Name: 学校に足を引っ張る3つのメンタルエラー (3 Mental Errors Holding You Back in School)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:55:50.000Z
Duration: 9 min 21 s
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Despite how logical and rational we think we are, humans tend to be impressively irrational

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

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

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

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

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,

Human thinking doesn't follow the scientific method.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.