My Most POWERFUL Study Trick (Any Subject)

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[@e-senpai9240]

A summary: There are different levels of difficulty with any topic. In the same material, there can be areas of varying difficulty. So he's saying to be efficient you should learn the parts that you easily understand and skip the parts that you're finding hard. Make sure to mark down where those hard parts are. Then go back afterwards and see if you understand it a second time around. Because you're gaining prior knowledge, it should give you a foundation to learn some of the difficult parts. And you can repeat this process as many times as needed. He calls the technique "order control". Additional tip from me: If you've done this process and still have parts you don't get, take what you are having trouble with and try to reword what's being said. Don't repeat phrases unless there's no synonyms. Often textbooks or professors will use very clunky, overly verbose phrasing. If you can break down what is being said to its fundamentals and with the most basic terminology, you'll comprehend it much better. This is one step of the Feynman technique, I believe.

[@Reverae]

I never thought of using quillbot for this purpose, thanks

[@Zetsuke4]

Hmm

[@Why_is_gamora]

thank you for saving my time.

[@JustinSung]

Thanks for the summary! I'll just contend that using a paraphrasing bot is not a good idea because it offloads cognitive load onto a software when that very cognitive load is actually the most important process for higher quality encoding. Always remember that the input and output are less important than the processes your brain activates to transform the input into the output. Any shortcut to that TENDS to reduce either retention, depth of mastery, or both :)

[@vishi6182]

@@JustinSung true i checked it and its kind of inefficient. gotta rely on my brain only.

[@just_tammy]

I do a similar technique that I learnt from Unjaded jade. It was applied to past papers . You basically went through a past paper marking down questions or topics you failed to comprehend or could not recall. She called these “knowledge gaps” which you would then revise on so that later on when u tackle the question again, you’ll be able to answer it. Now I can try applying it to my studying ✨🙌🏽, Thank you for your help Justin! I’ve been learning to study more efficiently thanks to your videos🙏

[@nuthara1617]

Plz give me that video link

[@lacthetomato]

Justin Sung + Unjaded Jade = studying efficiency to the 100000000% bdbfngkv damn!!! They both are my favorite studying channels, I literally jumped of emotion when I saw somebody else here who watches Jade's vids ^^

[@amr...3]

Guys i need help I need to memorise alot of words for english exam and French exam But i don't know how to do that And he always talk about topics that need understanding and connecting ideas..etc But it's not the case here So please someone help me how do i memorise alot of vocabulary

[@just_tammy]

@@amr...3 hey, I’m not sure if I can help but I think any method based on active learning and relevance would be useful. Maybe like association, assigning a word to the corresponding object (even a picture of it) or scenario. Like when using a pen when studying, you can be calling it a pen but in the language you are trying to learn. Another thing I would do is maybe group words depending on where they can be used. Like I’m taking a walk, I would group together words that correspond to the scenario eg trees, the sky idk bugs? I feel it makes it easier to remember. I hope it gives you an idea of what you could do. Hope I helped in some way.

[@just_tammy]

@@nuthara1617 hey, I hope this can still be useful kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqnOm52LaZebbtU

[@kiddhkane]

There's another metaphor to this: If you are solving a jigsaw, you don't pick a random piece and see if it's the top left corner, and do it piece by piece. You find a piece that you can easily put somehwere (corner or edge usually) and than build on top of that. Also you can look for most easily solved parts, like a characteristic color.

[@ponpuri842]

That's such a good way of describing this technique. Thanks

[@rohitiyer285]

Love this thank you

[@tatitatoes2673]

great

[@mr.ben-dover7249]

Wow. Best example

[@Odd-z-Ball]

zigsaw analogy is very relevant

[@kingjulian1202]

your single most powerful thing that you taught me is "you don't learn with your paper, you learn with your brain"... That's one thing I never really realized... I was always just looking into my papers and just memorized some things, without ordering them in usefulness or anything... you taught me, that you really need to understand the topic you are learning about... And literally in every subject my grades went at least one if not two grades higher and I have the best grades in my whole school life... thanks for everything

[@lfe2830]

I Absolutely agree with you!

