Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart

Here I am watching a video about studying, instead of studying.

Watched this at 2X speed. Took me 30 mins. Watch Less Watch Smart.

1.) Reinforcement vs. Punishment • Things that are reinforced → we do more of • Things that are punished → we do less of ◦ Don't turn studying into punishment • The moment (your studying effectiveness) slides, take a break • Break = something you enjoy (5 - 15min of petting your cat/dog) • When you are done studying for the day, do something nice for yourself ◦ ex. drinking beer at a pub • "Studying is a training. And if you train yourself, it becomes relatively easier" --------- 2.) Environmental Cues • We are controlled by environmental cues ◦ ex 1. studying in a bedroom → bed calls you ◦ ex 2. studying on a dining table → food calls you • Reconfigure & engineer your environment to minimize unproductive cues • Reconfigure & engineer your environment to optimize productive cues ◦ ex 1. when your "study lamp" is on → study ◦ ex 2. when your "study lamp" is off → don't study --------- 3.) Learning Experience Optimization • True learning experience changes your behavior ◦ Question: conversely, can your behavior change your learning experience? • The more active you are in learning, the more effective ◦ What is "active in learning"? → recitation (ex. talking to yourself) --------- 4.) Rote Memorization • Rote Memorization = memorization through repetition ◦ most of us are bad at it ◦ not very effective --------- 5.) Fact vs. Concept • Q: So how can we be effective? • A: Decide what you are learning ◦ am I learning a "fact"? ◦ am I learning a "concept"? • "Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis" ◦ fact = Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis ◦ concept = psychoanalysis • Futility of knowing facts ◦ "Yeah, so what?" → question raised to understand conceptually ◦ "What does it do?" → question raised to understand conceptually ◦ "How does it function?"" → question raised to understand conceptually • "Can you put the concept in your own words? If you can't, you don't understand it." • To understand something both factually & conceptually, make it meaningful to you ◦ "To make it meaningful is a struggle. Otherwise, it's a waste of time". --------- 6.) Make It Meaningful • When you remember a piece of information, don't simply remember it. • Remember its application & relative value (thus establishing meaning) • ex. Remember 30 words (ex. water bottle) while: ◦ group 1: counting the vowels of the 30 words ◦ group 2: counting the application of the 30 words in a deserted island & their relative value from 1-5 scale • Group 2 remembered 100% more words --------- 7.) Recognition vs. Recollection • "If you look at it, go to the next one, read it, and then stop and go back to the one before, look up in the sky and in your own words, say what that was about" - drives recollection --------- 8.) Sleep • "If you are not getting a good night, typically around 8 hours, you are not getting enough 'rem'; what you've studied doesn't become permanent" • REM = Rapid Eye Movement. It's a brain activity that consolidates & stores information. It occurs when you sleep. •"There's no money to be made by telling people to get more sleep. So you don't hear about it on TV." ◦ ex. "Sleep is our biggest competitor" - Netflix CEO --------- 9.) Note Taking • "The first moment you get after a class, ideally right after the class... sit down with your notes and expand on everything you jotted down. Give it depth. Flesh it out." • 5 min investment of expounding & summarizing your notes can ensure permanent recall of a given information --------- 10.) Recitation • How to reinforce your learning (recitation): 1. Ask other people 2. Teach other people 3. Talk out loud • Other examples of recitation 1. Write it out 2. Monologue it out • Study optimization: ◦ 80% = spend on reciting ◦ 20% = spend on reading --------- 11.) SQ3R • SQ3R ◦ Survey ◦ Question ◦ Read ◦ Recite ◦ Review • "If you intend to find something, you find it" ◦ Thus, survey a textbook (don't read) while questioning --------- 12.) Mnemonics • Mnemonics: any system that facilitates recalls • Examples of mnemonics: 1. Acronyms 2. Coined Sayings 3. Interactive images (the more absurd, the better) 4. Note-taking

He didn't tell one of the most important ways of learning/teaching and yet he' s doing it the whole time. Humans remember and engage most through story telling. This is why his anecdotes are brilliant because we will remember his classes from the way he is sharing and communicating with us. It's why having a good teacher is also important and knowing the type of style you learn.

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1. Don't study for too long if you are not enjoying it. Take short breaks after 20-30 minutes. 2. Don't study in the living room, bedroom, etc. Study in a separate place dedicated to studying. 3. Don't try to memorize without understanding. Try to understand the concept first. 4. Don't always study alone. Studying in groups helps a lot. 5. Don't highlight text blindly. Highlighting doesn't help that much. It only indicates Recognization not Recollection of the topic. 6. Always take notes. Reviewing the notes after a short time helps a lot. 7. Always try to teach others what you have learned. Teaching is the best way of learning. 8. Sleep is so much important for pushing something into your long-term memory. Get at least 7-8 hours of sound sleep. 9. Use the SQ3R(survey, question, recite, read, review) method while studying. 10. Use Mnemonics. It's the best way to memorize facts.

