What I Learned after 5000 Hours of Studying

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me at 10:45 pm watching a guy talking abt studying knowing that i have 2 tests tomorrow

1. Flashcards are time consuming 2. Your knowledge has to be set for real life. Succeeding exams isn't enough. Help your future self ! Don't give the future version of you more work to do. 3. Identify your trivial needs. Map your current learning process. Challenge your reasoning. Learn and experiment = Principle of effective learning. 4. You cannot get stronger without lifting the weight. Don't always look for the easiest, fastest way to learn. That is self-sabotage... The best way to make learning easier in the long run is to make yourself an expert. The more you know, the more you make connections. Know how to use informations to make sense to you. Learning always requires mental efforts (desirable difficulty). Building high quality knowledge requires efforts. Spend the right efforts in the right way !

I dropped out of college, but thanks to your videos I'm looking forward to my new degree.

I'm almost 27 and I feel like I'm completely lost in learning debt.

I think one problem that should be mentioned here (maybe it was mentioned implicitly), is that exams are often not well calibrated for the real world. The student hyperfocus on passing the exams and end up learning or memorizing many details to get an A. Covering parts of the book that are not really important for the future, and end up accumulating a lot of Muda knowledge that eventually go to waste. As a professional now, I don't like to take courses because they will make me study for things that I don't need. I just read the book and focus on what is going to be useful and skip the rest. This saves me a lot of time and just spend my time in what is useful. I think universities need a healthy distribution of professors that are purely from the academia world and professors that have plenty of experience in the industry. Because in the end, just a small fraction of the students will end up in the academia.

Learn from others mistakes because time is too short to learn from your own.

The realistic way of studying for a bunch of subjects or topics when it requires a memorization, is first, know the coverage of your test and exam. Then read all these coverage cover to cover. Highlight the most important topics, terms, enumeration. Then make a summary. In each topic, make at least a short phrase or sentence that explain or highlight the subject. Read and understand your summary. This is my technique like make a summary of 100 pages into 10 pages and memorize it. Its easier to memorize if you understand it first and create a story in brain.

The method starts at 8:00 but it's good to watch the entire video cuz he has great explanation on how he struggled with other methods and why they were not effective

Learning debt hit home, I been an a student in the top 5 percent of every class I have been in. But after the exams, I’m unable to apply anything I have ever learnt. I mastered the act of passing.

I think a really cool series of videos by Justin Sung is putting all these technique to use. I would like to see Justin learn a new language or learn another skill/trade and record his progress. I would like to see the language one though. Russian seems like a language he would probably have no experience with.

The things that I realized. 1) foundation first, details later; 2) At the beginning it always extensive knowledge, but to get from average to high level it always comes to intensive. Dig deeper, attention to details. Always asking myself - why is it so? Sometimes you need to check data you learn. Is it reliable, is there are researches? There is a plateau when you study a lot, but on the surface.

Could you make a video or answer: 1) Demonstrating in practice / with a live example of how you relate and connect information together? Especially more technical and complex info. 2) How higher order learning helps memorize jargon and technical vocabulary (as opposed to concepts)? E.g. the name of a different enzymes, medications, etc. 3) Can you lay out in chronological order the comprehensive steps a complete beginner should take to optimize their learning? (Ex. 1) Sleep well. Eat well. Exercise. 2) Take fewer notes to improve cognitive load. 3) Pivot to mind maps and fluid, visual note taking. // higher order learning first via Blooms Taxonomy.. etc)

This video about what you learned after 5000 hours of studying is truly inspiring! It's a testament to the power of persistence and dedication. Your emphasis on the importance of consistency, setting goals, and the growth mindset is spot on.

Justin is so straightforward no bs. I really like ur content. As a med student, they really helped me a lot

00:00 🤔 Overusing a single learning technique, like flashcards, can be counterproductive in the long run, leading to burnout and hindering your ability to explore other effective methods. 03:13 💡 Making small, frequent adjustments to your study methods helps you transition away from over-reliance on a single technique, allowing for more flexibility and effective learning. 06:56 📚 Avoid "learning debt" by ensuring your learning methods align with future needs. Don't just study for the present; consider how your knowledge will be useful in the long term. 10:09 🧠 Building expertise requires effort and mental engagement. Don't seek shortcuts; invest the necessary effort upfront to build a strong foundation of knowledge, making future learning easier and more effect

I took 5 years to complete my chemical engineering bachelor degree that was supposed to last 3 years, last December I started the 2 years master. in April I discovered your channel and for the first time i aced 3 exams in row (uno structure is different I think but we have 4 classes march to may and the June July and September to pass the exam). I should have done 4 but i didn’t have time to study the last one. It is still an amazing result because I thought it was impossibile, at least I couldn’t do it during the bachelor. I just studied the same time but with methods proposed in the videos. Thanks!

For a year i had so many flash cards, my morning routine with anki was like one hour repeating them. To be honest, it was a great expierience and i won't miss it. In this time i learned a lot about myself.

I'm currently struggling to fit in my University mentally, I was overwhelmed by it and try to find a shortcut for me to learn things better than others, but that make it worse. Thank you for your video for making me realize there is no way of finding shortcut without moving. It make me realize that effort is the one that matters a lot in finding improvement. I think i'm prepared to aced my study achieve my goal now ❤

These are just what I could retrieve by watching the video one time, so they are more likely to not represent what the video actually says so do watch the videos and don’t focus too much on what’s written here (I just wrote this for practice) 1. Don’t be focused on just One single learning technique (more so when that technique is like flash card that’s bad for the long run and bad for higher order learning) 2. Learning debt= learn in a way that makes it Easier for you FUTURE self to easily learn new things a. Studying≠Learning i. Studying + Encoding with Anchor points for future use for ANY scenarios(exams or real life in future)+ ??? = Learning (Could this be taken as gaming? Where if we are aiming to be a attacker, we spend all our stats points in increasing our attack/speed or for defender we may spend in defense/stamina? It’s not like we would spend our stat points on persuasion/intelligence which would would benefit merchant or what not and hope to be a attacker later down the line? 3. Learning Asset= Do Mental train/Carry Weights and not just look for shortcuts to build mind muscle.(Like higher Order Learning which helps with Encoding and making Anchor points) a. Expert in a Subject= Having many anchor points on mind such that, any new information you gain won’t be new information anymore but will just be something that will attach to that anchor point and make your mind more robust on that subject)