Stress-free Effective Learning for Adults

1. Introduction: How would you feel if you learn faster? Has more time to enjoy things that really matter in life. Hi, this is Dr. Marcella, founder of inspiring personal growth. I will be your instructor in this course. I am an ACC, ICS certified lab coat and I hold a PhD in medical imaging. Additionally, I am at Taekwondo, black belt, just player, drummer, dancer. And there are a few more things that I'm learning. During my learning journey. I have been obsessed with efficient learning for about 20 years. And this is why this class is here. Within the course. I will teach you how to learn and get your test done in an engaging way, but will skyrocket your productivity. We will first talk about dumping the tasks of your head. We will graph your study guide, a private highway from instructor recommendation to master this haptic. Following, we will talk about using the time on because effectively. Last, we will put special emphasis into protecting your focus. After completing the course, you will have a structured learning framework that will serve for life. Although this course has a main focus on working professionals and students, I would dare to say that it will greatly benefit everybody who wants to get ahead in their professional and personal life. No prior knowledge is required, only openness to explore new things. The class materials are accompanied by a course project. The course project consists of different assignments that will allow you to integrate the highly efficient tools into your toolbox. What are you waiting for becoming a super learner today? I am so excited to bring you on this journey. Let's get started. 2. The Stress-Free Effective Learning Model: Hi everybody. I wish that you've started a course at 100 per cent with the intention of really making a difference to your life. I select coat. A very important part of my job is accountability. Disease. Who is going to be the witness of the change within this journey. You can think of somebody just give him or her a call or send the message explaining what you really want to get, that you really want to get productive and perhaps invite that person to see your assignments. It usually works really well if the person is somebody by your side, but do not hesitate sending messages to me. Also, explain what you felt doing the assignments and how you felt while you were doing them. In this video, I present you with a stress-free effective learning model. I created this model so that you are able to identify how you're doing in the different areas of human learning. It's chapter of the course will work in each one of these areas. So that by the end of the course, we have a clear way of measuring your progress. Don't stress if you feel you didn't reach where you want it to be at the end. Some of the techniques require practice. Sometimes it is worth picking one or two techniques at the time until they are really in your toolbox. Just come back. If you need to re-watch the videos or send me an email, I will be happy to clarify or provide you with extra pointers. The different areas are clarity, Energy, Information quality, study strategies. In the diagram, you can see how each of these areas has five levels. Level zero or empty would mean that you really feel that you are not doing well. Then on the other side, the last level, level four or all of the areas fully painted would mean that you believe that the need to improve on that area. Now it is your turn. Right after this video, you have a PDF with the stress-free effective learning model template. Print it, or do it digitally. Filling in the level you think you are at. At the end of the course, we're going to review it and clearly see your amazing progress. Why do I think this is important? Again? These techniques can be explained under amino teach. Yet, having heard that technique and having implemented it and having it now under your toolbox is very different. With this, I want to make sure to work with you so that you leave this course with the tools under your belt. I want to take the opportunity here to emphasize the thanks to you. This is a large community of people who want to be very efficient and productive. So I would encourage you to interact with each other and share information. Also, of course, you can send me questions at any point about anything. So now let's crush it. 3. Chapter 1 - How to use: In this section, I would like to introduce the way I think the course is best used. One of the most important things to recognize is if everybody is different. So I don't expect you to really use all the material of the course. I would love you to be open to new possibilities and try them out with curiosity and energy. You will probably find some parts of the course more interesting and others not so much so quickly or skip them. However, it is often the case that the things that one's gifts, other ones that one needs to focus more deeply or make a note, perhaps tried to come a bit later in time. This course is mainly oriented generally for both publics. I got to meet students, but also people who are stabbing while working. You will see examples oriented to working people, but also examples for students. Think about your own situation and how the example would relate to you. As I believe learning is a vital skill for achieving your goals. I wouldn't dare to say that this course will help anybody who is determined to achieve what they want. Without further ado. Let's perk it. 4. Chapter 1 - Motivation: Motivation. In this chapter, I will introduce a set of tools that will allow you to expand your toolbox. While reducing your stress. Every person is different. What works for some people? It doesn't work for others. Therefore, I would really encourage you not to blindly trust what I'm saying. It might sound strange, but I really mean it, right? But tried hard and see if it works and then adapt it to your own needs. Whatever they want is for you to be productive. It is of no use. If someone techniques are not working for you as it would be wasting your time. Having said that, this is a collection of techniques taken from different places which have helped many people be more productive and could help me to do. 5. Chapter 1 - Priorities: Priorities. Now we have a bunch of, um, prioritize and other tasks that have been coming to our list. We have accumulated them during the day, but not every task is equally important. There are tasks that are more important than others. Priority. This is an important aspect. Let us organize now those tasks by priority. In