You know, moving is kind of like a microcosm for making decisions about life. Oh, I'm sorry. Was that not really clear? Let me unpack it for you. There's nothing quite like moving for giving you perspective on how you've changed over the years.  Of course, along with those charming little reminders of days gone by comes the heart-clenching anxiety of choosing what stuff to keep and what stuff to get rid of. Do you really need that weird keyring your aunt Peggy brought back from her trip to Thailand? What about the huge box of Halloween decorations that you got for that party last year? These sorts of decisions are always a balance of practicality and sentimentality, but they also require a fair amount of self-knowledge, a realistic evaluation of what's actually going to be important enough to you in the future that you're willing to invest another box, another trip down to the car, and another few cubic feet of closet space for the next five years on it. Unfortunately, there are a few psychological quirks that make that significantly more difficult than it should be. In 2013, a group of researchers published a study in which they polled and tested adults aged 18 to 68, examining how much they felt they had changed in the past decade, how much their personality had actually changed, and how much they believed they would change in the next 10 years. Across the board, people in every age group exhibited the same pattern, saying, you know what? I'm a much different person than I was 10 years ago. My opinions, my life goals, my relationships, my values, a lot of that stuff has changed in significant ways. But I finally know what kind of person I really am. And apart from a few minor tweaks, I think I'm pretty much where I will be in the future. 18, 38, 68, people of every age group seemed to feel that they had finally muddled through the tumultuous past and sorted their true nature. The researchers did this phenomenon, the end of history illusion, a persistent defect in our perception of how much we change over time, continuously imagining that we've finally reached the end of the history of our psychological development. There's some debate over how significant or repeatable the finding is, but if you have access to a personal journal or Facebook post over a decade old, it's probably not hard to see suggested echoes of it.  The paper notes that one of the major drawbacks of the illusion is that it can cause people to overinvest in future opportunities for their current interests and preferences, because they imagine those preferences to be set in stone. To confirm this idea, test subjects were asked how much they'd be willing to pay to attend a concert by their favorite band in ten years time, and how much they paid today to listen to their favorite band from ten years ago. As expected, comparing people's responses across different age ranges, they consistently overestimated how valuable that concert would be to their future selves by around 61% on average. That's a serious problem. Prediction is hard enough without needing to wrestle with a persistent bias for the stuff I'm currently into, correctly extrapolating what I'm actually going to care about in a decade's time is absolutely critical for planning out my future, whether that's going to college, getting a job, choosing a partner, or deciding how much shelving I need to buy for my library. It turns out there's a right and a wrong way to go about making those sorts of predictions. Another group of scientists measured the effects of introspection on a person's general effectiveness and life satisfaction. You might expect that people who spent a lot of time ruminating on their own nature would be best equipped to figure out their quintessential characteristics and choose the right behaviors to maximize their future happiness. The researchers certainly thought that that would be the case, but they were dead wrong. People who spent significant amounts of time reflecting had inferior outcomes than their less introspective peers, and the more they reflected, the worse off they were. They were less satisfied with their relationships and their jobs. They felt more stressed out and less in control of their lives. They were more depressed, more anxious, tended to be more self-absorbed, and get this, they actually exhibited inferior self-knowledge. If you're like me and spend a fair amount of time cogitating, that's probably a troubling finding, and it was certainly surprising to the scientists who discovered it. What's going on here? Well, introspection can describe many different sorts of mental activities, some of which are more or less helpful for picking out one's persistent character traits. When the authors started differentiating between styles of introspection, they found two categories that stood out, what and why. Thinking about why they were a particular way, or why they exhibited certain behaviors, led test subjects to produce simplistic and largely unhelpful explanations, basically settling on the first answer they could think of that wasn't too problematic for their self-esteem, and generating support for that answer. They didn't investigate alternative explanations and weren't particularly receptive to helpful criticism. Why do I have so much junk? Well, it's probably because I'm a frugal person. Yeah, that's it. I hate wasting money buying stuff, but I just threw away, so I save everything that might be useful. I'm not a hoarder, I'm just fiscally responsible. On the other hand, test subjects who thought hard about what sort of behaviors they were exhibiting were much more in tune with the reality of their personalities, and much more receptive to constructive criticism. The weird negative effects of introspection didn't seem to apply when they