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How To Easily Learn Hard Topics - STOP Thinking You're Not Smart!
Learning how to learn and learning how to motivate ourselves to master the hard topics is what creates a gap between the highest performers who come first and everybody else. The problem is no one ever really teaches us how to study.
In this video I dive into how to teach yourself by making any hard topic interesting and driving curiosity to learn more. I break down exactly how I teach myself to learn difficult things (step by step, using an example)
To help you learn hard things I go into how to improve encoding and optimise for active recall and spacing when learning to make hard topics easy to learn.
#activerecall #encoding #studying
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0:00 - Intro
01:40 - Make It Relevant and Personal
06:31 - Get Curious
08:19 - Chunk and Focus
10:01 - Active Recall and Spacing
12:14 - Be Kind and Go Again
13:50 - Using This For Non-Medical Topics
14:43 - There Are No Hard Topics
//WHO I AM
👨⚕️ Dr Alex Young
Hey I'm Alex, I'm a surgeon and the founder and CEO of a few ed-tech companies and I'm obsessed with human performance, learning and productivity. I also write for Entrepreneur and Forbes and invest in early stage companies with a focus on education technology and health technology sectors.
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How To Easily Learn Hard Topics - STOP Thinking You're Not Smart!
Learning how to learn and learning how to motivate ourselves to master the hard topics is what creates a gap between the highest performers who come first and everybody else. The problem is no one ever really teaches us how to study.
In this video I dive into how to teach yourself by making any hard topic interesting and driving curiosity to learn more. I break down exactly how I teach myself to learn difficult things (step by step, using an example)
To help you learn hard things I go into how to improve encoding and optimise for active recall and spacing when learning to make hard topics easy to learn.
#activerecall #encoding #studying
// LEARN MORE
blog.alexanderfyoung.com/how-to-easily-learn-difficult-things
// BLOG
🌍 blog.alexanderfyoung.com
// NEWSLETTER
📰 join.alexanderfyoung.com
// FOLLOW ME
@alexanderfyoung
🐦 twitter.com/alexanderfyoung
📸 instagram.com/alexanderfyoung
// MY BUSINESS
@VirtiLabs
🎮 virti.com
// CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
01:40 - Make It Relevant and Personal
06:31 - Get Curious
08:19 - Chunk and Focus
10:01 - Active Recall and Spacing
12:14 - Be Kind and Go Again
13:50 - Using This For Non-Medical Topics
14:43 - There Are No Hard Topics
//WHO I AM
👨⚕️ Dr Alex Young
Hey I'm Alex, I'm a surgeon and the founder and CEO of a few ed-tech companies and I'm obsessed with human performance, learning and productivity. I also write for Entrepreneur and Forbes and invest in early stage companies with a focus on education technology and health technology sectors.
#alexyoung
// MUSIC
🎵 epidemicsound.com/referral/q4zcfg










