00:05and we are live let me say that again
00:09and we are live so let me know if in the
00:14comments if there's any issues with the
00:17audio anything like that hopefully
00:18everything is working fine leave a
00:21couple comments just to let me know that
00:23you are there and alive and we will get
00:27on to studying real soon make sure that
00:32you have your study stuff with you I'm
00:37gonna be going through as a walkthrough
00:39so that at any time in the future if you
00:41want to use this as a reference I know
00:43that some people aren't tuning in and
00:45they want they asked if it's gonna be
00:48available later yeah it will still be up
00:50so that if you want to use it as a
00:52reference for future studying it will
00:53still be available for you so I'm sorry
01:01Natasha for being um a minute late and
01:04yeah one plus seven pro oh yeah so I'm
01:12gonna be studying off from a book and
01:15it's a reasonably um dense book hits on
01:19like business growth and marketing and
01:21stuff II this is the type of stuff I
01:22study these days and I'm gonna be aiming
01:26to cover I've said 50 to 100 pages I
01:27don't know how much I'll end up getting
01:28through but I'll certainly be aiming for
01:3050 to 100 now I haven't looked at this
01:32at all okay so this is completely fresh
01:35first things first let's just set up our
01:37environment make sure that you've all
01:39got your studying equipment and stuff
01:41with you I am a little bit underprepared
01:45because I've got some snacks some grapes
01:48I'm gonna get a drink and I need to get
01:51my tablet so I can start writing notes
01:53on it as well so give me a sec
02:13now this uh this is actually legit step
02:17right because I'm gonna be breaking this
02:18down you know when I said a walk through
02:20I really meant it you want to make sure
02:22that you don't have to get up for any
02:23real reason you want to once you're in
02:25flow you want to stay in flow as for as
02:26long as possible so things like getting
02:28a snack getting a drink you know things
02:30like that those are legitimate steps
02:32that I would really take to make sure
02:34that I'm gonna optimize this environment
02:35and create a focus zone around me if I
02:38really really need to focus and I'll
02:41even sort of close off behind me you
02:43know this that screen I've got just over
02:45there I will um sort of Showell myself
02:48inside it so make sure that you all
02:49setup get all of your resources in front
02:52of you there might be liquor slides that
02:54might be whatever material it is clear
02:56out your space a little bit you know
02:58five minutes spent on just prepping your
03:00environment to allow for an efficient
03:02system is gonna go a long way so for me
03:05right now all I need is my tablet to
03:07write notes on infinite canvas I use an
03:10app on Windows good Leonardo if you've
03:12got an iPad you should be using an app
03:14called concepts try not to use apps like
03:16good notes because it's it doesn't have
03:19an infinite canvas and that's really the
03:20main benefit you want from digital notes
03:23and if you got Android you can use an
03:26app called squid so hopefully you're all
03:37set up and you've got everything that
03:39you need to study in front of you all
03:41your resources laid out listen to this
03:56hope you enjoyed that okay so there's a
04:12particular system that I'm gonna be
04:14using a particular series of techniques
04:15and if at any point you've got a
04:17question just feel free to ask about it
04:21but I'm not gonna be doing a whole lot
04:24of stopping when I'm in it and I'm
04:27obviously gonna be a lot more quiet when
04:28I'm actually you know in there and
04:31actually really studying so I'll look up
04:35at the chat every now and again just to
04:36see if there's been anything that's
04:38popped up but otherwise I'm really gonna
04:40be focused on just getting through this
04:42stuff and studying it as quickly as
04:44possible give me just one moment
05:08and I'll be googling stuff in front of
05:13are there any snacks I'd recommend yeah
05:14actually I would recommend like I when I
05:20was studying like you know more most of
05:23my learning is now just like on-the-go
05:24we're not studying more I would go heavy
05:27on like almonds and like fruit and
05:31things because it doesn't make you as
05:33like um sort of drowsy I sort of feel so
05:40this is this is what my app will look
05:42like it's infinite canvas and there are
05:46no lines because it's suited for my
05:50mapping I don't want to linearize my
05:52thought process I want to be able to
05:53think inside my head and just plant it
05:55on paper straight away and without
05:57having any real hesitation on how I'm
06:00gonna represent it I'm just gonna
06:01represent as quickly as possible so
06:02we're about to get into it now as I eat
06:05a grape to get started maybe that'll
06:09become a thing if you don't have your
06:17study stuff in front of you right now
06:19make sure you do that real quick so the
06:23first step I'm gonna outline this first
06:25is that it's gonna be a little bit it's
06:30gonna be a little bit boring in a way
06:33for you because I don't I don't move
06:38around much I don't write a lot
06:41constantly it's not it's not a pretty
06:43sort of thing most of the learnings
06:44gonna be happening inside my head okay
06:48so it's it's you're not gonna see so you
06:51know some people have said can we see
06:52your screen you're not gonna be seeing a
06:54lot and when you do see it it's not
06:55really gonna make a lot of sense because
06:57I I write very little words I I mostly
07:03draw in symbols and diagrams and doodles
07:05that are very abstract so you're
07:07probably not even gonna bet to make
07:08sense of what I'm doing I will show you
07:09my screen intermittently and you'll be
07:11able to see it when the camera focuses
07:14on it but don't really worry too much
07:16about making sure it's really reflective
07:18of what I am thinking inside my head and
07:20spending as little time on the
07:22note-taking as possible because I want
07:25to spend as much time as I can inside my
07:27head doing the learning and once I've
07:28done the learning I just want to
07:30document that okay so that's really the
07:32the way that I'm gonna be learning and
07:33that's that's how I'm gonna be able to
07:35read and learn a huge amount in a very
07:37short period of time it's because I'm
07:39spending very little time on the
07:40note-taking and so much time on very
07:43rapid idea generation and hypothesis
07:45testing and going back and forth within
07:47it so that it's it's not gonna be a big
07:50issue they're handwritten notes versus
07:54typed notes always handwritten notes
07:58always nonverbal if possible so not as
08:02many words I'm expressing them in some
08:04other way that's just reflective of what
08:06I'm thinking as possible sorry and the
08:11only time I'd really use typed notes is
08:13if I have a very specific purpose so for
08:15example if I create challenging
08:17questions for myself that I wanna then I
08:18want myself to answer and a couple weeks
08:20from now which is a technique which I
08:22call breaching questions which I'll
08:23party cover in another video one time if
08:26that's the situation then then I'm not
08:28really getting any learning from the
08:30writing it down I'm getting learning
08:33from the thinking about the question and
08:34creating a really difficult question so
08:36that I don't I can just type that but I
08:38don't need to do that for you know like
08:42my day to day kind of learning when I
08:44have day to day learning I want to be
08:46able to think think think think think
08:47and just document that instantaneously
08:50in a short amount of time as possible so
08:51if I'm learning for an hour I might
08:53spend maybe five 10 minutes on writing
08:55notes and that's gonna save a lot of
08:57time and I know that's probably the
08:59reverse for a lot of other people this
09:01book is called the organic growth
09:02playbook it's a it's like a leadership
09:07and marketing related book and this is
09:09the sort of stuff that's relevant for me
09:11at the moment so this is why I'm reading
09:12but this technique is what you know I've
09:14used this to study many different topics
09:17obviously medicine but you know lots of
09:19other topics on top of that so it's
09:20highly highly applicable highly highly
09:23definitely I can guarantee you that it
09:26will work so are you ready kids give me
09:32an i I captain if you're ready to go we
09:35already had our celebratory getting
09:39started grape so we're a bit late
09:41the first thing I'm gonna do is the
09:43priming step I don't always do this
09:45priming step because I'm really used to
09:47the technique that comes after this but
09:48for 99.99% of people who are watching I
09:51highly highly recommend having this
09:52priming step the prime except that I'm
09:54gonna be doing is I'm just gonna be
09:55reading through the stuff that I'm
09:58reading now you might have a liqueur or
10:00you know a subject that you want a cover
10:01and that's fine you can just cover that
10:03but if for me I'm not gonna cover all
10:06270 pages of this book in one go so I'm
10:10gonna keep reading and just priming
10:13myself until the point where I feel like
10:17this is a lot of concepts that I'm
10:19covering now and I'm really only reading
10:21a few words per page these are main
10:24hitting style of paragraph end of
10:26paragraphs figures and I'm just trying
10:28to connect it in my head I'm just
