I was a person who just studied just because I was(or still am) a people pleaser and because I had to score well in the exam . But your channel has made me want to actually study because I want to . It made me think of studying as just any other hobby I actually enjoy and want to put effort to be better at . When most people preach on how to put effort only for the exams , you tell us how to put effort for studies in itself and that’s one way I’ve never thought of before and it’s so beautiful since most of our lives majorly revolve around learning and studying constantly. Thank you so much for teaching us about learning and putting more sense into it .
It is quite enjoyable to notice that the information you provide is structured according to your own teachings (for example, slowly adding details to pre-established concepts which are recapped). Even the spaced-repetition topic is repeated over a gradually-increasing duration.. :D As usual, thanks for the free brain-wrinkles!
Dr Justin, your videos have changed the way I view studying. But the real problem I am having is in scrutinising good and bad methods. Please do make a video on how to get a good self correction
He said that not everything done while studying is not easier nor perfect so, you have to see little things like, if what you're doing is easy or hard, or if you're confused, like you not wrapping anything in your head easily, it's all about challenging yourself, in every possible way
Glad you're finding the videos helpful! Figuring out whether a study method really is quite complicated, since you do need to understand the theory of how learning really works to be able to make that decision. Generally speaking, if something sounds really easy and too good to be true, it's usually not that helpful - otherwise, if it were so easy, everyone would be doing it, and everyone would be doing extremely well. I've actually talked about this briefly this in my last video, this link should take you to the exact timestamp: czcams.com/video/boo5gtr6oRU/video.html Bonus: I've also mentioned a few rare tips that actually produce meaningful results, rather than being too good to be true.
It works for me, I try to understand the information first before memorizing it and it works. But if I don't repeat the thing I understand, often times I forget about it. SR works for me and it's amazing. I think we do need repetition for things to stick and if you try to recall it by relating a new information to the information you're trying to remember it'll stick as well. It's dependent on how the question is formulated, if it's a higher level e.g problem solving, it's better but even problem solving needs repetition to retain it. I think for exams for things like math, chem, engineering, etc, using higher order thinking practice problems is more efficient than smacking anki. But anki is more efficient for learning the foundations of things that you need to remember to at least understand some hots questions, after that, practice problem/problem solving is the god. It's just like language learning, you do anki to understand the sentences first and then you immerse in the language for more higher order learning. If it's biology I would just smack anki over and over because they are just facts to remember, there's no "why?" of those and so you just need to smack anki for that except if the information is not organized in a good way. (If it's hard to understand)
Hello, I was really intrigued by what you said that even high-order encoding techniques - in your example, inquiry-based learning - need repetition to retain it. May I ask what type of repetition is required?
@@davidthebanana8522 spaced repetition of course but it's more spaced if if the encoding was great. But if you applied it weekly or smth like that you probably won't forget it
I've been watching your videos and trying to change my studying habits for a while but I'm still really struggling - it's a lot easier said than done😭 but thank you for all of the info regardless
Good content, I’m also realizing how our lifestyle choices may impact our ability to efficiently encode information that we want to learn… time spent on social media, what we eat, how often we meditate
I am going into ur course within a month....and will smash every academics i had in my engineering, and my whole other learning areas as well....🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
13:05 "when your brain feels the information is relevant and worth holding on to it will naturally hold on to it" Thanks for sharing this content with us!
Spaced repetition also means doing problems from last week 's problem sets, last month's problem sets, last year's problem sets...you would follow a spaced repetition schedule based on chapter or topics instead of an algorithm that tracks individual flashcards but it's still spaced repetition. That way, you don't forget everything you learned in geometry such as proofs and constructions while you are learning calculus..
As one who has used SR for many years across a wide range of domains, I tend to agree with your thesis that it is more time-efficient to encode learning correctly from the beginning. Piotr Wozniak, the author of SuperMemo, and ostensibly the father of modern Spaced Repetition learning methods, states as the first of his 20 rules of learning that you should learn BEFORE memorizing. In my own practice, I try to think about what I actually want to learn before I make any flashcard. If I miss it upon review, I reevaluate how the knowledge is represented/encoded. Even high-level ideation is supported by facts, and specific algorithmic thought processes can be trained through SR. But learning (encoding) must take place, if not at first contact with the material, then with each subsequent encounter. I would very much like to hear your thoughts about what PW calls Incremental Learning as well.
I don't know if that works that well though, a flash card doesn't really encourage you to look at the information from another angle each time you practice it. You fail less early on but you need to use it for real somewhere at some point or it gets forgotten. I see the role of spaced repetition as trying to front load a lot of information because you can't avoid dealing with it all at once. As a general solution its not adapted to most things, usually we can use what we learn right away and what we learn builds on itself.
I've become incredibly enamored with your content. Just a few months ago I finished my MA in Psych with a 4.0 and honestly thought it was a breeze, but the techniques you're discussing help explain how I was able to see the material in my textbooks and why I seemed to excel at it so far. Recently I've been getting back into Japanese (past two years or so) but it's not going well, partly because I've been stuck on the SRS train for vocab and grammar. After watching your content, I'm trying to see how I can apply what I used in my MA program to my Japanese studies, but I find the material (and the concept of language itself) is so unique from other disciplines. Maybe a future video idea for you is using the SRS system for languages? Because I know that the online Japanese learning community still heavily relies on SRS techniques. Regardless, I'm planning to get into your program soon and see for myself all the techniques, hopefully try to apply this stuff to Japanese. Thanks again man!
It’s still about relevant information: what you see in Anki you need to see elsewhere in meaningful situations, in a larger context that you’re interested to understand. That’s pretty much what all textbooks (for learning foreign languages) are doing: in each lesson they give you a bunch of words, some grammar, and comprehensible input where you repeatedly encounter the vocabulary, and when they go to the next lesson they continue to use vocabulary from past lessons which essentially makes Anki unnecessary as the spaced repetition is happening in the textbook. Use what you learn as much as possible: graded materials for your level, keep a journal, invent situations, talk with yourself,… As the Japanese conjugation is ridiculously consistent, you can train your brain/speech muscles to get used saying each pattern by simply drilling through verbs or adjectives by categories and subcategories in different days until it’s second nature.
It actually works for me as long as the ideas do make sense and has relation to each other. Not just purely repeating and repeating, make sure that the terms have relations to each other. I just want to share this. I study first and make relations then spaced repetition for things that are hard to remember.
hi! thank you for your comment but how do you make ideas relate to each other? do you make a mind map as dr. sung would suggest or do you do something else?
@@davidthebanana8522 Sorry for the late reply, yes I do mind maps especially for relationships IF you are learning something systematical. I also add inquiry based said by Dr. Sung. For example, if you are learning a language. What does "caminar" mean? It means walk. What does "correr" mean? It means run. What are the similarities or difference between these words? (i.e. relationship): e.g. they are both action verbs. They differ in speed of action. Does it actually retain in my mind?: Yes.
