Critical Listening: How to Quickly Understand Difficult Things

To download a free copy of 80,000 hours to help make the big life decisions, you can follow my link here: During my time in medical school, I’ve gone from feeling like I’m drowning and lost during lectures, to feeling mostly comfortable, finding them actually valuable, and somehow managing to even focus during some of the most boring lectures. Interestingly, during this process I swapped taking notes for focusing and thinking in a different way: so if you’re anything like me, struggle with focusing during lectures and understanding what is going on - hopefully this might help! To make your life easier: 0:00 Introduction 1:43 Increasing Your Focus 4:54 Avoid Whiplash 6:59 Untangling Logical Backbone and Chunking WHO AM I: I’m Elizabeth, a medical student, painter, YouTuber and Podcaster in London. I love to think and talk about life, art, medicine, books and meaning. And also how to find the time to do those things. If you&#