August 18, 2024 • 14 mins
This is a video about How to Force Your Brain to Study(when you don't feel like to read) | 3 Step Method from Hollywood
Struggling to get into the study groove? In this video, we’ll show you how to inspire your brain to study, even when you don’t feel like it. Discover A+ study tips that will make studying less of a chore and more of an engaging activity. As someone who understands the challenges of staying motivated, I’ll share practical strategies and techniques to inspire your brain into loving study sessions based on 6 Books and Hollywood Movies. From setting the right environment to using psychological hacks, this video has everything you need to turn your study time into productive and enjoyable moments. We'll draw inspiration from Hollywood, using techniques as effective as John Wick's precision, as passionate as Christopher Nolan's storytelling, and as energetic as Nicolas Cage's treasure hunt performances and from the following six book references below.
# Book References
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading : https://amz.run/9T54
- Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning: https://amz.run/9SgY
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: https://amz.run/9SgX
- The Photo Reading Whole Mind System by Paul R. Scheele: https://amz.run/9SgT
- A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science: https://amz.run/9SgS
- The Tao of Learning: https://amz.run/9SgW
# Timestamps
Introduction : Why We Struggle to Learn
Step 1 : Why Your Brain Should Learn**
Step 2 : Third Eye Reading by Photo Reading**
Step 3 : Check What Matters by Activation**
Conclusion
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(01:00:00):
Why we struggle to study?
How to inspire your
brain to study effortlessly?
Is it because of the lack of motivation?
Or by unfamiliarity with the pages?
Or we don't know what
is important to study?
We are going to explain a three-step
learning principle based on
the three Hollywood icons.
Motivation from the man
(01:00:21):
of sheer focus, John Wick.
Familiarity from the most immersive
director, Christopher Nolan.
And importance from Nicholas Gage, the
man who got unbearable
propensity to hunt for pressures.
Let's get started.
This method actually combines the six
influential books on studying
as well as my journey through
(01:00:41):
engineering and MBA and a two dozen of
certifications and all.
All coined around these three principles
of motivation,
familiarity and importance.
By end of this video, you will have some
way like a fresh
perspective on how to make the
study easier and make it more enjoyable.
(01:01:01):
Step number one, find your motivation.
Yes, inspired from John Wick.
So like the drive of John Wick doing a
revenge because he got a purpose.
Okay, he is getting revenge for his dog
as well as his car to make it simple.
So similar way without any purpose.
Okay, you just reading a book.
Even if you read one thousand times, it
(01:01:24):
will be just a waste
of with a clear purpose.
A single reading of a book is sufficient
and that is actually not
you're not forcing yourself to
learn. Instead, you should be stay calm
with you and the
process will unfold naturally.
So how to do it?
First of all, reflect on your purpose.
Why you want to learn a particular book?
(01:01:46):
Natural reasons could be passing an exam
or make your parents or
teachers happy or avoid the
shame of failure in
front of your friends.
Anything it should be
more clear and concise.
That's important.
That purpose.
Keep it in your mind, then go on further.
After that, visualize and
have an intention setting.
Yes, it's something like you are praying
(01:02:08):
for yourself, but it will
be more logical this time.
In the sense, like you close your eyes,
spine straight, then you just have a deep
breathe of yourself and then let your
inner being, your core is relaxed.
That's the idea here.
Then you revisit that purpose, which you
(01:02:28):
mentioned that intention,
intention have a greatest power.
So in that way, you are
some way in a God's mode.
Okay.
Now, after you have a
purpose, you make your intention set.
Now you have a book in your hand.
Don't be serious this time.
Just flip through the books.
Look at the front page, back page, table
(01:02:50):
of contents, and even
the headings if you want.
Just read it like
you're reading a magazine.
Just skim through the book after skimming
through all the books and all.
You will have some idea about what this
book is all about and
you have a purpose also.
Declare your goals or in another way to
put it simply, write
your purpose to yourself.