I think many achievers are natural at connecting facts and asking the rationalization of why they connect or the underlying foundations of concepts. For me, you need to know the whole map (general concept) and the relevant facts (atomic details of the idea). Both are needed for mastery
Hi, your videos have been popping up on my home page since at least one year and I'm finally beginning to take your advice but I'm not sure about how to approach your content i.e., the order in which I should watch your videos to make the best out of my learning experience. Any advice regarding this would be extremely helpful as I'll be entering college in a few months and I want to be prepared to tackle vet school
Hello, I am a 17-year-old Bolivian who has been watching your videos and I have to tell you that the way you express your theories and how you advise them are excellent, I would like you to recommend me some specific videos for mathematics since it is a subject that I like and It is a future career that I aspire to and I would like some advice or method to put it into practice, and I even joined a math Olympiad in my school to increase my understanding and creativity, anyway thanks for reading I hope you answer me
This for language learning. I know the meaning of a French word I met once in 1986. I've never encountered it since but if I did I'd understand it. I think Anki is fairly good for some things but I disagree with the forgetting curve and think it's misguided. The aim of learning words is to do a thing. That might be to read a novel. If you learn a chunk of words in order to read a novel then read, say, 5 novels then all the words you learnt will be in the novel. If you learnt a word that isn't in the first 5 novels then it's not strictly necessary. And you can just carry on reading novels. You won't forget it because you'll be reading it/using it. So the forgetting curve concept doesn't fit language learning because if you're a consumer of language you'll be regularly encountering the words which was your reason for learning the language in the first place. I do think Anki has a role. If I meet a new word I like to encounter it a few times so use Anki for that purpose. I think some technical terms are good for Anki. I also find it useful for accelerating reading. If I get to recognise the most common words at sight it accelerates reading. That said I am against the whole forgetting curve. What stops me forgetting L1 words, English for me? I don't do Anki in my primary language. Abandon the forgetting curve!
How do you quiz yourself, if you’re not making flashcards? this is my biggest block to learning in this way. If I read a book, and just try to focus on the relationships and evaluation of the ideas, how do I do active recall a month later?
Important stuff in the vid - for example i´m in Psychology and my profs are really into test-design and evaluation - so they will usually evaluate past exams and check if something was statistically too easy or too hard, but they will aswell adjust it for a normal distribution of grades - so that most grades should fall in the middle. (so studying very hard with active recall gives you here just an average grade) - so to get a grade in the top 5% you need to solve the tasks with applied knowledge and concepts.
Hello Justin, there are some people that use anki to practice the zettlekasen method, are you aware of it and what are you thoughts on the zettlekasen method?
It's interesting to think about the cultural differences among different groups of students. I was a computer engineering student (part of the electrical engineering department), so when I was in college ten years ago, I was focused mainly only the EE material. Since there was almost nothing to memorize in EE other than the basics that everyone uses all the time, I didn't know anyone that used flash cards in college and had no idea that they were something people used until years later when I started studying Japanese. My only contact with flash cards prior to that was in the mid 80s when drilling toddlers with flash cards was hyped as a way to make them grow up to be smarter, so I didn't really take them seriously.
I hopeto get an answer to my thoughts about spaced repetition: spaced repetition are the final thing to do to consolidate the topic that you're studying. Like you said in the video in it's not possible to build an entire system of learning around that, it's like you're trying to smash that topic in you're brain forcing to remember it, better encoding strategies allows to not to do so many revises in order to remember facts, but they cannot be the just one, you still need spaced repetition to consolidate informations and active recall to have better metacognition of those facts., beacuse if you're learning things without knowing in what you're more strong or weak it makes way more difficult in order to maximize efficiency in learning,and AC and SR do that. Many reasearches lacks of a multicomponential model in order to evaluate better the single strategies: for example you find results just for mind maps, or interleaving or spaced repetition or active recall, but there are few articles that put all togheter and the few i read about that are the one who works better(on this topic you may know more than me). Let me know what you think about this. P.s: i'm from italy and here we have a guy named Alessandro de Concini check this guy i think he covers the same subject, i think he has a good foundation like you(the only one beacuse the other guys the we have here in italy are just scammers), anyway let me know what you think about my thoughts
Good video but first i have to encode the encoding thing. I thought buying your course then i realized that i living Turkey... Thank for the video mate
When a technique used to memorize useless facts is pushed as a "necessary technique" for learning everything, you get the most suboptimal learning environment in human history.
Imo, Anki is great when working out because I'm not going to pull out my textbook and do practice problem in between my sets, but I'll pull up anki on my phone and practice between my sets
doctor justin doctor justin is eating sugar unhealthy??? if yes then should i listen to maroon (sugar) will it lead to diabetes after listing too much please clear my dought
Hey Justin love your video there was so much to learn in every video. But... could u pls say how to approach mcqs based exam in subject like Physics and chemistry . Cause it's always like learn and again revise the same thing again after a week or 2-3 days because most of it is Formulas , Reaction or Fact based , or like single question has to be approached in a different way...but the thing is there are many questions like these. Is there any other better way of studying/ approaching these subjects.
Riding a bike is a great example of not using spaced repetition. The majority of adults who know how to ride a bike probably haven't done so in decades, but if they were to ride one again, it would be easy for them.
This is off topic but what do you think about making a second brain. Also how do you read a book? Should one highlight something in the book that resonates with them and then come back to it later and write down it on a flash card? Lastly paraphrase it to remember it later?
Can anyone please tell me how to connect things,? How to find logic to connect different concepts together? I got the main point what Dr. Justin want to convey, but In having hard time to make various connection to topics.
bro you have so many videos saying this is good, and the other is not, then what you thought was good is not, etc, so much so that I don't feel like watching any videos, and I start studying like I always did.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: Space repetition has limitations and misconceptions. Anki and flashcards are tools for specific purposes, but their effective use is misunderstood. Space repetition involves understanding what it's good for and its limitations. Normalizing limitations of space repetition overlooks other effective learning methods. Flashcards are effective for isolated facts, not problem solving or complex understanding. Human brain is designed to learn effectively without excessive repetition. Research shows space repetition may not be useful for more complex learning. Effective learning involves activating efficient encoding pathways. Rote learning through repetition isn't the only approach; alternatives are important. Anki isn't a secret weapon; many use it, but it's not the top achiever factor. Effective learning requires understanding cognitive processes and context. Efforts should be focused on more advanced and meaningful learning strategies. Interleaving isn't just dividing study time; it's about using effective techniques. Interleaving involves mixing different angles and approaches while practicing, breaking up a single session with multiple methods. Interleaving enhances learning by covering the same topic from various angles, increasing effectiveness. Spacing intervals in spaced repetition can be expanded for better retention, but it depends on initial encoding quality. Longer gaps in spaced repetition replicate real-life retrieval needs and offer strategic advantages. Better encoding reduces the need for frequent spaced retrieval, allowing for longer gaps between sessions. Fixed interval spaced retrieval isn't time-efficient, and expanding gaps provide room for better encoding. The fundamental issue in spaced repetition is encoding quality, not just timing of intervals. Made with HARPA AI
What about spaced mind mapping adding thoughts from consolidation and new learning each time making the species in my sive(memory ) larger by adding bits to them -wiring the business together in different ways so not repeating thing the samevwsg every time? There are new electronic note taking systems that might help with this that combine cards and links between them!
Anki seems to be the main tool that language learners use (as a beginner, before immersion), do you believe that this is inefficient for beginners in learning a language too?
