How I avoid feeling overwhelmed when studying MASSIVE content
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=== Timestamps ===
0:00 Why I’m feeling crap
0:49 The normal approach to studying 800 pages in 3 days
3:20 Day 1: establish the foundations
5:25 Day 2: reinforce the foundations
6:17 Day 3: fill in the cracks
9:39 What if I miss something?
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*_OVERVIEW FOR YOU GUYS_*
1. *Build a fundamental knowledge of what you're learning*
- _go through the entire chapter_
- _build a strong schema_
2. *Go over the content again with a new sense of relevance*
- _have more reference points. That way its more easier to process_
3. *Focus on missed details*
- Ensure the content is:
_>Relevant >Efficient >Putting you your best position for your next study session_
- _Pick the path of highest relevance_
*N.B* : *_Being overwhelmed is a sign that you're not seeing the relevance. To reduce the overwhelm, find the path of relevance!_*
Thank you!
Thanks
Finding relevance. This here is the key. I'm always struggling how to find the most relevant thing to start with and go from there.
TKS
He's making videos so that people watch it and get some help while making some money for his efforts. You, by summarizing the content of his videos for your own likes, have ruined his earning/income. Thanks.
I started doing this 6 years ago when I started med school, because I simply couldn't learn in the linear order. My brain just can't process information the way the textbook is organized because it doesn't make sense to me lmao When I decided to ignore the order and follow my own logic, things got way better for me. Unfortunally, I learned this skill the hard way, so this video makes me really happy (to know that people doesn't need to go through all the things I suffer to figured out how to study)
@aída lourandes
I want to ask that whether you made short notes also while using the technique.
Hope you'll reply 😃
@@okfine_33 yes!
In the beginning I was really afraid of not taking notes, my notebooks in my first year in university are absurdly written 😂
Now I do take notes, but only to remind me of something. So I don’t need to write everything, only what is important in case I need to review it/remember what I was thinking when I studied that topic before
@ , how do you connect something new, probably boring topic with something you know ? what if you cant figure out in that moment and the new topic is on the table?
I’m a Pre-Med student looking for the most efficient way to study before I start Med School
@@artessyt5817 you found anything yet?
This is what I do whenever I try to learn something new. I'll go to CZcams, and search the topic I want, and then make a 20-50 video queue of whatever I find most relevant or interesting, making sure to include shorts. After that, the best thing to do is to organize the videos by length, shortest to longest. Thus, you learn the most basic concepts and ideas first, and will have all the prior knowledge broken down in a way that most people can understand. Once you start getting into the 20+ minute videos and people start explaining why things are the way they are, you know what they're talking about. This method has worked great for me for anything I've wanted to learn
During the last whole month, I was literally panicking with anxiety for a hugely important upcoming exam. I had only 4 months, I wasted 1 month just by worrying.
It came to the point that the mere thought of opening a textbook made me sick. I became unstable in the most literal sense, I don't know how many days I had not taken showers, my whole room and mind was a mess. Even so, I tried again to study, but I miserably failed, I couldn't even read a whole paragraph, let alone the whole syllabus.
Then, almost accidentally, I found Justin. This is perhaps one of the most, if not the most, happy accident of my life. 😁
I just want to thank you sincerely. I hope someday, when you are feeling not so well, you might find courage again from the knowledge of the affects you are having in many of our lives.
Many loves for you😊🥰
Literally going though the same thing man I had like 4 months and now 1 month away and I’m scared of even opening the textbook
What did you do to overcome this?
Completely understand the feeling of knowing what to do, having lots of time to do it, starting panicking and feeling unable to so something like cooking meals, looking to books in horror, seeing time passing without doing nothing of what I know I should be doing - and finding Justin. I'm in Law exams season and finding the courage to avoid linear learning (like resuming through writing, giving up of the illusion of resuming is learning) is still a challenge but it's slowly saving me from myself. I'm totally with you in this! And, yes, we can do this!
