What are Bloom's six levels of thinking?

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Does anyone know what happens in the amcs when people self engage in doing something that they do not enjoy?

Answer 1

Made me start thinking and taking notes from a whole nother, way more purposeful perspective rather than mindlessly jotting down things that might stick out (sometimes i did this before). Thank you so much

Answer 2

This video reminded me of a quote by mathematician Stefan Banach where he says: "A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies."

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Wonderful quote

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awesome quote. In my case, I'd have first to memorize and understand the scope of a theorem, an analogy, and a theory.

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U know I wanna be so sooo good at maths,but I'm not I don't know why

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lets give up. we're not those chosen few

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bruh you can do this. Math is alien. So is typing. Yet you did it.

Every single kid I’ve seen who’s bad at math (I tutor math for money as a side job) didn’t understand something as a child (I.e. division, exponents with negative numbers, order of operations) which is essential for learning the next (calculus).

Return to addition. Solve a few problems and move on if you think you understand it well. Then multiplication. First with integers. Then fractions. Then subtraction and division, in similar fashion. Then tangents using division. Read some proofs of Pythagoras’ theorem. Then sin cos tan in right triangles.

After a few weeks (hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if you did it in 6 days) you’ll be breezing through something that seemed impossible before.
Math is alien, so the only way to advance is through previous, more fundamental math. Fundamentals. You got it bruh.

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I agree, math is a subject that builds of basics and it is not a mystical thing that some people will never improve at. You just need to put in effort to improve and you need to find the right approach for yourself

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I didn't get the right education, my teachers are worst they didn't teach anything from A to Z and if I talk about maths I want to learn it practically like not with online classes, I find maths very interesting but I don't know how to do it I'm in 9th grade and I don't know about a little equation life sucks I literally want to understand deeper and deeper, if I don't know the basics then how do I solve big problems

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 NO

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this is how I learn

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This is how I learn. If I can’t relate it something or provide a hypothetical example then idk what I’m talking about

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This was actually really encouraging. I didn’t take to academia at all, and spent too many years in McJobs as a result. When I finally got an opportunity to break into more cerebral work, I had so much catch up on. I was surrounded by top tier graduates who had so much of this drilled into them. But I learned this, the pressure and expectations from leaders made it a necessity. Some would outright ask ‘so what?’, they want recommendations, they need to know you’ve considered and compared results and have solid reasoning behind your proposals. This would have been superhandy ten years ago, but its v interesting now!

Answer 4

for reference, everything covered in this video is from a book called "A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing", written by Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl. It's a great book

Answer 5

Thanks to going into level 6 thinking (after being in his course for a year) i am understanding deeply things faster and faster, and my grades at a top 10 worldwide business school are among the best in my class, so i would encourage anyone to try that level. That's the thinking level of someone who is having a lot of ideas/hypothesis. Also you get the real satisfaction of gaining true knowledge, which in my experience is far superior than excellent grade. Thank you so much Justin really.

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Great comment, but I just would encourage you to use those higher order learning skills to evaluate Elon Musks words and actions (not what you think he’s said and done, go and look at what he’s ACTUALLY said and done) before valorizing his intellect.

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you are right, I agree.

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Congratulations

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Thanks for sharing and leaving a comment!

Answer 6

Because many professional programmers, recommends to beginners building their own projects, for exploring programming or a topic. Thank you very much, this video too helpful :) !

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Absolutely - you got it :)

Answer 7

For those who want to know the levels: 1:CREATE 2:EVALUATE 3:ANALYZE 4:APPLY 5:UNDERSTAND 6:REMEMBER

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(Avoid confusion, this comment has it on the descending order, but they're all important)

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Yup, inverted order

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Bro is at level 0

Answer 8

When I was on a consulting job in China, we had a lovely young interpreter. After a week of becoming familiar with each other, I asked her what her degree was. She answered that she had a master's degree in chemical engineering, specializing in reaction kinetics, one of the hardest areas in chemical engineering. I then asked her if she had always wanted to work in that field and she said that she had wanted to be a teacher. I then asked her why she had not entered that field. She replied that she had not scored high enough on the tests. What a wonderfully different attitude about the teaching profession compared to America.