“Truth is indistinguishable.” To my understanding, the brain does not change the most effective learning pathways based upon category. As such, the arguments for and against Anki for school would still apply to language learning. The most effective way would be to learn in relation to other information and to interleave and learn via different angles (which Anki cannot replicate). So my answer would be yes it is still inefficient for languages - BUT consistency and actually doing is more important than theory. So if Anki format allows you to be more consistent and actually study then it’d be worth it even if inefficient
It can help you with memorising (especially actively recall) complicated vocab that you wouldn't be exposed to often enough just by reading and is hard to remember. In other words: it's pretty useful for memorizing foreign letters and characters, as well as utterly foreign words. That's why it's called Anki (Japanese for rote memorization): it's good for Japanese (Korean, Chinese, and the like). Obviously you can't use that in isolation. No idea why anybody would learn words they'd never seen before. 🤷 I've mostly used it to cram vocab lists fast (for uni) and then not forget them over the course of the semester. For that it was perfect and I was consistently the top student in East Asian languages - the drop out rate is somewhere upwards of 90% in those subjects, at least over here. Good for standardized tests, too. Also, I've used real life flashcards to help my LO learn his (Japanese) letters. Worked like a charm. However, using Anki in isolation is utterly useless. It's for cramming little factoids and helping you to remember them long enough until you'll use them in real life - nothing more, nothing less.
In my experience, it's inefficient if the words are learned out of context. I recently coached a student that was learning German and I made Anki decks for him to remember the words and grammar he would learn in the lessons, at some point I noticed we hadn't learned the most important adjectives so I made a deck just for adjectives. By far that deck was the one who took him the most time and effort with the least retention. Something I reccomend is to: 1) Learn words in context, such as having an entire sentence in the card where ideally only one word is new and its meaning can be discerned trough context 2) Only add words you have seen before, like from your active immersion. 3) Adding audio and images, I believe it improves retention.
@@santiagovasquez5967 I agree whole heartedly! I circumvented this problem by only studying vocab from texts or lessons I was reading/learning, anyway. Plus, I memorized whole sentences or chunks (collocations) along with the words. Studying vocab that I hadn't encountered in the wild or needed for a specific purpose has given me nothing. I've tried that, but naaaah. I'd rather read books. 🤷
I like ur videos but how can we stay with reality. For me personally, I use to get hyper stressed whenever I come back from my phone and don't have a single study detail roaming my head though I still remember it.
What anki should be used for: Holding onto useful information that does not relate to any other things you know When to use anki: Isolated random facts Information that seem irrelevant Learning at lower level of cognitive capacity Because you need to repeat information like 5 times Anki is Not good for: Problem solving Answering questions Retrieving answers in a more complex way Relating multiple things together Ideas need to be Understood discussed Compared Evaluate Solution to overusing anki Pre study Chunkmaps Using anki is rote learning Create relationships rather than making flashcards Interleaving is approaching a concept in different ways. Learning a concept today and solving past papers is interleaving. Proper Encoding makes spaced retrieval work.
Hi Dr Justin, thank you so much for your high-quality videos as usual! I’ve been trying to practise chunk-mapping after you talked about how it can help you see the relationships between concepts better, but I struggle with deciding how much detail to include. For certain subjects like biology, nailing the details is important to do well (since the mark scheme requires one to hit all the keywords), but inevitably, my chunkmaps get too cluttered when I try to incorporate the keywords as well :( How do you suggest I should go about deciding what to include/not include in my chunkmaps? And may I ask if I should be learning the details in other way? Thank you!
i first try to UNDERSTAND and after that I use anki to REMEMBER. Thats what learning is. I dont see any problem in that and whenever you talk about it you mention it in the most stupid way to use it (just putting everything in it with no thoughts). Of course that wont work well. The simple solution is to make few very good cards instead of many stupid ones. 300 cards a day wtf I do like 30 - 50 in a day when im really focused and that takes a lot of energy and time because each card has a lot of thought in it.
You're actually agreeing with the concepts Justin is talking about. You are "encoding" the information by making connections in your mind how the new info is similar to other concepts in life you already know about, therefore creating a neural connection that easily recalled based on how strong the logic/reasoning you give to it, and based on how good the encoding is you don't have to spend more time in trying to rote memorize to keep up with the forgetting curve. You can consolidate your understanding in fewer cards because you've encoded the info better, rather than arbitrarily copying notes word for word. People who tend to copy notes word for word aren't really digesting the material and making it their own but just regurgitating it. We tend to remember stories a lot easier, but anki or spaced repetition is the tool for those isolated facts and figures that are more arbitrary that are harder to connect with a concept or idea that you just have to commit to memory. If we can relate a new concept to something similar all we have to do is make that logical connection and boom, we don't have to "memorize" it because it naturally makes sense to us. The point Justin is making here is like saying ...yeah you can technically get the job done with a manual screw driver, but why not just use a power drill and make it more efficient use of your time? There's a time and place for some tools and spaced repetition but it has its limits and you want to use a more effective tool when it calls for it.
@@Raz0rIG it's natural to study and learn and even discover things encoding, it comes naturally, but people nowadays (in case of my public university) people think they have good study habits but encoding is a lot lower
@@Raz0rIG I love how you explaine it, but can you please tell me how you make connection to various concepts? Like whats your thinking process should be, how you find logics?
@@Raz0rIG im just confused why make a 30min video when the problem can be stated in 2 sentences and the answer is 2 sentences. if people talk a lot I assume it must be complicated
@@darshi2185 One ex is when I was studying for an Salesforce related cert. I had to know the difference of lightning experience (modern version) of the platform vs the classic version (old version), one of these differences I needed to know was that knowledge articles in the lightning version used a thumbs up icon to rate articles whereas the classic used a 5 star rating system. Now that's not too hard to remember by itself, but imagine having to learn 1000s of random isolated facts like that, eventually my brain would be taxed and some would get forgotten. So rather than arbitrarily memorizing this as an isolated fact, I decided to "encode" it by relating this fact to something similar I've experienced, in fact that we all experienced. CZcams back then used to use a 5 star rating system to rate videos, and now uses the thumbs up rating. So I connected the dots in my mind to say modern sites seem to be moving towards using thumbs up vs a star rating as the old way of rating. You might've even noticed other sites where they have help articles adopting the same pattern. So that fact stays in my mind easily without having to force memorize it, simply because it makes sense. The more relatable you make the new info, the less arbitrary and more organized it will be. If your office space is disorganized, how difficult is it to retrieve a document? Same concept with your mind. If your knowledge is highly organized, your brain can retrieve it much better.
I've had the same experience with nothing sticking while doing anki but it was easily corrected by going back and improving my comprehension of what I was memorizing -- this way I also found it takes far less time to complete a deck, plus even if I miss a day (when I work slower and more intentionally) I can still recall most of the information a day or so after
he said before that it was not as effective if you were using a computer, it's better to use pen and paper because it lights up different areas in your brain that aren't normally used for learning. (creativity) He said in another video that the more different ways your leaning the better. I hope this helps
At least for vocab learning spaced repetition is still the tool that works best for me to solidify vocab after the initial learning process. It's not that helpful for more complex topic. I would love to find a better tool because it still is far from perfect.
@@jqyhlmnp read my comment in the general comment section- as to why i commented such And as for YOU, your comment looks like it came out of Justin's second account 😂(ik u got what i said)
I used to spend HOURS each day doing flashcards in Mnemosyne when I was studying abroad. I was able to teach myself Russian and Portuguese while living in Russia/Brazil by doing a combination of spaced repetition, grammar study, and daily practice speaking and interacting with natives. I treated that time as supplemental educational time, and I was still able to have a normal social life, hang out with friends, get a girlfriend, etc., and have a good time. Rote learning/memorization isn't sexy, but it is a necessary component of learning any complex topic or field in depth, in my opinion. I'm not sure if the hunter-gatherer example properly reflects the hard knowledge needed to be a doctor or build complex systems. However, even in hunter-gatherer times we ran into the challenges of learning language and interacting with each other. People have (obviously) learned languages without spaced repetition, but would they be able to learn them in 2-3 months or away from native speakers? Would they be able to build a rich vocabulary unless they were exposed to unique environments for a long time? Spaced repetition may not be as time-efficient as we would like, but is there anything out there at the moment that is _more_ efficient? I feel like we are in the steam engine age of effective rote learning/memorization and I hope to be part of whatever techniques or tools get developed to improve the efficiency of rote learning systems. There's only so much critical thinking that can be done when discussing any field or topic without some hard facts that are known or assumed.