[@AmmoBops]

Exactly, although most will claim it’s common sense… most of us never actually “think” most of us are lazy and the school system and society glorifies things that come easy When you stop and go through the dirty work of thinking, you come to realize a lot of things are much easier then you thought prior. Even if it’s a super complex topic where you think as hard as you can but still can’t wrap your brain around it…, it’s still way better then not even attempting. Sometimes it can take more than one time of super hard thinking to understand a topic, this has happened to me many times I’m a straight A student as of right now and I’m still trying to improve because of personal goals I know my grades probably won’t stay A’s as I’m entering my second year of college majoring in Comp Eng but I can at least try my best

[@_anime_shawty7654]

​@@AmmoBopsi have a question. How do u learn so much content while using space repeation bc it would just over load. Also what techniques do you use

[@AmmoBops]

@@_anime_shawty7654 I have a genuine curiosity to learn as much as I can, and it’s not for the sake of “feeling smart” but because you are literally giving yourself more tools 🛠️ for the next situation (in life, school etc…). I have a genuine hate for being uneducated, to feel so helpless drives me crazy. I think the combination of these two fuel me into storing a lot that I learn in class/life as “important”. I also tend to ask many questions in my brain while learning something, I call these “no brainer” questions, where if I forget the information, I can simply remember my answers to the no brainer Q’s and peice it back together. It’s not about memorizing shit at all… it’s about making something feel so obvious (because you understand it so well) that it’s hard to forget, or if you do forget, you’ll have the critical thinking skills to re-figure it out.. I hope this helps 👌

[@AmmoBops]

@@_anime_shawty7654 some of my No brainer questions include: “Why am I learning this” “Where can this be applied in real life” “If given a homework problem on this topic, how would I go about solving it.” The point of these questions are for you to make deeper connections to what you already know if life, so that it sticks longer/makes sense. 😄

[@yuliaglazkova5668]

Order control technique: Change the order in which you study. 3 sets of text: 1. Original material 2. The things you don't understand - add the things you feel you can only memorise 3. Your notes Revisit the notes you took. Then the record of the things you didn't understand and note down the stuff you understand now (after your initial notes). Start from the top again. If you reach isolated information that you don't understand still after multiple itterations - then begin to memorise it

[@beakless_duck]

So important to be aware of how cognitive biases like the framing bias and anchoring bias can skew our learning. It's really empowering to be in control of the way you take in information

[@KrazyFalcon]

fr

[@anthony.s6889]

hey beakless good to see someone also on the discord chat😂

[@Productimothy]

Haha our Discord profiles are homogenous to multiple environments.

[@thanosthemadtitan5518]

What do you mean

[@dontaefranklin6804]

I've done this when learning languages. I thought I was just lazy cuz I only pay attention to what's the easiest to assimilate and skip the rest. Usually on the second run through a book all the stuff that was hard the first time is much easier to understand the second time! Thanks!

[@marktomanda537]

Can you tell me your summarized progress? Or how you did the study trick? I didn't get to catch up all in the video because my brain was rambling

[@marktomanda537]

I'm also try to learn languages but I don't know how to start or what study hack I should do

[@malou1563]

@@marktomanda537 if you got any help please reply lol

[@t111ran3]

@@marktomanda537 bro did you watch the video? it's literally a study hack

[@marktomanda537]

@@t111ran3 I watched it, thought my head was rambling because I partly don't get it

[@sylvesterady]

I used to fail my math classes before but after I started doing some advanced math that was out of my league, my math is getting better and better now. This trick is really helpful. Thank you.

[@sylvesterady]

@@sawsansalem4400 I would say that practising everyday is the way to go. Try doing HOTS questions everyday. Starting with previous grade is also a good method to build and strengthen your basics but make sure to attempt only HOTS questions. That's all I could give you. I'm not sure if this is even helpful or not but I hope it do help you to get a general idea on what to do

[@yannablue4844]

What is the best way to strength your basics ? For example like calculus?

[@bernadettemcenteehart5901]

As a fellow teacher this approach makes sense as long as I don’t put myself in an uncomfortable psychological state. I enjoy this way. It also allows me to access my memory in a very relaxed pleasant manner. So the whole experience is something I enjoy.

[@cattelgibson5354]

I wish I had access to your teachings as a child. Your channel is life changing!

[@shani245]

This is amazing and this makes so much sense. Recently I've been doing the same but I didn't realise this is what I'm doing and I wanted to understand why I understand so many things faster and easier than others. Now I realise this is one of the main things I do. I recently finished studying the whole syllabus for an exam the same way. Thank you for helping me realise and understand the method I'm using. Because people ask me what methods I use but I don't understand what methods I actually use 😅

[@divhaninetshiombo2578]

Please teach me, I’m struggling

[@petervanaltena5781]

Hey doc… 56 year old here, having to start learning something completely new again and starting to study again. This challenge forced me to think about how I can effectively learn… never had to do that in the past - at least not based on a strategy - so looking for ways to improve. Your content is great for that! Thanks so much for putting that out there and allow me for a next step in my career…

[@bishnietech]

