Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Learning is supposed to be hard. It’s like going to the gym. Hard workouts are what stimulates growth.
  • “If you’re finding something hard it’s a lot more likely to stick because your brain is having to work harder. You’re operating at the limit of your muscles potential and that’s the stimulus for growth.” – Ali Abdaal
• Take old exams or create an exam based on the material from class to better remember the information:
  • “There’s evidence that shows that you test yourself even before you start learning something, that’s going to improve your learning. If you test yourself immediately after you learn something, that’s going to improve your learning.” – Ali Abdaal
• Just as you feel like you’re getting the grasp of a lesson and enjoying it, switch to a new one:
  • “If you add a little more variety, kind of make them do a little bit of something, a little bit of something else…the brain is never quite allowed to be comfortable and therefore we’re maximizing our learning and minimizing the time we have to take to learn it” – Ali Abdaal
• Learning the subject is not the same thing as doing well in the exam 
  • “Unfortunately the education system and the testing system is designed to encourage us to game the exam rather than to encourage us to understand and appreciate the content” – Ali Abdaal
• 3 Life-changing pieces of tech for Ali:
  • Kindle Oasis (makes it easier to read at night)
  • Airpods (makes it easier to listen to music and audiobooks)
  • Audible subscription (make it easier to read more books)

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Ali Abdaal is a Doctor and a YouTuber.

The ability to consume and retain information quickly is one of the most important skills of the 21st century and yet very few of us actually understand the way our brains learn & remember.

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