Every student does a cost-benefit analysis to determine what their study plan/method is going to be. Presumably each student has a cost to pay to not learn something. If we are thinking about high school it may be a Spanish class the student needs to pass to get a B, whereas for a pre-med it may be something much more high-stakes like the MCAT which determines where and if you can become a doctor. I'm not really understanding what you are suggesting as an alternative to spaced repetition. You are saying spaced repetition is wrong, but then don't concisely communicate the alternative. I listened to your section on encoding, some of your other videos on encoding and other methods, and it would be great if you could give clear example. You say "relate the information to prior existing knowledge", but that's very general and I'm not sure many young students would be able to take action on that suggestion. One missed benefit of spaced repetition is that it's organized. We write all the info down, we know where it is, and we know we won't lose it. If we use your suggestion to encode, how do we ensure we don't lose the small details that really matter? Do we spend 1 hour encoding and then move on to the next subtopic and pray that we don't forget? For any scenario where the topic is high-stakes, I don't see students feeling comfortable pivoting from spaced repetition completely partly because of the organization, and I don't think that's wrong I think it's rational 🤷♂
Recently, i've just quited Anki after 4 years of doing flashcards everyday. When i discovered the SR concept 4 years ago, i was amazed and i take this like it was the holy grail of studying. But i was wrong, the biggest flaw in SR is not SR in itself, SR is ok if its related with other concepts. When you do your Anki studying sessions, typically you are studying isolated information. Now, im trying Obsidian + Excalidraw plugin , im doing small mindmaps (chunk maps) that if there are any relationship between them, i create a link between those mindmaps.
This video is bloated but actually delivers what the title says Still the problem is (from my perspective) you are trying to present the problem, which I agree with, and a very vague "solution". I don't know what was the point of even inviting the other guys since there was no real discussion or back and forth, only that they "didn't like" Anki, too. They didn't bring anything other to the table aside from their anecdotal experiences, and that they are not using Anki (any longer). Did not go into depth what their strategies nowadays are or how they upped their learning game to correct the problem "What everyone gets wrong about spaced repetition". This video should have been filled with more meaningful content instead of, what the other commenters pointed out, a long winded ad for your paid course. I don't condone you for advertising your stuff, but your excuse to not being able to deliver some solution in a 30 min video or "on youtube as a platform in general" is... meh. Just put exactly this line you mentioned at the end, in the beginning of the next video, and to save us some time and make the process more effective (because it can't be effective if it's not time efficient amarite)
YT is quite bad to structure the videos like we can do it in a website..... And on the other side....he cannot simply put all his course videos here bcz first of all then how is gonna get the pay for his living...and secondly without his personal guidance or help of the community in the course the videos would be simply mis applied and hence people will loose faith that they can ever be good at studying
Hey Justin Your contents are good, but can you like make videos on how actually to put it out there practically rather than kinda romanticizing the "idea of it" --the way you leave us with half-hearted theories of everything and keep a lot just to yourself -for making us enroll in your course classes to be able to make the most of your "theories" is overwhelming!!looks like you will not give a single piece of good strategy in this free platform, in a way--its really pathetic! Why don't you actually introduce us to any model/flowchart on how actually to PUT IT OUT THERE. Your videos, otherwise, looks like an UTTER ADVERTISEMENT!
Maisha, whether Justin's motivations are to focus primarily on advertisement or otherwise, I found several of his public CZcams videos of this account to be quite informative and applicable with regards to some of his strategies. It could be that you missed those videos, or you have seen them but are already applying them and therefore conclude that they are not included. It might also be helpful, if you haven't already, to ask for some specific strategy (or study or learning problem/challenge) that you'd like to have explained by Justin. He might respond with a satisfying answer. (And if he won't, maybe someone else will.)
he always talks about what doesn't work not what works and even if he does talk about what works, he will not explain it very well. i wish i had the money to buy his supscription but i guess the explanation is reserved for people whi can pay :/
6:21 "you don't need to repeat" I disagree. All examples he mentioned needed A LOT of repetition. Even a hobby you need to do a thing multiple times to get it right. Even the cave example, you need a lot of tries just to get a simple sparkle.
My main criticism with you is that you make the same videos multiple times and the videos themselves are unnecessarily long and dragged out. Also you use overly complex language and it can be quite hard for people who are not already knowledgeable on stuff like this to really make sense of your videos
Exactly what I was going to say. I think Dr. Sung is too familiar with the academic language. He really need to learn how to use plain English to communicate his ideas better. And of course, he really should make way shorter videos. I usually forget 90% of his content at the end of his videos and often lose track of what he's saying.
That's because he loves to word vomit and not explain anything in detail so people can buy into his course. Lots of his videos are just him saying he dislikes Anki, and for reasons that I think are valid, but he doesnt truly offer other options because that's free knowledge, and no one would be enrolling in his course otherwise.
@@capricorn8426 Well, from a business point of view, I don't think it's smart not trying to simplify complicated things. I mean, if I were a potential customer, when I can't fully understand his videos or find them too hard to understand, would I buy his course? Mostly no. Sometimes, free knowledge is a good promotion, unless he doesn't have much else to offer in his course. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's provided some alternatives to what he dislikes in other videos. :)
it doesn't work. why? because it's not quality study. Just pretending to yourself that you know something. Next day, you forget it again. As for Anki, I have my doubts that it works properly.
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Great video! Using SR flashcards incorrectly is like filling a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom
Hi bro
I was a person who just studied just because I was(or still am) a people pleaser and because I had to score well in the exam . But your channel has made me want to actually study because I want to . It made me think of studying as just any other hobby I actually enjoy and want to put effort to be better at . When most people preach on how to put effort only for the exams , you tell us how to put effort for studies in itself and that’s one way I’ve never thought of before and it’s so beautiful since most of our lives majorly revolve around learning and studying constantly. Thank you so much for teaching us about learning and putting more sense into it .
It is quite enjoyable to notice that the information you provide is structured according to your own teachings (for example, slowly adding details to pre-established concepts which are recapped). Even the spaced-repetition topic is repeated over a gradually-increasing duration.. :D As usual, thanks for the free brain-wrinkles!
"free brain wrinkles" I like this phrasing haha
Dr Justin, your videos have changed the way I view studying. But the real problem I am having is in scrutinising good and bad methods. Please do make a video on how to get a good self correction
He said that not everything done while studying is not easier nor perfect so, you have to see little things like, if what you're doing is easy or hard, or if you're confused, like you not wrapping anything in your head easily, it's all about challenging yourself, in every possible way
Glad you're finding the videos helpful! Figuring out whether a study method really is quite complicated, since you do need to understand the theory of how learning really works to be able to make that decision. Generally speaking, if something sounds really easy and too good to be true, it's usually not that helpful - otherwise, if it were so easy, everyone would be doing it, and everyone would be doing extremely well.