I just realized that you teached us almost everything we need to know about effective ways of studying and more. And I hope you keep up with your KZbin channel. Cause you really got big potential on YT more than you could even imagine. I believe you will reach 5 million subs if you dedicated to your channel

[@stephsmemo]

This reinforces for me what Tim Ferris calls ‘sequencing’. Everyone gives it their own name. Thanks for posting 👍

[@roziwrya9360]

I use the method you’re talking about when I’m in a hurry and need to put the information in head very fast. I remember when I was a 1st year in highschool we had a human rights test that decided 60% of our grades that semester and I managed to procrastinate the entire night before the test until it became 5 am and my bus was going to pick me up at 7 am. I literally rummaged through the entire thing (I hadn’t done any studying before either) and with every page I would remember the conversations and debated we would have with our teacher in class. I studied for approximately 28 minutes and slept the rest till 10 minutes before my bus would pick me up. I told my friends about it and they all expected that I would fail (myself included) but miraculously I got a 48 out of 60! All my friends who had studied their asses off got less than I or a couple of marks higher (they were all glaring at me saying I was lucky while I was laughing my ass off)

[@TheCreator67]

Please brother can you just brief your method 🙏🙏

[@cpa8439]

Great 🎉🎉,I think you can brief the idea in more general to us. Does the material involved dates and numbers or just facts and concepts only!

[@roziwrya9360]

@@TheCreator67 hello, sorry I just saw your reply cause these past months I’ve been busy with the national exams in my country 😅, the way I was able to do that is that I just learnt to read really quickly, like it’s a manga tbh, and part of my subjects were about the magna carta and Oliver Cromwell and some of the other subjects were about WW1 and WW2 and the history of the UN and also about the atrocities that my own people had gone through under a dictatorship, I had already known about those subjects because of my own curiosity before, but as I have said before, I also remembered all of the debates and conversations my class had with our teacher and that made it easier for my to understand the subject whilst reading, and for the annoying parts that I had no ideas about I just read them very attentively and said The words to myself again because when I say things out loud I feel like someone else is teaching me and I can know what parts I don’t exactly understand so I just read those parts again. Whilst on the test, for questions that I had no idea how to answer, first I made sure to understand what the question demanded (my teachers used to say understanding the question is half of the answer) and I just used common sense in that type of subject, my teacher was a bit strict with our wordings (she said that we had to use the same exact words as the book which was annoying as hell), so make sure you have a good vocabulary AND NEVER USE SLANGS (they hate those things), as for the subject itself I knew the ideas and not a photocopy of the paper in my head so I just wrote very eloquently and made sure to let the teacher know through my answers that I understood that subject. (Sorry for the long paragraph) and p.s: I’m a sister 😊 Another p.s: please do not procrastinate the test like I did because to this day I still feel very guilty about it and in no way do I endorse or support delaying your studies that much, I was just lucky because the answers were not the hard for me but I do not know you or how you study so please take that into consideration❤️.

[@roziwrya9360]

@@cpa8439 hello, I just wrote how I studied at that time for another comment please take a look.

[@TheCreator67]

@@roziwrya9360 Thank you for your advice I'm very grateful to you 😊

[@DavidAnderson-z6j]

I love how you simplify even the toughest ideas!

[@submeg5183]

JUSTIN! Just...wow. I am a) super excited to incorporate this into my own learning immediately and b) super annoyed that I wasn't aware of this technique when I was studying! The amount of effort, frustration and feelings of "I'm not smart enough" would have been eliminated! I recently commented on another of your videos about how I'm trying to learn piano / music and that I'm stuck....I feel like this would have helped me move through some of the topics / pieces of music much faster instead of trying to microstudy and rote learn things. Right now I am creating a map of the whole concept of learning chords from sight and sound, and I'm hoping that it will identify where my weaknesses / lack of understanding lies. Will report back what I discover...

[@suzie15ful]

YES!

[@deva1944]

Unknowingly, I use these methods years ago, back then I civil student was learning by myself concept of civil engineering physics called "Moment Mechanic". I could recall and understand most of basic concept, and solve ptoblems also, yet frustated by the fact that I didnt get to know how the fundamental principle could be applied to certain advanced case/or how to utilize that certain concept for further analysis or creation, just then I read some thesis and I get some gist and able to re-engineer my way of study so that I am able to get what I wanted. I thought I was being crazy doing that because that wasn't what taught by professor... but now, to listen Justin explaining similar things that I've done, damn, now I thought this is hella advanced man.

