:18:37like this part relate with that over
- 00:18:38there it's like most people in my map
- 00:18:41they just transcribe but like when you
- 00:18:43have like a structure to follow that
- 00:18:45forces you to think about information
- 00:18:47then like a better mind map would be
- 00:18:48like you're using Color to emphasize
- 00:18:51like this is different from that because
- 00:18:53of this you're using arrows you're using
- 00:18:55different shapes like you're you're
- 00:18:57actually trying to compare the
- 00:18:59information to each other and see how
- 00:19:00they're related I think that's like the
- 00:19:02most powerful part of my map so we have
- 00:19:04like two videos that we've made on this
- 00:19:06already that we can link above we don't
- 00:19:08want to get too into it but the trino is
- 00:19:10a framework that we teach where each
- 00:19:12letter gives you like pretty clear
- 00:19:13instructions on how to get the most out
- 00:19:15your my maps so I would probably just
- 00:19:17give it an a even a b maybe yeah a let's
- 00:19:21give it an a next one on the list
- 00:19:22neonics what is a neonic is basically a
- 00:19:25good way to memorize like lists of
- 00:19:29things where you just like create a
- 00:19:31pattern or create like a rhyme or create
- 00:19:34some sort of mini framework where you
- 00:19:36just memorizing a list yeah um usually
- 00:19:38there's no Rhyme or Reason to this just
- 00:19:41memorizing them and it's useful like
- 00:19:43when you're memorizing large lists or a
- 00:19:44lot of things like in med school
- 00:19:46everyone used neonics for sure there's
- 00:19:48tons of neonics there was like the
- 00:19:49cranial nerves one it's like fun ways to
- 00:19:51memorize things but the thing is you
- 00:19:53have to actually memorize the neonic too
- 00:19:55and it doesn't really help you use the
- 00:19:57information it just helps you
- 00:19:59recall it so then you fall into the risk
- 00:20:01of just recalling isolated details and
- 00:20:04not really understanding the big picture
- 00:20:05M yeah I would give pneumonics to see so
- 00:20:07the next one on the list is not really a
- 00:20:10technique again more just what people
- 00:20:14have to do which is sleep a necessity
- 00:20:16yeah sleep is something that should not
- 00:20:19ever be sacrificed I mean
- 00:20:22ever Beyond school well I mean like I
- 00:20:25sleep people agree that it's healthy
- 00:20:27it's good for you like no one is going
- 00:20:28to deny that sleep is good but I think
- 00:20:31the the part about sleep that some
- 00:20:33people Overlook is that it's actually
- 00:20:34good for your learning because while
- 00:20:36you're sleeping that's when your memory
- 00:20:38is getting Consolidated that's when
- 00:20:40everything that you've learned during
- 00:20:41the daytime is being moved into your
- 00:20:44long-term memory it's like what you're
- 00:20:45doing right now you took the memory card
- 00:20:46out and you're you're trying to save it
- 00:20:48into your laptop yeah so we so we can
- 00:20:50continue learning capturing exactly like
- 00:20:53think of this the camera as your brain
- 00:20:55which our our memory card just ran out
- 00:20:57of space because the camera because we
- 00:20:59didn't sleep I don't think anyone will
- 00:21:00deny how good it feels to wake up after
- 00:21:03a good night's rest sleep it is s tier
- 00:21:06hands down yes sleep is sleep tier
- 00:21:09basically so next one on the list is
- 00:21:12doing homework oh this is interesting
- 00:21:14generally speaking I disagree with
- 00:21:16homework but that is simply because for
- 00:21:18the most part homework is attached to a
- 00:21:21grade or percentage and when you tell a
- 00:21:24student they have to do an assignment or
- 00:21:26else that puts them into a state of a
- 00:21:28fear of missing points fomo and so they
- 00:21:30will do whatever it takes to complete
- 00:21:32that assignment and forego any potential
- 00:21:34benefit of learning from it I've been a
- 00:21:36student who also does this where like if
- 00:21:38you have like a take-home quiz like