I've actually talked about this briefly this in my last video, this link should take you to the exact timestamp: czcams.com/video/boo5gtr6oRU/video.html
Bonus: I've also mentioned a few rare tips that actually produce meaningful results, rather than being too good to be true.
@@JustinSung thank you doc
These are some of the things that I've learned from experience and couldn't put into words when I try to explain it to someone. Love it 😍
It works for me, I try to understand the information first before memorizing it and it works. But if I don't repeat the thing I understand, often times I forget about it. SR works for me and it's amazing.
I think we do need repetition for things to stick and if you try to recall it by relating a new information to the information you're trying to remember it'll stick as well. It's dependent on how the question is formulated, if it's a higher level e.g problem solving, it's better but even problem solving needs repetition to retain it.
I think for exams for things like math, chem, engineering, etc, using higher order thinking practice problems is more efficient than smacking anki.
But anki is more efficient for learning the foundations of things that you need to remember to at least understand some hots questions, after that, practice problem/problem solving is the god.
It's just like language learning, you do anki to understand the sentences first and then you immerse in the language for more higher order learning.
If it's biology I would just smack anki over and over because they are just facts to remember, there's no "why?" of those and so you just need to smack anki for that except if the information is not organized in a good way. (If it's hard to understand)
Hello, I was really intrigued by what you said that even high-order encoding techniques - in your example, inquiry-based learning - need repetition to retain it. May I ask what type of repetition is required?
@@davidthebanana8522 spaced repetition of course but it's more spaced if if the encoding was great. But if you applied it weekly or smth like that you probably won't forget it
Thanks for starting the uploads again! Always learn a lot
I've been watching your videos and trying to change my studying habits for a while but I'm still really struggling - it's a lot easier said than done😭 but thank you for all of the info regardless
Certainly, making a change is easier said than done. Keep it up, you've got this :)
Good content, I’m also realizing how our lifestyle choices may impact our ability to efficiently encode information that we want to learn… time spent on social media, what we eat, how often we meditate
Great video once again Justin
I am going into ur course within a month....and will smash every academics i had in my engineering, and my whole other learning areas as well....🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
13:05 "when your brain feels the information is relevant and worth holding on to it will naturally hold on to it"
Thanks for sharing this content with us!
Your videos inspire me and get me more excited about learning and that's something that I'm already excited about!
Learning about learning is probably the best kind of learning! :D
@@JustinSung hard to disagree 😁. I want to read research papers about it now lol
Spaced repetition also means doing problems from last week 's problem sets, last month's problem sets, last year's problem sets...you would follow a spaced repetition schedule based on chapter or topics instead of an algorithm that tracks individual flashcards but it's still spaced repetition. That way, you don't forget everything you learned in geometry such as proofs and constructions while you are learning calculus..
As one who has used SR for many years across a wide range of domains, I tend to agree with your thesis that it is more time-efficient to encode learning correctly from the beginning. Piotr Wozniak, the author of SuperMemo, and ostensibly the father of modern Spaced Repetition learning methods, states as the first of his 20 rules of learning that you should learn BEFORE memorizing. In my own practice, I try to think about what I actually want to learn before I make any flashcard. If I miss it upon review, I reevaluate how the knowledge is represented/encoded. Even high-level ideation is supported by facts, and specific algorithmic thought processes can be trained through SR. But learning (encoding) must take place, if not at first contact with the material, then with each subsequent encounter. I would very much like to hear your thoughts about what PW calls Incremental Learning as well.
I don't know if that works that well though, a flash card doesn't really encourage you to look at the information from another angle each time you practice it. You fail less early on but you need to use it for real somewhere at some point or it gets forgotten. I see the role of spaced repetition as trying to front load a lot of information because you can't avoid dealing with it all at once. As a general solution its not adapted to most things, usually we can use what we learn right away and what we learn builds on itself.
I've become incredibly enamored with your content. Just a few months ago I finished my MA in Psych with a 4.0 and honestly thought it was a breeze, but the techniques you're discussing help explain how I was able to see the material in my textbooks and why I seemed to excel at it so far.
Recently I've been getting back into Japanese (past two years or so) but it's not going well, partly because I've been stuck on the SRS train for vocab and grammar. After watching your content, I'm trying to see how I can apply what I used in my MA program to my Japanese studies, but I find the material (and the concept of language itself) is so unique from other disciplines. Maybe a future video idea for you is using the SRS system for languages? Because I know that the online Japanese learning community still heavily relies on SRS techniques.
Regardless, I'm planning to get into your program soon and see for myself all the techniques, hopefully try to apply this stuff to Japanese. Thanks again man!
It’s still about relevant information: what you see in Anki you need to see elsewhere in meaningful situations, in a larger context that you’re interested to understand.
That’s pretty much what all textbooks (for learning foreign languages) are doing: in each lesson they give you a bunch of words, some grammar, and comprehensible input where you repeatedly encounter the vocabulary, and when they go to the next lesson they continue to use vocabulary from past lessons which essentially makes Anki unnecessary as the spaced repetition is happening in the textbook.
Use what you learn as much as possible: graded materials for your level, keep a journal, invent situations, talk with yourself,…
As the Japanese conjugation is ridiculously consistent, you can train your brain/speech muscles to get used saying each pattern by simply drilling through verbs or adjectives by categories and subcategories in different days until it’s second nature.
It actually works for me as long as the ideas do make sense and has relation to each other. Not just purely repeating and repeating, make sure that the terms have relations to each other. I just want to share this. I study first and make relations then spaced repetition for things that are hard to remember.
hi! thank you for your comment but how do you make ideas relate to each other? do you make a mind map as dr. sung would suggest or do you do something else?
@@davidthebanana8522 Sorry for the late reply, yes I do mind maps especially for relationships IF you are learning something systematical. I also add inquiry based said by Dr. Sung. For example, if you are learning a language. What does "caminar" mean? It means walk. What does "correr" mean? It means run. What are the similarities or difference between these words? (i.e. relationship): e.g. they are both action verbs. They differ in speed of action.
Does it actually retain in my mind?: Yes.
There is a striking similarity between how you recommend learning and some styles on an AI program to learn effectively.
I think many achievers are natural at connecting facts and asking the rationalization of why they connect or the underlying foundations of concepts. For me, you need to know the whole map (general concept) and the relevant facts (atomic details of the idea). Both are needed for mastery
Great video so far!! What iPad case are you using Justin?
13:00 - 13:18 it's great idea here. Thank You Dr Sung
Hi, your videos have been popping up on my home page since at least one year and I'm finally beginning to take your advice but I'm not sure about how to approach your content i.e., the order in which I should watch your videos to make the best out of my learning experience. Any advice regarding this would be extremely helpful as I'll be entering college in a few months and I want to be prepared to tackle vet school
Hello, I am a 17-year-old Bolivian who has been watching your videos and I have to tell you that the way you express your theories and how you advise them are excellent, I would like you to recommend me some specific videos for mathematics since it is a subject that I like and It is a future career that I aspire to and I would like some advice or method to put it into practice, and I even joined a math Olympiad in my school to increase my understanding and creativity, anyway thanks for reading I hope you answer me
hi! i love your videos :D so educational. thank you for your hard work
This for language learning.
I know the meaning of a French word I met once in 1986. I've never encountered it since but if I did I'd understand it.
I think Anki is fairly good for some things but I disagree with the forgetting curve and think it's misguided.
The aim of learning words is to do a thing. That might be to read a novel.