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Wow, that is fascinating! The state of things in other countries really makes you think. Over here in Nigeria, there's little to no respect for teachers at all. It is an unspoken fact that no one willingly enters the profession, they 'end up there' . Except for the public(notably 'unity schools' as we call em')and  some private schools with acceptable standards, so many teachers are under qualified and paid poorly so it's surprising that someone of such caliber will fail a test that will be seen as a mere formality over here

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My experience of China is very different: university professors were the worst students at top universities, because the best students were going to work in a company to make more money.
Also, what your story should tell you, is how riddiculous it is, that such a person that can reinvent herself in so many ways and wanted to be a teacher, was cut off from teaching because of a crazy test, that says absolutely nothing about your teaching ability and commitment.

The Chinese education system is a depression factory that actively stops students from thinking at higher levels and teaches them to specialize at level 1-3.

If you ask Chinese people, they will tell you that they are 1 billion people, so the gaokao is necessary, but that is not true. In Taiwan there is 20 million people, but the education system is very similar anyway, proving that it is a cultural thing that would never work outside of Asia.

If you want to see real good examples of good education systems that could work in western countries, look at Finland and Estonia. They also empower and respect teachers and students, without the gaokao bullshit. They are smaller countries with less entitled population, but moving towards an education system more similar to theirs would still work to some extent.

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Astounding. Thanks!

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very well said, couldn’t put it better myself. :)

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in the US are not compensated for their work at all, and aren’t really respected. That’s why many are leaving the field. But I guess education in America isn’t bad, it just hasn’t been adequately updated/improved.

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It's not only in China, believe me. Trying to get a teaching job up in Oregon put me through a ridiculous situation as if 25 years of teaching experience (high schooling's LA  to mentoring major corporate clients in different fields in Europe), and having managed 2 careers weren't enough. Figured it was just too much for them. Very discriminating also in Europe.

Answer 9

It is just fabulous for me that I have gone through all of these levels for some questions in my senior secondary school (12th in Indian standards) but I didn't know how to do it

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jee student ?

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Same here

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nah cs aspirant ( company secretary)

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yes, in jee as well as in neet exam teachers tell us to do these things like --  giving test(level-3) then analyze after result (level-4) then look what need to be done about your wrongdoings etc.(level-5) and toppers also tells like they used to make questions by themselves(level-6)

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it's like in our education system I guess it is so much worse that to get good marks students themselves increase their potential by doing these things
Which might increase the levels of thinking
Like when you can't get a proper answer and you aren't able to satisfy yourself with incomplete knowledge you start creating theories yourself and when you research and they proofs as perfect that's the point you realise you are on other level then other students who are just reading the book instead of understanding and connecting the dots

Answer 10

There's a book called Hidden Time Wealth, and it talks about how using some secret techniques, you can overcome procrastination and accomplish anything in life. It's not just a bunch of empty promises; it's the real deal.

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I can't find the book. what the name? and author?

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Are you sure thats the name of it? I couldnt find it anywhere

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They robbed you of your time, that's how they accumulate their "Hidden Time Wealth."

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·Liuu They robbed you of your time, that's how they accumulate their "Hidden Time Wealth."

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This book is written by a scam artist. Dr E Chase. Don't be sucked in to buying any of her rubbish, you will just make her wealthier, and you poorer. Scam.

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Something is seriously wrong here.

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i saw this same exact comment from another account word for word on another video, probably a bot smh

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bot.

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I saw this comment on an Ali Abdaal video as well, so it probably is a bot

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copilot redirects to a website by that name, you need to pay and purchase the book. It is not available anywhere else, not even amazon, nothing on google

Answer 11

This was really enlightening. I realize now that I’ve never really gotten to level 5… upon introspection, I find that the barrier that keeps me from learning at higher levels is laziness.