were focused on what sort of things they actually did, rather than trying to dream up some deep truth about what made them do those things. This dichotomy between why and what introspection might play a significant role in our capability to make accurate predictions about our future selves, possibly because we changed so much over the years. If we get caught up trying to develop some theory about the immutable core of our whole being and projecting our future behavior based on that theory, it's not really so surprising that we'd fail miserably. Maybe we'd be better off guessing that our behaviors, rather than our psychology, will be what persist. There's an echo of my episode about overfitting and reference class forecasting here. Rather than going nuts trying to work out the rules by which we operate, it can be a decent guess that we're just going to keep on doing more or less the same things that we've always done. By that standard, it's probably a bad idea to try and figure out why I have 50 unfinished projects and little boxes scattered about my bedroom, and instead pay attention to what I know about my behavior, that I seem to start a lot of projects and not finish them. It's not likely to be helpful to try and work out what quirk of my personality makes me do that, but considering how many of those projects I've picked back up and finished off, it's probably a safe bet that future me won't be too sad if I scrap them instead of keeping them in my closet.  What do you think about why introspection versus what introspection? Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching.


Good morning everyone and welcome to the final day of the UCAT Festival 2020, the final day of UCAT Festival TV. But we are going out with a bang. I am very pleased to be joined this morning by two of the people who were going to be hosting the UCAT conference when it was take place in Glasgow in April. That is Heather Gray and Shiv. Shiv, I got the pronunciation wrong. How do I pronounce your surname? It's Shan Mugam. Shan Mugam, there you go. Better to have you pronounce it, I think. How are you both doing this morning? Fine, thanks. It's quite early for me. But yes, I'm awake and well. I was out to get a coffee early. I almost need it intravenously, having worked in student services. Anyone working in academia, I feel we live on coffee, right? So we're into the last day of the festival and I think three really great days thus far. Shiv, has there been any particular highlight for you over the last few days? Oh, yes. I think Tuesday was it. I was in a session titled Engaging Students with Technology. It was led by David Gray and George Steele. I was fortunate enough to be chair for that session and it was a very, very informative session. I think both of them were stalwarts in this particular field and the amount of experience and knowledge they have and the tools they have and the share was fascinating. And it was very, very informative and thought provoking and I really enjoyed that session. Excellent. I think quite a few people have taken a lot from the conference and the interesting thing is the timing of it this year means that people will be going right back into their institutions and maybe able to implement those ideas, which is good. And I know that you are both running a session this morning. Maybe you could tell me and the viewers a little bit more about what we can look forward to there. Yeah, I'll kick off on that and show you can fill in the blanks. So we're doing a session on talking therapy skills, not just for dealing with students who might darken our doors but also for academic staff themselves. So the session we're running, we're going to be introducing delegates to particular skills in relation to a model called five areas model is based on cognitive behavioral therapy, but we're not training anyone to be cognitive behavioral therapist so don't get worried folks. It's the more basic generic skills that any kind of counselor or therapist would have. So we're looking at the five areas model. We're also then particularly targeting unhelpful thinking styles because if you have unhelpful thinking patterns that then drives how you feel and how you behave whether that's procrastination or whatever it is. And then we're looking at the seven column thought record diary. So basically it's quite a practical session. We're going to take delegates through these three particular tools and models and they should be able to apply that to themselves in their own lives if they're feeling stressed or anxious. I can't imagine anyone feeling stressed in these current times, but imagine that possibility that you're feeling stressed. You know, these are very practical tools for yourself and that you could also use with your students. Shiv, have I missed out anything there? No, I think you've been quite comprehensive and it's a simple application in day to day life of an academic or student. If a student appears at your door a bit stressed and anxious about some issue, academic issue, anything, you invite them in and you talk to them. And there's about contextualizing that experience and talking about some listening skills and how to talk to ensure the student feels very supported and reassured and feels less anxious before they leave. So that's the whole idea. It's simplistic methods. Great. It sounds like a really interesting session. And what time is that taking place this morning? 