The same here had 6 months to prepare and i couldn't open a textbook yesterday i finished my exams with 80% mark no anxaiety just confidance in my knowledge
@@jakubkonopa5840 hope I can say the same in some weeks 😉 and it's incredible how we are all in the same boat and see Justin as a saviour!... He truly is a life changer. Wishing you all the best!
Already started to apply _priming_ on my studies, and have already seen enourmous gains in velocity and comprehension. I always tried to cover detail-by-detail of the material I was studying, and that use to get me incredibly slower: like, 1-5 pages, in a hour. Thats ridiculous. After priming, i can at least double that amount (again, detail-by-detail) _while_ having a whole-part comprehension.
Sincerely, life changing.
How to do priming
@@cothinker680 nice and hard question: priming, as I understand it, is any form of pre-structure, a study focused in getting a global view of the topic, something broad enough to let you see the entire matter simultaneously
@@GPxNABrothers cool I did that today but always end up doing for 25 mins priming he says only do for max 15 min so I'm still practicing I can see its effective especially combine with chat gpt. But yeah I still need skills to improve.
I uses to read 3 pages in 1 hour good to know it's now 7 pages
You're awesome Justin. You have changed the way I study. I cannot thank you enough.
This makes sense i did my revision for my annual exam this way and got 80% this was the first time i wasn't dying out of anxaiety the day of an exam i just went into class just knowing that yes i know my stuff pretty well and the exam will be reflection of my study process
Definitely trying this over the summer. Thank you for this thought process.
THANK YOU, DR. JUSTIN. I constantly trying to figure out how to read heavy dense book since started watching your video and understand fundamentals of learning from you and you gave perfect information about this at right time.
I needed this, I have a textbook to tackle and I was hesitant about how exactly to do it; perfect timing!
Hello, Dr Sung! Just wanna throw-in my thoughts: This video makes a lot more sense after having watched your previous ones, because you structured a lot of them, covering broader concepts and this one is more specific, requiring a good foundation just like you described. What I got out of this: *relevance=burnout prevention* just like *confusion=organic learning process.* These are big concepts to me, so thanks for sharing them for free!
This is super encouraging. I've always struggled studying in a linear fashion, but never really established a system or framework for thinking about the way that I learned.
Now that I have to understand, navigate, internalize, and educate about national policy as part of my job, I often experience overwhelm.
Thanks for affirming non linear ways of thinking
Your tips are super helpful even for those of us who are not in school necessarily, thanks!
Get well soon! Thanks for the video!
Justin, god bless you! Thanks for your videos. They do help a lot.
This is so true and such a power full way of studying and learning new material.
Text books are just knowledge, often times laid out from easiest to most complex topic. they are not a course linearly laid out on paper.
Thanks a lot as always, Justin!
Sir thank you so much. Absolutely GOAT videos. Most channels of this type would spend twice as long trying to explain something and they would do it badly, miss important parts, start talking about other stuff. But your videos are always clear and provide real actionable tips. Thank you so much sir
Your channel has very useful content , thanks for helping us learn more efficiently
Great timing! Thanks only about a year for my JEE and NEET!
My man is the true definition of, “practice what you preach” 🙌🏼
This video was very interesting for me, as I have the habit of considering material almost as if it was sacred, following the order very rigidly and spending far too much time in the earlier parts before progressing. This has been pointed out to me but I never changed that, so I'm eager to put this strategy into practice.
I've been trying to read a textbook in linear order for a few days now and I feel like this video gave me permission to skip ahead, then come back for a couple of iterations for deeper learning. Thanks!
Thank you. I’m going to try this method. This is the best sense of smartest. New idea. I’ve heard in a long time. I already knew about jumping through concepts and scanning like that, but doing it three times is a very smart idea.
Great video. Thank you so much for posting.
Thank you sooooo much for all your effort.
Makes so much sense
Actually I've experienced this before but I wasn't aware of it
Thanks for the insights 🌸
Smart ideas... This guy could invent new things. He's so bright ❣️
I'm a high school student who has been watching your videos for about a year and a half now. This video came out at a perfect time, as I have exams coming up that I haven't started studying for yet due to analysis paralysis.
