Join my Learning Drops weekly newsletter here: bit.ly/3yIk18g Every week, I distil what really works for improving results, memory, depth of understanding, and knowledge application from over a decade of coaching into bite-sized emails.
I don't get your conclusion. If starting at a higher level is better, shouldn't people start at level 6 which will mean they can more easily answer the level 5 questions they are tested on? Even though no one will test you on level 6, it would seem even for answering level 5 questions it would be better.
My professor used to say : " if you want to use it , you sould be able to answer how it works , if you want to modify it and improve it , you should be able to answer why it works "
@@mehdidamfs3112 so according to your professor one should know how a light switch works, a vehicle, an iPad or cell phone etc etc BEFORE one uses it ?
@@nadagabri5783 How is basic level of understanding. Lightswitch has on and off for lights. Why is in-depth understanding of how electricity makes the lightswitch work. Everyone has some form of basic knowledge of how things work. We have jobs\hobbies for things that require an in-depth understand of why they work.
@@nadagabri5783 Bruh that's not what the professor meant. He is taking about understanding concepts not entire systems even though that is also applicable
I was lucky enough to have a great geometry teacher when I was in high school. This was back in 1995, and the internet was still a very new thing for the public. So we were still learning the old-fashioned way. But until I had this teacher, I was a very average student. But what he did for me was puzzling in the beginning. Because no other teacher I'd had until this point had ever used such a method. On our first day of class, he did not issue any textbooks. Instead, he issued everyone a sheet of paper with almost 200 terms on it. Our first 4 weeks in his class were to define these terms. But in order to actually pass this assignment, simply defining the terms would not suffice. Yes, we had to regurgitate the definitions. But we also had to go to the front of the classroom and demonstrate our comprehension and also teach it to him. At the end of the 4 weeks, he then issued everyone their textbooks. And as he was doing so, he said to us all, "Now you can all speak the language of mathematics and geometry. Which means that you and I are no longer in need of translation. So we've bridged the gap between teacher and student." He then went on to make a joke that made everyone laugh. Because it was in the language of logic, and we all comprehended it. He said, "If you and I can speak the same language, then we can successfully converse and effectively exchange information." Since his class, I have taken a different approach to how I study. Throughout the years, this method has been useful to me, even to this day. I now would consider myself an autodidact, and learning new things excites me. This teacher and I formed a very strong relationship, almost as a father and a son. He attended my college graduation, and we remained as family all the way until he passed away in 2017. But the main reason I am sharing this story with you is because of a philosophy that he always instilled in me. Which was this, "Don't ever neglect or pass on an opportunity to teach someone something. Especially if they specifically came to you for the knowledge." And what you are doing here is helping others. So I salute you for giving something to humanity instead of taking from it.
@@cloaksandghosts I loved him like a father. He was a great man and influenced many lives, not only my own. I miss him everyday. But his influence in my life continues to this day. I appreciate you saying that. You would have loved him too. He was a diamond.
Summarizing the process for when I need to refer in the future Level 6: Create --> Hypothesize -find a knowledge gap - an area where you think appropriate info doesn't already exist - and ask questions aimed at filling this gap Level 5: Evaluate --> Prioritize -judgement, justify and form conclusions Level 4: Analyze --> Compare and Contrast -venn diagrams, tables, summaries, mind maps -solving advanced problems - involves solving using the application of several concepts Level 3: Apply --> Simple problem-solving -solving questions aimed at direct application of concepts Level 2: Understand --> Explain -reading with understanding Level 1: Remember --> Regurgitate -re-reading Hands down the best video on learning and thinking i've ever seen. I'm so mad I didn't come across this my entire highschool and bachelors t_t Thank you so much for this!
Same here! edit: Sometimes i didn't realize I've been applied random level of thinking. I'm so lucky to be able to find this latest super dupper useful video, because I'm learning for the sake of engineering stuffs after work... x-x Also appreciated for your summary as well
This is basically reverse engineering derived from Christian principles taught by Jesus Christ. Think and Grow rich, 7 habits of Highly Effective people, Stoicism, Religions, sub-Conscious and conscious thinking, the 12 universal laws, math, critical thinking, art, philosophy, Principles of success and more all point back to Biblical teachings taught by our God. But ignorance will say it's just coincidental. The fear of God is the beginning to all wisdom. Isn’t it ironic that “create” is at the top of the pyramid, he is who we derive our creative and wisdom from.
The chat gpt prompt regarding the blooms taxonomy and how you can use the software to generate questions for you is phenomenal. I’ve never thought about it that way, and it’s so intuitive.
Exactly the way chatgpt asked questions I was excited to find answers and it really does make education interesting because it makes us curious instead of just a parrot memorizing few lines with no "true" understanding
I have been using chat gpt for academic and lot of other purposes. I got to an conclusion that it's like a sharp knife. If you know how to handle it or how to use it or how to gain maximum output from it then it's a very good tool. You just constantly need to check whether you're using it or it is using you i.e. you being dependent on Gpt.
I feel like the “higher levels” are reserved for those who are genuinely interested in and, ideally, PASSIONATE about what they’re learning. That comes from desire.
Definitely, but sometimes when you get stuck in the first 3 you do not have time for higher levels. Some students focus on the higher levels and not having mastered the lower levels. This means having a general idea of what to expect but not knowing how to formally get it and then go on to evaluation
True, passion helps. but I have found every time I start a new course and know absolutely nothing about it, my brain is not consuming it at all, so I might have to read a page a couple of times before I get what it is about. And when I kinda get it after maybe 20-30 min it is like I can read on and everything kinda sticks right away. that is, I won't remember specific details, but I can get a simple understanding of what it is about, and that is the key to the rest. It is easier to remember details if you have somewhere to put it in the bigger picture, and from there on one can start to prioritize what details are most important. One can always go back if one needs the lesser details, and then more and more will get stuck. school is usually not about becoming an expert, it is just a general oversight, and you will learn by working after school. having the knowledge about where to look is the key. But again, what you become passionate about will stick better as you will automatically keep thinking about it when you are not studying. so it is generally a good indication on what you want to do later on in life. But you should be able to get all subjects at a general level. I also found that 1 page can equal 1 paragraph that you can write. You just write down what you think the page is about in a short summary. don't think about the details. It might be compact so just get what is happening, and take details later. Example: Learning to drive a car can have pages about rules, traffic signs, how to use the brakes, gas, and even motor details. A summary here would bee that this is about driving, and we will need to learn about the signs, motor, and how to use the car features. Now you understand what it is about, and that there are different topics that you need to revisit depending on when it becomes necessary.
Most people make the mistake of seeing the Bloom's taxonomy as a method of studying, it is in a sense, but it is the way you apply it that actually gets you grades. The first thing people need to realize is that the taxonomy levels are not a staging system. If you are at level 6, you use the previous 5 levels at the same time. you don't apply them one at a time. All levels are equal to one another,
@drxyd lemme explain something that you didnt think of. yes i can memorize a pizza recipe. ok no problem. but i can also apply a recipe book. and create the pizza. without understanding how it works. i can understand how to cut the pizza but i cant use/ "apply" the knive to cut it right. i can analyse it before i understand how to cut the pizza. but that doesnt tel me how to apply the knive. i can reconceptualize how the pizza is cut. doesnt mean i know how to cut. i can unify the pizza and evaluate that i've created a psychopath. but that doesnt mean i understand why i am a psycho for unifying multiple pizzas in one thing i can anylise to understand why i am a psycho. but then i wouldnt unify my pizzas meaning i am no psycho. meaning i apply my previous knowlage. by reconceptualizing myself. and understanding my flaws. and ik i cant cut a pizza so imma just ask someone else before i tell you how wrong you were about your statement.
Thanks for sharing. My professor at Andrews University told this during our masters program: “Get used to critique - at Bachelor’s degree we learn information, at Master’s degree we critique it and at PhD level we create information”. That was the moment I changed the settings of my mind’s thinking 😊
@@agapeproduction777 I always Wanted To Find About Why People Try to do or supposed to do Bachelor Masters and PHd in this same manner , you answered that today thank you for ths Golden piece !
@@apex_sky Glad it was helpful! It has been 4 years I finished my Masters and the more I grow professionally, the more I realize the value I received from my master’s program. 😌
Most people make the mistake of seeing the Bloom's taxonomy as a method of studying, it is in a sense, but it is the way you apply it that actually gets you grades. The first thing people need to realize is that the taxonomy levels are not a staging system. If you are at level 6, you use the previous 5 levels at the same time. you don't apply them one at a time.
@@JustinSung I agree with the above. I would love to understand this taxonomy more. I personally desire level 6. Irl artificer of sorts, is a personal goal. I like the content. Good things to digest over. Hhmmm
@@JustinSungBy physical observation alone, it appears that the approach is the same. In reality, what’s going on in the individual’s mind makes all the difference
@Squirreler359 in an ideal setting. I see where managers try level 6 with some knowledge. I do not see good results with this. Such is life, yes. I highly suspect there is a mindset of level 6 just as with level 5. I believe there is an eastern mindset in taking excellence in what you do. That is also true, if you are not making decisions, understanding what is happening at the top to learn about what I may encounter when I am in that position. At minimum it allows me to adjust myself to accommodate any changes with ease. All in preference to move fluidly and smooth in my job and help others accomplish theirs as needs fluctuate. Do I have a place in the business world? Probably not, but I find satisfaction.
There are many things that I'm good at but I can't teach which is my weak point. Teachers don't even ask me anymore because they know I can't explain it in words but I do well on tests. It worked for me for a while but now in university as a second year student I realised that this is an issue I need to solve.
@@_Everything_HER I feel that I’ve learned something if I can explain it to a child by using the fewest words possible and using the simplest analogies.
One of your best videos. Blooms taxonomy changed my work. Evaluating is Analyzing are THE things that made me increase my writing of papers and finish my master thesis.
@@thewicked8040 Well, I'll try my best. 1. Since I'm writing neuroscience papers, I have to basically make a bold claim and justify it with a series of convincing arguments, based on evidences: Claim -> Argument -> Evidences. 2. I create a Mindmap with my Claim at the center say "Loud sounds can Improve attention in the short term. " At this level, I will read papers, or my own findings, and write arguments supporting or not the claim 3. Then I will read each argument and question myself: - So what? How does this argument support my claim? - WHat are other arugments that make my claim stronger - Does stacking Argument 1, 2 , 3, after another have an additive effect? 4. Then I'll draw relationships among Different Arguments, How All arguments support a claim (Zooming in), and how strong the evidences are (Zooming in). The relationship can be supportive (they complete themselves), opposite, adressing caveats,. 5. I go back and forth between Evaluating arguments relationships, digging up more infos, critizicing their strengths, until I reach a point where I have a clear Mindmap, OR I lack critical information. :) How do you guys do it?
Good day to you. Sorry if one mayhaps disturb your time but can I ask on how to basically start at level 5 immediately when approaching a topic? Because didn't we need to understand the topic deeply first which is level three, so as to be able to compare and contrast it at level 4, and eventually prioritize as what's most efficient or important in level 5 itself? Thank you for your time and patience.
I watched a ton of your videos and I can say without a doubt that If I were to ever advice ONLY ONE video about learning, this would be it, you just summarise your 4 years of contents creation into one video. Thanks again for the value and the work.
- Level 1: Remember - Involves memorizing through rote learning and repetition, often leading to tedious and drowsy studying. - Level 2: Regurgitate - Focuses on listing, defining, and stating facts, becoming less useful in higher education and professional life. *Level 2: Comprehend deeply for better understanding* - Reading to understand, not just to memorize - Leads to ability to explain and answer concept-based questions *Master different levels of problem-solving* - Level 3 focuses on simple problem solving where direct application of learned concepts is needed - Level 4 involves comparing, contrasting, and analyzing information in relation to other pieces of information *Comparing and contrasting is crucial for effective studying* - Mind maps are helpful in comparing concepts - Using Bloom's Taxonomy level four questions helps in developing deeper understanding *Level five thinking emphasizes judgment and prioritization.* - Level five involves evaluating, forming conclusions, and justifying decisions. - To operate at level five, students need to actively engage with material, ask deeper questions, and make connections. *Levels 4 and 5 thinking are crucial for senior positions in any profession* - Level 5 thinking involves deep critical evaluation and mental grouping of ideas - Level 6 thinking, creating a hypothesis, is less important for most people *Two methods to reach level five and six* - Method 1: Mastering each level from bottom to top - memorize, understand, apply, analyze, etc. but time-consuming and challenging for most people. - Method 2: Avoid knowledge decay by not starting at the bottom - continuously relearning things that are forgotten when jumping between levels. *Focus on evaluating and prioritizing information for better memory retention* - Level five takes more mental effort but pays off by helping in forgetting less. - Instead of trying to remember or understand, focus on evaluating and analyzing the information.