10am to 10.45, I do believe. So in just over an hour's time, we'll be popping this up just before nine. So delegates will have an hour to get themselves ready. So lots to look forward to there. And although we were very disappointed that we weren't able to go to Glasgow in April, the hope is that we are going to have the opportunity to go and see your beautiful city and your beautiful campus in 2022. Yes, absolutely. And I suppose the plan obviously at that point is that we are back to a face to face conference. I think and hope that some of the new learnings that we've had, I think what's been really great about this has been the ability of people from maybe outside the UK. I know that I was talking to David Gray and he was saying that I think some of the sessions yesterday had people from five, six, seven different countries who were able to attend because you don't necessarily have the travel costs. It'll be interesting to see if there are ways in which we can bring the virtual into those physical spaces when we're back. So I am really looking forward to getting to Glasgow. Any of my trips over have been fantastic. And I was really looking forward to it. I know you would have put a phenomenal amount of work in because unfortunately it was kind of right right before the conference was due to take place when COVID hit. So hopefully some of the groundwork that you have put in will will still be there and you'll be able to build on that nicely for 2022. I want to thank both Heather and Shiv for taking the time to chat to me this morning. Good luck with your session. Enjoy the final day. And hopefully I'll see you in Swansea next year and Glasgow in 2022.


Welcome traders to another TickMill earnings report preview with me Patrick Munley. Before we jump into today's report, as always, I want to adhere to the risk disclaimer. Most pertinent to today's presentation is the fact that the views expressed by me are solely mine and they are not indicative or representative of those held by TickMill UK or TickMill Europe Limited. Okay, let's jump into today's report and we are looking at Amazon. Amazon will report after the New York closed today looking for an EPS earnings per share of $0.14 on revenue of $119.45 billion. Vessas will be paying close attention to how ongoing inflation is affecting the company's top and bottom lines. Revenue, as it says, expected at just over $119 billion, up 5% year-over-year with EPS down from last year's $15.12. Amazon CEO Andy Chasi cited inflationary and supply chain pressure in the company's first quarter earnings report, which saw its slowest growth rate for revenue in more than two decades. Shares fell more than 10% following Q1 earnings in April. Amazon may report lower than expected revenue for Q2 due to macroeconomic challenges. While rising inflation can benefit Amazon's retail businesses by resulting in higher pricing and marketplace fees ranging from 8% to 15%, markets believe that the sheer magnitude of inflation in the second quarter directly led to lower consumer discretionary spending while revenues not related to Amazon Web Services could decline by 2-5% year-over-year. Unless JP Morgan said in a report that Amazon would still gain share in a recessionary environment given low prices, wide selection of fast delivery, it added that the company's cloud business, Amazon Web Services, may provide a boost. Despite tougher macroeconomic conditions, JP Morgan continued to expect Amazon to have accelerating growth in the back half and to show margin progress as it works through elevated costs with Amazon Web Services should provide proof to be more resilient, though not immune to a broader slowdown. Amazon cited inflation as it announced an increase for the cost of prime membership in Europe. This week it bumped prime membership fees to $20 in the US in February. Amazon is also dealing with rising labor costs. In September, the company said it was raising average hourly US wages to $18 an hour for warehouse workers. Amazon said in February that it would more than double the max-based pay for corporate and tech employees to $350,000. It does not announce hiring freezes or slowdowns like other tech giants such as Apple and Google. Amazon employs 1.6 million people worldwide. It hired 337,000 people in 2021 alone. Earlier this year, Amazon announced a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge for sellers on its marketplace who used the company's shipping services due to an unexpected increase in costs. Shares of Amazon are down maybe 30% this year and made a broader market turn down. The company's 20-storey quote-to-one stock split went into effect June 6. Shares initially rose more than 5%, but are now trading back at a similar price of $120. Let's take a look at some of the statistical trading patterns around the Amazon earnings release. Amazon shares have moved lower in the immediate aftermath of earnings, 9 out of 12 previous reports. On average, the stock moved down 1.4% in the first day of trading after the company reports earnings. Based on the previous 12 earnings releases, Amazon is more likely to trade lower one day after the earnings release for an average loss of 0.4%. On average, the stock has moved higher 0.1% one week after earnings. Let's see what the options market is pricing in terms of volatility around the release. Options traders are pricing a 6% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 5.5% move in recent quarters. From a flow and sentiment perspective, some interesting and noteworthy flows here. There has been notable buying 35,959 contracts of the $120 call expiring on Friday. Options order flow sentiment in general has turned bullish. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 55% expecting an earnings B. Amazon share price has drifted down 1.5% post its prior earnings announcement. Using the last 12 quarters of data, the average drift between earnings announcements is 4.6%. Let's pull up the charts here and see if we can identify any near-term trading opportunities in the Amazon stock. Obviously, we've been in this sharp decline visible on the weekly chart here. We appear to be in a corrective phase at the moment. On the daily, we have a triangle pattern developing with a nice pop yesterday in line with the border market pop. For me, in terms of the trading opportunity here, I'd be looking at any break through the triangle resistance here at $124.50 to engage on the long side. Paying attention to how we trade at $128 because that's an equality objective versus the current swing structure. If we can get through there, I look for a gap fill up into the $138.20 level. From there, I'll be watching for bearish reversal patterns as in line with the border market. I still think we have further downside to see in coming quarters. The downside objective for me would be this $89 level, which is this high volume node on the weekly chart. Certainly, if we got down there, I'd be paying close attention to how we trade, watching for daily and weekly reversal patterns. That could be a very interesting level for me anyway to look to acquire and build longer-term positions in Amazon as we look for recovery in coming quarters. At this stage, it would really take a loss of the high volume node here at $109.50 for me to engage on the short side, targeting that $89. But whilst we trade above that level, I'm looking for a pop to the upside before the next leg lower. As always, traders plan the trade, trade the plan, and most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


Our top story. On Wednesday, Gateway Jacks announced plans for a $500 million mixed use development in the Northcore area of downtown Jacksonville. Over the next 10 years, the build out could expand across 22 acres and check up a price tag of $2 billion.  What do you think? So it's a huge project and could have a truly transformational impact on that part of Jacksonville. A lot of the focus when we talk about downtown development rightly so is basically right around where we're sitting. It's the Jaguars project and all of that, but downtown Jacksonville can't bet at all on just one project. It needs some smaller projects. JWB is involved with this project, has been doing things spread across the urban core. There's other developments in the works, but this is on par with Water Street and Tampa. Some of the big massive mixed use developments in places like Nashville, it truly is a step up if it gets done, which I've been covering development in Jacksonville for long enough that the if it gets done is always the question. But signs are really good for this one. Yeah. Earlier, you were talking about how you had a folder of all the projects that were supposed to happen in Jacksonville. The city council member referred to this, not the first as Jacksonville being the place where projects go to die or where renderings are done more often than projects are. That is an issue. The big difference, and this is frankly why I'm most excited about this project, is the involvement of DOP Capital. Based in St. Augustine, started up north, came here about six years ago. Fast growing company, having an impact on multifamily development across the country, and they got money. The issue with development now is banks aren't lending. If you're trying to do a project, you can't get the funding. Every other time Jacksonville has had some momentum going, it hits this point in the cycle where the money dries up and the projects don't happen. Then when the money starts flowing again, work begins again, and we kind of strut out, not exactly back at ground zero, but close to it. With DOP's involvement, with the funding there, they can actually get the project done. They can actually get the project started. They can get this moving, and then when money frees up again, Jacksonville will already be somewhere. Dan, do we know exactly where they're talking about starting this development at? Part of this is it's basically between the First Baptist Church properties and the 7-Eleven, and they're across the street from FSCJ and places like that. It really is a wasteland right now of parking lots. There's not much there, and the only new development that I can think of really is the 7-Eleven, and that goes back a number of years. Tim is right. I came here in the 80s, and the big project was the shipyards when the shipyards were still there, and it all went fizzle. Now finally, 40 years later, we're developing all the shipyards property. We finally have a plan for Lachey, and that took two or three tries, and around. Finally, this looks to have the money, and let's not forget, we've got University of Florida planning that wonderful project. I don't know where it's going to be, but FSCJ would love to have it sort of next to them, which would put this across the street from that, across the street from FSCJ, and right on the cusp of what should be a really well-developed spring field as the homes and some businesses there get going. I was just about to say, so basically we're talking about that area of downtown that's kind of the corridor into spring field, where does this include the place that used to be an old hotel, then it got knocked down, and I think the only thing that's standing is the parking structure. Carter Jackson, and that's owned by someone else, and they're planning some development, and the previous owner to that was planning some development. We have yet to be able to get them to respond. It's across the street, it's across the street. Yeah, across the street and down the street, so no, that property isn't involved, but what you're pointing out is that part of downtown just has stuff going on. I mean, you have corner lots development on 1st and Main, it's going to be massive. You have plan for more apartments on 7th street, further up Main Street. You have, as the Jaguars do stuff here, that's going to