 A bee, a wasp, sorry, not a bee. Okay, he's checking me out. Let's continue with our discussion on how to study. Okay, we've already talked about the first couple of tips that I can give you, the first one being for you to really sit down and ask yourself why it is you're studying, whatever it is that you're studying, right? Really ask yourself sincerely that question, because if you're studying it just to pass, then just do that amount of work to pass that course, to get the credit. If you're studying it because of something you love, if you're studying it because it's going to be something you're gonna be building on, then end up putting a lot of work into it, right? So it's a pretty important question before you get into any type of work that you do, why is it that you're doing this thing? That sort of dictates how much effort you're gonna put into it, right? And that sort of kicked us off into tip number two, which is basically trying to improve your efficiency, right? And one of the best ways to improve your efficiency is to sit down and study for long periods, right? And we talked about that and we did a little bit of mathematics and sort of just numbers-wise ratios. Took a look at what that meant to improve your efficiency, which is basically reduces the amount of time you have to spend on learning something, right? And those were tip number one and tip number two. As for the third bit of advice that I can give you regarding on how to study is for you to find spaces that you wanna be in, right? Basically to find your happy spaces, right? And it doesn't have to be one place where you go to study, right? Because what they used to tell me when I was studying, when I was growing up in high school basically, is they used to tell me is to create one space, usually your desk, clear it off, make sure it's clear, and you go to that space always to learn something, to study something, right? And that worked fine for certain courses I used to do where I had to sit down with a pen and paper and had to crunch numbers and I had to be sitting upright or whatever it was, right? For studying something that required the desk, it worked fine. For studying something that didn't require a desk, it really sucked because it wasn't comfortable and I really didn't have to be there, right? And it took me some time to figure out that I didn't have to read a textbook or a book or I didn't have to take notes, copy notes or sort of go over my notes over a desk. I could go lay down on my bed, I could go to the beach, I could go to the park, right? I could take my notes, read them, walk, think about them and then open up my books, sit down on a bench or on the grass and read the notes again, right? And think about them, walk, right? If you're trying to learn something, sometimes you need pauses between concepts, right? To connect the dots, to catch up with the idea, right? So you don't have to be sitting on your desk for that. So really important, if you're trying to improve your ability to absorb information, then don't study something that you don't like or something that you like in a space that you don't like. Change your setting, change your mood, right? That'll improve your abilities to retain the information. That'll improve the odds of spending longer periods at it, right? And I've tried this with students and I've had a student in grade 11 where we did some serious catch-up to learn the material to a certain point and this one location we got to, it was basically completing the square, graphing parabolas, right? And if you've done that work, you know that it requires a fair bit of crunching to learn to, for it to become intuitive, right? For it to become automatic for you because that's where you need that process to be when you walk into a test. So we had reached that point that she was going on vacation and I asked her what she did on her vacations and she told me that she likes going to the beach and she likes going swimming at the pool and I asked her what she did when she went to the beach or the pool and she said she would sometimes grab a buck and read a buck or just relax or listen to music and I recommended that she actually took her math to vacation with her, to start doing some factoring and to start doing completing the square to learn those processes really well, right? And after, it took some convincing to take math to vacation with you, but she did take it and after two weeks she came back to me and she had learned everything we needed to learn and the next step following the vacation was ridiculously easy and then after that she just coasted math 11, right? And she turned to me a few weeks later and she said to me I've stopped doing math every day and I miss it, right? And that was something magnificent, something magical to hear from someone that hated doing mathematics earlier in the year at the beginning of the year, right? So in two weeks, in one week of vacation and one week of being home she had come to a point where it had become automatic for her to do mathematics and she was doing something that initially she didn't like doing and a space that she loved being at and all of a sudden she associated the mathematics with being somewhere that she loved to be, right? So she was missing not