5 THINGS YOU MUST DO TO BE A BLACK CAB DRIVER IN LONDON — Transcript

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1. 0:00so today i want to talk about five
2. 0:01disciplines that you need to master the
3. 0:03knowledge from least important to most
4. 0:04important
5. 0:05plus the three things you must have if
6. 0:07you want to complete the knowledge
7. 0:08successfully and quickly and the two
8. 0:10principles that you need to
9. 0:11concentrate on when you very first start
10. 0:13which is start this with the attitude
11. 0:15that you
12. 0:15are going to succeed the other thing is
13. 0:18try to succeed as fast as you physically
14. 0:21can and aim to somewhere in the region
15. 0:23of two years
16. 0:24let's get started
17. 0:30out of the five disciplines that you
18. 0:31need to master one of them is bike work
19. 0:34but bike work is the least most
20. 0:37important thing that you do
21. 0:39you must never do bike work instead of
22. 0:42any of the other four things that i'm
23. 0:44going to tell you
24. 0:45bike work gets done because you have the
25. 0:48time and space
26. 0:49to do it it doesn't get done and
27. 0:52sacrifice one of the other things it's
28. 0:54very important to realize
29. 0:55it is the least most important thing
30. 0:57that you do always remember that you're
31. 0:59training yourself
32. 1:00to sit in a chair in front of an
33. 1:03examiner and answer questions verbally
34. 1:05the bike work doesn't help you with that
35. 1:07the bike work is the collecting of
36. 1:08information
37. 1:09so we're going to presume that you've
38. 1:10collected a lot of information anyway
39. 1:11and a lot of people are out on their
40. 1:12bike
41. 1:13all the time taxi drivers are out in
42. 1:15their taxis all the time their knowledge
43. 1:17doesn't improve in terms of their
44. 1:18ability to pass these exams
45. 1:20they can do their job and they've
46. 1:21learned how to be a taxi driver but they
47. 1:22can't pass the exams passing exams
48. 1:24involves other aspects that are far more
49. 1:26important than going out on your bike
50. 1:28so disregarding blue book which is when
51. 1:30you did go out on your bike and you got
52. 1:31your blue book runs down
53. 1:32and also the fact that you've been out
54. 1:34pointing and you've pointed as many
55. 1:35points as you can and you're going to
56. 1:36continue pointing
57. 1:38until the very end of the knowledge you
58. 1:39will never know everything
59. 1:41you just have to keep going and you keep
60. 1:43pointing and accumulating more and more
61. 1:44points as you go
62. 1:45but going out on your bike is the least
63. 1:47most important thing that you do
64. 1:49the fourth most important thing you do
65. 1:51is call blue book calling the blue book
66. 1:53is your language it's your fluency you
67. 1:56have to be as fluent as you possibly can
68. 1:59and generally the rule of thumb would be
69. 2:00that you should be able to call 40 runs
70. 2:02in 30 minutes and you should be doing
71. 2:04that twice a day
72. 2:05you should be calling 80 runs and that
73. 2:07will give you speed of thought
74. 2:08accuracy and fluency when you're calling
75. 2:11runs
76. 2:12um it will give you the ability to know
77. 2:13that everything you're calling in your
78. 2:14blueprints is a working
79. 2:16turning that the combination of roads
80. 2:18that you call are correct
81. 2:20so we called the blue book not because
82. 2:22it's giving us preset lines
83. 2:23but because it's giving us stuff that
84. 2:25works now then people overkill it and
85. 2:28they start calling bankers
86. 2:29and football runs and everything else
87. 2:32you're supposed to be able to deduct
88. 2:33and deduce what the answers would be to
89. 2:35those so calling those is kind of a
90. 2:37waste of time to a degree
91. 2:38you're hoping you get asked those
92. 2:40specific questions when you would be
93. 2:41better off
94. 2:43making sure you have the deduction
95. 2:44skills of being able to answer
96. 2:46point-to-point regardless of what the
97. 2:47question was
98. 2:50so first bike work then blue book
99. 2:53third we have points learning revising
100. 2:57collecting
101. 2:57points and there are many things here
