these are the six rules that I follow to be a Deans less biomedical engineering student and getting both my bachelor and Masters at the same time not to mention building a business having a social life and creating content which I love to do listen to me very carefully when I say this you are powerful beyond measure but understand that the school experience makes you feel like it's the opposite but I believe that that could be appeased if I teach you how to learn and why school doesn't do this for you I'm not exactly sure so I'll take this on as my responsibility with these six rules I believe that you can make your school experience much more effective and efficient so you have more time to do the things that you actually want to do if you're new here my name is June youu and my goal is to help you reach your full potential in every aspect of life it can be with academics it can be with business it can be with perspective careers relationships you name it I'm here for you so give this video a thumbs up and of course subscribe rule number one start early never let your class time be your first exposure to a topic why well it's because that all the details that are presented to you are going to be irrelevant they're not going to have any meaning they're not going to benefit you in any way they're not going to interest you in anyway so how would you be able to stay engaged with that content that's why you're dozing off of course you're dozing off because to you you think yeah this is just a lot of information yeah I don't even understand what part of this is important and I'm just going to check out at this point and that's not what I want you to have I want you to be able to leave your class actually effectively understanding the material so what can we do we can Prime and it's called priming because we're priming our brains we're preparing our brains to be able to absorb information effectively in class so how do we do this you can skim resources ahead of time that pertain to the topic that you know is going to be covered based on your syllabus so in other words perhaps you have a textbook perhaps you have the presentation slides ahead of time perhaps you have an external Source like an online module whatever pertains to that topic You're simply going to skim them skim is the key word here you're not going to try and learn the material before you get into class completely because then you're just doubling on your time you don't need to do that but here all you're trying to do is understand the big picture of the topic why well it's because then when you go to class the details are then relevant to you they have meaning to you they have a function in that big picture and that's how you can stay engaged with the content you actually have the ability then to think to yourself yeah this information is really crucial because I saw it be repeated a ton in the prior res source that I was looking at or perhaps this information does not pertain to the top at all and the teachers just going overboard here so you have the ability to better discern when you're in class and also be able to connect those details to the big picture allowing you to absorb information effectively and efficiently so start early rule number two prioritize rest neuroplasticity AKA how we learn is broken up into two phases the first one is deep focused but the second one which goes Overlook too many times is deep rest the memory consolidation that happens the rewiring of the neurons happens in phase two so if you only focus on maximizing each of your study sessions but then fail to prioritize the rest afterwards you are missing a huge component of the entire process of neuroplasticity a great example that illustrates this issue is if you've ever crammed perhaps you did well on the exam especially if you were in an easy class or it was in high school where there were more regurgitation questions that didn't require deeper comprehension so you were able to get away with surface level study but if you think about that situation how much of that content do you remember after the exam was over knowing that information builds perhaps it was a unit test earlier on in the year and then you had your midterm and your final how much of that did you have to revisit probably all of it or probably majority of it why because the consolidation never happened right or you weren't optimizing the process and that's why it's so important for us to be able to ensure that we're prioritizing our rest afterwards especially if we're learning a lot of material throughout our revision ensure that you are getting your 9 hours of rest afterwards and then you may be saying June but it it's so hard because there's so much information to review right before mikeam and I would say perhaps there are better ways that we can optimize your Learning System ahead of time are there ways for us to integrate space repetition inter leaving within your revision timetables along with your priming more effective inclass notes along with your post class immediate review and your revision strategies with active recall I think that there are and I think if you're able to do those things you're able to ensure that you aren't cramming last minute that you don't have to pull on ners and all of this type of habits that you can instill in yourself as a student will allow you to make this process much more effective and efficient before we move into the remainder of the rules I want to preface it by saying that these rules are specific to academics but we understand that self-growth pertains to many areas of Our Lives if we want to be the best versions of ourselves now I have an opportunity to be able to do this in the most interactive and in-depth way than ever before and it's through the winning formula for self-growth this is my new online community and mentorship program that we've been working on for a very long time along with over 50 educational classes and templates and 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the video rule number number three no bad notes so what constitutes bad notes it's when there is no active engagement it's when there is no meaningful learning occurring it's when we write in verbatim What the professor had just said just because you had gotten it down on paper doesn't mean that it actually processed up here where it matters right now I bet if you were to recall one of your favorite classes in the past that there would be material that you would be able to even today be tested on and know the answered to that you had just such an active engagement with it because the information was relevant to you that you didn't even need to note it down right and that's possible because learning doesn't happen on that piece of paper but it allows you then to think what can we do in our notes to then facilitate the process of learning I think that there are three main ways that we can do this the first way is through a diagram in which you can actively make connections between Concepts knowing that our brain's ability to deeply understand information then remember it is in hand when they are more relevant connections this is your opportunity to visualize them all in one spot the second way to do this is through key observations that leverage the hypercorrection effect the hyper correction effect states that we have a tendency to learn better when we're corrected on an answer versus if we had gotten it correct the first time around so during our priming stage we had skimmed those resources and we were subconsciously making assumptions because we don't have all the details we were actively filling in the gaps based on our prior knowledge which is good and perhaps you also also had utilized a preest during the stage as well now some of those assumptions along with some of those questions during your preest you would have gotten wrong and that's okay because then you have the ability to leverage that hyper correction effect here so it's your opportunity to note down things during the priming stage that you thought you knew or the things that you thought you got right but perhaps you were fixed on so this is your opportunity to note down those key observations based on those areas that you were corrected on and it allows you to further actively engage with the material that's presented to you in class the third way and probably my favorite way are with active recall questions that you are creating in real time this is your opportunity to take an additional step into the teacher's mind and ask yourself how can this information be tested why is this information important how is this information relevant to the material that we've