bleed into the East side, so it kind of, if you look at a map of Jacksonville, it's that it's kind of following Hogan's Creek, kind of sort of, where you have the heart of downtown, the central business district, then you have North Core, then you get in the spring field, and all of the development is going there. Then you get things like the Emerald Trail coming online, that's going to supercharge development, and it's going to connect a lot of these projects in a way that makes it walkable, that makes it a place where UF students could walk to somewhere and meet up with FSCJ students, and then go and get breakfast at the big house on Main Street, sort of thing. Tim, you were saying before we went on the air, the shipyards or whatever, that stuff going down on a stadium can't carry everything as far as development goes. As I said before, it does appear that Jacksonville for the first time ever has got like what, five, six, seven major deals going on in downtown, so as I coined the phrase before, we've apparently we've reached our adolescent, or excuse me, developmental adolescents. They're so optimistic. Yeah, yeah. As I said before, I've been around for a while, it's like you know, Jacksonville, good ideas come to die, right?  It reminds me of when I came to Jacksonville in 93 after law school, you know, what was going out of the beaches, right? Jacksonville Beach was the blighted area, right? All of a sudden, we were running out of beachfront space, right? You know, Florida is growing up, you know, and so people are starting to discover Jacksonville has a lot of opportunity here, a lot of money's come in here, which is wonderful. And I'll give a shout out to Lori Boyer in the Downtown Investment Authority. You know, that was a brainchild, I think, of the Peyton administration, and it's working. It's working. Yeah, that was actually created under the Brown administration, so the Council was forward. I think John Peyton thought of it, but then I don't remember. Yeah, I mean, it was, it was, it is a necessary thing for downtown. The question I have is that like it feels like it pulls development a little bit closer to the stadium, of downtown development specifically, like it feels like it pulls it closer to the stadium and less away from what we would call the urban core. Do you think that's accurate? I think there's an interesting question of where does the development play out and who's hurt and who's helped? I mean, the other downtown writ large fight has been over a gas station being built in LaVilla that part of the reason that people are upset about it is it felt like LaVilla was a blank slate where you could do true urban development and the gas station, there was a little more of a suburban sort of feel to it, and then you have all the issues with the stadium. How does that affect out east? How do the people there benefit from the money being put in? So I think that is the big question of downtown Jacksonville development is not just where does it happen, but who benefits from a human standpoint, not from the business standpoint? Yeah, I mean, that's a good point. I think that, you know, I've seen developments all over the country, not just in Jacksonville, but all over the country. And they promise the developers always promise that they're going to find a way to work in like low income residences. They do like saying that. They like saying that. And in actuality, seeing it actually materialize, it's, I don't know. I mean, I'm not being scientific about it, but I think it's few and far in between. And given that we have a housing crisis. Yeah, it's interesting. We sent my office and an inquiry yesterday about that very issue. The developer came back said, undetermined at this point. So that's something that definitely needs to be addressed. And it gets into the politics of it as well. It does. Now, you know, still do you remember that Jacksonville has as much as rents have gone up the housing costs here. And I'm not downplaying at all of the affordable housing prices that we have. But, you know, rents are lower here than in pure cities. They're rapidly going up. That won't be true, for long necessarily. But the issue here really is we don't have enough housing. There's a lot of people moving in. There's not enough houses for them.  So one of the ways, and there are other ways, and we'll talk about the tax that didn't happen. But there are other things that need to be done to deal with homelessness and affordable housing. But one of the ways is to just build more, build more housing, build more apartments, build more housing. Housing permits jumped last month for the first time in a while. That's a good sign. It's good that we have more housing stock coming online. And don't forget that this week there was an announcement that three blighted motels are going to be turned into micro suites as they're called $1,000 for rent. And those motels needed to be redeveloped into something that's cleaner. What side of town are those? That's outside. They off Bameda's Road and off I-95 in University. But still, that's a nice idea to make micro suites. And the renderings look lovely. What was the response of the mayor and the city council to this? Deegan was at the, oh, do you talk about Gateway? Deegan was at the press conference where it was unveiled. I mean, they're supportive of it. I mean, but if you're in the political establishment and you have people who are by and large putting their own money into a project like this, you would expect them to be supportive. They will be going for incentives. You know, obviously any project like this in Jacksonville's development cycle is going to go for incentives, but they have the rest of their capital stack pretty well established. And that's really important.


