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the problem is that when i start getting into the details i just feel overwhelmed and spend a lot of time trying to make sense of the information and make those connections
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Mastery emerges not from linear repetition, but from first envisioning an interconnected web of ideas that provides context to integrate new knowledge as it arrives..
Legit! The tree trunk first (first principles of a subject) and the branches second. Can't learn the branches and use effectively without the trunk of the topic.
Amazingly said. But I hope you are doing it right. Knowledge alone can't cultivate Mastery, linear repetition also does. I have many talents and skills that I have Mastered through Knowledge immersion -repetition, eating brain foods and fasting.
@@theloopguardiansaxies8094Fair point here. Mastery of a concept/theory is not mastery of the process of a related action in practice. For example, repetition is obviously valuable in language learning or sports; cases where automaticity and habit-building are needed. But perhaps we can see each application of an idea as a branch on this tree trunk model? (I'm new to exploring and fitting these approach-related concepts together so I'm still reaching for an answer here myself.)
For anyone who was also confused about the lateral relationships, I found it helpful to think about it like books. In Justin's example of adding laterality retrospectively, it's like getting books then just piling on the ground. There's no relationship other than they are part of one big pile. It also makes things difficult if you need to get a specific book from that pile. But for the example where we should think about laterality from the start, it's like having a bookshelf and a system of how you will categorize new books that come. So when you get books, you can easily organize it into their own categories. Now you can see the relationships and you can also easily get the book you need because they are sorted into their own categories. So the same for learning, you can easily encode and retrieve information if you have that mental "bookshelf". And to make that "bookshelf", you have to understand the super basic structure of what you're learning. And then you'll realize all the new information points back to that basic structure.
I see your example as making some connections vs not making connections at all. Justin example as I understand is about making connection in waterfall fashion vs lateral way. I would translate it like this: To put book on dedicated shelf would be like create a tag for the note. It would be closer to waterfall way of sorting through them later because you have fixed order that you must follow to get necessery information. Lateral fashion is like making links in the obsidian and connect information to the topics you already mastered. There is no linear order but potentially relevant connections. It would look like this: you have books laying on the ground they aren't sorted out in any way but if a need to work with certain idea appear you would automatically know for what familiar books you can reach and then you would need to locate them physically only. (and yes it would be more convinient to have them on the shelfs sorted out, but with electronic notes it's not nessecery, and obsidian algorithm somehow reflect process of recall in the brain) I still don't get how to make concepts map in lateral way, though. Maybe it's a matter of practical experience.
@@PeterIntrovertnow that you mention, it does seem like my understanding is just about not making connections vs having connections. I think your obsidian analogy explains it better. Thanks for that :)
Learning 1. Create a hypothesis schema (Big picture; based on keywords from resources, pre-existing knowledge, and their relationships; 2-4 mindmap). 2. Expand from the most relevant topic, ideally focused searching for what you WANT to learn. 3. Set a date to review this session. Teaching 1. What they think today's session is about? purpose? big picture 2. what's the most important? black swan?
I literally watched this video in random order without knowing what's the video about. I started from the part how to learn a new topic then came back to see other parts of the video, since you are explaining this very well.
9:24 heuristics are sometimes related to what's known as "System 1 thinking" in English, a concept popularized by psychologist Daniel Kahneman in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow". "System 1 thinking" refers to our way of thinking that is fast, automatic, and requires little or no conscious effort. It's like when you react to something instinctively or make quick choices without thinking too much about them. Heuristics are an example of this type of thinking because they are mental shortcuts we use to make quick decisions. On the other hand, there's "System 2 thinking", which is slower, more deliberate, and logical. When you solve a difficult math problem or make an important decision after a lot of thought, you are using System 2 thinking. So, "System 1 thinking" is quick and automatic, like heuristics, while "System 2 thinking" is slower and more thoughtful.
Justin! You are amazing! Thank God for the gift of you in the world. You are a Blessing to so many people. Your love and passion comes through. To whom much is given, much is required. God is pleased with you. Much love to you and your family 😊❤️
The things, I have get out of this, is that I should focus on adding relevance to the information I have chosen to enter in my brain. Information in isolation just easily vanishes from my memory. An another important theme is to create your own knowldege structure before even diving deeply in something you want to learn. Refining this structure while I'm processing new datas is also necessary. Thanks Justin for this premiere !
Just some ongoing self notes on first pass by. - In the root, there are fundamentals that our brains followup to learn anything. The way we exhibit such information makes it more appealing for one or another. Me, as an example, transitioned preferences from mostly video media to general text, where i can prioritize quick read scan, quick and precise recaptulations (the least liked being audio only). - Being a mechanic of your own brain: Use what you know of yourself to your favor. Stick to what engage you. - Know how you perceive your own thoughts. - The retrieval of Information can be categorized based on the truly graspness of such subject. It can be: ---Low Order Retrieval: Attaching the word/concept to just the meaning/terminology, ---Middle Order Retrieval: Where we understand a subject and one applicability of it. But not enough to provide a rich development or other examples. For instance, most school students find out pythagorean theorem to be just a simple formula for finding out triangles. Where in fact way more is used in distances and circles. ---High Order Retrieval: The level at such subject can and must be understood connecting many other subjects in the way. The three great tools mostly used to properly demonstrate envolves comparisons, the application of such and the context. Back to pythagorean triangles, it's useful for any engineer, triangulation of bodies, light or data that may or may not be under our common Newtonian mechanics or Einstein's Relativity and above as found in astronomy and GPS Systems. -Pattern detection. Patterns help us connect what we already have known for to ease our understanding. (Might be wrong on the book title) theres even a humoristical book about game development: Blood, Sweat and Pixels, where under the eyes of who designs them and vividly say that we search patterns all the time to fulfill our innate needs of perceiving and understanding not so far away same as cave men (funny momke brain). Games do this really, but really often. And that works like a charm with a little effort to create a new resemblance of an already impregnated pattern in our minds. -Metacognition exercises: well, my personal take on this. The way it mostly goes is when reaching anything new is acknowledge it, and then try to find what other common thing I can correlate to ease the process. May have or not some place to write, and writing does indeed help a lot, as with it, scribbles come by and go. It doesnt matter if i got it truly at first, but i keep checking if I really understood reading twice, thrice and in other references. The more bits of information that can give either a new view or a shared common ground already existing in my head makes it easier. In the end, if its something that i want to learn out of necessity, it greatly increases the chance that I'll trully get to understand or at least keep saved for a longer time. Fear not, this process isnt always for educational or professional means, often may be for recreational purposes as well. 11:25
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my RUclips channel 6 months ago about self development. Now I have 423 subs and > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessonsÀ we that I couldn’t have learned without getting started in the 1st place.
