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Hi Justin. Kind request. Please take a topic. Say 3-4 pgs. Go through it infront of us. Follow the whole process. So, we could also read the same and experience your process start to end. The video might get lengthier but I feel we could understand clearly and gain a lot more out of that. Thanks a ton!

My Key Takeaways: 🧠 Turn your mind maps into a mind mirror: Use mind mapping not just for note-taking but to reflect your thought process and understanding. This approach helps in identifying knowledge gaps and understanding concepts more deeply. 🔄 Never get it right on your first try: Approach mind mapping with the understanding that your first attempt won't be perfect. Iteratively refine your map, allowing it to evolve as your understanding deepens. 🔄 Never start organizing your ideas the same way it is presented to you: Avoid framing bias by reorganizing the information in a way that makes the most sense to you, rather than sticking to the original presentation format. This encourages deeper understanding and creativity in learning. 🗣 Integrate the Feynman Technique: Simplify complex terms and concepts into language that a 10-year-old could understand. This not only deepens your understanding but also aids in quicker review and retention of information.

Hope it helps.... •Mind Mapping for Learning Improvement •Mind Mirror Approach •Brainstorm without perfection •Identify knowledge gaps •Iterative Learning •Expect mistakes and revisions •Uncover connections gradually •Feynman Technique Integration •Explain to a 10-year-old •Enhances understanding •Reveals areas of confusion •Use Simple Language •Quick processing •Better memory retention

My gosh, why are ppl so negative in the chat? I’m just grateful someone is speaking on something that truly resonates w my style of learning and he is brave enough to share some of his insights w us. He actually has a business doing this, and so if you really feel his free content is not detailed enough, there is opportunity to purchase his course, and it’s not even a steep price. I just feel for the content creator bc you can literally show people a new and better way of doing things and they just jump down his throat bc it’s not delivered exactly in the way they want it to be. Some ppl just love to complain and be negative. Addicted to it. Too much free content here to change your life to at least make your studying habits 2x better… all for free. Some ppl need to check themselves smh.

14:00 you saved me from committing the mistake of forcing the organizational structure of examiner in order to make my own mind map

Justin, congratulations! You made great headway with mind mapping. I’ve been teaching mind mapping for over 30 years. I learned from Tony Bazan himself. But it seems in the past five or so years I actually started making my maps much more mindful. this is why I’m saying congratulations. I’m going to be doing KZfaq mind mapping videos shortly. I hope you come and watch as well. I can show you a bunch of things that would make what you’re doing even better.

This is pure gold. Thank you for sharing!!

Secret 3, the different thinking frameworks used to explore topics is a really interesting idea! I would love to see a video just dedicated to exploring this idea for different topics(math, physics, languages, etc) 🔥

Thank you! This is the mind mapping tutorial I’ve been looking for all along!! I can now see how my detail-oriented and perfectionistic qualities have held back potentials to develop and refine my understanding when mind-mapping.

Justin, you have shared a goldmine of insights in this video. Keep it up! Thank you for your time and effort. The day is near when I'll be able to buy your courses and benefit from them.

i want to thank you for making so many different videos on mind mapping. my parents heavily shamed me for wanting to make/use them, so i stopped doing it. then when i tried to get back into them, i had panic attacks and couldn't do them. your videos normalize using mind maps and it's really really nice to be validated. my parents have a lot of weird and in some cases harmful beliefs... but i digress. thank you again!

What an amazing video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Thank god I found this channel literally the week I started learning Japanese [well, Hirigana and Katakana..for now]. The few videos I've watched have helped me visualize and better map out what I want from my lesson plans and how to tackle them in the next few months.

Love the mind mapping content!! 👌Additional real-life examples and specific subjects would be helpful as well

AGAIN AND AGAIN. Thank you for your ideas. I see that i did the same mistakes as you. But also same experience and conclusions. You really have a deep impact on my learning and thinking.

