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Studying Efficiently Saving time and understanding wine
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Learning and MeBefore• Bad short term memory• Short attention span• Mediocre academic career• Memorization was my
enemy• I never properly studied for
courses or exams
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Learning and MeAfter• Passed CWE 1 year, 5
months and 2 weeks after first day of work in wine industry
• Banfi award for highest score
• Youngest CWE
How does that happen?!
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What Changed?• I studied Learning.
• I applied the Research to myself.
• I worked harder than I've ever worked before.
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Studying wineIt's not that hard!
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TheoryExtremely easy to learn:
• Perfectly tailored to use multiple senses.
• Actively involves 4 major senses.
• Can be studied using all 5.
• No complex theories.
• Completely fact based.
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RealityHard to learn!
• Pass rates incredibly low.
• Constantly reinforced anecdotally.
• Each of the high level exams only have a few hundred successes in 40+ year histories.
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Why do we think it's hard to learn? Perception vs. Reality
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Involves huge volumes of
information!
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Tasting is hard to learn!
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There's lots of different systems and foreign
words!
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Why is it actually hard to learn?
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We Teach Inefficiently
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We Learn Inefficiently
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We use outdated methods!
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When do you think the forgetting Curve was discovered?
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When do you think the benefits of spaced repetition were discovered?
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When do you think the Testing Effect was discovered?
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When do you think modern memory techniques were pioneered?
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The Topic Isn't the Problem!We are the problem!
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Let's look at how we fixed us!
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How we learn!• Forget about learning
styles!
• All* Humans learn best using multiple techniques together.
• Remember memory is fluid.
• Eliminate distractions!
• Focus on what you find mentally stimulating.
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Learning Methods
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Method Number AlwaysTaste Incessantly, Read Relentlessly!
• Learning and memory rely on context
• The more you read and the more you taste the more context you create
• Read for fun
• Taste everything deliberately
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Step #1: Understand the Big Picture• Big Picture Concepts =
Universal Anchors
• Learn the big picture concepts first and how they relate to each other
• Build on this in layers
• Bonus: With the big picture you can often make educated guesses when needed
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How do I build the big picture?• Take a look at light wide
reaching overviews.
• Understand History.
• Anecdotes and Fun stories of interest.
• Wine is tied to society
• Understanding the culture = understanding the wine
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Step #2: Fundamentals• With big picture developing
ask 3 questions:
1. How is wine made?
2. How do I personally perceive aromas and taste?
3. What are the Major grapes and general climates of Major regions?
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How do I build the fundamentals?• Study winemaking
• Make wine
• Play with structural components
• Study a SLIGHTLY more detailed resource
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Step #3: The Details• Focus on STUDYING the
details only once you have a solid foundation.
• Always study slightly further than you need to.
• Prioritize your learning.
• Find a concise resource, encyclopaedias are awfully inefficient.
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How do I retain the details?• Learn memorization and
study techniques.
• Adapt your approach constantly to what works best.
• Always try to anchor the details.
• Avoid studying in isolation.
• Study frequently!
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The TechniquesHow to retain everything (Well most of it.)
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What are we looking at?• General Study Techniques
• Wine Hack Study Approach
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What is the Wine Hack Study Approach?• Assembly lining the wine study process
• Easy and Efficient Study Techniques
• Concise Study Materials
• As little wasted time as possible
• Relies on 3 Concepts mentioned earlier.
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Concept #1: The forgetting curve• Hermann Ebbinghaus
discovered in 1885!
• Memory of a subject declines exponentially after learning.
• Predictable time periods.
• Effect = Memory fades, after a week or a month you might remember 10-20%
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How do we defeat this?
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Concept #2: The Testing Effect• Testing Increases Recall
• All material not just tested material
• Works best immediately after learning
• Questions = Not too easy, Not too hard
• Greatly decreases slope of forgetting curve
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Concept #3: The Spacing Effect• Also discovered by
Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885
• Each subsequent exposure resets the forgetting curve.
• Each exposure reduces the slope of the curve.
• Gradually increasing time between exposures solidifies long term memory.
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What not to do?• Avoid Speed Reading!
• Highlighters!
• Don't mindlessly abuse flash cards!
• Don't Read Passively!
• Don't study while driving!
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Technique #1: Active Reading• Always have a pen and
paper when reading to study.
• Take notes about what you read!
• Ask yourself questions about what you read.
• Turn the TV, Music, etc. off!
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Effective Note Taking• Don't take detailed word for
word notes.
• Only write down important information.
• Wait until end of paragraph or page.
• Summarize info.
• Write sample test questions.
