All right guys. I hope y'all are doing great. I am fascinated with this ChatGPT artificial
intelligence stuff. I've been teaching memory seminars and how to improve your memory, study
skills, study tips, grades and all that for, well, a long time, since 1991. It's over three decades,
all right? I'm not going to do the math for you, you can do the math. But as a memory expert,
as a teacher of memory, I started really exploring this ChatGPT to find out, this artificial
intelligence to find out what is it saying about accelerated learning? What does it say
about study tips? And I just went down a rabbit hole and I really started enjoying this, getting
the feedback on what artificial intelligence is telling us. So this is what we're going to do on
this video. I'm going to type a question into the artificial intelligence here. I'm going to ask it
a question. Let's do a question on study tips. I'm going to ask it how to study better. And then it's
going to give me some feedback here on how to study better. It's going to give me its tips.
And then me, as a memory expert, as a memory champion with 30 years experience, I'm going to
see what this ChatGPT artificial intelligence is saying. Maybe it's going to say the same
thing I've been saying for 30 years, and maybe it's not, that's not the point. The point is,
is I'm going to respond to it, see if it has a different perspective than I do. By the way, we're
going to do this video and I'm going to give you some of the best study tips. But as we're doing
this video, if you are a person who needs to study and get better grades and remember more, whether
you're a 50-year-old or a 16-year-old, click the link down below and check out my Black Belt
Memory Course, I got a great gift for you there. But let's dive into this. I'm going to type into
ChatGPT artificial intelligence, what are the best study tips? Let's see what it says, and then I'm
going to respond with my thoughts on what it says. So here we go. What are the best study tips?
Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing, how fast that goes? That is just insane. It blows my mind.
All right, all right, I grew up on Nintendo and Commodore 64 and now we got this, it's crazy.
So number one, set clear goals. What are the best study tips? The point that it says is number one,
is set clear goals. Okay, says establish a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant,
and time-bound objective that align with your study goals. And then it has in parentheses here,
SMART. So I guess SMART is an acronym for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant,
time bound. Okay, that's good. Set goals, I think that is good because here's something
for studying. Two years ago, I set out to memorize the United States Constitution word
for word. It's 4,543 words. 4,500 words, if I would've looked at that as my overall goal,
I think I would've gotten overwhelmed. But instead I said, "Let's do 450 words at a time."
So I broke it down into 10% chunks and then I just focused on this 10% and then I got that
and I focused on the next 10%. I got that and I focused on the next 10%. I got that and I
focused on the next 10%. So I think this is really good when you're studying for something, break it
down by chunks and do 10% at a time. So I think this is kind of a specific, doing 10% at a time,
measurable, doing 10% at a time, achievable, that's really the big one here. I'm breaking
it down into small chunks to make it achievable, relevant, of course it's relevant and time bound.
So time bound would be something like saying, I'm going to do 10% and I'm going to do 10% by
the end of this week or by the end of next week. So number one, best study tips, set clear goals.
That's according to ChatGPT. It's given us eight, eight here study tips, that's point number one.
Point number two, it says create a schedule. Develop a regular study schedule that allows
you to make consistent progress on your goals. This is also big here, this is big. I do
jiu-jitsu, and I was talking to a friend once at jiu-jitsu and I said, "You know what? I really
didn't want to go to jiu-jitsu today." And I said, "I didn't want to go yesterday, so I didn't go.
I didn't want to go today, but I'm here anyways." And he looked at me and his name is Noah. And Noah
said, "Put it on the schedule." I'm like, "What?" He goes, "Put it on the schedule. You go to
jiu-jitsu on these days, put it on the schedule. And then the days, you don't want to feel like
going, you don't feel like going, who cares? It's on the schedule. You do it because it's
on the schedule." And it was kind like a moment, it just clicked in my brain. I'm just going to
put it on the schedule and then I just go, it's not based on how I feel, it's on the schedule.
So this point number two by ChatGPT is create a schedule. I do think that's important. Creating a
schedule or routine, that keeps you studying even when you don't feel like studying. I belong to a
group, a study group, and we get together, we log on at a certain time every week and we just study
together. We just study together. If I didn't have that study group at that time, I would say 75%
of the time I would not be studying during that time. So number one, set clear goals. Two, create
a schedule. Number three, use active learning. Okay, this is good. Active learning methods
such as flash cards, summarizing and teaching the material to someone can help you better understand
and retain information. So active learning is huge. I do something when I'm studying,
I create what I call audio flashcards, okay. And here's what my audio flashcards are. I just
used an example of the constitution, so let's go back to the constitution. When I was memorizing
the United States Constitution word for word, I created audio flashcards. And this is what
I mean by that. I would say the first line of the constitution, we, the people of the United
States and then I would pause as I was recording this. I recorded it in an audio on my cell phone.
