- Hey guys,
In this video, I'm gonna review a video
that's on YouTube.
It's a very popular, on study skills.
It's called "Study Less Study Smart."
And this is the video.
It was recorded about 10 years ago
by a guy named Marty Lobdell.
He was a college professor and he created
this video, "Study Less Study Smart."
It's got almost 7 million views now.
It's about an hour long,
so if you kinda wanna get the condensed version,
I'm gonna give you my main points,
the main things that I learned
from this video "Study Less Study Smart"
by Marty Lobdell.
The first thing that I learned
from this video on how to improve your grades
and how to just study better, is study in breaks.
This is something that we've talked
about a lot in this channel.
And he starts off the video by asking the students,
"What do you think is the longest you should study
"without taking a break?"
And some students said five minutes,
some said 30 minutes, some said an hour,
some said four, or five or six hours.
And he's like, "Whoa."
He suggests something that you should study
for about 30 minutes
and then take a five minute break.
This is something that we've talked about on this channel.
This is known as the Pomodoro Technique
and it's where you break studying down into chunks.
Why?
Because there's gonna be a point of diminishing returns.
You're gonna be studying for 20, 25, 30 minutes
and then your studying
is gonna be less, and less, and less and less efficient.
So what you need to do, study for 25, 30 minutes, boom.
Go for a walk, get some fresh air, do some pushups,
have a drink of water, (Instructor inhales)
take some deep breaths.
30 minutes, five minute break, and then do that.
And it's gonna maximize the efficiency
of your study time, because your brain will be more alert.
Point number two,
you should have a place specifically for studying.
He said have a desk that you only study
in, have a chair that you only study in.
He said maybe even have a lamp
that you only use for studying.
And on that lamp, you might get on a piece of paper
and write study lamp.
And when you turn it on, you're telling your brain,
"This is my study lamp.
"It's time to study.
"This is my study desk.
"It's time to study.
"This is my study chair.
"It's time to study."
Do nothing else in that location other than study
and it'll help get you in the right mindset.
Point number three, he says don't listen to music
when you study.
He said it's gonna distract you.
If you're listening to lyrics and comprehending
those lyrics at the same time you're trying to study,
you're studying is gonna be less efficient.
No matter how good you think you are at multitasking,
and listening to music and lyrics,
he said you're gonna be less effective.
Point number four,
he says know the difference between concepts and facts.
For example, if you can all 206 bones
in the human body and you know this is the radius and ulna,
and that's the tibia and the fibula,
And you know this is the mandible,
those are facts.
But if you know what the bones do and what their purpose
is, those are concepts.
He said try to learn concepts instead
of just repeating a bunch of facts.
And here's why.
Number one, that's the goal.
The knowledge is more useful to you
if you understand the concepts.
But even being more useful,
it also is gonna be in your memory longer.
You'll remember something more, if you understand it.
Understand the concept,
it's gonna make it much, much, much stronger in your memory.
This is how you wanna get in your study.
You don't just wanna be repeating facts,
you wanna understand concepts.
Number five, take notes.
Your brain is not a hard drive, you are not a computer.
Take notes.
Don't try to memorize as your teacher
is talking, take notes.
Now, don't take too many notes,
because then you're gonna get caught
up in your notes.
But take notes of the main ideas,
the main bullet points as your teacher's talking
It's gonna engage you in the class,
but it's also going to be a place
that you can go back and review what you learned.
Number six, and this is huge.
He says recognize the difference
between recognition and recollection.
Recognition and recollection.
He says a lot a lot of times students will say,
"I am such a bad test taker.
"I know the material, but when I go in and take the test,
"I can't remember it."
Really what's going on here is when they're studying,
they'll read something
and then they'll go back and they'll read it again.
And when they read it again,
their brain will think, "Oh, yeah, I know that."
Really what's happening
in there is they're recognizing it.
The brain is saying, "Oh, yeah, you studied this."
But it's not actually recollecting it.
It's not actually remembering it.
It's just recognizing it.
And this is why students think they're bad test takers.
So when the test comes, they get the test and they look
at the test and they don't remember anything.
Now, if they opened up the book
they would be like, "Oh yeah, I knew that was in there."
They recognize it.
But they're not remembering it.