10:30thinking about what is the flow what's
10:32that what's it trying to tell me how I'm
10:34how am I meant to be thinking about this
10:36what where is a general landscape of
10:38where I'm going and I spent quite a bit
10:41of time on doing this because it gives
10:42you it gives me a really clear idea
10:44about where I'm hitting and means I can
10:46focus all of my energy on creating the
10:48right connection then learning at the
10:49right time and if I read something I
10:51think oh I know that this is connect to
10:52the thing ten pages from now I could
10:54quickly go ten pages from now read a
10:55little bit more about it and in that way
10:57my learning is happening in the order
10:59that I need it to happen this is a
11:00technical order control that I teach
11:01most of my students so the priming is
11:05really giving me a good general overview
11:08I'm really not caring about all the
11:09details I'm not caring about memorizing
11:11anything I'm gonna come back to it
11:12eventually I just want to get a really
11:14strong very solid understanding of just
11:17a basic overview and that's gonna give
11:20me an idea of how many concepts and how
11:21deep those concepts are and how dense
11:25the material is which is gonna dictate
11:27how much I'm gonna be able to get
11:28through in one single sitting I pretty
11:30much just go until I feel like my brain
11:32is gonna explode and then I just
11:34contract all of it in by linking and
11:37and then I expressed that real quickly
11:38on a very loose big-picture mind map and
11:41then I go back through and really start
11:42filling it in so we'll get to that stage
11:44first but for now let's spend about 10
11:46minutes 10 15 minutes on just priming
11:48our knowledge we're gonna go through the
11:50material and just build a super solid
11:52logic based framework on how everything
11:55is connected without going into too much
11:57of the detail ok so let's start on that
11:58step oh sorry we haven't started for
12:11very long yet but I'm little tip so
12:13there's an idea of sensory distraction
12:15or sensory deprivation this increases
12:17the rate and quality of connections that
12:19you're creating and breaking it
12:20increases creativity as well you can do
12:22this in a number of ways sensory
12:24deprivation is not really possible in
12:25this case because I'm reading things in
12:27this a lot going on it would be fine if
12:29I just wanted to think but in this case
12:30I'm gonna use a sensory distraction
12:32technique and it's just something to do
12:34with my hands while I'm reading that
12:37kind of keeps my my mind on rhythm in a
12:41particular way and so for me like I
12:43might just play with my pen or kind of
12:46yeah just fiddle with the pen or if
12:47you've got something else you know you
12:49can kind of play with play with that
13:25by the way right now I'm just reading
13:28the contents of the book that's that's
13:30all I'm reading at the moment I'm just
13:31spending some time understanding the
13:32contents and that's another way of
13:34priming for me as well
14:03actually another important point sorry
14:06to interrupt if you are really
14:07concentrating but you know this is some
14:08trans just deliver value if you are
14:11reading that the process is fast in
14:15terms of how you know me pages you're
14:17turning per se but in your head it's
14:19quite slow so I'm really quite
14:21deliberate in my head so for example I'm
14:23reading a sentence that says you know
14:24map the buying process waterfall and I'm
14:27just playing with that in my head trying
14:29to think about what that could mean well
14:31the different variations of what it
14:32could mean the hypotheses why it could
14:34be relevant I'm really thinking quite
14:36deeply about it and all the different
14:37angles and try to almost predict what it
14:39will talk about and related to my prior
14:41learning so even though I'm only reading
14:43a sentence it's really slow to start
14:45because I'm just building you know from
14:47nothing I'm just trying to build a basic
14:49framework but I'm asking these really
14:50deep questions as I go and as I'm going
14:55it will get faster and faster and faster
14:56and faster so the beginning is very very
14:58very very slow and it sort of really I
15:02think increases exponentially in speed
15:04and you'll see that later on as well
16:52so I've just finished reading the
16:53contents so that's you know really how I
16:56go how do you avoid passive reading it's
17:00not so much passive reading is avoided I
17:02don't read on this I need to read so I
17:05won't even I have a very clear intention
17:08about why I'm reading so if I didn't
17:14I just wouldn't in the first place so I
17:17really am very clear about what why I'm
17:19reading this what I'm trying to get out
17:21of it and what I want to know next and
17:23only where when I'm clear on that will I
17:25actually move forward so sometimes you
17:28know like I'm not a perfect human being
17:29and my focus will wane in and out so if
17:31I catch that my focus is waned out I'll
17:33sort of just take a moment and just
17:34reflect and just connect everything
17:36again I'm like okay so this and in this
17:37and it built on that and this is kind of
17:39where I'm at at the moment and then I'll
17:41move forward so at the moment I've just
17:42been reading this content you know and
17:44you'll see I have to spend a long time
17:45reading just that that's all I've been
17:47reading right but based on that I've
17:49been able to create a general hypothesis
17:51of what this book is gonna be talking
17:52about and I have an idea about how it's
17:55gonna structure that and I'm an idea
17:56about what sort of examples they're
17:58probably going to have so everything
18:00I've read every hitting I read I'm kind
18:03of linking that to how it builds on what
18:05I've just read and so you can see it's
18:07it's really really slow but I'm Steiner
18:09already feel like I've started unlocking
18:12that real way of thinking about it
18:14because I know how this hitting relates
18:17to the previous one I can anticipate how
18:19that might relate to the next one so in
18:22this way my very slow reading has
18:24created for me some really fast learning
18:27inside my head although there's no
18:29details attached to it because I feel it
18:31all makes quite logical sense at the
18:33moment when I go in to add more detail I
18:36will feel that it's lots and much more
18:38easily okay so after the stage where
18:41I've got a general pretty good idea
18:43about how the book is gonna be laid out
18:44and I've gone over it in my head quite a
18:46few times so that it's you know it's
18:48really solid I know exactly how I feel
18:49like it will go that mental model will
18:52now be in my head that I'm always kind
18:54of testing and heading things to and
18:55subtracting things off as I read okay so
18:58really a lot of foundation building here
19:01and that will allow me to actually
19:03memorize a lot of the details that even
19:05we'll just make logical sense the first
19:11page for me is actually a preface and in
19:15my mental model the preface doesn't
19:16really fall anywhere so I'm just gonna
19:19skim through this to see if there's
19:20anything that I really need to know
19:22anything that jumps out at me I'll add
19:24that to my mental model and I'll think
19:25about that deeply but I'm gonna use you
19:27know speed reading techniques and just
19:29skimming through you get a general
19:31understanding of okay what is this
19:32talking about and if what it's talking
19:34about is not something that's relevant
19:36to me I'm just gonna skip that and maybe
19:38I'll come back to it later on a reread
19:40maybe I'll come back to a later ten
19:42pages after you know but this is gonna
19:44allow me to save time and avoid learning
19:46things that I'm not really ready to
19:47learn yet I'm gonna I can learn it later
19:49or I don't need to ever learn it
20:06I also do read pretty fast but that's
20:10another technique as well there will be
20:11videos about how to speed read but the
20:13speed reading as a technique is it's not
20:15it's not like a major thing you know it
20:17does make it faster but it's not um it's
20:19not big make or break you know these
20:20techniques will work if you're dyslexic
21:21let's make a quick note that actually
21:24when I think about the mental model
21:26inside my head I don't actually have
21:29words associated with that I have an
21:31image of what I'm visualizing ricchan my
21:35head and I know how it looks so I can
21:37kind of think about it I look at it and
21:39I have to actually think about it in
21:41order for me to actually assign a word
21:43to the concept so kind of visual I I've
21:46read the word and it turned it into a
21:47concept that I visualized a concept and
21:49I'm tracking that so it's it's kind of
21:54like I've thought about it I've
21:55persisted Ivery expressed it I've held
21:57it in my mind and now that's what I'm
21:58working off of and so for me to
22:00reconvert it I have to sort of translate
22:02my mental image again but it's actually
22:03much faster to do that because an image
22:05is much easier to hold then like ten
22:07different words across like a process
22:09map and I can still try to connect and
22:20problem-solve with that by just thinking
22:22if I read something how does that
22:23connect to that concept that I
22:24visualized it's it's like exactly the
22:27same as if I just you know learnt that
22:29concept it's just that the word the
22:30terminology which just takes more time
