ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: How to Teach Yourself Anything (The Self-Study Blueprint)

Every skill that you admire in someone else was learned.

They were not born knowing how to go.

They were not born fluent in a second language.

They were not born understanding financial markets or how to design a website or how to fly a plane.

At some point, they sat down and taught themselves or someone else taught them.

But increasingly, and this is the most important part,

the most valuable learning happening right now is self -directed. on someone else's timeline.

And that has its place, all right?

But the skill of being able to pick up any subject, any tool, any domain of knowledge and teach it to yourself from scratch,

that skill will carry you further than any single degree.

Because degrees expire in relevance and the ability to learn does not.

Today I'm going to give you the complete blueprint for teaching yourself anything.

And this is not the generic stuff about being curious or staying consistent.

I'm talking about starting today.

Step one, define what you mean by done and make sure that you do this for yourself before you even start.

This is where most self -learners go wrong immediately.

They decide that they want to learn something and they find some resources.

They start consuming content and three weeks later,

they are still watching tutorials and reading introductions without having actually produced anything or reaching any kinds of milestones.

The problem is that economics, it has no finish line.

Your brain cannot track progress toward a goal that it cannot define.

So it keeps kind of like drifting away.

You watch one more video, you read one more article, you feel like you are learning, but you have actually no evidence that you actually are learning.

So before you open a single resource, answer these two questions.

What will I be able to do when I'm done that I cannot do right now?

And how will I prove it to myself?

So instead of planning to learn Python, web scraper that pulls data from a real website.

Instead of planning to learn photography, the goal could be to shoot and edit 20 photos that I'm proud of enough that I can post them publicly.

If you want to say learn economics, it could be explain the 10 core principles of microeconomics from memory and solve basic supply demand problems.

Now you have a real target and everything that you do

yes or no. And if a resource is not helping you get there, you can drop the resource and instead find a new one that actually does.

Step two is find the right resources without drowning in options.

The internet is full with options these days.

It has an abundance problem, basically.

For any subject that you want to learn, there are hundreds of courses, maybe even thousands of videos and millions of articles.

And most self -learners, they waste their time searching And that search itself becomes a form of procrastination disguised as preparation.

So here's the method that I use and recommend to every student that I coach.

Spend the maximum of one hour finding your resources.

Don't spend one minute more.

And within that hour, do the following.

You search for best free course for insert your topic for beginners.

And look at what happens and appears on Reddit, YouTube, and Quora.

way more reliable than any curated list.

So read three to five responses and you will notice the same two

or three resources showing up repeatedly and those are going to be your starting points.

Then you pick one primary resource and one backup resource.

Your primary resource is the course, the textbook or tutorial series that you will follow from start to finish

and your backup is what you switch to

if the primary one does not really click for you after the first week or it's different resources or courses.

You need one good one and the discipline to follow through with it.

If your subject has a widely recognized free course, then start there.

For programming, there could be some course from a popular uni or free code camp, maybe.

For data science, there are free courses on Kaggle or even courses by Google.

For academic subjects, MIT OpenCourseWare has full university courses available for free, including lectures, problem sets, and exams.

The start doing as fast as possible.

And the thing is, a perfect resource does not exist.

A good resource that you actually complete will always be better than the perfect resource that you leave after three videos, okay?

Step number three is that we need to build our own curriculum.

When you are in school, someone hands you out a syllabus and you have topics like literally sequenced for you.

Deadlines are set, assessments are scheduled, but when you are teaching yourself,

none of that exists, I want you to take your primary resource and map out the full scope of what it covers.

If it's a course, look at the module list.

If it's a textbook, look at the table of content and write down every major topic or unit.

Now, the next step is that you divide those topics across your available timeline.

If your course has 12 modules and you want to finish in six weeks, that is two modules per week.

So block specific days for each module, maybe Monday and Tuesday could be module one, module two and

so on you start to get the idea there's nothing need to be very rigid keep in mind

that life will get in the way

and you will need to adjust from time to time

but having a written plan means

that you always know what to do next you won't have to sit down

and think about oh what am i going to study because

that uncertainty is what often causes people not to learn things

by themselves also add one more element to your curriculum and that is checkpoints every one to where you assess your progress.

Can you explain the concepts you covered this week without looking at your notes?

Can you solve problems or complete exercises related to what you studied?

And if the answer to these questions is yes, then you move on.

But if the answer is no, then you know exactly what you need to revisit before moving forward.

Step number four is use the Feynman technique to find out what you actually understand.

Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning physicist who in simple, clear language.

His approach to learning was built on one single principle.

If you cannot explain something simply, you do not properly understand it.

And the technique that is named after him works like this.

After studying a concept, you put away all of your material, you take a blank piece of paper or open a blank document,

and you explain the concept if you are teaching it to someone who knows absolutely nothing about this topic.

You can also speak language and avoid any kind of jargon or shortcuts.

When you get stuck and when you find yourself unable to explain a step

or a connection or a reason why something works the way it works, you have found the gap in your understanding, the knowledge gap.

So I want you now to go back to your resource, study that specific gap and then try the explanation again.

And this works because of a process that researchers call self -explanation.

A meta -analysis by Bissera

nearly 6 ,000 participants and they found that when learners are prompted to explain concepts in their own words,

their learning outcomes improve with an average effect size of G = 0 .55.

And that is meaningful, consistent effect across different subjects and different age groups.

The reason that these techniques matter so much

when you are learning on your own is that it solves the biggest problem self -learners face.

In a classroom, you have a teacher who will catch you when your understanding is off.

They ask you a question, they give you a half -baked answer, and they push you to think a bit deeper.