this system, we have four squares in the rows. We have importance. In the columns. We have urgency. Important, urgent, important, not urgent, not important, urgent and not important, not Virgin. First, let's examine the top left cell. Important origin. This is something that we care about and expressing. Therefore, it should be done first. In the top right cell. That is important, not origin. Those are things that should be done but are not urgent. For example, exercising could be in the cell. We might consider an accessing on a daily basis important. However, if we do not do it, the will does not. Then in the bottom left, there is not important and urgent. Those are things that we really should avoid doing. Things that are not important to us. Yet that somebody has imposed some sense of urgency on them. Here we should be asking to ourselves, can we delegate them? The last one is pretty self-explanatory. At the same time, it's one of the hardest ones to recognize that something is important. It's relatively easy to let go of something which might not be as important. Sometimes I have experienced some resistance to do it. However, when we let go of things that are not important and not urgent, we can get much more bone of what really matters to us. As the technique goes. You would place every task in itself. However, we will do something a little bit different. The reason is that we want to make it work with our list system. We will identify each category with a symbol. We will consider the exclamation mark plus important origin, an asterisk as important, not urgent and not important. Urgent. Not important and not urgent. Okay, let's start with an example by looking at the task list. The first one, take the character pair. Well that's important and urgent. So we left hand side. Then the family dinner preparation. That's important, but it's not a surgeon in a few days. So the same thing for her mom's favorite dish that's included in the meal. The papers are flat. They are also important, but they are also not very origin. It can be done by the new notebook. And that's something really important. And it's urgent because they all one thing the computer and give rise was the computer antivirus. I mean, it can be postponed. It's not as important. So bear maths, bath for Tuesday, it's important and it's urgent. So let's give it the appropriate priority. Then. Look for new food Bush's from Mark. This is important, but it's not as urgent. All 1s still serve it with Maria. It's been a long time. She hasn't seen her, So it will be nice. It's then important for her, but it's not as urgent. These accounting course and nice. She doesn't do it tomorrow. I mean, she will be fine. Then. The meeting last Friday, this was something which would be really good to write down because otherwise you will forget. So it is important and also origin. The school teacher said that the boys made me a new group and that's something that has to be done right away. Otherwise they wouldn't they wouldn't be able to use book the 25th of April and there is a credit exam. So that has to be this task done on preparing for the 24. So this is important and exerting whenever it arrives. So we better think about putting it in some calendar. And the last one, I mean, the timpani is there has to be cleaned. It's not as important and also it's not as urgent. Now, this is a small leaves. Usually you will find that this list is way longer. Well, just go through it and give it the appropriate priority. And you'll see how even some tasks can be removed. The exercises for this point is to read your tasks according to the priority. You give them. Important, urgent, important, not urgent, not important, urgent and not important and not urgent. Good luck. 6. Chapter 1 - The Actionable Tasks List: The actionable tasks list. We now have an unordered list of tasks. However, this tasks may be very abstract. They might just be IBS. The following technique consists of separating the strategy and the action. We will take each one of the tasks and split it into smaller tasks that are well-defined, specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. If you take the first letter of all the previous attributes, you get smart, which is the name of this strategy. Smart goals. Let's see how those that we read should be a little bit more detailed. Specific, you need to be able to explain the goal to a five-year-old. Measurable when you know, when you complete it, it can you measure that? We should be able to put a number from 0 to ten? Achievable. Is this something you can realistically achieve? Relevant, that matters to you, that is aligned with your goals and time-bound it. There is a saying that the difference between a dream and a goal is that the goal has a completion date. Ideally, it should be accomplished within approximately 45-minute. For example, say that we broke down in our tasks list and abstract asked, Matt gave us some work to do which is damped. It didn't even bother to specify it because we knew we are now going to do it. We split the task into smaller subtasks. It would look like this. Read Article One, 30 minutes. Read Article Two, 30 minutes. With Article 330 minutes, create a blackboard for the five-minutes. I'm correct. The blip first 15 minutes. All these tests are very specific as they are easy to understand. We are measurable, as we can quickly say when they are done. They are also achievable as we're confident that we can do them. The irrelevant at this task. In particular, let's say that contributes to our base knowledge. Your time bounded, which is determine how much time they will take. Why is this so important? Well, there's a great deal of energy is planning and strategizing. If that is done, then we remove the stress out of it. And we're now left with actionable items, items in which we can directly take action on. No questions to be asked. Not that those tasks need to be as small as 45-minute. Let you know that no matter how hard the task seems, it ends soon. If not finished, then we will run it for later another day. But you will get your coffee or tea break, at least. As we keep taking abstract tasks and creating concrete specific small tasks, we will pass them to a second list. This is called the actionable tasks list. But before, let's take a moment to see the two-minute rule. The two-minute rule says that if there is a task that will take you less than two minutes to complete, stop and do it right now. Okay, in this example, we will take a look at the different lists. The task list, actionable tasks list. We're going to pass