I've never heard of Bloom's Taxonomy, but funnily enough, my reading teacher taught us critical thinking in a similar way using who, what, when, where, why, and how. It relates pretty well. What do you think? Remembering Who: Identify key figures. What: Recall specific facts. When: Remember dates and timelines. Where: Recognize locations. Understanding What: Explain ideas or concepts. Why: Clarify reasons or causes. How: Describe processes or mechanisms. Applying How: Use information in new situations. Analyzing Why: Investigate motives or causes. How: Break down information into components and understand their relationships. Evaluating Why: Justify decisions or conclusions. What: Critique or compare different ideas or solutions. Creating How: Formulate new ideas or projects. What: Construct new patterns or structures. Also complete side note. What is your opinion on how an internal monologue affects higher thinking? (I've read some people don't have them?)
Nice! Most things that are truly effective tend to be similar to each other. Internal monologue is an interesting thought. I haven't looked at any research on this or worked with anyone who has told me they don't have an internal monologue so I don't really have any credible opinion on that sorry. I would think that without an internal monologue there is still some other way for tracking and chaining thoughts though...
Your last side comment made me think of people who cannot visualize in their mind. Like if you ask them to "picture" an apple they cannot at ALL, whereas average people can "picture" one in their mind to some level of detail. Also this ability comes in a spectrum of skill, going from completely unable like previously said, to overwhelming detail, color, beauty, and visceral enchantment of your attention. Some can imagine entire scenes, colors, objects in whatever placement, and movement of that scene. This can lead to basically an over day-dreaming syndrome if it doesn't have an outlet or be controlled and can be quite debilitating, as their mind's eye is so powerful and detailed it turns into an escape from the world. This ability can be improved for those not born at 10/10 mind eye visualization, and for an amazing example, just go read Tesla's book "My Inventions and Other Writings", in it he describes in quite good detail how he "builds" and practices his ability to visualize items and parts and circuits and eventually machines inside his mind's eye. This essentially turns his mind into a self-controlled visual simulation/creation/artistic machine. I don't think I need to explain just how powerful having such high levels of control on a mental ability to conjure up machines or anything within your mind in astonishing detail, and run it in your head too. I mean that's the work of god-like brain power.One could pursue it for artistic reasons, or in Tesla's case give birth to him being able to literally simulate or "run" a machine he'd created only in his head, in his head. Of course one must already have a deep understanding of the behaviour of electricity, some scientific fields, and electromagnetic waves or whatever field of science to apply your mind's eye to it accurately within a scientific application. But yeah I think it's a highly under trained portion of the mind's abilities. The people who cannot visualize (or are essentially blind in this ability) say they instead remember a list of characteristics of that object instead of an actual visualization. So like a checklist of descriptions it seems like. Many of them thought when a teacher said "Okay close your eyes, now picture a picnic table, or an apple on a picnic table in your head" that the teachers were kidding, or that it was just an expression for teaching purposes. They never thought others really were picturing images in their mind. That is until the internet came about and I remember vividly on Reddit the huge debate raging on about "visualizing things in your mind". Those who were blind to it were absolutely flabbergasted, and would ask questions like "Do you see the image in the blackness behind your eyelids?" And we'd respond "no, you don't like, "physically see it", but you CAN see it in your mind, it's like, UP there, where your thoughts are, they're just transformed into a visual (or vision). It's like in the same place you'd "see" a dream. You don't see it behind your eyelids, you simply experience it. BUT picturing something in your mind is not really a world you inhabit like a dream with it's strange dream logic, it's an image you can construct just like a photograph or a video, with varying levels or detail, length of action, and precision/shharpness. It's your own personal simulation deck that gets better with practice/natural ability. Anyway I think these are beautiful discussions and I really love this guys video on the levels of thinking/learning/understanding deeply. I'd always known that understanding was better than memorizing, and that creating was a better way to both understand and possibly expand your knowledge, but to have it all laid out in levels like this is great. But reading the questions of 4 and 5, the compare and contrast level and the judgement/justification levels really show the difficulty, I could feel my brain getting right to work even though I didn't understand the science being asked about. So cool!
@@JustinSung I've read that 30% to 50% people have no internal monologue ! That is only one trait amongst hundreds traits differences, so people are different way beyond your expectations.
Never seen an educational channel express ideas like this before. I can relate because I am a research student and i went through this different levels of thinking independently starting from my time at high school. This is truly a unique and useful channel. Keep posting ❤️
@monsieurene3366 Hello, I'm not the person who posted that comment, but this is how I do it. Level 4 (even 5) thinking is useful, esp when you're still compiling your literature review or your methodology - Which tools and framework, would be better suited to conclude your research thesis. Level 5 thinking is very useful when you've analysed the primary source, made your arguments and substantiating why your arguments are valid. Level 6 is somewhat uncommonas not all research leads to innovative solutions but you are working on developing a technique or tool or even an algorithm for accurately judging how space is perceived by the visually impaired, that's when level 6 comes to play. It requires an ammalgamation of critical thinking, analysis and imagination. Alternatively, one could argue that finding a novel area of research could also be a level 6 type of thinking, if I'm not wrong. Hope that helps.
Holy shit...dude this is the first time i am in this channel i take longer than my peers to get a topic... and if it's not completely reasoned and evaluated in my head... i won't be able to answer anything. I have been stuck on a topic in QM for a couple days... and i started doubting my entire.career choice because it is taking so long I just realized i think at level 5 and 6 and i am not stupid... i just need more time than others. Thank you so much man. This motivated me and stopped me feeling like shit.
This video reminded me of a quote by mathematician Stefan Banach where he says: "A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies."
@@Dave_of_Mordornah bruh you can do this. Math is alien. So is typing. Yet you did it. Every single kid I’ve seen who’s bad at math (I tutor math for money as a side job) didn’t understand something as a child (I.e. division, exponents with negative numbers, order of operations) which is essential for learning the next (calculus). Return to addition. Solve a few problems and move on if you think you understand it well. Then multiplication. First with integers. Then fractions. Then subtraction and division, in similar fashion. Then tangents using division. Read some proofs of Pythagoras’ theorem. Then sin cos tan in right triangles. After a few weeks (hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if you did it in 6 days) you’ll be breezing through something that seemed impossible before. Math is alien, so the only way to advance is through previous, more fundamental math. Fundamentals. You got it bruh.
Aren't children by birth at level 5 and level 6 ? They r questioning everything and hypothesising like the oldest philosophers......So it is true we were born intelligent but formal education ruined us 😂
for reference, everything covered in this video is from a book called "A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing", written by Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl. It's a great book
Thanks to going into level 6 thinking (after being in his course for a year) i am understanding deeply things faster and faster, and my grades at a top 10 worldwide business school are among the best in my class, so i would encourage anyone to try that level. That's the thinking level of someone who is having a lot of ideas/hypothesis. Also you get the real satisfaction of gaining true knowledge, which in my experience is far superior than excellent grade. Thank you so much Justin really.
Great comment, but I just would encourage you to use those higher order learning skills to evaluate Elon Musks words and actions (not what you think he’s said and done, go and look at what he’s ACTUALLY said and done) before valorizing his intellect.
There's a book called Hidden Time Wealth, and it talks about how using some secret techniques, you can overcome procrastination and accomplish anything in life. It's not just a bunch of empty promises; it's the real deal.
This book is written by a scam artist. Dr E Chase. Don't be sucked in to buying any of her rubbish, you will just make her wealthier, and you poorer. Scam.
It is just fabulous for me that I have gone through all of these levels for some questions in my senior secondary school (12th in Indian standards) but I didn't know how to do it
yes, in jee as well as in neet exam teachers tell us to do these things like -- giving test(level-3) then analyze after result (level-4) then look what need to be done about your wrongdoings etc.(level-5) and toppers also tells like they used to make questions by themselves(level-6)
@@jayvardhansinghyadav908 it's like in our education system I guess it is so much worse that to get good marks students themselves increase their potential by doing these things Which might increase the levels of thinking Like when you can't get a proper answer and you aren't able to satisfy yourself with incomplete knowledge you start creating theories yourself and when you research and they proofs as perfect that's the point you realise you are on other level then other students who are just reading the book instead of understanding and connecting the dots
At French high school there was every Friday a 4 hour test (3pm to 7pm), one week it was Math, he other Physics, but always 5 questions, two exercises and 3 problems, the 3rd problem was always like nothing you've seen before, but that you had enough different things' knowledge that in combination would be the key to solve it.
This was actually really encouraging. I didn’t take to academia at all, and spent too many years in McJobs as a result. When I finally got an opportunity to break into more cerebral work, I had so much catch up on. I was surrounded by top tier graduates who had so much of this drilled into them. But I learned this, the pressure and expectations from leaders made it a necessity. Some would outright ask ‘so what?’, they want recommendations, they need to know you’ve considered and compared results and have solid reasoning behind your proposals. This would have been superhandy ten years ago, but its v interesting now!
This was really enlightening. I realize now that I’ve never really gotten to level 5… upon introspection, I find that the barrier that keeps me from learning at higher levels is laziness.
If your body is not trained, you may find that it is also laziness that keeps you from lifting 100kg 😄 With practice even high level exercise becomes natural, and not a chore - both in body and in mind In terms of thinking, what worked for me was finding a branch of philosophy that really caught me (metaphysics), and going hard at it for several years, high levels of thinking came before I realised it! (It did take a lot of VERY slow reading, and numerous existential crises tho)
Paraphrasing what he said, to achieve level 5 you should look at the material with the eyes of curiosity. Where is this going, in what context was this created, is this still used today, what alternatives are there, why is this important
@@noahhuguenin Wow! Thank you. Your comment gave me a bright idea. I tend to be overly focused on the overall process rather than taking the very next step.
Because many professional programmers, recommends to beginners building their own projects, for exploring programming or a topic. Thank you very much, this video too helpful :) !
Maybe I’m wrong but most children think at level six before going to school and being told to regress to the boring first levels. All children are curious and by default learn to solve problems in their own way albeit small problems. Granted that we should always teach from level six even if newbies don’t know anything about the subject. It’s way more stimulating to start creating from the very beginning rather than acquiring new info without knowing what the point of the info is for. That’s why I think school destroys children’s way of thinking instead of teaching them how to think.
Congratulations, you figured out that school was made to make factory workers, who can do a repetitive task without thinking for themselves about why they are doing it.
@@menkaragamble8175 ironically, you need level 6 people to create said better system, which could indicate the system need someone who didn't get molded through the process or someone outside the system to rework the system itself, except that the system is being kept intact as is due to people who need it to be the same as it has always been. With the current system mostly finding its roots in the USA, which isn't united yet ironically on such a big scale that one could argue it still is, other countries have pretty much taken "inspiration" from it and made it the standard for the current system in place, pretty much worldwide. Given how slow and traditional societies are in general, if any change is bound to take place, it will either need a very proactive ruling system in the country you live in, or a big majority of schools in USA need to change, I can't see the 2nd thing happen anytime soon due to money incentives, so your best bet would be to get a government, ruling system which is proactive enough to flip the whole country's current school system on its head, which a traditional ruling body would likely not do due to what they consider traditions.
@@menkaragamble8175 you're assuming things I didn't state. Finland for example didn't revise their school system until their economy had a significant explosion in terms of wealth, which pressured the government to make their change to the school system, because more of the people entered the middle class and demanded better quality rather than quantity, which is a change that ultimately came to be due to money.
@@soldat88hun it's 90% at level 1 for level 1-2 knownledge like addition multiplication and stuff like that. You need them to know them to understand more complex stuff. When you reach higher education you are required level 3-4 and practice it daily which make attaining level 5-6 relatively easily during a career, thus becoming an expert.