I learned it the hard way, there are the things you should not do and thing you must do, Justin explained them really well, I watched and rewatched the long videos of encoding and mind mapping and they really helped me to improve my mind maps .

I think the biggest learning for me from this video is: frameworks. It is important to individually learn a way to think about things. How to think about something is more important than what to think about.

Thanks so much Justin! I have loved mind maps for years but your advice really lets me take it to the next level. I am giving a major speech and it helped gain a world of confidence from just feeling the command over the key topics covered and their relationships to provide solid meaning.

Thank you! I have incorporated mind maps with iPad but still making many mistakes. It’s still an improvement for sure in terms of increasing cognitive load and using delayed note taking, condensed notes etc etc

Really appreciate your work 🎉...you addressed such a common important approach to learning any new thing.

I've been mind mapping for years I'm so excited to see other people try it and teach me some new tricks!❤🎉 thank you for the video

Love this. Reminds me of Seymour Papert (MIT Media Lab prof, co-inventor of the Logo language) on the value of kids learning to program: it teaches them "a debugging approach to life." At age 82 and a writer/editor for 52 years, the most valuable lesson I've learned is the wonderful value of the SFD (s**tty first draft). This talk was inspiring. As a word nerd I'm inhaling all the info I can get from you on non-linear scribbling to clarify info and inspirations.

Secret 1: First Put your ideas and relationship in a mind map and then try to organize them when your learning level will be better.

11:06 Interesting Point In a podcast a cognitive neuroscientist did say something similar “It’s good that you have an outline and structure in a textbook But on the other hand it takes away your learning process to understand it”

Great video, Justin ❤ I've really enjoyed it!

Fantastic information-thanks for providing them for free!

Thank you ❤, keep making more mind-mapping videos!

Bro, your whole business strategy is gold.

Very very great video justin...❤ It covers many important things I do which actually help me get great depth of knowledge without stressing out about everything

Since I've started learning using mindmaps, i've noticed that i'm thinking more critically. You até contributing a Lot to this journey, Justin! Greetings from brazil

Bomb video as always. This is gold. We would need more clarification on a few variations though like for studying math and physics, how do we go about representing equations in our mind maps?

Thank you, Justin ❤

Excellent video and insightful approach to the mindset of studying without perfection first time.

This is so simple but for me somehow it’s so revolutionary, thx so much for making this Video :)

What a beautuful concept, thank you

incredible video lov u justin

Thank you so much❤ I will use this technique now for revision 😁

super interesting and useful! Subscribed

tysm for this. im so glad you've summarized all this! helps me get started

Love the mind mapping videos❤️🙏I tried some mind maps after learning your free video and they do work awesome. The problem though is that I'm very inefficient in making these mind maps(it takes me a while) and also sometimes my mindmaps aren’t very effective (it's a bullseye or complete miss) either. I'll try to learn further through your videos.

My mind resisted this kicking and screaming every second so I had to watch three times. This is great. The perfectionist in me stops me. Maybe we need to start at the generalist then reduce to the particular

I've been following you for a few years now. Thanks to your videos, yesterday I finally got my first "functional" mind map. Yesterday was also the first time I didn't give in to the panic of sitting in front of the white sheet and to the fear of losing essential info given in the lecture. I decided I would take your advice and start with acknowledging this mental map would not meet any high standard. So, without indulging my attention to ponder on the usual mental uneasiness, I instantly dived into the doing (most helpful tip). The first mind map (introductory part of the lecture) was rather messy and I could already feel a rush of frustration. But I was also determined to face as many clumsy ones to come as needed in order to finally see some progress. So, I immediately started anew. This time, I "fastened" my mind into a "flexible focus", zooming out of the particular unfamiliar units (words, notions as such), while doing my best to rather open the span of my attention on their flow and the different configurations they would blend into my understanding. This small adjustment resulted into a pretty, complete and clear map of a 2 hour lecture. This tool is incredibly powerful, indeed. Thank you, really!