What I do with info is immediately try to determine the categories or groups it fits into. This is really helpful since knowing the category of one thing immediately helps you understand so many different aspects about said thing. It helps you immediately connect that info to your already existing network of info that you've been building up your whole life.
00:04 Optimize learning processes and improve efficiency. 01:54 Optimizing the fundamentals is the key to learning. 05:19 Optimizing information communication for efficient cognition 06:56 Retrieval of information can be categorized into higher-order and mid-order retrieval 10:31 Consolidating knowledge through activities 12:15 Summarizing information to its minimal form for better understanding. 16:04 The time it takes to form a good mental model in a schema is one of the biggest delays in learning. 17:54 Relevance is assigned by us, not inherent to information 21:04 Start with understanding the relevance of the information 22:42 Summarize a book quickly by making an unordered list of important words and concepts. 25:47 Creating a hypothesis helps in forming an overarching structure for knowledge. 27:20 Learning creates connections and relationships. 30:16 Increase knowledge relevance and revise knowledge more productively 31:51 Organize information into a clean structure 34:44 Optimizing the learning process through a self-driven approach 36:10 Avoid waterfalling and ensure laterality of thinking 39:30 Learning through higher-order thinking allows for both high and low levels of mastery. 41:02 Building a connected knowledge schema is important to apply knowledge effectively. 43:59 The more you think like this, the more you're able to consolidate information and learn from multiple sources simultaneously. 45:28 Asking probing questions and discussing Black Swan scenarios can enhance learning and critical thinking. 48:22 Building a mental model helps navigate uncertainty
This was your best video by far. Thank you. The big takeaway was how to prime effectively, and how to apply your primed schema to learn by bouncing between what you connections you’re curious about
I think keys that I take away are always skim through wide range of resources about topic you wanna study before u deep dive into it. And then highlight all the keywords that you dunno, find it out from somewhere else from that to get more relevant information. Then after that link all the things together and imagine if you wanna teach ppl about what you are learning, present them what are the most important parts that you understood from the topic.
when I was in the university, sometimes I used to open more than one resource for a topic but i was telling myself this is a waste of time and energy by keeping myself distracted and not organized, however actually what i was missing is to it and think about the appropriate approach like the one you have explain it in this video. in nutshell : sometimes we do good things in the wrong way, why just need to know how and why to do it.
You dont have time to learn slowly, so you learn everything half-assed and leave it up to your employees to fix your half-assed work. Very inspirational indeed
Ive picked up a lot from this single video (it really helped me connect a lot of ideas from your previous videos). Im a caribbean medical student and i really appreciate your work Dr Sung. Looking forward to watching more of your videos
Understanding how I receive information. Thinking, breaking it down to my own. comprehending it, and understanding it. Simplifying it even more. I just learned a lot today just by watching this video. Love how you explain and teach us.
Amazing video! The one guy manipulating comments in session, though could using a little more listening and a little less talking. The facilitator handled it all well and delivered a great class!
Well-connected islands of knowledge that we fail to apply to other domains is a succinct and lovely explanation for failure of far transfer, and perhaps many other cognitive phenomena. In my case, it's learning general physics, but still failing to apply the concepts to everyday situations and inventions. Definitely something to keep in mind!
This is so true! We dont have the time to learn slowly. Just the same we dont have the time for make up test. It is best to pass it the first time around. Go in there with the intention of passing. I know my learning styles. I know the way I can get it when a Teacher, or Professor is lecturing. Write lessons down while its fresh in your head. Because later, you may not remember.
I enjoyed your video, but can you make a separate video on how to annotate and take notes from books in a non-linear fashion? I somewhat understand what you explained in the video about how to approach learning a new topic. However, I hope somewhere in the future; you can make a video about how to learn from what you read and how to annotate it.
Learning 1. Create a hypothesis schema (Big picture; based on keywords from resources, pre-existing knowledge, and their relationships; 2-4 mindmap). 2. Expand from the most relevant topic, ideally focused searching for what you WANT to learn. 3. Set a date to review this session. Teaching 1. What they think today's session is about? purpose? big picture 2. what's the most important? black swan?
Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate what you said about being comfortable with uncertainty in learning. Facing uncertainty with comfort was my biggest challenge during my MS.c studies.
38:38 Contains a nice example. Wonder if there are more. Always have used a directory tree to frame information, this seems to be water falling. Forcing me to queue before boot, so to say. I'll have to figure out more on this lateral relationships thing. This presentation is insightful, appreciative it was recommended.
Thank you for your talk Justin! I had two questions-one about how exactly thinking at the analyze level of Bloom’s taxonomy differs from the evaluate level, and which techniques activate those levels when creating this scheme? I also wanted to ask what importance means-importance to your job/career, or how important/large a concept is within a topic? For example, learning about trigonometric functions I could imagine a use case for in engineering, but it doesn’t feel relevant enough, as opposed to thinking about why trigonometry is important the other concepts in precalculus. Should I keep trying to find more relevant reasons, or does “importance” not depend on how important I feel the information is?
great talk! very interesting i'm working on dev course for kids and thought similar to this way and in this talk you open my eyes to the value of see the whole picture and then break it apart
First time I came across your work, can't wait to share with my son who is doing his Law articles and my daughter preparing to start University 🙌 Namaste 🙏
This has been the way I have been learning things my entire life. I understand now why I have been a top student most of my life. I actually came up with this model of learning. But he is more formal in his explanation method than I would have probably been. I am glad to have found that video. It reinforces me in what I have been doing so far. There are few things that could be added to this such as: * Breaking down big concepts into manageable and composable concepts, and focus on one at a time (divide and conquer). * Pattern recognition - most things (physical or logical) in life are defined by patterns. The sense of beauty stems from recognizing patterns in apparent "chaos". Once you recognize the underlying pattern in anything, you understand that thing (physical or logical).