Thank you for these insights. I am teaching my children and it has sparked an interest in my 12 year old son. Your doing a great service and am grateful. Thanks
This really hits me in a plethora of ways. In elementary school I would sit, stare out of the window (I read that in my year book as I didn't remember all of this) most of the time not even responding to someone directing a question at me and barely making any notes. My teachers would identify this as a problem. I had an attention problem they would say. I'm only ever good at things I'm interested in and I have the capacity to get basically any grade at any time even if it's the same topic. Other people around me like my mom or my granddad would say I'm slow. I wouldn't respond as quickly as they deemed appropriate I took my time with the things I did. I also would seem super nervous all the time and have ticks like twitching my nose and pinching my eyes. I mean I also wore glasses and they put some real pressure onto my nose you could even see indentations after a couple of hours wearing them, so that probably didn't help either. But it feels like it came from coping with the mental stress of being in analytical mode all the time. And I can't remember when or how it happened but at some point I just came to believe that they must be right and there is something wrong with me and I'm simply to slow for basically anything. Later I came to a realization. I looked at some old tests of mine and something struck me. Almost all the answers I've ever given were correct. In some examinations I simply had answered way fewer of the questions as opposed to others. I always felt like surprised that time is over. Time never really meant anything to me. Still doesn't to this very day. Later in high school it was basically the same. I would make almost no notes at all. Maybe like 10% of what the others were writing when they were copying entire blackboards full of information into their work books. I never did that. I just listened and thought. I just recently realized that, my brain is simply in analyze mode most of the time. The less meaningful the question to me the quicker I am. Teachers in elementary would say I won't make it at high school (we have two different systems of high school in Germany) and gave their advice for the easier path. I chose the hard one. Now why would I do that if I really felt basically anything was too hard for me. It was really hard, because it still all depended on time. And for me answering a question could take anywhere from 1minute to 10minutes. Depending on how far my analytical mode took me away from simply answering the question in the most straight forward way possible. You know now that I think about it I was more likely operating at level 5, because trying to find the best answer to a question without evaluating the different possible answers doesn't make any sense. And it really always was for me about finding not just an answer but the most appropriate one. Hell I even knew how to cheat the system. There was this one year when my mom would promise me my first own PC when I got good grades. That was 98' a household with a PC was rare back then. And low and behold with a few exceptions I got only As and was suddenly best of class. All it took was giving the textbook answers. how dull. I still remember how the best students and teachers alike were completely mind-boggled. I wasn't. I knew how I'd done it. I simply focused on what I wanted only memorized the necessary information and puked it onto the paper. That's how you get best grades in our broken school system. Sadly college wasn't any different. If anything it was even worse. Yes. I made college. The slow poke who wasn't fit to make advanced high school. I haven't even used flash cards except for this one time where I learned the hardcore way for an exam I literally hadn't done anything for the entire semester. I started about 4 hours before the exam puked everything on paper and went to bed. Passed. School doesn't require you to be smart, it only requires you to be diligent. That's why I hated it; it was awfully boring. I wish I would think less though. At least for the majority of time. Would make things a lot easier.
Hey, 1. Please break the huge block of text into paragraphs. 2. I feel like you are a subvocal thinker. I think this, because it read very linearly, and I am practicing it now to encorporate more into my own style of thinking which is predominantly visual rendering/experience based. Because of this I associate between thoughs and go deep into paralle thoughs and then waste time. 3. I used to be like you, I still think I am, and is actively trying to stop doing this. 4. I also wish I would think less, hence I started doing busy work, like either playing games, or just making some gadgets, or repairing electronics etc, this puts me in a trance like state, but it is boring and is eating away at me. So i plan on stopping it. 5. My issues was that I was too much of a visual thinker and would just start simulating and rendering things in my head, I do not feel time passing, and I waste hours in this zoned out state, while I am technically not thinking, my brain is in overdrive because I am rendering novel experiences and visuals, and sounds and sensations. 6. What I have learned, and I think you should know: Progress over perfection, and result over trying or effort. If you dont have an end result its all a waste. So make sure you have an end result at appropriate times. Then you can iterate on it to make it better, but always have end result for the goal. So set maybe 10 mins to a task, and make sure u have an end result. It doesnt have to be good, but if you have a result, you can always iterate on it, and submit that result. It is always about result is what I understand.
I completely agree with you in the way the scholl system evaluates people, and it really is boring, I have had a similar experience as yours (as I think of it) and I am bored all the time in school
Being analytical and overthinking are two different things. You achieve analytical thinking when you are able to focus your thinking on something and you have to be mindful
I can totally relate. I had no problem with grades either when it suited me. But usually I'd be done with the text book by the second week. End of chapter questions all answered. Never turned it in only took the tests and rarely got less than an A on tests but the teachers with exception of a few would give me c's and d's for never doing classwork and homework. I didn't care because obviously their system was broke beyond fixing. 3 teachers gave me A's as long as I aced all the tests.
Gosh . What’s it like being a bona fide ( although I’m sure completely unrecognized ) genius . The rest of us can barely keep up with what it is you’re trying to articulate . There must be some way you could come down from your level 5 thinking, if even for a short time , to help the mental midgets around you understand.
When I was on a consulting job in China, we had a lovely young interpreter. After a week of becoming familiar with each other, I asked her what her degree was. She answered that she had a master's degree in chemical engineering, specializing in reaction kinetics, one of the hardest areas in chemical engineering. I then asked her if she had always wanted to work in that field and she said that she had wanted to be a teacher. I then asked her why she had not entered that field. She replied that she had not scored high enough on the tests. What a wonderfully different attitude about the teaching profession compared to America.
Wow, that is fascinating! The state of things in other countries really makes you think. Over here in Nigeria, there's little to no respect for teachers at all. It is an unspoken fact that no one willingly enters the profession, they 'end up there' . Except for the public(notably 'unity schools' as we call em')and some private schools with acceptable standards, so many teachers are under qualified and paid poorly so it's surprising that someone of such caliber will fail a test that will be seen as a mere formality over here🤌
My experience of China is very different: university professors were the worst students at top universities, because the best students were going to work in a company to make more money. Also, what your story should tell you, is how riddiculous it is, that such a person that can reinvent herself in so many ways and wanted to be a teacher, was cut off from teaching because of a crazy test, that says absolutely nothing about your teaching ability and commitment. The Chinese education system is a depression factory that actively stops students from thinking at higher levels and teaches them to specialize at level 1-3. If you ask Chinese people, they will tell you that they are 1 billion people, so the gaokao is necessary, but that is not true. In Taiwan there is 20 million people, but the education system is very similar anyway, proving that it is a cultural thing that would never work outside of Asia. If you want to see real good examples of good education systems that could work in western countries, look at Finland and Estonia. They also empower and respect teachers and students, without the gaokao bullshit. They are smaller countries with less entitled population, but moving towards an education system more similar to theirs would still work to some extent.
@@AsdrubaleRossi It's not only in China, believe me. Trying to get a teaching job up in Oregon put me through a ridiculous situation as if 25 years of teaching experience (high schooling's LA to mentoring major corporate clients in different fields in Europe), and having managed 2 careers weren't enough. Figured it was just too much for them. Very discriminating also in Europe.
Wow, I didn’t expect that randomly watching a yt video during lunch would challenge my studying methods of many years. Whenever I needed to put in more mental effort to think at a higher level, my inner voice would tell me that I wasn’t smart enough or that I was too slow, so I never tried unless I had no other choice. And the amount of time I spent just trying to memorize things… wow. This is life-changing. Thank you.
Please go deeper. I’m so perplexed about studying History. When I understand, I forget facts. When I learn facts, I do not remember what it was about. And in history both are important, esp. remembering facts is so difficult.
In history mind is weird. I would recommend to start implementing both facts and understanding at the same time and make the stories alive.When learning about some event, you want to remember how it went to a gossip-y level, so your mind can understand it much more easily (for example if you are learning American presidents (I know that's really easy and straightforward but lets analyse it) you want to look at the whole American society and like tell yourself: Ahh, yes, those people, they were really mad about this on this president and they just wanted the exact opposite and then his wife cheated, because he obviously was that boring of a person, so his all career went to sh*t and then this other guy was elected an also sooner than normal in the year blah blah and society was calmer but then in year this and that there was this decision which made him also really unpopular and people were hungry and mad again. - not talking about anyone in particular, because to be honest, I studied European history mostly and also at home). But it's really good to connect the stream of events into whole stories, to take into account stuff you imagine as person of that society - how long it would take if you married a woman in 1800's to get rid of her (if you married her for political reasons) or how long it takes to make a child (probably 9 months at the time) and so it becomes obvious that this king got mad he had no children after 2 years and got rid of his wife. This all then helps you understand what happened when and where. History is stream of connecting stories that make sense in a whole, they just teach us history idiotically - you learn about all the people writing in this style and those years and people building these things and you just never see where they come from, why is that that they actually work in this way. Sorry, if it started to be a little confusing, I am just saying, you start with a map and a year and you look through lenses of the societies living in that time in those countries you are studying. And there are events happening and there are reactions and there are reactions to these reactions. And it's also a good practice to take into account you moral values and just think about someone he was a je*k when he reacted this way, because in history there is a lot of stuff and you want to maximise the connections you have in your mind, including emotions and judgement about persons doing. Also use empathy and like some people, that helps too. Hope this is not just a lot of unwanted text and helps someone.
@@nikolarataj Thankyou... It really makes sense. I have tried studying history like this in the past but the problem is I then get so immersed that I couldn't complete syllabus on time & my exam gets fucked up. I regret taking interest. Anyways I will try again.
I was just scrolling RUclips and I found this and I am happy about this ,and I am joining the free live class for improvement in study by your website.Thanks a lot .
First time on this channel. I have to say, this has got to be one of the best videos I’ve ever watched in the past 5 years. And yes, I watch a lot of RUclips. Justin, you are amazing. Thank you. A new level of awareness in my brain has just been unlocked.
The way I learned music reminds me of the last part of this video. I took some private lessons late in my high school career and took music theory classes in college, but at the same time was playing improvisational music at a church. I had to figure out how to create musical parts in real time without any written music without really having much time with the rudiments but having some theory knowledge. I’ve always felt that it was a top down approach; and it enabled me to be able to play at a high level in a relatively short period of time. It was essentially like navigating one’s way through a forest by starting with a map of the forest whereas the traditional music student was starting with a diagram of cell of a tree. Starting with that level of detail will likely keep most from ever being a higher level performing musician.
Hello I also want to learn that because I can play music with the script (sorry I don’t know if it’s called like that, I’m french). I took music as an option in High school but I think that it was superficial because I can only play music with a script and if one of those notes (C,D,E,F,G,H,A,B) are written on top of the figure. The script is divided in several “segments” so I learn the left hand first then the right hand then learn to play them together for each segments then the whole music. But that means I only know how to use my hands to play piano but don’t know how to play improvisational music or create musical parts in real time… So how did you make your way through this challenge ? Was it through the private lessons ?
I will be honest.... I have never heard of this concept but I resched it within my respective profession. This video really spoke to me. I am a level 6 thinker, and as you went through each one, I could understand each explanation because I constantly applies these levels of thinking. Especially level 6. In fact, because I grew to each level overtime naturally within my complex profession, I fully could relate to and understand each level of thinking. Great video!
This is the most important video for studying I've ever watched. THANK YOU! This explains why I can "understand" everything for the MCAT but keep forgetting it. I need to start at level 5. Incredible!!! Thank you again sir!
Made me start thinking and taking notes from a whole nother, way more purposeful perspective rather than mindlessly jotting down things that might stick out (sometimes i did this before). Thank you so much
When facing new subjects you need to master ASAP, I think this is the best way: Step 1) Level 5 thinking, part 1. What matters? Who cares and why? Left all gaps as variables to be found later Step 2) Level 4 thinking, part 1: Explore the first relationships between concepts, but let all gaps open Step 3) Search for content Step 4) Go Level 1 to 3. You will start to filter concepts that really matters in Level 4. Step 5) Level 4, part 2: Finish level 4 by closing all identified gaps, including new gaps you learned about during your journey in Step 4. Step 6) Level 5, part 2: Now you are able to finish level 5, answering all questions you made in Level 5 part 1
This video blew my mind! No matter how long or hard I study for, I always felt like something was missing in my study routine - now I know what it was. 😄
😢Im trying to make an efficient study system using 1)perrio 2)blooms taxonomy 3)ladders technique 4) pomodoro 5) spaced Repetition Thanks to justin sung for his precious advices ❤.
I watch this video on regular basis as a reminder and it's worth it in every of my view! Thanks Justin for this innovative sharings. It'd be worth it if you'd dig deeper into this topic!
Thank you dr sung….this is literally what examiners and tutors never ever tell us…and resultantly we end up thinking we are not route learning enough and we need to absorb more and more information…..
Dude, I think you just saved my life. I've got a wicked analogically thinker inside my head and at times I feel like I'm smart but don't use it as an advantage...where, when I take the steps forward for myself I run into situations like this and see I am obviously in need of others
This is for sure the most important educational single video that I've seen in my hole life. I created this account specifically to watch content to learn new things, and I'm glad I've found this jewel. For sure I'm taking his program in a near future.