If you learn a chunk of words in order to read a novel then read, say, 5 novels then all the words you learnt will be in the novel. If you learnt a word that isn't in the first 5 novels then it's not strictly necessary. And you can just carry on reading novels.
You won't forget it because you'll be reading it/using it.
So the forgetting curve concept doesn't fit language learning because if you're a consumer of language you'll be regularly encountering the words which was your reason for learning the language in the first place.
I do think Anki has a role. If I meet a new word I like to encounter it a few times so use Anki for that purpose. I think some technical terms are good for Anki.
I also find it useful for accelerating reading. If I get to recognise the most common words at sight it accelerates reading.
That said I am against the whole forgetting curve. What stops me forgetting L1 words, English for me? I don't do Anki in my primary language.
Abandon the forgetting curve!
You have to do standalone memorising for axiomatic concepts that later concepts build on (hint mathematics).
Think I need to eventually come back to learn all these via anki.
How do you quiz yourself, if you’re not making flashcards? this is my biggest block to learning in this way. If I read a book, and just try to focus on the relationships and evaluation of the ideas, how do I do active recall a month later?
wait.. wasnt this a video already? from before? i remember watching this
Important stuff in the vid - for example i´m in Psychology and my profs are really into test-design and evaluation - so they will usually evaluate past exams and check if something was statistically too easy or too hard, but they will aswell adjust it for a normal distribution of grades - so that most grades should fall in the middle. (so studying very hard with active recall gives you here just an average grade) - so to get a grade in the top 5% you need to solve the tasks with applied knowledge and concepts.
Hello Justin, there are some people that use anki to practice the zettlekasen method, are you aware of it and what are you thoughts on the zettlekasen method?
It's interesting to think about the cultural differences among different groups of students. I was a computer engineering student (part of the electrical engineering department), so when I was in college ten years ago, I was focused mainly only the EE material. Since there was almost nothing to memorize in EE other than the basics that everyone uses all the time, I didn't know anyone that used flash cards in college and had no idea that they were something people used until years later when I started studying Japanese. My only contact with flash cards prior to that was in the mid 80s when drilling toddlers with flash cards was hyped as a way to make them grow up to be smarter, so I didn't really take them seriously.
Justin can we please get your research papers on learning ?😀
I hopeto get an answer to my thoughts about spaced repetition: spaced repetition are the final thing to do to consolidate the topic that you're studying.
Like you said in the video in it's not possible to build an entire system of learning around that, it's like you're trying to smash that topic in you're brain forcing to remember it, better encoding strategies allows to not to do so many revises in order to remember facts, but they cannot be the just one, you still need spaced repetition to consolidate informations and active recall to have better metacognition of those facts., beacuse if you're learning things without knowing in what you're more strong or weak it makes way more difficult in order to maximize efficiency in learning,and AC and SR do that.
Many reasearches lacks of a multicomponential model in order to evaluate better the single strategies: for example you find results just for mind maps, or interleaving or spaced repetition or active recall, but there are few articles that put all togheter and the few i read about that are the one who works better(on this topic you may know more than me).
Let me know what you think about this.
P.s: i'm from italy and here we have a guy named Alessandro de Concini check this guy i think he covers the same subject, i think he has a good foundation like you(the only one beacuse the other guys the we have here in italy are just scammers), anyway let me know what you think about my thoughts
Could you " zettlecasten" link annki cards to emphasise the learning off the links remembering that this flashcard fact links to this other one
So, what is the best way to learn vocabulary ?
Good video but first i have to encode the encoding thing. I thought buying your course then i realized that i living Turkey... Thank for the video mate
When a technique used to memorize useless facts is pushed as a "necessary technique" for learning everything, you get the most suboptimal learning environment in human history.
What !?
Imo, Anki is great when working out because I'm not going to pull out my textbook and do practice problem in between my sets, but I'll pull up anki on my phone and practice between my sets
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will it lead to diabetes after listing too much please clear my dought
Hey Justin love your video there was so much to learn in every video.
But... could u pls say how to approach mcqs based exam in subject like Physics and chemistry . Cause it's always like learn and again revise the same thing again after a week or 2-3 days because most of it is Formulas , Reaction or Fact based , or like single question has to be approached in a different way...but the thing is there are many questions like these.
Is there any other better way of studying/ approaching these subjects.
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What software are you using for the presentation animation?
How can i do encoding process more effectively Dr Justin?
Riding a bike is a great example of not using spaced repetition. The majority of adults who know how to ride a bike probably haven't done so in decades, but if they were to ride one again, it would be easy for them.
This is off topic but what do you think about making a second brain. Also how do you read a book? Should one highlight something in the book that resonates with them and then come back to it later and write down it on a flash card? Lastly paraphrase it to remember it later?
I’ve got the same questions regarding books. It’d help if you could clarify. 👍
I second this question
Can anyone please tell me how to connect things,? How to find logic to connect different concepts together? I got the main point what Dr. Justin want to convey, but In having hard time to make various connection to topics.
Check out his mindmap videos and other videos on note taking
bro you have so many videos saying this is good, and the other is not, then what you thought was good is not, etc, so much so that I don't feel like watching any videos, and I start studying like I always did.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
Space repetition has limitations and misconceptions.
Anki and flashcards are tools for specific purposes, but their effective use is misunderstood.
Space repetition involves understanding what it's good for and its limitations.
Normalizing limitations of space repetition overlooks other effective learning methods.
Flashcards are effective for isolated facts, not problem solving or complex understanding.
Human brain is designed to learn effectively without excessive repetition.
Research shows space repetition may not be useful for more complex learning.
Effective learning involves activating efficient encoding pathways.
Rote learning through repetition isn't the only approach; alternatives are important.
Anki isn't a secret weapon; many use it, but it's not the top achiever factor.
Effective learning requires understanding cognitive processes and context.
Efforts should be focused on more advanced and meaningful learning strategies.
Interleaving isn't just dividing study time; it's about using effective techniques.
Interleaving involves mixing different angles and approaches while practicing, breaking up a single session with multiple methods.
Interleaving enhances learning by covering the same topic from various angles, increasing effectiveness.
Spacing intervals in spaced repetition can be expanded for better retention, but it depends on initial encoding quality.
Longer gaps in spaced repetition replicate real-life retrieval needs and offer strategic advantages.
Better encoding reduces the need for frequent spaced retrieval, allowing for longer gaps between sessions.
Fixed interval spaced retrieval isn't time-efficient, and expanding gaps provide room for better encoding.
The fundamental issue in spaced repetition is encoding quality, not just timing of intervals.
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What drawing tool are you using? What hardware and software?
Sir I love your videos can you make one specially for math. Plaease😍
good explanation
What about spaced mind mapping adding thoughts from consolidation and new learning each time making the species in my sive(memory ) larger by adding bits to them -wiring the business together in different ways so not repeating thing the samevwsg every time? There are new electronic note taking systems that might help with this that combine cards and links between them!
i've quited Anki, and now i'm trying Obsidian + Excalidraw (plugin) for making mindmaps linked together
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A video on breaking myths of short notes...... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Anki seems to be the main tool that language learners use (as a beginner, before immersion), do you believe that this is inefficient for beginners in learning a language too?
“Truth is indistinguishable.” To my understanding, the brain does not change the most effective learning pathways based upon category. As such, the arguments for and against Anki for school would still apply to language learning. The most effective way would be to learn in relation to other information and to interleave and learn via different angles (which Anki cannot replicate).