(01:03:11):
Okay.
I want to learn this book for this
purpose and I'm expecting
to learn these, these things.
One way this declaration will help your
brain to have an
understanding about what to focus
on this learning process.
Like John Wick is a
person of sheer focus.
John is not a focus.
(01:03:34):
You are a commitment.
You are a sheer will.
Something you know very little about.
Step two is achieving familiarity with
ultrafast reading,
inspired by Christopher Nolan.
The way we know how to learn
from school is actually flawed.
(01:03:54):
So that's one of the main
reason we hate books also.
So suppose imagine you're going to a new
location using your car, you're driving.
You'll be very much stressed.
You'll be worried about whether you will
reach on time, whether you
will just misguide yourself.
But second time you go to the same place,
you don't have to even think about it.
Your legs and wheels will take you there.
(01:04:17):
So that's the magic of familiarity.
The idea here is to be familiar with the
content you are studying.
Then the learning
process will be like the job.
So how to do it?
First of all, you have to
understand the fundamentals.
Because Liron was famously told that the
learning is something like
(01:04:37):
you're building your tree.
You should have your trunks first, then
the branches and all these things.
Before learning anything, you should have
some level of basic fundamental
understanding of the concepts.
One way to look at it
is to find the ways.
Maybe you could revisit your notes, which
you've taken from your
college or something.
(01:04:57):
But if there is not at all available or
it's very stressful, one way to look at
it is to look at the glossaries.
At the end of the book, it will have
definitions of the key topics
or index is there at the end.
That could be one option to look at it.
Just try to see what is this all about.
Try to understand it in the shortest way,
the fundamental
understanding of that topic.
(01:05:18):
That well is the first step to be
familiar with the topic you are studying.
So now having familiarity, now the
process is the hardest one reading.
Imagine you are having a camera like
Christopher Nolan having a camera, he's
just capturing everything.
Similar way, read the book instead of
reading the words or
sentences, take the photograph of that.
(01:05:39):
So the idea here is that you will just
flip the pages at one to two
seconds per page like that.
This is actually photo reading technique
proposed by Paul Shealy.
The idea here is that your subconscious
brain is capable to manage high amount of
data compared to your normal brain.
You have a limitation of reading when you
(01:06:01):
are normally reading and understanding a
particular words and so idea here is to
have a full loop on that book and then
flipping through the pages.
You have a full view about the corner of
the book that simply
photo reading is like that.
Just go through all the pages, you take
the snap of all the book one by one, but
(01:06:21):
don't worry about it.
Don't try to read it also,
don't try to read the sentences.
Don't worry with the right purpose,
motivation and familiarity, your brain
already know what to read
and it will read itself.
Somehow rely on that
magic rather than the logic.
So after doing that, okay, after just
photo reading the book, you have to
(01:06:42):
actually close the book,
then sleep on it.
Ideally, it should be 24 hours or a day.
So the idea behind here, the logic here
is to allow the brain to have an enough
time to digest and process and organize
that particular information.
(01:07:02):
So that now again you revisit that in
photo reading, they call it activating.
The brain will have everything organized
because now you have
already set a purpose.
You already familiarize your topic, you
learn the fundamental and
you give the data to the brain.
Now the immense potential brain allow it
(01:07:23):
to have its time to
organize during your sleep.
Step 3, identify what is important
inspired by Nicholas
Cage, national pressure.
So the point is that learning becomes so
boring, so cramming and cramps to your
cracks to your brain
because somehow you are struggling first
of all to understand what is important
(01:07:44):
and try to understand
what that concept is.
But here as we follow through the two
steps before, you have a
greater advantage here.
Still you can read like your normal book,
but now you are doing more of an active
learning than passive learning.
Now you have understand the purpose, you
have clear idea of what is there and then
(01:08:05):
you will go further.
So we'll see how to do it, don't worry.
But now you are more into an active way
of learning but more a
productive way of doing it.
