Stop
studying
What you're doing right now
Might be a waste of time
Read over your notes
Review the class material, highlight things
repetition repetition repetition
These study tactics have been drilled into you for years
but the science is
very clear
Certain study techniques are more beneficial than others
So instead of you spending hours and hours trying to search for the right answer I've
done the work for you and
in today's video you're going to develop a
Significant advantage over the rest of your class your friends and your peers
You're going to learn
the five best techniques
for studying
effectively in less time than anyone else
now
if
you want this to sink in and
You want to be a master student is while you watch
you're going to take action immediately and
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Did you know there are people out there
so good at remembering things that they compete in tournaments of learning and they are known as
memory athletes in an annual contest called the world memory championships
they were given 20 minutes to remember a list of 72 random words and
On average, they scored nearly seventy one of the 72
By contrast an untrained control group could only manage
26
Another example Akira Haraguchi at
69 years old much older than most of you listening in
2006
Recited a hundred and eleven
thousand seven hundred digits of pi from memory at a
Public event near Tokyo. For 16 hours he kept going and going and going
Imagine the power of having a memory like that and
Starting today I want you to imagine yourself as one of them
You're not just a student or a teenager or a grad, but you are a memory
Athlete you're going to become someone with such power over your mind that you can recall
pages of notes
equations formulas that you need without the endless hours of beating
information into your head
but how?
Do you need an innate gift?
Can you learn it?
well, actually
You already have.
Picture where the spoons are kept in your kitchen, the socks in your room, the color of your toothbrush
These memory athletes use an ancient Greek technique called memory
palaces and once you master this technique
you too are going to dramatically improve your ability to study effectively and
Finally open up your dormant reserves of memory
The idea is simple you walk through an environment like your house and you place
Objects in specific places and then you match the things you want to learn with those objects
So when you're trying to remember that information
Perhaps the notes you took that day in class
You don't just think back to your notes
You think of where those notes are in your house, which object did you attach it to? What's the color and you
reapply this
Until it becomes crystal clear in your mind
This technique maps new information onto something that your brain has already
Evolved to do extremely well
recall imagery in specific locations
The second technique for thousands of years people have known that the best way to understand the concept
Explain it to someone else
The second technique I want to introduce you to is
Also known as the protege effect aka
teach someone what you want to learn a
2007 study looked at this how does teaching someone impact your learning?
Students in this study who were also teachers to younger students
They scored higher on tests than pupils who were learning only for their own sake
Why?
Well the researchers found when you choose to teach someone else
You have to work harder to understand the material to recall it more accurately and apply it
more effectively
something known as
depth of processing
Physicist Robert Fineman created a mental model
Called the Fineman technique now some of you may have already seen videos about this on YouTube
This technique has four steps to it
Number one write the name of a concept on a top of a blank page that you want to learn
Number two write down an explanation of the concept as if you're teaching a new student
number three
identify
What's missing? Go back
relearn and step four
review everything
Make sure you're avoiding using complicated language and try to simplify
everything on the page as much as
possible
Now this technique it forces you to deconstruct and then reconstruct ideas
To use this method and learn how to study effectively
Identify first what do you want to learn and then try to imagine you're explaining it to a five-year-old
Number three master students are committed to effective study strategies
But shipwrecked students are committed to ineffective study strategies
If I asked you right now is reading again and again a good way to learn is
highlighting a good way to learn is
Using keyword mnemonics? While all of these they're scientifically proven to be relatively low in
effectiveness for long term learning at the other end of the scale
things like practice tests
Spreading out your learning, they are scientifically proven to boost your performance
Let's take a look
In 2005 a guy called Reagan AR Gurum assessed
229 students using 11 different techniques of studying
He then matched their techniques
With their final exam scores and many but not all of the techniques they used they did achieve
better exam scores
for example the number of hours they put in it did help but
Things like starting studying early or reading material before and after class
That didn't seem to be effective
Reagan also found detriments to studying and one of them was listening to music so
What did he find that does work?
Well Reagan actually found the technique that
strongly predicted your exam score and
That was the number of times a student did practice tests
This one thing above all others had a significant impact on how well they did on their final exam
He even found that
rewriting notes, reviewing highlighted material
it didn't really impact the final exam score that much so like I said,
master students are committed to effective study strategies
but shipwrecked students are committed to ineffective study strategies and
If you want to know which type of student you are click on the link in the description and take the quiz
To find out if you're a master
a dabbler or a shipwrecked castaway when it comes to your study
Not all hustle is created equal
Have you ever heard of
number 4
the Zeigarnik effect is
a concept in psychology that argues
You remember
Uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than the ones that you complete
Why?
When we start a task and then interrupt it
It creates a task specific tension that can improve your cognitive function
So step away from your desk as you study
That tiny little tension that you feel - I still need to finish reviewing that chapter. I haven't done the next paper yet
It keeps the task at the top of your mind and this keeps your brain
focused on it. This way you can easily access that information and
remember it better.
So how do you take advantage of this technique? You take frequent breaks during your deep work
the Zeigarnik effect suggests that students who take breaks during which they perform
totally unrelated activities
studying other subjects, reading a book, going on a three minute walk, playing the piano
they remember material better than the students who go through longer study sessions without taking a break.
A popular way that I'm sure most of you have heard of is the Pomodoro Technique
where you work for 25 minutes, you take a five-minute break, you work for 25 minutes, you take a five-minute break
and
The final tip of this first lesson in our course
Cramming is better than not studying in the short term but is seven hours in one day
Better than one hour every day for a week? If you are given the same amount of time for study
Would you be better off
Spreading it out and the answer is a resounding yes
Space it out. This is known as distributed practice
Distributing learning over time either in a single study session or across
Study sessions. It benefits long-term retention more than massive cramming and learning back-to-back
space your study out and how general are the effects, how consistent? Well one group of
scientists looked at
254 studies
involving over
14,000 people and
overall
Students recalled more after spaced study than after cramming and massed study
So look at the end of the day you have to do what works for you
having family and friends around, replying to your messages on your smartphone, missing class, having the TV on
That's not going to help you but doing practice tests, getting to sleep on time
eating the proper nutrition
Exercising, explaining what you've learned to others using these techniques
They are going to help
So, you know what the techniques are
You have to prepare
effectively, you have to focus on the right things effectively and most of all
You have to take action
every single day
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