So my answer would be yes it is still inefficient for languages - BUT consistency and actually doing is more important than theory. So if Anki format allows you to be more consistent and actually study then it’d be worth it even if inefficient
It can help you with memorising (especially actively recall) complicated vocab that you wouldn't be exposed to often enough just by reading and is hard to remember. In other words: it's pretty useful for memorizing foreign letters and characters, as well as utterly foreign words. That's why it's called Anki (Japanese for rote memorization): it's good for Japanese (Korean, Chinese, and the like). Obviously you can't use that in isolation. No idea why anybody would learn words they'd never seen before. 🤷 I've mostly used it to cram vocab lists fast (for uni) and then not forget them over the course of the semester. For that it was perfect and I was consistently the top student in East Asian languages - the drop out rate is somewhere upwards of 90% in those subjects, at least over here. Good for standardized tests, too. Also, I've used real life flashcards to help my LO learn his (Japanese) letters. Worked like a charm. However, using Anki in isolation is utterly useless. It's for cramming little factoids and helping you to remember them long enough until you'll use them in real life - nothing more, nothing less.
In my experience, it's inefficient if the words are learned out of context. I recently coached a student that was learning German and I made Anki decks for him to remember the words and grammar he would learn in the lessons, at some point I noticed we hadn't learned the most important adjectives so I made a deck just for adjectives. By far that deck was the one who took him the most time and effort with the least retention.
Something I reccomend is to:
1) Learn words in context, such as having an entire sentence in the card where ideally only one word is new and its meaning can be discerned trough context
2) Only add words you have seen before, like from your active immersion.
3) Adding audio and images, I believe it improves retention.
@@santiagovasquez5967 I agree whole heartedly! I circumvented this problem by only studying vocab from texts or lessons I was reading/learning, anyway. Plus, I memorized whole sentences or chunks (collocations) along with the words. Studying vocab that I hadn't encountered in the wild or needed for a specific purpose has given me nothing. I've tried that, but naaaah. I'd rather read books. 🤷
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I like ur videos but how can we stay with reality. For me personally, I use to get hyper stressed whenever I come back from my phone and don't have a single study detail roaming my head though I still remember it.
Thank you
indian time now 1.50 i still watch a video without sleeping so what can I do for better sleeping
The video is so long :o Can someone give a brief summary? That would be awesome:)
i am agastus carmel 12 year old boy i was very happy with your teaching skill
What anki should be used for:
Holding onto useful information that does not relate to any other things you know
When to use anki:
Isolated random facts
Information that seem irrelevant
Learning at lower level of cognitive capacity
Because you need to repeat information like 5 times
Anki is Not good for:
Problem solving
Answering questions
Retrieving answers in a more complex way
Relating multiple things together
Ideas need to be
Understood
discussed
Compared
Evaluate
Solution to overusing anki
Pre study
Chunkmaps
Using anki is rote learning
Create relationships rather than making flashcards
Interleaving is approaching a concept in different ways.
Learning a concept today and solving past papers is interleaving.
Proper Encoding makes spaced retrieval work.
Thanks
Hi Dr Justin, thank you so much for your high-quality videos as usual! I’ve been trying to practise chunk-mapping after you talked about how it can help you see the relationships between concepts better, but I struggle with deciding how much detail to include. For certain subjects like biology, nailing the details is important to do well (since the mark scheme requires one to hit all the keywords), but inevitably, my chunkmaps get too cluttered when I try to incorporate the keywords as well :( How do you suggest I should go about deciding what to include/not include in my chunkmaps? And may I ask if I should be learning the details in other way? Thank you!
i first try to UNDERSTAND and after that I use anki to REMEMBER. Thats what learning is. I dont see any problem in that and whenever you talk about it you mention it in the most stupid way to use it (just putting everything in it with no thoughts). Of course that wont work well. The simple solution is to make few very good cards instead of many stupid ones. 300 cards a day wtf I do like 30 - 50 in a day when im really focused and that takes a lot of energy and time because each card has a lot of thought in it.
You're actually agreeing with the concepts Justin is talking about. You are "encoding" the information by making connections in your mind how the new info is similar to other concepts in life you already know about, therefore creating a neural connection that easily recalled based on how strong the logic/reasoning you give to it, and based on how good the encoding is you don't have to spend more time in trying to rote memorize to keep up with the forgetting curve. You can consolidate your understanding in fewer cards because you've encoded the info better, rather than arbitrarily copying notes word for word. People who tend to copy notes word for word aren't really digesting the material and making it their own but just regurgitating it. We tend to remember stories a lot easier, but anki or spaced repetition is the tool for those isolated facts and figures that are more arbitrary that are harder to connect with a concept or idea that you just have to commit to memory. If we can relate a new concept to something similar all we have to do is make that logical connection and boom, we don't have to "memorize" it because it naturally makes sense to us.
The point Justin is making here is like saying ...yeah you can technically get the job done with a manual screw driver, but why not just use a power drill and make it more efficient use of your time? There's a time and place for some tools and spaced repetition but it has its limits and you want to use a more effective tool when it calls for it.
@@Raz0rIG it's natural to study and learn and even discover things encoding, it comes naturally, but people nowadays (in case of my public university) people think they have good study habits but encoding is a lot lower
@@Raz0rIG I love how you explaine it, but can you please tell me how you make connection to various concepts? Like whats your thinking process should be, how you find logics?
@@Raz0rIG im just confused why make a 30min video when the problem can be stated in 2 sentences and the answer is 2 sentences. if people talk a lot I assume it must be complicated
@@darshi2185 One ex is when I was studying for an Salesforce related cert. I had to know the difference of lightning experience (modern version) of the platform vs the classic version (old version), one of these differences I needed to know was that knowledge articles in the lightning version used a thumbs up icon to rate articles whereas the classic used a 5 star rating system.
Now that's not too hard to remember by itself, but imagine having to learn 1000s of random isolated facts like that, eventually my brain would be taxed and some would get forgotten. So rather than arbitrarily memorizing this as an isolated fact, I decided to "encode" it by relating this fact to something similar I've experienced, in fact that we all experienced. CZcams back then used to use a 5 star rating system to rate videos, and now uses the thumbs up rating. So I connected the dots in my mind to say modern sites seem to be moving towards using thumbs up vs a star rating as the old way of rating. You might've even noticed other sites where they have help articles adopting the same pattern.
So that fact stays in my mind easily without having to force memorize it, simply because it makes sense. The more relatable you make the new info, the less arbitrary and more organized it will be. If your office space is disorganized, how difficult is it to retrieve a document? Same concept with your mind. If your knowledge is highly organized, your brain can retrieve it much better.
I've had the same experience with nothing sticking while doing anki but it was easily corrected by going back and improving my comprehension of what I was memorizing -- this way I also found it takes far less time to complete a deck, plus even if I miss a day (when I work slower and more intentionally) I can still recall most of the information a day or so after
for mindmaping, does it matter if you use your computer or is paper and pen the best?
he said before that it was not as effective if you were using a computer, it's better to use pen and paper because it lights up different areas in your brain that aren't normally used for learning. (creativity) He said in another video that the more different ways your leaning the better. I hope this helps
i just quoted what he said that wasn't a personal opinion it's what he said.
@@mimi.888 thanks Mimi
At least for vocab learning spaced repetition is still the tool that works best for me to solidify vocab after the initial learning process. It's not that helpful for more complex topic. I would love to find a better tool because it still is far from perfect.
How much time do you spend on flashcards everyday? Have you experienced any of the problems we've talked about? Let us know down below!