00:15 - Study breaks + Reward system What to know: - By rewarding yourself with satisfying experiences, you create good impression about studying and reinforce such idea. What to do: - Pomodoro Technique: gotta make the best out of these breaks 😊 - Give yourself a big treat again after done studying 😊 10:19: Dedicated Studying Area What to do: - Get a Study Lamp (exclusive for this) + a Study Table (stay away from the bed) - Once you've completed your studying quarters (Pomodoro technique), get up and leave the place -> You're creating a study area where some of your specific behaviors are encouraged 19:49 Active learning What to know: (1) it means that you actually understand the concepts since they're related to your previous knowledge. (2) you understand what you're doing this for rather than just superficially read or memorize them. You brain is very smart. If you speak meaningless words to it, there won't be any effect on it. 32:49 Study groups What to know: It's easier to learn from people sharing same experiences with us. These shared experiences allow them to connect their elaborations to our previous knowledge. 33:58 Recognition and recollection are 2 different things What to know: Recollection happens when you can explain in your own words 36:57 Sleeping (REM) What to do: Get enough sleep (8 hours) -> enough REM -> enough to consolidate and store our memories 39:09 Taking notes What to know: Right after a class -> sit down and expand on everything in your previous notes. Give it depth. Note down all of your impression. 41:20 Active recitation What to know: 80% of our time is best spent on teaching it back. -> teach an empty chair 43:22 SQ3R What to know: Survey + Question: Encourage you to look for answers 47:42 Acronyms + coin sayings + Interactive images What to know: Creating an acronym/ Coining a saying is a way to make sense and make fun of facts. Interactive messages: make everything seems weird (such a weird story!) -> easier to recollect it next ti

11 years ago...but this speech will never be dead

Kids should learn this ealier in school rather than wait until they go to University.

im supposed to be studying right now, but instead im watching a video about studying.

Found this video about 6 years ago when I just couldn't pass my final accounting exams to obtain my professional qualification, used Marty's methods and became a fully qualified accountant 4 years ago. Still use his methods to this day even to learn documents and processes in work! You're the man Marty, thanks so much 🙏

I used to be like that lady in the beginning of the story. I think I was actually worst than the woman in the story because I barely knew how to read. I was in speical education for 10 years. I double down and studied 12 hours a day. I refused to stay dumb my whole life. I went extremely slowly through the material and relearn the basics over and over again. This actually worked and now graduated from college with a BA and a math degree. I have a good job. I'm studying engineering now. Learning for me grew exponentially. I kept improving and things which seems impossible like science. I was able to learn. I think without my struggles, I will never developed great discipline and able to going through very uncomfortable stuff.

This guy gets it. Some professors aren’t engaging and then they wonder why we didn’t understand their 2 hour lecture