22:32for me to just remember it's just not
22:52how did I develop this method I
22:54developed this method through tens of
22:56our tens of thousands of hours of
22:58experimentation and thousands of hours
23:13you guys gotta remember first-year
23:15University for me was 10 years ago
23:17I mean studying for a long time
23:20and this is kind of my thing so you know
23:23I've had a lot of time to work on this
23:34what kind of images do I do I imagine
23:36let me I'll actually draw out what's in
23:38my head for you I normally wouldn't draw
23:40this out and in fact for the sake of
23:41making the technique like you know more
23:45genuine now I'll show you and then I'll
23:46rub it out again so what I have in my
23:48head is this this is what I visualized
24:07after reading the contents for like 15
24:10minutes that's what I visualized each of
24:19those elements represents a different
24:21aspect of my mental framework and like I
24:24said it looks like nothing which is why
24:26I said that it's gonna be pointless for
24:27someone to try to like just watch my
24:29screen because it will just mean nothing
24:31but for me when I look at this it makes
24:32a lot of sense so just just for an
24:34example I'll kind of narrate what it's
24:36the first thing over here this
24:42represents and because I'm doing a
24:44marketing related thing this represents
24:46mapping the buying process Waterfall
24:49this arrow represents segmentation based
24:51on propensity this represents
24:53identifying key drivers for consumer
24:56behavior this represents behavior
25:00interventions that can change the
25:01behavior of these key drivers and then
25:03this represents the disproportion and
25:05investment into changing these behaviors
25:06and I've got that from the contents so
25:10this is a framework that I'm running
25:11with and as I read more I'm constantly
25:13thinking how does that relate which part
25:14does that relate to and maybe did I get
25:16it wrong so you can see that I kind of
25:23know what the books talking about
25:24without even actually knowing anything
25:26about what the book is talking about
25:32guys I'm not even on page one yet I'm on
25:34the page X I it went have to get the
25:37page XII before it becomes page one so
25:40this is what I mean it's slow but in my
25:42head I feel that things are saying to
25:44come together very very quickly and
25:46organically it doesn't feel forced it
25:47doesn't feel unnatural as such it feels
25:50very natural but it does feel
25:51uncomfortable that's the important thing
25:53is that it does feel uncomfortable there
25:55is confusion it's just that I'm not
25:56escaping it I'm looking and probing at
25:59that confusion and and asking it the
26:00question hey what are you confused about
26:02what do you want to know and I'm looking
26:04for that information
26:04so I'm embracing that confusion and
26:06going with it and then simplifying that
26:08information in my head right so a lot of
26:10that learning is in the head it's not
26:11about the pages you write it's not about
26:13the pages you flip it's not about you
26:14know and I know I said fifty to a
26:15hundred pages in one hours just cuz it's
26:18probably what its gonna gonna end up as
26:20as a natural consequence I know I'm
26:22running out of time but I'm not really
26:23worried because I feel like it's I can
26:25feel that I'm gonna speed up much much
28:38age-1 all right so remember at the
28:46moment I'm gonna be priming now it's a
28:48little bit odd for me I don't normally
28:49actually do this because of kind of I've
28:51got a technique that actually bypasses a
28:54step but it's um pretty like unfollow
28:56able so well let's just keep going with
28:58the priming let's say I mean if I don't
29:02remember something how do I overcome it
29:03um it doesn't really matter because it's
29:08not about remember like it said it's the
29:11process of learning it's like I'm just
29:13going from my gaps of knowledge to my
29:16next gaps of knowledge and if I if I
29:17don't remember something they now
29:18naturally go to back towards like I just
29:21don't really care too much about that
29:22I'm really really focused on just
29:24getting that conceptual understanding of
29:26it and making sense of it first and just
29:28doing it really really quickly and just
29:30ignoring and unmask all the stuff that
29:32doesn't make sense to me and just just
29:33learning back and forth recursively and
29:35so when you see me read I'll go back and
29:37forth between pages pretty much
29:38constantly you know sometimes multiple
29:40times for a minute I'll just be going
29:41back and forth between pages and it's
29:42just how the learning occurs and as long
29:44as in my head I feel like I'm learning
29:45I'm just pretty happy with that and if
29:49you're just starting out with mr. Smith
29:50it is a beneficial to start what's
29:52written out mindmaps then progressed to
29:53doing it in your mind onie yeah yeah I
29:55would actually recommend that is keep it
29:59in your mind for as long as it's
30:00comfortable for then keep it in your
30:02mind for a little bit longer than that
30:04and try to make that comfortable and
30:05it's gonna force you to simplify the
30:06information to another level and then
30:09express that out of mind maps and then
30:12extend that duration of time that you're
30:14willing to tolerate discomfort the thing
30:16is that it's not that I'm you know there
30:20is a component that I'm better at
30:21simplifying it because the technique is
30:22more polished and smooth for me but it's
30:25not necessarily that the discomfort
30:29it's that when the discomfort does come
30:31in the confusion settles in I have no
30:34adversity to it I kind of welcome it I'm
30:36sort of get to that point if I don't
30:38have any confusion with this comfort in
30:39my head then that kind of makes me a
30:41little bit worried because it feels like
30:42I'm not learning properly so it's more
30:44about how much discomfort in confusion
30:45can you tolerate and then process
30:47through and then work it way work it
30:50to being comfortable and then increase
30:52the confusion again and work it back
30:54down and so it's kind of this building
30:55and then compacting building and
30:57compacting and simplifying purses that
30:58occurs constantly in the head and then
31:01when I feel like okay that's probably
31:02enough I'll just chuck it on paper and
31:04so the the duration you can do that for
31:06is depends on your practice and depends
31:09how much you're willing to able to
31:11tolerate that discomfort so I would
31:22normally just start reading through then
31:23and go through that process but I will
31:24do a quick prime through all the pages
31:27and just see what I'm dealing with first
31:29and that will just give me an outline
31:31and then that will take me there's a
31:32couple minutes and then once that's done
31:33we'll get on to the next part which is
31:35kind of much the same with the extension
31:37so just do the priming and finish that
33:58so I think based on my priming I might
34:00be able to do 128 pages in one go
34:04because the concepts just stretch on and
34:06on and on and it just it kind of I feel
34:09like my framework was was really good so
34:11it kind of seemed to make sense to me so
34:13I was just see how that goes I'll just
34:15see how I'm not gonna go on forever and
34:17I'll just you know to see how many pages
34:18they end up getting through it but my
34:20priming was done I don't have anything
34:21to add or change based on based on my
34:23priming I feel like the way that I laid
34:25it out was accurate there's more details
34:28and things that I can fit on to that
34:30that's the other reason why I probably
34:32wouldn't do this my met you know the one
34:34that I've just created I probably
34:35wouldn't do this straight away because I
34:38know that I'm gonna have to be putting
34:39stuff in between and adding stuff and
34:41taking stuff away and rearranging it so
34:43it's like I might as well just do that
34:44in my head first and then put it on
34:45paper but I mean I've got it here anyway
34:47so I don't know I just work with that I
34:49suppose although I yeah it's kind of
34:51like more annoying actually but if
34:53you're not used to just keeping it in
34:54your head then yeah having a visual aid
34:56here and then just redoing it and stuff
34:58although takes a little bit more time
35:00it's gonna be easier for you to track do
35:05I doesn't any study music I used to I
35:08used to listen to study music project
35:09kind of depends lo-fi hip-hop just
35:13classical music like rain sounds you
35:17know white noise stuff like that at the
35:18pins my office is like pretty quiet and
35:21um I'm I'm feeling pretty focused so I
35:25don't feel the need to do that but it
35:27can help create a focus and
35:29concentration environment if I'm feeling
35:31like pretty not into it like I feel like
35:34I might procrastinate then I will I will
35:37turn on something that just gives me
35:38that focus zone switch there's some of
35:40the techniques that you can use for that
35:41as well and yes the video will still be
35:44available after I finished with our live
35:45if you don't have time to stay then
35:49you're welcome to leave but you know
35:51don't because I'll just be alone here so
35:55finish my priming step now I'm gonna go
35:57from the beginning and I'm gonna go
36:00through and I'm just gonna learn and I'm
36:03gonna be very curious and I'm gonna be
36:05really inquisitive and I'm gonna make
36:07sure that I'm not gonna be reading
36:09anything just for this
