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Focusing Your Unconscious Mind: Learn Hard Concepts Intuitively (And Forever)

Colin Galen 1,021,964 2 years ago
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A general learning method for learning and understanding hard concepts intuitively/deeply/obviously, and for long periods - up to years at a time. I’ve put in some easter eggs this time - enjoy finding them. Sources (probably not exhaustive): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glZLHLLalv0 https://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/ https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/23806/understanding-the-intuition-behind-math https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/ Music (not in order, I'm still lazy) Local Forecast - Slower by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3988-local-forecast---slower License: [yt dislikes this link, removed] Dreams by Bensound https://www.bensound.com Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM Sthlm Sunset by Ehrling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEhoGt4mIw (not exactly sure how to credit, the link is dead) Sunset On Terra by HYBRID V (Creative Commons License) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM Paradise by Ikson ( https://youtube.com/ikson ) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtj7_KaplM This Is For You (Prod. by Lukrembo) Link : https://youtu.be/GC0AhsnDMfc Timestamps 00:00 Intro (and about me) 00:31 What does “intuitively” mean? 01:41 Core principles 02:58 Abstraction barrier 05:10 How to understand a single piece? 05:41 Single piece - caring 06:51 Single piece - unleashing your brain 09:26 Single piece - reading the solution 10:01 Single piece - no need to solve it 10:33 How to reinforce? 11:16 Reinforcing - invent 11:27 Reinforcing - practice 12:05 Reinforcing - explain 12:56 Reinforcing - explore 13:58 Reinforcing - over time 15:09 Tying it all together 15:31 An ecosystem of learning 16:42 IQ 18:14 Final remarks

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