Today, a memory expert reveals his studying secrets. From 40 years ago.

0:00 A time machine
01:00 Study secret #1
01:30 Study secret #2
02:16 Study secret #3
05:30 What Robert Bjork from 1979 can teach us

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REFERENCES

This video was based on a Robert Bjork joint:

Bjork, R. A. (1979). Information‐processing analysis of college teaching. Educational Psychologist, 14(1), 1523. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...

The sentence rearrangement study comes from: Bradford, E. J. (1975). Retention of subjectgenerated verbal material (Doctoral dissertation, ProQuest Information & Learning).

For more modern advice from researchers on studying, check out:

Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the public interest, 14(1), 458.

NOTE: I know nothing about immune systems. Just using as a potential example. Please don't take anything I say about them as gospel.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Image of Thucydides sculpture from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Image of alRazi sculpture from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Image of Louis Pasteur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lo...

Image of Paul Ehrlich: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The immune system process image comes from: https://www.covalab.com/media/wysiwyg...

The innate vs adaptive immune system slide comes from: https://microbenotes.com/differences...