everyone is a student including you lifelong learning is a life skill essential for making progress towards your goals discovering new things and ultimately finding yourself and right now in this moment I have to study for the education system as I'm sure many of you have to as well I'm Korean and Korea is notorious for the 16 hours of studying a day preschool lessons post school lessons homework literally learning how to loose a dream just so you can cram more than the two hour hours of sleep that your mom lets you get but thankfully I escaped
from the country yes but from my parents no and I think throughout the years I've built up enough knowledge to call myself somewhat of a studying expert and I won't deny at school I am that guy the guy that everyone hates because they seem to do well no matter what the Asian who everyone C having a no life rice eating 20 hours a day studying good at everything type of student the Asian students and not to my own horn or be arrogant but I genuinely probably study the least in my class and this is hard
to digest because surely if you spend more time in something the rewards will be directly proportional but that's not the case throughout the years I've tried a lot pretty notes highlighting Pomodoro Technique Forest app studying tips and tricks and throughout this journey I've learned a few things along the way and whether you're an adult or you're 12 and just starting your Learning Journey this video will be valuable to all because to be able to study effectively and efficiently is the key in not only enjoying the studying aspects but also guessing the progress to make your
parents proud so this is how to study made for students made by a student firstly you have to let go of the thought you have in your mind that time studied equals knowledge gained you've seen and heard it everywhere especially in Asia how many hours does your child study I study for 12 hours for this test and it's like a propaganda machine because not only does this cause severe depression but it's also shown to be extremely ineffective it's like in the gym doing three sets to failure is better than doing 12 sets it's like it's
better to use LED lights than filament bulbs because they're more efficient it's like okay you get the message sometimes less is more and as cool as it sounds to please your Asian parents or to flex on your friends that you studied for 10 hours a day the smartest students know how to practice I is deep work and deep work refers to a state of peak concentration that let you learn hard things and create quality work quickly it's essentially decreasing studying time but increasing results and this sounds so magical and golden right being able to only
study for 2 hours a day but have a more fulfilling and more efficient session but deep work is just a concept and is very general and there are many steps like stepping stones that you need to cross in order to fully utilize them okay so the first step we have to do is to apply a principle it's called the petto principle the 8020 rule because we've already established that you're going to drastically cut down the amount of time you spend studying into let's call it 2 hours a day so if you only had 2 hours
a day to study what would you do you would have make pretty notes and highlighting them this is the part of the 80% sure these help but considering the amount of help Roi investment return you get these aren't worth doing instead you better are focusing on this 20% that will give you the 80% of the results so you would do practical past paper questions and topic questions because in the end the questions are what's going to be on the test and what they're going to be asking and making notes is good my form of studying
for the longest time was rewriting notes by hand into this notebook so that by the end I would have Rewritten the whole topic and obviously this does work to some extent but not only is it inefficient it doesn't prepare you for the exam itself because you just learned the content but exam technique is half of the equation and this inefficiency becomes blatant when you think about the fact that when you write these notes you're writing on everything so you're not able to Target weaknesses and you ignore the fact that you probably already know a good
chunk of this so you end up wasting time and so that's why past papers topic questions are so valuable because you get to see where your gaps in the topic are and then you consolidate those gaps with knowledge and then you also get to see the mar scheme which is the model answer for you to look at and memorize and there are many sites that I personally use PMT and save my exams and I realized that the reason I was writing these notes is that you feel like you've done a lot because when you copy
the notes and you get three four five pages worth of notes you have this tangible physical evidence that you tell yourself damn I've studied really hard I've got five pages worth of notes whereas in fact that doesn't amount to knowledge and whereas if you do past papers or topic questions you don't actually get a physical tangible piece of work that you've completed so it doesn't feel like you've actually studied and the agent secret I'm spilling it right now is that you just Spam these topic questions past papers until for example you have a biology test
and they just become easy like times table questions what's 8 * 7 56 what's the powers of the cell mitochondria what's the bacteria cell God damn and okay if you're in higher education towards a level or university I appreciate that memorizing everything like time table isn't going to work but the principle of doing past paper questions topic questions specific questions instead of just writing the notes is a principle that you can agree with and that's proven to be effective and the next section is about distractions distractions are like Kryptonite to students Bane to the arthropods
social interactions to Emos okay you get it you can all relate you try and sit down and focus but the distractions are always there the best way to avoid distractions isn't to cut them out although in an ideal world you could just go cold turkey and cut out video games all these distractions out of your life but I appreciate how hard it is in this DNH for you to just go on your phone and delete all social media apps so we can't get rid of them fully so then how do we stay focused when we
have to work it's simple you just delay it you tell yourself you'll do 2 hours of deep work and then after that you could spend the day watching Netflix guilt free because we all know that worst feeling is when you're watching Netflix but you still have that exam you haven't studied for but you have to promise yourself that the condition is you have to do those two hours fully 100% focused and distraction free and only if you do that you're going to promise yourself that you're going to enjoy Netflix social media afterwards because if you
can truly focus in those 2 hours and do two hours worth of deep work it's more valuable than a whole day's worth of work and this works for some people and not for others I appreciate that if you can completely cut out your bad habits go for it so while you're doing deep work full screen word or whatever you're doing turn off the Wi-Fi bury your phone in a hole I don't know make sure there's no things that can distract you and that you can just focus on your work and of course this isn't going
to work straight away we've grown up in a world of distractions and distractions are ever more prevalent and I still mindlessly autopilot onto YouTube while working I just waste time but it's a work in progress and tell yourself that you want to get to the stage where you can focus fully for these two hours in an Ideal World we will cut everything up but as I've talked about this isn't something that can just just be done overnight and the third and last one is to be precise set a goal for your 2hour study session because
2 hours realistically is a very short time especially if you're going to go from 6 8 hours down to two for example I'm going to do plant reproduction in this 2hour session I'm going to do all the topic questions and make sure I don't have any gaps in my knowledge this is a specific and smart Target your setting and it doesn't have to only be one thing but open up a notepad and write down the list of things you want to finish in that allocated set of time because goal setting in itself makes it so
you're more likely to achieve all those goals and if you go into this session head first without any idea what you're going to do not only is that going to be a cause of Destruction in yourself it's going to take up a lot of time considering what you're going to do whereas if you sit down and not in your head what you're already going to do it's so much easier for you to just get stuck in the task and focus and the mistake that people make is that they vaguely say oh I'm going to study
and they start flicking through their textbook wasting hour after hour you must create specific targets and by doing this it's like you're a guided missile and you're absolutely going to decimate a specific area and nail that topic and to conclude studying is made to seem like this 10 hours a day wow yay so cool type of thing but it's not I promise if you learn how to utilize deep work it will change your life making it more fun leaving time for other things and also prevent you from feeling burn out and exhausted from studying so
make sure to do practical Focus study sessions of practice questions and distance yourself from any distractions and lastly be precise and set goals for yourself to make sure that you actually get things done in the session
