Learn More From Every Paragraph | Active Reading Example

My sincere apologies for the bad audio...😔 I'm going to leave the video up for now, but am working on fixing the problem for future videos. Thanks for understanding.

Saalfeld, not Sallfeld.

this is note taking technique for encoding, graphic summaries

Victoria was the son of Edward, Duke of Kent?

AHAHAH FOOL YOU COULD'VE READ THIS PARAGRAPH IN JUST 2 SECONDS. /s

So… speed reading ?

that's why I don't get speedreading

What's that pen you're using? Writes well.

Sheesh. That's a seriously obnoxious paragraph. It really can't be understood without doing the work you did in making that chart.
I suppose, though, that it's a good example for the need for actually thinking about the text you are reading. I'm reading a math book, and a few notes in the margin is usually adequate (since it's well written by a bloke with extensive teaching experience). I'm also reading an overly-rich-of-characters novel (on the Kindle), and I use the Kindle dictionary lookup function to make notes of the main characters, since that function remembers the words you looked up _even if it didn't find them_. The novel's in my second language, so the dictionary function gets used a lot.

The insane complexity of the example grabbed my attention so hard that I didn't notice the bad audio.
That's a seriously obnoxious paragraph. It makes me glad I got out of humanities after a quick-and-dirty MA...

Oh wow just a few lines = 2 hours!!

This is hard for me because I have such little interest in the history of a royal family that actively don't want to retain this information.

Thank you for this video! I have always had challenges doing "deep reading". It seems like it would take a long time to draw out my thoughts like you do, but it seems like such a nice idea to draw out a timeline.

Brilliant. Helpful. Inspiring. I’ll watch it with my daughter.

thank you for providing this absolutely useless advice that nobody is actually going to use

Why not select books with more relevant information?

The Tyranny of Words by (1938) Stuart Chase

George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay about politics. He was a member of FDR's brain trust and wrote the book A New Deal.

We should have had a K-12 National Recommend Reading List since the 1950s.

Nois. Keep'em coming King!

This is a great channel! Tahnk you so much. I really would like to know if you prefere going all on Paper vs digital.

While this definitely is useful sometimes, you'll need a few lifetimes to approach books like this.

Very interesting!!! Keep goin!!!

So how many words per minute can you read while you're actively engaging yourself with the material like this?
I'm a medical student and I personally struggle with reading for some reason. It takes me about a lot of time to go through a single page of a textbook, probably because I spend a lot of time trying to truly digest the information. If I try to go through the text faster, I start feeling like I haven't understood the topic deeply. I'm just worried if my brain's slower than average or if there's something wrong that I'm doing.

i don't see how this doesn't lead to rabbit holes. you're posing questions that will probably require you to abandon this book, and find answers in another book. then, that questioning process just repeats itself.

I am actually a very slow reader, but it's because I do this instinctively. My brain is in overdrive every time I read, always buzzing about everything I'm taking in, connecting it to whatever background knowledge I already possess.

It's also why I find reading to be exhausting, but I love it. And when I read something to learn (or read a novel to enjoy), even some of the finer details will remain with me sometimes for years before they begin to fade, if I don't do something to refresh them (like reread it, or listen to an audio book of it, etc.).

As a person seeking to learn the effective way, I find this extremely useful, especially on the example part. Would love to learn more about profound reading skills from you. Anyway, I find your content really practical. Appreciate alot!

Surprise: there are lots of active learning tecniques and there are bad active learning tecniques.

Bad experience: there were some group worl that were terrible for me.

No solo educativo, también interactivo y divertido, el interés aflora fácilmente cuando se perciben los contextos de esta manera, ya que para investigar de esta manera en primero lugar debe surgir el interés, esa impresión de interés realmente hace durar mucho más la información, no se siente vacía o hueca!

Very good video. Not only, do we see by the example, how much effective this type of learning is. Everything becomes connected and we create a common story.
This makes it much more easy to remember and also makes it much more interesting and triggers our minds and creativity when we try to fill out the gaps about what is not said and trying to understand precisely the implications of what is said.

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Great video, I started seeing your videos with the Justing Sung responde and now I am seeing all your videos, so much knowledge and it's been helping me a lot

Could this be taken as an example of subvocalization and its benefits toward comprehension and learning? For some reason about a year I go I just turned it off and since rediscovering it I feel like I've only been treading in books ankle deep.