1 year ago, i thought all of them were different from each other, but when i started applying, i understand, and remember. Story time: i was studying chemistry, the formula (acid + base = salt + water) came up, I only thought of it as just a formula, nothing else. Suddenly i got the idea to actually try it physically (apply), go to my kitchen sink, wash my oiled (base) plates with dish soap (acid), it became a liquid that is salty (salt + water). That was the moment when i was captivated by learning. Thank you, Justin Sung! Your simple, yet accurate explanation made it help, the dots connected, i can feel my neural pathway forming, and the sensation of nerves in my brain.
Im really loving this channel. Makes complete sense, I try and teach level 4/5 as a lecturer but not many of my students are ready to think that way, perhaps partly because I am not teaching a very high level course and often over deliver what is required. I really love sitting down with myself and trying to design a new way to explore and come up with a hypothesis on a new idea though, something I wish I had the time to do constantly. Having thought deeply about certain topics, this all makes complete sense and is very helpful to know the mechanisms in action.
I usually go up to level three when studying for any of my tests. Being able to apply what you’ve learned is definitely one of the most important things to be able to do.
This explains why my chemistry homework was effective. It began with simple problems, some of which might not have been discussed in class, and it was up to students to figure it out.
After watching this amazing video I realized that I, as a secondary school level (grade 9) student, am thinking at level 5. I always evaluated many concepts taught to me as he mentioned in the video about evaluating and this is how I got A+ in almost every subject I am studying. Although I found myself being slow in reality, I wasn't. So, this video really helped me to analyze my levels of thinking. Thank you, Justin.
As I am listening to this discussion I keep referring back to the building of the scientific method. All of these steps resemble much of the steps used in the scientific method which then bring us to a conclusion and possibly a hypothesis that can be drawn from what we observe, analyse, and consider. Thank you for sharing this video!
Mathematicians working casually in level 6 by generating theorems ... I see this is true, many mathematicians thinking for a problem in weeks, months and even years.
Thank you for the acknowledgement. I usually keep large white boards on my walls and pages of mathematical ideas, proofs, frameworks, notations on the cabinet doors in my kitchen. This would be a way for me to constantly remain proficient at levels 1 through 5, by looking at the material on my walls showing ideas. I worked on the Riemann Hypothesis for 6 or 7 years because it's the hardest problem I've ever thought about. This video hit home for me.
This usually starts maybe with the Bachelor's thesis, probably later. Proving a genuinely new theorem that is not just a corollary of a more abstract theorem is hard to get to.
This makes so much sense and explains the difference (vast) between my high school math (sometimes involving level 6 questions) and my college math (a real struggle)
I think I reached level 4 when i was 14, I could simulate scenarios and tried thinking of how other's would do it, studying their behaviour and pattern. I can also learn languages in my head, a technique my friend who is a polygot speaking 18+ languages. But this brain of mine made me question myself, my morals and my goals as there wasn't anyone I could speak comfortable with.
@Dex_Destroyer, I am in the same boat as you are. Due to the type of mind I have, there is hardly anyone I kan komfortably talk to without me me having to dumb down every konversation. It is so tiring and exhausting for me.
@Dex_Destroyer, if you are willing to share, I'd love to know more about the technique you make use of in learning new languages. I look forward to your response with anticipation.
@ChindaAmadi Just expose yourself to the language more. Listen to podcast, audiobooks, RUclips videos, movies. Learn 5 to 10 new words a day. And when you are proficient enough you can immerse yourself in different scenarios I your mind. It's like day dreaming for me. And it also helps if you can speak in that language with someone else. And most importantly, don't be afraid to make mistakes, as it's part of the learning process.
@@Dex_Destroyeroh I want to learn this language now that I finished high school because I haven’t been following. When I was in secondary school (the 2th year) I could speak and all that but lost everything the next year and it worsen with covid so thank you, I will apply the advice you gave previously to relearn it !
Not the initial learning stage, however, simply the 'encapsulation' or 'consolidation' stage, where you ensure that you understand what you have 'learnt'.
Thank you Justin, I am preparing for the IB MYP e-assessment examination in 2nd year of high school. Most of the subjects demand skills from Levels 4, 5 and 6. Thank you for bringing this into the light. It is easier to me to study these subjects.
Sir as you said level 4 and level 5 are time consuming but every effective which i agree to. But how do we do this type of learning in Medical school with such a vast syllabus and less time duration?
Thank you Justin, I always come back to this video to for your prompt when approaching a new concept: "Give me questions at [knowledge level] for [subject] at Bloom's revised taxonomy level [1-6]."
Summary There are six levels of thinking that every student should master, leading to different levels of results. Many students struggle to reach higher levels of thinking, causing stress and frustration. Learning to think deliberately at the right level is crucial for academic success. Highlights 📚 Six levels of thinking every student should master 🤔 Most students get stuck in the lower levels of thinking ⏰ Thinking at the wrong level causes stress and wastes time 💪 Deliberate thinking is key to achieving top academic results 🧠 Level five thinking is crucial for reaching top results 📖 Bloom’s revised taxonomy is an underrated principle for learning 🎓 Level six thinking is less important for most people Key Insights 🔄 Moving from lower levels of thinking to higher ones takes time and effort, but it is essential for academic success. Students should aim to think at level five to achieve top results. (💪) 🧠 Bloom’s revised taxonomy provides a framework for understanding different levels of thinking. It is an important tool for educators and learners to enhance learning efficiency. (📖) ⏰ The misinterpreted effort hypothesis often prevents students from improving their thinking abilities. Many students avoid higher levels of thinking because they perceive it as more challenging and time-consuming. (⏰) 📚 Level four thinking, which involves comparing and contrasting information, is crucial for higher-order learning. Developing analytical skills and using techniques like Venn diagrams and mind maps can enhance level four thinking. (🧠) 🎓 Level six thinking, which involves creating hypotheses, is less important for most people. It is primarily relevant for individuals at the highest levels of education or in specialized professions. (🎓)
Finally, someone that understands how the studying process in the brain works. You have stated factual information that I have theorized to people and myself for years. However, my explanations went in one ear and out the other to many people so I stop explaining. But to listen to your presentation, you have answered the questions I have sought answers for, for many years. Thank you and keep up you good work.
irony is that i do think at level upto 4 but can't do level 1 ( cus it sucks)😭😭😂😂. imo level 1 is the hardest , atleast other levels are actually fun to do
I thought that way too, but it actually takes less time to regurgitate information because it's easier to remember once you think at those higher levels. So because I thought it would take me a lot, as it used to, I didnt give it a chance, I dreaded it. Maybe that's your case, or maybe you're not right about your level of thinking.
I knew even b4 I even start the video that I was at level 6 level of thinking... I hv created many new formulas and theories in everything... I also created some of the new methods to study specialized only for me ... ways only I can understand... also after watching the video I feel it to be much higher level of understanding then level 6 ... Ofcourse not for all subjects .. I does this for mathematics, physics ,chemistry, philosophy, astronomy and sometimes in biology too albiet rarely
The way Hidden Time Wealth dives into the concept of productivity is mind-blowing. Hidden Time Wealth tips are pure gold, and I wish more people knew about them.
I loved watching this! It's so inspiring to see creativity in action-reminds me of what Picasso said, 'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
This really reassured the way i went about my architecture thesis now. I started with level 6 and moved down cause i thought it was a short-cut to produce designs faster, reading the literature just took too long. I then spent a whole year feeling like my work was going backwards and now i realise my uni taught it moving from Level 1 to 6. Thanks for this!!
Thank you so much for making this video! I've never head of this before and I find it so fascinating. It made me realize I do level four thinking naturally in my day to day life all the time, and I am extremely exhausted by it and just wish I could stop it, but when I'm studying I find myself doing level 1 like I was taught in school. Which made me hate school, yet now that I continued my studies years later I find myself still doing it! It's crazy, hopefully this video and your channel will help me fix this.
This is a great lecture. I have learn Toyota Production System and they have a process sequence that walks you through these levels on all projects they term as the A3 process or the 8-Step process.
Honestly i used to be bored with the basic questions and used to breeze past them... finding the upper orders of thinking has helped me revitalize my spirit and vigor for learning and most importantly stimulated my thirst for knowledge... Really helpful video
Join my Learning Drops weekly newsletter here: bit.ly/3yIk18g
Every week, I distil what really works for improving results, memory, depth of understanding, and knowledge application from over a decade of coaching into bite-sized emails.
1 million views woohoo 🎉
Awesome
we want a separate video on level 6 and how to achive it cause i think i may be already in level 5
a 'god' thinks at level over 9000
I don't get your conclusion. If starting at a higher level is better, shouldn't people start at level 6 which will mean they can more easily answer the level 5 questions they are tested on? Even though no one will test you on level 6, it would seem even for answering level 5 questions it would be better.
My professor used to say : " if you want to use it , you sould be able to answer how it works , if you want to modify it and improve it , you should be able to answer why it works "
Can you use it after that? explain please
@@Being_current after what?
@@mehdidamfs3112 so according to your professor one should know how a light switch works, a vehicle, an iPad or cell phone etc etc BEFORE one uses it ?
@@nadagabri5783
How is basic level of understanding. Lightswitch has on and off for lights.
Why is in-depth understanding of how electricity makes the lightswitch work.
Everyone has some form of basic knowledge of how things work.
We have jobs\hobbies for things that require an in-depth understand of why they work.
@@nadagabri5783 Bruh that's not what the professor meant. He is taking about understanding concepts not entire systems even though that is also applicable
I was lucky enough to have a great geometry teacher when I was in high school. This was back in 1995, and the internet was still a very new thing for the public. So we were still learning the old-fashioned way. But until I had this teacher, I was a very average student. But what he did for me was puzzling in the beginning. Because no other teacher I'd had until this point had ever used such a method. On our first day of class, he did not issue any textbooks. Instead, he issued everyone a sheet of paper with almost 200 terms on it. Our first 4 weeks in his class were to define these terms. But in order to actually pass this assignment, simply defining the terms would not suffice. Yes, we had to regurgitate the definitions. But we also had to go to the front of the classroom and demonstrate our comprehension and also teach it to him. At the end of the 4 weeks, he then issued everyone their textbooks. And as he was doing so, he said to us all, "Now you can all speak the language of mathematics and geometry. Which means that you and I are no longer in need of translation. So we've bridged the gap between teacher and student." He then went on to make a joke that made everyone laugh. Because it was in the language of logic, and we all comprehended it. He said, "If you and I can speak the same language, then we can successfully converse and effectively exchange information." Since his class, I have taken a different approach to how I study. Throughout the years, this method has been useful to me, even to this day. I now would consider myself an autodidact, and learning new things excites me. This teacher and I formed a very strong relationship, almost as a father and a son. He attended my college graduation, and we remained as family all the way until he passed away in 2017. But the main reason I am sharing this story with you is because of a philosophy that he always instilled in me. Which was this, "Don't ever neglect or pass on an opportunity to teach someone something. Especially if they specifically came to you for the knowledge." And what you are doing here is helping others. So I salute you for giving something to humanity instead of taking from it.
What a beautiful teacher. May his soul rest in peace
@@cloaksandghosts I loved him like a father. He was a great man and influenced many lives, not only my own. I miss him everyday. But his influence in my life continues to this day. I appreciate you saying that. You would have loved him too. He was a diamond.
"Don't ever neglect or pass on an opportunity to teach someone something. Especially if they specifically came to you for the knowledge."
Thank you
Oh my word, what a beautiful story, thank you so much for sharing this with us all. 🙏🏽
I enjoyed that. Please consider putting in some paragraphs next time to make it easier on the eyes. Cheers
Summarizing the process for when I need to refer in the future
Level 6: Create --> Hypothesize
-find a knowledge gap - an area where you think appropriate info doesn't already exist - and ask questions aimed at filling this gap
Level 5: Evaluate --> Prioritize
-judgement, justify and form conclusions
Level 4: Analyze --> Compare and Contrast
-venn diagrams, tables, summaries, mind maps
-solving advanced problems - involves solving using the application of several concepts
Level 3: Apply --> Simple problem-solving
-solving questions aimed at direct application of concepts
Level 2: Understand --> Explain
-reading with understanding
Level 1: Remember --> Regurgitate
-re-reading
Hands down the best video on learning and thinking i've ever seen. I'm so mad I didn't come across this my entire highschool and bachelors t_t Thank you so much for this!
