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In this video, I'm going to give you three core learning principles

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In this video, I'm going to give you three core learning principles

that you can literally use and apply right now to help you learn anything so fast that people think you're a genius.

Because the thing is, once I started actually applying these three learning principles that I'm about to teach you in this video,

I got three A stars and one A in my A-level exams,

and I'm currently studying, I graduated as valedictorian,

and I'm currently studying at the University of Hong Kong right now.

These tips are the foundation to any successful learning system out there.

So whatever learning system you're planning on creating after this video,

you need to have these three core principles in mind.

So without further ado, let's get into the video.

The first thing that I'm trying to convey to you with this cursed skull emoji picture is

that learning is not supposed to be easy.

Learning is actually in fact quite the opposite.

Learning is actually supposed to be really, really challenging.

And if you're not challenging your brain enough, that's not learning.

So imagine like you're trying to learn something new.

For example, let's say that you wanted to learn how to shoot a basketball.

Assume that you don't know how to shoot one before.

If you start first learning how to shoot the basketball,

the first shot that you will make is probably going to brick and completely airball.

Airball means like the ball didn't touch the net and you feel like an absolute failure.

So that's how learning is supposed to be.

But the more you shoot the basketball,

the more you kind of keep shooting and practicing your shot,

the better you are going to get at it.

So what I'm trying to say with this is that learning is not supposed to be easy.

I remember when I first started learning how to play lacrosse,

it's kind of like, basically it's kind of like this really long stick with the head

and uh you kind of have to put the ball inside the head

and you need to cradle it to uh move around

and stuff the first time i held the stick i didn't

know how to actually hold it i was like okay do

i hold it here do i hold it here like how

do i how do we even grab the head of the stick

and how do i even where do i even put the ball

that was the first thought that came into my mind

and i didn't know how to use it i didn't know how how to play lacrosse at all.

But over time, as I kept practicing and practicing my lacrosse skills,

I started to get better and better at the game.

And that's how you are supposed to learn.

It doesn't matter if you're learning a new sport.

This can literally be applied to studying a new subject.

So at first, if you start one chapter of A-level maths,

for example, and you're really,

really struggling that's completely okay that's not a problem

because learning is supposed to be a struggle

and that's how you actually learn which leads us to the second point

which is learning is just like a video game and

if it's not like a video game you're you're doing it wrong

because learning is supposed to be actually fun let me explain when you first start to play a video game right

you probably wouldn't go

and watch like 50 different tutorials on how to actually play

the video game no you would actually go into the game start playing the game die make mistakes

and actually have fun while playing the game it's the exact same with studying

and the mindset shift that i need you to make at the end of this video is

that learning through doing is the best way to learn.

Learning not through watching 50 different tutorials on YouTube

but learning through actually playing the video game is what's going

to give you the most results in the least amount of time.

So learning by doing makes learning fun.

When you learn by doing,

when you learn by, when you study by doing past papers and practice questions,

over time you start to become better and better at learning

and studying and

that makes you feel extremely confident it gives you this really big confidence boost where you know

that you can actually learn

and like understand the material now like you've already mastered the material

so you're not scared of it when you go into the exam

and it boosts your exam confidence by so much

so you need to be learning by doing by the way

if you want the full study system that I used to get three stars

and one A in my A levels and that I'm currently still using right now in university,

then you might want to check out my community.

It's linked down below.

It's called A Star Students.

It's basically this mentorship program where it helps students just like

you get better grades in less time through a proven step-by-step system.

So if you're interested, click the link down below and join the community.

So the last core learning principle that you absolutely must know is

that your brain is very very good at forgetting information not remembering forgetting information

so now i want you to imagine

that your brain is kind of like this glass container where there's like

so much holes inside it

and the water keeps flowing out continuously the water represents how much information you actually remember

when you're first exposed to the material so like

when you go to class and stuff so now what's actually scientifically happening is

that there's this thing called the forgetting curve where your brain actually loses information slowly actually not slowly

but very quickly over time

so within the first day let's say you go to class

on let's say you go to class on day zero right you go to class

and you learn the material and you think that you've learnt it

but actually after one day the amount of information that you remember drops all the way down to 50%.

And with our current levels of attention spans right now,

this information, the amount of information

that we actually remember probably drops all the way down to like 10% if I'm being completely honest.

So the only way to combat this forgetting curve is to repeatedly test ourselves over

So I'm going to draw two extra lines to kind of illustrate to you what I'm talking about.

