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5 BEST Ways to Study Effectively _ Scientifically Proven · Motivation study

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  Speaker 1: Stop studying. What you're doing right now might be a
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  Speaker 1: waste of time. Read over your notes. Review the class material.
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  Speaker 1: Highlight things. Repetition, repetition, repetition. These study tactics have been
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  Speaker 1: drilled into you for years. But the science is very clear.
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  Speaker 1: certain study techniques are more beneficial than others. So instead
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  Speaker 1: of you spending hours and hours trying to search for
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  Speaker 1: the right answer, I've done the work for you. And
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  Speaker 1: in today's video, you're going to develop a significant advantage
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  Speaker 1: over the rest of your class, your friends and your peers.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to learn the five best techniques studying effectively
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  Speaker 1: in less time than anyone else now if you want
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  Speaker 1: this to sink in and you want to be a
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  Speaker 1: master student is while you watch you're going to take
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  Speaker 1: Did you know there are people out there so good
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  Speaker 1: at remembering things that they compete in tournaments of learning
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  Speaker 1: and they are known as memory athletes. In an annual
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  Speaker 1: contest called the World Memory Championships. They were given 20
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  Speaker 1: minutes to remember a list of 72 random words. And
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  Speaker 1: on average, they scored nearly 71 of the 72. By contrast,
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  Speaker 1: an untrained control group could only manage 26. Another example,
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  Speaker 1: Akira Haraguchi. at 69 years old, much older than most
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  Speaker 1: of you listening, in 2006, recited 111,700 digits of pi
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  Speaker 1: from memory at a public event near Tokyo. For 16 hours,
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  Speaker 1: he kept going and going and going. Imagine the power
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  Speaker 1: of having a memory like that. And starting today, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to imagine yourself as one of them. You're
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  Speaker 1: not just a student or a teenager or a grad,
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  Speaker 1: but you are a memory athlete. You're going to become
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  Speaker 1: someone with such power over your mind that you can
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  Speaker 1: recall pages of notes, equations, formulas that you need without
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  Speaker 1: the endless hours of beating information into your head. But how?
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  Speaker 1: Do you need an innate gift? Can you learn it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: actually you already have. Picture where the spoons are kept
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  Speaker 1: in your kitchen, the socks in your room, the color
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  Speaker 1: of your toothbrush. These memory athletes use an ancient Greek
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  Speaker 1: technique called memory palaces. And once you master this technique,
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  Speaker 1: you too, are going to dramatically improve your ability to
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  Speaker 1: study effectively and finally open up your dormant reserves of memory.
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  Speaker 1: The idea is simple. You walk through an environment like
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  Speaker 1: your house and you place objects in specific places and
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  Speaker 1: then you match the things you want to learn with
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  Speaker 1: those objects. So when you're trying to remember that information,
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps the notes you took that day in class. You
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  Speaker 1: don't just think back to your notes. You think of
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  Speaker 1: where those notes are in your house. Which object did
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  Speaker 1: you attach it to? What's the color? And you reapply
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  Speaker 1: this until it becomes crystal clear in your mind. This
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  Speaker 1: technique maps new information onto something that your brain has
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  Speaker 1: already evolved to do extremely well. Recall imagery in specific locations.
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  Speaker 1: The second technique. For thousands of years, people have known
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  Speaker 1: that the best way to understand a concept, explain it
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  Speaker 1: to someone else. The second technique I want to introduce
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  Speaker 1: you to is also known as the protégé effect, aka
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  Speaker 1: teach someone what you want to learn. A 2007 study
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  Speaker 1: looked at this. How does teaching someone impact your learning?
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  Speaker 1: Students in this study who were also teachers to younger
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  Speaker 1: students they scored higher on tests than pupils who were
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  Speaker 1: learning only for their own sake. Why? Well the researchers
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  Speaker 1: found when you choose to teach someone else you have
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  Speaker 1: to work harder to understand the material to recall it
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  Speaker 1: more accurately and apply it more effectively, something known as
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  Speaker 1: depth of processing. Physicist Robert Feynman created a mental model
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  Speaker 1: called the Feynman technique. Now, some of you may have
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  Speaker 1: already seen videos about this on YouTube. This technique has
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  Speaker 1: four steps to it. Number one, write the name of
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  Speaker 1: a concept on the top of a blank page that
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  Speaker 1: you want to learn. Number two, write down an explanation
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  Speaker 1: of the concept as if you're teaching a new student.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, identify what's missing. Go back, relearn. And step four,
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  Speaker 1: review everything. Make sure you're avoiding using complicated language And
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  Speaker 1: try to simplify everything on the page as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Now this technique, it forces you to deconstruct and then
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  Speaker 1: reconstruct ideas. To use this method and learn how to
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  Speaker 1: study effectively. Identify first, what do you want to learn?