36:11of reading it I'm always going to be
36:12thinking why am I reading this what am I
36:15trying to get out of it what's my
36:17intention that's the most important
36:19thing all the other speed reading
36:20techniques or whatever a useless on this
36:22dad is clear that's the thing that makes
36:23the biggest difference in terms of your
36:24ability to consume information is why am
36:27i reading this for what purpose how will
36:28I apply it and how can I simplify it
36:30those are the questions that I've got
36:31constantly going on in my mind and then
36:33that's the lens through which I view all
36:34the information and as soon as that lens
36:36turns off I stop and i rediscover it and
36:38then i start again and i'm constantly
36:40building that mind map in my head as i
36:42go and just trying to hold on to it and
36:44and testing hypotheses so if you're
36:47familiar with Bloom's taxonomy you can
36:48have a look at it if you if you're not
36:50familiar was that what I'm doing is I'm
36:51aiming to get higher levels of mastery
36:54straightaway rather than wasting time on
36:56the lower levels of mastery like just
36:58remembering one understanding it
37:43I'm not really reading backwards I'm
37:47reading like I'm I'm reading and that
37:53I'm thinking like I have an idea and
37:54then I'll go back to just read it again
37:57and just see if that kind of makes sense
37:59I'm like yeah like yeah I don't really
38:01know what I'm doing sometimes because
38:03like in my mind I'm just Constantine
38:05back and forth and I'm like okay think
38:06about that I'm like oh wait was that
38:08like that and I'll just I'll just keep
38:09doing that so I do kind of like - yeah
38:12that's kind of why when I read like I
38:13sort of hold my book and I'm like
38:15constantly kind of marking pages so I've
38:17got like quick ways to go back and forth
38:19and that's kind of the reason why I
38:20don't really like using a Kindle not
38:21nothing is anything wrong with a Kindle
38:23but because I can't really get that
38:24speed of just like going back and forth
38:26with with like electronic I pretty can I
38:31practice don't I use a Kindle but yeah
38:39yes probably thought that when I was
38:41gonna do this it was I was gonna look
38:43like super stressed out like ultra focus
38:45doing it but actually it's very relaxing
38:46process inside my mind it's just that
38:49it's really active and I'm using my
38:51energy and using my time effectively
38:52which is why is you know it's not very
38:54stressful it's pretty easy to you know
38:56kind of learn this way once the
38:57technique is there the habits are formed
38:59it's not really quiet a lot of like
39:01intelligence per se is just like a
40:59and importantly everything I read I'm
41:02really thinking how can how can I apply
41:03this so this is a book I'm like
41:05frameworks and marketing so I obviously
41:06I can think about how do I apply this
41:08with my own business but if you're
41:10learning something academic like science
41:11or whatever you know you just think how
41:12can I apply this how will I apply this
41:13in my career how will I apply this in my
41:15job how will I apply this in future
41:16training how does this allow me to
41:18understand something that's more
41:19advanced you know I'm kind of forcing
41:21myself to be a little bit out of scope
41:22and that is gonna allow me to achieve
41:24that critical depth a little bit more
42:20actually the most important thing is
42:21that you need to subscribe and like the
42:23video I see there's only been two likes
42:39how do I make sure I don't lose any
42:41detail and I'm skimming or summarizing I
42:43don't care I just I don't care what
42:47detail I'm losing because I know that my
42:49objective is to learn it as deeply as
42:50possible anyway so I'm gonna learn it at
42:54and if I don't learn it now I'll just
42:56learn it later you know learning doesn't
42:58happen in one go you know you're gonna
42:59see me do this in one go right now
43:01that's not where it ends you know I'm
43:03owned this book I'm gonna go back to it
43:06and when you're studying you're gonna go
43:07back to it you're gonna revise the next
43:09week you're gonna you've got so many
43:10chances to pick up on the detail in the
43:12detail only makes up you know a minority
43:15percentage of what you need to actually
43:16learn and spending your time worrying
43:18about the detail is gonna drain all of
43:19your time because it just takes so long
43:22to figure out what the hell it means
43:23that you're just gonna be shoveling in
43:26heaps of time to learn all these details
43:27you're gonna forget anyway because you
43:28don't know where it fits so I prioritize
43:31my time on right now when I need to
43:33learn it for the first time I just want
43:34to know how to understand it and all
43:36those little details that I think okay
43:37that's a detail that you were to come
43:38back to I might make a mental note of it
43:40and I'll just skip it and the thing is
43:42sometimes those mental details by the
43:45time I finish studying it's like oh yeah
43:47like I still remember it because it got
43:48consolidated kind of indirectly and then
43:51a week later I might go through and just
43:52see hey what details that I missed I
43:54could just mop that up and maybe when I
43:55read it it now makes a lot more sense
43:58and maybe it still doesn't make sense
43:59and then I might check those on
44:00flashcards if I'm know I'm gonna be
44:01assist on them I'm obviously not gonna
44:03be taking them off flashcards because me
44:05being assist on the stuff in this book
44:07is literally the you know outcome of
44:09success in my life so as other ways that
44:11I can apply my knowledge
46:07my thoughts on annotating books while
46:09reading I don't because I feel that it's
46:13waste of time and that like what am I
46:15gonna be annotating like my thoughts
46:17like a the thoughts came from my head
46:19it's in my head already I just leave it
46:21in my head so I don't need to annotate
46:24and I don't think it's really useful I
46:26think it's very passive I think it's a
46:27way to cop out on feeling that confusion
46:29and discomfort and I don't want to cop
46:32out on that I want to have as much of
46:33that as possible because that is the
46:35driver of learning it's like the fuel
46:37for my engine is that sense of
46:39discomfort and confusion my thoughts on
46:42Cornell notes is pretty much exactly the
46:45same as what my thoughts are on
46:47annotating but if you're if you're
46:51struggling you know to keep just it in
46:53your head you know you can write every
46:56you know wherever you feel that level of
47:00discomfort just you know push it a
47:01little bit more and then you can write
47:02your notes after that but try to avoid
47:04it if at all possible really really push
47:06yourself cuz that trains your mind as
47:09well you know and you get better and
47:10better at it um and it's that's gonna be
47:13really important for you later in life
47:14when you're learning on the job so I
47:17would kind of avoid it if you do need to
47:18I wouldn't annotate I would build on the
47:21mind map just slowly building and
47:23constructing that mind map as you go and
47:26I'm not gonna go to my math technique in
47:27this video because it's a big topic but
47:30just try to not use as many words is
47:33this the only study method that I use
47:34you're not really yes and no this is one
47:40variation of the study technique that I
47:41use and there's multiple different study
47:43methods that I teach students you know a
47:46lot of different study methods that I
47:48teach this is the one that will work for
47:51me for this purpose right now I mean so
47:53that's the one that I will use but this
47:57is also the study technique that would
47:58work for pretty much any student wanting
48:02to learn really anything actually these
48:06are this is really foundational sort of
48:08stuff the technique it requires a bit of
48:10practice and it's a completely different
48:12way of learning I'm sure than many
48:14people I used to or even know as
48:19you know it is effective and I guess one
48:21of the differences between kind of the
48:22advice that I give versus the advice
48:24that you might see anywhere else is that
48:25the advice that I give is actually field
48:27tested you know it's like it's stuff
48:29that I know works with not just myself
48:31but with thousands of other students and
48:34it's you know aligned with the research
48:36and things like that as well so it draws
48:39on certain first principles and
48:41foundations and some certain aspects of
48:43learning psychology but it's not you
48:48know it's not the only way that you can
48:49spin it you could create your own
48:50version and in the course that I'm we're
48:53about to push out and a couple months it
48:56will you know you will be able to see
48:58how you can create your own study system
49:01and why certain techniques should work
49:03and what you should have what you
49:04shouldn't having all of that sort of
49:05stuff yeah Barry I am studying I'm
49:10studying for my life I don't have to I
49:13don't have exams to study for by
49:14studying in order to be able to apply
49:16the information to my actual life so
49:18I've very focused learning and it's all
49:20marketing actually I looked up for a
49:27particular reason there's this there's
49:29this thing in this book that's a series
49:32of bullet points you can see that and
49:34going through these bullet points I
49:36don't really want to be trying to
49:39memorize all of these bullet points so