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@@maishapoushi231 you gotta relax dude. You eat anything? Sleep well
@@jqyhlmnp read my comment in the general comment section- as to why i commented such And as for YOU, your comment looks like it came out of Justin's second account 😂(ik u got what i said)
I used to spend HOURS each day doing flashcards in Mnemosyne when I was studying abroad. I was able to teach myself Russian and Portuguese while living in Russia/Brazil by doing a combination of spaced repetition, grammar study, and daily practice speaking and interacting with natives. I treated that time as supplemental educational time, and I was still able to have a normal social life, hang out with friends, get a girlfriend, etc., and have a good time. Rote learning/memorization isn't sexy, but it is a necessary component of learning any complex topic or field in depth, in my opinion. I'm not sure if the hunter-gatherer example properly reflects the hard knowledge needed to be a doctor or build complex systems. However, even in hunter-gatherer times we ran into the challenges of learning language and interacting with each other. People have (obviously) learned languages without spaced repetition, but would they be able to learn them in 2-3 months or away from native speakers? Would they be able to build a rich vocabulary unless they were exposed to unique environments for a long time? Spaced repetition may not be as time-efficient as we would like, but is there anything out there at the moment that is _more_ efficient? I feel like we are in the steam engine age of effective rote learning/memorization and I hope to be part of whatever techniques or tools get developed to improve the efficiency of rote learning systems. There's only so much critical thinking that can be done when discussing any field or topic without some hard facts that are known or assumed.
Every student does a cost-benefit analysis to determine what their study plan/method is going to be. Presumably each student has a cost to pay to not learn something. If we are thinking about high school it may be a Spanish class the student needs to pass to get a B, whereas for a pre-med it may be something much more high-stakes like the MCAT which determines where and if you can become a doctor. I'm not really understanding what you are suggesting as an alternative to spaced repetition. You are saying spaced repetition is wrong, but then don't concisely communicate the alternative. I listened to your section on encoding, some of your other videos on encoding and other methods, and it would be great if you could give clear example. You say "relate the information to prior existing knowledge", but that's very general and I'm not sure many young students would be able to take action on that suggestion. One missed benefit of spaced repetition is that it's organized. We write all the info down, we know where it is, and we know we won't lose it. If we use your suggestion to encode, how do we ensure we don't lose the small details that really matter? Do we spend 1 hour encoding and then move on to the next subtopic and pray that we don't forget? For any scenario where the topic is high-stakes, I don't see students feeling comfortable pivoting from spaced repetition completely partly because of the organization, and I don't think that's wrong I think it's rational 🤷♂
10:03 My man here with the facts, frfr.
Not if your cards contain context and level framework
Recently, i've just quited Anki after 4 years of doing flashcards everyday. When i discovered the SR concept 4 years ago, i was amazed and i take this like it was the holy grail of studying. But i was wrong, the biggest flaw in SR is not SR in itself, SR is ok if its related with other concepts. When you do your Anki studying sessions, typically you are studying isolated information.
Now, im trying Obsidian + Excalidraw plugin , im doing small mindmaps (chunk maps) that if there are any relationship between them, i create a link between those mindmaps.
Can I contact u bro
Want some guidance from u
sir i say many vedio but your video is the best for the addition of the free fire
this is a long ad for this guys' course.
Anki always looked like to much work for me ... so I never tried lol
i am indian from tamil nadu from nagercoil
Lot of fluff
This video is bloated but actually delivers what the title says
Still the problem is (from my perspective) you are trying to present the problem, which I agree with, and a very vague "solution".
I don't know what was the point of even inviting the other guys since there was no real discussion or back and forth, only that they "didn't like" Anki, too.
They didn't bring anything other to the table aside from their anecdotal experiences, and that they are not using Anki (any longer).
Did not go into depth what their strategies nowadays are or how they upped their learning game to correct the problem "What everyone gets wrong about spaced repetition".
This video should have been filled with more meaningful content instead of, what the other commenters pointed out, a long winded ad for your paid course.
I don't condone you for advertising your stuff, but your excuse to not being able to deliver some solution in a 30 min video or "on youtube as a platform in general" is... meh.
Just put exactly this line you mentioned at the end, in the beginning of the next video, and to save us some time and make the process more effective (because it can't be effective if it's not time efficient amarite)
YT is quite bad to structure the videos like we can do it in a website.....
And on the other side....he cannot simply put all his course videos here bcz first of all then how is gonna get the pay for his living...and secondly without his personal guidance or help of the community in the course the videos would be simply mis applied and hence people will loose faith that they can ever be good at studying
Hey Justin
Your contents are good, but can you like make videos on how actually to put it out there practically rather than kinda romanticizing the "idea of it" --the way you leave us with half-hearted theories of everything and keep a lot just to yourself -for making us enroll in your course classes to be able to make the most of your "theories" is overwhelming!!looks like you will not give a single piece of good strategy in this free platform, in a way--its really pathetic!
Why don't you actually introduce us to any model/flowchart on how actually to PUT IT OUT THERE. Your videos, otherwise, looks like an UTTER ADVERTISEMENT!
Maisha, whether Justin's motivations are to focus primarily on advertisement or otherwise, I found several of his public CZcams videos of this account to be quite informative and applicable with regards to some of his strategies. It could be that you missed those videos, or you have seen them but are already applying them and therefore conclude that they are not included. It might also be helpful, if you haven't already, to ask for some specific strategy (or study or learning problem/challenge) that you'd like to have explained by Justin. He might respond with a satisfying answer. (And if he won't, maybe someone else will.)
Don't you guys use anki primarily as a dictionary? I mean, space repeating 300 cards a day... makes me dizzy
sometimes seeing the same anki card again makes me feel dumber, like the repetition is slowing my brain down
i was so much ........ impressed
he always talks about what doesn't work not what works and even if he does talk about what works, he will not explain it very well. i wish i had the money to buy his supscription but i guess the explanation is reserved for people whi can pay :/
8:40
6:21 "you don't need to repeat"
I disagree. All examples he mentioned needed A LOT of repetition.
Even a hobby you need to do a thing multiple times to get it right.
Even the cave example, you need a lot of tries just to get a simple sparkle.
Med student civil war...
My main criticism with you is that you make the same videos multiple times and the videos themselves are unnecessarily long and dragged out. Also you use overly complex language and it can be quite hard for people who are not already knowledgeable on stuff like this to really make sense of your videos
dude was a doctor but i agree with you
Exactly what I was going to say. I think Dr. Sung is too familiar with the academic language. He really need to learn how to use plain English to communicate his ideas better. And of course, he really should make way shorter videos. I usually forget 90% of his content at the end of his videos and often lose track of what he's saying.
That's because he loves to word vomit and not explain anything in detail so people can buy into his course. Lots of his videos are just him saying he dislikes Anki, and for reasons that I think are valid, but he doesnt truly offer other options because that's free knowledge, and no one would be enrolling in his course otherwise.
@@capricorn8426 you are right, thats the main reason, if he want he could have already explained it way before in simple terms
@@capricorn8426 Well, from a business point of view, I don't think it's smart not trying to simplify complicated things. I mean, if I were a potential customer, when I can't fully understand his videos or find them too hard to understand, would I buy his course? Mostly no. Sometimes, free knowledge is a good promotion, unless he doesn't have much else to offer in his course. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's provided some alternatives to what he dislikes in other videos. :)
it doesn't work. why? because it's not quality study. Just pretending to yourself that you know something. Next day, you forget it again. As for Anki, I have my doubts that it works properly.