TFNN, headline, news update. Everyone, Basel Javillos of the Tiger Technicians Hour, we just did. And now I'm giving you the 1 p.m. Eastern Time, TFNN news update, dials down 126 at 267.95. It's going to struggle. It needs to try to get to the resistance line up in the 26,990s, preferably in the next two days. Can I do that? The question key support is at 26,620 to 26,530. The S&P is also down some. It is down, at this point it is down 16. And it's sitting at resistance area, but it could possibly move from the 2973 area just to retest the 2987, maybe 2990s. It has to hold 2963 in the short term basis. And the QQQ is also a little bit weak here. The QQQ at this particular moment is down $1.63 at 1.8942. You can see in this chart right here on the left, that's the daily, this is the weekly and this is the monthly of the Invesco QQQ Trust Series, it's the NDX100, pulling back a little bit after making an all-time high, nominal new all-time high of 191.44. And that's so far a very good action, a little minor pullback here. If you look at gold, gold is down about $3 and now it's down $1.50. So it's holding nicely, it's holding the 14 period moving average of black line. I suspect that it's going to chop around here a little bit, but if it does close under 1380, that will suggest that it's going to have more of a digestive phase in time and somewhat in price, but so far it's holding very well after making a recovery high of 1442.90 on the 25th of May. The dollar has been holding very nicely, the dollar is up seven pips at 97.36, but it needs to get to the 97.80s and then the 98s over the next, I would say within a week it needs to be trading there. If the dollar weekly chart is going to be able to improve the technicals a lot, key support in the dollar is at 96.30. And so it's about a point lower, 96.50 to 96.30. And one other thing here is that the crude oil is up just a little bit, and it's up 40 cents. It's in this rectangle pattern with the 59.70s to 60.30 resistance, and the 55.80s should be good support, otherwise that's a problem. Have a wonderful day. Stay tuned for Steve Rhodes. You've got Dave White and Tom O'Brien. Tom, I believe that Larry will be doing the show. Have a great day. I'll see you tomorrow.