things from the test list with actionable task three is dividing them into steps that can be done in less than 45 minutes. First of all, take the character repair. So this is a test that can be done right away. Lean less than 45-minute. Just take the car so we'll pass it directly. Then the family dinner preparation. Well, this task, we can see that it can already be divided in at least two tasks. First, the grocery shopping. Then also we have to think about what Dubai. Now let's see. We can also kind of fears it with preparing her mom's favorite beach. Because we have to think about the ingredients, right? So we can think about it. We do grocery shopping as well. Also, we need to sketch and the cooking in the calendar. Now we can achieve the two tasks from the other list. Next, the paper of flood. Well, those can be separated into filling the forms 12 and then go and submit the forms. Okay. We can already active with us then as we have it in the actionable tasks list. Now, by the new notebook. I mean, this is something that has to be done. Go and buy the netbook. So let's pass it. To compute the antivirals expired. This will pass directly, but let's see if her brother can do it so we can sit here, cobra them. Prepare matchbox for Tuesday. Well, it just preparing it and also look for the new for Bush's from Mark. That's just doing it. Awesome. Maria. Just go on me, her nothing more. So we can pass it directly. The accounting course, since Nice. Well, we can split this one into C if the course is affordable. And then look at other courses. Maybe there are better ones. And also see the reviews for this course. What people say about it, is it worth doing? And then we can also take this time. There is a spelling mistake in Friday. Let's correct it. Okay. Mid last Friday. So these information has to be passed or processed. So let's just process it is less than 45-minute. Also, need the book which has gone by and it won't be for April, prepare him on a car out there. Well, this is something that can be done scheduling the calendar, right? So let's write here for the governor is dirty, clean it in there. Well, this is something that will be done the last, but we'll leave it here directly. It's less than 45 minutes. Here we have passed all tasks from the test list to the action of his death. This has the advantage that now we don't have to think about it. It just actions that we need to take and they are split it in less than 45 minutes. Exercise. Break down the tasks Europe done for today in subtasks, put them into your actionable tasks list. 7. Chapter 1 - The monthly and weekly tasks list: The monthly and weekly tasks list. Now that we have our list of actionable tasks, and we have been able to sort them by priority. Let us know, create the monthly tasks list. So how much of what you have in the previous list and you're going to be able to do this month. Let's throw a couple of numbers into the mix. As an example, Katie has two hours per day. She can span afterwards doing all her tasks. Then she always leaves time to relax and watch Netflix. On the weekends. She does not work, so she could dedicate four hours. Now. She's left with two hours in five days plus four hours in today's, which amounts to a total of 18 hours per week. This would be around 72 hours per month, approximately to go towards her goals. Now it is time to move all the tasks that have enough priority to be done this month to the monthly tasks list. If you look at it from the top, aren't you amazed by how much you are going to get done this month? Because the thing is with this system, you can set it there, it will happen. Now. Two of them on the tasks. Let us create another list. This list will be shorter than one. A weekly task list. Why do we need this one? Well, it encapsulates what is going to happen during the week. We see an amount of tasks we can quickly foresee that are realistic to complete. And we do not get overwhelmed by the amount of tasks to be accomplished in the hormone. Similarly as before, let's do some numbers. We actually did them before for Katie. In fact, we said that between weekdays and weekends, she has two hours for five days plus four hours into days. This amounts to a total of 18 hours per week. Now, take the monthly tasks list and decide what is going to happen this week. If precise, create your monthly task list. Then from that, create your weekly tasks list. The previous videos, this because in reality you would have the actionable tasks list very, very full. This is all tasks that went into your head that then were broken down into subtasks of less than 45 minutes. And that fulfill the smart pattern. So you will see a lot of tasks, they're now out of those tasks. We need to transfer them into the different lists. For the sake of simplifying this example, let's assume that Katie has 20 hours per month to do things and five hours per week. So in this case, we're going to start passing tasks from the actionable tasks leads to the monthly task list, which cover approximately this 20 hours. Let's see. First of all, we need to add the ones that are important and urgent. Therefore, All of them, All the ones that we see Go there are some neat address. Need photos. What else? All of them. Also fill in forms 12. But wait, we forgot some by new notebook. Then. What does this ones are also important in Argentina. So let's get them. They're both me and the book. Now I think there's all the other ones are already Maybe not urgent. Now called Brother is something fast to do so we can include it as well. It will not take 45 minutes, maybe it takes five or ten. Then we can also include the grocery shopping and think about what to buy. Maybe this is something important to month scheduling, calendar called photographer. This is also something there are a few faster leaving the company, but maybe it's not the time now. But maybe with Maria seems like a good idea. Also, looking for the new fruit bushes for Mark is important. And buying the new headphones. That's something relatively quick. Also relating with the course, she's interested in studying this area here as well, and clean the fridge. But she realizes that this is something actually important and also origins, she doesn't like the feeling of having the Verde, so yeah, let's tend to the priority. Okay. Now we have about 20 tasks, maybe a couple of more that are smaller, but that's okay. Now, we need to pass them from the monthly task list this week. So take the cat to repair the ones that are important and urgent not going to expire. So binding netbook by new headphones for the, for