I took notes of the main points of this speech, and I wanna share them to anyone who can find them useful so you may not have to watch the whole video if you don't have enough time. 1. Study on periods of half an hour and then go away and do whatever enjoyable thing you want for 5 minutes. Return to your desk and repeat (I personally find more useful the 50-10-50-10 minutes combo). 2. Have a desk specially for studying. Have a room specially for studying and working on your projects. Have a lamp, a chair, anything specially for studying. Don´t do other things in that environment. Go to other room or chair whenever you finish studying or working. Doing this makes your brain associate that environment with productivity, studying and working. 3. Don't listen to music not designed especially for studying purposes (even classical one) while you're studying. This is because you will find yourself giving part of your attention to the music or the lyrics, and you don't want to do that. Be focused in only one thing at a time. 4. Learn to differentiate between concepts and facts. Facts can be forgotten. It´s natural. But the things you really wanna learn and keep in your mind are the concepts. How does it works, what is the function of it, how does it connect to other concepts; that´s where you wanna struggle with. 5. Learning something is about to put a concept in your own words. To be able to explain that concept to a friend, a partner of studying, whoever asks you for an explanation. 6. TAKE Notes! Your brain is not a Hard Drive. 7. Realize the difference between recognition and recollection. Our brains are extremely good "remembering" things (only recognizing) when we read again a passage after we virtually forgot it. The prove that you didn´t remember that is that you would´nt have idea of that content without the help that brought that old idea into your memory. 8. Sleep good. That´s the main way the brain consolidates long term memory into a permanent memory. 9. About notes. Right after class take 5-10 minutes to read and expand the notes. Make them deeper and explain the thing with your own words. If you don´t have anyone to explain or talk about it, write it down. That´s a very important factor on getting useless notes into usable notes. 10. Teach another person. If you´re teaching and you don´t remember something or you can´t get into a good explanation, then you know where are the gaps of information that you have and what do you have to study again or ask the teacher the next day. If you can´t or you don´t have anyone next to you, teach an empty chair. That´s nothing wrong with speaking out loud to nobody if you realize what you are doing. Or, again, write it down. Make a dialogue with an imaginary friend who asks questions and you have to answer those. 11. Textbooks. Use the SQ3R method: Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review. First, you wanna know a textbook isn´t a novel. You can go to the last page and I guarantee you nobody will discover who killed the main character. You can follow this path: a) take a brief look to the chapter you wanna study, watch the images, look what is all going to be about. b) Look for the main questions. Does the textbook have some questions at the end of a section or a chapter? Write them down. At least, remember them (but having both things in your brain [trying to remember the main questions and studying at the same time may be very hard to do] Or you can use the Closure Effect in your favor). Even if you write them, have those questions in your mind so when you´re reading the textbook you can find the answers and know what is important and what is not. c) Read the bold words. Titles, sub-titles, names, main ideas, everything that is marked. If the author and editor market that, it means they want you to read and keep that information on particular. d) Read the first and last sentence in every paragraph. It just works (not always, but if the paragraph is long, it will be useful). If the textbook is well written, the first sentence in the paragraph will be an introduction of the idea of the paragraph, and the last sentence will be an overview of what was all about. With that in mind, all your outlook of the topic will expand and there you´ll be ready for: e) Read the whole thing. f) Try to answer the questions you made before. If you can´t, don´t worry, because the next step is: g) Re-read the chapter. This time with a marker and a pencil in your hands. You can mark, now that you know what are you looking for, the actual main ideas, and take notes in the edge of the page. h) Finish answering the questions you made before, make new ones (you know what are the important topics you want to have an answer for), and i) Make anything you want to explain the topic to a children. You have to explain it in your own words, using simple language a 6-year-old kid would understand. You can write a complete essay pretending being an expert on the topic, and every time you feel gaps in your explanation, go read the material again. When you have your study done, you´ll have 3 materials to work with: a) a textbook with useful marks and edge-page notes, b) a list of the main questions of the topic answered, and c) an essay (or mind map, whatever) made entirely by you, explaining all of it from zero to one hundred percent. 12. Recall. Between each of the steps of last point (a to i), you may consider taking 30 seconds to one minute trying to remember everything you learned before only with your mind (close your eyes if you want). Try to remember as close as the original material as you can. Once you finished, go to the next step and repeat 13. Use mnemonics. If you struggle with knowing which of which two different, but similar words, is the one which does something, and if is that of the other one which does the opposite thing, use acronyms, associate those concepts with images, a coined phrase; be creative. That´s a good way to remember a very particular group of facts. Books I recommend about this topic: - A Mind for Numbers (Barbara Oakley) - Atomic Habits (James Clear) - How to take smart notes (Sönke Ahrens)

# Study Sessions 1. Cut up study sessions. More studying doesn't help because you start to daze off. 2. Take a short break of about 5 minutes, and do something fun in the break, something you enjoy. The moment you start to daze off usually about 30 minutes, you take a break. As time goes on, the 30 minutes turn into 45 min 1 hr. Your studying time becomes more with less breaks in between. 3. Plan something special whenever your studying time is done. Ex. After 5 hours of studying time, reward yourself with a beer or something. 4. Create a study area, have a dedicated study lamp that you only use when you study. # Learning 1. Know the concept and not the fact. Put the concept in your own words. Make sure the concept is meaningful to you. 2. Deeply think about the concept, don't superficially think about it. Ex. Think how useful that specific item will be on a deserted island, instead of counting the vowels of that item to remember it. 3. Study groups help performance. 4. Active learning. Read a section then go to the next section, then stop, close your eyes and say what the previous section was about. You will not forget it. 5. Get more rest, brain stores information better that way. 6. After class review and expand on your notes. If you wait too long before doing this, then you will forget your own notes. 7. Best way to learn is to teach someone else. It reinforces your learning and it tells you if you really understood it. 8. Learning from text, SQ3R. Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review. Survey - Go through the entire chapter and ask questions, "what is this picture about an apple, what is this about this." This is causing you to look for answers. If you intend to find an answer you find the answer. 9. Use mnemonics to study facts Types of mnemonics are -> acronyms, coined sayings, and interacting images.

Cant believe i was missing this and wasting 11 yrs of my student life

This professor looks so insanely into what he's doing. So much passion and actual human emotion goes into his lectures. He's actually invested into helping people and doesn't just do it for the salary. Respect

i never imagined watching a WHOLE DAMN 1 HR COURSE and not get bored , not even for a second. HANDS DOWN TO THIS GUY. This video will surely change my life

Appreciate stumbling across this so much!! I'm a high-school drop out and I'm returning to get my GED and hopefully go to college and my mind was so mushy trying to learn the math I need for the test, that I started thinking 'maybe I've been out of school too long, maybe I'm too dumb for this and should just accept that school isn't for me.' I started doing some of these methods (including sitting on my porch and explaining concepts to the squirrels scurrying by lol) and I already saw a huge improvement!!!! I'm not too dumb to learn, I just had to learn how to learn! I'm so excited to level up.