Great Video!

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." -Epictetus

I came here for a learning tip, came out with a new approach to life.

"...our bias towards novelty is strong, and forces us towards the trivial, rather than the essential." Felt that.🖤❤️

I can’t believe this video is 4 years old & I’m just now seeing it. This resonates so highly with me & is by far the best video hands down that I’ve ever come across! My understanding has been transcended! Thank you 🙏

"I tricked myself into thinking I was competent" story of my life

"I have a big brain" "Does that mean you're smarter?" "No, I'm stupid faster."

Dude this is one of those rare masterpiece o youtube. The high quality editing to transmit the words and ideas your are tryingto make people understand.. just great man. Thank you so much for all that work. On top of that the 3 techniques given in it are actually reall really useful. I've used the look away and recall quickly what you just read, along with teaching it to somebody asap with great success, definitly increased my retension and mastery about subjects I was learning at a time.

Thanks! It's easy to feel alone and isolated with memory challenges. Great to know everyone struggles with the same thing.

"Tell me and I'll forget, Show me and I'll remember, Involve me and I'll learn." A useful quote for all, especially anyone who has to plan lessons or training.

I think I might have learned this stuff years ago somewhere else. The best part about knowing how the memory works, and detaching from biases can help actually learning. Learning the same thing helps strengthen your knowledge of it

Great quality content!! It’s so relatable to what I’m experiencing in my years of studies. We’re so frequently forced to indulge vast amount of information without letting it sink in and have it stored to long term memory. What you gave is one of the best honest practical explanation and tips I’ve ever encountered!!

This is an insecurity that has plagued me for years. You're brave for sharing your downfalls. Thank you.

Some advice for learning 1. Recall within the first 30 seconds of learning something 2. Feymann technique, use what you have learned so you can express it to a 5 year old 3. Use mental repetition, your brain is a muscle, use your time wisely to wire your neurones to be able to effectively remember max capacity. Some extra tips - Don’t try to focus on many things, just one - Don’t try remember everything, understand the use of Quality information over quantity - Develop intellectual humility. Understand and detach from your perspectives to learn others to gain a better understanding. -> fight/argument to find peace

Seriously, one of the very best videos I have ever seen, and to which I can totally relate... A huge thank you !

This was really useful. I have been constantly suffering from information retention. The methods explained in the video can be a bit difficult for me as I get distracted very easily.. but I'll definitely try it out. Thank you!

So I have to watch the video again... SWEET

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself" - Albert Einstein

Excellent video. It affected me in a positive way, to realize even more how much damage social media are causing to our brains. An addiction for brain destruction.

The best video I’ve watched in weeks. Thank you so much for showing us these techniques, I’ll now stop looking everywhere but focusing on one thing at a time and learn it forever

The worst thing is that, when you’re in school/university, you have no choice but to follow a lot of tasks all together........maybe you’d like to spend a little more time on a particular subject to understand it fully but if you get showered with new tasks you need to get done, here comes the “cram everything into your brain” system.

"I cannot remember the books I've read more than the meals I've eaten, even so they have made me". -Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Thank you for this wonderful video! There's so much real wisdom packed into thirteen minutes here. I _feel_ like I understood it all, but it's obviously going to take a rewatch or two and some recall to really get the most from what you said.

I feel your pain sir, I'm an overthinker. To know anything I can throw most of a day away in the effort. While I was listening to this video I mused to myself that you probably come back to your video over and over to reference the information about knowing things 😁 Thank you for the video.

Little cheat sheet for myself in a simple manner: Focus on 1 thing Look away and think about it Write out a way of teaching it to someone else in a simple manner Redo, relearn, practice thought

This is really relevant to me. I’ve been over-learning to feed my craving for knowledge, but I’m not really as smart as I think I am. Thanks for the great video!

This really explained what's happening to me recently. I love how you researched and framed all of this!

I appreciate how well paced you were in speaking, it kept me engaged the entire time.

Recall: 7:10 Feynman: 7:50 Spaced repetition: 8:50

This, and your video on The Attention Economy should be required viewing for everyone who spends a lot of time on the internet. I think I struggle with wanting to be great at everything, knowledgeable on every subject, but there's just not enough time in the day to be amazing at everything. Man, I'll have to revisit this video many more times, thanks for this Will.