I just wanted to say: your videos have truly changed the way I study. Now, studying feels more like a privilege and less like a chore. It's also a lot easier to retain information. Just wanted to thank you for all the free knowledge! I unfortunately have not purchased your course as I cannot afford it, but I wish I could! I'm sure it would enhance my studying methods even further
may i know how ?
Yes, the key point is to always keep the progress going. If you're not making much progress with something, it's clear you haven't gotten enough background/prior knowledge. That's why you gotta dip to find that background/prior knowledge. Always find the area where you make the most progress.
Get well soon, Justin! And thank you for all the valuable content to provide us with!
Hi!
i have an unbelievable amount of lectures to read every day in my humanities degree. Ive implemented many of your teaching (mapping, taking more time to analyze the table of content to understand the structure of the txt, asking questions when reading and finding out relations...) which helped me A LOT. I remember a lot more because but the deep learning takes me A LOT of time making it impossible for me to do all my readings and be on time. Now that i cant go back to just reading in a linear way and taking superficial notes that ill never read again i need some advice to maintain the level of deep understanding but reduce the time it takes me do my readings (the ppl in the comments im all ears too caus I AM STRUGGLING)
(PS: i love your channel , I am currently saving to join icanstudy soon and in the meantime i binge all your videos)
Are you entering that deep flow state he's mentioned before in previous videos? He's mentioned that's how he's actually able to PHYSCIALLY go through a 800(700 pages really) page textbook in 3 days.
It seems like learning in layers but took to another level... I've never known someone who can read that many pages even through scanning!
Interleaving from Justin's ics course to his YT channel , watched it every week (spacing rule) applied hahahaha.
Get well soon Justin!
You has 3 days to study and 900 pages book.
This is probably the most helpful procrastination video I've watched so far.
Thank you Sung
I will never be the person who can study let alone make a video when sick. I have a slight cold and even then I can hardly focus at all without feeling miserable. Hats off to you!
Fantastic video. I learned this in your Livestream (if I'm not mistaken), but this video reinforces what I learned. Would you be able to make a video on the ways in which one should learn a subject like Mathematics the correct way?
I do think this is the clearest, most concise communication of the ideas you propound in your channel in general, well done, Justin! And that too while having covid lol
On another note however I am thinking of suggesting your channel to a friend but due to the complexity of your ideas, maybe you could add a starter tab on your page with recommended videos? Anyway this feels like the best one yet, thanks!
Which starter videos would you recommend for someone with a bad studying technique?
@@ago255 Probably his Ted talk, he says in a livestream that that's the one he'd recommend to people new to the channel
@@sathvikkumar3609Yeah I watched that video. Which of his studying technique videos have personally helped you study better?
have to study for an exam that is scheduled in 4 days and I am glad I came across this
Loved it! Thanks for sharing!
You are a blessing man 🙏🏿
Oh wow this was actually useful. Thanks man!
Perfect timing 😂 I'm sick and I got finals in 10 days THANK YOU SO MUCH JUSTIN!!!!!
Same lol
Get well soon and all the best!
same
@@JustinSung Likewise get well!
Same what lmao
That sounds like an amazing technique that I’ll try on my much smaller reads
This is actually very helpful and true. As an expert that is writing a book, you'd rather write it from the beginning to the end, easy to hard, but that isn't the best way to learn!
It's like learning the world map, you learn continents first, you learn groups of related countries later, and countries from the most important or biggest to smaller or less important.
Imagine trying to do that alfabetically or something, yeah, have fun khahaha.
When I was learning 6502 assembly, I found that looking at the general idea first, then looking at things that were most relevant for me at the time was the best approach.
It was like looking at all the things, measuring their size. Picking the RIGHT SIZE of a box, and then slowly filling specific information in the placeholders :p
If you don't know what you're studying, it may seem overwhelming, or like a never-ending hole of very specific things. "How am I gonna learn that??? It's impossible!" I'd say some time ago :p
Thank you, thank you, thank you! May God bless you!