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Approach #1: Standard Notes• Chronological
• Point form or summary paragraphs
• Questions follow
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Approach #2: Cornell Notes• System created in 1950's at
Cornell
• Page divided in 3: 2 Columns, small 2" row at bottom of page.
• Small Right Column = Key Words + Questions
• Large Right Column = Main Ideas, Point form Notes
• Bottom = Short Summary
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Approach #3: Wine Study Hack Notes• First part of system
• Take notes purely in question form
• No answers on page
• Forces you to think about topic
• Forces you to actively recall while studying
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Other Advice for Notes and Reading • Questions, Questions,
Questions
• Try to relate information to similar topics
• Visualize information, create mind maps, diagrams, draw on actual maps, study labels
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Technique #2Taking advantage of Testing and Spacing Effects
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Immediately After Reading• Notes -> effective q&a pairs
• Concise, Specific, Limited
• Add to Spreadsheet
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Why do this?• Force retrieval
• Critical thinking opportunity
• Optimize questions
• Spreadsheet -> Flash Cards or Software
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Method #1: Basic Flash Cards• Make physical cards or use
app
• Review all cards in deck cyclically
• Suffer from boredom and wasted time
• Pure repetition and testing, not effective spacing.
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Method #2: Leitner System• Very basic spacing effect for
physical flash cards
• Gradually spaced boxes (1 day, 2 days, 4 days, 8 days, etc.)
• Success = Move up a box
• Failure = Down a box or to beginning
• Cumbersome but effective
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Method #3: Digital Spaced Repetition• Computer + Phone
• Highly Portable
• Organized
• Less complicated
• Optimizes based on performance
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Software Example #1: Anki• Popular in language
learning community
• Windows, Android and iOS
• Strictly Scheduled
• Many Extensions
• Very Utilitarian
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Software Example #2: Brainscape• Web and iOS app
• Visually Pleasing and Game Like
• Flexible Usage
• Visual feedback and rating system
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Caveats for Flash Cards• Avoid pre-made flash cards
• Learn how to make effective flash cards
• Avoid overly detailed or long answers
• Detailed and Clear Questions
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Other uses of Testing Effect
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Practice Tests and Quizzes • Seek out practice tests and quizzes
• Only use Trusted and up to date sources
• ie. SWE App, Bubbly Professor, Guild Somm
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SWE Online Academy• Easily one of the most effective resources
• Testing before learning to find weak points
• Testing while learning to check comprehension
• Testing after learning to check learning
• 3 Sets of test minimum per module
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Other Uses of Spacing Effect
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Scheduling extra materials• Use a spreadsheet, app or simple calendar
• Schedule podcasts, articles, chapters, videos about topics to cement information
• Ok to use very basic spacing
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Spacing Effect and Tasting• We forget tasting involves a
large memory component.
• We usually taste topically and linearly.
• Revisit areas often.
• Taste minimum once a week.
• Throw in ringers.
• Coravin + Spreadsheet = Blind Tasting SRS?
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Memory TechniquesMaking the information Stick
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Chunking• Break lists into smaller pieces
• Any more than 5 items becomes difficult
• Break information into branches
• Forms multiple anchors
• Examples:
• Bordeaux
• Burgundy
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Simple Verbal Mnemonics• Some easier items work as verbal mnemonics
• Acronyms
• Phrases
• Short Stories
• Associate unknown term with similar sounding term
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Incorporate Visual Memory• Associate words with images
• Doesn't have to be literal
• The sillier, more unusual or sexual the better people seem to remember
• Incorporating sounds, movement and smell into imagery increase retention
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Incorporating Spatial Memory• Method of Loci or Journey Method
• Visually a familiar location or path
• Insert Visualizations Into specific places in location or path
• For ordered lists place in specific order through journey or palace/loci
• Astoundingly effective
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Other Memory Techniques• Peg or Ladder approach useful for ordered lists
• Various number techniques less relevant to wine
• Try a book or two on memory techniques and practice
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Bridging it all together1. Find Efficient Study Materials
2. Fill in big picture
3. Build solid foundation
4. Practice active reading
5. Practice thinking of potential test questions
6. Create Q&A pairs
7. Insert into spaced repetition system
8. Use spaced repetition system constantly
9. Use memory techniques for tricky bits
10.Write practice quizzes to gauge progress and cement information
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Other Concepts to Explore
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Teach• One of the best ways to learn is to teach others
• Join a study group and take turns teaching
• Write blogs about topics you are learning
• Explain it to someone else
• Forces you to be realistic about your strengths and weaknesses
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction• Stress and Test anxiety both slow down success
• MBSR is "meditation" based anxiety treatment
• Simple fears to severe anxiety disorders
• On par with CBT and often more effective than medication for anxieties
• Not what you probably think of: Mindful Eating/Drinking