the past four on paper came on and it's forgotten. The book of the voice. So that's six hours more or less, maybe a little bit less. Which is what we said, that you can spend a week, also called rather it's something really fast. So it's going to be included there. And cleaning the freight is something which is clearly important and has to be done. Also, she realizes that there's an important task which is preparing meds back for Tuesday, happens on Tuesday, so it's important to array this week. This is about it. We have a list of actually nine tasks of which a couple of three of them are quite fast. So it would be actually six tasks which are relatively weak and three meter, but it's moles in total. We hope that will be around five hours. If it's more than she has to read. Just, there's this kind of self-learning that you do by analyzing the tasks that you have at hand and seeing how much time it takes you. At the end, you'll learn to adjust your cells to kill the five hours you have. However she looks at the best leaves now, I'm going to tell us is at least makes sense and that she actually can do everything in the weekly that leaf this week. Exercise. Create your monthly tasks list. Then from that, create a weekly tasks list. 8. Chapter 1 - Conquer your day: Now that you have these very organized system in place, we need to focus on the daily action, conquering your day. This all works with the assumption that tasks get done on a daily basis. If not, the organization is worth nothing. Therefore, we're going to go a step ahead here and define what do we want to get done for the day. You can pick a good time during the day for you. For me, it's always having my morning coffee. If the planet is revving, then the stress of not knowing what to do disappears. There are no decisions to take action. There is a lot of clarity. And this one uses massively stress levels. We know Katie has two hours during the day. So let's pull it that we want to get done today Here. I am not a big fan of rigidly adding things in a sketch. You need to answer account for errors in our planning. Life, is life unexpected? Things happen. We might suddenly need to do something origin and shift our planning. That is okay. We just move it around. But we need to control over what is happening. If this happens every day, you're not following what you consider important, then this is something to be examined closer. In this case, you might consider brave decisions still holds. Or maybe if not all tasks are being included. As maybe there are more, are more priority to things as you're considering your head that are not on paper. As you get your daily tasks done at the mountain that needs to get the dopamine dose, that will get you ready for the next one. Continuing with the example of Katie, she pulled the tasks from the weekday lease to the daily list. Today, she's going to accomplish four things. She's going to prepare the football back. Then she's going to watch the chemo take the car to repair. Then this one last aspect came up suddenly, which is urgent and important by Millikan cereals. Then she can ask herself, accomplishing these realistic for today. The answer is yes. She can complete this during day. Exercise. Read your plan to conquer your day. Which dust from the week list are you going to accomplish today? How much time do they take? How many actionable tasks that you get done? 9. Chapter 1 - A day to reflect: The actionable tasks list. This is a very important subject. We want to get many things done. Yet sometimes as mentioned before, things go off, rains, emergencies, special situations, or just lack of energy might happen. We are humans. And this is perfectly okay as the system is designed to get us things done while allowing us to be nice to ourselves, to have control over how things are going. We need this one day where we set aside 15 minutes to review what is going on for me. That is Sunday morning and Starbucks, which there is for you On that day, focused on finding how different what you said you would do and what you actually did this. Also, you may want to correct the errors in your planning. For example, things you thought were actionable that need further splitting into smaller chunks, then reiterate and place them in the current lists. Exercise. Reflect on the outcome of your day. How different is what you thought you would do and what you actually need. 10. Chapter 1 - Summary: Now that you have these very organized system in place, bunkering your day. This all works with the assumption that tasks get done on a daily basis. If not, the organization is worth nothing. Therefore, we're going to go a step ahead here and define what do we want to get done for the day. You can pick a good time during the day for you. For me, it's always having my morning coffee. If the planet is revving, then the stress of not knowing what to do disappears. There are no decisions to take action. There is a lot of clarity. And these are these massively stress levels. Okay, class two hours during the day. So let's put it as we want to get done today Here. I am not a fan of rigidly adding things in a schedule. We need to answer account correct. 11. Chapter 2 - Motivation: Motivation. Nowadays, we have millions of information sources on the Internet. I need to find a way of making sense of some content. This is a very unstructured way of having the information. And thus, it will be very inefficient to study and memorize. Even when you have a textbook, the organization of the material, many times it's not the most efficient for you. In order to be more efficient. Pida is to actively craft your own study guide. This will be a summary of the concepts understood by you in your own way. Expressed by you in your own way. Understanding is simpler. We're going to expect you memorizing is simpler. In essence, this will help you in doing the material more and make deeper connections with other parts. Apart from understanding concepts, this guy will help you glue them together. And finally do the memorization and reviews, which we will DO town in the chapter. Using time on recalls efficiently. 12. Chapter 2 - Crafting the study guide: Crafting the guide. The guide will consist of a mind map of the material and a summary. Let's now talk about how to build a summary. Later we'll talk about how to build them up. On it. We will have three types of Heather highlighted in blue, the main header highlighted in purple or pink, the sub header and the details, Heather is highlighted in green. Dunmore, three levels of granularity. We will start reading the material to first understand it. When we understand it, we will create our own headers and summarize the information within the three levels of detail. This will give us a complete and very personalized map of the material to be studied, which then will be rehearsed and memorize much easily. Exercise. Pick a subject of interest and grab your study guides. Highlight headers, subheaders, and B Bill headers. As previously explained. 