It's ironic that for the things I want to learn on my own, I become a "general" expert in a short time, where I aware of my competency and shortfalls. Most of all, enjoying the process of learning. In contrast, the things I'm academically trying to learn is such a struggle, because I'm trying to linearly learn a concept written by a different person, that is then distilled into a book. Of course I'm going to struggle!
This was simply BRILLIANT even though the majority of info covered here I already knew by watching (& rewatching 😅) your previous videos Also I just realized I need to work more on lateral relationships in my mind maps One of the best tips I learned from this workshop is to remember that “mastery of layers is the key, instead of mastering the order of learning that is presented to you as in lectures, books, courses, etc”
It certainly seems to be a very powerful tip, but do you have any idea how do I apply it? like do I read through the topic 2-3 times each time diving into different layers? (1st read: draft a layer, 2nd read: draft out sub ideas and so on) Like, how do I go about approaching this? can you just briefly explain if you know about this? I am kind of confused here.
@@Kagumi-kun2312 Have you tried writing down the key terms of the topic and making a concept map describing all the relationships between the concepts? That's basically the entire idea.
He stated that mind map water fall is wrong to use and it lacks lateral realationship even when i try it seems to work because it helps me to connect ideas to a main thing then start to build into, I also use drawing into and various other thing to make alot simpler. If I was wrong about waterfall what should the correct way to make it ?
@@RunOfTheTrill ya I have done it but all the keywords will belong to different layers right? And the vdo seems to say to "learn by layers" Let's say there are 10 keywords 3 of them belong to layer 1 , another 4 belong to layer 2 and remaining layer 3 And I write down the keywords in any random shuffled order So there is no guarantee that I would be learning by layer right? The first keyword might be of layer 3, second maybe of layer 2 and so on Instead of 3 layer 1 keywords ----> 4 layer 2 keywords ---> 3 layer 3 keywords Which seems like "learning by layers" to me Idk I got confused while I wrote this up lol
how's it going? Curious coz so many people around me are asking me to learn python (i know it's a great tool), but I simply can't connect to the relevance to me to get past even lecture 1...haha.
OH MAN! I WAS SO IGNORANT ABOUT THESE METHODOLOGIES. NOW THAT I KNOW IT FEELS LIKE THE SAME COMMENT THAT GUY MADE IT'S GENIUS❤ THANK YOU JUSTIN FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL SESSION😊
Apart from literally taking your course, this kind of format is the most digestible. Not gonna mince words, I'm a freeloader, there are places like Twitch where I've been a subscriber for 16 months in some channels with just gift-subs from others. And on that note, I would appreciate workshops like this one whenever you feel like sharing because freebies are awesome!😁
@@craigmalcom6294 To clarify, I have *not* attended Mr Sung's learning course. I do, however frequent an art stream or two and from experience, I can say that personalised teaching is on a whole nother level, compared to watching videos. The direct feedback you recieve on your progress/ work is a game-changer. As for how the course works, I do not know. However, the information I get from these videos checks-out with what I already know and can find online, but is made more digestible than the mountains of sciency text I had to go through. I have made noticeable personal improvements in a year or two, using knowledge from here. Long story-short, I have dialed-in the correct mental states and ways to process information such as higher-order learning which allows my brain to automatically memorise stuff while I focus on connecting information in mental schemas so that it is readily accessible if I need it. If I recall correctly, there is a 30 day money-back guarantee or something of the sort on the website, however the program costs a pretty penny, so my suggestion is to set-aside a weekend or two and watch Mr Sung's videos, try-out some of the techniques and see for yourself over the course of a month or so if they work. This is *hard* work, it doesn't solve things overnight and is best approached like training bodybuilding under a coach - the diet, hours you spend at the gym and good sleep will show results in months, not days and the coach can't do those things for you. Personally, I'm already enjoying the learning equivalent of a six-pack but it was rather difficult getting here. Next-up on my bucket list is formulating shorter sentences when I answer something. 😁
@@Dank_Lulu So use Dr Sung videos to get an idea of how you're supposed to learn, look for external resources on things that confused you when watching the vids, continuously organize the info in your brain, and draw lots of pretty maps in between before teaching others what you know? Sounds legit! 😎
Really curious on how to do those learning through layers effectively.. it seems we need more tutorials on how to do it in the right way to achieve those lateral connections in learning. Anyway, thank you Justin for your top notch content!
That makes sense. It explains why sometimes i was learning so fast that everyone shocked and i was able understand things so quickly. Examples giving me the way i learned in past subconsciously. Nowadays i became more like a linear learner and to remember my old days a high order learning method was much more efficient.
Wow, I've been doing this without knowing it is a technique, simply because I work in IT. A lot of times, we have to get things working, and if the problem resides in an area we don't have expertise in, we need to get help from the people who are more intimately familiar. But in order to work together, we all have to form some kind of mental images of how things work first then take guesses.