So you want to know how to memorize better in medical school impact. What have I shared techniques? I got to help you double, if not triple your long term retention. If you're interested, we're going to get into all of that in this video. All right guys, welcome to another episode in the MD journey.  My name is Lakshman, internal medicine resident and making videos like this one for the last two plus years on YouTube. If you enjoy this video and you enjoy topics on memorization, let me know by smashing that like button. But today I want to talk about some techniques you can use to really double not triple your long term retention. These are techniques that I started using. They really just changed the game for me. I was studying anywhere from eight to 10 hours a day. I know it sounds crazy and some of you guys may still be in my shoes today, but I was able to use these techniques to not only learn more, but also spend less time doing it because they're more fun. So I was able to take that eight to 10 hours and convert it to like five to six to eight hours, depending about studying for exam. So if you want that kind of transformation, you want better grades. Let's get into those techniques. So the first technique that I love is sharing with medical students is called the memory palace. Now you may have heard of this before. You may have heard people talk about it, but I want to give you an example. We're actually going to use the back of my living room so I move around a little bit. So the first step of the memory palace is it requires you to find a location that you're familiar with and maybe your apartment and maybe the drive that you're making to school or to work can be essentially anything you're familiar with. And what you want to do is then you want to go in order of like one, two, three. You want to dictate different things in the room or on your route or mental route as being the first thing, the second thing. So in this example, we'll say that TV is number one. We'll say the island is number two. We'll say this chair, that one is number three. And then we'll say that this table is number four. And now when I go ahead and close my eyes again, I'm going to start thinking about the different items, but I want to go ahead and go ahead and chronologically go from item one to two to always struggle three. And so finally four. And those are going to be my placeholders because I know this room so well, I know those items so well. Once I have the items chronologically in my head, I can then start assigning different things I need to memorize to them. So if you're trying to remember a medication or a list of antibiotics or a list of, you know, maybe bacterias for your microbiology class, you can go ahead and say, okay, I want to know all of the gram-positive bacteria that I have in this list. And so I'm going to put, you know, staff worries here. I'm going to put strep here. I'm going to put bacillus here. And ideally as you're going through the different things you have to memorize, an easy way to memorize them even more is you make them a little bit more interesting. So what you do is instead of just imagining staff on the TV, try to say what does staff make you think of? Maybe you watch a sketchy micro and kind of remember the Egyptian kind of skit that they have there where he's holding a staff or you can just imagine somebody with a staff that just pops up on your TV. And you can know my first item is going to be staff aureus and he's going to be holding a staff who just opens up my TV. The next thing can be strep. You know, I think of strep throughout. So I'm just going to be thinking of somebody grabbing their throat on my kitchen island. And the last thing can be bacillus. I don't know what bacillus can be for you. You can imagine that image here. Now when you're memorizing, all you got to do is close your eyes and say, okay, what was that first thing? What showed up my TV? It was a guy with a staff. Staff warriors. Cool. What was the next thing that showed up? Oh, on my island. I remember something grabbing their throat strep throat streptococcus. And then last thing, I had that image for bacillus and I put them right here. You see how it's easy to make this both fun entertaining as well as really quick. You just add one item, try to memorize it. I had a second one. Try to memorize it and add number one and two together to make sure you can go from one to two and then just kind of do it on a flow. And this works great for medications. It works great for if you're trying to memorize a biochemistry pathway.  Once you get that creative description down, the rest of the memory is super easy. The beauty is, is that if you can long as you can remember the first thing, it's much easier to kind of go through your memory palace. That was a quick demonstration of how you can use this technique and you can use it in many different creative ways. I'll link down below another video or kind of explain the process as well as other resources that are created specifically to do this for you. So check that out down below. And before we go into the last two memorization techniques, if you're enjoying this content, just let me know by hitting that like button. It really helps both this video as well as this channel grow in YouTube. So quick selfish ask, go ahead and hit that like button and then we can get back to the rest of the video. Now getting into memorization technique number two, I feel like this is both learning technique as well as memorization technique. And this is personally what I call my review container.  One of the things that affect our memorization the most are topics that are really hard. So imagine when you're studying, you know, you're going through a syllabus lecture and you're going to identify things that you know really well.  