Same here!
edit: Sometimes i didn't realize I've been applied random level of thinking. I'm so lucky to be able to find this latest super dupper useful video, because I'm learning for the sake of engineering stuffs after work... x-x
Also appreciated for your summary as well
Found this helpful too. Merci🙏
@@MothLadyno.27 great summarisation
This is basically reverse engineering derived from Christian principles taught by Jesus Christ. Think and Grow rich, 7 habits of Highly Effective people, Stoicism, Religions, sub-Conscious and conscious thinking, the 12 universal laws, math, critical thinking, art, philosophy, Principles of success and more all point back to Biblical teachings taught by our God. But ignorance will say it's just coincidental. The fear of God is the beginning to all wisdom. Isn’t it ironic that “create” is at the top of the pyramid, he is who we derive our creative and wisdom from.
So level 6 is essentially a university professor or a researcher.
The chat gpt prompt regarding the blooms taxonomy and how you can use the software to generate questions for you is phenomenal. I’ve never thought about it that way, and it’s so intuitive.
you can make your level as chatgpt think level 6 is expert level not research level , so you need to make your own prompt
I totally agree. i feel it sometimes takes luck and/or reading a lot to find appropriate questions that challenge you.
Exactly the way chatgpt asked questions I was excited to find answers and it really does make education interesting because it makes us curious instead of just a parrot memorizing few lines with no "true" understanding
I know right! like its so original and genius. im gonna start using that for my studies
I have been using chat gpt for academic and lot of other purposes. I got to an conclusion that it's like a sharp knife. If you know how to handle it or how to use it or how to gain maximum output from it then it's a very good tool. You just constantly need to check whether you're using it or it is using you i.e. you being dependent on Gpt.
The fact that nobody talks about the forbidden book Mareska Manipulation on Vexoner speaks volumes about how people are stuck in a trance
Nobody? You are. ....How about Steven Hassan's work? Several others, too.
I feel like the “higher levels” are reserved for those who are genuinely interested in and, ideally, PASSIONATE about what they’re learning. That comes from desire.
Definitely, but sometimes when you get stuck in the first 3 you do not have time for higher levels.
Some students focus on the higher levels and not having mastered the lower levels.
This means having a general idea of what to expect but not knowing how to formally get it and then go on to evaluation
True, passion helps. but I have found every time I start a new course and know absolutely nothing about it, my brain is not consuming it at all, so I might have to read a page a couple of times before I get what it is about. And when I kinda get it after maybe 20-30 min it is like I can read on and everything kinda sticks right away. that is, I won't remember specific details, but I can get a simple understanding of what it is about, and that is the key to the rest. It is easier to remember details if you have somewhere to put it in the bigger picture, and from there on one can start to prioritize what details are most important. One can always go back if one needs the lesser details, and then more and more will get stuck. school is usually not about becoming an expert, it is just a general oversight, and you will learn by working after school. having the knowledge about where to look is the key.
But again, what you become passionate about will stick better as you will automatically keep thinking about it when you are not studying. so it is generally a good indication on what you want to do later on in life. But you should be able to get all subjects at a general level.
I also found that 1 page can equal 1 paragraph that you can write. You just write down what you think the page is about in a short summary. don't think about the details. It might be compact so just get what is happening, and take details later.
Example: Learning to drive a car can have pages about rules, traffic signs, how to use the brakes, gas, and even motor details.
A summary here would bee that this is about driving, and we will need to learn about the signs, motor, and how to use the car features. Now you understand what it is about, and that there are different topics that you need to revisit depending on when it becomes necessary.
Not exactly. People will think that far just out of curiosity, no other reason needed.
True, but sometimes it feels like the 'higher levels' are just a fancy way of saying 'those who have way too much free time
At least they dont spend it on youtube comments
it's kinda crazy how nobody's talking about the forbidden ebook called Mareska Manipulation on Vexoner
Memorize < Understand < Apply < Analyze < Generalize < Reconceptualize < Unify < Evaluate < Create
😀
level one
Most people make the mistake of seeing the Bloom's taxonomy as a method of studying, it is in a sense, but it is the way you apply it that actually gets you grades. The first thing people need to realize is that the taxonomy levels are not a staging system. If you are at level 6, you use the previous 5 levels at the same time. you don't apply them one at a time.
All levels are equal to one another,
Indian NPC: Only memorize😅😅😅
@drxyd lemme explain something that you didnt think of. yes i can memorize a pizza recipe. ok no problem. but i can also apply a recipe book. and create the pizza. without understanding how it works. i can understand how to cut the pizza but i cant use/ "apply" the knive to cut it right. i can analyse it before i understand how to cut the pizza. but that doesnt tel me how to apply the knive. i can reconceptualize how the pizza is cut. doesnt mean i know how to cut. i can unify the pizza and evaluate that i've created a psychopath. but that doesnt mean i understand why i am a psycho for unifying multiple pizzas in one thing i can anylise to understand why i am a psycho. but then i wouldnt unify my pizzas meaning i am no psycho. meaning i apply my previous knowlage. by reconceptualizing myself. and understanding my flaws. and ik i cant cut a pizza so imma just ask someone else before i tell you how wrong you were about your statement.
Thanks for sharing.
My professor at Andrews University told this during our masters program:
“Get used to critique - at Bachelor’s degree we learn information, at Master’s degree we critique it and at PhD level we create information”. That was the moment I changed the settings of my mind’s thinking 😊
@@agapeproduction777 I always Wanted To Find About Why People Try to do or supposed to do Bachelor Masters and PHd in this same manner , you answered that today thank you for ths Golden piece !
@@apex_sky Glad it was helpful! It has been 4 years I finished my Masters and the more I grow professionally, the more I realize the value I received from my master’s program. 😌
Most people make the mistake of seeing the Bloom's taxonomy as a method of studying, it is in a sense, but it is the way you apply it that actually gets you grades. The first thing people need to realize is that the taxonomy levels are not a staging system. If you are at level 6, you use the previous 5 levels at the same time. you don't apply them one at a time.
Well said!
@@JustinSung I agree with the above. I would love to understand this taxonomy more. I personally desire level 6. Irl artificer of sorts, is a personal goal. I like the content. Good things to digest over. Hhmmm
@@JustinSungBy physical observation alone, it appears that the approach is the same. In reality, what’s going on in the individual’s mind makes all the difference
@Squirreler359 in an ideal setting. I see where managers try level 6 with some knowledge. I do not see good results with this. Such is life, yes. I highly suspect there is a mindset of level 6 just as with level 5. I believe there is an eastern mindset in taking excellence in what you do. That is also true, if you are not making decisions, understanding what is happening at the top to learn about what I may encounter when I am in that position. At minimum it allows me to adjust myself to accommodate any changes with ease. All in preference to move fluidly and smooth in my job and help others accomplish theirs as needs fluctuate. Do I have a place in the business world? Probably not, but I find satisfaction.
You can make a review for Kendall's and Marzano's taxonomy
Level 6 is when you enter your physics class, read the book and start writing your own formulas.
@@IsaacFoster.. level 7 is when those formulas are right
Level 8 is when you bring snacks for everyone.
Level 9 is when you go into space and discover new formulars.
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
My thing is if I can't teach it, I did not learn it. I love logic and math. End learning in general. Thank you for sharing.
There are many things that I'm good at but I can't teach which is my weak point. Teachers don't even ask me anymore because they know I can't explain it in words but I do well on tests. It worked for me for a while but now in university as a second year student I realised that this is an issue I need to solve.
@@_Everything_HER I feel that I’ve learned something if I can explain it to a child by using the fewest words possible and using the simplest analogies.
One of your best videos. Blooms taxonomy changed my work. Evaluating is Analyzing are THE things that made me increase my writing of papers and finish my master thesis.
Hi, could you share how you applied the concept of Analysing and Evaluating to your writing process (and maybe note taking)?
Kindly share your steps of note taking . Will be helpful for all.
Bitch's taxonomy really changed the game for me too
@@thewicked8040 Well, I'll try my best.
1. Since I'm writing neuroscience papers, I have to basically make a bold claim and justify it with a series of convincing arguments, based on evidences: Claim -> Argument -> Evidences.
2. I create a Mindmap with my Claim at the center say "Loud sounds can Improve attention in the short term. "
At this level, I will read papers, or my own findings, and write arguments supporting or not the claim
3. Then I will read each argument and question myself:
- So what? How does this argument support my claim?
- WHat are other arugments that make my claim stronger
- Does stacking Argument 1, 2 , 3, after another have an additive effect?
4. Then I'll draw relationships among Different Arguments, How All arguments support a claim (Zooming in), and how strong the evidences are (Zooming in). The relationship can be supportive (they complete themselves), opposite, adressing caveats,.
5. I go back and forth between Evaluating arguments relationships, digging up more infos, critizicing their strengths, until I reach a point where I have a clear Mindmap, OR I lack critical information.
:) How do you guys do it?
Good day to you. Sorry if one mayhaps disturb your time but can I ask on how to basically start at level 5 immediately when approaching a topic? Because didn't we need to understand the topic deeply first which is level three, so as to be able to compare and contrast it at level 4, and eventually prioritize as what's most efficient or important in level 5 itself? Thank you for your time and patience.
I watched a ton of your videos and I can say without a doubt that If I were to ever advice ONLY ONE video about learning, this would be it, you just summarise your 4 years of contents creation into one video. Thanks again for the value and the work.
Fucking agree
I appreciate that!
- Level 1: Remember - Involves memorizing through rote learning and repetition, often leading to tedious and drowsy studying.
- Level 2: Regurgitate - Focuses on listing, defining, and stating facts, becoming less useful in higher education and professional life.
*Level 2: Comprehend deeply for better understanding*
- Reading to understand, not just to memorize
- Leads to ability to explain and answer concept-based questions
*Master different levels of problem-solving*
- Level 3 focuses on simple problem solving where direct application of learned concepts is needed
- Level 4 involves comparing, contrasting, and analyzing information in relation to other pieces of information
*Comparing and contrasting is crucial for effective studying*
- Mind maps are helpful in comparing concepts
- Using Bloom's Taxonomy level four questions helps in developing deeper understanding
*Level five thinking emphasizes judgment and prioritization.*
- Level five involves evaluating, forming conclusions, and justifying decisions.
- To operate at level five, students need to actively engage with material, ask deeper questions, and make connections.
*Levels 4 and 5 thinking are crucial for senior positions in any profession*
- Level 5 thinking involves deep critical evaluation and mental grouping of ideas
- Level 6 thinking, creating a hypothesis, is less important for most people
*Two methods to reach level five and six*
- Method 1: Mastering each level from bottom to top - memorize, understand, apply, analyze, etc. but time-consuming and challenging for most people.
- Method 2: Avoid knowledge decay by not starting at the bottom - continuously relearning things that are forgotten when jumping between levels.
*Focus on evaluating and prioritizing information for better memory retention*
- Level five takes more mental effort but pays off by helping in forgetting less.
- Instead of trying to remember or understand, focus on evaluating and analyzing the information.
I've never heard of Bloom's Taxonomy, but funnily enough, my reading teacher taught us critical thinking in a similar way using who, what, when, where, why, and how. It relates pretty well. What do you think?
Remembering
Who: Identify key figures.
What: Recall specific facts.
When: Remember dates and timelines.
Where: Recognize locations.
Understanding
What: Explain ideas or concepts.
Why: Clarify reasons or causes.
How: Describe processes or mechanisms.
Applying
How: Use information in new situations.
Analyzing
Why: Investigate motives or causes.
How: Break down information into components and understand their relationships.
Evaluating
Why: Justify decisions or conclusions.
What: Critique or compare different ideas or solutions.
Creating
How: Formulate new ideas or projects.
What: Construct new patterns or structures.
Also complete side note. What is your opinion on how an internal monologue affects higher thinking? (I've read some people don't have them?)
Thanks bro, your comment is underrated but it helps other so much, again thanks 💗
Nice! Most things that are truly effective tend to be similar to each other. Internal monologue is an interesting thought. I haven't looked at any research on this or worked with anyone who has told me they don't have an internal monologue so I don't really have any credible opinion on that sorry. I would think that without an internal monologue there is still some other way for tracking and chaining thoughts though...
Your last side comment made me think of people who cannot visualize in their mind. Like if you ask them to "picture" an apple they cannot at ALL, whereas average people can "picture" one in their mind to some level of detail. Also this ability comes in a spectrum of skill, going from completely unable like previously said, to overwhelming detail, color, beauty, and visceral enchantment of your attention. Some can imagine entire scenes, colors, objects in whatever placement, and movement of that scene. This can lead to basically an over day-dreaming syndrome if it doesn't have an outlet or be controlled and can be quite debilitating, as their mind's eye is so powerful and detailed it turns into an escape from the world.
