Old Man Learns about Learning

  Here's an interesting approach: (TmT) = theMITmonk --  Give Me 18 Minutes and I’ll Make you Dangerously Smart (with AI)

 Lately, everything is a long playlist of "courses" (cc) = Crash Course --  Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5                              ---^^^-- Study Skills playlist                         ---^^^--  Scientific Thinking                         ---^^^-- The Universe                         ---^^^--  Climate & Energy                         ---^^^--  Artificial Intelligence (21 videos)                         ---^^^--  History of Sc...

 From Reddit on 1/15/2026 [Highlights added]: This page last updated 01/18/2026 (here?) Takes me a lot of time to understand the material I'm studying. [Finding the better "neural anchor points"] [an OP writes]: To put it into perspective, I just took 2-3 hours for a 17 min video on fertilization (I'm a med student). I had like a million doubts and then some more. So I kept pausing the video and googling and googling. And it's not like I understand the contents after one google. No, it takes me question after question because it seems like there's a new doubt for every answer. I see all these tips like "teach others" "active recall" "use flashcards", etc.  but these only seem to be useful to remember stuff rather than understanding it for the first time. How do I teach something that I couldn't understand in the first place? This is a huge problem for me cuz I have tons of material to cover. I'm gon enter exam season in ...