How to remember anything FAST with THIS ONE TECHNIQUE!

0:00hey June what is your favorite study technique question that I get asked a whole lot and it's one that I usually hate to answer simply because I love the Learning System I believe in it and that's the accumulation of various evidence-based techniques working in harmony working sickly to provide us learning outcomes that we want but if I was forced to answer that question I would point to a technique that one could be Standalone and provides us the two main benefits that we're looking for as students which is depth of comprehension and number two retention but the second point to this is It's intuitive for most students it's

0:33something that people can immediately adopt and I truly believe in the power of it not only in the context of the classroom but also outside the classroom if you're a working professional or your business owner you will have tremendous success and learning new information with this technique it's one that I've applied literally daily for quite a long time now and it's extremely beneficial my name is Jun Yu if you're new to the channel welcome if you're returning welcome back in this video we'll speak on what this technique is how to apply it along with four extremely important benefits and that's why I encourage you to watch the entire video because we all

1:09know when you can have the context of why we're applying techniques it allows us to have massive benefits in comparison to if you had just gone through the emotions cuz I just told you to right so let's understand the context together I think you will thoroughly enjoy this video please give this video a thumbs up ask me any questions in the comments I'd be happy to respond and of course subscribe so with that being said sit back relax and enjoy the video the final unveil for what it is drum roll the Fineman technique in its simplest form the fan technique is you teaching the material to somebody at a much lower

1:42level than you and I like to perceive it as somebody in the fifth grade and we all know that teaching information isn't just you listening to something and then regurgitating it back and spitting it out and expecting somebody to learn from it we probably all had teachers that do this or professors that do this and we know how ineffective it is teachers that go through a curriculum they'll read it they'll have somebody else's presentation slides that they share them they'll read off the slides and they'll expect you to learn it that's a no no right because teaching is much deeper than that and we'll speak on the four

2:14specific benefits because that really requires some deeper conversation and I believe that it'll be extremely helpful in understanding how to do this technique effectively but before we do that let's touch on how to actually apply it how to use it also that is extremely simple as well I would encourage you to do this with a friend and all you are doing is explaining the material to them and they can provide you that live feedback on if they had understood the information or not and you wanted to encourage them to ask you questions that will require to critically think about the information and then have you also change your

2:51explanations revamp it and then explain it again and this type of iteration process is extremely extremely beneficial so if you don't have a friend to do this with and actually I study almost exclusively alone so in a lot of situations this was me honestly you can just say it aloud you can pretend like you're explaining it to somebody you can talk to your pillow even but I would encourage you as you get into more refined explanations to record yourself right cuz that feedback is extremely helpful so if you don't have somebody to do this as in a friend or a peer you can do it for yourself you can listen back

3:24on your explanations and then critique yourself ask yourself is it actually clear right could you do better in parts of your explanation but this is really effective because it doubles as an incredible source of a voice memo right what I mean by this is there are a lot of times when we're studying for exams or when I'm preparing for a presentation or I'm leading a team for a project where I'm not actively sitting at my desk doing the work I'm not actively sitting on my desk studying but I still want to make the most out of my time so a great example of this is when I'm

3:52brushing my teeth I know that my hands are full but I would love to be able to listen to my own explanation and to critique myself real time or just have an ability to consolidate the information by listening to it again right or as another refresher so it's a great resource for you to utilize now let's move into the four benefits that I believe if you have the context of you can really get the most out of this technique number one it requires active recall and I've been speaking on active recall for the last 4 and a half years while creating content because retrieval practice is one of the most well studied

4:24techniques out there in terms of facilitating the learning process so a great way to Simply think about active recall is you pulling information out of your brain freely what I mean by freely is not having cu's in front of you so I've spoken about cues in the context of flashcards in previous videos so when you are explaining the material to your friend or to yourself in a recording do not have your textbooks with you do not have presentation slides open do not have flashcards open do not have your notes open I need you to do this freely from your memory and this is very different from the passive techniques

5:00that only focus on the encoding aspect of the learning process so if we're thinking about highlighting or rereading or rewriting I want you to apply active recall and the fing technique is one of the best ways to do this because also it's extremely intuitive we think about the type of thought required to engage in to have learning occur the finement technique is going to encourage that and we'll speak about this in benefit number two it requires expertise so I already mentioned that teaching material is way more than regurgitating it or spitting it out to somebody after having listened to it probably the next step to that