But when you are studying by yourself, nobody is doing that for you.

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So you can go weeks thinking you understand something when you actually do not.

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And then the Feynman technique closes that gap.

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It really forces your misunderstanding to the surface before you even have the chance to let them compound over time.

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So if you do this after every major concept that you study, it takes like 5 to 10 minutes.

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hours of confusion at a later stage.

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Now, step number five is I want you to test yourself constantly, even when there is no exam.

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This is the step that most self -learners skip because there's no external pressure to do it.

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Nobody is grading you.

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Nobody is giving you a quiz on Friday.

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So you just keep consuming content and moving forward without ever checking whether you actually learned and retained anything.

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In 2014, a researcher named Christopher Rowland went through almost 59 separate experiments on how people retain information.

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The conclusion across all of them was very consistent.

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Students who tested themselves on the material remembered significantly more than students who just went back

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and read the material again and again.

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And the reason is interesting because when you force your brain to pull something out of your memory, that act of struggling to remember actually makes the memory stronger.

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It is like a muscle.

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The harder the rap, the more growth

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your notes feels productive but your brain is barely working

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and trying to recall those same notes from scratch that is where real learning happens.

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Here's how you can use this to learn better.

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After every study session close your material and write down everything that you can recall from what you just learned.

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Don't look just write and then check it again.

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The difference between what you wrote and what was in the material is again what you need to revisit.

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Kind of similar like the Feynman technique but now you're just like blurting it out and you're really focus on memorizing stuff.

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At the end of every week, give yourself a mini exam.

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Write five to ten questions based on everything that you studied that week and answer them from memory.

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If your course or textbook includes practice problems or quizzes, make sure to do all of them.

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If it does not, then you can always create your own.

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You can use AI to generate practice questions on any given topic in seconds.

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You can just type in, give me ten practice questions on topic at a beginner level, that you get wrong.

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And this list is kind of your personalized study guide because before moving to new material, you want to review the list of your mistakes first.

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And addressing them is the highest valuable use of your study time because you're closing these knowledge gaps, okay?

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Step number six is to stay accountable when nobody is checking in.

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Self -study has a massive problem where people just leave it.

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Most people who start a self -directed learning project abandon it within the first three The reason is simple.

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When there's no teacher, there's no classmate, no grades and no deadline, the only thing keeping you going is internal motivation.

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And internal motivation is pretty unreliable.

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You need external accountability.

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And there are three ways that you could build it.

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The first is a public commitment.

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Tell someone what you are learning and when you plan to finish.

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Post it on social media if that works for you.

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Or tell a friend, a family member or a mentor.

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pressure to follow through with it.

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You're not just letting yourself down if you quit, you're also doing it in front of someone who actually knows you.

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And the second is finding a learning partner.

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Find one other person who is learning something, can be anything, and set a weekly check -in.

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Every Sunday you each send a short message.

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It could be what you studied this week, what you accomplished, what are you working on the next week.

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You don't even need to be studying the same subject, you date.

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And the third one is building a streak.

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This works the same way as I described in a previous video.

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You grab a calendar and every day that you complete your planned study session, you mark it with a big X.

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And after a week, you have a chain of X's.

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And after two weeks, the chain becomes something that you do not want to break anymore.

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And this visual streak creates its own accountability because losing progress feels worse than actually doing the work.

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And research on habit formation new behavior to really start feeling automatic.

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So if you are two weeks into your new study plan, and it still feels like you are dragging yourself to kind of like the desk every single day, that is pretty normal, right?

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You're not failing, you are just early in the process.

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And for the first two months, lean on the external structures, the learning partner, the streak, and the public commitment that you made,

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because they will carry you until the habit is strong enough to start you learn.

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There's a researcher named Michalanne Chi who spent years studying the difference between types of learning activities

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and she found that the deeper you go the more you retain.

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So passively watching a lecture is the weakest form, actively taking notes is better but the strongest form of learning,

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the one that produces the deepest and the most lasting understanding is when you create something new from what you just learned.

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Something that goes beyond what was in the original material more than finishing a course.

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Whatever you are teaching yourself, find a way to build something real with it.

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If you are learning to code, then try building an actual project or a personal website

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or a simple app or a tool that solves a problem that you actually have personally.

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If you are learning photography again, maybe shoot a team photo series and post it.

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If you're learning a language, you could write a short essay in that language or have a 15 -minute conversation with

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post explaining a concept to a non -expert audience such that you can see if you really understand.

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The project does not need to be impressive.

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It needs to be something very real, something that you can point to and say,

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I made this because a finished project proves your knowledge in a way that completing a course can never do.

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The course proves that you watched all of the videos

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and the project that proves that you also understood them and you can implement them.

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Now let me recap steps.

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Define what done looks like before you start.

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Find your resources in under an hour and commit to one primary source.

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Build your own curriculum with a timeline and then some checkpoints.

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Use the Feynman technique of every major concept to find out where you really lack knowledge.

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Test yourself constantly even when nobody is making you make these exams and build external accountability through public commitments,

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learning partners or streaks and finally build subject and any timeline.

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The specific resources change, but the process stays the same.

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And whether you are learning machine learning or learning to cook, the steps are roughly identical.

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Define the target, find the resource, build the plan, explain it, test it, stay accountable, and build something.

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The most successful people that I have coached are not the ones with the most natural ability.

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They are the ones who figured out how to learn on their own because when you can teach yourself anything, you are never stuck.

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And you're never dependent on a to move forward.

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You just learn.

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If you want to learn more about the specific study techniques

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that help you retain what you learn in half of the time, then check out this next video.

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And if you're looking for a study coach or a study partner, then check out the link in the description.

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