Love you man.

Another trick which kinda helped me a lot in understanding your method is trying to think how I understood the topics which I have good command over and I took months to understand them. I realized that I could put down that understanding quite easily on a paper without using much words. Truly intuition does not work in terms of words but in terms of things which our 5 senses can experience and imaginative structures which are easy to visualize. And a mindmap is simply a structure which is easy to visualize and navigate and not a relation between different sub-structures(which in themselves are easy to navigate through). Using your example of heart as a pump with tubes connected to it, the mindmap is basically the tube structure itself and not interconnected relationships between intuitive sub-structures(that's what I earlier thought it to be). The arrows and boxes and diagrams are meant to be the intuitive tubes that connect the heart and not the links between thoughts/ideas to revise and revisit and fit into your memory just because they exist. That is why it is important for MM to be as neat and simple and prioritized.

Thank you for another valuable learning tool.

as others have said, this video is really well done, good topic great presentation, mindmaps need to be hammered into the modern learners mind.

Don't mind me I am putting these here for me 6:24 8:41 Try to do it in your way, in a way you understand 14:17 Describe it in a simple way 17:08 20:32 21:32 21:45

Thank you for this

Thank you. Excellent presentation of the essentials you've learned over the years. You bring healing to people in using your gifts and experience this way. God bless you.

so helpful, thank you

Again I'm great full for being dyslexic and therefore giving myself permission not to learn in the way suggested by the teacher or lecturer but the way that works for me totally agree with the basic principles way of thinking for physiology and pathology and many many other things!

Really helped, I am stuck in this viscious cycle of perfectionism myself, then at the end of a study session i feel like the information on the mind map is really not enough and i just wasted time

Please make a video on how to study math at all levels- concept learning, grasping procedure, practising on the concepts, and revising on the concepts. All of tips have accelerated my learning journey, but I am still confused on how to progress in math. Please make a video, it will be highly appreciated across your viewers I think.

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Thank you very much for what you do and your work, Justin! And I hope you have fun playing FF7 Rebirth! Again, would love to see your playthrough and your reactions as a FF7 fan myself (recorded on a gaming channel or something like that). I hope you consider it. Nonetheless, I hope you have a great time with the game!

@17:11 flow state, being able to use hunch and simplicity and capture the key essence , distil and reflow back 19;09 , simply put, you reconfigure your knowledge, of what you are learning to fit into what you desire and wish to produce. Crude oil to machine oil to plastics to even health related items, just oil can be reconfigured or broken down simply is what , the point of the message seems to me

I also find that writing less words on my mind maps initially helps me zoom out and focus more clearly on the bigger picture. ... and see where l have knowledge or resource gaps. I love your explanations.... especially the observation that the messier parts of the map often relate to the "not yet organized" thought processes...❤❤ that are inviting us to deep dive into them with an open and playful attitude to the experience.

Love your pitch for liking and subscribing! done!

Mind mapping, or memory palace/loci on paper. You often recall the mind map while remembering the information. I often used similar note taking in grade school in the 80s. I recalled notes I took often because I could visual the page where I wrote them down in short form. My notes were always 3 or 4 words at most for given ideas, and my grades were regularly A+. I used to call it all diagram learning because I didn't have a term from somewhere else to call it. Make a picture in some way, and you can often remember the picture of the connection readily.

Thank you

Hi Justin, I've started working in the education field and with SLD (specific learning disabilities and learnind differences) and I've noticed that the use of mind maps aren't really the best and more effective tool for students struggling with these different ways of brain functions. The use of concept maps that have a more linear, easier to organize and to process are a more useful tool for these students. Have you worked with a-typical and non neurotypical students too? If yes, do you have any good insights?