When we test ourselves again,

like one day after we learn the material,

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we bring the amount of information that we remember all the way up to 100%.

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So testing actually brings the bar all the way up to the top.

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And what you'll notice actually is that when you test yourself after spacing for one day,

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the curve actually becomes like flatter and flatter.

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So let's say you tested yourself on day one.

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Then again, you tested yourself on day two,

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then you tested yourself on day five or something.

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What ends up happening is that the curve actually becomes flatter and flatter and flatter.

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In other words, the gradient becomes flatter and it becomes a lot easier for you to put the information into long-term memory.

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And that's what you want.

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Long-term memory is super important.

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You ever been into an exam and you see the question and you're just like,

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oh okay I got this,

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I completely understand this question already,

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I already know how to do it,

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I don't even have to think.

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Well that's because your brain has gotten so good at memorizing the information

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that it's stored in long-term memory and that's what you want on the exam

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so from my personal experience the easiest way to implement space repetition is through this flashcard app called RemNote.

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RemNote is honestly a such a good tool I can link it down in the description I'm not sponsored

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or anything but it's honestly so so powerful

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because it's this flash card app where it basically spaces all

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the cards for you using this concept of the forgetting curve

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so you literally have this all spaced out for you neatly the second thing

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that you could also do is to create a revision calendar

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now I have this revision calendar in my community a star students

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but basically how it works is you schedule your revision days

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out in advance like what subjects you're going to do and what you're going to actually study.

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You do this in advance and what ends up happening is

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that you get a clear big picture of what you're actually going to study in the next week

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or two weeks or three weeks.

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This is honestly so powerful if you're using this the days leading up to an exam

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and automatically when you space your revision out using a revision calendar you're automatically using spaced repetition

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so the second tip that I have for you to combat this leaky brain is

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that you could use something called interleaving so this is what interleaving means

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so I'm going to explain you you

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so I'm going to explain to you what interleaving means in

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a very easy to understand way let's say you have four chapters that you have to study for math.

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What most schools would do is

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that every single time they will go through each chapter they will ask you to practice questions from

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that chapter and that chapter only.

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That is a big mistake because what I found from reading tons of learning books is

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that mixing these topics together is actually much more effective at helping you remember information long term.

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So this is how I used to actually study.

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So chapter one, I would do as many questions on chapter one as possible.

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Then when we would jump to chapter two,

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I would do only questions from chapter two.

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Then I would just repeat that until I finished the entire syllabus.

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Now I realize that that's actually not the best way to do it.

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The best way, and this is according to science,

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is that you mix and match these subjects all together so that when you're studying,

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you're not only studying one subject or one topic at once.

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So what it looks like is that the next time you do a study session,

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you can weave in questions from multiple topics to kind of include in your overall study session.

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So right now you're probably thinking if I need to understand this material,

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I need to get mastery of each topic at a time.

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But let me tell you,

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that's actually a false belief.

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You probably think that doing multiple topics at once is a bad idea.

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But let me tell you,

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yes, it seems like a really bad idea and that,

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oh, you're going to be hopping from one topic to the other topic

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and you'll know what you're going to do and like your brain's going be all scrambled and stuff.

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That's actually a good thing because according to learning science,

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when you mix multiple topics together at once and you try to do them,

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instead of focusing on one topic at a time,

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your brain actually makes connections between these topics.

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So your brain literally makes so many different connections between these topics

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and that's how you actually remember the information and put it into long-term memory much more easily.

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So space repetition is kind of like a tool

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that you can use to put information into long-term memory

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but interleaving is another special tool that you can use to make sure

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that whenever you test yourself you're actually maximizing the amount of information you remember.

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So like this because what because realistically every single time we test ourselves what ends up happening is that

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we don't really go up to 100% it's more like 60

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or 70%

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but I warn you though with this method you're going to

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seem stupid at first you're going to think oh why can't I actually understand this

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but over time I guarantee you the rewards are insanely insanely

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high imagine you're trying to learn how to improve your shooting

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ability in basketball interleaving is like going to multiple different parts of the court

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and actually practicing shooting from many different parts of the basketball court

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and that is probably going to increase your overall shooting ability much more than

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if you just practice shooting free throws for example

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so that's the three core learning principles that will literally help you learn anything

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so fast that people think you're a genius I hope you got tons of value from this video

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and as always may God guide us on the right path and I'll see you in the next video.

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