How I Learn New Content and Never Forget

Learning new content is difficult. I know I failed to learn something the first time when during my review sessions, I'm actually spending time relearning everything from scratch. This video will share a powerful technique for understanding new content, and it's called higher order learning.

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- Mike and Matty

[kailuasurfing]

Seek to understand 3 critical questions for each concept
1) Why is it important
2) How does it relate to the other info
3) How will I use this info, how will I be tested

Note to self, mind mapping and lists may be the format to visually organize this approach

[TimboSlice]

As a med student starting clinicals and someone who relied on flashcards to get through my first two years, I really wish I had this system in place prior to starting. The flashcard game doesn't feel sustainable at this point and im feeling pretty lost on how to study as I continue to lose time. Hoping to take more and more from this series since Im a big fan of you guys and Dr. Sung.

[FizaHasnain]

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[SoloMotivation]

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[Daniel_McDougall]

4 minutes. To the point. Informative. Practical. Well done 👏🏽

[İsimsiz_]

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Summary

When do you understand something?:
• If you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it.
"Albert Einstein" & "Richard Feynman"
=> Agree, but doesn't capture the full picture.
• If you can apply the info and use it to solve problems or answer questions, then you understand it. => Better

Lower order learning:
• Remember & understand
• Trying understand each puzzle piece in isolation by learning concepts, memorizing facts, using active recall, …
• This is the way how most students learn

Higher order learning:
• Apply, analyze, evaluate & create
• Taking multiple puzzle pieces and relating them together
• 4 critical questions
1) Why is it important?
2) How does it relate to other info?
3) How will I use this info?
4) Do I need to memorize the details? (If you have random facts, things you can't understand, …)
• Learn it properly in the first time to avoid relearning later…

[ErikBrown]

The best part of this video was first laying out lower order learning versus higher order learning and showing an example most of us could relate to (COVID vs other viruses) and show what would be lower order and what would be higher order. I've managed to go through high school, bachelor's, and master's without this knowledge, but wonder how much more I would have RETAINED had I known this before. As learning is life-long, I WILL use this going forward.

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Why is this video important?
- We can undestend how learning better
How is it evaluate with other knowledge?
- We know that active recall (if your can explain, u understend) is cool thing, but it's give small results in a long-term. So we need to take high level techniq for better results. It is a apply, analyze, evaluate, creat. But what is meaning - apply, analyze, evaluate, creat?
How will i use question from the video?
- I will try to read with ask question about important, meaning for me, relate with othe knowledge, how i use

Thx for this video. This is greate!

[fem]

The most important thing in this structure for me is understanding how one concept RELATES to others. I remember things more when I get the big picture

[tas]

When you realize you’ve basically been doing that stuff already, but weren’t aware of it; and now you can apply the method even better

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[zhanazar]

You actually can connect random things with each other and not so random things. For example, I remembered the name of my teacher, by building connections with the name of my old friend Tanya and Gregory House from Doctor House. The brain is a bundle of wires, and you are almost free to connect any of them.

[zackanderson]

This is absolutely fantastic. The applicable framework is what’s missing from all these study videos. This gives us so much value thanks.

[AnaKey]

Thank you again!
I love your content.

I'll use those questions when studying.

[pianoprincess]

This is exactly how I take in new information!! I am always trying to make connections and organize the information in my head. I simply CAN'T remember it if I don't see why it's important to remember and how it fits in with everything else. My only problem is that I am trying to make these connections in my head and organize the data WHILE listening to the lecture... lol. Sometimes that works fine and sometimes it doesn't, especially when the person doesn't present it in a very orderly manner and I have a LOT of organizing to do and I actually have to come up with the system myself.

It's funny, I also do this in my head while I'm having conversations with people. I will constantly be summarizing what we've talked about so far (put it into bullet points to make it shorter to rememeber) and then remember the order of the things we've talked about things as well as assigning every item to a place in some sort of structure by which I can remember the information.

[KiyotakaAyanokoji.]

Dude that example about COVID virology was amazing. Pls make a few examples about topics in Maths, Physics and Chemistry. It will be really useful coz I can't really figure out the answers to the three questions for these three subjects

[yuvrajparmar]

Thank you very much
This is what I was looking for very grateful
I love your content and appreciate your hard work and smart work
Keep bringing more content like this and once again Thanks a lot as this is very helpful

[maryamfatima]

It would be really great if you guys make a video on how to study chemistry
It would be really helpful since its both logic and theory so I always had hard time figuring out which one to memorize and which to left

[mbamindpodcast]

I'm currently studying Organizational Behavior as part of my MBA program. This idea of HOL will help me parse through the multiple sources of information the professor is providing for each week's topic.