- 00:21:39everyone just forms study groups and
- 00:21:41they just share answers they just like
- 00:21:42we just take turns like today this
- 00:21:44person is going to do it and the next
- 00:21:45week I'll do it we'll share it together
- 00:21:47it's like a commune of just copying
- 00:21:49homework and answers together MH and so
- 00:21:51if that's the case it is incredibly
- 00:21:53unhelpful I think if homework was
- 00:21:55optional and or not part of your grade
- 00:21:57and it was really just for or giving you
- 00:21:59feedback about how to improve your
- 00:22:00learning it can be useful mhm but for
- 00:22:02the most part I don't think anyone uses
- 00:22:05homework in a way that is useful you got
- 00:22:06to be strategic about your homework you
- 00:22:08don't have to do all of your homework
- 00:22:10yeah but you shouldn't skip all of your
- 00:22:12homework um how much of your grade is it
- 00:22:14worth and um if it's not worth very much
- 00:22:17then you fall into the Trap of like
- 00:22:18homework feels very urgent to do but is
- 00:22:20it actually important like is are you
- 00:22:22actually going to learn something from
- 00:22:23it or are you better off doing something
- 00:22:25else to learn better exactly yeah that's
- 00:22:28all yeah so I'm going to give homework a
- 00:22:29c just because I don't want anyone
- 00:22:31failing out of school because of me next
- 00:22:33one on the list is studying with music
- 00:22:36um yeah I got mixed feelings about this
- 00:22:38one a lot of studies on music and
- 00:22:40basically music is not that great but
- 00:22:42it's just so enjoyable yeah speak that
- 00:22:45it makes me yeah I like using music to
- 00:22:47study I know I'm just kidding I think
- 00:22:49that um I think that music gives you
- 00:22:50like that enjoyability factors like I
- 00:22:52remember I would never take practice
- 00:22:54tests with music because I really need
- 00:22:57every single brain cell possible if you
- 00:22:59follow these three practices that I do
- 00:23:01for music then it might not be as bad as
- 00:23:03you think one don't listen to it too
- 00:23:06loud that is very distracting two listen
- 00:23:09to music that is without lyrics you
- 00:23:11don't want to be singing along to
- 00:23:12anything and three don't pick music
- 00:23:14that's too slow because I found at least
- 00:23:16for myself that if it's a little bit
- 00:23:17fast I would say like between anywhere
- 00:23:19between like 90 and
- 00:23:21125 130 BPM is probably the best range
- 00:23:24to be in are people even going to know
- 00:23:26what that means you don't want it too
- 00:23:27fast cuz it's going to get too ramped up
- 00:23:29and so if you have it too slow then it's
- 00:23:31going to doze you off so so what about
- 00:23:32like binaural beats cuz like the the
- 00:23:35point there is like you're trying to
- 00:23:36sync your brain waves to like a certain
- 00:23:39yeah I would I don't know if if I
- 00:23:40consider binaural beats music though
- 00:23:42yeah it's like sound I don't know I have
- 00:23:45uh I guess we if we want to classify it
- 00:23:47differently yeah I mean there are some
- 00:23:48sounds that could be helpful like white
- 00:23:49noise is helpful for people right music
- 00:23:52I was specifically talking about
- 00:23:53something that's like someone created
- 00:23:54for entertainment purposes yeah
- 00:23:57enjoyable artistic music is more
- 00:24:00artistic music a c as much as I hate to
- 00:24:02say it hate to see it music is a c all
- 00:24:05right next one on the list creating
- 00:24:07content super underrated actually yeah I
- 00:24:11think creating content or reframing
- 00:24:13creating I think creating content is a
- 00:24:15very specific use case of it learning
- 00:24:16through having a reason to create
- 00:24:18something yeah is an incredibly powerful
- 00:24:20way to learn for us at least on YouTube
- 00:24:22it's like we have a reason to learn
- 00:24:24because we want to teach we want to make
- 00:24:25these videos and so it forces us to
- 00:24:27learn a different things not just like