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If your body is not trained, you may find that it is also laziness that keeps you from lifting 100kg
With practice even high level exercise becomes natural, and not a chore — both in body and in mind
In terms of thinking, what worked for me was finding a branch of philosophy that really caught me (metaphysics), and going hard at it for several years, high levels of thinking came before I realised it!
(It did take a lot of VERY slow reading, and numerous existential crises tho)

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Paraphrasing what he said, to achieve level 5 you should look at the material with the eyes of curiosity. Where is this going, in what context was this created, is this still used today, what alternatives are there, why is this important

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Self awareness is an awesome achievement to unlock. From here on out it's up and up I'm sure!

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Wow! Thank you. Your comment gave me a bright idea. I tend to be overly focused on the overall process rather than taking the very next step.

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Thank you. I just subscribed. Looking forward to growing and changing as I follow you.

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The same thing happens to me, now that you mention it  Glad to hear that!!!

Answer 12

Aren't children by birth at level 5 and level 6 ? They r questioning everything and hypothesising like the oldest philosophers......So it is true we were born intelligent but formal education ruined us

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  yeah they dumb us down on purpose.

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this is so a level 4 question

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At age 5 you start to slow down in your natural genius

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We always encouraged level 4-6 thinking, so my children were improving there instead of slowing down.

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Just thinking about school makes me salty

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​@@AhappyGaucoMoleMemethen become a NPC

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I'm contemplating that

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Actually children learn differently. This is why children can master a language a lot faster. They absorb information like sponges. Im not sure if it’s natural brain formation being less nuerplastic as kids grow, formal education that stops this natural curiosity, or a combination of things- bad toxic foods and sugar, lack of grounding or going outside, lack of freedom in a school setting, modern phones shortening attention span, ect… but yeah it probably plays a huge part. I’m done with school and trying to get these abilities back by giving myself lots of freedom to think and understand things without comparing myself to others, staying away from toxic people and allowing myself to play freely. I’m really getting better at getting my older thinking but it will take time.

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that’s  not true, your child's brain creates millions of neural connections every day. During adolescence, it slows down but remains VERY significant. As an adult, you need to maintain these connections. Your brain still builds many connections, but if you don't maintain them, the old ones die off, keeping only what's necessary over time. By age 25, you lose more connections than you create. The goal here is to strengthen your brain, which makes learning difficult if you're not used to it.

What I'm saying is a bit messy—I learned this years ago. The brain has different stages of development and ages that are unique to it. From birth to adolescence, you're at your peak in terms of learning, and during adolescence, you start to understand what you've learned.

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i mean, yea

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child’s at birth see world upside down. They have no more Intetention than eat and sleep.

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you are absolutely right

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Indoctrination 101

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Are newborns making value-weighted systems of numerical values and creating new formulas and functional algorithms to meaningfully add to the sum of human knowledge? No, not yet.

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 I guess..... And I guess that's how I discovered things that otherwise I would've either had to search for or someone tells me about. Right now I'm losing my thinking levels in questioning less.... And getting caught in a trance and ideas firing in my brain grows less and less.... I discovered ciphers.... I might not be losing hope. The

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Depends on the concept on which you are thinking at level 5 or 6. Children learn concepts that are simpler. This is my argument.

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Normal school does that
Most schools in the world actually follow a rule, simply making everyone think the same.

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absolutely

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In term of intention and perception it's true, but beside them meaningfullness required awareness(an advanced lvl of knowledge) which requires time, energy and efforts. Kids who managed to keep sharp perception and searcher intention for long enough will natuarlly reach commensurate lvl.

Answer 13

This explains why my chemistry homework was effective. It began with simple problems, some of which might not have been discussed in class, and it was up to students to figure it out.