Think I’m on a roll for comments and gonna help out those who might see : Read the following two books - get better at anything by scott h young - hyper focus by chris bailey Refer to other RUclips - rian Doris on flow - Justin’s other videos and interviews with similar or crossover content creators All will tie in nicely after going through And you will need a good huge canvous of mind map to allow your brain to figure out when you’re asleep
My undergraduate thesis is on transfer learning and this is precisely what transfer learning means. Let's takes what you have already learned in the past and try to actively map to whatever new knowledge you're trying to learn now. 27:05
My take is that not to hold too tight on to all the old assumptions when you're trying to learn new stuff. For example, when I was learning the c++ language from a Java developer background, it really hurts my head to see how many different conventions C++ has. But once I can kind of let go of some of the old conventions of doing things in Java, I have an open mind and it really helps me to learn c++ faster.
very nice video, Justin is pretty smart and knows what he's talking about. I didn't know I was already kind of applying these concepts in my learning, this made many things more clear to me now. Thanks for posting.
I knew that i have to add relevance to my information , i always have problems with the information I have kept in my mind , just in seconds it vanishes from my mind. Thank you for the brilliant information you delivered to us . ❤❤
An excellent video! Also loved the questions the CEO's posed because it was similar to the ones I had whilst watching. This vid also helped connect many of the other concepts I've picked up from you other videos! Thank you so much!!
What an intro to a presentation. We can all learn from that. Best 1 minute intro for a workshop/presentation I heard in a long time. Thanks and great job
Thats a great way to learn my German ! I was looking for each individual little bit of word trying to translate the meaning to italian or english checkig if it makes sense in portuguese. But is better to feed the mold on the way tha you explained ! Well played Justin!
Very excited to expand on this model of learning. I have used a similar model to organize data intense subjects like my MLO exam. This method seems to expand even further.
28:35 great so far, but there are some things that can only be learned in linear fashion...slow thinking leading to lightbulb, usually very complicated and too subtle to understand without purposeful, linear order. For instance, a framework philosophy could be developed which is only able to be understood in this way (purposeful), because the information was designed only to be understood in that way. Anyways, that would be highly rare, so great job!
This is good information. I am trying to see how I can incorporate these ideas in my Bible Studies for personal study and sermon preparation. I want to learn and teach so much, but it takes me such a long time because I like to handwrite everything. I'm going to try these tips and see how it goes.
I noticed at 40:19 there is the old version of Bloom's Taxonomy when you demonstrated Higher order thinking vs lower order thinking. In the course, you primarily use Bloom's revised taxonomy, with "create" as the highest level (PhD level) as opposed to "evaluate" in the old version. Is there something wrong?
TRUE THINKING FAST IS IMPERATIVE BUT TO KNOW THE TIME TO SAY THINGS IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT SO NEVER BE RUNNING YOU BETTER SAY THINGS ON THE RIGHT TIME, ALWAYS ...
You've become one of my mentors now. I'm grateful the algorithm sent me this video of yours as I plan my career change and thirst for more knowledge and self-improvements! Thank you for sharing what you know and do best. All the best!
Hi Justin, I'm going through your content in the hopes of teaching my kids ( two under 2) wondering if you have any counterparts in the child learning space. I've found using the terminology you use in searching when searching has significantly increased the quality of resources I've found so thank you
Thanks for this video! I learnt something valuable and it helped me evaluate how I've done some of my recent trainings in a linear and knowledge building structure and left wondering if that was the most effective way to deliver the training. Your video gave me great insights to the individual learning process and how I could help my participants elevate their learning experience as well as making these sessions more meaningful to them!
Curious if anyone else can recommend other videos/resources that show a general outline/overview of Justin's learning methodologies/system? Glad to have found this one - it's pretty thorough and good , but wanting to see if there are others
#1 thing that matters for learning: mental state. Get your brain into the right frequently brainwaves for the type of learning activities. Focused vs creativity are different, dancing while singing vs playing flute are different. Figure out the specific mental state, and the right time to repeat. You want to know you attention. If your mind is clear, focused and alert, then you will do better no matter what. Ok I'm def gone now. Good luck kids.
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the problem is that when i start getting into the details i just feel overwhelmed and spend a lot of time trying to make sense of the information and make those connections
To everyone reading this, I sincerely pray for that whatever is causing you pain or stress will pass. May your negative thoughts, excessive worries and doubts disappear, replaced by clarity and understanding. May your life be filled with peace, tranquility and love
Thank for the inspiring words❤
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talking about manifestations😂
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Interesting prayer - literally woke this morning with these thoughts in my head….thank you.
Mastery emerges not from linear repetition, but from first envisioning an interconnected web of ideas that provides context to integrate new knowledge as it arrives..
Amazing statement!
Legit! The tree trunk first (first principles of a subject) and the branches second. Can't learn the branches and use effectively without the trunk of the topic.
Well put
Amazingly said. But I hope you are doing it right. Knowledge alone can't cultivate Mastery, linear repetition also does. I have many talents and skills that I have Mastered through Knowledge immersion -repetition, eating brain foods and fasting.
@@theloopguardiansaxies8094Fair point here. Mastery of a concept/theory is not mastery of the process of a related action in practice. For example, repetition is obviously valuable in language learning or sports; cases where automaticity and habit-building are needed.
But perhaps we can see each application of an idea as a branch on this tree trunk model? (I'm new to exploring and fitting these approach-related concepts together so I'm still reaching for an answer here myself.)
For anyone who was also confused about the lateral relationships, I found it helpful to think about it like books. In Justin's example of adding laterality retrospectively, it's like getting books then just piling on the ground. There's no relationship other than they are part of one big pile. It also makes things difficult if you need to get a specific book from that pile. But for the example where we should think about laterality from the start, it's like having a bookshelf and a system of how you will categorize new books that come. So when you get books, you can easily organize it into their own categories. Now you can see the relationships and you can also easily get the book you need because they are sorted into their own categories.
So the same for learning, you can easily encode and retrieve information if you have that mental "bookshelf". And to make that "bookshelf", you have to understand the super basic structure of what you're learning. And then you'll realize all the new information points back to that basic structure.
Thanks for the analogy and explanation!
I see your example as making some connections vs not making connections at all.
Justin example as I understand is about making connection in waterfall fashion vs lateral way.