13. Chapter 2 - Build an eagle's view: Build an eagles bill. After carefully creating our guide, we will start crafting our map. The subject will be in the center. We will spread branches from it. The branch levels will coincide with the Heather's with it in our study guide. Also their color. This type of maps are usually known as mindmaps. Introduced by turning this on, check him out. He does very entertaining maps, which look amazing. Here are just a couple of examples. To design a mindmap. Let your creativity flow. You can do a quick one just with unnecessary words and colors to connect ideas or spend a little more time and make something nicer. There's no right or wrong here. The more sensory and condom it has, the easier you will commit it to memory. Experiment. Tries to make a quick one or more elaborate one and see which ones sticks better and it's more fun to make and work with. Remember, what makes study efficient for you is what counts. After this section, there is a proposal assignment. Essentially, it consists in building a mind map of the course. Just to practice. Here we have this solution. This is my solution. Your solution will be probably different, but it will be nice to share with us. Let's see. In the center, we find stress-free effective learning for all those crusher goals. The title of the course in the middle, right? Then we start branching the first and starting clockwise is done the tasks of your head, then more nutrition and exercise. Crafting your study guide. Use times and recall effectively unfocused. And we can see that from each one of these parts, there are sub branches of each one of the points and then the tail branches which are in green. What's your solution? I'd love to see it. When your husband material tried to talk about the topic only from the mind-map. And when you get stuck, go back and reread the study guide. You think that material is not well-structured, the intended, it's yours. Once you are able to try to explain it as if you were teaching somebody with very simple words. If you have somebody nearby, you can try that. If not, try to record yourself, you will be surprised how much it is covered. You don't know well recording yourself. There is a quote from Einstein which says that if you can explain it in simple words, you didn't really understand it. Exercise, take the study guide you made in the last video and create a mind map from it. Remember, they have a color should match the study guide gets creative. Shading with our students. 14. Chapter 2 - Summary: In this chapter, we crafted our study guide. We learned how to make a very customized summary with Heather's and detail. Then we'd have learned to sit the material from an eagle spiel by creating a mind map, a visual representation that thinks all the materials in a visual form. See you in the next chapter. 15. Chapter 3 - Motivation: Motivation. Okay, We have done our study guide, understood the content, and we are now ready to study and committal information to memory. We would like to commit to at least short or minute and memory. But ideally, we would love to be able to commit it to long term memory so that we can remember not only now, but in a few years. So how do we do it? There are many different techniques that can be used to do that. However, there are some basic principles and techniques which have been shown to perform very well in general. In this chapter, I will teach you the different principles and methods to use time effectively while reducing stress and enjoying more your study sessions. I will start by discussing the effects of distraction free study sessions. Then I will talk about tiredness and the effectiveness of working in a sub-optimal state. This will lead us directly into the next technique, which is called the Pomodoro Technique, which optimizes risk for shorter, yet more effective study sessions. Then we will jump to memorization methods as means of retaining the material. In particular to In possible associations and the men that ballast. From there. We will examine the Feynman technique when we talk about recalls. Let's go for it. 16. Chapter 3 - Controlling Procrastination: How many hours can you study in a day? What happens if you studied 12 hours every day? It seems reasonable to think that the more you progress, the more you will learn. But hey, we're humans and we get tired. In fact, if you study all day and all night, you will probably be destroyed the next day and have accomplished not as much as you would expect. In fact, probably not much at all. You will start fresh, accomplished quite a lot, but without rest, you will quickly be exhausted and your efficiency will drop drastically. Why is it efficiency important? What if I would tell you that stabbing only four to five hours, you can accomplish the same as stabbing eight. What if I told you that maybe even more? Let's challenge your beliefs a bit here. And suppose that this is true. Would you take it? Would you continue studying for eight hours? Cal Newport talks very much about this idea in his book, Deep Work, which I strongly recommend reading. As we study, there will be a moment where we will start feeling tired. From this moment, the efficiency will be massively reduced and always study afterwards will be much slower and painful. We can undo it a bit. But is it really worth it? In my opinion, not much. So how much time should we study everyday? For hours is already a huge amount of time. If we do that, not only will we be happier as we study and suffer less, we will be able to create a habit more easily beat procrastination, and integrate the material into our day-to-day lives. Exercise. Think about a period where you had to study for a lot of hours. For example, say 12 hours in a day. Then try to reflect if in any other period of your life you did study for four hours and during three days, for example, what fell more difficult? What was easier? What do you feel would be ideal for following a continuous location? 