Why can some people successfully use ineffective study techniques?

---
Transform how you learn with my full learning system based on the latest research:


Interested in mind mapping? Then these videos might be for you:

Are you serious about academic success? If so, you should get a lot out of these videos:

Up to your neck in flashcards and Anki but not getting the results everyone says you should be getting? Here is an apparently ‘controversial’ but super valuable (and PROPERLY evidence-based) take on Active Recall and Spaced Repetition (rather than the pseudo-evidence most ‘gurus’ regurgitate):

Read my overview report on learning (referenced):
---
JOIN MY FREE DISCORD COMMUNITY!
---
ABOUT DR JUSTIN SUNG
Justin is a former medical doctor, full-time learning coach and consultant, top 1% TEDx speaker, researcher, author, and learning skills lecturer at Monash University. Over the past decade, he has worked with over 10,000 learners from 120+ countries to learn with more confidence and control. He is the co-founder and head of learning at iCanStudy, an international training organisation for self-regulated higher-order learning.
---

[akioasakura]

A man who is aware of the different levels of talent and can always carefully explain his point. Real stuff here. Dr Sung you are a treasure. Thank you so much 🔥🔥🙏🙏

[JamesRouzier]

It is like a martial artist who is strong that can get away with not having good technique because they can muscle through it.

[ShubhamSingh-xvco]

Those who watch Dr. Sung's videos can 100% relate with his expressions.

[capgains]

What I like about you Justin is that you’re aware of varying skill levels and what those skills are. Higher order thinking for me, is quickly intercepted by invasive thoughts that I suppose I can eventually control. I’m finding developing lower order skills as for example following pemdas is allowing for more space in my mind to explore the idea of higher order (making connections)
When I do begin to coalesce and a connection I can feel the magnitude of such a skill
Hopefully someday

[rkyrsc]

It’s like someone using brute strength to break a door vs someone who actually learns lock picking to open it .

[luoclement]

I tried the technique like you told me to and now I'm getting kicked out of university..

Thanks for the tip Justin!

[mymyloseit]

I need to know the bigger picture and connections before memorizing😂

[Godkidz]

I used high lighters to get memorized terms and it will make it more easier to remember when I understand of that word or phrase in that sentence. But it’s not always to do right.

[achim]

I used to study like that or with Anki decks randomized without knowing any context and it helped me a lot I could connect the dots better when I was missing context and found it later thru the process

[hiimbonsai]

It can certainly work but it looks very time intensive to me, creating those cloze deletion texts etc.

[jaydenwinters]

I only used this if there's something I need to memorise word-for-word

[dragonfractal]

Unless I’m trying to learn technical vocabulary, this seems like a lot of brain space wasted on memorizing sentences.

[LoveLaughlardlivelaund]

I just keep reading same thing and repeat writing it with paper and pen (you memorise better cause using hand, keyboard gives no memory
) Until it is stuck in my brain.
Think about it after few hours maybe draw something related. It's ineffective probably but if it works it works

[daphane]

Cloze works very well for me, though I do not recommend hand-written notes

[keithdechief]

Will take forever and a day to learn anything juicy, maybe helpful for some smaller or additional topical learning where is compounding on existing understanding.

[Billy-hjnl]

I just recite all the things I need to remember in my mind, and with just that, I remember 70-80% of what I read. On six to seventh iteration, I remember everything and won't forget for at least a month or two. One more revision is enough to cover for entire semester. 😂😂😂

[bgbzz]

I think this method will work for some people, we are all different.

[tgkmervin]

I think the study technique is mid because its good for highschool and maybe college but there are far more efficient techniques I've stumbled upon during my studies. what I realised is that actually taking time to understand the definitions and reading over the pages another time is the most effective possible way so the way I do it is I write down every key word in one page and if I don't remember the definition of the word even after actually interpreting and understanding what it means I either just look back to it in my book or I do more research on the topic so I have more things to not only remember it by but understand it why. Also after doing this I have a few pages filled with words and look at each word, recall each definition I then ho on to my computer where I link together each word in a massive Web diagram of my entire subject maybe not entirely but it could be like single large topics that you can branch of of and just creating this should have you learn and gain a higher understanding of it hence study as well. The way I define studying is number 1 understand, number 2 gain higher interpretation by making associations between the terms hence why the Web diagram makes it so fast, and number 3 learn this is actually just a result of number 1 and number 2. One more tip study every even if that's just 15 minutes if you say you're gonna study some very short amount of time your brain will be fine by that and you'll stay interested this way you can build on the amount of time that you study for you naturally start coming back to study because at that point that is your goal. Hope this helps! 👍

[AuthenticwandererINFP]

I suppose this is like a recall method all you need to do is just review the material and then use this technique to commit to memory

[giftchennissa]

I remember for 2 days then I forgot most of it.😅 This technique is quite time consuming as well.