What I Learned After 5000 Hours of Revision

Learn about interleaving, a powerful revision technique.

Every week, I distil what really works for improving results, memory, depth of understanding, and knowledge application from over a decade of coaching into bite-sized emails.

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=== Timestamps ===

00:00 What technique do I use for revision?
00:45 What is interleaving?
04:22 Benefits of interleaving
06:35 The Research of Interleaving
09:06 Interleaving Rule 1
10:01 Interleaving Rule 2
11:51 Interleaving Rule 3
12:54 Interleaving Rule 4

=== About Dr Justin Sung ===

Dr. Justin Sung is a world-renowned expert in self-regulated learning, certified teacher, research author, and former medical doctor. He has guest lectured on learning skills at Monash University for Master’s and PhD students in Education and Medicine. Over the past decade, he has empowered tens of thousands of learners worldwide to dramatically improve their academic performance, learning efficiency, and motivation.

[JustinSung]

Every week, I distil what really works for improving results, memory, depth of understanding, and knowledge application from over a decade of coaching into bite-sized emails.

[MotivMalik]

Sharing my notes for this video

Interleaving - Approaching from multiple angles/viewpoints

1. Be excited about the benefits of the concept
2. Generally Learn 1 component
3. Learn another component
4. Compare & Contrast components
5. Repeated until Mastered
6. Stack Masteries

Mastery = doing something without the use of conscious resources (aka you don’t have to think about it)
Component = a skill taken to 1 of its simplest input

[kazuki]

The main points of the text are as follows:

1. The author went to medical school at the age of 18 and has since studied over 10, 000 hours, primarily focused on revision and review.
2. The author used various techniques such as spaced repetition, active recall, flashcards, practice questions, and summary pages to study.
3. The author discovered the technique of interleaving, which involves learning by mixing different concepts, facts, and angles to gain a better understanding.
4. Interleaving helps the brain form a better picture of a concept by looking at it from multiple perspectives and comparing and contrasting different variations.
5. Interleaving can protect against tricky questions and improve memory and transfer of knowledge.
6. Research shows that interleaving has a moderately strong effect size for memory improvement and transfer.
7. Interleaving should involve comparing and contrasting different concepts, using various techniques to test knowledge, and exploring new perspectives.
8. It is important to look for variations within similar concepts for effective interleaving.
9. Interleaving should be done frequently rather than studying one concept on one day and another concept on another day.

Overall, the text emphasizes the benefits of interleaving as a powerful technique for efficient learning and provides guidelines for its effective implementation.

[grahamkeil]

I feel anxiety and stress absolutely erodes the process of learning, retention and delivering

[masuknazif]

I am actually struggling a lot with my revision. I unknowingly sometimes did interleaving, it is really help full for me.

[chimdindunwawelu]

This channel is a gem. Thank God I found it!

[centipedekid]

So far nothing has really helped, my memory is shot. I've tried so many methods. I'm starting to think a large part of how smart a person is environmental and genetics. The people I know they have the best grades normally come from good stable homes. When you don't know when you have nothing good to eat and can't sleep it destroys any chance of becoming smart. When you are struggling to survive it becomes so much harder to focus on things on top of that.

[pbibss]

I’d love to see more examples in the medical field (as you are a doctor yourself). I say that because I’m also a doctor studying for residency and it’s really hard for me to apply these concepts when the subject I’m studying is completely clinical (diseases, how to diagnose them and the correct treatments etc.)
I’ll definitely try to change (or interleave lol) the methods that I’m using, since they didn’t seem to work that much (I was only relying on the spaced revisions but apparently I need something more, as I failed my exams). Anyways, your content is great and I hope to see more of it coming soon.

[QueenLover-ji]

By "YouSum Live"

00:00:20 Interleaving enhances learning efficiency
00:01:51 Interleaving mixes different concepts for better understanding
00:02:02 Blocked practice limits learning effectiveness
00:03:15 Interleaving helps compare and contrast concepts
00:07:01 Interleaving improves memory and test performance
00:07:44 Research supports interleaving's effectiveness
00:08:17 Combine interleaving with spaced repetition for best results
00:09:02 Follow rules for effective interleaving
00:12:03 Compare and contrast variations frequently
00:13:01 Build knowledge gradually with interleaving
00:14:44 High-quality encoding is essential for learning

By "YouSum Live"

[MasterBrain]

Astonishing content Justin 💯💯 Thank you Man.

[QuiverHugeW]

Have been waiting this for a long time

[HamiyyahSalim]

I've only started using this method to revise my chemistry from Justin's mind map videos and it's very wonderful, I was able to remember almost all of the stuff I studied, yet I used to study using the blocked practice and forget everything almost instantaneously, too bad I can't afford the ICS course but thanks for the content Justin helps a lot❤

[yourpiscespenpal]

I feel both methods have their purpose and goal. Personally, I would make a sandwich: block method + interleaving + block method

[stephenharris-dr]

Thank you, Justin, for bringing this term to our knowledge. Although I was aware of this concept long before, I can't even mention what this mean. I found this idea of interleaving when I was preparing a presentation in my work, and I tried to understand the concept about the presentation by visiting to the actual site and learning from that place (instead of learning all the data about the project on paper).

[Dimitri_Kavon_Williams]

Thank you again, also for not beign intentionally toxic to win, I had dreams as a kid to become a pro gamer when I was black and integrate a lot of stuff from philosophy that still coaches cry about and many can't fully integrate, like murphys law and stuff academics presented who loved the game. I hope through proper learning and having good intentions I could have kids or even see kids in pro play of color that could rival the best, especially in strategical games and mobas... anyhow! This gives me a lot of motivation, the ex I had had brothers who are pro players they would benefit all from these concepts tremendously for coaching/sports psychology but anyhow! Thank you I hope I can apply this to me gym sessions after 10x injuries lol, huge motivation watching your videos, really reminds me why I choose mastery as one of the most important values to me!

[dhouhababa]

when i wanted to deeply understand my islamic religion, i read the old and the new testament. comparing and contrasting islam with other religions help me see my religion from different angels.the most important thing chat i could do was that i started To distinguish between god's commandments and the intrusive ideas of muslim jurists who think themselves to be the mediators between the almighty God and mankind. thanks justin.

[RameshKumar-ngnf]

Awesome video as always Justin bro ❤️👌. You are a huge-huge inspiration to me ❤️🙏 changing my life 🙏

[RobertoMejia-yx]

Choice of contrast to aid determination of what something is and what it isn't.

[naomia]

1. Make self compare and contrast (test in different ways with different revision methods)
2. Look for variations of concepts or different angles/perspectives not complete random concepts
3. Force these frequently and often in study session
4. Build knowledge overtime in cycles of higher depth.
3.

[opeonas]

Thank you Justin sung, all the way from Nigeria