102. 3:00that people get caught up in
103. 3:02a thing to remember about points is when
104. 3:04you go for an appearance
105. 3:05if you don't know the point you lose one
106. 3:08point it's not a great deal
107. 3:09if you muck up the run you lose 10
108. 3:12points
109. 3:13so you've got more emphasis on getting
110. 3:15the run remotely correct than on fact of
111. 3:17knowing the point
112. 3:19some appearances you are going to get
113. 3:20asked a hell of a lot of points that you
114. 3:22don't know
115. 3:23and on those appearances the 16 17 18
116. 3:2620 points that you got asked you didn't
117. 3:28know there's pretty much
118. 3:30nothing you could have done about it you
119. 3:32couldn't have predicted it you couldn't
120. 3:33preempted it and you couldn't have
121. 3:35studied for it
122. 3:36you were not going to score on that day
123. 3:38those points are probably not going to
124. 3:40come out that often again
125. 3:41you couldn't know what they was going to
126. 3:43be and you can't preempt them for the
127. 3:45future
128. 3:46the examiners are always going to ask
129. 3:48new sets of points that you can't
130. 3:50predict
131. 3:51but what you can do is see which ones
132. 3:53they're asking the most make sure you
133. 3:54know all of those and then try to
134. 3:56increase your repertoire as you
135. 3:58continuously go through the knowledge so
136. 4:00it's all about statistics
137. 4:01you've got to make sure you know
138. 4:03everything that they're asking the most
139. 4:04and then build upon that
140. 4:06then the detail so very often when
141. 4:09people are collecting points you collect
142. 4:10a lot of detail
143. 4:12i see it all the time first left first
144. 4:13right and a turnaround
145. 4:15you as beginners are doing that for
146. 4:16points that you have no comprehension of
147. 4:18whether they need it or not
148. 4:20so when you collect a turnaround for a
149. 4:21point and you've never seen it asked in
150. 4:23a question
151. 4:24you're trying to predict if they asked
152. 4:26it and that's a waste of time and energy
153. 4:29because on the point sheet is what they
154. 4:31ask and if you're practicing that point
155. 4:33sheet
156. 4:34you are seeing what they ask and you can
157. 4:35now practice what the answer could be
158. 4:37for that specific question
159. 4:39again if you are trying to predict what
160. 4:41they'll ask and preempt what they're
161. 4:43asked
162. 4:43certainly as a beginner you're wasting
163. 4:45your time because there's already
164. 4:47plenty that they are asking that you
165. 4:50should be finding and learning
166. 4:52when you write down a turnaround with no
167. 4:54idea of its need
168. 4:55it's very difficult to learn and
169. 4:57remember also when you write down first
170. 4:59left first right
171. 5:00can you leave on the left can you sit on
172. 5:01the right very often beginners don't
173. 5:03even understand
174. 5:04what can and can't be left on the left
175. 5:06or the right
176. 5:07so for example zebra crossings you're
177. 5:09very often here a beginner
178. 5:11think that they have to turn around a
179. 5:13point because it's blocked by a seb
180. 5:15crossing
181. 5:15zebra crossings can't be stopped on it's
182. 5:17illegal to stop on a zebra crossing
183. 5:19so that doesn't concern you when you're
184. 5:21setting it down you will be setting down
185. 5:23off of the zebra crossing
186. 5:25so you can disregard zebra crossings as
187. 5:27if they're not there
188. 5:28keep left bollards or keep left islands
189. 5:30they can be disregarded because they're
190. 5:31written in the rules that are produced
191. 5:32by the examiners of things that we can
192. 5:34say
193. 5:35are not needed to be turned around on
194. 5:37because people were getting overzealous
195. 5:38and turning around everything
196. 5:40there is no such thing as the concept of
197. 5:42something being
198. 5:43too close to a set of lights and bear
199. 5:46this in mind when you get to a set of
200. 5:47lights especially if it's a set of
201. 5:49lights that have got a place for people
202. 5:50to cross
203. 5:51that crossing is separated by stud marks
204. 5:53those stud marks can't be stopped in