being able to do math and it was beautiful and it was awesome to see and it really kicked her up to a level where the rest of math 11 became ridiculously easy and she was able to finish the course with really good marks by putting in minimal effort just because she had put in that time in a space that she really liked doing to learn the process, okay? So tip number three, find your happy spaces to be in, right? Find your happy zones. Put yourself in a mood where you're open to the information coming in, okay? As for tip number four, okay? It's a biggie. It's to come up with a schedule and to create a to-do list, okay? And we'll talk about that. So what, I don't see, what's symmetrical here? Well, if you look at the frame I have set up I've broken it up into two parts. All right, take a look. Oh, that's okay. Oh, you're recording yourself? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm recording myself. Nice. And I'm sitting in the middle, right? And what I'm talking about right now is... I'm sorry for interrupting you. Oh, no, no, that's okay. It's twofold, right? It's sort of, I'm talking about, oh, hold on, let me move this stuff out of your way. Is that a good corner here? Yeah, yeah, here. Do you mind being on video? Yeah, not at all. No, okay, here. So I'm sitting in the middle here, right? And are you okay with me loading this on YouTube? If it looks good, okay, fantastic. So basically what I try to do when I'm making my math videos, I've created like maybe, I don't know, 200 plus, right? So I'm building my own curriculum because I think school system sucks. Good. I think a lot of, one of the reasons there's a lot of people, one of the reasons that you're not out of work is because the school system sucks, our education system sucks, right? And one thing they don't show when they're teaching mathematics is, mathematics is beautiful. It's in nature, it's in, yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%, right? It's beautiful, it's in nature, it's embedded everywhere within the natural world and embedded everywhere within our structures, the way we structure our life, may it be financed, may it be... I don't know too much about it, but they're talking about like a golden ratio? There's golden ratio, yeah, for sure. I've done, I did a video on the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio. You know, I have a friend that's an artist and he's in the best... 1.618.03... Yeah, it depends if you divided this way or divide the other way, right? Yeah, yeah, and so, you know, I did a video with a friend of mine that's an artist that was embedding the Fibonacci sequence sort of golden ratio in his artwork, right? So when I shoot my videos, when I try to make my videos, I try to sort of put cemetery or beautiful imagery in the background because I like art, right? There doesn't necessarily have to be symmetrical and good chaotic as well, right? Do you know anything about like smell or taste that's closely associated with memory? Yeah, yeah, 100%. I do a lot of memorization, lyrics, poetry, sequences of guitar chords. And what's worked, and it may not be the most efficient way, but it's just repetition of a huge amount of repetition. For music? Yeah, like the background. Yeah, the basic drum. Yeah, I used to play drums, so playing drums, it's just a beat, right? Well, you know, the best drummers in the world aren't the drummers that can do fantastic stuff. The best drummers in the world are the ones that can keep a consistent beat. Consistent, yeah. Yeah, 100%. But when I'm doing a, I'm gonna sing a song with three verses. I will sit there and play the first verse. Okay, and then I'll play it, play it, play it, then I'll start playing it without looking at it until I can memorize it. And then, okay, I got it memorized, the first verse. Then I'll add the second one in, okay? I'll sing the first verse without looking, and then I'll look at the second verse, sing it. And then keep doing that until I can do both without looking at it. Yeah, yeah. And then you wanna keep that so they're both perfect before you move on and then get the third one. And then you can go on 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and it's just, you're just piling on your memory, but the nice thing about music is there's gonna be the same structure. Basically, when you're singing a verse, it is symmetrical in a sense. One verse to the other is generally gonna have the same melody. Yeah, they have to be synced to a certain degree. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's been my method for effectively, and I've piling a lot of lyrics. Like sometimes, you know, seven verses, eight verses, there's one song I was looking at was 16 verses. Oh, wow. Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. Is that something you wrote or something? By Bob Dylan, yeah. Oh, by Bob Dylan. And so he has a lot of, I sing a lot of Bob Dylan music. So he layers it. He has, he will write pages of lyrics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sad Eye, Lady of the Lowlands, Desolation, Roe, Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. Those are just a few examples of 11, 12, 16 verses of music of lyrics. And he layers that stuff on the same song. Yep. Oh, really, really?