5:38that people will go to is oh then I just have to simplify the information no simplifying the information is not only what you need to do and a great example of this is when people utilize thesaurus or they utilize an AI program to help them better write a sentence and what happens when you put it through a program of that nature or you utilize the SS to simplify each of the words well it's simplified but it might not make sense anymore it's not accurate anymore right so when you simplify information you also have to take additional steps like reorganizing the information providing context to the audience whether it's your friend or

6:17it's your own self and trying to imagine that you're a fifth grader right or someone at a different knowledge level than you it requires you to supplement your explanations with analogies and examples it requires you to consider new applications even so when I talk about how it's not necessarily following a step-by-step process when it comes down to effective techniques but more about the type of thought that you need to engage in critical thought the F technique is a very very intuitive way for most students to go about this right it is because if I tell you to teach information you've been taught your whole life whether it's by teachers or

6:51coaches and you know what effective teaching looks like you know how to go about simplifying information reorganizing and providing examples and analogies and how that actually allows you for yourself as a student to learn information better it also will help you facilitate the right type of thought so that you can be ensuring that you're actually learning the information too the F technique is great in encouraging you to do that and that's why when I say it requires expertise I don't say it requires you to simplify it requires you to do all of those various elements that I've spoken about and when I can introduce to a student the fan technique

7:28when I teach them the burning method or even how to approach practice sets it changes the game because now they have enhanced awareness of the type of critical thought necessary to engage in number three accurately identifies gaps of knowledge so many times we go about our revision and again not only in the context of your studies but also in the context of learning new skills and then trying to apply it in the real world as a business owner or as somebody as a working professional we have this false sense of understanding right because we might be ing passive techniques and it just makes us comfortable with the

8:02surface level understanding of the information but in reality to do really well on exams at the highest levels to do really well as a project lead to do really well in presentations to do really well in anything at a high level it requires you to have true depth of comprehension and that's why when you go ahead and you explain the content when you explain the material to somebody in the fifth grade you will naturally hesitate on the areas that you're weak in but that's okay hey right that's your ability to then scope the next iteration on okay how do I now provide another example analogy for this okay how do I

8:37reorganize this information okay how can I better simplify this information okay how can I provide a new context to this information it requires you to then learn the information in that way helping you then facilitate the right type of explanation to a fifth grader and that really helps in learning that when you can accurately identify gaps of knowledge it sets you up well for exams because the last thing you want to do is find out a weakness when it actually matters when the exam's in front of you or you're actually in front of a lot of people and you are presenting on something so one of the best ways to

9:09accurately identify gaps of knowledge is with active recall applications and specifically thean technique number four it improves your communication skills I can't tell you how important this one really is and it's almost a secondary benefit of it I've done two internships both six-month long durations well regged farming companies and I've also done a 9mon project with novaris another lork artist Pharma company and I say that because in those context I've truly learned you can be the most gifted technical individual but it really doesn't matter if you can't communicate your work because in any type of presentation you will always have individuals within an audience that is

9:46naive and I don't say naive in a derogatory term naive is utilized for individuals that have a different line of work right they don't have the same type of context as you they don't have the same type of research background as you so you have to be able to present that information in a way that it's simplified reorganized has context is applied in new scenarios with new applications with examples and analogies that make it relevant for the individual so when you are communicating your work that is the type of thought that you need to be engaged in and that translate to a person that can eloquently speak on

10:22their work and so when I was presenting at those Pharma companies and when I just recently presented to nov artist in that sure there was one or two individuals that really understood the ins and outs of the medical device that we had created but there were stakeholders there were individuals in different teams there were individuals that were level one Engineers level four Engineers there are all different types of backgrounds and we had to have the responsibility of narrating that information in a manner that actually made sense to our audience members and so the fan technique encourages that right so it's your ability to have the secondary benefit when you go about

10:55learning information to then be able to teach it that's going to help you in the real world so I really encourage you now to have this high sense of awareness of these four benefits and this will allow you to make the most out of your time as you apply the fan technique so in conclusion we spoke about what the fan technique is how to apply it the fact that it requires active recall and expertise and also identifies gaps of knowledge and improves your communication skills I hope you enjoyed this video leave any questions in the comments below I'd be more than happy to respond give this video a thumbs up and

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