hey friends welcome back to the channel
and to yet another study with me video
in which i'll be preparing for the usmle
step one because i'm vaguely considering
moving to america for my medical
residency
the day starts at 8 30 when i wake up
negotiate myself out of bed
have a quick shower and make my morning
cup of coffee then i spend some time
tidying up the living room
before sitting down at 10 am for a zoom
call with an animations company that i
might be interested in working with we
have a bit of banter and talk business
and then at 10 40 i get ready for my
study session by warming up some
breakfast food
and setting up my twitch live study with
me stream
at 10 51 i start streaming myself
studying which
a makes it more fun and b encourages me
to actually work and not just waste time
genuinely everyone should try this it's
super easy anyway here i'm going through
the incredible pathology resource
pathoma with a pdf of their textbook
open on one side of the screen
and the videos and my notion notes on
the other side as i'm watching the
videos at double speed of course
i'm writing out questions that i'll test
myself on later
this is active recall in action the most
efficient study technique of all time as
shown by decades of research
i'm writing out questions for myself and
then using the toggle feature on notion
to hide the answers
for some of the answers i'm typing them
out but for others i'm just
screenshotting bits from the video
or from the textbook to save myself time
this chapter is vascular pathology and
so i start by going over the large
medium and small vessel vasculitis
before moving on to hypertension
after 35 minutes of this i find myself
losing concentration and so i take a
20-minute break to chat to viewers and
answer questions from the live chat
by the way if you're not already please
follow me on twitch i'm going to be
streaming a lot of studying and
productivity stuff
on there and maybe dabbling in the
occasional video game too if i can talk
myself into taking a break occasionally
from 11 50 to 12 30 i finish off the
vascular pathology chapter on pathoma
going over the sections on
arteriosclerosis dissections and
aneurysms and vascular tumors
once that's done i need a break so i
make some coffee and show off the chemex
to the stream viewers to increase my
street cred
with the freshly brewed cup of coffee in
my hand i think about doing some more
active recall
and then decide to screw it and instead
apply for twitch partnership
annoyingly a few days later they
rejected my application because
apparently i'm not famous enough on
youtube to justify being made a twitch
partner this is very sad
oh well i'm totally over it now once
i've sent the application off i do some
active recall of some of the previous
chapters in pathoma
i start from the bottom of chapter one
and work my way back
i quite like starting from the back of
stuff and working in reverse because
otherwise it's way too tempting to just
know the first few pages really well and
neglect the stuff that comes later what
i'm doing here is delayed active recall
i'm testing myself on stuff that i did a
few weeks ago to take advantage of the
spaced repetition effect
to combat the forgetting curve in memory
as i go through my notes and test myself
on the material
i'm color coding stuff that i've
forgotten in red if there's stuff that i
have an understanding gap
in i'll google it and read up on the
thing on wikipedia probably
and then color code it in red so that
next time if i want to save time
i'll just test myself on the stuff that
i got wrong the previous time
as you can see there's a lot of red here
because i'm a total waste man but
no actually forgetting stuff and getting
stuff wrong is a necessary and important
part of learning so
if you're a student and you're watching
this please don't ever think you're a
dumbass if you get stuff wrong
getting stuff wrong and correcting it is
literally how we learn there is nothing
to be ashamed of
at least that's what i tell myself to
make myself feel better after doing this
session of delayed active recall on old
material i do 45 minutes of
immediate active recall by testing
myself on the vascular pathology stuff
that i did that morning
just to reactivate any bits of knowledge
that slipped away in the past two hours
at 2pm my friend assed arrives and
because he's also preparing for the
usmle
we have a cheeky group study session we
start by attempting to go through some
of the past paper questions from the
ambos question bank and for an hour we
bash through these questions and get
less than 10
of them right damn this exam is really
quite hard at 3 15 we've both had enough
of being absolutely destroyed by this
exam
and so we set up some pre-made anki
decks tweak the settings a bit to get
to the level that we want and bash
through various cards we start out
sitting at the desk together
and after a while we move over to the
sofa controlling anki with the wireless
keyboard by the way i've got a
skillshare class on how to use anki from
beginning to end that you can check out
link in the video description anyway at
4 30 pm after an hour of casually
working through the flash cards we
decide we've had enough and so we go
outside to play
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yeah i'm pretty sure you're right for 20
minutes we dabble around on a sage
skateboard and then at 5 p.m i lie on
the sofa like a total waste man
for around 30 minutes i just sit there
scrolling through twitter and hating
myself
but then at 5 30 i remember that i'm
actually a productivity guru and i'm
gonna get kicked off youtube if i keep
this up so
at 5 30 i decide to do something ultra
productive and continue an online course
on brilliant who are very kindly
sponsoring this video
brilliant is a fantastic app that has
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science and computer science subject and
i find that whenever i'm in
a productivity slump like right now
doing a few lessons or working through
the daily challenges on brilliant really
fires up my mind
and gives me a second wind of activation
energy for work i'm working my way
through their computer science series
these days trying to build a more legit
understanding of the field i quite like
working through the courses because they
have a lot of interactive elements and
challenges along the way
which helps exercise my mind in a nice
guided fashion
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anyway at six pm a sage gets back to the
house with some crisps and chocolate and
we collectively decide that we've had
enough of studying for one day
so we decided to write the rest of the
day off right guys
i'm having a bit of a problem right now
because i'm feeling super unproductive
and can't be bothered to do anything
useful i feel like my eyes are closing
and i didn't get enough sleep overnight
the question is what do we do now i
could power through and try and actually
do some work
but i think i'm going to take advantage
of the write-off principle
which is something that i i came up with
a few a few months ago
the idea is that if you're feeling like
you're in an unproductive slump like i
am right now then you just
write the rest of the day off and then
you can kind of do fun stuff so
yeah today is officially a write-off
we've done enough work in the morning by
the way please follow me on twitch if
you want to see more live streams i'll
be doing the daily from like august so
now my place
play some playstation play some frisbee
outside do something other than work
so let's do it we jam out on the guitar
for a bit and then i set up a two-player
board game called lord of the rings the
confrontation
that assad plays with me for the first
time one side are the good guys and they
have to get frodo to mount doom
but the other side are the baddies and
they have to kill frodo to win the game
we end up playing this for just over an
hour and then spend the next few hours
watching clips from
random korean dramas on youtube and
eating takeaway as a nice
chill end to the reasonably productive
day of studying thank you so much for
watching
you