How to Become a Speed Learner (with ChatGPT)

thank you on YouTube for sponsoring today's video school was always hard for me I would go to class sit down take all of my things and then I will try very hard to focus but well there's a bird what are those people talking about well movies that guy watching in class and by the time that I refocus my attention we are five slides in and I have no idea what's happening for the rest of the class so you see in order to not fail all of my classes and disappoint my Asian parents I learned how

to self-study this is a skill that saved my ass when I had to go in for a data science interview in meta in which five of the seven interview rounds was in Sequel I didn't know any sequel but I was able to teach myself in 11 days and pass the interview and get it all I would not recommend it though that was not a fun time but I did it these days has become more of a habit and a hobby for me I really love learning new things I've learned how to swing trade even made

a coding bot I've learned how to make YouTube videos edit YouTube videos start a business personal finance marketing AI a lot of different skills and you know what's the interesting thing these may seem like really different things to learn but they actually follow the same guiding principles so in this video I'm going to cover a step-by-step framework on how to learn anything quickly and effectively my tool of choice here is going to be chat gbt because charity BT has really revolutionized this process there's two big things that it brings to the table the first one

is that it's a comprehensive tool that's able to aggregate together all the different resources and tools that are out there on the internet and become something much more powerful it then is able to take that information and present it to you and teach it to you in an individualized way that is perfect for your goals your skill set and your learning style before we get started I just want to make a plug for my newsletter called boops keyboard it's about learning it's about coding it's about books it's also where I first drop any news and

give people first dibs and discounts of things that I make like lonely octopus for example where you can learn AI skills data skills and work on real freelance projects from companies alright let's get started so the first step that lays the foundation to your Learning Journey is called meta learning and it's about figuring out what it is that you're going to learn and how it is that you're going to learn it and it includes coming up with a study plan that details all of the resources and how you're going to be using these resource it

is a crucial step that so many people skip which ends up making them give up or just being really ineffective let me illustrate this process with an example if you didn't know I am a weeb I admit it I really like anime and I really like manga in case you couldn't tell in fact one of my top goals in life is to be able to Read Manga and to understand anime watch anime without any subtitles recently I've decided that I'm going to actually start working towards this goal and this is how I approached it let's

jump on over to chatgpt act as an expert language tutor and tell me what is the best way to learn a language quickly while it's doing its thing by doing this I am able to understand what is the best way of doing something I am not the first person to want to learn Japanese or any other language there's many people that have done that in the past and from them I can gain their experience the things that they've done right the things I've done wrong their resources and instead of Reinventing the wheel use that so

that I'm more effectively able to do this and speed up the process so immersion surrounding yourself with the language you want to learn as much as possible practice interacting with native speakers structured learning personalized vocabulary and think in the target language so these are really really helpful for me to keep in mind to optimize my language learning acquisition process now comes the really cool part AI is able to provide a dynamic learning experience that's able to combine all of these best principles best guidelines in order to optimize my learning acquisition and customize it towards my

specific goal my goal is to be able to Read Manga and to watch anime without subtitles this means the course curriculum should include more conversational Japanese and to make it more interesting to me have more of the resource material the learning material come from my favorite animes like Naruto so now let's actually get that detailed study plan act as an expert Japanese tutor that creates study plans to help people learn Japanese you will be provided with the goal of the student their time commitment and resource preferences you will create a study plan with timelines my

first request I want to learn Japanese with a focus on being able to read a manga and watch anime without subtitles specifically shows like Naruto please include a best practices and principles of language learning you outlined above I can study eight hours per week over a period of 12 weeks create a study plan for me and we wait so weeks one to four introduction to Japanese and hiragana very basic phrases greetings and learn about the structure of the language uh you can use different apps practice listening and pronunciation watch episodes of Naruto any other anime

try to pick up words listen to the Rhythm to the language and try to mimic it in the weeks five to eight is Katakana and basic grammar weeks 9 to 12 and it goes on in the book Ultra learning which is one of my favorite books and the book that I attribute to me Landing my data science job it talks about this principle of metal learning and it says that you should be spending around 10 percent of your entire Learning Journey just dedicated to this process Chachi beat he has made it such that I am

able to do this process within seconds and I just want to make note this is not just for language learning it is for anything that you want to learn it can be stem subjects like coding like math it could be budgeting could be business anything okay after getting a study plan we're going to move on to the next part of the framework for learning anything quickly and effectively which I call the zoom in and zoom out framework there's a saying that the chain is as strong as his weakest link and that is the premise of

