What's the Best Way in the World to Learn?

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Bear: Why do schools block YouTube when it is potentially the greatest source of learning in human history ever created? Bear: The best way in the world to learn anything is to be obsessed with it. If you don't care about it, you're going to have to work that much harder to recall it because your brain thinks it's basically non important information. A lot of study techniques are actually kind of predicated on this.

Thomas Frank is a YouTuber. His main channel has 2.75 million subscribers. His second channel (about Notion) recently crossed 100,000 subscribers.

And in today’s episode, we dove deep into YouTube, how to have a better title and thumbnail, why he started a new channel, burnout, what most people get wrong about learning, and much more…

(0:00) Intro

(1:27) 2.75 Million Subscribers

(3:33) Design

(7:28) Title/Thumbnail Best Practices

(13:15) Early Days of Creating Online

(22:23) Why Videos Instead Of Writing?

(23:48) Working For His Favorite Creators

(26:42) Why Do Schools Block YouTube?

(27:33) Obsession

(32:00) New Channel / Burnout

(37:39) Changing Locations

(47:43) Tracking Exponential Numbers

(51:25) Issues With Getting Big On YouTube?

(55:50) Thomas’ Impossible List & Generalization

(1:00:20) Challenge (1 Percent Rule)

Resources Mentioned:

Crash Course Study Skills – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7CwqNHn_Ns&list=PLx65qkgCWNJKHcoJzgJ8xd97JbS64e4xE

This Is Why You Aren’t Inspired – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAWe4Qq-Rp0

Survivorship bias – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Thomas Frank’s Impossible List – https://collegeinfogeek.com/about/meet-the-author/my-impossible-list/

Thomas’ Links YouTube (Main Channel): @Thomasfrank

YouTube (Second Channel): @ThomasFrankExplains

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomFrankly

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomfrankly/

Website: https://thomasjfrank.com/

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