205. 5:56so again where they are is a point that
206. 5:58can't be stopped in you will be stopping
207. 6:00away from that so a point can't be
208. 6:02too close or too far from a satellite
209. 6:04it's non-existent
210. 6:06the other thing can be a railings
211. 6:07railings are in front of the point
212. 6:09we can't take that into account it's
213. 6:11unnecessary you're going to be sitting
214. 6:13down in real life as close as you
215. 6:14possibly can to that point
216. 6:16but the railings doesn't prevent you
217. 6:18from saying sit down on left or on the
218. 6:19right whenever you're approaching it
219. 6:21there are much more aspects to this but
220. 6:23the thing would be this as well
221. 6:25when we get to note-taking too many of
222. 6:28you
223. 6:29take too many notes and if anything
224. 6:32pretty much take no notes at all unless
225. 6:35the point is amazingly blocked by four
226. 6:37or five roads
227. 6:38i might write a small run out to get in
228. 6:40and out of that and practice it for a
229. 6:42few days
230. 6:43but other than that every single note
231. 6:45that you take
232. 6:46already exists in a format that is
233. 6:49clearer
234. 6:50than the format that you're writing in
235. 6:52now you could check the streets
236. 6:54the points location on google and see it
237. 6:56physically to see if it's
238. 6:57blocked by anything or where it lies in
239. 6:59a particular street so you can see where
240. 7:01it is first left
241. 7:02or first right when you're using wiz
242. 7:03radius app you can see the point placed
243. 7:05on the map as well
244. 7:06you can also look at the map and see the
245. 7:08names of the streets and then try to
246. 7:09remember roughly where you think the
247. 7:11point was located
248. 7:12but the main thing is most of the
249. 7:14information you don't know if you've
250. 7:15naturally remembered it anyway
251. 7:17and the way to find that out is with
252. 7:19point to point when you do point a point
253. 7:21you will find out what it is that you do
254. 7:23and don't know
255. 7:24and you can approach and attack that
256. 7:25particular aspect
257. 7:27and when you attack a question knowing
258. 7:29what you need
259. 7:30it's much easier to learn than when you
260. 7:32go out and collect information
261. 7:33based on no idea of whether it's ever
262. 7:35going to be needed so keep your notes to
263. 7:37a minimum
264. 7:38and at best don't take any because it is
265. 7:40a complete waste of time and it's a
266. 7:42distraction from
267. 7:43the one key part about points that is
268. 7:45important
269. 7:46which is the revision of them where is
270. 7:49the point
271. 7:50what is the name of the road that the
272. 7:51point is in because if you're unable to
273. 7:54say the name of the road that the point
274. 7:56is in
275. 7:57then you're nowhere you have nothing and
276. 7:58every other piece of information that
277. 8:00you gathered for that point
278. 8:01is useless to you now the next thing is
279. 8:03when you start doing the point sheet you
280. 8:04get the opportunity to practice that
281. 8:06point
282. 8:06and you can see what you do and don't
283. 8:08know so we have bike work
284. 8:10the least most important thing that you
285. 8:12do calling your blue book
286. 8:13make sure you call your blue book
287. 8:15because it's your fluency and your
288. 8:16language
289. 8:16and then revise your points then you
290. 8:19have the most important thing that you
291. 8:21do
292. 8:21by one other thing point to point
293. 8:24practice in point-to-point
294. 8:26i ask people very often how much point
295. 8:28to point you to a day and they say i do
296. 8:29the whole sheet
297. 8:31and by the whole sheet they meant they
298. 8:32done the questions on 56s that day
299. 8:35or 28 that day and there might have been
300. 8:38only eight or 12 questions on 56's
301. 8:41and quite frankly that is nowhere near a
302. 8:43serious
303. 8:44volume of point-to-point but the level
304. 8:46of the question is irrelevant
305. 8:47if i'm practicing questions i will
306. 8:49practice for a time and i will practice
307. 8:51for an amount
308. 8:52and if you want to start off on the