49:40this is where the idea of just trying to
49:43simplify the information comes in I'm
49:45gonna read this and I'm just thinking
49:46like okay what's the trend like how
49:48what's the one or two key takeaways and
49:50I can make it you know what are they
49:52trying to tell me um and that's where
49:55I'm focused on and if I think they're
49:57gonna assist me on the specific key
49:58differences I will make a note of that
50:01I'll come back to it later and I'll
50:03chuck those in flashcards so I can just
50:05memorize them but for now right now
50:08where I'm focused on just learning it
50:10I'm gonna think simplify its the key
50:12takeaways and in later I will come back
50:15and just fill in all the little gaps and
50:16just memorize the specific details of it
50:18and the thing is by that point it might
50:20already be so obvious that I don't even
50:22need to memorize it you know and that's
50:24the benefit of just this kind of smart
50:26skipping is that you get to save time
50:28where you can save time and you're not
50:32like sort of never ever wasting time in
50:34any of this process you're focusing on
50:36exactly what matters which is internally
50:38building the learning inside your head
50:39and anything that you miss you're gonna
50:43be able to come back to it anyway you
50:44never lose that opportunity but it means
50:46that you're not wasting time in the
50:48first place where 80% of your technique
50:51is just burnt on things that is it's not
50:53gonna work anyway or you're gonna forget
50:54it anyway or anything like that so it's
50:56really just taking control of the order
50:58in which I'm learning and and
51:00prioritizing what I need to know right
51:02now what I need to know later and then
51:04you know building the system around that
51:06and that's how you can save you know a
51:08lot of time you know really a high
51:11amount of time like I'm really serious
51:13about how much time you'll save like not
51:1610 20 percent we're talking like 4 to 10
51:18times the amount of time I always say
51:21that no one believes me except my
51:23students who get that I think there's
51:27like few of my students actually
51:29watching this now so that you all know
51:31what I mean by like literally like pin
51:34toppling your study speed
53:01hmm so after I'm trying to simplify this
53:04list of bullets I've actually realized
53:07that one of the ways that I was
53:09understanding things in my mental model
53:10was incorrect I mean this is like great
53:13because this is like a very transferable
53:14change so actually um this way that I'd
53:17understood is incorrect and actually
53:19it's meant to be like this it's like
53:20reverse so it's really counterintuitive
53:22for me to do this but yeah it's actually
53:27mean to be like that and not like that
53:31which is not rubbing up but yeah so that
53:35I got that wrong the first time and now
53:37I know the way it's meant to be and
53:40because of what's called a hyper
53:41correction effect um I can like I know
53:47that even better now you know because I
53:49did to be wrong now that it's corrected
53:52because of the hyper correction effect
53:53the hyper Christian phenomenon now that
53:55knowledge is actually gonna be stronger
53:58then what would have been otherwise so I
54:11no need to read my mind I have a I have
54:14a commentary of what's going on in my
54:15mind it's it's really it's really just
54:19very much that there's nothing advanced
54:22it's just I asked myself a couple key
54:25questions how can I apply this to my
54:28life how can I apply this to what I've
54:29already learned and how can I make this
54:31simpler to understand the only
54:34difference between me doing it versus my
54:36students doing or people that are new to
54:38this technique doing it is that I just
54:40asked that question a lot and really
54:42religiously and this is not one of those
54:45things that it's like true step magic
54:47process it's there's literally nothing
54:52I just really asked that question a lot
54:55and all the time so you know between
54:57reading from here to the bottom of this
55:00I probably asked myself the question how
55:01do I apply it and how can I make it
55:03simpler like 10 times you know every
55:07almost sentence that I read I kind of
55:09ask myself that question and calibrate
55:11so I'll read read read and then I'll
55:13just think for a while and then I'll
55:15just quickly read the next pile and
55:16they'll think for a while you know and
55:17just a lot of that time is spent in my
55:19mind just thinking of all the different
55:21ways I can apply and simplify the
55:22information and just condensing it down
55:24and so whenever I read new information
55:26it's like oh this is kind of confusing
55:27I'm feel like I'm gonna lose track of it
55:29apply simplify apply simplify apply
55:30simplify okay I kind of get it now and
55:33just I just keep going and I just lunar
55:34I just repeat doing that like forever
55:37will my new process go into all of this
55:39mine my new course my new course is
55:42gonna go into everything so everything
55:45I've talked about today every hint tip
55:50piece of advice that I give today is in
55:52the course already and that represents
55:55about probably like three out of 80
56:00modules so this and a lot more
56:11by the way you know this this technique
56:14if you're new to this don't worry about
56:16you know succeeding or something like
56:18that you know just just worry about
56:19giving it a go don't be afraid to fail
56:22it's a technique that works I can
56:24promise you that it works I think I
56:25literally I guarantee it
56:27I guarantee it so much that was my
56:28course it's kind of like if it doesn't
56:30work for you just get your money back so
56:33it definitely works but the reason that
56:36it wouldn't work for some people is that
56:37they don't actually commit to it and try
56:39it so just give it a go you know if it
56:41doesn't work you have you have nothing
56:43to lose except for like you know 30
56:44minutes an hour but you really need to
56:47commit to it and just be embracing that
56:49discomfort and just giving this kind of
56:52learning the opportunity to start
56:54changing the way that you think and with
56:55enough time and practice you get to reap
56:58the benefits of all that effort rather
57:01than spending the same amount of effort
57:03on something that doesn't work you know
57:04it's like I'm gonna be sweating anyway I
57:06might as well be sweating you know like
57:09and getting further for the same amount
57:12of you know sweat energy
59:04okay and an important phenomenon has
59:07just occurred because of I spent so long
59:10building the foundation I want page
59:13eight by the way I've spent so long
59:15building the foundation and just getting
59:17that logical process through I've just
59:20read a little bit and like I felt
59:22something just click and I feel like I
59:24suddenly understand a lot about this
59:26concept so what's happened is that I've
59:28let myself be confused for very long
59:30time and I haven't tried to escape that
59:33confusion and I've lit that confusion
59:35drive me to figure out what am i what do
59:38I want to know next where is this
59:39knowledge taking me how can I apply and
59:41how can I simplify it and be I've spent
59:42enough time doing that actually just by
59:45itself I've been able to like arrive at
59:48a conclusion that's like oh now I get it
59:50and so now suddenly I feel that
59:52confusion is just gone and that's what
59:54we call a light bulb moment and so using
59:56this technique actually allows you to
59:57just go from light bulb moment to light
59:59bulb moment it's just it doesn't it
01:00:00almost even sound real if I explain it
01:00:02that way but it's kind of how it ends up
01:00:03feeling so you know it took me you know
01:00:07like a couple minutes to read the last
01:00:10couple pages but now like the pretty
01:00:13much the whole page afterwards it was
01:00:15like oh yeah I barely even have to skim
01:00:17my eyes over and I can just tell I
01:00:19actually get it like I you don't have to
01:00:21explain it anymore I just get it so this
01:00:24is how you know time ends up being saved
01:00:26and as I keep learning that gets faster
01:00:29and faster so there's more stuff that
01:00:31I'll read and think yeah I action you it
01:00:34just becomes a confirmation of what I
01:00:36already thought and there's no new sort
01:00:38of like sort of there's no new rule like
01:00:43like learning occurring as such after a
01:00:46while it's kind of just consolidating
01:00:47what I had already framed out in my mind
01:00:50and those would include like real
01:00:53specific details you know you might read
01:00:55something like 3.6% and you're like oh
01:00:57that kind of makes sense you know you
01:00:59want to have that sort of reaction to a
01:01:01specific detail and you want to always
01:01:02have that but like I said you will have
01:01:04the opportunity to go back and cover it
01:01:06again anyway anyway let's keep going
01:01:10I've had my first light bulb moment so I
01:01:12feel like things will be bit faster now
01:01:14I'm not gonna go for too much I probably
01:01:16go for another you know twenty to thirty
01:01:18I mean stopping and talking for a while
01:01:19anyway I'll see how many pages I can get
01:01:21through in the next 20-30 minutes but
01:01:24I'm feeling pretty good about this so
01:01:25far and you can see it's pretty relaxed
01:01:30looking you know nothing too crazy out
01:01:33here but you know a lot I'm trying to go