[@nazmulhasannayem5827]

This man is a game changer. Thanks justin u have changed a lot

[@harshitarawat8941]

This is really good. I generally tend to focus a lot on things that don't make sense and look them up so I can get their concept. But this strays me away from the actual material and I end up finding even more terms or concepts that I don't know while trying to understand that one thing. Im definitely going to apply this from now on.

[@vanessa.nguyen]

I relate so much!

[@itsnotif.itswhen]

Same! I get stuck then eventually give up...

[@Lavendercandle]

Omg ive been there

[@roriefriz9068]

This is exactly how I feel and I waste SO MUCH TIME and then i get so fuckin frustrated too, like at the end of my study session I just wanna throw my physics notebook out the window, swear

[@henlokitty3358]

True. I always got bad grades in chemistry. Struggled for three years in highschool. This year i have graduation exams and one of the subjects i chose was chemistry. I started with general chemistry... Turns out i couldnt do well all the years before because i didnt even know the basic stuff. Now i still struggle but mainly to remember all of the compounds reactions and shit. Its so much easier to understand it tho.

[@devanshipandey430]

How did you cover the basic chemistry? I struggle with it too

[@framemaxxer]

I think I learnt this lesson naturally. Basically, I hit a wall of trying to learn some abstract mathematical concept that just didn't click, and also there are so many rabbit holes in math. I told myself, "generality over speciality" --> meaning to not trying to dig further when there is still more bredth to achieve. so hit the bredth then the depth, and then again with the main message of this video: you'll have other pieces of the puzzle that will actually allow you to piece THAT confusion piece... Alhamdulilah

[@lianxiaotong]

0:00 intro 0:52 example 2:24 most efficient way to get to year 9 biology

[@JeromeBautista-mi9vl]

Thank you so much for your free youtube videos. You have no idea how much it has changed my studying and my life!

[@Dank_Lulu]

Hello, Dr. Sung! I believe the concise way this was explained will help me use it better, since I ended-up doing something similar, trying to gauge my cognitive load while studying. When I would get tired and too confused, I would either skip the topic (leaving energy to spare) or attempt to slowly wrap my head around it (and tire-out quickly). Problem is, I would do that for half an hour, instead of the recommended minute, so now I know ! Thanks! :D

[@hamzahal-qadasi1771]

But when you skip this hard-to-understand information, you will often encounter the concepts getting harder when you move forward into the book. Because the knowledge is accumulative, and each chapter is built based on the previous chapters. Thus, you will find it harder and harder to understand and you end up with a long list of hard-to-understand pieces of information.

[@会供価]

maybe trying to this 1 chapter at time?

[@vb-kh8mp]

it's always been easy for me to do this sort of thing with math, and it's my favorite subject. this is my first time hearing a clear explanation of this technique; i appreciate this

[@会供価]

Ok I'm curious, how would u use this strategy to solve a math problem with words?

[@davidthebanana8522]

​@@会供価 im not sure but i dont think you can tackle specific problems with this strategy. Instead, you can use mind-maps to learn the topic(s) the problem involves.

[@GradStudentTutorials]

Framing Bias - 13:26 Anchoring Bias - 13:38

[@bowzally1281]

Thanks, this actually worked pretty well. I was trying to understand something about frictional force at physics and now I finally did. I'm gonna keep using this, obviously.

[@TheCreator67]

Summary please

[@taraleigh9951]

Help!

[@alaekharbouch2308]

7:19 What if I told you that .. We indeed already have that Text book! How cool and meaningful it would be to connect the content within that textbook with the prior knowledge in our minds!

[@echognomecal6742]

Got me good with that fake out. Had never seen this channel before, so I had no idea what to expect. Was just about to close the video. Nicely done.

[@atef962]

You’re a hero. I’ve followed the instructions provided in your other videos, and they have evidently worked for me.

[@joycherotich9995]

Bro..hope wherever you are you are healthy and happy.I will not let your efforts and dedication go unrewarded.

[@lisakhooteong]

I just discovered Dr Justin Sung! Glad I did. Maybe oo late for me but not too late for my daughter who is struggling with her prep for the O levels next year! 😃

[@anowarjradwan]

Man! Honestly, watching this video made me really articulate about what I was doing. Because I was using the same technique I just didn't know the name for it or the science behind it.

[@PppPppPpp1]

1:20 3:00 Study PHD first and then to understand and then the high school 8:40 source material, skipped elements, notes 10:00 forcing the line by repetition means bad encoding. Take key-note and move on, even if it happens frequently. Focus in what made sent. Now you have your prior knowledge. Then, it starts making sense, you know why it is relevant. Makes sense - keep Does not - leavr for later Then, start from the top, now you have more prior knowledge Working memory capacity is short, seconds, frame it, organize to begin it. 13:30 framing bias, anchor bias

[@Med_Amine374]

Wow, I love your intriguing ways of approaching learning ... I always learn something new from your videos. Thanks a lot :) During my Uni, this was almost the only technique I used -intuitively- with a virtual mapping (no note taking, almost no spaced repetition - y can say I was lazy) and was able to get average degrees!