- 00:24:30the study and the learning stuff that we
- 00:24:31teach we learned how to set up our
- 00:24:33cameras we learned how to Market we
- 00:24:34learned how to advertise them how to
- 00:24:35sell all these different skills came
- 00:24:37from us trying to achieve some kind of
- 00:24:40project which is like a YouTube channel
- 00:24:41so I think if you can attach what you're
- 00:24:43learning to some kind of project to
- 00:24:45become some kind of hobby yeah like ever
- 00:24:47since we've been creating I think the
- 00:24:49important part about creating is it
- 00:24:50forces action yeah and I think that
- 00:24:52learning is taking action doing things
- 00:24:56reading is not learning just
- 00:24:58yeah you're just consuming things
- 00:25:00creating anything with it yes but
- 00:25:02learning means like you're behaving
- 00:25:04you're acting you're doing something so
- 00:25:07just thinking about the word create that
- 00:25:10is learning creation is learning reading
- 00:25:12is not learning that's all I think
- 00:25:14that's really important distinction yeah
- 00:25:16and it's really fun I mean I think every
- 00:25:18human this is maybe us going on a
- 00:25:20soapbox but every human is creative you
- 00:25:22just haven't tapped into what it is to
- 00:25:24be human is to be creative exactly you
- 00:25:26just haven't tapped into what it is that
- 00:25:28you like to create you can be like a
- 00:25:29doctor that creates like a treatment
- 00:25:31plan you can be like an accountant that
- 00:25:33creates like spreadsheets it's like
- 00:25:36creating data from data is extremely
- 00:25:38valuable um so yeah creating just
- 00:25:40basically means that you are practicing
- 00:25:42what you're what you're learning yeah
- 00:25:44you're synthesizing ideas to generate
- 00:25:47something that came from you that came
- 00:25:49from there um expressing that and so
- 00:25:51that is very valuable creating content I
- 00:25:53mean I am I'm going to say it's stier
- 00:25:56I'm biased also but yeah it is stier all
- 00:25:58right so the next one on the list is not
- 00:26:00really again a technique um exercise it
- 00:26:03could be a technique oh but yeah I mean
- 00:26:06it's like a like a bench press yeah
- 00:26:08exercise improves your memory and all
- 00:26:10that stuff um exercise helps like Focus
- 00:26:13too uhhuh so your energy levels there's
- 00:26:15so much that goes into it yeah I agree I
- 00:26:18mean you cover everything I would say
- 00:26:19exercise is very valuable I it's not
- 00:26:21like mandatory like sleep is yeah it
- 00:26:24doesn't yeah it's not mandatory like
- 00:26:25sleep is I say if like a b or a I don't
- 00:26:28know what do you think uh I'll just give
- 00:26:30it a b cuz I do know a lot of people who
- 00:26:32don't exercise and they still crush it
- 00:26:34and learn next on the list is group
- 00:26:36discussions I think group discussions
- 00:26:38like many of these can be done very very
- 00:26:40well and it can be incredibly useless it
- 00:26:43comes back to mind mapping and blurting
- 00:26:45it's like you need a structure for group
- 00:26:47discussions cuz if you don't it's going
- 00:26:49to quickly be a waste of time get out of
- 00:26:51hand you can learn so much like
- 00:26:53especially if the the people you you
- 00:26:54surround yourself with the five people
- 00:26:57that you want to be most like it's also
- 00:26:58yeah you're talking like a mastermind
- 00:27:00then at that point that's like a
- 00:27:01mastermind yeah like why did I get into
- 00:27:02med school because I surrounded myself
- 00:27:04with preds who wanted to get into med
- 00:27:05school right um that's just plain and
- 00:27:07simple yeah if you're doing it in a way
- 00:27:10where you're just hanging out with your
- 00:27:11buddies who procrastinate all the time
- 00:27:12they play video games on their phones no
- 00:27:14one's prepared or no one's like read the
- 00:27:16lectures you get together and try to
- 00:27:17study you will be better off on your own
- 00:27:20versus participating in the group
- 00:27:22because most people probably don't use