309. 8:53level you're on by all means do that
310. 8:55but in a three-hour session which is
311. 8:57roughly what you should be doing
312. 8:59you should be doing three hours
313. 9:00point-to-point a day 15 hours a week
314. 9:02and on those sessions they should be
315. 9:04broken into 15-minute sets
316. 9:06so you would call over 15 minutes your
317. 9:08partner would call over 15 minutes and
318. 9:09you'd do that four times
319. 9:11for one hour and you'd have a quick
320. 9:12break you'd do that
321. 9:14three times you'd have three hours worth
322. 9:16of 15 minute sets
323. 9:18and in each 15 minute set you need to be
324. 9:21aware of
325. 9:22how many runs did you call if you're
326. 9:24calling three
327. 9:26you're calling one run every five
328. 9:28minutes
329. 9:30and that is no good it's no good for
330. 9:32several reasons
331. 9:34you're going to have about 15 minutes in
332. 9:35an appearance and they're going to ask
333. 9:36you at least four questions and it's
334. 9:38going to be a much more higher pressure
335. 9:40circumstance you've got to be able to
336. 9:42control your
337. 9:43stress within an appearance so you're
338. 9:45able to answer those four questions
339. 9:47that itself is going to be difficult but
340. 9:49when you're at home practicing
341. 9:51you are going to learn far faster by the
342. 9:53mistakes you make
343. 9:55if you can make them quick enough so it
344. 9:57isn't about making a run
345. 9:59from a to b accurate on the first go
346. 10:01it's about giving the
347. 10:02first goal that you do for that
348. 10:04particular run a quick stab
349. 10:06just guess guess at what you think the
350. 10:08answer would be
351. 10:10once you've guessed you can check it
352. 10:11quickly you can see what mistakes you've
353. 10:13made and then you can rerun it again
354. 10:15that's going to get you through the
355. 10:16volume because a secret to point to
356. 10:18point and the absolute secret to the
357. 10:19knowledge is the volume of
358. 10:21point-to-point that you do
359. 10:23not the quality of one run because
360. 10:24you're hoping that you get asked that
361. 10:26one run and you're not going to
362. 10:28the combinations of runs you can be
363. 10:29asked is phenomenal so you want to be
364. 10:32mediocre as many runs as you possibly
365. 10:35can
366. 10:36so when you're doing your point-to-point
367. 10:37the analogy we use is basically
368. 10:39treat it like playing darts if you want
369. 10:41to learn to play darts
370. 10:42throw thousands of darts just keep
371. 10:44throwing them the more darts you throw
372. 10:46the more accurate you become
373. 10:48it doesn't matter how long you stand
374. 10:49there and aim you're still going to be
375. 10:51rubbish
376. 10:52if you stand there and aim for 20
377. 10:53minutes you may as well just run the run
378. 10:56as quickly as you possibly can to see
379. 10:58what it is
380. 10:58that gives you problems with that run
381. 11:00your sense of direction may be
382. 11:02completely in the opposite direction
383. 11:03but you needed to learn that so stop the
384. 11:06thinking deeply as a beginner and get on
385. 11:08with the answer
386. 11:12the final thing is you must find time to
387. 11:14relax
388. 11:15so that involves having a good study
389. 11:18program
390. 11:19set aside all of the times that you want
391. 11:22to study the things you need to study
392. 11:24so for example you're going to do one
393. 11:26hour blue book a day
394. 11:27best time to do that is very first thing
395. 11:29in the morning get up get that done half
396. 11:31hour
397. 11:31small break half hour done the next
398. 11:34thing
399. 11:35is your point to point point to point
400. 11:37involves mental energy
401. 11:38and if you do this last thing in a day
402. 11:40it's going to be the worst time to do it
403. 11:42so you do that after you've warmed up
404. 11:44with blue book
405. 11:45you should be doing about three hours
406. 11:46point to point broken into one hour sets
407. 11:48have a break one hour have a break
408. 11:50and in that time you need to be aware of
409. 11:53how many runs you called
410. 11:54it should be in the region of 50 to 80