01:04:05when would be a good time to take breaks
01:04:08is the question and the best time to
01:04:12take this is there's actually a hole I
01:04:15have a whole sort of technique system
01:04:16around how to take effective breaks and
01:04:18when to take them
01:04:18I've actually got a video about that on
01:04:20my Facebook and Instagram or party on my
01:04:22youtube as well so have a look at that
01:04:25one it's kind of a big topic so I'm not
01:04:27really gonna talk about it here but yeah
01:04:30I mean that's in my course as well but
01:04:32try to find that video because I kind of
01:04:34give a bit of an outline about that long
01:04:42story short a cue take breaks whenever
01:04:44you feel you need to but there's a lot
01:04:48of factors that influence that and the
01:04:49length of your break and what you do
01:04:50during your break to make sure that you
01:04:51get back into it quickly a lot of
01:04:53different factors
01:05:29I've just read something that is like
01:05:31increased my confusion in my head by
01:05:34like a big amount I got rid it I'm like
01:05:36whoa like I don't really get it I can't
01:05:39wrap my head around it so in my mind I'm
01:05:41like apply a simplified apply simplify
01:05:43I'm just I'm just doing that in my mind
01:05:45right now so I've got my thinking face
01:06:08so one of the processes of
01:06:11simplification that I use I'm using
01:06:12right now is I've read something I'm
01:06:14trying to make it an analogy I'm trying
01:06:16to say okay so what it's trying to tell
01:06:17me is pretty much this I'm trying to
01:06:20create an analogy and I'm forcing myself
01:06:22stops abstract on the knowledge and
01:06:24simplify using an analogy and that's a
01:06:26legitimate technique creating your
01:06:27analogies for simplification
01:10:45how do I get vote how do I stay focused
01:10:47and not get distracted for long periods
01:10:48of time there's multiple different
01:10:49things related to that creating focus
01:10:52requires a few things first of all you
01:10:57need to be able to create the
01:11:00environment in which you're not gonna be
01:11:02distracted I have no friends so I don't
01:11:05get messages on my phone that's kind of
01:11:07a joke but I have my phone on vibrate
01:11:10and I just have like no real opportunity
01:11:16for me to get notifications or anything
01:11:18that I'm gonna get distracted on when
01:11:20you do get distracted you need about to
01:11:21bring yourself back pretty quickly so
01:11:24really the main thing for that is just
01:11:26actually something like mindfulness
01:11:27meditation which trains your ability to
01:11:28refocus so I've spent a long time you
01:11:32know many many years actually meditating
01:11:33so that helps increase focus by a huge
01:11:36I probably increased to focus the most
01:11:37out of everything but it's creating an
01:11:39environment that you don't get
01:11:40distracted for it's creating that
01:11:42mentality to be able to bring yourself
01:11:43back to focus more smoothly and more
01:11:46and also because I'm really engaged in
01:11:51what I'm doing like I'm really thinking
01:11:52a lot so I don't feel than sort of
01:11:56temptation as much it's easier for me to
01:11:58be and flow and because when I need to
01:12:00concentrate I'm in deep concentration so
01:12:02it just takes more for me to kind of you
01:12:04know to take at me out of there
01:12:07focused and that level of concentration
01:12:09I mean I'm kind of coming out of
01:12:12concentration periodically to check the
01:12:13comments and stuff to see but normally
01:12:16you know you wouldn't have that you
01:12:17would just be able to sort of stay in
01:12:18your flow and that's also the reason why
01:12:20when you take your breaks you want to
01:12:21maintain your flow if you've got a good
01:12:22one and there's different techniques you
01:12:24can use to maintain that flow and then
01:12:26get back right into the same flow so you
01:12:28can keep that flow going for instead of
01:12:30minutes you can stretch it out you know
01:12:32hours or something like that but not
01:12:35really like forever because I just don't
01:12:37think that's possible but you can you
01:12:38can stretch it out for a lot longer
01:15:15an interesting thing that's just
01:15:16happened for me right now as I have been
01:15:19learning this is that I've there are
01:15:26logical frameworks and models that I'd
01:15:28created from previous subjects so I'm
01:15:31about other types of psychology habit
01:15:34habit building psychology specifically
01:15:36and because I'd spent enough time to
01:15:38just build out a really logical
01:15:40framework for that this book is now
01:15:42talking about something that reminds me
01:15:44a lot of that framework and so for me
01:15:47I've been able to now speed up my
01:15:48learning by a bit because I don't have
01:15:50to think about it very much I can kind
01:15:51of apply an analogy of what I already
01:15:53know and this is why this type of
01:15:55learning is so effective is because as
01:15:57you continue to build all these
01:15:58different logical frameworks and ways of
01:16:00thinking about information you can
01:16:02reapply those frameworks again and again
01:16:04you don't end up building these
01:16:05frameworks if you focus on details and
01:16:07memorization it becomes very situation
01:16:09specific so the more you learn along you
01:16:11know the longer it takes whereas this is
01:16:13works the opposite the less you learn
01:16:15the longer it takes the more you learn
01:16:53another thing that I'm gonna do now is
01:16:55I've just read this paragraph and I feel
01:16:58that it does not adequately explain for
01:17:00me what I wanted to know like it did the
01:17:05previous paragraphs it hasn't broken
01:17:07down this particular concept as well as
01:17:10I actually know that this particular
01:17:12concept is gonna be explained a lot more
01:17:14depth about 20 pages from now so because
01:17:16I want to know that right now that's
01:17:18what I'm curious about
01:17:19I'm gonna go ahead and then flip ahead
01:17:20to read that so I can answer my question
01:17:23I'm not gonna learn everything there is
01:17:24to learn on there but I'm just gonna
01:17:26answer that question by the way I'm only
01:17:28on page 11 at the moment but I have
01:17:29probably close to you know 90 90 99 99
01:17:33percent retention on everything that
01:17:34I've learned so far
01:18:16okay I've answered my question and I
01:18:19didn't even bother finishing that
01:18:20paragraph I just as soon as I felt like
01:18:21I get it now I just I just left it and
01:18:23then I'm back to where I was before and
01:18:26now I understand it a lot better and
01:18:27when I get to that point which was like
01:18:3020-something pages from now I'm not
01:18:31really gonna to read that again because
01:18:33I've already read it and I've read it at
01:18:35exactly the time where I needed to make
01:23:48study sessions for me very actually
01:23:52maybe it really varies I mean it can be
01:23:58of only 20 minutes of micro learning or
01:24:01it could be 4 or 5 hours was breaks I'm
01:24:05in between back in back when I wasn't
01:24:09you know first year biomed I was doing
01:24:12obscene hours which should never be done
01:24:19at least not without breaks
01:26:14yep I'll show you the my map that I've
01:26:15made just as soon as I finished this
01:26:17train of thought because I'm on a roll
01:26:18at the moment I've done like four pages
01:26:21in the last two minutes
01:26:41so I'm really feeling that exponential
01:26:44increase at the moment so things quite a
01:26:46few things clicked for me over the last
01:26:47sort of 15 minutes and now I'm kind of
01:26:49able to do honestly like it's so easy
01:26:52for me to read right now that I can
01:26:54actually read while talking it's like
01:27:02very easy it's a mindless for me to just
01:27:04read this I'm just going through and I'm
01:27:05thinking I'm not actually learning
01:27:06anything new anymore
01:27:07it's just consolidating and there might
01:27:13be details in here that if I think I'm
01:27:15getting examined on I'll come over it
01:27:16later and then I check those into
01:27:17flashcards or whatever and and redo it
01:27:19but there's no real learning for me at
01:27:21the moment anyway that's the point now
01:27:27I'm quite lucky in that this book is
01:27:29really well written actually so it's in
01:27:31the order that I need it to be most
01:27:32lecture material and class material is
01:27:34not like that so if I was doing a
01:27:36lecture I will be going back and forth
01:27:37like crazy like how I did before when I
01:27:39wanted to know the answer to this so I
01:27:41looked 20 pages ahead I will be doing
01:27:43that constantly because it's so on I
01:27:45deal mostly sure material but this book
01:27:47is written really well so I don't
01:27:49actually have to do that well not much
01:27:52at least by the way a book being written
01:27:56well it's not it's not about whether
01:27:58it's written well no it's about how well
01:28:00it is for you as an individual that's
01:30:36it's been an hour and a half now in
01:30:37terms of the stream and I've probably
01:30:39been studying for I don't know if we
01:30:43look at the time that I wasn't talking
01:30:45and everything maybe 40 45 minutes I'm
01:30:49on page 33 at the moment and I've got a
01:30:54really high level of retention for
01:30:56everything so far so question would you
01:31:05add more notes to your mindmap after
01:31:07finishing your priming step and would