I would translate it like this:
To put book on dedicated shelf would be like create a tag for the note. It would be closer to waterfall way of sorting through them later because you have fixed order that you must follow to get necessery information.
Lateral fashion is like making links in the obsidian and connect information to the topics you already mastered. There is no linear order but potentially relevant connections.
It would look like this: you have books laying on the ground they aren't sorted out in any way but if a need to work with certain idea appear you would automatically know for what familiar books you can reach and then you would need to locate them physically only. (and yes it would be more convinient to have them on the shelfs sorted out, but with electronic notes it's not nessecery, and obsidian algorithm somehow reflect process of recall in the brain)
I still don't get how to make concepts map in lateral way, though. Maybe it's a matter of practical experience.
@@PeterIntrovertnow that you mention, it does seem like my understanding is just about not making connections vs having connections. I think your obsidian analogy explains it better. Thanks for that :)
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In Sherlock Holmes, it called Mind Palace.
Learning
1. Create a hypothesis schema (Big picture; based on keywords from resources, pre-existing knowledge, and their relationships; 2-4 mindmap).
2. Expand from the most relevant topic, ideally focused searching for what you WANT to learn.
3. Set a date to review this session.
Teaching
1. What they think today's session is about? purpose? big picture
2. what's the most important? black swan?
This simply means that you watched master's video , but didnt apply anything?
Just leaving this for myself
35:28 - workflow
27:00
33:00/36:00 - 2,4 rule
Example of bad mindmap(why we use the 2,4 rule) 36:29
I literally watched this video in random order without knowing what's the video about. I started from the part how to learn a new topic then came back to see other parts of the video, since you are explaining this very well.
9:24 heuristics are sometimes related to what's known as "System 1 thinking" in English, a concept popularized by psychologist Daniel Kahneman in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
"System 1 thinking" refers to our way of thinking that is fast, automatic, and requires little or no conscious effort. It's like when you react to something instinctively or make quick choices without thinking too much about them. Heuristics are an example of this type of thinking because they are mental shortcuts we use to make quick decisions.
On the other hand, there's "System 2 thinking", which is slower, more deliberate, and logical. When you solve a difficult math problem or make an important decision after a lot of thought, you are using System 2 thinking.
So, "System 1 thinking" is quick and automatic, like heuristics, while "System 2 thinking" is slower and more thoughtful.
Cannot emphasize enough how valuable this actually is.
Justin! You are amazing! Thank God for the gift of you in the world. You are a Blessing to so many people. Your love and passion comes through. To whom much is given, much is required. God is pleased with you. Much love to you and your family 😊❤️
The things, I have get out of this, is that I should focus on adding relevance to the information I have chosen to enter in my brain. Information in isolation just easily vanishes from my memory. An another important theme is to create your own knowldege structure before even diving deeply in something you want to learn. Refining this structure while I'm processing new datas is also necessary. Thanks Justin for this premiere !
Just some ongoing self notes on first pass by.
- In the root, there are fundamentals that our brains followup to learn anything. The way we exhibit such information makes it more appealing for one or another. Me, as an example, transitioned preferences from mostly video media to general text, where i can prioritize quick read scan, quick and precise recaptulations (the least liked being audio only).
- Being a mechanic of your own brain: Use what you know of yourself to your favor. Stick to what engage you.
- Know how you perceive your own thoughts.
- The retrieval of Information can be categorized based on the truly graspness of such subject. It can be:
---Low Order Retrieval: Attaching the word/concept to just the meaning/terminology,
---Middle Order Retrieval: Where we understand a subject and one applicability of it. But not enough to provide a rich development or other examples. For instance, most school students find out pythagorean theorem to be just a simple formula for finding out triangles. Where in fact way more is used in distances and circles.
---High Order Retrieval: The level at such subject can and must be understood connecting many other subjects in the way. The three great tools mostly used to properly demonstrate envolves comparisons, the application of such and the context. Back to pythagorean triangles, it's useful for any engineer, triangulation of bodies, light or data that may or may not be under our common Newtonian mechanics or Einstein's Relativity and above as found in astronomy and GPS Systems.
-Pattern detection. Patterns help us connect what we already have known for to ease our understanding. (Might be wrong on the book title) theres even a humoristical book about game development: Blood, Sweat and Pixels, where under the eyes of who designs them and vividly say that we search patterns all the time to fulfill our innate needs of perceiving and understanding not so far away same as cave men (funny momke brain). Games do this really, but really often. And that works like a charm with a little effort to create a new resemblance of an already impregnated pattern in our minds.
-Metacognition exercises: well, my personal take on this. The way it mostly goes is when reaching anything new is acknowledge it, and then try to find what other common thing I can correlate to ease the process. May have or not some place to write, and writing does indeed help a lot, as with it, scribbles come by and go. It doesnt matter if i got it truly at first, but i keep checking if I really understood reading twice, thrice and in other references. The more bits of information that can give either a new view or a shared common ground already existing in my head makes it easier. In the end, if its something that i want to learn out of necessity, it greatly increases the chance that I'll trully get to understand or at least keep saved for a longer time. Fear not, this process isnt always for educational or professional means, often may be for recreational purposes as well.
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This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my RUclips channel 6 months ago about self development. Now I have 423 subs and > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessonsÀ we that I couldn’t have learned without getting started in the 1st place.
What I do with info is immediately try to determine the categories or groups it fits into. This is really helpful since knowing the category of one thing immediately helps you understand so many different aspects about said thing. It helps you immediately connect that info to your already existing network of info that you've been building up your whole life.
I love your videos! I am a Student in Germany and I realized that I learned my whole life in wrong way
one of the best 49 minutes of learning i have ever received. Thanks Justin!
00:04 Optimize learning processes and improve efficiency.
01:54 Optimizing the fundamentals is the key to learning.
05:19 Optimizing information communication for efficient cognition
06:56 Retrieval of information can be categorized into higher-order and mid-order retrieval
10:31 Consolidating knowledge through activities
12:15 Summarizing information to its minimal form for better understanding.