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my class assignments I still had to go to class and do these things too so realistically I had around two to four four hours max each day to study so you see I really didn't have any time to learn anything that was an absolutely crucial I had one goal and one goal only I wanted to pass the interviews so how did I do this first I zoomed out into the context of my overarching goal which is passing the interview I did my research about how interviews work and I also found a mock interview which I

did I did this in the complete interview style starting off with small talk and then going through how I would answer the questions and then finally any like potential additional questions the interviewer may have and I absolutely bombed it but I was able to gain insight into what that zoomed out chain with that like interview that goal is supposed to look like so then I was able to break it up into all the different links all the little components that make up the entire interview process I would zoom in on specific links and then I

would zoom out again and do another mock interview and see okay like did I make improvements what are my weakest links now and I kept repeating this process until I felt like I had a strong grasp of how to do these interviews when I walked into that interview room I did feel scared but I was prepared it just felt like another one of the mocking degrees that I did obviously at that time there was no chat jbt so I spent a lot of time on Glassdoor trying to figure out what the questions are finding what

the resources are what makes up an interview nowadays I would just use chat gbt for all of this for example instead of having to go through glass doors and then try to compile all the different questions together to figure out what the topics are I would have asked um chai gbt something like I have an entry level data science interview for meta act as an interview coach and give me a list of topics to learn for an entry-level SQL data science interview for meta please basis off real interviews and organize a list by the parietal

principle with the most common topics first and then I would list out some of the cost common questions I would have found on resources like glass doors or resources like strata scratch that has real interview questions so the reason I just want to say like I mentioned the parietal principle is I didn't have any time right I had 11 days to prepare for this so I wanted to make sure that listed topics I'm going to be studying I want to start with the most common topics first like the things that I absolutely have to know

and is most likely to show up on the interviews and then go down that list so that's why I wrote The Prado principle with the most common topics first and then these are some of the questions I would give it examples for and then it would then give me based on nature of your questions I'll recommend you prepare on the following SQL topics for the entry-level data science interview at meta these topics are sorted according to the frequency of use and importance based on the parietal principle and then I would have been like okay great

now I'm gonna learn all these basic SQL functions I need to learn sub queries and derived tables window functions date and time functions conditional logic data types and all these things as I'm working through this this I would also be asking Chachi BT to give me questions that specifically test my knowledge on these different operations and on these topics instead of me interviewing myself and talking to myself I would also ask Chachi BT to be that interviewer to make it a realistic mock interview so I would write let's do a role play exercise you're a

senior data scientist at a big tech company like meta conducting a SQL portion of a data science interview let's make this an Interactive full mock interview and you say things including greet me introduce the question and the table sets with their schemas and then prompt me to write the answer and ask follow-up questions so I wanted to be the interviewer in this case and then I would give it a question that I would have found that I know is a question that is commonly going to show up for meta or Facebook employees alright so you

can learn all of these things right especially for skills like languages you can like study that but what point is there if you then just forget everything you learn and that is the topic of this next part of this framework to learn anything quickly and effectively which is retrieval and retention in my past life in my undergraduate I was a pharmacology major which is the study of drugs during school I have memorized hundreds of different drugs and different drug Pathways and drugs my friends are hard to memorize because they have really weird names like metoproplol

and lisinopril listinopril who like who comes up with these drug names like but yes hundreds of these stupid drug names and there's also these scientific names as well as the brand names like oh God there's just there's just a lot of names and a lot of different Pathways I want to show you guys three different strategies in order to help you more deeply understand a material and to make sure you don't just learn and forget things so the first one is self-testing using flashcards some of you may have heard about the flash card app called

enki it is wonderful it is free and you're able to input your uh in this case would be the drug name and all the whatever things that I have to remember about the drug you can input this into enki but I generally would I prefer doing these days is I always just use chat gbt and then actually instead of writing the cards myself even what I would do I would just tell chat gbt you're the flash card app and key generate flash cards for these pharmaceutical drugs and then I would list out all of the

drugs and then I also know what it is I have to remember about them and instead of having to write it myself I write a template which is the front of the flash card I would write the drug name and the back would include usage class pharmacokinetics pharmacodynamics prescription guidelines and side effects and then I asked that test me the way that enki does including techniques like space repetition make sure to keep track of my score and a number of questions I get right or wrong allow me to indicate whether I got a question right