01:31:08this form the basis of your notes when
01:31:10you revisit in the future this is my
01:31:13notes I don't have other notes like I I
01:31:16don't need to because it's in my head I
01:31:19know it that's the thing is that I'm
01:31:21focusing on what's important what's
01:31:22important is my learning I'm not
01:31:24focusing on the everything else in
01:31:26between the number of notes I write or
01:31:28whatever it doesn't matter for me like
01:31:29as long as I know it and I feel like I
01:31:31know it I'm happy with that and then I
01:31:33simply just document my learning so that
01:31:35I when I look at I'm like oh yeah that's
01:31:37what it was and if I look at it I'm like
01:31:39what does that mean well I just revise
01:31:40that you know it's just easy as that so
01:31:43by prioritizing my learning of
01:31:44prioritizing my note-taking it means
01:31:46that I'm really increasing my efficiency
01:31:48because I'm number one spinning this
01:31:49time number two if I do forget well
01:31:52that's a revision opportunity and I'm
01:31:53going to be revising anyway I might as
01:31:55well revise the stuff that was not as
01:31:56well consolidated number three it's like
01:32:02obviously saves time because I'm not
01:32:03having to go through and redo notes so
01:32:06what I do my mind map again after I
01:32:08finished my priming yeah I kind of just
01:32:10work on my mind map whenever I feel like
01:32:12I've just like clicked on something and
01:32:14I want to document that and it depends
01:32:18how I'm feeling if I'm going for speed
01:32:21if I'm going for speed speed speed then
01:32:23I will not write down notes for as long
01:32:25as possible if I'm kind of relaxed and
01:32:28pretty casual about like I am sort of
01:32:30right now and you might be thinking 50
01:32:31pages in an hour how can they be relaxed
01:32:33but in my mind like I don't have a time
01:32:36pressure so I'm pretty relaxed in my
01:32:37head so I'm going through keeping it in
01:32:40my head I'm going might maybe like five
01:32:42ten pages and just thinking about it
01:32:44thinking about it thinking about it and
01:32:45I'm like okay I feel like that's a
01:32:47reasonable thing that
01:32:48to just Chuck on my mindmap and I just
01:32:50add it on there and I'll just keep going
01:32:52um I definitely won't be doing my con
01:32:54you know I'm not you can see I'm not
01:32:55reading like pin and hand I constantly
01:32:58writing down you know it's not happening
01:33:00most most most of the time is happening
01:33:02in here and the amount of time on my
01:33:04mindmap is really minimal so this is a
01:33:05mind map that I've got to find this I
01:33:07think really summarizes quite well 33
01:33:10pages worth of information so when I
01:33:17look at that that makes a hell of a lot
01:33:20of sense for me and I like this book has
01:33:23actually been really really like I'm
01:33:24loving this book I'm definitely gonna
01:33:26get my marketing manager to read this as
01:33:28well because it's like I've learned a
01:33:30lot I'm I really can't wait to just sit
01:33:33down and think about a little bit more
01:33:34and stuff applying it more but that's
01:33:36that's what my mind map looks like you
01:33:39can see when you look at it you're like
01:33:40what the hell's even going on you don't
01:33:42even understand it very very few words
01:33:44but actually got 1 2 right 1 2 3 4 words
01:33:48in this total process outcome and the
01:33:55word over everything else is just like a
01:33:57litter or a symbol or a diagram and when
01:34:00I look at it I just think I completely
01:34:01like there's no need for words there's
01:34:03no better possible way I could express
01:34:05the way that I understand it then these
01:34:07symbols would just succinctly describe
01:34:10what I'm thinking why did a random other
01:34:16question why did I stop practicing as
01:34:17doctor well you know what I've got a
01:34:19podcast called sub-cut and you should
01:34:21definitely go check that out and you
01:34:23should also check out my video on how to
01:34:25make better career decisions and the
01:34:29Korea decision-making model and that
01:34:31will be very useful for you to look at
01:34:35so yeah I'm on page 33 at the moment I
01:34:38think it'll probably be easy going for
01:34:40the next at least yeah 5 5 pages and
01:34:44then on page 39 it'll probably make me
01:34:46slow down for a bit and then I'll
01:34:49probably get the speed up for the next
01:34:50sort of few pages yeah it's up to you I
01:34:55mean I'm probably gonna keep going for a
01:34:57little bit longer up to you if you want
01:35:02now you want me to keep going I'll let
01:35:04you comment on that
01:35:06if you've seen enough it's it's gonna be
01:35:08much the same you know you can see how
01:35:10it's going you've seen my mind map I may
01:35:12not - yeah so I'll just keep going for a
01:35:15little bit since I'm on a roll and I'm
01:35:19probably not gonna finish
01:35:20you know like I'm done for the day you
01:35:22know it's like 9:30 p.m. I'm not gonna
01:35:24keep studying forever so I'd still a
01:35:26little bit more call it a day and I
01:35:28reckon uh party oh just get to page 50
01:35:39so there are a lot of details that I'm
01:35:42reading right now but when I read it
01:35:45it's like I just just makes sense
01:35:46because it's so logical for me at this
01:35:49stage you know cuz I've spent so long as
01:35:50thinking about that logic and building
01:35:52that logic you know you don't need much
01:35:54information to build logic and it goes a
01:35:56long way when you spend the time on
01:35:57really thinking about a deeply first
01:36:00before you then overload yourself with
01:36:01more details because otherwise you get
01:36:03down there's like detailed tunnel vision
01:36:05kind of rabbit hole
01:36:16and by the way if he'd missed it before
01:36:18the most important thing that you can do
01:36:20while you're studying is like and
01:36:32and share it to everyone you've ever
01:36:34made in your life and tell them to
01:36:35subscribe to that gets you extra
01:36:40efficiency points
01:38:55it's a really satisfying thing to be so
01:38:58curious about what I'm studying and then
01:39:00like feel that curiosity being satisfied
01:39:03and just that constant flux of like
01:39:07confusion to understanding and confusion
01:39:09to understanding and that's really the
01:39:10learning you know and that's the process
01:39:12and I think that's how it should feel
01:39:12then effective learning does feel like
01:39:15that and I know that there are some ice
01:39:17private coaching students in the room
01:39:19and you will know what I mean by that is
01:39:21that you know when you learn effectively
01:39:23it actually feels like a very enjoyable
01:39:25process so like I'm reading this and I'm
01:39:28loving it you know like learning is such
01:39:29a joy that's such a nerdy thing for me
01:39:33to say go figure I'm an academic coach
01:44:54I just explained a quick little
01:44:56technique that I did so I was reading
01:44:59this little bit here and it was a little
01:45:01bit it wasn't really confusing but I
01:45:02felt that my I wasn't really truly
01:45:04understanding it as well as I should
01:45:07have been it didn't feel like something
01:45:08that I could I understood what they were
01:45:10saying but I didn't feel like I was able
01:45:11to really apply it fluidly which is not
01:45:13you know really good enough so I was I
01:45:16did the analogy thing again and I looked
01:45:18at how can I create this into an analogy
01:45:19and I found that it it it was really
01:45:24similar to a certain perspective that I
01:45:27had in chess a particular strategy like
01:45:32a particular way of thinking it was
01:45:34relevant in chess and I played with that
01:45:37analogy and thought does it work and
01:45:39does it not and that's a technique that
01:45:40technique is useful because it makes you
01:45:42really think about the nuance of what
01:45:44it's trying to tell you like does it fit
01:45:45your analogy and if so why and if not
01:45:48and so I found that this does work with
01:45:52this piece of information it fits my
01:45:54chess analogy so in my notes what what
01:45:57I'll see now is that I've added a very
01:46:00symbolic representation of a chess board
01:46:03with an opening move that's being done
01:46:06which is represented by this square with
01:46:08a circle in it so when I look at this I
01:46:09think okay that's a chess board with the
01:46:11opening move and then it represents like
01:46:12an entire concept to me so that promises
01:46:15hope parent I feel like two paragraphs
01:46:17that I've just read I'm representing it
01:46:19like that because that's that's my
01:46:20learning that's what I'm learning from
01:46:22it and when I think about that I can
01:46:24explain that I can I really feel I
01:46:26understand that quite deeply and it's
01:46:29consolidated and it fits into my grand
01:46:31scheme of you know everything else as
01:46:33well and details related to that I can I
01:46:35feel I'm equipped to work it out through
01:46:37first principles and logic are there any
01:46:42other websites or research articles to
01:46:44find out more about learning there are
01:46:46there are plenty there are so many out
01:46:48there that it's in a way almost a bit
01:46:51overwhelming I do try to post the stuff
01:46:56that is the most relevant the stuff that
01:46:59will help them most you know the stuff
01:47:02that I post tends to be stuff that comes
01:47:04to mind because I have so many students
01:47:06asking me about oh that's a