Answer 14

This is the most important video for studying I've ever watched. THANK YOU! This explains why I can "understand" everything for the MCAT but keep forgetting it. I need to start at level 5. Incredible!!! Thank you again sir!

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You're very welcome!

Answer 15

The way I learned music reminds me of the last part of this video. I took some private lessons late in my high school career and took music theory classes in college, but at the same time was playing improvisational music at a church. I had to figure out how to create musical parts in real time without any written music without really having much time with the rudiments but having some theory knowledge. I’ve always felt that it was a top down approach; and it enabled  me to be able to play at a high level in a relatively short period of time. It was essentially like navigating one’s way through a forest by starting with a map of the forest whereas the traditional music student was starting with a diagram of cell of a tree. Starting with that level of detail will likely keep most from ever being a higher level performing musician.

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Hello I also want to learn that because I can play music with the script (sorry I don’t know if it’s called like that, I’m french). I took music as an option in High school but I think that it was superficial because I can only play music with a script and if one of those notes (C,D,E,F,G,H,A,B) are written on top of the figure. The script is divided in several “segments” so I learn the left hand first then the right hand then learn to play them together for each segments then the whole music.

But that means I only know how to use my hands to play piano but don’t know how to play improvisational music or create musical parts in real time…

So how did you make your way through this challenge ? Was it through the private lessons ?

Answer 16

I've watched it twice now and it just keeps being understood better and better

Answer 17

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Answer 18

This really hits me in a plethora of ways. In elementary school I would sit, stare out of the window (I read that in my year book as I didn't remember all of this) most of the time not even responding to someone directing a question at me and barely making any notes. My teachers would identify this as a problem. I had an attention problem they would say. I'm only ever good at things I'm interested in and I have the capacity to get basically any grade at any time even if it's the same topic. Other people around me like my mom or my granddad would say I'm slow. I wouldn't respond as quickly as they deemed appropriate I took my time with the things I did. I also would seem super nervous all the time and have ticks like twitching my nose and pinching my eyes. I mean I also wore glasses and they put some real pressure onto my nose you could even see indentations after a couple of hours wearing them, so that probably didn't help either. But it feels like it came from coping with the mental stress of being in analytical mode all the time.
 And I can't remember when or how it happened but at some point I just came to believe that they must be right and there is something wrong with me and I'm simply to slow for basically anything. Later I came to a realization. I looked at some old tests of mine and something struck me. Almost all the answers I've ever given were correct. In some examinations I simply had answered way fewer of the questions as opposed to others. I always felt like surprised that time is over. Time never really meant anything to me. Still doesn't to this very day. Later in high school it was basically the same. I would make almost no notes at all. Maybe like 10% of what the others were writing when they were copying entire blackboards full of information into their work books. I never did that. I just listened and thought. I just recently realized that, my brain is simply in analyze mode most of the time. The less meaningful the question to me the quicker I am. Teachers in elementary would say I won't make it at high school (we have two different systems of high school in Germany) and gave their advice for the easier path. I chose the hard one. Now why would I do that if I really felt basically anything was too hard for me. It was really hard, because it still all depended on time. And for me answering a question could take anywhere from 1minute to 10minutes. Depending on how far my analytical mode took me away from simply answering the question in the most straight forward way possible. You know now that I think about it I was more likely operating at level 5, because trying to find the best answer to a question without evaluating the different possible answers doesn't make any sense. And it really always was for me about finding not just an answer but the most appropriate one. Hell I even knew how to cheat the system. There was this one year when my mom would promise me my first own PC when I got good grades. That was 98' a household with a PC was rare back then. And low and behold with a few exceptions I got only As and was suddenly best of class. All it took was giving the textbook answers. how dull. I still remember how the best students and teachers alike were completely mind-boggled. I wasn't. I knew how I'd done it. I simply focused on what I wanted only memorized the necessary information and puked it onto the paper. That's how you get best grades in our broken school system.
Sadly college wasn't any different. If anything it was even worse. Yes. I made college. The slow poke who wasn't fit to make advanced high school. I haven't even used flash cards except for this one time where I learned the hardcore way for an exam I literally hadn't done anything for the entire semester. I started about 4 hours before the exam puked everything on paper and went to bed. Passed. School doesn't require you to be smart, it only requires you to be diligent. That's why I hated it; it was awfully boring.