411. 11:57runs
412. 11:5825 each to 40 each between you and a
413. 12:01partner if you're not doing that kind of
414. 12:03volume
415. 12:03that becomes your target it is all about
416. 12:06the volume of runs that you do
417. 12:08and you will see the runs reoccur in a
418. 12:10few days time
419. 12:11and you can remember the answers you
420. 12:12gave previously and you're now able to
421. 12:14answer quicker
422. 12:15and more accurately to previous answers
423. 12:17you've heard the fewer questions you
424. 12:19practice
425. 12:20the less the questions will reoccur and
426. 12:22the less you can remember
427. 12:23because it took so long for the question
428. 12:25to reoccur that you've forgotten the
429. 12:26answer anyway
430. 12:27so it's all about volume so there's your
431. 12:29three hours point to point you'd also
432. 12:31want to try to set aside an
433. 12:32hour's point revision and in the point
434. 12:34revision the mistake that's made
435. 12:35here is you're generally revising long
436. 12:38lists of points that you already know
437. 12:41this is why the sticky list is so
438. 12:43important the sticky list is the points
439. 12:44that you keep making mistakes on
440. 12:46the ones that you're weak on the ones
441. 12:48you don't know you can't do anything
442. 12:49about other than go and visit
443. 12:51so that'll involve making a bike list
444. 12:52and going out and visit them
445. 12:54but the ones you do know if you're
446. 12:56revising where buckingham palace is
447. 12:58and there's a thousand of these points
448. 12:59that are in the same caliber of
449. 13:00buckingham palace then you're wasting
450. 13:02your time
451. 13:03you should be revising as many sticky
452. 13:05points as many weaknesses as possible
453. 13:07the points that you know go in your
454. 13:08long-term memory the runs that you do
455. 13:11the blue book runs that you revise don't
456. 13:13go in your long-term memory
457. 13:14they're only going to be there for as
458. 13:16long as you keep using them so no matter
459. 13:18how
460. 13:18familiar you think you are with the runs
461. 13:20just keep calling them that's your
462. 13:22fluency
463. 13:23but the points you don't need to
464. 13:25continuously revise points you already
465. 13:27know
466. 13:27if you know the point scrap it from your
467. 13:30list of things that you revise and keep
468. 13:31the number low
469. 13:33so create a good study regime one hour
470. 13:35blue book three hours point point
471. 13:37one hour points revision and then
472. 13:40outside that
473. 13:41whenever you can create a bike list and
474. 13:43find time to go out and visit your
475. 13:45points
476. 13:46the mistake made with blacklists is you
477. 13:48seem to see a lot of people doing bike
478. 13:50lists
479. 13:50based on postcodes it is the weakest way
480. 13:53to do it
481. 13:54it should be based on geography and you
482. 13:56should be creating horseshoes and
483. 13:57boomerangs to travel out and travel back
484. 13:59visiting points on your way out and
485. 14:00visiting points on your way back and
486. 14:02maybe
487. 14:02arriving at a cluster of points and
488. 14:04clearing up that clustered area
489. 14:06that's how you should be doing your
490. 14:07points we can go in depth about all of
491. 14:09these five subjects
492. 14:10but the main thing is this bike work is
493. 14:13your least most important thing that you
494. 14:14do
495. 14:15do not do it instead of calling your
496. 14:17blue book revising your points
497. 14:19and doing point-to-point find time to
498. 14:21rest by making a good study regime that
499. 14:23you stick to
500. 14:24always set times of what you're going to
501. 14:26start from and finish
502. 14:28so that you know that that study aspect
503. 14:29is done
504. 14:31don't over study it is no good for you
505. 14:34find time to rest and then my five
506. 14:36things
507. 14:37i guess of some help if you have any
508. 14:38queries or questions and you want to ask
509. 14:39me about them just uh send me an email
510. 14:41dean at wizzan.com uk and i'll answer
511. 14:43any questions you may have
512. 14:45good luck
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