So useful! Thanks.
Get well soon ❤️ from 🇨🇦
i love you
i have to listen to ur video before i sleep because i use to it
People, I am doing his I Can Study course and I can tell that it's amazing!
He teaches everything that he shares here with an amazing depth. Thanks Justin you are making the world a better place.
awesome, I'll be trying this, I wonder how it would work with a very difficult text book like a 1000 page Calculus book. I'm so glad I found your channel, it seems I've been studying wrong all my life.
One of the things I struggle with is determining *what* is considered relevant. "Oh, this person was married in19XX? That sounds important, maybe the test will have those types of questions." Majority of the time, things that seems unimportant sounds and looks important to me and I might as well highlight 98% of the textbook.
Ask yourself, why is it important
Not all heroes wear capes. Man you literally saved my life. I'll never forget this.
I hope you make another video and show us how you went through the text. I know your course teaches how to do this and is more comprehensive. I am in the course. But I would love to see an example of how you accomplished this feat, with the understanding that I have not yet had enough training to do this.
Before the Internet I used to go to bookstores in my lunchtime and start a book from the end, skimming. I found my brain would pick out what it was searching for and somehow this focused me. Because I was short on time ( and there were so many books) I wanted to absorb fast. I learned so much this way. If a book had so much I couldn’t possibly understand this way then it was a sign I just had to buy it. Today I learn mostly by CZcams but feel overwhelmed by trying to get thru so much!
Thank you awesome hack🎉
Watching this before my tomorrow exam. I started studying a 235-page surgery notes for the first time now :")
Justin you're amazing bro
love ur study course, keep on providing content to help us students :)
@PepeLaugh Interesting.....Why do you think he got discount for writing the comment?
@@AmanSingh0699 Because the program is basically a hodge podge of info rallying against the already sound advice given by other channels for free with nuggets here and there based in reality to make it seem new and cutting edge. He does a great job with his copywriting and making you feel that what you are doing now is terrible and if you want to be a super learner, you need this program. You really dont need to pay this exorbitant amount. For the people who it is effectivbe for, there is a bias because they often have poor/ineffective study habits to begin with. Of course getting "honest" testimonials (for a price of course) is built into this business model - as they build tremendous social proof "Hey if these 3 people had success...MAYBE there IS something to this afterall" Reddit is full of skeptics regarding this program.
@@HeyQuinton I just bought the course. I'm still on the Fundamental 1.... I found the course to be helpful at this point. What level are you at?
@@HeyQuinton can u give any examples of where you can find the same research on these techniques on other channels?
@@HeyQuinton completely agree with the course being basically a scam. imo this video was completely useless (perhaps a nice reminder), as no one really learns “linearly” if you think about it. If something in the text is brought up and one don’t know/understand it, most people will just google what it’s about and learn the basics that way. So this “study technique” is just a roundabout way of restating what most people already do.
Im going to do this Now!
Good job. Thank you!
Thank you too!
The best explanation 🎉😎
I really wanted to hear more about how to prepare for major tests, those that may take months or even years to get ready for. In a lot of countries, there are competitive exams with a phenomenal amount of knowledge in order to get into public servant careers, colleges or have a professional license. People study hard for years and may have a shot every 4 to 5 years or so.
2:37 the way he says, "taught" makes a water droplet sound
I watched your video just as it came out, with exams just around the corner. I was stressed because I had 4 exams, with one of them being IB Biology HL (a two year class). Last year for bio I studied for 12 hours for 6 chapters and came out of the test room with an A but also an extreme case of burnout, and I was determined not to do that this year. I studied the day before and the day of for a total of around 10 hours for 11 chapters, and I'm not burnt out at all! I also got an A! Sending this video to the studying discord server I'm in. Thank you!
Hi Abby, can you explain how you went about studying the 11 chapters pls?