[@o_enamuel]

Order control this video: skip to 7:55 and then come back to 2:45.

[@dontaskmynameifyoucantpron4280]

It makes sense and it reminds me of when i was in volleyball course and we were weak so the teacher gave us heavier balls .It was super hard at first but we continued with those balls. In the end of the course they gave us the normal balls and it felt like whenever i touch it was flying across the field. I haven't watched the whole thing but i guess he talks about this in a different way.

[@adamwitwicky2789]

No, it's opposite

[@unknowninfinium4353]

Welcome back man, I know you have a busy schedule and have your thing going on, putting food on the table. But we were glad to see you dude. Hope all is well on your side. Stay safe.

[@user-ez7pq9eu8e]

4:15 5:10 it’s inefficient if we start too advanced 5:30 sentence 1-foundational knowledge (different level of difficulty) -require prior knowledge build foundational knowledge

[@TimboSlice08]

Wish I learned this before Med school. I was all over the place when I first started bc it felt like everything went way over my head

[@skejeton]

This is how I learned English (as my second language). I just looked at words that I knew, translated words I didn't know and tried to make sense of it

[@trcherrera]

I kindof do this when I start to study a course. I would check out the outline and categorize which ones are familiar and which ones are unclear. I would plan more for those which are challenging. I find it useful. Thanks for verifying this technique also work for others!

[@JustinSung]

You're welcome

[@idunusegoogleplus]

I found watching Justin's video at 1.75 times speed much easier to get the full picture of what he's trying to say kind of like the technique he explained here but for listening instead of reading because I get to link much faster between ideas the more of his content I can cover.

[@bingboidagreat8817]

i use the feynman technique unknowingly. It makes sure you break down a topic enough so that a todler can understand it. its essentially this technique but reverse (the joke technique he said at the start), accept i am good at esstablishing connections quickly across topics and subjects so that skill made the unorganized form of this technique work for me. I will work on improving it and conscientiously use it. Thanks a lot

[@JessicaJobe-i3e]

You explain difficult concepts so well!

[@heitorabreu3045]

Other thing that supports the process of skipping the difficult part is the idea that while we are not focused in that specific part, the brain is still processing that and this time of processing will be already enough. Is like you having a hard time to pass one level in the game, but after you relax and chill a litte, when you get back, you get ot pass the level in the first try.

[@allicanseeispink]

I made it through law school fighting against myself while studying and I wish past me even from back in college found your tips sooner 😅 These are rly helpful, thanks!

[@fernandacoco8004]

THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING, HAVING a higher level to begin makes the basic inherantly more understandable. A lot of the stuff u say in your videos ive noticed in my own learning but the problem I have is finding the techniques to learn the things uk. Like highlevel learning.

[@bishnietech]

I sufferd a lot from bad order of information through this high school year, and I thought about why the authors don't excert more efforts to repeat some information or put it in the simplest order to make sense out of it. I even thought about skipping irrelevant or hard information but the fact that I'm in high school makes me a lot anxious about skipping something although I know I'll get to it later. so It's good to know that there is someone like you think the right way and encourages the right studying strategies ❤ these videos just makes me more certain and confident about the way I think you are doing greater job than you really think ! I hope you share more of your knowledge on youtube 😊 your YT student from Egypt

[@bardanism]

Pretty good thing to apply to our study routine.... effective as it works fine for me !!!! Here is simplified summary version for study enthusiasts !!! 1.Imagine level of knowledge difficulty as in hierarchy of : PHD→University→High school→School(grade 9/10) 2.Can a grade 9 student , if asked to study…PHD thesis,understand it and grasp the knowledge ? Of course not … as higher the level.. higher will be a necessity to know pre-level concepts or knowledge. 3. So, let's approach studying for any level in a simple way irrespective of complex study techniques or methodologies… i. Divide the study material into sections a-z (like 9a,9b……9z) based on chronology of concepts or understandings in that particular subject i.e TO understand about 9c , need to be clear on 9a→9c and so on…. ii. We will know such sections automatically as we go thru study subject . So don't worry… iii.Stop urs urge to understand everything in one go !!! a.Fix urs source material 1st… then Go thru eg. Chapter 9 : a→z b.Focus on things u know beforehand and can make sense in one go !!! c.Segregate into things u can make sense and just can’t make sense …(In ur notes or whatever u will come back later..) d.Now as u finish this pattern in one go, come back to things u can’t make sense…. which will give less of a headache to understand in this review round !!! e. Still can't make sense of it ? ….. Maybe it's just a Isolated information …. which can be rote learned or might make sense in future as we will assimilate further new concepts in our life !!! 4. Be aware of your cognitive biases like Framing and Anchoring biases !!! We need to take control over how we take the information in(encoding and higher level learning) !!! Otherwise , harder and entangled the order of information that is taken in is ……. it will just leave us frustrated, when we try to relearn that material in next go !!! So ,rather than fixating on learning in Linear order…. just Learn in Non-linear pattern ….. and relieve urself of BigTime stress now and later !!!

