How to Learn Anything Faster

I give you efficient learning hacks. Five things you can use that will help your general abilities to learn new material. You can apply these principles to mathematics, physics, programming, computer science, engineering, etc. Do you have advice for other learners? If so, please leave a comment below.

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[ereqnwe]

It's always good to read different books for the same subject. For example, if I read different books on the complex functions analysis, let's say book A and book B, sometimes I can solve difficult problems in A by using the method in B and vise versa.

[JohnRaschedian]

Keeping changing the subject every few hours is also very helpful. If you read math for example the whole day, you will get tired and need a lot of motivation to be able to keep going. But if you keep changing the subject, you give your mind a dose of something, then switch to something else. While you are doing the second thing, you mind finds the time it needs to absorb and organize what you did before. And you can keep going through this cycle of switching and keep going. This way you need almost no motivation or even no will power.

[JohnRaschedian]

Another way to increase your productivity is forget all about productivity and start your studying with a movie that you like. Whenever you get tired, watch a few minutes of the movie and then go back to studying. By the end of the day, you have done your studying, you will have had a lot of fun, you did not get tired and you have watched a movie that you liked. That's what I do all the time and I read about at least 120 pages of different subjects every day.

[arpanpiano]

It's also nice to take out a blank sheet of printer paper and write down as much as you can remember after reading a chapter.

[internallyinteral]

As someone who dropped out in 10th grade and came back to school at 33 for a STEM degree alot of how you improve yourself depends on discipline. Follow these steps! They work.

[AceOfHearts]

self study means, u have to also take a job as a course administrator, do some office roles like printing and downloading materials, researching and purchasing books, organising lesson plans etc., we talk about spending time to study but i find a significant amount of the time is taken in being a manager which is unaccounted for.

[StaticBlaster]

3:00-3:08 Here's my advice: use chatgpt and prompt it to explain the concepts clearly as if you were in grade school. Because a lot of math books are indeed very confusing to read with all that technical math jargon.

[essexitagermeng]

I personally recently found out, at least for me, the pace of learning is also important: if I go too slow, like when I know I have plenty of time, it’s harder to stay focused and have the right active brain state (not just recipient). I learn the most when I am passionate (naturally fast) and proactive, finding as many connecting infos as possible, which helps memory retention.

[matthieujoly]

Just join the channel. Listening to your video since I want to restart mathematics at the ground level.
I'm no longer a younger person, still I've always enjoy reading, and learning different subject.
I do agree on all the points you've provided, and from my point of view, the "best" way to learn is... yours. Once you've decided and stick to your decision, and this is the "key point", the "how" is up to you.

Yes, you have to listen, read, practice at the same time ? As you wish, you know that you can do that step by step, for how long you want, in my way of doing is at least 15 mns.
I do courses in languages at least 2 hours per day, learning "how to" learn, computer languages/editor/gnu-linux, on philosophy, history, art etc. Listening to it from beginning to end once, and redone this one, two times more, while noting information, I also do that with videos. Also use different persons and read/listen/watch how they explain the same thing that you're learning. Sometimes the way used by one person is more "listenable" to you than another one.

It's much a matter of (in my case) of constancy than anything else, nothing to prove to anyone, and if I learn, it's a personal pleasure.
Reading, listening to music, inside, outside, while commuting, at the "lunch pause".

Everywhere is the right place.

[JohnRaschedian]

And probably the most important of all ways to increase your productivity is by not going against your mind. Discipline is going against your mind. You become a master and want to make your mind do something it does not want to do. You are making yourself unnecessarily miserable. Even if it works, you'll spend the rest of your life in misery if you keep doing this.
Don't be a master. Be a friend. When your mind resists something, let it give you the reasons it has to resist. If its reasoning is valid, accept it. If not, let it understand that it is doing wrong thinking. When it understands, it will drop the unnecessary resistance. If there is no resistance, there need not be any motivation and you will find yourself in a flow where almost no energy is needed to carry you along.
Please note that I did not mean to degrade discipline here but everyone likes an understanding friend more than a master with a lot of authority.

[michaelrobinson]

I get the big picture first then detail second. I'm starting to see that I love teachings based on a high level. I love visuals

[Wabbelpaddel]

A study found that 10 seconds of rest for each newly learned information increased neuronal firing rate by 20x.

This caused rapid consolidation of information.

You can not learn with the working memory alone, it's limited and expensive.

That is a recipe for burnout.

And if you overdo it, you will be forced to pause eventually and have poorer memory consolidation.

If you do not allow prefrontal-parietal to hippocampal exchange with enough buffer time, you will have more neural noise and fragmentation, along with reduced spectral band power.

Which is why short bursts with short pauses are key.

Learn a definition. Pause. Think about it. Pause.

[alghap]

Thank you for all what you are doing. Its always a pleasure to listen to you . 🙏

[T-theRealOne]

Also important to fully understand the basics and prereq's before moving on to the next topic. Otherwise, you'd be building a house on a weak foundation so to speak. You need a firm foundation before building the next layer.

[apurvnandy]

Feynmann technique. Teach yourself and others to gain command over any topic or subject

[MB-cdeo]

Think of the day by day, hour by hour learning process itself as the metric of success. Enjoy the process. Don't worry about the results. The results will take care of themselves. I find that worrying that it's too late or that 'I can catch up later' hurts my motivation.

[joaoGabriel_]

My greatest self discovery was realizing that my learning style is teaching.
When you teach something to someone, that gives you a responsibility, you HAVE to get it right. I think that's why it's soo effective!
Also, a great way to self study is by making projects, get your hands wet, get to do something to practice all you've learned so far (for example, this works amazingly with programming!).

[eptyfdp]

Thank you for sharing these helpful learning hacks! I appreciate the emphasis on finding one's learning style.

[kaue]

I'm from Brazil and I've just discovered your channel, thanks for the valuable content, I want to learn math more and better! Thank you!😊🇧🇷

[Apfelkaninchen]

I would have loved to have an empathic and skilled teacher like you. 😢