16:04 The time it takes to form a good mental model in a schema is one of the biggest delays in learning.
17:54 Relevance is assigned by us, not inherent to information
21:04 Start with understanding the relevance of the information
22:42 Summarize a book quickly by making an unordered list of important words and concepts.
25:47 Creating a hypothesis helps in forming an overarching structure for knowledge.
27:20 Learning creates connections and relationships.
30:16 Increase knowledge relevance and revise knowledge more productively
31:51 Organize information into a clean structure
34:44 Optimizing the learning process through a self-driven approach
36:10 Avoid waterfalling and ensure laterality of thinking
39:30 Learning through higher-order thinking allows for both high and low levels of mastery.
41:02 Building a connected knowledge schema is important to apply knowledge effectively.
43:59 The more you think like this, the more you're able to consolidate information and learn from multiple sources simultaneously.
45:28 Asking probing questions and discussing Black Swan scenarios can enhance learning and critical thinking.
48:22 Building a mental model helps navigate uncertainty
This is actually pure gold that you are delivering to us. Thank you very much
This was your best video by far. Thank you.
The big takeaway was how to prime effectively, and how to apply your primed schema to learn by bouncing between what you connections you’re curious about
I think keys that I take away are always skim through wide range of resources about topic you wanna study before u deep dive into it. And then highlight all the keywords that you dunno, find it out from somewhere else from that to get more relevant information. Then after that link all the things together and imagine if you wanna teach ppl about what you are learning, present them what are the most important parts that you understood from the topic.
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Ok, someone's gotta point out how SMOOTH that was
Justin used to dance 10-20 hours per week back in Uni. Not sure if he still does it nowadays though.
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when I was in the university, sometimes I used to open more than one resource for a topic but i was telling myself this is a waste of time and energy by keeping myself distracted and not organized, however actually what i was missing is to it and think about the appropriate approach like the one you have explain it in this video.
in nutshell : sometimes we do good things in the wrong way, why just need to know how and why to do it.
You dont have time to learn slowly, so you learn everything half-assed and leave it up to your employees to fix your half-assed work. Very inspirational indeed
Ive picked up a lot from this single video (it really helped me connect a lot of ideas from your previous videos). Im a caribbean medical student and i really appreciate your work Dr Sung. Looking forward to watching more of your videos
Great stuff buddy!
This man is a treasure. I can’t thank you enough Dr Sung!❤
Understanding how I receive information. Thinking, breaking it down to my own. comprehending it, and understanding it. Simplifying it even more.
I just learned a lot today just by watching this video. Love how you explain and teach us.
Amazing video! The one guy manipulating comments in session, though could using a little more listening and a little less talking. The facilitator handled it all well and delivered a great class!
The car analogy was a perfect example of how to present information to the audience in a way that makes it amenable to learning and accessible.
Well-connected islands of knowledge that we fail to apply to other domains is a succinct and lovely explanation for failure of far transfer, and perhaps many other cognitive phenomena. In my case, it's learning general physics, but still failing to apply the concepts to everyday situations and inventions. Definitely something to keep in mind!
عجبني جداً رد فعلك وتنظيم أفكار الفيديو، فعلاً كل إناء ينضح بما فيه، ورد يفعل يوضح إنك متربي وما شاء الله عندك قدرة جميلة على ضبط النفس، تحياتي.
Super helpful and concise! Can't get enough of these videos 🙏
Thanks for the comment mate ❤
Could you please make a sweepstake for the program and could the ages start from 16 up.
So well presented. He speaks so consisely, amazing, def admire that quality.
Sir, you are my guy!! With this lesson you will excel my achievement a few years. Thank you so much for sharing!
Your so helpful. I been feeling lost when I start studying lately. You boost my confidence and I appreciate that 🙂
It's a fast talking, and i think we can be happy and content with simple stuff too, to each their own
This is so true! We dont have the time to learn slowly. Just the same we dont have the time for make up test. It is best to pass it the first time around. Go in there with the intention of passing. I know my learning styles. I know the way I can get it when a Teacher, or Professor is lecturing. Write lessons down while its fresh in your head. Because later, you may not remember.
I enjoyed your video, but can you make a separate video on how to annotate and take notes from books in a non-linear fashion? I somewhat understand what you explained in the video about how to approach learning a new topic. However, I hope somewhere in the future; you can make a video about how to learn from what you read and how to annotate it.
Learning
1. Create a hypothesis schema (Big picture; based on keywords from resources, pre-existing knowledge, and their relationships; 2-4 mindmap).
2. Expand from the most relevant topic, ideally focused searching for what you WANT to learn.
3. Set a date to review this session.
Teaching
1. What they think today's session is about? purpose? big picture
2. what's the most important? black swan?
so useful video to make brain active for learning things, it is the most important things I learn today. Thank you
Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate what you said about being comfortable with uncertainty in learning. Facing uncertainty with comfort was my biggest challenge during my MS.c studies.
38:38 Contains a nice example. Wonder if there are more.
Always have used a directory tree to frame information, this seems to be water falling. Forcing me to queue before boot, so to say.
I'll have to figure out more on this lateral relationships thing.
This presentation is insightful, appreciative it was recommended.
This video is literally the lightbulb moment to all of your other videos haha.
I found this video massively helpful ❤!
This is a fantastic piece of video. If you like the video, you are likely to like the book " Thinking, Knowing, Doing and Being".
Thank you for your talk Justin!
I had two questions-one about how exactly thinking at the analyze level of Bloom’s taxonomy differs from the evaluate level, and which techniques activate those levels when creating this scheme?