- 00:27:23it cuz you don't need it sure but yeah
- 00:27:26it's pretty good so you can get by
- 00:27:28studying solo yeah it's and sometimes
- 00:27:30it's hard to find people who are like
- 00:27:31actually self-improver and yeah but like
- 00:27:34Beyond school and after graduation group
- 00:27:37learning and group working is definitely
- 00:27:39s tier that quote like if you want to go
- 00:27:41fast go alone if you want to go far go
- 00:27:43together next one on the list is visual
- 00:27:45associations visual associations is
- 00:27:48basically breaking a concept down and
- 00:27:50then turning into a visual one easy way
- 00:27:52to use visualization say you're mind
- 00:27:55mapping right and in this mind map you
- 00:27:57have like a bunch of different ideas
- 00:28:00coming off of this one thing mhm is
- 00:28:02there a way that you can ask yourself
- 00:28:05how do these all relate to each other
- 00:28:07and can you turn all of this into like
- 00:28:09one single picture like and tell a story
- 00:28:12with it like maybe there's like a I'm
- 00:28:13just drawing a storm cloud with a
- 00:28:15thunderbolt I don't know why just but
- 00:28:17like maybe all of this reminds you of
- 00:28:19like you know a storm so then you would
- 00:28:22just instead of drawing all these out
- 00:28:24you can just draw the storm here and
- 00:28:26instantly by looking at this one image
- 00:28:28you will know all of these together so I
- 00:28:30guess the the point of visualization is
- 00:28:32you're can you're you're breaking things
- 00:28:34down into their simplest parts and then
- 00:28:36you're making it so that you can recall
- 00:28:38it as fast as possible it would take you
- 00:28:41like minutes to read this whole page of
- 00:28:43notes but if you turn like chunks of
- 00:28:45these pages into like a visual you know
- 00:28:48MH then instantly by looking at like one
- 00:28:51of these things you know like oh this
- 00:28:54this picture means all of this stuff
- 00:28:56yeah and just looking at it like what is
- 00:28:58it a picture is worth a thousand words M
- 00:29:00um just looking at it you'll be able to
- 00:29:02review your notes much faster but I
- 00:29:05would give visual associations and a I
- 00:29:07would say I think it's pretty powerful
- 00:29:09all right next up on the list is chat
- 00:29:12gping which is funny because it used to
- 00:29:15be Googling oh yeah but now it's chat
- 00:29:16gping chat gping I mean pretty soon it's
- 00:29:19probably going to be whatever else the
- 00:29:21next AI the next AI like Bing or yeah
- 00:29:25binging or whatever other ones are um I
- 00:29:28recently saw this uh interview with um
- 00:29:31the CEO of Nvidia he was saying like the
- 00:29:33most important skill to learn in the
- 00:29:36future is prompting like knowing how to
- 00:29:39talk to AI I was very shocked because
- 00:29:41not too long ago everyone was saying
- 00:29:43that the most important skill to learn
- 00:29:45was coding now ai can do a lot of the
- 00:29:46coding for you and what's more important
- 00:29:48is knowing how to talk to the AI to get
- 00:29:50what you want when you're trying to
- 00:29:51learn knowing how to prompt means that
- 00:29:53you have to understand what to ask it
- 00:29:55yeah so it forces you to think about the
- 00:29:57information in a way like like how do I
- 00:29:59extract exactly what I want from the AI
- 00:30:01it requires you to critically think so I
- 00:30:03think that prompting I guess we should
- 00:30:05probably call it prompting I don't know
- 00:30:07if it would be an S tier but like just
- 00:30:09the idea of prompt yeah probably like a
- 00:30:12probably b or an A yeah I'm going to
- 00:30:14give it a I'm going to give it a b tier
- 00:30:16just because it's so easy for us to over
- 00:30:19rely and or offload learning to AI or
- 00:30:24algorithms instead of trying to
- 00:30:26understand ourself you come up with the
- 00:30:28really good prompt and AI just does all
- 00:30:29of the work for you and then you don't
- 00:30:31have to try it all to piece it together
