• video notes. may be from comments.

3 Tips to Maximize Long Study Sessions

• 1) Make it easier to focus:
  • Use white noise in headphones.
  • Sit facing the wall or use screens (physical screens, like cardboard sheets to block from stimulating environment)
  • Hide phone, exit social apps, turn off notifications.
• 2) Use Layering - read fast and lazily skipping everything too complicated, looking for key words; then read second time adding details, building up.
• 3) Save your focus and mental fuel - monitor your level of concentration and when it starts to fall do active rest or simpler tasks.

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• (comment) The method that worked best for me is to imagine I am going to teach what I am learning immediately after the learning session. This generates questions that I might anticipate. In reality these may be questions deeper in my mind that I am some how not serious about. But when I think what may be a question others may ask, these questions pop up. Once these surface, I strive to get clarity on that aspect. This builds my foundation layers of understanding more densely.
• I also try to zoom in and zoom out. Zooming out seeks to capture the larger picture. Zooming in helps to capture some nuances and details.
• I do a lot of online learning. I use many resources to get exposed to different perspectives, presentation approaches, analogies etc. I keep reading some classics again and again. Through this I find some finer aspects to appreciate. I also find it useful to try and implement what I learned, and then come back to reading again.

Study With Me (Live) - Guided Technique Walkthrough

• Step 1: Priming = look through the contents and make basic framework (it is gonna be uncomfortable) - It is not about memorizing, it is about being comfortable with the discomfort and confusion
• Step 2: Organize = how does it fit here, and why should you know this and what is the priority (simplify it to key takeaway) = how to apply, how to simplify
• Step 3: Relating = to the concepts you know, or something unrelated which seems like it

Bloom's Taxonomy Is One of the MOST Effective Study Techniques (Better Than Active Recall)

• revised bloom's taxonomy
• lowest to highest ["knowledge mastery"]
• memorize 1
• understand 2
• apply 3
• analyze 4 comparing
• evaluate 5 prioritizing, ranking
• create 6 hypothesis, conjure
• start on higher stages before lower stages
• higher levels naturally fill in 1 and 2
• when studying go to the latest on a topic instead of the earliest on a topic

Only watch if you like being good at studying | STUDY CLINIC

• 1. Prestudy mentally, keep a high level summary of the material in your mind
• 2. Stick it on a mindmap when you're done.
• 3. Have a impatient mental conversation with the lecturer: during lecture. This means you take what they're saying, and actively try to sort out conceptual sticking points: understand it first (think about corner cases, counterexamples, etc), then think about how this fits in with the rest of the lecture, the rest of the stuff you learned that quarter, etc.
• 4. Consolidate after lecture: review + fill in the details
• 5. Memorize rote details (make sure these are indeed rote details. Do not memorize everything with flash cards.)

The Perfect Mindmap: 6 Step Checklist

• Grouped - Organizing concepts and Ideas into groups
• Reflective - how the mind processed the information
• Interconnected - categorizing and creating more connections within the groups
• Non Verbal - More doodling and symbols
• Directional - Cause & Effect
• Emphasize - emphasizing the main concepts
• (Sung's comment) Mindmaps are used as a way to facilitate the underlying learning process. Mindmaps make up only a small part of a learning system and if there are issues with priming and structuring then the mindmap will naturally reflect it.

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