Interesting to hear that there is a name for my learning technique. My mother taught me that you know you understand something when you can explain it to someone else. Now I know that's called the Feynman technique. I've always done this. When I was in school, studying for something and even now that I'm in university, I still call up my mom and explain whatever advanced mathematics concept I'm learning to her, so I can be sure I understand it myself.

The editing on this is amazing, props for production quality.

These are some tips, they work for me. Maybe not for everyone. I've been reading a book a month so far this year (well I've made it to 6 books so far). 1. Mark up your books, take notes in the margins or underline/highlight things that stick out to you. 2. Stop reading and contemplate parts that you feel are important to you. Or are pivotal moments in the story. 3. Try to relate those pivotal moments to current events or state of affairs going on. Compare them to your own personal experience. 4. Takes notes on any profound thoughts you had while reading a chapter. Usually when chapters end, they only take up 1/4 or 1/2 of the page. Write a quick summary of that chapter on the blank part of that page. 5. Once you are done reading, immediately take out a notebook or open up Word, and write your opinions on what you read, while it's still fresh. Doesn't have to be anything fancy or written like a college report. Just WRITE! The last step has helped me immensely. I've made a folder and have written a short report (around 1000 words per book) and have gone back occasionally to add notes here and there from just thinking about the story weeks later. Or when talking to friends who have read the book as well, and made connections and critiques I hadn't thought of. This is a good skill to develop. It's help with listening, critical thinking and helps your writing. Win, win, win. Hope This Helps! Edit: Thank you for the wonderful responses. Yes, these are tips for beginners. I've noticed this method eventually bleeds over to mentally taking notes. Eventually you won't have to do EVERY step, but it builds the "muscle memory" in your brain to help with retaining information later on.

7:05 1. Recall - after you read it - look away from material and try recall it 2. Feynman Technique - explain it to a 5 year old 3. Spaced Repetition - repeat for more myelination - Prioritize the essential - “Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not keep up with every damn thing in the world.”

When the student's ready , the master appears . A timely video for myself in a time of need . I have my electrical exams next week and was struggling to retain certain pockets of information . This should make the difference. Thank you

I'm just beginning to self-learn math and physics. And after half a lifetime of various issues, this is amazing advice. I spent the past day learning about Feynman! And as an ex-psychology major, I just want to say thank you so much!

This video really speaks to a problem I’ve been having; feeling like good ideas and information are “slipping away” despite countless meetings, discussions and brainstorming sessions. I remember HAVING good ideas to advance my life but they never “stick” and I’m left puzzled as to why nothing has changed. This got me thinking about using force of will to try and commit the best ideas to long-term memory instead of assuming my brain can act in my own best interest automatically. Thank you!

Don't mind me: ✓ 3 days gap in learning something (for a whole month) ✓ Read, Recall, Repeat ✓ Write it out like how you're teaching someone

I have always naturally absorbed information & then imagined explaining it to someone else. It ALWAYS results in better understand & usually produces new insights. If I’m creating something, the act of explaining it, & explaining why i think something simpler won’t work, often allows me to discover how to MAKE it work.

That is actually what I do as a Med Student. Thank you for sharing this info to the community.

I’ve struggled with autism my entire life, but Come to realize that it has helped me greatly with schematizing. I’m so hyper focused on 1 thing. When I learn something I feel like I can remember and generate it fully in conversation. It just takes getting over my trouble with social situations to be able to share it.

You're telling me the 30-second ads between the videos i watch finally have a good purpose for my learning? This is the best news, man.

I greatly appreciate the work that has went into this video. Thank you Mr. Schoder

I feel that some people may know something but do not know how to articulate it or convey it properly. There is also the anxiety that the pressure of "performing" when confronted with it in a social setting. Many times people leave a situation totally recalling valid points and thoughts afterwards. I don't think it it always applies but its something that this video left out. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed watching this video.

Your mind is NOT a computer, your mind is a muscle, so don't trust your memory! If you want something to get into your long-term memory instead of the short one, see if you can explain to yourself or someone the information you just acquired. If you cannot do, it simply means that you do not know it, so go again and re-watch or read it until you can explain it and it makes sense. We said the mind is a muscle so the more you learn, the more you learn. Quit multitasking and remove distractions so you can focus on quality over quantity. What i also do is, i use post-it notes, i write the very important things that i bump into through my day and i still stick them on my wall in my bedroom or somewhere around my desk so i can see them and read them often. They motivate me, they show to me that i am serious and i keep going to reach my goals. If you read this coment - Be Lengedary !