learned before in what types of applications or examples or scenarios can this information be tested in and having that opportunity to take that step really allows you to actively engage with that material so that's another way for you to be able to actually have meaning learning occur and also what that list of active recall questions will do for you is provide you the best review sheet immediately after class you can go over those active recall questions trying to freely recall the information based on what you had just learned in class and you have the opportunity here to scope down what are your strengths and what are your weaknesses so you can start to consolidate the information that you got right and then be able to scope down on your weaknesses for further Revision in the future this is how you do it effectively and efficiently rule number four test yourself constantly this is our opportunity to further lean into the benefits of active recall and we know that that is one of the techniques that are so well supported across literature now we can do this throughout our revisions through strategies like the bluring method the fing technique along with practice tests and the use of a study buddy as well but we now saw that you can do it during a priming stage if you were to use pre-test questions or you can do it in class with your active recall questions that we just spoke about but here I want to talk about why we're doing this and why it's so important to implement active recall constantly throughout our revision timetable well it's because because it allows us to accurately identify gaps of knowledge what do I mean by this too many times we look at Material see that some of it is familiar and then fall under the false impression that we actually know the content only to be tested on the information and not be able to answer especially as you get into higher education and your questions aren't regurgitation questions but instead requires you to be able to analyze situations be able to compare and contrast to be able to further synthesize new knowledge all of those deeper comprehension questions require you to actually know the information inside and out now if you passively go about your material that's where you get caught but in order to be the best student you should be testing yourself constantly so that you can consolidate the information that you do know but be able to further scope down the material that you don't know so as you get closer to your exam you can focus your attention more on those areas and that's how you're able to be approaching revisions a lot more efficiently than if you were to think to yourself because I'm revising for X topic I have to review all of the material for X topic when in reality there's going to be some of that content that you do know well but it's your time now to focus on those areas of weakness and you can only do that if you're constantly testing yourself throughout your vision time table rule number five spacing we just spoke about how it's so important for us to test ourselves with active recall constantly but practically what does that look like well it's with space repetition that we can integrate within ourvision Tim tables iring house had discovered the forgetting curve which showed that us as human beings we rapidly forget information almost immediately upon learning it the best way to combat this is through space repetition practically what this will look like is for us to have shorter intervals between study sessions while the material is still new and then wider intervals when the material becomes a little bit more familiar and then you might be asking yourself right now June how is this possible how do you expect me to revise this many times when I'm already so busy well you have to remember that each subsequence session you will have higher Baseline knowledge because you wouldn't have forgotten the information in other words you weren't spending as much time within those subsequent sessions moreover you'll be saving yourself a ton of time because if you don't approach it with space repetition likely you'll have to cramp for it for days ahead of your exam instead if you implement space repetition with active recall properly before your exams you are perhaps doing a short review but that's all you need instead of learning that material from scratch my history teacher in high school actually emphasized this point so many times that it's fully ingrained in my mind he would always say June get touches on the material don't think about spending hours within each session just focus on a specific topic and thinking that that's enough instead what you have to do is you have effective but shorter sessions and then knowing that you can spread it across through space repetition what I used to do was what my history teacher was telling me not to do which was spend those hours in each of those sessions and then the next day within a week I would lose all that information and I have to start from scratch right before exams don't let that be you utilize space repetition rule number six just five minutes think about how much more efficient we would be as students if we stopped procrastinating all together you see whenever the topic of procrastination comes when I'm speaking to somebody that I'm mentoring I always try to address the root problem you see procrastination rarely happens because the task is overwhelming in and of itself instead there is underlying emotion tied to that task that we're actively running away from so perhaps you are a perfectionist and you're afraid of messing up the work so you are procrastinating your opportunity to go back to it perhaps you are feeling a sense of guilt because you are a leader of a team and you've been late on a piece of work and because of that you've let other people down now you don't return to that work there's some sort of underlying emotion that's tied to that task so then what is the remedy it's for us to reduce the initial friction of that task to the best of our ability and we do that by utilizing techniques such as the 5 minute Rule now the 5 minute rule states that you will commit to work for just 5 minutes before deciding whether or not to continue now what does this do for us mentally instead of thinking to ourselves hey I'm going to study for 3 or 4 hours today because I have an exam tomorrow instead of saying that what you can say to yourself is I am just going to commit to 5 minutes 5 minutes I can do 5 minutes anybody can do 5 minutes but what happens a lot of times Well in the 5 minutes I would have opened up my computer opened up the assignments opened up the review content material I would have gotten my learning system book out and I would start to dismantle some of those perceived complexities what do I mean by perceived complexities I mean that when we are procrastinating what happens a lot of times is that we start to create these artificial complexities we start to think that something is harder or more complex than it actually is but once we get started we realize yeah it's actually not that difficult it's not that complex you know what I can do this and 5 minutes sometimes is all that it takes so yes are there moments perhaps two out of 10 times where I don't continue that's fine take a second go and do something else for a little bit and then revert back to the 5 minute rule eventually you'll be able I pass that first five minutes you'll be able to build momentum in the right direction and then build confidence because you've been able to stick to your promise long after the commitment that you originally set that promise in so it's a great way to really lower the expectation for yourself and make it easier for you to pursue whatever study session that you're looking to do with that being said that wraps up the six rules that I believe will help you make your learning experience much more effective and efficient and whenever we can rely on a systematic approach whether it's through these habits or whether it's through the learning system with the four stages in previous videos that we've discussed it allows you to build so much more confidence as you go from chaos to Clarity it allows you to have focus on what exactly you need to do it allows you to then put your tension effort matter so you're able to extract from those experiences to the best that you can possibly do it at so I believe that this is your next step to hopefully being able to get the most out of your classes to be able to get the most out of all of your learning experiences if you like this video give this video a thumbs up if you had any questions leave them below [Music] no