Placeholder Image

字幕列表 影片播放

  • Keto or Vegan?

  • HIIT or Bodybuilding?

  • Study now or study later?

  • Despite how logical and rational we think we are, humans tend to be impressively irrational

  • and prone to making mental errors.

  • The first step is acceptance.

  • You, yes you, make mental errors and poor decisions on the regular.

  • We all do, myself included.

  • The good news is that once we educate ourselves and become aware of these biases,

  • they are much easier to control for.

  • Here's how to get past the mental errors that are holding you back as a student.

  • Dr. Jubbal, MedSchoolInsiders.com

  • We're going to start off with the big one.

  • The bias that wreaks havoc on all aspects of our lives: the confirmation bias.

  • Our tendency is to first take a stance or have a position on an issue

  • then we seek information that further confirms our beliefs and we deprioritize or ignore information

  • that contradicts our beliefs

  • and the stronger you believe that you know something,

  • the more you will filter and ignore information that contradicts your firmly held belief.

  • You may be thinking, "That's dumb. Why would people do that?"

  • The truth is new information that contradicts our current beliefs is energy-intensive.

  • It's not easy to reassess beliefs, correct misunderstandings,

  • and reformulate a new mental framework.

  • Human thinking doesn't follow the scientific method.

  • We don't naturally formulate a falsifiable hypothesis and then put it to the test.

  • Instead, we first form a hypothesis

  • and then unscientifically seek out validating information without truly testing it

  • As a student, chances are that you experience this in multiple aspects of your life,

  • from gym routines to what it means to eat healthy to even your study strategies.

  • You may believe a certain way of studying is working for you

  • even if the evidence suggests the contrary.

  • You may even cite a couple blog articles

  • or point to some classmates who supposedly do the same thing with good results.

  • The truth is we are terribly ineffective at actually being objective with our own self assessments

  • and know whether you think you're a visual or kinesthetic or auditory learner

  • doesn't actually change the way you should study as demonstrated by the scientific literature.

  • Follow the evidence-based study principles that I push on this channel and you too will find yourself excelling,

  • not only in your classes but also on the MCAT and USMLE Step 1 and Step 2.

  • If you have found any of the information on this channel useful, smash that like button.

  • It makes the YouTube gods happy and allows us to help more students.

  • If you were to win $50 today, you'd experience a boost in satisfaction

  • but if you were to lose the same $50 amount,

  • you'd experience a dramatically greater decrease in satisfaction.

  • This is loss aversion - our tendency to strongly preferred avoiding losses over acquiring gains.

  • You can use this to your advantage.

  • In two simple and similar studies, McEvoy and Smith and colleagues

  • demonstrated that changing the framing of class grades by utilizing loss aversion

  • could motivate students to perform better.

  • If points were earned and added to one's total, they were less motivating

  • than students starting out with points that were deducted for errors and incorrect answers.

  • The fear of losing points was more motivating than gaining them.

  • Loss aversion can be exploited to increase the effectiveness of behavior change.

  • Like with Stick, the website that has you put money on the line.

  • If you don't follow through with your goal, you lose the money as a student.

  • You could experiment with this yourself using loss aversion to motivate you with sticking to exercise habits

  • or sleeping by a certain time or even doing better in class

  • I'm not recommending you necessarily make a betting pool with your friends to see who gets the highest grade

  • but experiment with the power of loss aversion in motivating you to adopt those hard to stick habits.

  • In a broader sense, loss aversion can prevent us from taking risks

  • and if you're a pre-med student, you're more likely than the average person to be risk averse.

  • After all, the field of medicine tends to attract those who like to play it safe.

  • More often than not, the big scary decisions are far more Daunting in our minds than in reality.

  • If you're facing a difficult decision,

  • like I did when deciding between plastic surgery versus medical entrepreneurship,

  • I recommend you try the Fear Setting exercise.

  • It's a structured approach to assessing, weighing and preventing fears

  • while analyzing the opportunity cost and potential upside of difficult decisions.

  • I walk you through how I personally used it in my video about why I quit plastic surgery.

  • Lastly, one of our favorites, the Survivorship Bias

  • referring to our tendency to focus on the few winners in a selection process

  • and overlooking those who didn't make it.

  • We often hear survivorship bias as it applies to college dropouts.

  • Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg

  • all dropped out of college to follow their entrepreneurial dreams

  • and each became wildly successful in their respective arenas.