We, the people of the United States, and I pause in order to form a more perfect union,
then I pause, established justice, then I pause, ensure domestic tranquility,
you've guessed it, then I pause. Then I press stop on the recording. The next day I get in my car and
I drive, I'm on an airplane flying, I'm walking or jogging or doing my exercise, and I'm listening
to the recording that I made the day prior. And as I listen to the recording, it says, we,
the people and in that pause, I say the answer of what comes next, in order to form a more perfect
union and then the audio says, in order to form a more perfect union and then it pauses and I say,
live, establish justice. And then the audio says established justice. What does this do? This
forces me to say the answer and then in a second the recording tells me the answer and if I got
it right or if I got it wrong. Audio flashcards are so valuable to me whenever I'm doing a big
memory project. I did that when I memorized everybody who died in the war in Afghanistan,
all 2,400 US service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan and I write
them out on a wall from memory, it's 7,500 words. I memorized this in part using audio flashcards.
I'd say Master Sergeant Evander Andrews and then I paused on the recording. And in that pause
when I was listening to it later, I would say, Specialist John Edmonds. And the recording says,
Specialist John Edmonds to tell me if I got it right. So use audio flashcards, practice active
learning. So number one, it says set clear goals. Number two, create a schedule. Number three,
use active learning. These are according to the best study tips from artificial intelligence
ChatGPT. Number four, practice retrieval. Testing yourself on the material you're trying to learn
can help you better retain the information and recall it when needed. This is so crucial,
practice retrieval. But let me say it a different way. People will always tell me,
"Ron, I've studied and my memory is so bad, I can't remember what I studied two weeks ago."
Okay, here's a question for you. Here's an honest question for you. Have you reviewed it? Have you
reviewed what you studied two weeks ago? If you haven't reviewed what you studied
two weeks ago, your memory isn't bad, your review is bad. You're not practicing retrieval, you're
not bringing it fresh up there in your memory. You're going to have to keep bringing that up,
keep bringing that up. You know what advertisers who are trying to sell you stuff on TV? They say
they have to put an advertisement in front of your face seven times before you were going to say yes.
If you're a person who does eventually say yes. Seven times, because it just takes over and over
in repetition for something to make an imprint or an impact on our brain. So practice retrieval
here, this is point number four. You got to go back and review. And here's what I would encourage
you to do, if there's study questions in the book, go back and look at those or just do your
audio flashcards, which is active learning, which is point number three. But you got to review.
Number five, take breaks and switch up the study method. Instead of studying for hours at a time,
it's more effective to break your study sessions into the shorter chunks and take frequent breaks.
Also switch between different study methods like reading, writing, and explaining the material.
Okay, so take breaks and switch up your study method. Instead of studying for hours at a time,
it's more effective to break your study session in the shorter chunks. This is a known technique.
And it's not saying it here in the ChatGPT, but there is a technique known as the Pomodoro
technique. The Pomodoro technique has been around for a while. Pomodoro means tomato, all right? So
the theory there was a kitchen, back 20, 30 years ago a lot of timers in the kitchen used
for cooking looked like tomatoes. And you could set it for 20 minutes. So this is why it's called
the Pomodoro technique, the tomato technique. Get yourself a timer, just use your cell phone,
you don't have to get an alarm clock that looks like a tomato, okay? But you can still use the
Pomodoro technique. Set your cell phone for 20 minutes. Tell yourself I'm going to study
for 20 minutes focused on this. I'm going to turn off my cell phone, turn off social media,
turn off the TV. If a thought comes into my mind that has something to do with what I'm
studying, or you start thinking about your sister or your cousin or your friend or whatever, have
a notepad and write down what you just thought of and push it to the side. And tell yourself,
I will come back to that when this study session is over. But stay focused on your
study session. Study for 20 minutes, Pomodoro technique, take a break. And then in that break,
anything you wrote down that you thought of that you want to take care of, take care of it then in
your break or at the end of the day or whatever. So of course, take breaks. That's that's a good
one. So there's eight points here. Set clear goals, create a schedule, active learning,
practice retrieval, take breaks. Number six is organize and condense your notes. Be selective
in what you write down and focused on the most important information, then condense your notes
into concise and organized format that are easy to review. You know what? We've talked about this
on other videos here, organizing and condensing your notes. And on another video we talked about,
there's actually been studies done, there have been studies done when taking notes that who
remembers the most from the notes? Is it the person who takes no notes? Is it the person
who hand writes their notes? Or is the person who types their notes into the computer? And
they did a large study on this, and what they found was the person who remembers the most is
not the person who doesn't take any notes. And that makes sense because they don't have
anything to review and they're not really engaged in the class if they're not really taking notes.
