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NOTES: Question: "How do you learn when you are learning efficiently, and how can you learn in that way more often?" -Debuggning (hardest thing is figure out WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW): What is it SPECIFICALLY that you don't understand? -Don't randomly go over things. Pinpoint what exactly it is you need to learn. Find the missing pieces. -TECHNIQUES for figuring out what you don't know: The Feynman Technique: Write an explanation of what you're trying to learn as if you were teaching it to someone else. When you can't explain it, it means you don't know it. Then go back to the reference material and learn that thing. Using practice questions also works well. When you know what you don't know, you can start using other techniques to learn that piece of information WELL: -Analogies. -Diagrams. -Visualizations. -If you can't use analogies, diagrams or visual associations, you probably don't understand that piece of information well.

I remember I watched this guy years ago. I tried to do what he said and it didn't work because I didn't want to learn. I was forcing myself. Now, I am leaning something I love and actually want and am excited to learn about and this fits in so well. If you don't have motivation and the desire to learn, I don't know how well this would work for you

Notes: 1. Use debugging- pinpoint what you don't understand/find out the missing pieces and try to understand it 2. Use Feynman's Technique to figure out what you don't understand- simplify the language and write it down as if you're trying to teach someone the topic 3. If you know something but don't understand it deeply, use metaphors, visual association and analogies (if you can't do this you probably are missing some pieces, so go back to the previous steps and return to step 3 only after you found what's missing)

I love you man. It's all so simple but it really opens up the door to higher levels of understanding

I really like your way of thinking Scott. I think you are teaching a subject that should be a course in all of our schools so learning is understood better. i like the quote by Bill Gates "Coding teaches you how to think" because learning how to think is a skill just like reading and writing. Thanks for your work, and your writeup on holistic learning is so amazing to me!

thank you so much for this awesome tip! I've been using it for a while and now I am literally (no really, LITERALLY, I've been checking the numbers) spending roughly 1/5 as much time learning math, physics and chemistry as I used to. I'm loving your stuff!

I am currently in week 11 and glad to see a video on the subject.

"The hardest part about learning is figuring out what you don't know." Dude, you rock my world :-)

I have been searching by my own for a long time about how we could in fact craft a "perfect study method" and i think this advice you gave go on the right track of what i've been researching.

wow I have been doing the same thing or similar thing. I have been going through MIT's open courseware computer science classes. Right now I have been going through 6.0046 - algorithm class. I even bought books to go through them properly. I even went through the SICP- structure and implementation of computer programs class from 1986. What an amazing class that was. I just came upon your channel, I wanna know what have you been doing since week one. Thanks for sharing so much information.

This was really interesting! I recently discovered teaching as a tool for learning too - after explaining concepts to my friends I have a much better understanding of the concepts. Once you understand something fully it's so easy to remember too! I suffer from mild exam anxiety and the worst thing is having rote memorised in that situation. If you panic you can't remember shit lol. If you understand it you can work your way back through the situation, which is great!

Congratulations on finishing 10 classes! Thanks for the video and explanation.

dude - you're the best!

you are an inspiration!!

Immensly appreciate the insights you are giving... (the insights seem "so common sense" likely because they are so subtle) Fantastic content Scott 👍

Thank you Scott. EXCELLENT and GREAT VIDEOS. PLEASE keep it up.!

I wish I watched this video earlier this semester...it makes more sense and saves time. Thank you!

Thx for the video.. this is great because I just watched a video about active recall, and I absolutely agree, use the feyman technique explaining on paper as well as say it out loud like your teaching someone else and you will see a BIG increase in results.

Love this. Thanks Scott.🙏🏻

this was very helpful thanks a lot!

Good luck with the rest of your courses! Your videos are awesome man

What do you do if the subject you're learning is filled with missing pieces? Such as math, we learn concepts but not how or why they really work. /: This could take weeks.

Have you ever had a time when it took awhile to find the missing piece in your understanding? If so, how did you find out what it was?

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@fhunkymonkey - I have two graduate courses coming up in the program, so I'll let you know when I get to them. Also, the passing rate is 50% just as it is for most university programs (my lowest grade thus far has been a 60% and I've scored a few in the 85%+ range).

Can you write a simple compiler for simple BASIC programming language, have you learned something about it in your computer science courses.

You are a good boy

Fantastic message Scott! Really love what you talk about. Small note: the audio and video were out of sync.

Good info, thanks

Very valuable point

your videos bring real hope to us learners, keep the good work🙂

Useful.Thanks.

so let's say inhave 2 classes one day. i use the feynman technique for calculus 3 for 20-30 minutes on the concepts the professor went through? then jump to let's say electrical circuits the same day?

Ayye I know the feyman technique and I use it and it's a great technique but I want to know ur note taking method. Your flow method man, let me see if I can find it

WOW I just got my new idol....

thank you

How do you know what your missing??

Min 1:30 Min 6:19

Do we have to memorize all the facts and details before we proceed to teaching ourselves? Or can we have the materials by our side and refer whenever we miss out something?

Why does this video not have more views?

Thanks alot man!, btw im curious about ur chair and how can i get it ?

Take it easy, Einstein.

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HELP!!!!!!!!! okay for i have those chemistry physics and math exams okay , and the test is 2h so i need to work a lot so i can do the test in just 2 hours, and again there is some level of questions is hard so you may need to cover a lot of problems to see something "like it" so how i can be able to do the test in 2hours (fast) and answer difficult questions with less study ?

What to do if you don't understand ANYTHING you're learning

Thanks so much for this video Scott, my hand is scribbling frantically! This tips may have just saved someones exams... A friend's ;)

Awesome

How can i get into mit .... As i m not that great .... But have a great interest in physics

A C grade means you didn't get 30% of the material. Assuming the grades weren't curved... if so, then even less by however much...

thank you ryan gosling

1:25 more hofften?

Do you still get a diploma for doing it this way ?

Would the Feynmen technique work with A&P?

It's like play a detective game

lol that must have taken him forever to write all those notes in perfect tiny writing on that whiteboard.

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abouut :)

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You are very beautiful. And I am not gay :O I am surprised.

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Do you have a girlfriend? Or a significant other? :) I'm very appreciative of the advice on your blog and KZfaq! Thanks so much!

I agree. and this guy's videos are just a bunch of common sense stuff that he keeps rehashing over and over. every video is the same.

Outdated…degree wouldn’t hold up in the real world…

Is this mgtow?

I think this is mgtow

thank you