Wow very important to study textbooks, thank you!! Do more videos about reading textbooks please!!!
This approach sounds very interesting, I often feel like the information could have clicked better in a different sequence as well. But I’m wondering how applicable this is to something like university mathematics or computer science where the complexity of the information might get in the way of being able to build that initial understanding (as fast as surveying an entire textbook in a day). I don’t think it’s really doable but if anyone else has had success with it, I’d love to hear!
All facts, revisiting information will cause you to retain much more information than just studying it "properly" once
Ok. You are a BEAST. You now have a customer for life.
watching this vdo was worth it thank u so much
I love this channel bro guys get this guys course
I am thankful to my friend, who knew me about this channel.
I hope this does not come off as annoying, but it would be better to use "told me" instead of "knew me" in the second half.
@@August3S hah
@@August3S thanks 😊
@@August3S I am thankful for my friend,who told me about this channel.
Watching this at 4am with work at 10am. Gonna work on this when im fresh
Love you, thanks
Keep up with the good content! :)
thank you
U saved my time hats offff
Thank you
Hi Justin! Quick question here. Depending on the vast variety of different subjects, what's the single best way to sort out what's relevant from what isn't? For example, when studying a medical textbook at times it feels like everything is supposed to be relevant in some way shape or form. So how do I know what to study immediately and what to study later on
I apologize if my question sounds like I haven't been paying attention to what you've said. Really great stuff your putting out and your videos have helped me out tremendously in med school. appreciate it
Agree it is often so overwhelming to study vast amounts of material that everything seems relevant especially when there is anxiety about leaving out material that could be vital
Relevance can only be discussed in terms of goals. Relevance realization is a topic in cognitive science with applications to AI. If you are in a degree program where the creamy cramathon champion rises to the top, your _entire education_ might become irrelevant to the post-ChatGPT employment landscape. Beware the tale of John Henry trying to do with muscle what new machinery does with steam-powered hydraulics. I think he finally wins, then collapses from a heart attack.
If you are in a degree program where they bother themselves to expect the best students to do something more sophisticated than win _Jeopardy,_ then you need to have a cognitive model of what competence looks like in that endeavour (something ChatGPT can't already do). A decent model of competence in your chosen pursuit will go a long way to filling the relevance void.
Obviously, knowing when to look stuff up is a good start. But you can't be looking up everything all the time, so you also need a solid kernel of hard knowledge. If you can't define the boundaries of that kernel, you are thrashing around.
Here's one heuristic I use all the time: If I choose not to commit this to memory, and the situation comes up where I _need_ to know this, would it be obvious that I needed to look it up, and would I know _how_ to look it up at the appropriate speed? If yes in both cases, it goes straight to the bottom shelf.
Thanks
Thank you for this video, I made a summary of it and planning to use it. But couldn't you explain last stage when you're filling in the cracks? You just once again go through this whole material, watch all things that you've picked out (by highlighting them, as I guess) and think about are they fully comprehensive? Or how you do this?
This channel was suggested to me by CZcams algorithms and I'm really happy im aware of this.
Usually, when I search for something on youtube I'm bombarded with a ton of videos on the same subject, i search for cooking garlic bread my home page is spammed with cooking videos, I search for outer space I get spammed with nasa and spacex videos.
This was the one singular time youtube algorithms suggested something useful, i NEED better studying techniques!
Thank you so much sir🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯💯💯
Another resource to manage is attention span. Relevence helps, but additionally, within the learning stage you are in, you may need to jump around based on interest. Not only do you need to search out the appropriate level of knowledge to build the next level of knowledge, you also need to jump around within that level based on your interest at that moment.