I wish I would think less though. At least for the majority of time. Would make things a lot easier.

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Hey,
1. Please break the huge block of text into paragraphs.
2. I feel like you are a subvocal thinker. I think this, because it read very linearly, and I am practicing it now to encorporate more into my own style of thinking which is predominantly visual rendering/experience based. Because of this I associate between thoughs and go deep into paralle thoughs and then waste time.
3. I used to be like you, I still think I am, and is actively trying to stop doing this.
4. I also wish I would think less, hence I started doing busy work, like either playing games, or just making some gadgets, or repairing electronics etc, this puts me in a trance like state, but it is boring and is eating away at me. So i plan on stopping it.
5. My issues was that I was too much of a visual thinker and would just start simulating and rendering things in my head, I do not feel time passing, and I waste hours in this zoned out state, while I am technically not thinking, my brain is in overdrive because I am rendering novel experiences and visuals, and sounds and sensations.
6. What I have learned, and I think you should know: Progress over perfection, and result over trying or effort. If you dont have an end result its all a waste. So make sure you have an end result at appropriate times. Then you can iterate on it to make it better, but always have end result for the goal. So set maybe 10 mins to a task, and make sure u have an end result. It doesnt have to be good, but if you have a result, you can always iterate on it, and submit that result. It is always about result is what I understand.

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I completely agree with you in the way the scholl system evaluates people, and it really is boring, I have had a similar experience as yours (as I think of it) and I am bored all the time in school

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Being analytical and overthinking are two different things. You achieve analytical thinking when you are able to focus your thinking on something and you have to be mindful

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I can totally relate. I had no problem with grades either when it suited me. But usually I'd be done with the text book by the second week. End of chapter questions all answered. Never turned it in only took the tests and rarely got less than an A on tests but the teachers with exception of a few would give me c's and d's for never doing classwork and homework. I didn't care because obviously their system was broke beyond fixing. 3 teachers gave me A's as long as I aced all the tests.

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Gosh . What’s it like being a bona fide ( although I’m sure completely unrecognized ) genius . The rest of us can barely keep up with what it is you’re trying to articulate . There must be some way you could come down from your level 5 thinking, if even for a short time , to help the mental midgets around you understand.

Answer 19

Please go deeper. I’m so perplexed about studying History. When I understand, I forget facts. When I learn facts, I do not remember what it was about. And in history both are important, esp. remembering facts is so difficult.

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there's an book/audio series called The Story of the World that is very fun to listen to. you could try reading historical novels that help you engage your imagination so the facts become more relatable

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People always say “but my field requires remembering facts”. They may be right but I’ll disagree. You don’t remember facts. They’re the most basic building blocks that you use to build complex objects with. You look up reference if you forget. However, you tend to remember them for quite a long time if you’ve used them in your big project.

History is probably something that  people say “there’s only facts, not understanding”. But if I was a History major, I would find an interest on an event or an important figure and find more information about them instead of just memorizing all random events separately.

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Same Problem here

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I love this, not just for myself, but to better understand where other people are coming from when collaborating.

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Wow, thank you for sharing.

Where have you learn to think this way please?

Are you from Slovakia or Czech Republic by any chance?

Answer 20

I will be honest.... I have never heard of this concept but I resched it within my respective profession. This video really spoke to me. I am a level 6 thinker, and as you went through each one, I could understand each explanation because I constantly applies these levels of thinking. Especially level 6. In fact, because I grew to each level overtime naturally within my complex profession,  I fully could relate to and understand each level of thinking. Great video!