17. Chapter 3 - The pomodoro technique: The Pomodoro Technique. The Pomodoro technique is called after a type of kitchen count down alarm used in Italy. A funny anecdote is that in Spain, where I am from, this kind of alarms have the shape of an egg instead. Vector technique. The main goal of the Pomodoro technique is to optimize the time that you're studying so that the efficiency is maximum. This is done by controlling the rest periods. In particular, it consists of different cycles. A sphere round of 25 minutes is often called a pomodoro. Resting for five-minutes, which you use to cool down. Maybe close your eyes or prepare a cup of tea or coffee. Then we would do another three pomodoros with the difference that the last one has a rest of 20 minutes. That we are doing constant rests at all times. Yet in this cycle, we are doing approximately two hours of work already. Then you can repeat this again or twice. There are thousands of applications online for desktop and phone can guide you while you're using the Pomodoro Technique. Let me show you a video of how I personally do it. I use my own application, smart stabbing, which you can find for free, and it's linked in the resources section. There, I can see my progress over the vase that motivates me to keep going. When you go up. It will reflect here. When you do 12 pomodoros in one day, you will get a trophy. As you can see, the study button takes you to the main Pomodoro timer, where you can just start the timer. Guide you through it, including rest, exercise. Let's get going here. Select your favorite Pomodoro timer, and let's do one per mobilization. 18. Chapter 3 - Impossible Associations: Memorization, impossible associations. Now you are studying, you read the material and you kind of understand it. But do you really understand it? Can you teach it to a five-year-old? If not, then maybe it's worth a couple more reads. Maybe you now understand it, but you need to memorize it. First. And most importantly, the best memorization technique is always the use of common sense. If you can then use something in a reasonable time, then this is the way to go. It makes no sense to use any other technique. There may be many things. Would you do not follow any kind of common sense or that you cannot reduce in any other form. For example, that the capital of Spain is Margaret. In this case, it's amortization techniques, mnemonics come handy. It is known that the average amount of numbers that the brain can retain in raw memorization is about seven. However, we can use techniques that make the brain much more effective. If you search for people like my mom compile or is in Greek, they memorize enormous amounts of information in no time. How will they do it? They use imagery, but does that mean they transform the worst they hear or read? Containment is very fast. Not only that, but they make them in a way that sticks. How do you make something stick? Here's a story. Imagine that you have a dog, and one day your dog stands up and thus juggling balls. Whoa, you will never forget that. The more unbelievable these stories are, the more they stick. This technique consists of making associations between words. You have to memorize in an impossible, unbelievable way. When you hear or read a word, something funny will instantly come to your mind and you will recall it. For example, let's say that we need to memorize that the capital of Spain is Madrid. We can think of what reminds us of Spain. This is a strange question for me. I am from there, but many people would go with Santa Maria. So let's go with, in some ways, a drink based on wine and fruit. Now, let's look at Madrid. Madrid's by Matt. Only remembering the beginning is sufficient as this will act as a trigger to remember the whole world. And association that comes to mind is a sangre, a jar, which is in the middle of the table of a few friends. And all the sudden, the same EHR wakes up, open the eyes and mouth and starts feeding in a crazy way. All the friends with pressure jets. Can you imagine it? Well, now every time that you think about Sangre and you will remember how bad that is. Remember Madrid instantly. There are many more techniques and mnemonics is a wonderful world full of ideas and intelligent ways of using your mind. I invite you to start digging and exploring those wanders by yourself. In the resources section, I will leave you with a few of my own personal best exercise. What association could you create the remember that the capital of Austria in Vienna. 19. Chapter 3 - The mental palace: Memorization, the mental palace. This is one of my favorite techniques, which is based on the previous technique with a difference. When we have to remember many things and they need to be recalled in order, then we have a problem. There is no easy way to establish which one goes first. This technique allows you to establish an order. That technique is called the mental palace. And it consists of creating a set of non places that you know very well, tracing a path between them. For example, for me, I mentored palace is my own house. The road I can follow is the entrance, then the hallway, then the living room, the kitchen, the office, and then my bedroom. Here I have six places. In each of the places, I will place an association and then follow the path, letting me know easily what came first. Let's work now with a small shopping list of six items to have an easy example, Let's say that we need to memorize the following. Bananas, beans, yogurt, eggs, tomatoes, and oil. This is what they can imagine for this one. I entered into my own house and all the sudden I sleep as the floor is full of banana skins. Man, I hit my head with the radiator is in the hallway, but it turns out that it's not solid. It's actually made of beans. So you can imagine that if it is heating up, the smell of hot beans will be around the house. Then I'm confused. I go to the living room to find it in indebted in your as I traverse it, my steps are marked in yoga in the same way that happens when there is no, I get to the kitchen thing that I could use some small snaps tweets after a disaster when opening the cupboard, 12th, drop and break on my face. Definitely not my lucky day. After cleaning after myself a bit, I pass through the office where I stopped and what's my tomatoes plant? Which has already small tomatoes growing there. I watered it a bit and then go to my bedroom. I finally lie on my bed. To my surprise, my bed is oily and I hit the sensation of oil in my skin. To recall it. Now, you just have to enter the house and follow the steps towards the bathroom. Now let's recall it. Let's see, in the entrance there were the bananas with live with. And then we hit the head with a radiator. Radiator was made of beans. Beans is the second one, but it's the first one. Then we entering into the living room and then the floor is full of yours. Yoga is the third one. And then we go to the kitchen and then the eggs drops. The x is the fourth one. Then into the office where we what are the tomato bland. So tomatoes is the fifth one. Then in the bedroom, which is oily. Oil is six. So here we recall all of them in order. Maybe the story sounds a little crazy. Well, this is actually what matters. This helps you memorize and couldn't be more fun to make. Many times I found myself having a few laughs with people when we made up those stories, to memorize something and try to recall. You will be surprised to experience that a week later, you can still recall it. Exercise, try to memorize the following list. Then command your associations below. Let's have fun seeing what each other. Imagine here. Bucket with water, coke, mirror. 