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  Speaker 1: And then try to imagine you're explaining it to a
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  Speaker 1: 5 year old. Number three, master students are committed to
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  Speaker 1: effective study strategies, but shipwrecked students are committed to ineffective
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  Speaker 1: study strategies. If I asked you right now, is reading
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  Speaker 1: again and again a good way to learn? Is highlighting
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  Speaker 1: a good way to learn? Is using keyword monics? Well,
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  Speaker 1: all of these, they're scientifically proven to be relatively low
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  Speaker 1: in effectiveness for long-term learning. At the other end of
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  Speaker 1: the scale, things like practice tests spreading out your learning,
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  Speaker 1: they are scientifically proven to boost your performance. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: a look. In 2005, a guy called Reagan A.R. Gurung
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  Speaker 1: assessed 229 students using 11 different techniques of studying. He
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  Speaker 1: then matched their techniques with their final exam scores. And many,
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  Speaker 1: but not all, of the techniques they used, they did
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  Speaker 1: achieve better exam scores. For example, the number of hours
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  Speaker 1: they put in, it did help. But things like starting
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  Speaker 1: studying early, or reading material before and after class, that
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem to be effective. Reagan also found detriments to
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  Speaker 1: studying and one of them was listening to music. So
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  Speaker 1: what did he find that does work? Well, Reagan actually
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  Speaker 1: found a technique that strongly predicted your exam score. And
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  Speaker 1: that was the number of times a student did practice tests.
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  Speaker 1: This one thing above all others had a significant impact
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  Speaker 1: on how well they did on their final exam. He
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  Speaker 1: even found that rewriting notes, reviewing highlighted material, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: really impact the final exam score that much. So like
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  Speaker 1: I said, master students are committed to effective study strategies,
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  Speaker 1: but shipwrecked students are committed to ineffective study strategies. And
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  Speaker 1: if you want to know which type of student you are,
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  Speaker 1: click on the link in the description and take the
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  Speaker 1: quiz to find out if you're a master, a dabbler,
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  Speaker 1: or a shipwrecked castaway when it comes to your studies.
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  Speaker 1: Not all hustle is created equal. Have you ever heard
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  Speaker 1: of number four, the Zaganik effect? It's a concept in
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  Speaker 1: psychology that argues you remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better
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  Speaker 1: than the ones that you complete. Why? When we start
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  Speaker 1: a task and then interrupt it, it creates uncertainty. A
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  Speaker 1: task specific tension that can improve your cognitive function. So
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  Speaker 1: step away from your desk as you study. That tiny
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  Speaker 1: little tension that you feel. I still need to finish
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  Speaker 1: reviewing that chapter. I haven't done the next paper yet.
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  Speaker 1: It keeps the task at the top of your mind.
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  Speaker 1: And this keeps your brain focused on it. This way
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  Speaker 1: you can easily access that information and remember it better.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you take advantage of this technique? You
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  Speaker 1: take frequent breaks during your deep work. The Zaganik effect
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  Speaker 1: suggests that students who take breaks during which they perform
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  Speaker 1: totally unrelated activities, studying other subjects, reading a book, going
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  Speaker 1: on a three-minute walk, playing the piano, they remember material
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  Speaker 1: better than students who go through longer study sessions without
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  Speaker 1: taking a break. A popular way that I'm sure most
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  Speaker 1: of you have heard of is the Pomodoro technique, where
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  Speaker 1: you work for 25 minutes, you take a five minute break.
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  Speaker 1: You work for 25 minutes, you take a five minute break.
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  Speaker 1: And the final tip of this first lesson in our course,
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  Speaker 1: cramming is better than not studying in the short term.
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  Speaker 1: But is seven hours in one day better than one
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  Speaker 1: hour every day for a week? If you were given
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  Speaker 1: the same amount of time for study, would you be
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  Speaker 1: better off spreading it out? And the answer is a
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  Speaker 1: resounding yes. Space it out. This is known as distributed practice.
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  Speaker 1: Distributing learning over time, either in a single study session
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  Speaker 1: or across study sessions, It benefits long-term retention more than
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  Speaker 1: massive cramming and learning back to back. Space your study out.
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  Speaker 1: And how general are the effects? How consistent? Well, one
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  Speaker 1: group of scientists looked at 254 studies involving over 14,000 people.
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  Speaker 1: And overall, students recalled more after spaced study than after
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  Speaker 1: cramming and massed study. So look, at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you have to do what works for you.
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  Speaker 1: Having family and friends around, replying to your messages on
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  Speaker 1: your smartphone, missing class, having the TV on, that's not
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  Speaker 1: going to help you. But doing practice tests, getting to
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  Speaker 1: sleep on time, eating the proper nutrition, exercising, explaining what
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  Speaker 1: you've learned to others, using these techniques They are going
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  Speaker 1: to help. So you know what the techniques are. You
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  Speaker 1: have to prepare effectively. You have to focus on the
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  Speaker 1: right things effectively. And most of all, you have to
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  Speaker 1: take action every single day. Hope you guys enjoyed this video.
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  Speaker 1: next lesson of the series. Peace.