To make sure that you are remembering,
or as he says, recollecting, read a chapter
of a book, underline, highlight, mark the main ideas
and then put your hand
over the paper and look away and repeat what you learned.
This will make sure
that what you're doing is remembering it
and not just looking at it again and recognizing it.
Number seven, get good sleep.
In the REM stage of sleep,
we review what we learned during the day.
And if you don't sleep hours, he says
when you wake up the next morning,
you will remember what you learned the day previous less.
People say they don't have enough time
to get adequate sleep.
He says we all have the same amount of time,
it's how you prioritize your time.
You're not making sleep a priority.
You're studying will be better,
your memory will be better if you get eight hours of sleep.
Number eight, this is big.
Right after class, five to 10 minutes
after class, find yourself a spot and write
out everything that you learned in class.
On a new sheet of notes.
Without looking at your previous sheet, write
out everything that you learned in class.
Now you have two sets of notes.
Go back and look at your first set of notes.
And as you look at your first set of notes,
you're gonna remember even more things
that you learned in class.
Now, take a third sheet
of notes and combine the notes that you took in class,
the notes that you took five to 10 minutes
after class and the new ideas
that popped up even after that and write
that all out in a new sheet of notes.
And this new sheet of notes is gonna be so valuable
to you, because it's gonna be in your own words
and it's going to be rewriting the information.
You're telling this story again.
This small investment of time is gonna pay big dividends.
Number nine, we've talked about this on this channel.
Richard Feynman teaches that you need to teach information
to others to learn it more.
He said he had a girl in her class and she always went home
and taught it to her parents after the lecture.
And this was so important for this student,
because the parents could say, "Tell me a little bit
"more about this, I don't understand that."
And then the girl would realize,
"Oh, I don't understand that either.
"I don't get that."
By teaching it to others, you're gonna find
the weak spots in your study.
But remember, there's even something better about this.
When you're teaching it to others, you're putting it
in your own words and that's crucial
to the learning process.
If you don't have someone to teach it to, Marty Lobdell,
in his video says teach it to the wall, teach it
to a plant, teach it to a chair, teach it to your dog.
But recite it, say it again.
Point number 10, he says use
the survey, question, three R method.
That's survey, question, read, recite, review.
He said in the survey stage of studying,
you look at your textbook, you have a highlighter,
you go through it, you highlight the bullet points,
you highlight the main points, the underline the points,
and you get an idea, a survey of what the topic is about.
Survey, question.
After this stage, you go to the back of the chapter
and you see
if there are questions, chapter summary questions.
And you maybe write them out and make a list
of these questions on a sheet of paper.
If there aren't questions,
then you go back and in your survey stage of glancing
through the book, you make a list of your own questions.
So now you have a list of questions
to look for as you read.
Survey, get an overview.
Question, look for questions that you need
to look for when you read.
Read, read the chapter.
Read and highlight the main ideas as you read.
Survey, question, read, looking for the answers
to those questions as you read.
Recite, there are studies that show 80%
of your study time should be in reciting what you learned.
What that means is 80% of your study time,
you read the information, then you put your hand
over the page and you recite what you learned.
You teach what you learned to others.
You write what you learned down in your own words.
You teach it to a wall,
you teach it to a chair.
Only 20% of your study time
should be in the actual reading stage.
Survey, question read, recite, and then finally, review.
As you're reciting or putting into your own words,
you're gonna realize the gaps in your learning.
You're gonna realize,
"Oh, I need to get more solid on this."
Go back and review.
And remember, when you review
it's okay to read the page again,
but it's even more important to look
away and see what you can remember
without looking at the page.
That's when you know that you really know it.
And finally, he says use mnemonic, use memory skills.
And he talks about using acronyms.
Roy G. Biv is an acronym to remember the colors
of the rainbow.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Indigo, violet.
He talks about using acronyms, and stories and pictures.
And these are all great mnemonics.
You want to use memory cues to make things
that are meaningless to you, meaningful to you.
I'd like to use the memory palace or the mind palace.
And that's where I store information
in compartments in my brain or at a map of a house.
If you wanna know more about the mind palace,
I have a memory course called Black Belt Memory.
It's down below on the link and you can click on that link,
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