The Most Powerful Way To Remember Everything You Read - Jordan Peterson

It's the natural way to learn and remember things. When I was in college, I read the courses and reheased them mentally long before exams, and had no stress passing those exams. In a way, learning is like developing muscles: long-term, consistent effort will bring better results then any high-stress, short term aproach.

Jordan is reminding us that there are no shortcuts or quick fixes, the opposite of what most people today want. Discipline and self-control have been replaced by pleasure and escapism for most. Whether it's mastery of a course, or mastery of self, disciplined work trumps positive affirmations, laws of attraction, emotions, or today's ignorance of cause and effect.

could you imagine if this were a dedicated 40min period in the day for elementary school students. a class on becoming a better student through these techniques... subjects that actually help to learn & retain information efficiently

- Listen in class, write down (write, not type) the relevant parts. Relevant parts is the operative word; be selective, don't try to compete with your writing speed against someone who's talking. Notes should be key words, dates, good quotes and a lot of arrows signs, slashes and brackets. - End of the day, light read what you wrote down, correct if necessary. - End of the week, take your notes and write down everything properly (better page setting, spelling, etc) Write in black, important parts in red. My rule of thumb is more than 10-15% red on a page is too much; it kills how important red should be. - A week before the exams, fold a A4 in half, write down the key words and dates on it (anything that can trigger your memories). That's your memo card, the goal is to know what's behind the key words. You don't? Take your properly written down notes and write them again. Take good care to stay focused while doing so, no music/distraction in the background. No helping with the laundry either. This is "I'm only doing this once so I'll do it well" time. - Once I'm done, I would unwind by enjoying a cup of tea in the quiet. Think of it as deep diving, you don't go back to the surface in one shot. Usually, the content of a semester would hold in one half of a A4, and it would fit my jacket's pocket. - Two days before the exams, check if you know what you wrote down refers to. No rote memorization, no cramming. You committed things to memory because you wrote them down twice and because you've been selective you remember why you wrote them down. The why, when and how matter as much as the what, as it's all about stacking triggers for your memory to work.

You outdid yourself with this animation! Well done sir. or ma'am.

I'll mark this for later, so I'll remember to watch it. 😏

I've been looking for a video like this for years

Was already using the method of associating things from what I study with particular details that help me remember them better, and I do like to sleep after concentrating hard on new information in order to help me memorize it better. I find that this clip is truly useful as it help me understand that I can use these techniques in order to progress my course as I am currently studying for something quite important, so overall thank you for the video!

Thank you for This

Thank you for the video. It reminds me of how I consume and recall information…using something similar as the noted “castle” technique when I speak is a great process. When I attend an event, or seminar, after the seminar I typically will summarize the key take aways from what was spoken about. I also add what I can do with this information and how I might integrate it back into my company to level up. Sitting and imagining may be, for me, my greatest tool, after I decide on the question I want the talk to answer…🎉

I found it beneficial to summarize and write down voluminous notes when reading/studying. If I were reading something like Shakespeare I would write down a summary of every scene and character. I was a chemistry major and wrote down every reaction I needed to recall. In organic chemistry I built a lattice of reactions…how one can build from an inorganic compound to organic, etc, When it came to study for a test I would primarily review my notes and rarely have to back to an original source. Takes a great deal of time, but that was the only way it worked for me.

This Is brilliant. Like this to remind me to rewatch

3:40 I was gonna say studying for 10 hours is less effective and studying 20 minutes taking a break, often on throughout the day and Sleeping until you’re well rested or at least hitting REM!

Great studying tips from the doc. The video brought back memories from my days in the university studying Electrical/Electronics Engineering. I tried to attend all my lectures, but I was quite the lazy student who felt he was too smart to spend too much time on books. I mostly just read books close to exams without subsequently testing my knowledge of the subjects. I assumed I had assimilated the important details from just reading. My results from my first two years were a disaster. I passed most of my courses, but with poor grades. Even after that I kept looking for study shortcuts in my third year and my performance remained poor. To cut the long story short, I used the Read, Recall & Review method which consumed lots of my time in my last two years and I had excellent grades. My overall performance was a little above 79%. I was lucky because my final year determined 50% of my CGPA.

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I wish that literally any of my teachers throughout my entire 12 years of schooling had bothered to teach us how to study.

I'm struggling to teach my oldest with the templates he needs to learn; rather then what his teacher is telling him. Doing work on Chapter one, part two a single time is insufficient when you come 12 parts later and have a chapter test covering things you have learned for the past three weeks of school. Repetition and variation; do it once, do it again later, do it again but differently, do it again without a single thing to help you (no books, no notes, just your brain). This is what public education is sorely lacking; the fundamentals of how your brain learns and retains information.

Everything is fine but why does thumbnail look like Lord Voldemort?

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makes sense