hey I'm Dr Justin sun and over the last decade I've coached over 25,000 Learners and what I've realized is that many students and Learners waste 90% of their time studying and learning because of something called passive learning and in this video I want to share with you a simple but powerful method called cognitive load regulation which will help you to delete this passive learning and save thousands of hours throughout your life so here is what you need to do use cognitive load to delete passive learning cognitive load is the fancy term for mental effort effective
learning always involves mental effort passive learning is the type of learning that doesn't involve High mental effort and in fact it's not really even learning so rewriting notes is fairly passive if you're just writing it again word for word reread in things is also fairly passive and different techniques on that spectrum of how much studying turns into learning have different levels of mental effort associated with them and generally the more effective ones have more mental effort so for example creating summary pages is more effective and then turning those summary pages into something that's nonlinear and
relational takes a little bit more e effort and then teaching it to a 10-year-old and simplifying those relationships and groups that takes even more eff it and this is simply just be because the learning is what happens in your brain so your brain has to do thinking and processing to turn information into relevant knowledge it takes effort and the way we feel that that mental exertion that's what we call cognitive load and now not everything that has high cognitive load makes it effective like for example if all you wanted to do was max out your
cognitive load you can stand on like a stand on one while you're juggling and someone's slapping you in the face with a fish while you read a textbook your cognitive load is going to be through the roof but it's not going to make a difference to your learning and so not all high cognitive load is effective learning but all effective learning involves higher cognitive load but whenever your cognitive load is low you can know for sure that you not engaging in effective learning and so you want to be able to train yourself to be aware
when you are studying what's the level of mental exertion cognitive load that I'm feeling and if it's high okay that's fine right if it's low there's a high high high likelihood that you're doing passive learning and those need to be massive red flags that you look at and optimize or just completely remove that out of your learning system and in fact you can even do a quick test have a study session for like one or two days and then identify the techniques and the methods that you use where you feel that your brain is entering
into that passive State it's feeling boring it's feeling tedious it's feeling monotonous you're kind of falling asleep and getting drowsy uh those are areas where your brain is basically falling asleep just try studying a topic without doing any of that stuff just literally remove it from your system and you know what you will probably find that there is no real difference to how much you learn and youve saved that much time and some of you will do this and be like well man that's like 90% of all my studying feels like that you know surely
my learning has gone down nope it just means that 90% of the time me spent on studying was kind of a waste of time and I'm saying that from the position where that used to be me so much of my learning was passive and it took me a very long time longer than hopefully it will take you with my videos uh to fix that and make it more active and that's it if you want more of these tips then check out the full video here where I break down 13 years of studying advice into a
single video thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one