I also wanted to ask what importance means-importance to your job/career, or how important/large a concept is within a topic? For example, learning about trigonometric functions I could imagine a use case for in engineering, but it doesn’t feel relevant enough, as opposed to thinking about why trigonometry is important the other concepts in precalculus. Should I keep trying to find more relevant reasons, or does “importance” not depend on how important I feel the information is?
great talk!
very interesting
i'm working on dev course for kids and thought similar to this way
and in this talk you open my eyes to the value of see the whole picture and then break it apart
First time I came across your work, can't wait to share with my son who is doing his Law articles and my daughter preparing to start University 🙌
Namaste 🙏
This has been the way I have been learning things my entire life. I understand now why I have been a top student most of my life. I actually came up with this model of learning. But he is more formal in his explanation method than I would have probably been. I am glad to have found that video. It reinforces me in what I have been doing so far.
There are few things that could be added to this such as:
* Breaking down big concepts into manageable and composable concepts, and focus on one at a time (divide and conquer).
* Pattern recognition - most things (physical or logical) in life are defined by patterns. The sense of beauty stems from recognizing patterns in apparent "chaos". Once you recognize the underlying pattern in anything, you understand that thing (physical or logical).
It's ironic that for the things I want to learn on my own, I become a "general" expert in a short time, where I aware of my competency and shortfalls. Most of all, enjoying the process of learning.
In contrast, the things I'm academically trying to learn is such a struggle, because I'm trying to linearly learn a concept written by a different person, that is then distilled into a book. Of course I'm going to struggle!
Yep, but how do you Change the studying
@jcvp2493 thats a helpfull advice. where you got that from?
@jcvp2493 i like the way you outline the contents 😊
This was simply BRILLIANT even though the majority of info covered here I already knew by watching (& rewatching 😅) your previous videos
Also I just realized I need to work more on lateral relationships in my mind maps
One of the best tips I learned from this workshop is to remember that “mastery of layers is the key, instead of mastering the order of learning that is presented to you as in lectures, books, courses, etc”
It certainly seems to be a very powerful tip, but do you have any idea how do I apply it? like do I read through the topic 2-3 times each time diving into different layers? (1st read: draft a layer, 2nd read: draft out sub ideas and so on) Like, how do I go about approaching this? can you just briefly explain if you know about this? I am kind of confused here.
@@Kagumi-kun2312 Have you tried writing down the key terms of the topic and making a concept map describing all the relationships between the concepts?
That's basically the entire idea.
He stated that mind map water fall is wrong to use and it lacks lateral realationship even when i try it seems to work because it helps me to connect ideas to a main thing then start to build into, I also use drawing into and various other thing to make alot simpler. If I was wrong about waterfall what should the correct way to make it ?
@@RunOfTheTrill ya I have done it but all the keywords will belong to different layers right? And the vdo seems to say to "learn by layers"
Let's say there are 10 keywords
3 of them belong to layer 1 , another 4 belong to layer 2 and remaining layer 3
And I write down the keywords in any random shuffled order
So there is no guarantee that I would be learning by layer right?
The first keyword might be of layer 3, second maybe of layer 2 and so on
Instead of 3 layer 1 keywords ----> 4 layer 2 keywords ---> 3 layer 3 keywords
Which seems like "learning by layers" to me
Idk I got confused while I wrote this up lol
This was amazing! I'm about to start go into python, so I will definitely be using this.
how's it going? Curious coz so many people around me are asking me to learn python (i know it's a great tool), but I simply can't connect to the relevance to me to get past even lecture 1...haha.
OH MAN! I WAS SO IGNORANT ABOUT THESE METHODOLOGIES.
NOW THAT I KNOW IT FEELS LIKE THE SAME COMMENT THAT GUY MADE
IT'S GENIUS❤
THANK YOU JUSTIN FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL SESSION😊
Apart from literally taking your course, this kind of format is the most digestible. Not gonna mince words, I'm a freeloader, there are places like Twitch where I've been a subscriber for 16 months in some channels with just gift-subs from others. And on that note, I would appreciate workshops like this one whenever you feel like sharing because freebies are awesome!😁
Is his course worth it. How does it train you to be a better learner?
@@craigmalcom6294 To clarify, I have *not* attended Mr Sung's learning course. I do, however frequent an art stream or two and from experience, I can say that personalised teaching is on a whole nother level, compared to watching videos. The direct feedback you recieve on your progress/ work is a game-changer. As for how the course works, I do not know. However, the information I get from these videos checks-out with what I already know and can find online, but is made more digestible than the mountains of sciency text I had to go through. I have made noticeable personal improvements in a year or two, using knowledge from here. Long story-short, I have dialed-in the correct mental states and ways to process information such as higher-order learning which allows my brain to automatically memorise stuff while I focus on connecting information in mental schemas so that it is readily accessible if I need it. If I recall correctly, there is a 30 day money-back guarantee or something of the sort on the website, however the program costs a pretty penny, so my suggestion is to set-aside a weekend or two and watch Mr Sung's videos, try-out some of the techniques and see for yourself over the course of a month or so if they work. This is *hard* work, it doesn't solve things overnight and is best approached like training bodybuilding under a coach - the diet, hours you spend at the gym and good sleep will show results in months, not days and the coach can't do those things for you. Personally, I'm already enjoying the learning equivalent of a six-pack but it was rather difficult getting here. Next-up on my bucket list is formulating shorter sentences when I answer something. 😁
@@Dank_Lulu So use Dr Sung videos to get an idea of how you're supposed to learn, look for external resources on things that confused you when watching the vids, continuously organize the info in your brain, and draw lots of pretty maps in between before teaching others what you know? Sounds legit! 😎
@jcvp2493 The repetition thing's a good call. Tho easier said than done...😅
Thank you, Mr. Sung, for this very illuminating and mind-altering content!
Amazing!!!!! Amazing!!!! Amazing!!! thank you Dr Sung
Really curious on how to do those learning through layers effectively.. it seems we need more tutorials on how to do it in the right way to achieve those lateral connections in learning. Anyway, thank you Justin for your top notch content!
That makes sense. It explains why sometimes i was learning so fast that everyone shocked and i was able understand things so quickly. Examples giving me the way i learned in past subconsciously. Nowadays i became more like a linear learner and to remember my old days a high order learning method was much more efficient.