Another youtuber covered this, calling it jumpy learning. Justin's method is also jumpy learning it seems. I've found physical textbooks most useful for this method and actually struggled to do jumpy learning with online learning because its designed for linear learning. Videos and web pages can be hard to jump thru. Indexing and time stamps don't give accurate control, if they exist at all.
i understand completely. SIR THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! THIS VIDEO IS GOLD PLATINUM DIAMOND DYNAMITE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. it would be good if u made a series of livestreams showing this technique live hehe
Out of interest Justin can you apply this to your entire syllabus lets say you have uni in 2 or 3 weeks can you use this to get done with the syllabus early and fill in the gaps as you go through the semester but of course ona bigger time frame lets say like 7 days to learn as much as possible
I love your videos, always. Yet, I still struggle to determine what’s really relevant when studying in medical school. The professors usually ask just about anything and everything, so I always end up studying it all (yes, in a linear manner) from beginning to end, and end up not retaining it as much, not learning, and also frustrated.
How could I prioritize and identify what’s relevant?
Thanks a lot!
Think more about prerequisites. If there are terms in a sentence you don't know, or processes mentioned that you don't know, then clearly identify all these things, because they are the prerequisites. Then try to adjust your focus into learning about these smaller concepts. If the explanation of these smaller concepts are still too complicated, then you should probably try focusing on the most basics and fundamentals. Always try to fully get down the fundamentals before you move on. These will be the prerequisites for learning higher level concepts.
Also try not to only use 1 book or 1 source. If there is a particular concept you're trying to learn, and the source you're using really isn't clear at all on that particular concept, maybe try searching for explanations of it in other books or sources as well.
Oh, and another thing to keep in mind is that the amount of progress you make is a great indicator of whether you're going through what's "relevant" for you or not. If you've barely made progress on something you've worked hours to understand, once again, you're probably lacking the prerequisites/prior/background knowledge. It would sort of be like trying to bash the information into your head when your head simply doesn't have the means to hold it in efficiently. Memorizing something becomes much easier when you can think about it meaningfully. The prior knowledge is what allows you to think things a lot more meaningfully. So if you're having trouble making progress, just try to move onto areas where you actually make good progress, to build the prior knowledge.
Try to build the general structure with videos like ninjanerd
Thank you for your response! I had a similar question and you really helped to clarify some things for me.@@goldencookie5456
I think you misunderstand. What Justin talks about relevance, he means personal relevance (ie. things you find interesting and/or important, or things you have background in or have in your life already). Not stuff that is relevant to the teacher or course.
That's why he mentions the feelings of boredom & the bit in the beginning about order control
After several attempts at this, I've finally made this work. Thanks so much for this
Glad it helped!
30 sec deep breath + write down everything on your brain to paper ->strike out of control thing and circle out one thing of action at time
man said 900 pages in 3 days
this makes me feel better
I will be able to handle the 70 pages I need tomorrow
Passed the exam fellas, I handled it 👍
@@amneenja5720 congrats 🎉
@@amneenja5720 Wwwwwww
@@amneenja5720bro Can you give me tips
@@amneenja5720 oh great congratulations 🎉🎉👏
It's funny, a lot of these concepts that Justin teaches, Paul Scheele taught them in his Photo reading system. The problem with his system at least in my opinion is that he adds a lot of pseudo science into it. Maybe it does work and I'm doing the method wrong, but sometimes many of his claims seem farfetched.
Justin the way you teach it, just makes so much more sense and it is very down to earth, and easy to understand.
Justin I love your channel so much, I have a question tho.
Is there really something like photographic memory? Is it even possible to achieve or is it just something you are born with?
Literally can't thank you enough times for your content. The amount of self worth and time I've lost with repeatedly trying different methods of just linear learning and memorization is just too much at this point 😬
How does your eye catch the relevant parts while skimming over the page? Are you looking for highlighted words or infoboxes?
And also how do you retain stuff by just reading it.
I really want to know.
Gratitude.
Please be healed soon. Sung must not be ill.
nvm, you already recovered lol
@justinsung, would this apply to learning math? Due to a very atypical k-12 education, I’m essentially starting at algebra I for the first time and not sure if this method would still apply. Thanks for your content!!
The best!!!
Dr Justin could you please make a video on your thoughts about Chat GPT and integrating it into learning, thank you very much!