This feels like a tutorial on life.

This is the best video I've seen on UKposts this year so far. Love the way you expained this concept and humbled me ;)

Recall: There are two types of memory , short term and long term , understanding lies in long term , and to reach to that part it has to go through short term and a phase working memory in which the information is quickly vanishes , if information survives in this part it'll make it to long term memory and to do it there are several techniques first technique is to whenever you do some learning do it in parts, don't try to overwhelm yourself by reading 2 pages if you can't recall them , the main thing to do is to recall it by closing the book and telling to your brain what you have read about and if you can't recall it just read it again with focus and you will see that now you can recall it , repeat this process over and over again with the content you consume daily , due to large stream of informations , it is impossible for our brain to focus that results in no grasp over any single information, so the best thing to do is to switch your phone off (unless you are consuming content on it xd ) and get rid of all t e distractions when you are consuming content, Now after this , here comes the second technique called feymann technique , in which you try to write down the explanation of what you have learned , and if you can not write an explanation of it, go back to the source and again try to repeat the process of recalling, and after you are successful in writing that explanation , simplify it down and get rid of difficult terms. Now you have to make analogies of this simpler version of your explanation , which means you have to implement in such a way that whenever you see or recall that analogy , the whole topic comes in to your mind, that's the goal of it. Now after this you will have pretty solid knowledge and to solidify it more you HAVE to make a schedule of a month, in which you re read the same damn book after three days and when the month is about to end, CRUSH it for 3 THREE consecutive days and now you know that you have become a better version of yourself. Thanks for reading this so far, i hope that i have summarized the video in a good manner as my practice of feymann technique xd, Cheers

I’ve got strong feelings about this topic, but I don’t think I can express them. I know what I think about it, but I don’t think I can explain it. So, uh, nice video.

As someone who loves to read, to learn as much as possible, I sympathize with this video a lot. It's so frustrating when I forget things that I thought I knew very well! Great video!

wonderful video, Will! Thank you for making it!

Thank you for this!🙏🏻

Good video. I have often taught that "Repetition is the MOTHER of Learning". Your points about Recall, Feynman, and Spaced Repetition, all speak to that. I also appreciated your closing comments; especially "Life isn't a Book Report".

The problem is that I want to learn EVERYTHING. I think you are right, we need to focus on one thing to make the best of it.

Much needed ,thank you brother..

So edifying to hear all the thoughts that have been swirling in my brain as they circle the drain then seeing it encapsulated in first principles that I can abide by: thank you for this!!

Feynman’s technique is: studying the thing you want to learn, then summarizing it as if you wanted to teach it to someone. Where you get stuck trying to explain it, you go back to learning about the subject to fill in the gaps in your knowledge! After you write down your explanation, eliminate things that are hard to understand until the final product could be explained to a child. This works because by explaining a complex topic simply, you know that you understand it and if you haven’t already committed the subject to long-term memory (by recalling the information later) you can repeat the process to solidify the memory, perhaps with spaced repetition.

This is one of the most valuable videos on youtube.

I'm very glad I found this video. You explained some ideas that I only had a surface understanding of and reinforced their importance. I've been struggling to learn information related to my career path for a while now, often feeling like a beginner despite my current job. I'm going to start implementing the 3 steps you mentioned during my study time (I've written them down so I won't forget) and I'll see how much of a difference they make.

Awesome video! This touches on a concept that holds high value to me, I have always left little room to consider what information I was being given. I never realized how Ive been wasting all this time watching these types of videos because I will soon forget it all. But I think this is a great starting point, to study this concept and its implications to better understand how to study other concepts and commit them to long term memory. The hard part is investing the work to come back to this and to figure out what I need to know about this to understand it better. And part of it is that Im not always sure what I should be trying to pull out of a source of information and what to actually study on it.

8:20 I don't think you even need to write it down. I've found just speaking out loud to yourself or having an argument with yourself in your head (like you do in the shower) works quite well too. (some of the smartest people in history would talk to themselves, so while some people see it as crazy, it's not really. Just do it when you're alone or just do it in your head)

I literally have to relearn everything that i've learned when learning something new because i end up forgetting and its frustrating because it feels like ive made no progress...