So we can figure out why that person didn't remember the most. But of the people who hand
write the notes and the people who type in the notes on a computer, do you know who tends to
remember more? Not always true, but tends to, the people who hand write their notes tend to remember
more, wow. Now why is that? Why would this be? There could be a lot of different reasons for it,
but here's the theory. The theory says that the person who's handwriting their notes is having to
summarize as they go. They can't hand write word for word out what the instructor is saying. So
they're having to summarize it and just write out the main bullet points. The person who's typing
tends to type in more word for word. So actually, the person who is handwriting it is engaging their
brain and summarizing as they're learning and therefore, they actually remember more.
So organize and condense your notes on number six is a great study tip. And if you are able to do
this, if you are able to organize and condense your notes, you know what it shows? It shows you
understand the material. It is impossible to organize and condense your notes if you don't
have at least some basic understanding of the material. So that is a good study skill. Eliminate
distractions, reduce distractions like your phone, social media, and digital devices, and find a
comfortable and quiet study environment. That's right, get off YouTube, get off YouTube. Not yet,
not yet. You need to finish this video, you need to like it, you need to subscribe, and you need
to comment. But after you like, subscribe, and comment to this video, get off YouTube
and study. But what irony, you're watching a video on how to study, so I guess it's okay. Eliminate
distractions though, get away. The phone's going to be there when you're done studying.
The YouTube's going to be there, the Netflix is going to be there, the Facebook arguments
are going to be there. Just get away from it and study, all right? Make time for what's important.
Let me ask you this, if you say your goal is to become a lawyer or a doctor or a nurse or a
pilot or whatever, but you're not making the time to study and get away of distractions,
I'm just going to be honest with you, is it really your goal? Is it really your goal if you're not
making the time? Make the time. Lastly, get enough sleep and maintain healthy habits. Being well
rested and maintaining healthy habits like regular exercise, eating healthy and good sleep hygiene
can help you perform better while studying. A lot of people say you should always get a good night's
sleep before the test and that's true. That's 100% true, there's no false statements in that.
But did you also know this? When you're studying and learning, it's important to get sleep during
those weeks and those days as well. And here's why. Let's say you learn something today and
you learned some facts about history or science or math or law or whatever, and then you go to sleep
tonight and you don't get a good night's sleep. Well, what happens is, is when we sleep, when we
get into the deep sleep, the REM level of sleep, our brain will replay what we learned during the
day. But if you don't get to that REM level of sleep, your brain never replays what you learned
during the day. So you wake up the next day knowing less of what you learned the day before
if you don't get enough sleep. Sleep is crucial. And some people will say, "Ron,
I can do okay, I do well on five hours of sleep." Well, guess what? Maybe you do.
Maybe you're an unusual person who does. Dr. James Maas though, I met him about 10
years ago. He wrote a book called Sleep for Success and Dr. James Maas coached
Olympic athletes on sleep and he said, this is his words, not mine. A doctor,
who is an expert on sleep. He said, "You may be getting phenomenal results at five hours,
and you're an exception if you are. But if you can get seven to eight, I promise you,
you will even get better. Sleep is crucial for success." By the way, I haven't seen Dr. James
Maas in 10 years. I didn't even know I was going to talk about him. I'm just answering
these ChatGPT questions. So he has a great book, M-A-A-S Dr. James Maas. So it's worth checking out
if you're interested in sleep and science and all that. So, guys, this is one of the best study tips
according to artificial intelligence ChatGPT. Now you know I'm a memory guy,
you know I'm a two-time USA memory champion and not once inherited the artificial intelligence.
Say, get a memory system, buy a memory course, or use your mind palace, which breaks my heart
because I think using a mind palace or memory systems is crucial. But I also can't disagree with
anything that the artificial intelligence said here. I think it was great tips. But if you do,
you are thinking, Ron, I am curious about memory systems. How did you memorize the constitution
word for word of 4,543 words? Aha, I'm glad you asked. Down below in the description of
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