First way is to read the questions
because people usually used to tell that
easiest ways to pass an exam is to look
at the past year question papers and all.
(01:08:26):
Even if that question is not going to
repeat, that will give you a flavor of
what are the questions the examination
board want you to learn.
So that way you can focus on that or some
way it is not like you are competing with
the examination board instead just
understand their motive and you are
(01:08:47):
helping them to win along with them.
If you cannot get past year question
paper at least there will be lot of
question banks nowadays.
Even if that is also not available, most
cases you will get that.
At least you can look at the questions at
the end of the chapter which moves to the
textbooks, especially college and school
textbooks will have it.
(01:09:07):
So just try to read it and understand it.
What are the questions the author want
you to understand and what are the
questions the examination board your
teacher want to understand.
That will give you a good understanding
about what to hunt for.
You are into a pressure hunting now like
Nicola's Gage but you want to know what
you are hunting for.
That's important.
Now at this stage you will start reading
(01:09:31):
like you read in any
way normal way before.
Don't push too much on
the speed of reading.
Be relaxed and read it slowly but read it
in such a way that you have a zoomed view
like an eagle then only when you find
something you will dive into it like an
eagle hunting for its prey life.
(01:09:52):
But don't worry you
should trust your intuition.
As we already go through the process
before your brain your subconscious mind
everybody already know
that what is important.
So you have to somehow trust your
intuition and then read it.
So reading through it just read maybe one
page you look at it you
will not see anything.
(01:10:12):
Second page you look at it you can either
look at the headings or you can start
reading the first line of the paragraph.
Maybe that's the thing or sometime you
will just catch your
attention on one particular word.
Then you can read that whole sentence and
then you can read that whole paragraph
then a paragraph
afterwards like that you can go on.
(01:10:34):
Once you lose that focus or that drive
hunting drive on a
particular topic just proceed further.
As you already have your questions there
your mind will try to get the answers to
that questions while
you are reading that.
So that way it will be more protective
way of learning even in a single read you
(01:10:57):
will be just learning everything what you
are supposed to learn.
Now especially most people make notes.
Nodes is actually very powerful technique
but people actually do it over and they
try to note everything
what is in the textbook.
And the same way what is mentioned in the
textbook which is wrong instead you
understand the topic
you can use two methods.
(01:11:17):
One is Fayman Richard Fayman used to be
very famous for simplifying the complex
topic in his own way they
call it Faman technique and all.
So try to reflect that concept in your
own way then write the notes
that one way to look at it.
Another way to look at
it is Protege effect.
Okay suppose you learn this today
tomorrow before the exam your friend come
(01:11:39):
and ask you what is this about then you
are going to tell that to him in a very
shortest possible sentence because exam
you are going to enter
the examination room.
So that simplified explanation that's
also very helpful you can note that.
Don't worry that will give you the whole
picture if you give that clue of treasure
hunting that the whole story of the
(01:12:00):
treasure hunt it will come to your mind.
Don't worry about that so that way you
can simplify your note taking and you can
reduce your effort in making the notes as
well after reading the whole book you
have gone through all the questions.
And you're hunted through all the answers
from the book everything is there and you
already made the notes in your own
(01:12:21):
understanding and in your own explanation
you already put it there
in the book in the notebook.
Now one way what you can do is to make it
more brain friendly by diagrammatically
presenting it a picture is equivalent to
1000 words so one way to use it is the
mind maps and doesn't necessarily to be a
(01:12:41):
tool there are a lot of tools available
online if you cannot find something you
can comment in the box I can tell you a
lot of options don't worry about that.
If you don't have such access to such
things electronic gadgets or something
you can even make it in your own notebook
some diagrammatic way a central topic
mind map is something like a central
(01:13:01):
topic and it will have branches like
neurons you're representing it.