[@sundayrose8954]

🙏

[@Matt-iy2cf]

Don't talk year 9a, b, c. Give practical example that actually works. But you can't, can you? Because for a newb it's not possible to map out the road to the top without prior knowledge of intermediate steps

[@aissatabangoura2908]

Love this so much, I didn’t realize but I noticed that a lot of what you were saying was tips I was doing for my math subjects. And trust me when I say it works!!!😭😭 love how you put words to the things us learners may or may not be doing already

[@gagandeepsingh-nx6fo]

I kind of did this unknowingly. Read through the headings of the chapter, some i was familiar with and some not. So I decided to start with the easiest parts. This helped me get in flow and unknown topics started to make a lil more sense too. Thx for structuring the technique.

[@roriefriz9068]

I don't know how to change in terms of studying. Like I know I'm not efficient at all and I'm not getting anything out of my study sessions, except for frustration. Every time I sit down and study and read smth and I don't understand, I ask a bunch of questions. And then I go down a rabbit wholr of trying to understand those and then there's smth that I find regarding those and then in the end I'm just at a completely different topic than I was in the beginning. It's like I can't not do that, literally feel like I can't learn because I always feel I need to understand all other layers that make up the topic and then I get lost in those and I never get to the topic at hand. And I'm so overwhelmed and feel so lost and helpless. It's like there's no end, there's always gonna be the next thing that frustrates me and I get stuck on, and then research that for hours. It's like HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LEARN, ITS ALL TOO MUCH

[@jimm_2279]

Build prior knowledge, skip difficult to understand things. Then go back and look at those things

[@TheQueenIsWithin]

Read source material Make notes of things you don't understand and skip them Review the things you don't understand and have skipped and the answer will come to you later. Will this work for someone with ADHD?

[@shivashukla2919]

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[@dakgaeulbi3783]

I didn’t even realize I was doing this like whenever I’m in class and I find it hard to focus, I would just jot down what the professor is currently saying. When I understand the discussion, I don’t even write it down jdjs but sometimes I get anxious since even if I understand something, I tend to forget it. I guess that’s where the flashcards should come in.

[@littlehalf4796]

“Anything that takes more than a minute to wrap your head around, skip it.” Me reading Morin’s classical mechanics:

[@ReflectionOcean]

- Recognize learning efficiency as time to knowledge mastery (0:14). - Understand that starting with too advanced material is inefficient (4:05). - Identify information that is too complex and skip it initially (8:27). - Create a separate list of difficult concepts to revisit later (8:38). - Take notes of concepts that are easily understood (8:52). - Avoid rote memorization without understanding (9:54). - Reorder study material based on foundational knowledge (11:13). - Revisit skipped material after building a better knowledge base (12:00). - Use the "order control" method to optimize study time (16:06). - Implement advanced techniques gradually for more efficiency (16:38).

[@yousefahmad538]

So this is basically a take on the saying "if you can't solve a math problem there's a simpler one out there that you can"

[@nadong89]

Thanks for the tip! I’m a classroom teacher (specifically math) and I was curious what that one high impact technique would be.. and I did not expect this! It does make sense given that, especially in math, that students have very difficult time learning current year concepts if they have gaps in the right prior knowledge. I thought what you were going to say was assimilating all new information based on the big picture story we are developing about the subject and house new content in within the big picture because you mention the high importance of making connections in your high efficiency encoding ideas in other videos. We may argue that both the strategy I predicted and the one you shared aren’t mutually exclusive. I have a question coming from a teacher’s perspective. How might students use this strategy in let’s say a high school course? High school Students mainly learn through the teacher’s lectures and not directly from a textbook (at least in our school), so in other words, How would students have such control to skip harder topics and come back to it after the first sweep? Would they just do some priming before a unit or lesson on their own prior to the unit or lesson by using this strategy while skimming through the upcoming unit or lesson a few sweeps? Thanks for any tip you sure and of course, the content of this video.