Truly one of the best videos I've seen on UKposts

Well put. I have found, for me, it is to teach what you want to know; similar to Feynman’s method. Read it, wight it out in notes, organize an outline, study the outline, and if possible explain it to someone without you notes, just the outline. It takes time, however I seem to remember more down the road.

Thanks Will. I now know everything I need to know about how I don't really know what I think I know.

Theory: People don't notice they are forgetting (things so easily) THUS people don't value the act of reviewing and re-watching because they forget that they can forgetting.

I needed this video. This is a problem I've been struggling a lot with recently and I can relate to a lot of things he says. I appreciate the quality of the content and look forward to applying the methods taught in this video. Thanks a lot.

Thank you, for blessing me with this knowledge. Really needed it.

TO SUM IT UP, *JUST REMEMBER THIS* : *The Four Stages of Learning* *1) Unconscious Incompetence.* *2) Conscious Incompetence.* *3) Conscious Competence.* *4) Unconscious Competence.*

*Watches the video* Sometime later... "What was that video about again?"

One of the most useful videos I've watched in a long time! Thank you

Was thinking about this, and another point I think worth mentioning is our fight or flight response. When I'm asked assertively about a topic, the reason I find it so hard to recall stuff is because I'm panicking, and when you're panicking the pathway to your prefrontal cortex is actually shut down as a response. This, of course, makes it very difficult to think logically at all

Feynman technique simplified: 1. Take something you didn't understand 2. Explain what you know 3. Relearn if you don't know something. 4. Simplify it. *I'm awesome* oh wait that's an illusion..

Congrats on 100k dude, your channel deserves it 1000%

Very well put together. It's fascinating how a different perspective on a similar subject, can make it more impactful.

I have watched this video 3 time and I understand new things much deeper every time i watched

What’s funny is that I watched this video hoping it would help me retain things better. Then I discovered I had already liked and favorited this video years ago... I know nothing.

Nicholas Carr is legit. His article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” was one of the best things I read in high school- and anywhere else.

Life changing brother, thank you

thank you for your work!

"Our brain is made to take 1 task at a time" *Hold my ADHD.*

So basically In school, we are taught to just cram information and forget, damn :(

I’m a Nigerian by nationality, and every time I read, I always want to understand the content at one go without repetition or rereading. However, I found out that it doesn’t work for me. For me to be able to retain whatever contents I had read in the past, I need to enagage in repetition, as it aids in retaining what had been read and gives a huge understanding of it. And, for one to be able to achieve this, more time needs to be spent on reading and more meditations need to be done on what has been read for the sake of remembrance. THIS IS, INDEED, HELPFUL. Thanks for the hints, sir.

That was an absolutely spectacular video, and thank you. I had no idea how much I needed this.

I have a disability where if someone teaches me the first time I will forget everything the next day. That's when everyone judges or ppl get mad at me because I than forget. I need constant repitition to understand a thing

I'm really grateful for this video. The notion of not really remembering thus not even processing or understanding all the information I try to consume has bothered me for a while, and this will definitely be something I use to improve my ability to learn, both in the reminder this is a widespread problem and the tools you provide in the video. So thanks :)

Best UKposts educational video I've ever watched. Definitely I'm going to apply this.

this is such a fantastic video with good points that I haven’t seen people talk about on UKposts before

A Masterpiece in its own right. I was like "Its the video that I was searching for the entire time!!". Fantastically precise and concise and beautiful mix of great quotes by some of the best people. Truly hats off!! Can't thank enough.

By far one of my favorite videos on UKposts. Every time I watch it, I'm reminded to simplify and focus. Thanks for putting this together!

This is excellent. Well done!

A real gem of a vid man!!

Hell yeah congrats on 100k!

I love the level of self awareness your videos have. Great work!

Literally love you! thank you for this video.

Brilliant, thank you!

Been reading Mortimer Adler for years now. _How to Read a Book_ is a must read if you're a serious reader or learner.

This is a rephrasing of the old saying, "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand"?

You saved my life. Thank you. I owe it to you.

As a JEE aspirant which is one of the toughest examinations out there, this scares me yet somehow helps me thank you!