So the diagrammatic thing before you exam
before going to your exam if you look at
that it will give you a complete picture
of what this topic is all about that
somehow the three step process of
learning in all the book
available you don't have to learn
everything sentence you are not a
(01:13:22):
scanning machine or a copying machine or a
computer or something you only want to
learn what you are supposed to learn and
that way his final method of
understanding what is important will help
you to learn such things so the why the
purpose the how the familiarity and the
what what is important is the three step
(01:13:43):
to learn anything that somehow the
conclusion also along with that you can
explore the six books we listed in this
summary already listed in the description
as well you can go through this at your
convenient time and you can go in deep on
each of this topic we referred all the
six books and we make our own version of
that but when you read it I'm sure you
(01:14:04):
will find your own version of doing that
as well until then bye for now.
Why we struggle to study?
How to inspire your
brain to study effortlessly?
Is it because of the lack of motivation?
Or by unfamiliarity with the pages?
Or we don't know what
is important to study?
We are going to explain a three-step
learning principle based on
the three Hollywood icons.
Motivation from the man
(01:00:21):
of sheer focus, John Wick.
Familiarity from the most immersive
director, Christopher Nolan.
And importance from Nicholas Gage, the
man who got unbearable
propensity to hunt for pressures.
Let's get started.
This method actually combines the six
influential books on studying
as well as my journey through
(01:00:41):
engineering and MBA and a two dozen of
certifications and all.
All coined around these three principles
of motivation,
familiarity and importance.
By end of this video, you will have some
way like a fresh
perspective on how to make the
study easier and make it more enjoyable.
(01:01:01):
Step number one, find your motivation.
Yes, inspired from John Wick.
So like the drive of John Wick doing a
revenge because he got a purpose.
Okay, he is getting revenge for his dog
as well as his car to make it simple.
So similar way without any purpose.
Okay, you just reading a book.
Even if you read one thousand times, it
(01:01:24):
will be just a waste
of with a clear purpose.
A single reading of a book is sufficient
and that is actually not
you're not forcing yourself to
learn. Instead, you should be stay calm
with you and the
process will unfold naturally.
So how to do it?
First of all, reflect on your purpose.
Why you want to learn a particular book?
(01:01:46):
Natural reasons could be passing an exam
or make your parents or
teachers happy or avoid the
shame of failure in
front of your friends.
Anything it should be
more clear and concise.
That's important.
That purpose.
Keep it in your mind, then go on further.
After that, visualize and
have an intention setting.
Yes, it's something like you are praying
(01:02:08):
for yourself, but it will
be more logical this time.
In the sense, like you close your eyes,
spine straight, then you just have a deep
breathe of yourself and then let your
inner being, your core is relaxed.
That's the idea here.
Then you revisit that purpose, which you
(01:02:28):
mentioned that intention,
intention have a greatest power.
So in that way, you are
some way in a God's mode.
Okay.
Now, after you have a
purpose, you make your intention set.
Now you have a book in your hand.
Don't be serious this time.
Just flip through the books.
Look at the front page, back page, table
(01:02:50):
of contents, and even
the headings if you want.
Just read it like
you're reading a magazine.
Just skim through the book after skimming
through all the books and all.
You will have some idea about what this
book is all about and
you have a purpose also.
Declare your goals or in another way to
put it simply, write
your purpose to yourself.
(01:03:11):
Okay.
I want to learn this book for this
purpose and I'm expecting
to learn these, these things.
One way this declaration will help your
brain to have an
understanding about what to focus
on this learning process.
Like John Wick is a
person of sheer focus.
John is not a focus.
(01:03:34):
You are a commitment.
You are a sheer will.
Something you know very little about.
Step two is achieving familiarity with
ultrafast reading,
inspired by Christopher Nolan.
The way we know how to learn
from school is actually flawed.
(01:03:54):
So that's one of the main
reason we hate books also.
So suppose imagine you're going to a new
location using your car, you're driving.
You'll be very much stressed.