20. Chapter 3 - Efficient Recalls: Efficient recalls. At this point, I want to make a distinction between understanding and memorizing. If you do not understand, then memorizing is of no use. So first, I talk about these in previous videos is the Feynman technique. This technique consists of trying to explain the material to a five-year-old with a concept, think about it and then try to explain it. If you can explain it, and the explanation is simple enough, then you probably have reached an acceptable level of understanding. If you cannot, then you might need to go back and try to understand a little bit better. You may be missing some chunk of information that you might get while doing your reviews. Don't stress over it. You don't really need to understand it all in the first goal. In fact, here I will refer to the amazing course from Professor Barbara Oakley, Learning How to Learn, where she explains the difference between focused and diffused thinking. Focused thinking is that thinking pattern you have when you are concentrated. However, in that state, you cannot make associations as good as the pure state, which happens when you have been doing something. But you are now relaxing. For example, when you're in the shower. In there, your mind starts doing crazy associations are many times you might realize many things that you did not before. For this reason, a strong recommendation is to create adults page. This page contains a table with three fields in which section you found the doubt. What is the dub and what is the solution to it? You need to fill that in, not immediately, but if you cannot, then you need to find an expert like your teacher or somebody who can clarify the doubt. This might turn into a fundamental learning gap that you have. Therefore, solving it could facilitate your learning so much. Now, do you need to study everything over and over every day? Probably not. How often do you need to study the material? There is a technique called spaced repetition. It consists of rehearsing the material which you still do not know more frequently that the one that you know. I will not get into the logic of the algorithm since it would make this video quite complex to follow. This may seem complicated to do in practice, but there is an easy way. And this is using flashcards. There are systems like Anki, which I will link in the resources section that allow you to create flashcards. Then the system would pop one side of the flashcard to you and you need to recall the other side. This systems use the aforementioned an algorithm. If you leave the ride, then it will be asked later. But if you made a mistake, it will probably appear again soon. Using the system, you ensure that the memorize the material in a more efficient way and you fail, you have a chance of trying it again soon. Exercise. Download Anki and create a set of five flashcards with the words memorized in the mental palace. Can you recall them? 21. Chapter 3 - Summary: In this chapter, first, we talked about efficient use of time to concatenate with the Pomodoro technique. Then we saw two very important memorization techniques, impossible associations and the mental balanced. Finally, we talk about effective recalls, where we saw spaced repetition as a means of optimizing your records for the material to be committed to long-term memory. I hope you enjoyed it. And let's go for the last chapter. 22. Chapter 4 - Motivation: In this chapter, it is all about focus. Focus. Focus is what allows us to get stabbed and tasks done. We are focused, there is no efficiency. Therefore, we will talk about achieving a great degree of focus to be able to accomplish our goals and enjoy our free time without having to do superhuman efforts by protecting it from outside distractions such as noises for social media. Let's go for it. 23. Chapter 4 - Avoid Distractions: Avoid distractions. The focus. As we have previously set. If we want to essentially save time while studying, we need to do it very purposefully. This means that for short periods of time, the only thing that should be in our attention is a subject at hand. Our concentration needs to be at a 100 per cent during the time of the study. This is quite easy to say. But in current times, the focus is most often undervalued. Starting with the millions of pigs will receive every day from our mobile phones. Focusing prolonged for a certain period of time seems quite challenging. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, instagram can easily steal our focus. This will not only the railroads from our plant, but will make us have to study longer. Because it would be longer, it will become more tedious as we would need more hours in a day to properly completed, restricting guys from more fun, our leisure time. Furthermore, our focus will do it from time to time. I simulating single concepts can on itself become a challenging task. As you study, your knowledge base will increase. This will allow you to acquire knowledge even faster. And this is what is known as the component fails, which Einstein said to be the eighth wonder of the world. I'm pretty much used in fields like investing. In. Third, if you mindfully inspect things with the compounding effect in your lenses. This happens with many things in life studying being one of them. Now, by not having deep focus sessions, this compound effect will break as it will have bits of lacking attention. This will greatly affect your learning curve in the long run. But how do I avoid social media? This might sound like a trivial question. One might say, put the phone away. Sure. If you can do it, that would be IV. In fact, if you can please do. However, I