This ability can be improved for those not born at 10/10 mind eye visualization, and for an amazing example, just go read Tesla's book "My Inventions and Other Writings", in it he describes in quite good detail how he "builds" and practices his ability to visualize items and parts and circuits and eventually machines inside his mind's eye. This essentially turns his mind into a self-controlled visual simulation/creation/artistic machine. I don't think I need to explain just how powerful having such high levels of control on a mental ability to conjure up machines or anything within your mind in astonishing detail, and run it in your head too. I mean that's the work of god-like brain power.One could pursue it for artistic reasons, or in Tesla's case give birth to him being able to literally simulate or "run" a machine he'd created only in his head, in his head. Of course one must already have a deep understanding of the behaviour of electricity, some scientific fields, and electromagnetic waves or whatever field of science to apply your mind's eye to it accurately within a scientific application. But yeah I think it's a highly under trained portion of the mind's abilities.
The people who cannot visualize (or are essentially blind in this ability) say they instead remember a list of characteristics of that object instead of an actual visualization. So like a checklist of descriptions it seems like. Many of them thought when a teacher said "Okay close your eyes, now picture a picnic table, or an apple on a picnic table in your head" that the teachers were kidding, or that it was just an expression for teaching purposes. They never thought others really were picturing images in their mind.
That is until the internet came about and I remember vividly on Reddit the huge debate raging on about "visualizing things in your mind". Those who were blind to it were absolutely flabbergasted, and would ask questions like "Do you see the image in the blackness behind your eyelids?" And we'd respond "no, you don't like, "physically see it", but you CAN see it in your mind, it's like, UP there, where your thoughts are, they're just transformed into a visual (or vision). It's like in the same place you'd "see" a dream. You don't see it behind your eyelids, you simply experience it. BUT picturing something in your mind is not really a world you inhabit like a dream with it's strange dream logic, it's an image you can construct just like a photograph or a video, with varying levels or detail, length of action, and precision/shharpness. It's your own personal simulation deck that gets better with practice/natural ability.
Anyway I think these are beautiful discussions and I really love this guys video on the levels of thinking/learning/understanding deeply. I'd always known that understanding was better than memorizing, and that creating was a better way to both understand and possibly expand your knowledge, but to have it all laid out in levels like this is great. But reading the questions of 4 and 5, the compare and contrast level and the judgement/justification levels really show the difficulty, I could feel my brain getting right to work even though I didn't understand the science being asked about.
So cool!
all the teachers heard about bloom's taxonomy :D its enough that you go through the teacher's career path :D
@@JustinSung I've read that 30% to 50% people have no internal monologue !
That is only one trait amongst hundreds traits differences, so people are different way beyond your expectations.
Never seen an educational channel express ideas like this before. I can relate because I am a research student and i went through this different levels of thinking independently starting from my time at high school. This is truly a unique and useful channel. Keep posting ❤️
It's really strange that you haven't.
But, you are in the right channel.
Can you walk us through how you're applying that for research? In a step by step way if possible.
@monsieurene3366 Hello, I'm not the person who posted that comment, but this is how I do it. Level 4 (even 5) thinking is useful, esp when you're still compiling your literature review or your methodology - Which tools and framework, would be better suited to conclude your research thesis.
Level 5 thinking is very useful when you've analysed the primary source, made your arguments and substantiating why your arguments are valid.
Level 6 is somewhat uncommonas not all research leads to innovative solutions but you are working on developing a technique or tool or even an algorithm for accurately judging how space is perceived by the visually impaired, that's when level 6 comes to play. It requires an ammalgamation of critical thinking, analysis and imagination. Alternatively, one could argue that finding a novel area of research could also be a level 6 type of thinking, if I'm not wrong. Hope that helps.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for leaving a comment.
Do you mean that you're doing a doctorate ? That's great !
Holy shit...dude this is the first time i am in this channel
i take longer than my peers to get a topic... and if it's not completely reasoned and evaluated in my head... i won't be able to answer anything.
I have been stuck on a topic in QM for a couple days... and i started doubting my entire.career choice because it is taking so long
I just realized i think at level 5 and 6 and i am not stupid... i just need more time than others.
Thank you so much man. This motivated me and stopped me feeling like shit.
you can do it! sometimes it irritates me, the need to completely understand a topic before I can move on but it def pays in the long run!
This video reminded me of a quote by mathematician Stefan Banach where he says: "A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies."
Wonderful quote
awesome quote. In my case, I'd have first to memorize and understand the scope of a theorem, an analogy, and a theory.
U know I wanna be so sooo good at maths,but I'm not I don't know why
@@C_heryblossb lets give up. we're not those chosen few
@@Dave_of_Mordornah bruh you can do this. Math is alien. So is typing. Yet you did it.
Every single kid I’ve seen who’s bad at math (I tutor math for money as a side job) didn’t understand something as a child (I.e. division, exponents with negative numbers, order of operations) which is essential for learning the next (calculus).
Return to addition. Solve a few problems and move on if you think you understand it well. Then multiplication. First with integers. Then fractions. Then subtraction and division, in similar fashion. Then tangents using division. Read some proofs of Pythagoras’ theorem. Then sin cos tan in right triangles.
After a few weeks (hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if you did it in 6 days) you’ll be breezing through something that seemed impossible before.
Math is alien, so the only way to advance is through previous, more fundamental math. Fundamentals. You got it bruh.
Aren't children by birth at level 5 and level 6 ? They r questioning everything and hypothesising like the oldest philosophers......So it is true we were born intelligent but formal education ruined us 😂
@aritramondal2520 yeah they dumb us down on purpose.
this is so a level 4 question
At age 5 you start to slow down in your natural genius
We always encouraged level 4-6 thinking, so my children were improving there instead of slowing down.
Just thinking about school makes me salty😞
for reference, everything covered in this video is from a book called "A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing", written by Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl. It's a great book
Thanks to going into level 6 thinking (after being in his course for a year) i am understanding deeply things faster and faster, and my grades at a top 10 worldwide business school are among the best in my class, so i would encourage anyone to try that level. That's the thinking level of someone who is having a lot of ideas/hypothesis. Also you get the real satisfaction of gaining true knowledge, which in my experience is far superior than excellent grade. Thank you so much Justin really.
Great comment, but I just would encourage you to use those higher order learning skills to evaluate Elon Musks words and actions (not what you think he’s said and done, go and look at what he’s ACTUALLY said and done) before valorizing his intellect.
@@TomorrowStudiosYeah you are right, I agree.
Congratulations 🎉
Thanks for sharing and leaving a comment!
Are business schools worth it tho? What do they teach you? Just asking
Trust me this is the most transparent way anyone has explained bloom's taxonomy. thank you for making this doctor.
There's a book called Hidden Time Wealth, and it talks about how using some secret techniques, you can overcome procrastination and accomplish anything in life. It's not just a bunch of empty promises; it's the real deal.
I can't find the book. what the name? and author?
Are you sure thats the name of it? I couldnt find it anywhere
@@ifeody They robbed you of your time, that's how they accumulate their "Hidden Time Wealth."
@@Lilia·Liuu They robbed you of your time, that's how they accumulate their "Hidden Time Wealth."
This book is written by a scam artist. Dr E Chase. Don't be sucked in to buying any of her rubbish, you will just make her wealthier, and you poorer. Scam.
It is just fabulous for me that I have gone through all of these levels for some questions in my senior secondary school (12th in Indian standards) but I didn't know how to do it
jee student ?
Same here
@@mantra7552 nah cs aspirant ( company secretary)
yes, in jee as well as in neet exam teachers tell us to do these things like -- giving test(level-3) then analyze after result (level-4) then look what need to be done about your wrongdoings etc.(level-5) and toppers also tells like they used to make questions by themselves(level-6)
@@jayvardhansinghyadav908 it's like in our education system I guess it is so much worse that to get good marks students themselves increase their potential by doing these things
Which might increase the levels of thinking
Like when you can't get a proper answer and you aren't able to satisfy yourself with incomplete knowledge you start creating theories yourself and when you research and they proofs as perfect that's the point you realise you are on other level then other students who are just reading the book instead of understanding and connecting the dots
At French high school there was every Friday a 4 hour test (3pm to 7pm), one week it was Math, he other Physics, but always 5 questions, two exercises and 3 problems, the 3rd problem was always like nothing you've seen before, but that you had enough different things' knowledge that in combination would be the key to solve it.
@@erix777 I don't know how anyone enjoys French schools
For those who want to know the levels: 1:CREATE 2:EVALUATE 3:ANALYZE 4:APPLY 5:UNDERSTAND 6:REMEMBER
(Avoid confusion, this comment has it on the descending order, but they're all important)
@@ANameThatStartsWithAJ Yup, inverted order
@@fabioarruda3184 Bro is at level 0
This was actually really encouraging. I didn’t take to academia at all, and spent too many years in McJobs as a result. When I finally got an opportunity to break into more cerebral work, I had so much catch up on. I was surrounded by top tier graduates who had so much of this drilled into them. But I learned this, the pressure and expectations from leaders made it a necessity. Some would outright ask ‘so what?’, they want recommendations, they need to know you’ve considered and compared results and have solid reasoning behind your proposals. This would have been superhandy ten years ago, but its v interesting now!
This was really enlightening. I realize now that I’ve never really gotten to level 5… upon introspection, I find that the barrier that keeps me from learning at higher levels is laziness.
If your body is not trained, you may find that it is also laziness that keeps you from lifting 100kg 😄
With practice even high level exercise becomes natural, and not a chore - both in body and in mind
In terms of thinking, what worked for me was finding a branch of philosophy that really caught me (metaphysics), and going hard at it for several years, high levels of thinking came before I realised it!
(It did take a lot of VERY slow reading, and numerous existential crises tho)
Paraphrasing what he said, to achieve level 5 you should look at the material with the eyes of curiosity. Where is this going, in what context was this created, is this still used today, what alternatives are there, why is this important
Self awareness is an awesome achievement to unlock. From here on out it's up and up I'm sure!
@@noahhuguenin Wow! Thank you. Your comment gave me a bright idea. I tend to be overly focused on the overall process rather than taking the very next step.
@@JustinSung Thank you. I just subscribed. Looking forward to growing and changing as I follow you.
Because many professional programmers, recommends to beginners building their own projects, for exploring programming or a topic. Thank you very much, this video too helpful :) !
Absolutely - you got it :)
Maybe I’m wrong but most children think at level six before going to school and being told to regress to the boring first levels. All children are curious and by default learn to solve problems in their own way albeit small problems. Granted that we should always teach from level six even if newbies don’t know anything about the subject. It’s way more stimulating to start creating from the very beginning rather than acquiring new info without knowing what the point of the info is for. That’s why I think school destroys children’s way of thinking instead of teaching them how to think.
Congratulations, you figured out that school was made to make factory workers, who can do a repetitive task without thinking for themselves about why they are doing it.
@@menkaragamble8175 ironically, you need level 6 people to create said better system, which could indicate the system need someone who didn't get molded through the process or someone outside the system to rework the system itself, except that the system is being kept intact as is due to people who need it to be the same as it has always been.
With the current system mostly finding its roots in the USA, which isn't united yet ironically on such a big scale that one could argue it still is, other countries have pretty much taken "inspiration" from it and made it the standard for the current system in place, pretty much worldwide. Given how slow and traditional societies are in general, if any change is bound to take place, it will either need a very proactive ruling system in the country you live in, or a big majority of schools in USA need to change, I can't see the 2nd thing happen anytime soon due to money incentives, so your best bet would be to get a government, ruling system which is proactive enough to flip the whole country's current school system on its head, which a traditional ruling body would likely not do due to what they consider traditions.
@@menkaragamble8175 you're assuming things I didn't state. Finland for example didn't revise their school system until their economy had a significant explosion in terms of wealth, which pressured the government to make their change to the school system, because more of the people entered the middle class and demanded better quality rather than quantity, which is a change that ultimately came to be due to money.
The fact that 90% of "studying" is done at lvl1 should be a hint.
@@soldat88hun it's 90% at level 1 for level 1-2 knownledge like addition multiplication and stuff like that. You need them to know them to understand more complex stuff. When you reach higher education you are required level 3-4 and practice it daily which make attaining level 5-6 relatively easily during a career, thus becoming an expert.