- 00:30:32or learn then it could be a bit harmful
- 00:30:35also to use it as a crutch and so with
- 00:30:37that caveat in mind I'm just going to
- 00:30:38give it a b finally on the list we have
- 00:30:40cramming cramming well I mean if
- 00:30:42cramming is the opposite of space
- 00:30:44repetition then does it automatically
- 00:30:46make it a D since spacing is like an a
- 00:30:49well yeah I mean I like annais like
- 00:30:52cramming uhhuh I like cramming in the
- 00:30:54fact that if you are cramming
- 00:30:56efficiently which is like I only have
- 00:30:59this much time what are the most
- 00:31:01valuable things I need to extract from
- 00:31:02it I think that's a really good way to
- 00:31:04approach learning because you are
- 00:31:05focused on like the high yield what is
- 00:31:07the most high yield stuff that it needs
- 00:31:08to know mhm but if cramming you mean by
- 00:31:12you only study for like 2 hours for your
- 00:31:13exam ever then I don't think it's that
- 00:31:15good the way you don't want to cram is
- 00:31:17to lose sleep sleep is an S tier
- 00:31:19technique and a lot of people sacrifice
- 00:31:21sleep with cramming or by cramming I
- 00:31:24think cramming was pretty valuable for
- 00:31:25me like when I was in college and I was
- 00:31:27taking like a lot of classes that I
- 00:31:29didn't care for or that were really
- 00:31:31boring or I I knew I wasn't going to be
- 00:31:33using like prisoner studies or something
- 00:31:36like that or like yeah anthropology or
- 00:31:38something um I would just cram for the
- 00:31:40quiz do well and then you know move on
- 00:31:42with my life cuz it was like a required
- 00:31:43class so it's it's useful in some cases
- 00:31:46yeah but it could be detrimental if you
- 00:31:48sacrifice other things I don't think
- 00:31:50it's a good habit to get into if
- 00:31:52anything you want to build systems that
- 00:31:53are sustainable and that are over
- 00:31:56inherently not stressful M cramming is a
- 00:31:59system that is incred stressful whenever
- 00:32:01you do it like whenever someone says I
- 00:32:03have to cram for this exam it's never
- 00:32:04coming from a place of positivity mhm
- 00:32:06and it's never coming from a place of
- 00:32:08excitement it's always dread remorse and
- 00:32:10or regret um I I mean c for cramming I
- 00:32:13guess I'll give it a c yeah it's in the
- 00:32:14name we we'll just give it it's the
- 00:32:16average technique that average people
- 00:32:17use so looking at this list we got 1 2
- 00:32:19three four five s's it's actually more
- 00:32:22than I thought we're going to have
- 00:32:23actually do we need to bump any of these
- 00:32:24down I mean it's just got to you just
- 00:32:26got to have your honest opin right yeah
- 00:32:29no our this is what we're saying here is
- 00:32:30absolute truth this is how we would rank
- 00:32:32study skills and all those things you
- 00:32:34just describe there thinking about the
- 00:32:36system thinking about how do we reach
- 00:32:38desire difficulty how do we challenge
- 00:32:40ourselves how do we avoid you know
- 00:32:42passive learning these are all things
- 00:32:44that we go into very deep with our
- 00:32:46program study Quest I think in general
- 00:32:48there's a lot of techniques and there is
- 00:32:51a optimal way to use it and there's like
- 00:32:53a not so optimal way to use it yeah and
- 00:32:55one of the things that we really
- 00:32:56emphasize in study Quest is we make sure
- 00:32:58that you use the techniques correctly so
- 00:33:00that you're getting the most out of your
- 00:33:01learning yeah it's our program if you're
- 00:33:03interested then we'll have links in the
- 00:33:04description below go ahead and check it
- 00:33:06out let us know if we got anything wrong
- 00:33:07if you completely disagree if you love
- 00:33:09it if there are some things you want to
- 00:33:11try or if there are anything things that
- 00:33:12we missed that should be in this list
- study techniques
- Feynman technique
- Pomodoro
- flashcards
- interleaving
- practice tests
- study planning
- priming
- sleep
- mind mapping