[@grqfes]

high school math is killing me and i dont know how this order control stuff could be applied to math. at least the way my school does it. we literally just do the problems always and thats it. really difficult to figure out what to study or how or when.

[@foodisgoodthatsthetruth3231]

@@grqfes are there multiple math teachers or one from a higher year level? Asking multiple teachers is a great idea :) especially since they can have different teaching styles. Make sure you know your building blocks for the current topics, and look up real life uses/applications for it.

[@happiestman978]

So cool. You just described something to me that l found myself to be very effective though my own introspection, but you described it to me in a different in-depth way of understanding it. You also added some techniques that l hadn't thought to try that could work with this learning style. Great video!

[@Lao_Zi_369]

Wow, I feel that I'm quite picky when it comes to what information I choose to not only retain but also put into practice. This is the first video I've ever seen from you and well, I'm at a loss for words because although I was going to just do a quick pass through and essentially scope you out, I noticed that just about everything you spoke on I have experienced and or am experiencing right now. So rather than just scooped you out, I'm about 3/4 ton of the video and I'm highly considering looking more into you and some of those courses you spoke on. Thank you ao much.

[@fernwehtwl]

when i was an undergrad it was more than 10 years ago and we didn't have resources like this .. there was no active recall or spaced reptition that was widely spread out online to teach people this .. the new generation has more resources than we older generation had!

[@_combousl7062]

Justin, could you give us a full quided techniques for encoding and retrieving for both begginers and professionals And i think this is going to be super popular, because people want a full technique like in the course not just trends

[@_combousl7062]

ok , after watching videos i finally understood that i was wrong and i should understand the basic principles

[@pinchout6426]

Hi Justin, i hope you read this. I really hope you read this and give me some feedbacks for your next video. I hate math, really hate math that whenever i Saw math test its like an autopilot which i will automaticly Will refuse to see it, even when i need to solve it. Once i have this math test for passing grade but i dont want to try to calculate, the test includes around 40 assignments so.. i did zero right assignment, even tho for some assignment i did calculate it. I just cant, whenever i'm trying to learn ofc i understand, but then when i need to solve it, i refuse to think hard in autopilot mode, so it's affecting my focus and the way solve it cause i don't know how. For easy example, i cant even calculate sale on market, like how much do i need to pay for 50$ thing if it has 73% discount, even to calculate thing as simple as that, it can take me years just to think about it. I'm of course struggling with this, i feel like my whole years of education is useless and i cant keep up with the people around me. This makes me feel negative emotion and burden personally. Please help me and send some feedbacks if you don't mind. Pardon my english, i hope everyone can understand.

[@giova9492]

This guy it's a gift from nature, God bless you

[@romyt9816]

Great. Thanks, I have been learning a lot from your video in these days.

[@antor.morsalin]

For mathematics and engineering problems, when you start solving problem you should try top do very hard problems once in a while and get back to the problems you were solving previously. This is obviously after you have gone through all the concepts and theoretical parts. Doing this helps if you are stuck at beginner level problems. Even observing how hard problems are being solved helps with the easy and medium once.

[@paulavk3679]

Hi Justin Sung, I would like you to put your videos with subtitles because they are interesting for me and I am also learning English, thank you.

[@winniensimbi9924]

Ì like this video, thank you. Some Bible authors use a similar technique to unfold complex issues: it's called repeat & enlarge. I just never thought to apply that principle to my studies. Thanks again, makes perfect sense to me.

[@msm7076]

Justin can you make a video on why you should do medicine and shouldnt become a doctor

[@PurEvil10]

Order Control a form of rereading for 1st time learning (based on the idea of bloom's taxonomy)

[@JoaquinCamposM]

lol, when I don't understand something and it's hard to process it, I just literally force myself to try again till I get it, ig I've been doing it wrong, gonna try skipping it till I've a stronger base like u suggest, ty!

[@blaizecramer6052]

This is literally the same strategy that Olly Richards built the “short stories in…” series around. The idea is to read a passage in a foreign language, and don’t worry about missing words, grammar, or information. You finish it and then go back and read it again. You look at the vocab list and go back and read it again. You answer the questions and go back and read it again. It’s all about comprehensible input, and the input can’t be comprehensible if you’re not building that base first.

[@guilherme.moraes]

My mind is blown. This makes so much sense. Please keep uploading this content.

[@KyurinDiary]

Thanks for the amazing tips always! You inspire me to become a content creator as great as you!!! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 finger crossed and gonna apply those tricks now for my upcoming exams

[@followtheproven4558]

It's gamechanger, With my internship income I ll buy course too!!