I really hope this doesn't show up on the test. And usually that's kind of where we stop. We just hope it doesn't show up when we try to learn as much as we can of the high yield material. That's easy to learn, but to really memorize the harder information, you really have to make sure that you're doing a little bit of space repetition and doing it continuously, but specifically on the hard topics. The way the review container works is essentially when you find a topic that you think you'll struggle on, either you missed a question or when you're reviewing your syllabus, you just don't understand it well enough. You can remember it maybe a week or two later when the test may come across. What I like to do is I just write the topic on the top and then I write my explanation or if you want to save time, just write the name of the topic. The way this works is you have a container where you have a bag, a Ziploc bag or part of your desk where you can just kind of stuff all of these notes and scrap pieces of paper over time. And then each night spend like five, ten minutes, nothing crazy. Grab a random piece of paper and ask yourself maybe the topic is Staff Warriors. We're just going to use that example. Ask yourself how much of Staff Warriors do I know from the slides from lecture? If you're looking at the piece of information and it still doesn't feel like it's clicking, maybe you don't have enough to say about Staff Warriors, maybe you're just kind of saying it's a superficial piece of knowledge you already knew, then it's a good indication that you can spend another five minutes and just look up something on Staff Warriors, pull up the PowerPoints and try to memorize a few of the things and maybe use the Memory Palace to help you understand the different features of Staff Warriors and kind of go a little bit more meta using Memory Palace on the Memory Palace. But the beauty of the review container is every night you spend five to ten minutes, nothing crazy and you randomly grab concepts and you try to teach yourself and once you go ahead and grab a concept and say I know this well, I put it in there, but I feel comfortable, you take it out. And if it's still difficult, you put it back in. And so the only thing you have left in your review container are information either you haven't reviewed or information that's still tripping you up and the more you go ahead and spend repeating your focus on these hard topics, the easier it's going to be to approach them on test day and the less topics you're going to have that say, oh crap, I really wish this doesn't show up on the test. You're going to spend so much of your time, even if it's a little bit every day getting through them that there's not going to be a lot of hard topics left for you to be tripped up by. So that's basically the review container before we get into one of my favorite techniques for number three. If you enjoy the review container or if you want to know more about studying, go ahead and comment down below. Let me know what questions you have about how to study better or what memorization techniques you personally use. Have you used something similar to the review container in the past? Comment down below. And my third memorization technique may seem again like a learning tool, but it really can help you understand if you memorize something effectively.   So here is my paper for the day and you choose a topic that you want to teach yourself and ask yourself can you essentially reiterate the lecture on paper and scratch and kind of in a shorthand form? Essentially, can you get from the start of the lecture to the end of the lecture after you've kind of gone through the lecture and you've reviewed it? You understand what the flow is. You understand the pieces of information they've taught what the main headings are. So ask yourself if you can recreate that. We're going to continue with their staff worries example. We're just going to say maybe you had a full lecture on gram positive bacteria.  You remember the different bacterias that they try to teach. Now what you want to do is say how much can you regurgitate from your head from that lecture on to the piece of paper without using any other references? And the beauty of this is it's not really about how much you know, but when you start to find a piece of information that you kind of know but not well enough to write down. What I like to do is essentially just put a star next to it and I move on and I try to recreate as much of the lecture as possible. And I spent like 10 minutes on my first time. It's nothing crazy. I'm just trying to show myself how much I know and how much I don't know and all those stars and highlights or whatever you want to put really indicate you really don't understand this lecture. And then I spend, you know, another 10, 20 minutes, however much I need to review the lecture and regain that information, maybe review my lectures, review my outlines. I try to do it again on the other side and it's not about being neat. No one, no one has to be able to read this. You just have to be able to say, okay, I'm going to, I know this was a part of the lecture. I'm going to start writing this down and eventually you feel trapped. You don't know how to go from point A to C because that B piece of information is missing from your brain for whatever reason. That is a beautiful memorization technique to really both connect dots and then identify what you don't know. So using the combination of the memory palace, the review container and the brain temp. Those are just some of my favorite memorization techniques and learning techniques have really helped double and triple my retention rate and medical school and I still use some of them to stay as a physician. So I know in this video guys, that was a lot. Hopefully you found a lot of golden nuggets and you found them helpful. If you want more resources on how to study better of a few places that I recommend you go. One, we have a whole playlist of my other videos I've made on how you can study better, how to become more efficient. But if you really want like a step by step, somebody holding your hand and teaching you, this is how you can make the perfect study system for yourself. We do have a three week study program on MD journey dot com called level of your studying. If you want to know more, if you want to know what our students have already experienced after they've gone through that course, there's a lot of positive reviews. So I'll just link it down below if you're interested. But if not, you know, there's a lot of free content that you can still check out on the YouTube channel. I'll link that playlist down below. If you're interested in checking out level of your studying, I'll put it right here. But that's pretty much it for this video, guys. Make sure before you leave like and subscribe to really help this video as well as the channel. Thank you for stopping by. 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