Efficient studying: how to learn so FAST it feels illegal

I think you've been taught to learn in the wrong way when I was six I started my first math Olympiad competition class not because I was good at math or even liked math but for extra credits in the gal Cal China's college entrance exam which is also known as one of the toughest exams in the world at 17 I transferred to a military Stout boarding school we studied 14 hours a day every morning we will get up at 6: a. m. in the morning and then we'll run half a mile together and then we'll study until 10:30 p.

m. and there were no weekends and we can only go home once every 40 days just in one year I took over 200 exams at the end of the year we followed the brutal cycle of taking two days of exam studying for one day and then take another exam for two days despite all that I actually didn't get into my dream College in China so I decided to study abroad and I went to a liberal art college first and after a couple years of quizzes exams and essays where always get straight A I finally applied and got into Columbia University which is my dream school and where I got rewarded for more quizzes and exams hi welcome to my channel my name is Han as someone who spent nearly her entire life in education the single most valuable skill I developed is how to learn more efficiently I've also done extensive research on this topic and in this video I'm going to share all that with you before I dive in I want to clarify that when I'm going going to share with you is not just a shortcut or a trick to get better grades on your exams without putting in any time or effort the way I think about it it's more like oh say if you want to travel 100 miles walking would take more than 40 hours but driving only takes about an hour and 40 minutes the right tool makes all the difference in fact research has showns that people only can do about 4 hours of deep work each day and for maximum of productivity we shouldn't work for more than 72.