I went for the triple win!!! Thanks for sharing and I throughly enjoyed your video!!! 😄

0:00 First point - Make you Mind Map a Mirror of your Mind. 7:43 Second Point - Never get it (your Mind Map) right the first time. 11:04 Third Point - Never ever start organising your ideas the same way it is presented to you. 19:45 Final Point - Integrate the Feynman Technique (Explain it to a 10 year old)

What I learned from the video is that I have what is called a framing bias, related to the number 34... Well, that and that trying to do a mind-map in one iteration with big, scary words on it was a terrible idea. As usual, thanks for the gem, Dr Sung!

I'm loving all the mind map videos

As a teacher I would just add, for the last technique, make sure vocabulary is still an integral part of the learning process. One of my very first teaching jobs I focused all on conceptual understanding and almost ignored the subject vocabulary and my students did horribly on their finals. The next semester I made sure to dedicate a day in each unit to all the important vocabulary words (at the time they just made flashcards one day and I quizzed them on them a week later) My class’ average on the finals went up 30%.

Interesting to hear this new on KZfaq. All of it was around before computers, but now is somehow dependent on them at least in the minds of some. Maybe that is the vector that makes it all sound so complicated.

Hi Justin! In my university years, loads of learning I had to do were basically training: Statistic methods needed a lot of practice. How would you handle stuff like that in your learning mind maps? There were hundreds of tasks ("homeworks" each week taking several hours plus the Friday lecture in whicht the correct solutions were presented so that you could check whether your own approach was correct) we had to complete, some of which required basic or higher math skills plus some understanding of statistic vocabulary and concepts. But the learning (for me) took place when I started comprehending what I was doing there by solving these statistics tasks step by step. Would you have chosen a different approach - maybe a less time consuming one? Same thing in Micro and Macro Economics (in the early 2000s). Lots of calculations presented on overhead projectors scribbled at close to light speed by a professor. Either you had extreme math skills and were able to anticipate the next steps to come or you had to be extremely quick in notetaking (while trying to listen to what the professor said which is not too easy when your phonological loop is occupied by what you write down. No idea how I would have done that with your method. I scribbled like hell to have notes helping me to process what I had been lectured step by step and thus understand what I had been taught faster than my mind was able to process it in the lecture. And all this filled with loads of scientific vocabulary you had to learn to use properly. So what should I have done to make all this easier? In contrast to today's lectures there were no pdfs summing up the konwledge - all we had was what we saw in the lecture. Either be quick enough to write down all of that stuff or fail in the exam.

🪞Mind mirror - if your map is messy your mind is messy- but don't avoid it- messy part visualizes where you are not clear - put them down - clean up, reorganize it 🏗You can't perfect in one go - build on as you go 🖼Don' be caught up in the frame that you are presented with - find a system that is most intuitive, clicks to your brain 🧒Feynman Technique - explain it as if you were talking to a child - by nontechnical words 21:54

In the age of information overloading, knowledge organization is very poor, i am affirmative that sketch noting helping in a lot of ways. This video by @justin Sung is really nicely ilustrated nicely in an organized manner, while not ruling yet providing a good guideline. I hope the knowledge shared has nothing to do with commercial aspect. Classrooms are literally exploding with tools for personal knowledge organization, and those who start with that without practicing mind mapping and sketch noting, are beginning to bury under tool overloading. Every map that i made so far have helped me self reflect my growth, my trajectory, also many times listen and follow my interpretation, ideas that bubble up, critics that burn underneath, and map as people speak around me..... making me a good active listener, while reducing the noise in the mind... while i think through. Really helpful video.

This video you made cleared so many of question about mind maps and also good job at the sponsoring(its better then most of the other times you try to do it, through it could still be a lot better. I really think you should show more confidence when sponsoring. I know it works the course sadly i dont have enough money to afford it right now but thats beside the point when you sponsor it kinda feels awkward and like you dont want to sponsor it and have no idea how the hell are you suppose to act) anyway thx for the video

Justin, curious, does KZfaq tell you the approx time comments like “thank you’s” are made. Do they occur within the first half of the video or the last half?