Thank you for these insights. I am teaching my children and it has sparked an interest in my 12 year old son. Your doing a great service and am grateful. Thanks
This really hits me in a plethora of ways. In elementary school I would sit, stare out of the window (I read that in my year book as I didn't remember all of this) most of the time not even responding to someone directing a question at me and barely making any notes. My teachers would identify this as a problem. I had an attention problem they would say. I'm only ever good at things I'm interested in and I have the capacity to get basically any grade at any time even if it's the same topic. Other people around me like my mom or my granddad would say I'm slow. I wouldn't respond as quickly as they deemed appropriate I took my time with the things I did. I also would seem super nervous all the time and have ticks like twitching my nose and pinching my eyes. I mean I also wore glasses and they put some real pressure onto my nose you could even see indentations after a couple of hours wearing them, so that probably didn't help either. But it feels like it came from coping with the mental stress of being in analytical mode all the time.
And I can't remember when or how it happened but at some point I just came to believe that they must be right and there is something wrong with me and I'm simply to slow for basically anything. Later I came to a realization. I looked at some old tests of mine and something struck me. Almost all the answers I've ever given were correct. In some examinations I simply had answered way fewer of the questions as opposed to others. I always felt like surprised that time is over. Time never really meant anything to me. Still doesn't to this very day. Later in high school it was basically the same. I would make almost no notes at all. Maybe like 10% of what the others were writing when they were copying entire blackboards full of information into their work books. I never did that. I just listened and thought. I just recently realized that, my brain is simply in analyze mode most of the time. The less meaningful the question to me the quicker I am. Teachers in elementary would say I won't make it at high school (we have two different systems of high school in Germany) and gave their advice for the easier path. I chose the hard one. Now why would I do that if I really felt basically anything was too hard for me. It was really hard, because it still all depended on time. And for me answering a question could take anywhere from 1minute to 10minutes. Depending on how far my analytical mode took me away from simply answering the question in the most straight forward way possible. You know now that I think about it I was more likely operating at level 5, because trying to find the best answer to a question without evaluating the different possible answers doesn't make any sense. And it really always was for me about finding not just an answer but the most appropriate one. Hell I even knew how to cheat the system. There was this one year when my mom would promise me my first own PC when I got good grades. That was 98' a household with a PC was rare back then. And low and behold with a few exceptions I got only As and was suddenly best of class. All it took was giving the textbook answers. how dull. I still remember how the best students and teachers alike were completely mind-boggled. I wasn't. I knew how I'd done it. I simply focused on what I wanted only memorized the necessary information and puked it onto the paper. That's how you get best grades in our broken school system.
Sadly college wasn't any different. If anything it was even worse. Yes. I made college. The slow poke who wasn't fit to make advanced high school. I haven't even used flash cards except for this one time where I learned the hardcore way for an exam I literally hadn't done anything for the entire semester. I started about 4 hours before the exam puked everything on paper and went to bed. Passed. School doesn't require you to be smart, it only requires you to be diligent. That's why I hated it; it was awfully boring.
I wish I would think less though. At least for the majority of time. Would make things a lot easier.
Hey,
1. Please break the huge block of text into paragraphs.
2. I feel like you are a subvocal thinker. I think this, because it read very linearly, and I am practicing it now to encorporate more into my own style of thinking which is predominantly visual rendering/experience based. Because of this I associate between thoughs and go deep into paralle thoughs and then waste time.
3. I used to be like you, I still think I am, and is actively trying to stop doing this.
4. I also wish I would think less, hence I started doing busy work, like either playing games, or just making some gadgets, or repairing electronics etc, this puts me in a trance like state, but it is boring and is eating away at me. So i plan on stopping it.
5. My issues was that I was too much of a visual thinker and would just start simulating and rendering things in my head, I do not feel time passing, and I waste hours in this zoned out state, while I am technically not thinking, my brain is in overdrive because I am rendering novel experiences and visuals, and sounds and sensations.
6. What I have learned, and I think you should know: Progress over perfection, and result over trying or effort. If you dont have an end result its all a waste. So make sure you have an end result at appropriate times. Then you can iterate on it to make it better, but always have end result for the goal. So set maybe 10 mins to a task, and make sure u have an end result. It doesnt have to be good, but if you have a result, you can always iterate on it, and submit that result. It is always about result is what I understand.
I completely agree with you in the way the scholl system evaluates people, and it really is boring, I have had a similar experience as yours (as I think of it) and I am bored all the time in school
Being analytical and overthinking are two different things. You achieve analytical thinking when you are able to focus your thinking on something and you have to be mindful
I can totally relate. I had no problem with grades either when it suited me. But usually I'd be done with the text book by the second week. End of chapter questions all answered. Never turned it in only took the tests and rarely got less than an A on tests but the teachers with exception of a few would give me c's and d's for never doing classwork and homework. I didn't care because obviously their system was broke beyond fixing. 3 teachers gave me A's as long as I aced all the tests.
Gosh . What’s it like being a bona fide ( although I’m sure completely unrecognized ) genius . The rest of us can barely keep up with what it is you’re trying to articulate . There must be some way you could come down from your level 5 thinking, if even for a short time , to help the mental midgets around you understand.
When I was on a consulting job in China, we had a lovely young interpreter. After a week of becoming familiar with each other, I asked her what her degree was. She answered that she had a master's degree in chemical engineering, specializing in reaction kinetics, one of the hardest areas in chemical engineering. I then asked her if she had always wanted to work in that field and she said that she had wanted to be a teacher. I then asked her why she had not entered that field. She replied that she had not scored high enough on the tests. What a wonderfully different attitude about the teaching profession compared to America.
Wow, that is fascinating! The state of things in other countries really makes you think. Over here in Nigeria, there's little to no respect for teachers at all. It is an unspoken fact that no one willingly enters the profession, they 'end up there' . Except for the public(notably 'unity schools' as we call em')and some private schools with acceptable standards, so many teachers are under qualified and paid poorly so it's surprising that someone of such caliber will fail a test that will be seen as a mere formality over here🤌
My experience of China is very different: university professors were the worst students at top universities, because the best students were going to work in a company to make more money.
Also, what your story should tell you, is how riddiculous it is, that such a person that can reinvent herself in so many ways and wanted to be a teacher, was cut off from teaching because of a crazy test, that says absolutely nothing about your teaching ability and commitment.
The Chinese education system is a depression factory that actively stops students from thinking at higher levels and teaches them to specialize at level 1-3.
If you ask Chinese people, they will tell you that they are 1 billion people, so the gaokao is necessary, but that is not true. In Taiwan there is 20 million people, but the education system is very similar anyway, proving that it is a cultural thing that would never work outside of Asia.
If you want to see real good examples of good education systems that could work in western countries, look at Finland and Estonia. They also empower and respect teachers and students, without the gaokao bullshit. They are smaller countries with less entitled population, but moving towards an education system more similar to theirs would still work to some extent.
Astounding. Thanks!
@@AsdrubaleRossi very well said, couldn’t put it better myself. :)
@@AsdrubaleRossi It's not only in China, believe me. Trying to get a teaching job up in Oregon put me through a ridiculous situation as if 25 years of teaching experience (high schooling's LA to mentoring major corporate clients in different fields in Europe), and having managed 2 careers weren't enough. Figured it was just too much for them. Very discriminating also in Europe.
Wow, I didn’t expect that randomly watching a yt video during lunch would challenge my studying methods of many years. Whenever I needed to put in more mental effort to think at a higher level, my inner voice would tell me that I wasn’t smart enough or that I was too slow, so I never tried unless I had no other choice. And the amount of time I spent just trying to memorize things… wow. This is life-changing. Thank you.
As a psychologist I find this fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
Please go deeper. I’m so perplexed about studying History. When I understand, I forget facts. When I learn facts, I do not remember what it was about. And in history both are important, esp. remembering facts is so difficult.
you also have to be interested, it makes it easier to understand. Leavin more space more memorisation
@@rix_1723 If I get interested it takes months to cover syllabus. Then I regret being too much interested. It's a loop :/
The funny thing is if YOU knew how to go deeper you could find everything bout his system others system and how to learn the way you want
In history mind is weird.
I would recommend to start implementing both facts and understanding at the same time and make the stories alive.When learning about some event, you want to remember how it went to a gossip-y level, so your mind can understand it much more easily (for example if you are learning American presidents (I know that's really easy and straightforward but lets analyse it) you want to look at the whole American society and like tell yourself: Ahh, yes, those people, they were really mad about this on this president and they just wanted the exact opposite and then his wife cheated, because he obviously was that boring of a person, so his all career went to sh*t and then this other guy was elected an also sooner than normal in the year blah blah and society was calmer but then in year this and that there was this decision which made him also really unpopular and people were hungry and mad again. - not talking about anyone in particular, because to be honest, I studied European history mostly and also at home).
But it's really good to connect the stream of events into whole stories, to take into account stuff you imagine as person of that society - how long it would take if you married a woman in 1800's to get rid of her (if you married her for political reasons) or how long it takes to make a child (probably 9 months at the time) and so it becomes obvious that this king got mad he had no children after 2 years and got rid of his wife. This all then helps you understand what happened when and where.
History is stream of connecting stories that make sense in a whole, they just teach us history idiotically - you learn about all the people writing in this style and those years and people building these things and you just never see where they come from, why is that that they actually work in this way.
Sorry, if it started to be a little confusing, I am just saying, you start with a map and a year and you look through lenses of the societies living in that time in those countries you are studying. And there are events happening and there are reactions and there are reactions to these reactions. And it's also a good practice to take into account you moral values and just think about someone he was a je*k when he reacted this way, because in history there is a lot of stuff and you want to maximise the connections you have in your mind, including emotions and judgement about persons doing. Also use empathy and like some people, that helps too.
Hope this is not just a lot of unwanted text and helps someone.
@@nikolarataj Thankyou... It really makes sense. I have tried studying history like this in the past but the problem is I then get so immersed that I couldn't complete syllabus on time & my exam gets fucked up. I regret taking interest. Anyways I will try again.
I was just scrolling RUclips and I found this and I am happy about this ,and I am joining the free live class for improvement in study by your website.Thanks a lot .
First time on this channel. I have to say, this has got to be one of the best videos I’ve ever watched in the past 5 years. And yes, I watch a lot of RUclips. Justin, you are amazing. Thank you. A new level of awareness in my brain has just been unlocked.
The way I learned music reminds me of the last part of this video. I took some private lessons late in my high school career and took music theory classes in college, but at the same time was playing improvisational music at a church. I had to figure out how to create musical parts in real time without any written music without really having much time with the rudiments but having some theory knowledge. I’ve always felt that it was a top down approach; and it enabled me to be able to play at a high level in a relatively short period of time. It was essentially like navigating one’s way through a forest by starting with a map of the forest whereas the traditional music student was starting with a diagram of cell of a tree. Starting with that level of detail will likely keep most from ever being a higher level performing musician.
Hello I also want to learn that because I can play music with the script (sorry I don’t know if it’s called like that, I’m french). I took music as an option in High school but I think that it was superficial because I can only play music with a script and if one of those notes (C,D,E,F,G,H,A,B) are written on top of the figure. The script is divided in several “segments” so I learn the left hand first then the right hand then learn to play them together for each segments then the whole music.
But that means I only know how to use my hands to play piano but don’t know how to play improvisational music or create musical parts in real time…
So how did you make your way through this challenge ? Was it through the private lessons ?
I will be honest.... I have never heard of this concept but I resched it within my respective profession. This video really spoke to me. I am a level 6 thinker, and as you went through each one, I could understand each explanation because I constantly applies these levels of thinking. Especially level 6. In fact, because I grew to each level overtime naturally within my complex profession, I fully could relate to and understand each level of thinking. Great video!
This is the most important video for studying I've ever watched. THANK YOU! This explains why I can "understand" everything for the MCAT but keep forgetting it. I need to start at level 5. Incredible!!! Thank you again sir!
You're very welcome!
This is the channel I have been searching for, for so long! Thank you for being you.
Made me start thinking and taking notes from a whole nother, way more purposeful perspective rather than mindlessly jotting down things that might stick out (sometimes i did this before). Thank you so much
When facing new subjects you need to master ASAP, I think this is the best way:
Step 1) Level 5 thinking, part 1. What matters? Who cares and why? Left all gaps as variables to be found later
Step 2) Level 4 thinking, part 1: Explore the first relationships between concepts, but let all gaps open
Step 3) Search for content
Step 4) Go Level 1 to 3. You will start to filter concepts that really matters in Level 4.
Step 5) Level 4, part 2: Finish level 4 by closing all identified gaps, including new gaps you learned about during your journey in Step 4.
Step 6) Level 5, part 2: Now you are able to finish level 5, answering all questions you made in Level 5 part 1
This is your best video. Period. Now please make the sequel with a live demonstration video and that will help people of this earth.
