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Alec Palmerton, MD

Alec Palmerton, MD

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I Reviewed 28,655 Flashcards Every Day for 17 Years. I Barely Had to Study.

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God, what a pathetic video

— @nas8318

I Reviewed 28,655 Flashcards Every Day for 17 Years. I Barely Had to Study.

I reviewed 28,655 flashcards every day for 17 years, and it allowed me to remember everything while studying less than 30 minutes a day. In this video, I break down the exact spaced repetition system I used to improve retention and stop forgetting what I learned for medical school and board exams.

I am 4 min into this and i am thinking this is a skit or a joke that he is playing on someone.. Is he real doctor and if so were is he at so i can stay atleast 100 miles away at all times so there is no chance of me getting anything done by him

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"I'm not intelligent, I just never forget." bro... It's all you need or you want to forget doinng some cirurgy?

— @Siryno

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Yes, that's nice. You learned by rote. That's what it's called.
What's required of our doctors is conceptualization, application, and adaption.
Can you?

— @ClockworkGearhead

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Dumbest video on youtube...

@Jeff-zc6rr
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Assuming you sleep 8 hours per day, that leaves you with around 65,000 seconds in a day. So if you spent every waking hour reviewing flashcards, you'd have to do each in less than 3 seconds each to get through 28,655 per day. If you took any breaks at all, you'd have to do each one much faster than that.

@RelevantDad
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i think he meant to say "i did a daily flashcard review totaling 28,655 flashcards in the last year"

@markstone6263
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Could u give me any advice on how to apply this to mathematics? Btw ive never wrote a flashcard in my life before, but what your saying makes a lot of sense to me

@jibreelamin6232
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Bravo!! Thank you so much!!

@ericbagdasarian7781
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Anki worked really well but after some time, due time for some cards exceeded months (I had to take the test in 2 months), and then I had to play with the settings (which can be quite difficult to get right), and then it was all a mess.

@Sohaib1911
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I think I am considering leaving YouTube as a source of valuable input when learning languages or anything...

The videos here suggested to me more and more seem to be like a product of some phantasy, a morbid vision, manipulation or just a lie. Why there are so many videos of this type out there?

Guys, if someone would review 28655 flashcards a day, it would mean that even doing it 16 hours a day without any brake to eat, to use the toilet or whatever, you would review one flashcard every two seconds.
Reviewing every two seconds a flashcard 16 hours a day for 17 years.
I think you would just die from it, it would just get you crazy, your mind would just collapse, or you would die.

If you would do it 8 hours a day - 1 second a flashcard. What would even be the sense if doing it when learning? Some words, when learning them, require more than one second to be even pronounced!

Last time I came across an account of someone making a 0,5 hours long A1 language course... and also 0,5 hours long A2 course.
We have more and more so called "Language gurus" claiming that this fake shit is even real or possible.
It looks like those AI generated videos. You watch and think... why I watched this fake meaningless shit? It all looks like we all live on a surface and do not look any deep meaning of the things. Do we all want to live in a fake world soon where nothing will be real anymore?

@AdrianStefanik1
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Thanks

@SimplyShivv
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I spent 1000 days doing paperwork for my company without having to work

@aidanwong3429
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Studeer feynman techniek + blirthing

@Talismanvanaane
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I wasnt wondering.

@plekkchand
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I have one question, in themes that you have never seen before, do you take notes and than convert it to Anki or just do ankis during classes?

@pedrovitralrezende2052
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One second per card would still take you 8 hours. I don’t think so

@Antimétrique
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reviewing flashcards is considered stuying

@p_kivy
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I'm not understanding how reviewing all those flash cards is not studying?

@theclimbto1
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This supports a video I once saw by Derek Banas who does videos like "C++ in one hour". One of his videos is titled "How I learn everything" because so many people (such as me) ask how he manages to cover so many topics in depth. So he gave a tutorial on Anki that is basically explaining spaced repetition of flash cards -- emphasis on the repetition. Sad to say, I was too lazy but maybe I should give it another go.

@UteChewb
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It's why students that learned Latin and greek in th epast were smart. They could figure out unfamiliar words and principles and use context to understand. Of course, we don't learn Latin or Greek today, because that might actually help people.

@herculesrockefeller8969
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Doesn't work in real degree - engineering

@dominikbaricak9589
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Nice but it may not work for everyone

@Kenbomp
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I've been trying to learn Japanese for the last two years. As for the kanjis, there's no way around than go through the list of them and write them down again and again. I may try Anki for the vocabulary, however.