  • Does that mean that dropping out of college is a good idea and is more likely to result in a massive success?

  • Absolutely not!

  • When you crunch the numbers looking at all of the people who dropped out of college,

  • you'll find that the overwhelming majority were not better off than those who finished and earned their degree.

  • It's just that the winners are remembered and the losers are forgotten

  • which makes it more difficult to assess whether a particular strategy leads to success.

  • Students often ask me about the specifics of my path because they believe that by replicating the details,

  • like which major I chose or which schools I attended, that they could emulate similar results.

  • I'd argue that those specifics are far less relevant than cultivating

  • the right mindset, study strategies and resilience to overcome the inevitable obstacles.

  • I had familial and health challenges in college.

  • Does that mean that you should seek out similar challenges for yourself?

  • Obviously not! That's idiotic.

  • Then why replicate the other details in my life?

  • There are multiple facets to anyone's story and it's silly to think we can cherry-pick just the details that count

  • while omitting the ones that we don't want to replicate.

  • The truth is both the good and the bad are part of a person's story

  • and they work together in unison in that individuals ultimate path.

  • Focus on the principles that you can learn and adapt to your own life,

  • not obsess over the minor nuances and specifics of someone else's.

  • The best thing you can do is to be the best version of you.

  • Understanding and being aware of these fallacies is the first step in overcoming them, but our job isn't done yet.

  • So, where should you go from here?

  • First of all, let me start by saying that I'm far from perfect and I'm still subject to these fallacies

  • but here are a few things that worked for me.

  • Let go of the ego.

  • It's not uncommon for much conflict and resistance to arise from the protection of one's ego.

  • If you feel yourself or see someone else reflexively getting defensive and closing off another way of thinking,

  • the odds are high that their ego is getting involved.

  • Getting someone else to let go of their ego is a challenging ordeal so focus on your own.

  • You don't always have to be right and you don't always have to look good for others or make sure you don't look bad.

  • I'm no Buddhist monk

  • but I have found mindfulness meditation and journaling daily

  • to help me be more aware of my own thought processes.

  • Certain books have been helpful too

  • including the Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

  • and How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

  • Seek value don't add value.

  • Have you ever been in a situation where two people keep trying to one-up the other?

  • I know it's cringe-worthy and it's because both people are too focused on trying to add value

  • and seem important in the situation rather than sitting back and letting the other person shine.

  • as they say "If you want to be interesting, first be interested."

  • A curious and open mindset will take you much farther

  • than running around beating your chest saying how awesome you are.

  • I like to look at each situation and ask myself a simple question:

  • What can I learn here?

  • When someone is highly intolerant of a certain political stance or way of thinking,

  • doesn't follow evidence-based medicine and believes in naturopathy

  • or does something else that may be initially off-putting,

  • I always seek to extract value.

  • There is always something I can learn from them or from the situation.

  • And third, constantly question your assumptions.

  • The sneaky thing about these fallacies is that they apply to the supposed facts that we believe.

  • While they're easy to spot when we get into disagreements with other people,

  • They're harder to see in our day-to-day lives.

  • For that reason, structuring some self-reflection into your daily weekly or monthly schedule will serve you well.

  • Tim Ferriss, for example, does the fear setting exercise at least once per quarter, if not more often,

  • as it's remarkably effective at identifying and moving past self-limiting beliefs and fears.

  • I've also found that a daily journaling habit is beneficial in training me

  • to be more aware of my emotional states and my thoughts

  • rather than being a passenger to them.

  • I personally used the Day One journal app on my iPhone which syncs to my iPad and computer.

  • Every morning, it reminds me to journal at 7 a.m. and automatically populates a custom template

  • to reduce friction and make me more likely to follow through with this habit.

  • What are some other common biases or fallacies that you see students making?

  • Let me know with the comment down below.

  • The point isn't to eliminate all biases from your way of thinking. That's an unattainable goal.

  • We want to simply minimize their influence so we can think more clearly.

  • If you haven't already, please hit that like button if you learn something new

  • as it helps us a lot with the YouTube algorithm.

  • Much love to you all and I will see you guys in that next one.

Keto or Vegan?

字幕與單字

單字即點即查 點擊單字可以查詢單字解釋

B1 中級

3個心理錯誤讓你在學校裡裹足不前 (3 Mental Errors Holding You Back in School)

  • 11 0
    Summer 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
影片單字