E, we really need examples of it
You can sign up for a free webinar showing a demonstration and they'll email it to you!
@@gabdeneshashaq1313 how do i do that?
@@gabdeneshashaq1313 how
I've watched it twice now and it just keeps being understood better and better
This video blew my mind! No matter how long or hard I study for, I always felt like something was missing in my study routine - now I know what it was. 😄
Glad it was helpful!
Level 7 Integrating - form a comprehensive understanding
Level 8 Revolutionizing - develop and alter systems
Level 9 Reflecting - introspectively examine one's self
Level 10 Transcending - surpassing cognitive boundaries
Mine goes to 11
😢Im trying to make an efficient study system using
1)perrio
2)blooms taxonomy
3)ladders technique
4) pomodoro
5) spaced Repetition
Thanks to justin sung for his precious advices ❤.
Hello bro I don't have enough time to view all these videos😢.
Can you explain main points you learned from these videos?😅
I watch this video on regular basis as a reminder and it's worth it in every of my view! Thanks Justin for this innovative sharings. It'd be worth it if you'd dig deeper into this topic!
I'm at level 5 for math and science level 4 for things like history, English, IT and philosophy
however a level 3 at geography and religious education
Thank you dr sung….this is literally what examiners and tutors never ever tell us…and resultantly we end up thinking we are not route learning enough and we need to absorb more and more information…..
Dude, I think you just saved my life. I've got a wicked analogically thinker inside my head and at times I feel like I'm smart but don't use it as an advantage...where, when I take the steps forward for myself I run into situations like this and see I am obviously in need of others
This is for sure the most important educational single video that I've seen in my hole life. I created this account specifically to watch content to learn new things, and I'm glad I've found this jewel. For sure I'm taking his program in a near future.
This is a stunning breakdown of the thinking process! Thank you for making this amazing video!
And thank you for leaving your amazing comment :)
1 year ago, i thought all of them were different from each other, but when i started applying, i understand, and remember.
Story time: i was studying chemistry, the formula (acid + base = salt + water) came up,
I only thought of it as just a formula, nothing else. Suddenly i got the idea to actually try it physically (apply), go to my kitchen sink, wash my oiled (base) plates with dish soap (acid), it became a liquid that is salty (salt + water).
That was the moment when i was captivated by learning. Thank you, Justin Sung! Your simple, yet accurate explanation made it help, the dots connected, i can feel my neural pathway forming, and the sensation of nerves in my brain.
I comfortably function at Level 5, and this video inspired me to prioritize Mastering Level 6 next. Thank you.
I really liked it, being a researcher I must know how to learn most efficiently at the first place , and level 6 is my kinda level ..
Im really loving this channel. Makes complete sense, I try and teach level 4/5 as a lecturer but not many of my students are ready to think that way, perhaps partly because I am not teaching a very high level course and often over deliver what is required. I really love sitting down with myself and trying to design a new way to explore and come up with a hypothesis on a new idea though, something I wish I had the time to do constantly. Having thought deeply about certain topics, this all makes complete sense and is very helpful to know the mechanisms in action.
This is mind blowing 🤯 I can now clearly understand where I’m struggling and communicate it better. Thank you!
Justin sung, what else could we ask of.
Lots of love from Nigeria.
I usually go up to level three when studying for any of my tests. Being able to apply what you’ve learned is definitely one of the most important things to be able to do.
This explains why my chemistry homework was effective. It began with simple problems, some of which might not have been discussed in class, and it was up to students to figure it out.
I don't think I've ever thought about learning in this way before! Thanks for the video
After watching this amazing video I realized that I, as a secondary school level (grade 9) student, am thinking at level 5. I always evaluated many concepts taught to me as he mentioned in the video about evaluating and this is how I got A+ in almost every subject I am studying. Although I found myself being slow in reality, I wasn't. So, this video really helped me to analyze my levels of thinking. Thank you, Justin.
As I am listening to this discussion I keep referring back to the building of the scientific method. All of these steps resemble much of the steps used in the scientific method which then bring us to a conclusion and possibly a hypothesis that can be drawn from what we observe, analyse, and consider. Thank you for sharing this video!
substance starts at 1:17
Mathematicians working casually in level 6 by generating theorems ... I see this is true, many mathematicians thinking for a problem in weeks, months and even years.
I'm not a mathematician, but once I solved a pretty hard problem. A lot of theorems, definitions were in solution (8 pages of proofs + definitions)
Thank you for the acknowledgement. I usually keep large white boards on my walls and pages of mathematical ideas, proofs, frameworks, notations on the cabinet doors in my kitchen. This would be a way for me to constantly remain proficient at levels 1 through 5, by looking at the material on my walls showing ideas. I worked on the Riemann Hypothesis for 6 or 7 years because it's the hardest problem I've ever thought about. This video hit home for me.
This usually starts maybe with the Bachelor's thesis, probably later. Proving a genuinely new theorem that is not just a corollary of a more abstract theorem is hard to get to.
This makes so much sense and explains the difference (vast) between my high school math (sometimes involving level 6 questions) and my college math (a real struggle)
Level 7: Invent a useful new language or framework for solving problems.
it’s still synthesizing though
so a loop back to create?
Are you talking about Panini then?
That's programming.
Level 8; hire someone on Level 7.
And now u have a scalable company and u get to drink mojito from anywhere in the world.
I think I reached level 4 when i was 14, I could simulate scenarios and tried thinking of how other's would do it, studying their behaviour and pattern. I can also learn languages in my head, a technique my friend who is a polygot speaking 18+ languages. But this brain of mine made me question myself, my morals and my goals as there wasn't anyone I could speak comfortable with.
@Dex_Destroyer, I am in the same boat as you are.
Due to the type of mind I have, there is hardly anyone I kan komfortably talk to without me me having to dumb down every konversation.
It is so tiring and exhausting for me.
@Dex_Destroyer, if you are willing to share, I'd love to know more about the technique you make use of in learning new languages.
I look forward to your response with anticipation.
@ChindaAmadi Just expose yourself to the language more. Listen to podcast, audiobooks, RUclips videos, movies. Learn 5 to 10 new words a day. And when you are proficient enough you can immerse yourself in different scenarios I your mind. It's like day dreaming for me. And it also helps if you can speak in that language with someone else. And most importantly, don't be afraid to make mistakes, as it's part of the learning process.
@@ChindaAmadi I liked to read, so I read my favourite novel series in German.
@@Dex_Destroyeroh I want to learn this language now that I finished high school because I haven’t been following. When I was in secondary school (the 2th year) I could speak and all that but lost everything the next year and it worsen with covid so thank you, I will apply the advice you gave previously to relearn it !
Totally agree the creativity with studies is a very unique hability and just for gifted persons
Your most useful video so far IMO
You sure this isn’t recency bias?
@@jjgg2627 Maybe, but I’ve seen a lot of his stuff and never got this good of an insight before
Levels of learning and not of thinking. I think it should be mentioned this way
True
Not the initial learning stage, however, simply the 'encapsulation' or 'consolidation' stage, where you ensure that you understand what you have 'learnt'.
Thank you Justin, I am preparing for the IB MYP e-assessment examination in 2nd year of high school. Most of the subjects demand skills from Levels 4, 5 and 6. Thank you for bringing this into the light. It is easier to me to study these subjects.
Sir as you said level 4 and level 5 are time consuming but every effective which i agree to. But how do we do this type of learning in Medical school with such a vast syllabus and less time duration?
Good question - I have other videos going through medical examples which you can see how it can be applied. GOod luck!
Richard Feynman is a example of level 6 of thinking
Thank you Justin, I always come back to this video to for your prompt when approaching a new concept:
"Give me questions at [knowledge level] for [subject] at Bloom's revised taxonomy level [1-6]."
Hi Justin! Thank you so much, this may be the best understood explanation yet
Summary
There are six levels of thinking that every student should master, leading to different levels of results. Many students struggle to reach higher levels of thinking, causing stress and frustration. Learning to think deliberately at the right level is crucial for academic success.
Highlights
📚 Six levels of thinking every student should master
🤔 Most students get stuck in the lower levels of thinking
⏰ Thinking at the wrong level causes stress and wastes time
💪 Deliberate thinking is key to achieving top academic results
🧠 Level five thinking is crucial for reaching top results
📖 Bloom’s revised taxonomy is an underrated principle for learning
🎓 Level six thinking is less important for most people
Key Insights
🔄 Moving from lower levels of thinking to higher ones takes time and effort, but it is essential for academic success. Students should aim to think at level five to achieve top results. (💪)
🧠 Bloom’s revised taxonomy provides a framework for understanding different levels of thinking. It is an important tool for educators and learners to enhance learning efficiency. (📖)
⏰ The misinterpreted effort hypothesis often prevents students from improving their thinking abilities. Many students avoid higher levels of thinking because they perceive it as more challenging and time-consuming. (⏰)
📚 Level four thinking, which involves comparing and contrasting information, is crucial for higher-order learning. Developing analytical skills and using techniques like Venn diagrams and mind maps can enhance level four thinking. (🧠)
🎓 Level six thinking, which involves creating hypotheses, is less important for most people. It is primarily relevant for individuals at the highest levels of education or in specialized professions. (🎓)
did you use AI for this summary?
Wow, this is amazing. Much appreciated!
Thank you for teaching the basic thing which were not taught by 10 years of schoollife and 2 years of pre university ❤✨
no way im slowley becoming a nerd
@@RubenTrejo-c3g welcome brother 🫨
@@MartinGarcia-gd7jk what is the meaning of life to you?
See guys, dont go for level 6 in your high school 🏫, it just spoils ur exams...,in your graduation u can dare it...peace
Finally, someone that understands how the studying process in the brain works. You have stated factual information that I have theorized to people and myself for years. However, my explanations went in one ear and out the other to many people so I stop explaining. But to listen to your presentation, you have answered the questions I have sought answers for, for many years.
Thank you and keep up you good work.
Humanities departments, are you listening?
irony is that i do think at level upto 4 but can't do level 1 ( cus it sucks)😭😭😂😂. imo level 1 is the hardest , atleast other levels are actually fun to do
level 1 makes me want to pound my head onto the desk. i've always struggled with it.
I thought that way too, but it actually takes less time to regurgitate information because it's easier to remember once you think at those higher levels. So because I thought it would take me a lot, as it used to, I didnt give it a chance, I dreaded it. Maybe that's your case, or maybe you're not right about your level of thinking.
I knew even b4 I even start the video that I was at level 6 level of thinking... I hv created many new formulas and theories in everything... I also created some of the new methods to study specialized only for me ... ways only I can understand... also after watching the video I feel it to be much higher level of understanding then level 6 ... Ofcourse not for all subjects .. I does this for mathematics, physics ,chemistry, philosophy, astronomy and sometimes in biology too albiet rarely
I only have one weakness when I am learning and that is I find it extremely hard to by heart or memorize things ...
9:46 sounds like depression
12:21 ah and delusion
@qploawkise level 5 is nihilism 😂
Master ShiFu: "There is no such thing as level zero."
"Well, there is now a level zero."
The way Hidden Time Wealth dives into the concept of productivity is mind-blowing. Hidden Time Wealth tips are pure gold, and I wish more people knew about them.
So in other words, you’re just teaching people what blooms taxonomy is in a few minutes.
Yes and no.
He understood what bloom's Taxonomy means numbnuts.
Yesnt
Yesnt
Yes
16:06 Go deeper please
I loved watching this! It's so inspiring to see creativity in action-reminds me of what Picasso said, 'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
This really reassured the way i went about my architecture thesis now. I started with level 6 and moved down cause i thought it was a short-cut to produce designs faster, reading the literature just took too long. I then spent a whole year feeling like my work was going backwards and now i realise my uni taught it moving from Level 1 to 6. Thanks for this!!
Thank you so much for making this video! I've never head of this before and I find it so fascinating. It made me realize I do level four thinking naturally in my day to day life all the time, and I am extremely exhausted by it and just wish I could stop it, but when I'm studying I find myself doing level 1 like I was taught in school. Which made me hate school, yet now that I continued my studies years later I find myself still doing it! It's crazy, hopefully this video and your channel will help me fix this.
Thank you for regurgitating Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning.
This is a great lecture. I have learn Toyota Production System and they have a process sequence that walks you through these levels on all projects they term as the A3 process or the 8-Step process.
Honestly i used to be bored with the basic questions and used to breeze past them... finding the upper orders of thinking has helped me revitalize my spirit and vigor for learning and most importantly stimulated my thirst for knowledge... Really helpful video