have experienced many people putting the phone away and having the phone back in the hands in five-minutes. If you can turn it off during the study session, That's perfect. Otherwise, don't worry, there are a few alternatives. You can put it in silence and have it in your drawer. Sometimes, however, I experienced that the phone is also needed, some notes or they're, a bit of research is needed, and it comes handy in those cases. We can also use an application to block social media and have our focused study sessions. Please check the resources section to find instances of such applications. And remember, here the valid approach is the one that works for you, not for anyone else. Plan your time when you're going to stab them for how long? Choosing the place for stabbing is equally important. When are you going to study? And where? Pause the video and answer these questions. If you study in a noisy place, you will be detected very often living to the same effect as before. Tuesday stabbing place where you will not be disturbed until people around not to disturb you when you're starting. By only doing that, you will see a quick turnaround in your progress. If you're enjoying the content, you may even experienced a state so-called flow, where ours passes minutes. As you are so engaged with activity that you are almost embarrassingly. Look at the resources section again to find more about flow. Let's get back to the start for a minute. What you want to study for in the first place, was it to get more salary to work on your passion? I wanted to point out here that the result of not focusing is delaying those very much wanted final goals. With this, I want to say that by taking the appropriate steps that we can be a stress-free, fun and not necessarily time-consuming. 24. Chapter 4 - Plan your study time: Plan your study time and avoid procrastination. In the last point, we talk about final goals. In fact, I think that realizing that is so important that I would really like to play it again here. Listen carefully. Let's get back to the start for a minute. What you want to stop before in the first place to get more salary to work on your passion. I want to point out here that the result of not focusing is delaying those very much wanted final bombs. The outcome of our goals depends on what we do, how we proceed, and what action we take. Depending on those factors, the result can be extremely different. When I find a situation like this where a single date does not seem to reflect a lot, although it can be visible. A trick. I'm absolutely in love with the check what I think would happen if this is prolonged for five years. Try this trick with the things you are doing an a daily basis. What do you think will happen if you do it for five years? Let me tell you a small story. Mark and John are called friends and they both play basketball. Not like studying make changes his life until a week before his exams. Marked, on the other hand, takes a different approach. These parents are both teachers, since he was a very small video located him to have a continuous learning journey. They explained to him that learning a little bit every day will make his life easier and he would not be stressing. He understood how this field of study Bailey, which he learned to appreciate, would give him a lot of time to do what he wants and joys in life with his undivided attention. So he carried out over the years. In fact, during college histone, four hours per day continuously the whole year. Heaven someday is divided them into two blocks. Two hours in the morning and two hours after lunch. He's sometimes called himself thinking about some of the things that he studied during the week and made strong mental connections that allow him to fully integrate his own learning. When exams abroad, John Dalton himself, okay, I should start selling, otherwise, there won't be time to assimilate it all. He chose to get into the library as he thought it would be acquired an appropriate place, and stayed there for the whole day. There is where I want to hear you say, but we have talked about starting that long. How effective is that? By the time Mark had a very mastered the subject, what's doing specific exam questions that would lend him the maximum score. For him. The exam was nothing more than a mere paper to fill in. However, john found himself struggling with time. He found out that he would be struggling to even cover the whole material. Those couple of heart chapter that he wasn't able to study. Is this a familiar situation to you? Take the situation and look at it from the happiness and stress levels point of view of both of our theorems, Mark can assimilate the concept steeply and half are relaxed time acing exams. Now, John is practically freaking out, stressing to get the content and making superhuman efforts to stay awake long enough to have probably a false feeling of understanding because he has not had time enough to let the material sinking. In which position would you like to be? Not only that, but let's look at it in the long term. Let's suppose that both students passed the exam with good scores. Let's say that John is very good at doing that. And he managed to even get a decent score. Still has not had time to assimilate it all. So it would be very difficult to integrate this knowledge into his life for his effort has only been buried in the short term. While Mark use the time efficiently and the knowledge remains with him. Has a very precious of continuous education. He will keep studying every day at a continuous space. While John Wooden, what do you think will happen to the education level of both boys in some time from then. If we draw a graph in terms of knowledge, which effect On, can turn into results, then the probability of mark of obtaining what he wanted in life is way larger over time and put him in a much better place in many aspects. Exercise. Examine closely your day-to-day. Can you detect some procrastination? If so, what steps could you take to mitigate it? 25. Chapter 4 - Summary: In this last chapter, we have talked extensively about why deep focus is important. We have come back to basics to remind ourselves what we want to learn. So why we are here? We talked about how creating, how it will help us to achieve that specific ways that we can achieve that. Additionally, we have seen through a story of two students, what is the difference between having a habit or not? And we have practice projecting a small decision in five years down the road to see a massive difference in performance. I hope you liked the chapter.