Thanks for the vid! As someone who onced believed in the method of speed reading, this clarifies the importance of understanding and conceptualizing material, rather than reading for quantity.

A question:
If you are reading to learn and apply concepts, is it wise to pair Active Reading with Active Recall, or is that time better used for reading related/relevant books regarding the subject matter? (By Active Recall I refer to pen and paper)

Brother, can you give me a solution for this. Reading is the first step for studying, right. But my problem is, whenever i sit to read, i find it so boring. What can be done to get rid of this boredom, brother?🙂

For the text mentioning Kensington palace, these are the questions I would identify:

1. Where is Kensington (Locate it on the map), When was the city founded...
2. When was the palace built, what architecture does it follow, who built it, what materials did it use...

I can identify questions based on what I want to focus on. I can replace architecture with the economic depression if I prefer.

Do you see any problems with this approach?

Been watching your videos quite a lot recently, good information presented really well.


Did you used to be a lawyer? What made you do the switch? How did you get into cognitive science?

Great demonstration and video -- marred for me only by the fact that I personally have no interest whatsoever in the material analysed. None. Not a glimmer of interest.

Can you make a video about language learning?

Bro please do more videos on discussing this and other topics more deeply

Great vid! Links in the description to the other video you made and mentioned would help reduce friction for viewers.

-he wrote as an ad popped up before he could click

in brief:
In this video, the speaker discusses how to read deeply to extract as much knowledge as possible from a paragraph about Queen Victoria.
They suggest that reading deeply requires bringing background knowledge to the fore and combining it with what the text explicitly states to figure out the implications.
The speaker shares their thought process when reading the paragraph, creating a timeline and asking questions.
They suggest that reading deeply is different from speed reading and encourages viewers to check out a book on early paleontology in England in the early 1800s.

I usually read by asking "how is this paragraph relevant to the past info", and usually I get to understand the flow better, making the next paragraphs more predictable, simpler, and understandable

Looking up wikipedia, nowadays you can just ask chatgpt. Makes me curious what you think of it and how it could be incorporated to learning

Could you please do a video on applying these principles in med school

Benjamin, I have a question - unsure if you'll have the answer but I figured I might as well ask. I vaguely understand the idea around relating and layering information, and I also find the visual very helpful, but my issue is that every sentence that's spoken (or read) I immediately forget it afterwards. Even with the visual in front of me I have a hard time remember and keeping up with the information and conversation and forget vital information such as names or dates or important facts almost immediately. I have diagnosed ADHD so this might be a result of that, but I was wondering if there was any way to improve my memory so it's easier for me to even just be able to follow along with conversations/lectures / reading etc... Apologies if you've already answered this, I'm new to your channel, and to higher-order learning skills in general. I'm a little scared my lack of memory will impact my learning and future, as I'm headed to university as a mature student in September, so I'm trying to do everything I can to work on it beforehand. Thanks for taking the time to read this! -LM

Can you do a video of a whole learning system considering all these theories? Im in medical school and I have to go through 10-15Ch a week. What I have struggle with is generating a system to process all this info, thanks!

There's a pop in my headphones whenever the video cuts O_O

Your content is amazing. Could you give some books recommendations about how to better read? I really want to learn more about it and recommendations from a highly educated person in this area would have a great value to me

Brilliant video. You should really have more subscribers. The title states that this is an Active Reading example, but you mention Deep Reading in the video. Are the two concepts interchangeable or are there tangible differences?

Great 💯👍🥳

wtf happened to the fourth son????

Sir what are some tightly-written books/research articles(by you too will do) will you recommend to read on concepts like active reading, encoding, retrieval, effective non-linear note making, how learning actually works & its common misconceptions in sync with modern research.....As after reading your medium article on "Summarizing yourself into Stupidity" really opened my eyes and now i find it quite difficult to trust popular self-help books XD !

I think i found the layering example we were discussing abt and what you described as "study decisions (like what to read next) to be guided by judgments of prior learning and knowledge"
Constructing the 1st layer(timeline of kings)+adding background details that explain the timeline!
It was really surprising to see in the end how you extracted relevant bits from the para to present a beautiful timeline which is much easier to remember than the boring paragraph with isolated information!