01:47:07common issue I see with so many students
01:47:09um it's not like so much based on the
01:47:12research of what's new it's based on
01:47:15what do I see is a current big issue
01:47:18that would help a lot of people so go
01:47:21through and you know watch all my videos
01:47:22and stuff and the stuff that I talked
01:47:24about in the study clinics and the
01:47:26videos that I upload and things like
01:47:27that that's gonna be a pretty directed
01:47:30resource for you and it's gonna save you
01:47:32a lot of time of experimentation and
01:47:34reading research because research is
01:47:36very theoretical and well you know
01:47:39experimental and it's hard to really
01:47:40apply that in your life it requires a
01:47:43lot of experimentation and in other
01:47:45places that are not research-based I
01:47:47just have like study tips floating
01:47:48around like crazy a lot of that stuff is
01:47:50like not really useful or it might even
01:47:53make it worse or if you don't apply it
01:47:54the right way it's not super good so I'm
01:47:57I try to make sure that I post stuff
01:47:59that it's just only really what I think
01:48:02all students should know really sort of
01:48:04directed and targeted stuff you know
01:48:07join my study clinics and things like
01:48:09that ask specific questions and it's
01:48:11probably the fastest way that you're
01:48:12gonna get to improve for free at least
01:48:14otherwise I would recommend just hold on
01:48:17and wait for my course to come out
01:48:20because my course will have you know
01:48:22everything that you really need to know
01:48:24and it's gonna map over the stuff free
01:48:27comprehensively but it is a long journey
01:48:28it's a pretty long journey anyway I'm
01:48:32really happy with that chess thing that
01:48:33I've just done so gonna keep pushing
01:48:35through it's been a little bit longer
01:48:37I'm gonna finish a row soon that though
01:48:39I'm on page 43 it probably won't take me
01:48:40too long to finish the remaining few
01:49:13yes I heard of heard of Thomas Frank
01:49:16I've watched a lot of his videos and he
01:49:18has really high quality content and I've
01:49:20never actually seen something that he's
01:49:22uploaded that I really disagreed with I
01:49:24do think that sometimes the nuances
01:49:28aren't communicated as much because I
01:49:31know that some of those techniques when
01:49:32you teach them to students or anyone
01:49:36there's a lot of different ways that it
01:49:38can be applied and and a lot of people
01:49:40will apply those techniques and not find
01:49:41them so useful and so I think
01:49:43realistically it's not possible for him
01:49:45to probably apply it that much and a lot
01:49:46of it is based on his personal
01:49:47experience rather than experience
01:49:50coaching other people's through it so it
01:49:54may be that sometimes he's not aware of
01:49:56some of the nuance there but just as a
01:49:58basic general sort of high quality
01:49:59resource he does have really really good
01:50:01stuff his productivity stuff is a little
01:50:04bit better than a study related stuff
01:50:06because the study related stuff is still
01:50:07quite limited in the scope that which he
01:50:10but when it comes to productivity stuff
01:50:12he's a really good source
01:53:42okay well I've done 50 pages and well I
01:53:54haven't really finished the chapter so I
01:53:56party go and finish that anyway but I've
01:53:59certainly learned a lot my mind map
01:54:01hasn't evolved really that much since I
01:54:05showed you last time Christian what do
01:54:10you mean by studying fast what's the
01:54:11goal you're trying to achieve so you can
01:54:13consider this a successful study session
01:54:14well it depends so for me I'm like I
01:54:19bought this book yeah I learned I'm
01:54:21learning from this book because I feel
01:54:22this is useful knowledge for me to have
01:54:25you know so um that's the reason I'm
01:54:28studying it so obviously for me
01:54:29successful means that I have a higher
01:54:32level of mastery of this knowledge in
01:54:34order to apply it at a deep and
01:54:37meaningful level and that kind of is
01:54:41true of most learning is that you kind
01:54:44of want to learn it so you can apply it
01:54:45at a deep and meaningful level not just
01:54:47a certain exam but you know at least to
01:54:49certain exam so I would say a successful
01:54:52study session is being able to cover the
01:54:55content that you want it to cover and
01:54:57having a high level of not only
01:55:00retention but a high level of mastery of
01:55:02knowledge and mastery of knowledge being
01:55:04defined by not only can you apply the
01:55:06information but can you compare that and
01:55:09relate it and prioritize and rank that
01:55:11with other types of information and
01:55:13similar related concepts and can you use
01:55:15that to generate possible hypotheses
01:55:17solution design plans and really create
01:55:20original thoughts around that this is
01:55:23based on Bloom's taxonomy by the way
01:55:25with you're learning or have you only
01:55:27just remembered the facts so I would
01:55:31call that unsuccessful if I just learnt
01:55:33I'd call it averagely successful if I've
01:55:37understood it I feel that my current
01:55:39stage of understanding is I am very
01:55:41confident to be able to apply it and I'm
01:55:45reasonably confident to have a nuanced
01:55:47discussion around which concepts are
01:55:49more important in what situations I feel
01:55:51my first principles understanding is
01:55:52quite good so I'd say I've got a
01:55:55of mastery of knowledge of the theory
01:55:57which will be continued to be
01:55:59consolidated over time and I've managed
01:56:01to go through you know 52 pages exactly
01:56:05in the last sort of hour and a half
01:56:08probably hour and 20 minutes worth of
01:56:10actual study time it's a little bit
01:56:13slower than I've said but you know if we
01:56:16account for maybe flow breaks something
01:56:19like that I think I could stretch it out
01:56:21fit it into an hour so I'm just gonna
01:56:25stop the video here because it's been
01:56:26going on for a while and I don't want
01:56:28people to watch this in the future and
01:56:29just get it's like a full longer than
01:56:31mcfeeture length movie at this stage so
01:56:33um in that here and if you have any
01:56:37further questions please leave them in
01:56:40the comments so I'll keep answering them
01:56:42for a few minutes and then I'll turn it
01:56:44off and if you've got any further
01:56:46questions just make sure to follow on
01:56:48Facebook or Instagram ask them through
01:56:50their I almost every single day post up
01:56:53on Instagram what are your questions and
01:56:54I do my best to answer all of them and
01:56:56on Facebook at least once a month if not
01:56:59more frequently I hold a live study
01:57:00clinic which I know that a lot of you
01:57:02have already being on so have a look at
01:57:04that as well if you want me to do more
01:57:06of these study with me sort of where I
01:57:09study and I kind of narrate what I'm
01:57:11doing in the processes and you can get
01:57:12more familiar with them then you can let
01:57:17me know and I'll schedule another one I
01:57:21think YouTube is a good platform for
01:57:22doing this because Facebook at lag is
01:57:24hell for live sessions and I'm really
01:57:27happy to do it again but yeah make sure
01:57:33that you leave any questions if you have
01:57:36any and tune in for the next ones
01:57:45how many grapes did I eat leave that in
01:58:04and yes Dyson vacuum cleaner is like an
01:58:12expensive yet worthwhile investment
01:58:28I don't plan on migrating my study life
01:58:31sessions on to YouTube I think I
01:58:35probably would rather but I don't really
01:58:38know how many people have been watching
01:58:40this it doesn't actually doesn't really
01:58:41tell me which is kind of annoying it
01:58:45says that there have been 97 play backs
01:58:49which I have no idea what that means I
01:58:50think I get a little bit more engagement
01:58:52on Facebook so probably I'll keep doing
01:58:54them on Facebook until my you know
01:58:57YouTube subscribed count is a little bit
01:59:00higher but I actually prefer YouTube
01:59:03what do you what do you think what's
01:59:05better for you do you like having these
01:59:09live sessions on YouTube or would you
01:59:10rather have them on Facebook
01:59:50well if you like them on YouTube you
01:59:53better get all your friends loved ones
01:59:55in everyone else subscribe
02:00:20all ready okay we're gonna cut that
02:00:24there thank you everyone for tuning in
02:00:27well yeah we'll pick it up next time the
02:00:32next live study clinic is going to
02:00:36probably be maybe next weekend maybe
02:00:42these days I'm pretty busy with doing
02:00:44the course stuff and I haven't figured
02:00:45out a regular schedule for doing these
02:00:47let me know in the comments if you have
02:00:49a particular time that you like me doing
02:00:51the study life study life clinics but
02:00:56it's pretty partial to sort of my my
02:00:59schedule these days so I just fit them
02:01:02in wherever I can yeah so if the at the
02:01:11end of this you know the video will be
02:01:12available and if you watch it again and
02:01:17you end up thinking about questions just
02:01:18leave a comment on it and I'll just keep
02:01:20monitoring the comments to this and keep
02:01:22answering those and if you haven't
02:01:27already you know you should really
02:01:29subscribe because that's just like yeah