or wrong also indicate how many flashcards I have left keep testing me until I get all the questions right start testing me with the first card here I would go sure I have generated the flash card for you let's start testing and then it would tell me this is what is this supposed to be envelope and amylodipine to answer your question you need to provide information and then I would be like ah it's this and then it would be like Yay correct good job and then for this one I can be like lisinopril and I'll

be like I don't know I don't know what that means no problem let's review this together oh thank you thank you for telling me that so yes I would keep on doing this until I eventually memorized trucks I have like a few other examples here so I'm actually going to link these prompts um in the description box if you want to check that out so the other technique that I like to use is called the Feynman technique which is basically explaining things in the most simplest way possible as if you're teaching someone else so I

can say something like ask me to explain drug Pathways using the Feynman technique and then it tells me certainly to find my technique explains to me is a method of understanding remembering concepts by explaining them in your own words as if you're teaching a concert to someone else like as an example step one choose a concept step two teacher two a toddler step three identify gaps and go back to the source material step four is to simplify further so I would do this for all the direct Pathways as well and this has been shown as

a proven technique that's shown to more allow you to more deeply understand the concept and to retain that information better final technique is called the Socratic method back in the ancient Grecian days of Socrates this is a method that he would use and it would be used in order to question the premises and the values in the systems of a certain assumption and by doing this you're able to get that person to more deeply understand the subject matter now ask me to explain in the Socratic method why I would choose to treat a person with

a specific drug so it would tell me using the Socratic method you're considering a drug for a 50 year old man who presents to your clinic with complaints about palpitations and they would ask me these questions what is metabolo what class is it what's the mechanism of action so by presenting the information in this way it's also helping me to learn and it questions why it is that I'm going to be treating a patient in a certain way that I've decided to treat them as so there's actually a lot of other techniques that I could

cover here and this video could go on and on and on but the general rule of thumb in terms of being able to understand information and to retain that information for a longer period of time is that the more ways that you can encode this information and test yourself and to understand these Concepts in different ways the deeper it is that you're going to understand what's happening and the deeper it is that you understand something the more neural pathways are going to be developed surrounding that concept so you're able to retain that information for longer

periods of time alright so the final step of this framework is called the experimentation step so what do I mean by experimentation getting to the middle end part of my study plan to learn Japanese in order to watch Naruto and in order to Read Manga so I can like look at the videos and I kind of get it at this point obviously it's like not as native as my English would be clearly where am I Chinese I'm just slightly too slow and just watching more of it it's just not enough I can't really get to

the next level well when you reach like a certain point when you feel like you're stuck that's when you need to start experimenting the way in which you're learning providing new methods and new methodologies and new resources as well for example I can ask Chachi BT act as Naruto and have a conversation with me in Japanese about your favorite ramen wait for me to reply before continuing the conversation it's more of an active form of practicing that would really Elevate me from just passively consuming information and I think it would improve my Japanese significantly and

another great thing about Chachi BT is really good at suggesting you alternatives for things like you don't know what you don't know right so something else that you can easily ask Chachi beauty is can you give me alternative ways of learning Japanese in addition to watching anime practicing on Duolingo and memorizing Japanese words with flash cards and then I can tell you like different other ways that you can be learning okay I've higher tutor or language exchange like maybe this is something that I can consider looking at like besides anime looking at different types of

media reading different things in Japanese as well actually start practicing writing as well so it's able to suggest me a bunch of alternative methods in order to continue my learning process final point I want to make before ending this video is the importance of other people so I know that we're essentially saying chapter GPD can do so much in terms of your self-learning journey it can pretty much be your friend it can be your buddy in learning but it really can't replace the actual humans actual humans at some point you will hit a wall and

also you probably get really lonely or bored uh while you're doing your Learning Journey so that's why it's really important to incorporate other people into your learning process that could include talking to native speakers if you're learning a language like Japanese we're having alternative clubs anime appreciation Club things like that right we're even traveling to Japan um and just meeting different people if you're learning technical skills it could also involve by having coding buddies like working at projects together joining different like programs or workshops like lonely octopus for example all of these things are are

ways for you to interact with other people and really once you start getting other people involved your ability to learn your scope and your motivation just absolutely skyrockets alright that's the end of this video thank you so much for watching please let me know in the comments what are you learning right now or what do you want to be learning right now and I'll see you guys in the next video or live stream