🧠 SCIENCE OF LEARNING (art) FASTER (my most important video yet)

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Hey gang, a little different than usual this week but I feel it needed the terribad drawings to explain the content better, instead of the usual timelapse :) We talk about learning and how to do it better! (Obviously super simplified) All this stuff makes a huge difference so I hope you get something from it!

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LEVEL-UP
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0:00 THE SECRETS TO LEARN (art) FASTER
2:03 THE LEARNING PROCESS EXPLAINED
5:30 Chapter 1
8:25 Chapter 2
10:53 Chapter 3
12:54 YIKES

#learnfaster

[jay]

"The most important factor when learning is your focus."
My ADHD: I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that.

[aldamis]

Pro tip: if you practice before you go to bed, that skill will be learned faster than if you practiced sometime during the day.

[boitahaki]

"After 25 though..."
**Panic intensifies**

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My urgency: I bought a $70 graphic tablet out of nowhere without knowing a single thing about drawing and I don't want to feel like an idiot that waste money...

[dkmbstudio]

Marc: here's how you learn
Me: *watches the flower go bald*

[notjinx]

Me who haven't draw for a month: thanks for the tip

[thesunthrone]

I am so glad you put the emphasis on sleep that it deserves. Neuroplasticity is a very fascinating subject, and it is easy to lull yourself into false ideas on what you should be able to accomplish, then undersleep due to the stress and deadlines you've tossed on.

I've read that a rule of thumb for neuroplasticity in adults is this - for every 8 hours of proper sleep, you get about 4 hours of deep focus a day. That's not a lot! This is why it's such a terrible practice for students to learn to just not sleep and keep going - it is counterproductive and even worse, it is dangerous. You are not just losing out on progress, you're impeding it, because once that amount of brain stamina is spent, you're just droning on, doing a subpar job, cutting corners and acting scatter brained. Do what you want, but you simply won't get past these limits (unless you're the 1% of the 1% genetic freaks that probably can, but are you truly competing with them?).

This is also why "sleep on it" is such an important old wisdom - we need that sleep, not just to be able to perform basic tasks (modern human being is woefully sleep deprived), but to be able to be creative as well. I find that I always find solutions to my creative problems after a day or two of good sleep, even some naps (if added on top of that 8hr minimum, otherwise no point). That is why you need to be able to factor this in when figuring out a timeframe for your projects. I've always found that too short deadlines lead to subpar project, while giving myself seemingly double of what I think I need leads to great results, because there's plenty of time to rethink things and mull them over. I've just realized that I need this time, and now always factor it in when speaking with clients. As Marc correctly underlines, less stress = more focus!

[glowtail]

Ah yes this taught me more things about biology than my science teacher

[garvitgarg]

I watched a neuroscience video of a specialist on art and he very much said the same things. You have done some very good research and thanks for the info and great content.This is much easier to absorb then doctor's podcast.

[dojakhalifa]

Me: drawing
"turns out ugly"
Me: ill never draw again

[ReallyRedPanda]

There's something so weirdly comforting to have it confirmed to me that no, it's not just you noticing that learning became more challenging at the drop of a hat, at reaching age 26. It's actually encouraging. This is a natural process that happens to everyone.

But something becoming harder to do doesn't make it impossible, not ever, that I do know. I was just missing that key ingredient of 'urgency' like you said. And hey, knowing that *this* is how my brain behaves is giving me all the urgency I need outside of looking for work.

Thank you so much for reshaping how I approach learning. Every tutorial you post is time well spent watching for me. 🙏❤️

[katiecanine]

The arms are actually called dendrites (or axon Terminals, depending on which end you are), synapses are only the areas that connect the arms but other than that as a biologist I can say you did great research with this one.
Also I am in love with whatever these little characters are, they should become your mascots! 🥰

[tacticslc]

9:42 I love the character's expression, it's like looking at the clouds, brain off mode

[Awesome-]

Cant help loving this guy.
He is
An entertaining content creator.
Cracks me up with all those edits,
The outros ending early.
And most important, he is an amazing teacher, my art improved soooo much since ive subbed to this channel.
Thank you so much.

I better go sleep now, so ill remember to sleep tommorow xd.

[starquake]

I'm already anxious and I turned 25 today so idea of not learning like I used to is terrifying! But they say those ADHD their brain age slower which might be good for me. But then again I've should have started learning things sooner I had a poor childhood and spent most of my teenager years dealing with mental illness. It's so unfair. :(

[guimecast]

I'm getting used to dream about drawing and it is really helping me to improve. It started all alone but then I realized that it was helping me. So I started inducing this state by taking at least some 10 minutes drawing or watching someone draw on YouTube before going to bed.

[mrdoodle]

now whenever i saw smart people I'm gonna think how buff is their neuron arm^ω^

[mathieudelisle]

A compilation of all Marc's oppening is needed

[Kentumatsu_skk]

This video really made me think. However, I am not sure if these things can help me with keeping focus, as my day schedule is not really nice. I work from 2pm to 10pm, so at morning and noon I am mostly busy with home duties, leaving little-to-none time between home duties and work, and after work I am simply too tired to focus on productive things (in this case - drawing). It is really frustrating.

[nightj]

I love how Marc changed the thumbnail after posting his community poll. Watch them views skyrocket now lmao