Nice video ❤

Looking at your earlier map, I remembered I still have to get on the antibiotics topic myself 😩

Good Video i lern a loot from you thank you 🎉

00:30 Secret 1-- turn your mind maps into a mind mirror the more messy in mind the more messy map. the maps should clean and organized. 07:37 Secret 2-- Never get it right on the first try 11:06 Secret 3 -- Don't organise ideas the same way it's presented 20:26 Secret 4 -- Integrate the Feynmann Technique.

Nice Smile. Thanks for video.

Hi, cool video, I liked the idea. However, how do u have so much time to do that for every single topic in your life?

what platform do you use for video editing?

That's pretty awesome as a overview of mind mapping as a tool of learning. As a learner I've frequently run into this very same set of problems, how do you reduce the complexity of an expert's presentation into a map or input that results in learning? Most of what I learned in school about how to learn is wrong, and having a huge set of terms and hierarchical maps based on text just ends up feeling frustrating and inefficient.

Thanks for the great video. Id want to ask you if, you have ever tried to apply these to learning a new language, specially the ones that are totally different to the native language.

Commenting for the algorithm! ❤

I love it. I tried it, and I love it

Not using terminology was so well explained...This was a game changer.

Thanks for the video Justin! I still find it difficult to draft out mind maps where heavy memorisation is required. Eg: treatment options for TB (medication options, dosage, durations in different patient groups etc). Is there any tips you could suggest on how best to incorporate these into mind maps? Or should these be resorted to flash cards. Thank you!

I'm curious what your thoughts are on using mind mapping for language learning? I also currently use your mind mapping techniques for notetaking in a professional setting - very powerful.

How do you use your method in biology pathway that already has many arrows?

Should I revise my mindmaps based on spaced repition?

Can you make a video on how to review them? I made one on soft tissue lesions of the shoulder a while ago and when i came to review the topic i just got overwhelmed looking at the mind map

Hi Justin, could you please explain the gap finding through mind mapping, thank you Justin and God bless you

I'm also interested, despite encoding it, to develop those ideas that i learned, but I dont find a way to do it. How would be a good method for developing and creating something new from those ideas on the map?

I think a lot of comments share the same sentiment here, that worked examples are hard to find and seem the most useful in picking up this skill. I want to understand how mind maps can be applied to mathematics, whetstone sharpening, programming, and jiu jitsu. I want to be able to apply learning skills to anything i can learn.

Hi Justin, I'm curious how to apply mind mapping to, or if it's even an effective technique for, learning a new language. You've demonstrated before on your channel the act of abstracting to such a degree that a mind map may be mostly pictures that convey a concept, and then drawing relationships between those concepts. What about when learning the vocabulary and grammar of a language, be it a spoken langauge or even something like programming?

did a mind map about a mind map vidéo hahaha

Thank you, Justin. I have one question unrelated to the topic: "How can you speak English as a native speaker?"

Please make a video about how to study for MCQ based competitive exam and study strategy for literature based subject. Please.........🙏🙏🙏🙏

Hello! I have watched many of your videos on the topic of higher order thinking while learning but I am unable to apply it while studying. I don't know the correct process of thinking. It would be very helpful if someone explain the correct method of thinking with an example. thank you!!!

I am struggling a lot with this mindmap idea, like i totally understand your point but when i try to apply it i end up either ignoring many details to make is less wordy and less overwhelming or following the structure presented to me in the lecture 😥I just seem to not be able to find the relations even tho i understand every idea on its own, it always feels inaplicable in the lecture i am studying X) anyways thanks a lot for your videos doc, I will keep trying to reach my learning goal

Justin Could you offer a Course in which you just teach how to mind mapping for learning I did the pre steps in your course but when I asked what I can’t do the mind map part I got a message that I didn’t do the pre steps Therefore I cancelled last year I’m still preparing for my exam which I’ve got a 3rd and final try