You'll be worried about whether you will
reach on time, whether you
will just misguide yourself.
But second time you go to the same place,
you don't have to even think about it.
Your legs and wheels will take you there.
(01:04:17):
So that's the magic of familiarity.
The idea here is to be familiar with the
content you are studying.
Then the learning
process will be like the job.
So how to do it?
First of all, you have to
understand the fundamentals.
Because Liron was famously told that the
learning is something like
(01:04:37):
you're building your tree.
You should have your trunks first, then
the branches and all these things.
Before learning anything, you should have
some level of basic fundamental
understanding of the concepts.
One way to look at it
is to find the ways.
Maybe you could revisit your notes, which
you've taken from your
college or something.
(01:04:57):
But if there is not at all available or
it's very stressful, one way to look at
it is to look at the glossaries.
At the end of the book, it will have
definitions of the key topics
or index is there at the end.
That could be one option to look at it.
Just try to see what is this all about.
Try to understand it in the shortest way,
the fundamental
understanding of that topic.
(01:05:18):
That well is the first step to be
familiar with the topic you are studying.
So now having familiarity, now the
process is the hardest one reading.
Imagine you are having a camera like
Christopher Nolan having a camera, he's
just capturing everything.
Similar way, read the book instead of
reading the words or
sentences, take the photograph of that.
(01:05:39):
So the idea here is that you will just
flip the pages at one to two
seconds per page like that.
This is actually photo reading technique
proposed by Paul Shealy.
The idea here is that your subconscious
brain is capable to manage high amount of
data compared to your normal brain.
You have a limitation of reading when you
(01:06:01):
are normally reading and understanding a
particular words and so idea here is to
have a full loop on that book and then
flipping through the pages.
You have a full view about the corner of
the book that simply
photo reading is like that.
Just go through all the pages, you take
the snap of all the book one by one, but
(01:06:21):
don't worry about it.
Don't try to read it also,
don't try to read the sentences.
Don't worry with the right purpose,
motivation and familiarity, your brain
already know what to read
and it will read itself.
Somehow rely on that
magic rather than the logic.
So after doing that, okay, after just
photo reading the book, you have to
(01:06:42):
actually close the book,
then sleep on it.
Ideally, it should be 24 hours or a day.
So the idea behind here, the logic here
is to allow the brain to have an enough
time to digest and process and organize
that particular information.
(01:07:02):
So that now again you revisit that in
photo reading, they call it activating.
The brain will have everything organized
because now you have
already set a purpose.
You already familiarize your topic, you
learn the fundamental and
you give the data to the brain.
Now the immense potential brain allow it
(01:07:23):
to have its time to
organize during your sleep.
Step 3, identify what is important
inspired by Nicholas
Cage, national pressure.
So the point is that learning becomes so
boring, so cramming and cramps to your
cracks to your brain
because somehow you are struggling first
of all to understand what is important
(01:07:44):
and try to understand
what that concept is.
But here as we follow through the two
steps before, you have a
greater advantage here.
Still you can read like your normal book,
but now you are doing more of an active
learning than passive learning.
Now you have understand the purpose, you
have clear idea of what is there and then
(01:08:05):
you will go further.
So we'll see how to do it, don't worry.
But now you are more into an active way
of learning but more a
productive way of doing it.
First way is to read the questions
because people usually used to tell that
easiest ways to pass an exam is to look
at the past year question papers and all.
(01:08:26):
Even if that question is not going to
repeat, that will give you a flavor of
what are the questions the examination
board want you to learn.
So that way you can focus on that or some
way it is not like you are competing with
the examination board instead just
understand their motive and you are
(01:08:47):
helping them to win along with them.
If you cannot get past year question
paper at least there will be lot of
question banks nowadays.
Even if that is also not available, most
cases you will get that.
At least you can look at the questions at
the end of the chapter which moves to the
textbooks, especially college and school
textbooks will have it.
(01:09:07):
So just try to read it and understand it.