[@Plserror]

Yo bro last year I got 27 per 100 percent mark on biology but this year I got 89%/100% by learning from you thank you brother 🙏 ❤

[@natashabwalyamulenga9721]

I'm ready for it!

[@yahwehbreathed]

Suuuuuper helpful. Thank you Justin!

[@everythingnothing2978]

What I understood from this video is learn from lower level to higher level and if you don't understand the higher level then you need to find some prior knowledge and know more about it .Then you will understand more about it without relying on rote memorization.

[@DAESHON21]

Can you do a video on how to properly go through a textbook?

[@michaelkwan3344]

Looking forward to more videos on order control and higher order learning (and 24 hours to enrollment)! #forthealgorithm

[@romansynovle990]

Whats the technique? Great concept , watched this 3x, not understanding how or what to apply it to

[@lydiahuffington3921]

After watching your first video about Encoding and how the brain works, I’ve been so interested in psychology and how we learn. I’m implementing this technique for my TEFL certification course I’m in right now but it’s also helpful for when I teach future students! I’m also reading a book related to thinking/psychology :)

[@alexwood3459]

I feel like this doesn't work for maths- I've been trying to do this but it often makes the next thing incomprehensible- it does work sometimes, and I'm good at being like- I understand this step, but not the previous one, but that's more algebraic steps than conceptual ideas. If you don't understand something mathematically you often and stuck on it, even if you try to move on the next part will be using some language or reasoning that was established in the bit you don't understand which means the connections just aren't there. I'm also not sure this would work for languages- I'd like to see an example for that. I enjoy learning languages and I'm currently learning the basics in Dutch and improving my fluency in French but can't conceptualise how this would fit in.

[@luisfernandobaltazarvillal8635]

Please make a video specially for mathematics and physics.

[@medielijah]

I feel the 'problem' with that technique is it's quite time consuming. I use a similar version. And I can tackle most hard study topics with it. However the sheer amount of work I need to do especially the note taking and reading through the content takes so much time. I feel this technique is better suited for higher level students who have already a good foundation.

[@advancetotabletop5328]

Step 2: Learn the easy stuff to build a foundation for the harder. Step 1: Identify what‘s easy vs. what’s hard. Step 3: Study the harder stuff. I‘m learning to paint miniatures and it’s more obvious what‘s easy and hard, and you *have* to learn the easy stuff first. Wish RL was as… easy!

[@victoriasalvant5629]

what about, How to over come the fear of, learning insecurities. by the way, your videos helped me to write an effective plan for my next study venture. Good job! thanks!

[@_anime_shawty7654]

Think i have this insecurity too

[@oluwatimilehinakinlade1782]

Thanks in advance Justin Sung. Your videos have helped me a lot and I look forward to this one❤

[@oichiana2002]

What understood from the video : thanks for the information > 1soursce material . 2skipped element 3 notes go through it and every time you feel "doesn't make sence" and you feel that the only solution is to memorize it through force> write it down separately > with some background info on it and move on you will be skipping a lot but slowly we have moreknowledee when we go through it again. and then you know more and understand more and what you skipped first will be easier to understand.

[@kiyokoshimizu8482]

don't know if it's similar but I did accidentally do something that's close to this purely because I wasn't serious with my studies before. during covid I slacked a lot in my studies and then when I finally got a tutor, she started making me do higher level stuff first. she didn't expect me to have knowledge gaps and not know anything. till then I had not even touched the book. but instead of going from easy to hard and learning everything in between I just grabbed a stack of previous exam questions and tried to solve them and analyze how other professors answer and find relevance and comparison between the stem/question. (in highschool most questions that have high marks tied to it are analysis based so that's why I learnt that first.) honestly, I didn't understand everything at first, there were gaps of knowledge but I scraped through. then during finals when I finally got serious, I just skimmed through the question stack, found the questions I was struggling vehemently with before and just read through those once. after that when I finally started actually reading the text book and learning the stuff in it, I realized how easy it was!.as long as someone has basic knowledge of higher order questions, and how questions are posed, it gets so easy to just learn and subconsciously our brain tries to link it with all the questions before and we even sometimes expand the idea ourselves!! got full marks in finals in physics, chem and math. and honestly, think this is the way that works best for me.

[@benjamcg]

Thanks Justin. Great tip!

[@richgrisham]

Something a person my consider to help encode while studying a specific topic or subtopic is chewing a specific flavored gum during each study session. This has two benefits: first the act of chew increases frontal cortex activity in the brain and the specific flavor of gum correlates to the specific topic. So, if you're studying the upper airway, chew grape flavored gum during that study session and every time you go back to that subject.