Wow, I've been doing this without knowing it is a technique, simply because I work in IT. A lot of times, we have to get things working, and if the problem resides in an area we don't have expertise in, we need to get help from the people who are more intimately familiar. But in order to work together, we all have to form some kind of mental images of how things work first then take guesses.
Think I’m on a roll for comments and gonna help out those who might see
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Read the following two books
- get better at anything by scott h young
- hyper focus by chris bailey
Refer to other RUclips
- rian Doris on flow
- Justin’s other videos and interviews with similar or crossover content creators
All will tie in nicely after going through
And you will need a good huge canvous of mind map to allow your brain to figure out when you’re asleep
21:45 - about finding/creating relevancy in order to retain information (within learning at a higher speed)
This video is an absolute treasure. Thank you for sharing!
My undergraduate thesis is on transfer learning and this is precisely what transfer learning means. Let's takes what you have already learned in the past and try to actively map to whatever new knowledge you're trying to learn now. 27:05
My take is that not to hold too tight on to all the old assumptions when you're trying to learn new stuff. For example, when I was learning the c++ language from a Java developer background, it really hurts my head to see how many different conventions C++ has. But once I can kind of let go of some of the old conventions of doing things in Java, I have an open mind and it really helps me to learn c++ faster.
this is very very helpful videos , really appreciate you share it with us.
very nice video, Justin is pretty smart and knows what he's talking about. I didn't know I was already kind of applying these concepts in my learning, this made many things more clear to me now. Thanks for posting.
I knew that i have to add relevance to my information , i always have problems with the information I have kept in my mind , just in seconds it vanishes from my mind.
Thank you for the brilliant information you delivered to us .
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An excellent video! Also loved the questions the CEO's posed because it was similar to the ones I had whilst watching. This vid also helped connect many of the other concepts I've picked up from you other videos! Thank you so much!!
What an intro to a presentation. We can all learn from that. Best 1 minute intro for a workshop/presentation I heard in a long time. Thanks and great job
Awesome presentation. So many valuable points!!
What a precious resource ! Thank you so much for sharing.
Excellent session Justin.
Thats a great way to learn my German ! I was looking for each individual little bit of word trying to translate the meaning to italian or english checkig if it makes sense in portuguese. But is better to feed the mold on the way tha you explained ! Well played Justin!
Very excited to expand on this model of learning. I have used a similar model to organize data intense subjects like my MLO exam. This method seems to expand even further.
This changes EVERYTHING
Your best video yet. Good job
Simply excellent, Justin!
"We're working out knowledge in layers of mastery, rather than order of information." 29:53
This info is so valuable. Had several lightbulb moments listening to you. I wish we learned these techniques in school.
So pretty much running scenarios in your brain and picking the right close one that is correct? Then adjust based on what you learn on the way.
I stumbled upon this video , out of no where
Well thanks to youtube algorithm i guess
I use as a learning platform as always
Thank You for This brilliant Guide on Learning
28:35 great so far, but there are some things that can only be learned in linear fashion...slow thinking leading to lightbulb, usually very complicated and too subtle to understand without purposeful, linear order. For instance, a framework philosophy could be developed which is only able to be understood in this way (purposeful), because the information was designed only to be understood in that way. Anyways, that would be highly rare, so great job!
This is good information. I am trying to see how I can incorporate these ideas in my Bible Studies for personal study and sermon preparation. I want to learn and teach so much, but it takes me such a long time because I like to handwrite everything. I'm going to try these tips and see how it goes.
I noticed at 40:19 there is the old version of Bloom's Taxonomy when you demonstrated Higher order thinking vs lower order thinking. In the course, you primarily use Bloom's revised taxonomy, with "create" as the highest level (PhD level) as opposed to "evaluate" in the old version. Is there something wrong?
Yupp good catch!
Justin, you are a Genius!!!
Not a professional yet but superr excited!
Being proactive is key 🔑
19:00 Learning is extremely energy consuming
22:47 skimming the book
very helpful. thank you Justin and team :D
TRUE THINKING FAST IS IMPERATIVE BUT TO KNOW THE TIME TO SAY THINGS IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT SO NEVER BE RUNNING YOU BETTER SAY THINGS ON THE RIGHT TIME, ALWAYS ...
Thank you! It's an amazing strategy. I'll put it on practice!
I'm struggling in grad school and I can say I'm down to try this, got nothing to lose at this point
You've become one of my mentors now. I'm grateful the algorithm sent me this video of yours as I plan my career change and thirst for more knowledge and self-improvements! Thank you for sharing what you know and do best. All the best!
I would like to learn more about how I can optimize my students’ learning, such as what you talked about briefly at the end of this video.
This is really good 👍 bravo world best knowledge Coach
Hi Justin, I'm going through your content in the hopes of teaching my kids ( two under 2) wondering if you have any counterparts in the child learning space. I've found using the terminology you use in searching when searching has significantly increased the quality of resources I've found so thank you
I think they are kids .. maybe don’t worry too much about it right now
Thanks for this video! I learnt something valuable and it helped me evaluate how I've done some of my recent trainings in a linear and knowledge building structure and left wondering if that was the most effective way to deliver the training. Your video gave me great insights to the individual learning process and how I could help my participants elevate their learning experience as well as making these sessions more meaningful to them!
This has to be the most meta, confusingly sensible presentstion
Curious if anyone else can recommend other videos/resources that show a general outline/overview of Justin's learning methodologies/system?
Glad to have found this one - it's pretty thorough and good , but wanting to see if there are others
#1 thing that matters for learning: mental state. Get your brain into the right frequently brainwaves for the type of learning activities. Focused vs creativity are different, dancing while singing vs playing flute are different. Figure out the specific mental state, and the right time to repeat. You want to know you attention. If your mind is clear, focused and alert, then you will do better no matter what. Ok I'm def gone now. Good luck kids.
this saved my entire life, thanks Doc!
Justin did work but that book shelf is the real hardest worker in the room.
I appreciate everything word, thanks so much 🎉