What are the questions the author want
you to understand and what are the
questions the examination board your
teacher want to understand.
That will give you a good understanding
about what to hunt for.
You are into a pressure hunting now like
Nicola's Gage but you want to know what
you are hunting for.
That's important.
Now at this stage you will start reading
(01:09:31):
like you read in any
way normal way before.
Don't push too much on
the speed of reading.
Be relaxed and read it slowly but read it
in such a way that you have a zoomed view
like an eagle then only when you find
something you will dive into it like an
eagle hunting for its prey life.
(01:09:52):
But don't worry you
should trust your intuition.
As we already go through the process
before your brain your subconscious mind
everybody already know
that what is important.
So you have to somehow trust your
intuition and then read it.
So reading through it just read maybe one
page you look at it you
will not see anything.
(01:10:12):
Second page you look at it you can either
look at the headings or you can start
reading the first line of the paragraph.
Maybe that's the thing or sometime you
will just catch your
attention on one particular word.
Then you can read that whole sentence and
then you can read that whole paragraph
then a paragraph
afterwards like that you can go on.
(01:10:34):
Once you lose that focus or that drive
hunting drive on a
particular topic just proceed further.
As you already have your questions there
your mind will try to get the answers to
that questions while
you are reading that.
So that way it will be more protective
way of learning even in a single read you
(01:10:57):
will be just learning everything what you
are supposed to learn.
Now especially most people make notes.
Nodes is actually very powerful technique
but people actually do it over and they
try to note everything
what is in the textbook.
And the same way what is mentioned in the
textbook which is wrong instead you
understand the topic
you can use two methods.
(01:11:17):
One is Fayman Richard Fayman used to be
very famous for simplifying the complex
topic in his own way they
call it Faman technique and all.
So try to reflect that concept in your
own way then write the notes
that one way to look at it.
Another way to look at
it is Protege effect.
Okay suppose you learn this today
tomorrow before the exam your friend come
(01:11:39):
and ask you what is this about then you
are going to tell that to him in a very
shortest possible sentence because exam
you are going to enter
the examination room.
So that simplified explanation that's
also very helpful you can note that.
Don't worry that will give you the whole
picture if you give that clue of treasure
hunting that the whole story of the
(01:12:00):
treasure hunt it will come to your mind.
Don't worry about that so that way you
can simplify your note taking and you can
reduce your effort in making the notes as
well after reading the whole book you
have gone through all the questions.
And you're hunted through all the answers
from the book everything is there and you
already made the notes in your own
(01:12:21):
understanding and in your own explanation
you already put it there
in the book in the notebook.
Now one way what you can do is to make it
more brain friendly by diagrammatically
presenting it a picture is equivalent to
1000 words so one way to use it is the
mind maps and doesn't necessarily to be a
(01:12:41):
tool there are a lot of tools available
online if you cannot find something you
can comment in the box I can tell you a
lot of options don't worry about that.
If you don't have such access to such
things electronic gadgets or something
you can even make it in your own notebook
some diagrammatic way a central topic
mind map is something like a central
(01:13:01):
topic and it will have branches like
neurons you're representing it.
So the diagrammatic thing before you exam
before going to your exam if you look at
that it will give you a complete picture
of what this topic is all about that
somehow the three step process of
learning in all the book
available you don't have to learn
everything sentence you are not a
(01:13:22):
scanning machine or a copying machine or a
computer or something you only want to
learn what you are supposed to learn and
that way his final method of
understanding what is important will help
you to learn such things so the why the
purpose the how the familiarity and the
what what is important is the three step
(01:13:43):
to learn anything that somehow the
conclusion also along with that you can
explore the six books we listed in this
summary already listed in the description
as well you can go through this at your
convenient time and you can go in deep on
each of this topic we referred all the
six books and we make our own version of
that but when you read it I'm sure you
(01:14:04):
will find your own version of doing that
as well until then bye for now.
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