@headboom7230
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I daily keep pinboards and little notes for everything. I use notes like flashcards.

@ritageraghty3261
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Im sorry but he is really good speaker. Thats all. No system, no secret. 🙄 talk talk talk, i have a program, join to learn, talk talk talk...

@cihangur5131
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FFS people, what’s with all the whining and outrage over the meaning of the word “study”!?

Clearly, where his title says that he barely had to “study” he is referring to the most common meaning of that word; i.e.
1. Pore over your notes and course books, flipping back and forward from section to section, sometimes underlining or highlighting as you do
2. Look up dictionaries and glossaries,
3. Progress homework problems, writing essays, going over worked exercises, and so on.
4. Present what you have learned to someone else
… and any of the umpteen other components of studying, the majority of which require intentionally, consciously wrestling with the content you are trying to jam into your stubborn and uncooperative brain.

That stands in sharp contrast to going through a flash card session; i.e. a more or less mechanical repetition of the following steps, none of which involve much if any wrestling:
1. Read the prompt/question side of the next card,
2. Give your response/answer,
3. Compare with the response/answer side, and let the system know how you did (e.g. by clicking the appropriate button if using software like Anki, or replacing the card in the appropriate drawer/tray if using a physical system like Leitner)

Use words to mean whatever you like, but it is bloody obvious he means that by doing the second kind of thing, he learned tons of stuff without having to do much of the first kind of thing.

@KT-dj4iy
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I'm no genius, but let's do the math! 28,655 cards at 30 minutes per day= 955 cards per minute, or 16 cards per second! Impressive! Everyday he did that! Totally believe it! It's not clickbait at all! So easy! LOL

@IM1deadMONEY
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This video is 90% flexing and false modesty, 10% bs.

@RM-jb2bv
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Does it work for computer science or engineering?

@eng.sultan2
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I signed up for the FREE 14 step course, followed the prompts, that led me to a PAYWALL to Pay?? WTF what am I missing?

@IrishGal690
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この類似性や共通項をきづきこのルールから外れる例外を見つけることができる能力を測るのがIQテストで測れるものなんだろうな

@ローヤー-x4w
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I ate 30,000 calories every day for 17 years. I barely had to eat anything to stay alive. ahh video

@tommyluo1409
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Pre-requisite: Autism

@pandorasplanners6458
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'Literally' is your best friend. :)

@EduardoL0p3s
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Autism is a hell of a disease

@Idiot-lf4cj
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Clickbait!! Do not waste your time watching this video.

@yutzu
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Problem: You are stressed/forgetting things.

It's going to get worse; you're failing; your methods don't work.

Solution: My specific method (which you can learn more about in my other content/program).

@mohammadhbasurrah624
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SIR 28,655 Flashcards Every Day IS STUDYING

@betterpurple
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Are you a good doctor or just good at passing tests?

@winniethepooh1931
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Sooo I was doing Anki while my daughter was being born. Is that normal? (A medical student who was shadowing the procedure told me he didn't like Anki and was more of an ideas guy LOL)

@LukeAvedon
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This is a goldmine; thanks doc.

@9966babu
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Just suppose a student used flash cards to learn by repetition . Many , problems CAN be solved, automatically if one faced that a recorded solution.
NO new wrinkles, perhaps energy, time or money $olution$ will ever be discovered !

@martinmartinmartin2996
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A comment here says that we need to understand the subject instead of using Anki. Don't people generally use Anki to memorise facts and obscure details that sit on top of conceptual clarity? You understand first and then use flashcards.

@sa6z5f
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I am very much a tiktok person , can someone please give me the summery , no way I am going through long explanation . on a second thought, I will press AI button

@SaraAli-zw2og
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So you reviewed 28,655 flash cards per day. 1 per second = 7.9 hours to get through that full stack.

Homie, you were studying.

@GarrettKrahn1
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So trigger the neuropathy to the concept or principle so that its adaptable. I was doing this intuitively because I love new things to learn and suddenly it was easier. However, I have the anxiety feeling that im not learning it because im not doing it the old way. So I waste time on some things because I fell back into notes, highlighting, re-reading ect. So having this video clearify the concept of how this works helps so much ! Thank you. Now I can remember to trust it because the principle is sound and ive already had success so its great to finally understand that it really is less effective to do it the old way.

@lunamorvran8202
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memory palaces work for me. before that i couldn't remember anything. Now when i use memory palaces while studying, i can remember almost all of it. Plus you can walk through the memory palace when you have spare time. You can study without the study material in front of you.

@E-Commerce_software
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How can this work for the LSAT?

@yesboy5036