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0:00hello and welcome to this video the
0:01definitive guide to learning the blue
0:03book
0:03my name is dean warrington and i have
0:05been teaching training and developing
0:06computer software and apps for the
0:08knowledge for the past 25 years
0:10in this video i want to give you a
0:12comprehensive step-by-step breakdown
0:14of every aspect you need to learn when
0:16doing the blue book runs
0:18i want to show you the fastest most
0:19efficient way to absorb vast amounts of
0:21information
0:22and get through step one of the
0:24knowledge as easily as possible
0:35if you haven't applied yet you need to
0:36you need to get the application form in
0:38this is a long-winded process and you're
0:40going to need a criminal record check
0:41and a medical and getting your
0:43application sorted is a major part of
0:46you getting through this quickly
0:47in the eyes of the examiners they want
0:49to see the day that you registered on
0:50the knowledge and it will count towards
0:52the time you've spent on the knowledge
0:54so get this part out of the way as soon
0:55as possible
1:00so let's start at the beginning the very
1:02first thing you want to do
1:03is work out your time time management
1:06how can you
1:07get the things done with the hours that
1:10you have
1:11you cannot conjure up more hours in a
1:13day than
1:14there already are do not stress about
1:16what you cannot do
1:18just decide how much work you're going
1:20to do each week
1:22is your target to complete 8 runs 12
1:24runs or 16 runs a week
1:26hopefully it's 16 runs a week so we'll
1:27go on that scenario
1:29and you need to now work out where you
1:30can do those runs now you can do
1:32four runs a day and those four runs are
1:34going to take you around about two hours
1:36to do you're going to allow about 30
1:38minutes per run
1:39that does not include the time it takes
1:41to drive to the run
1:42or from the run when it's finished from
1:44the fourth run when you're finished you
1:45want to go home
1:47so you're looking at somewhere between
1:49two hours to complete the four runs so
1:50maybe three to four hours
1:52time slot that you need to go out and
1:54actually do these four runs
1:56you need to do that four days a week and
1:57if you can do that four days a week
1:58you're going to be doing 16 runs a week
2:00and if you do that you're gonna finish
2:02one book
2:02every five weeks which means you will
2:05finish all four books in 20 weeks
2:07that for me is the inspirational kind of
2:08target that i want to aim for i don't
2:10want to be seeing myself on the
2:12knowledge forever i want to be having a
2:14nice
2:14serious target that i can hit you need
2:17to find out what the days that you have
2:19how much of these runs can you do each
2:21week
2:22if you want to do eight runs a week
2:24that's quite easy you just need two days
2:25a week to do it on
2:26you do four on one day and four on the
2:28next and then you've got a whole week to
2:29learn those runs and absorb those runs
2:32i will be giving you the techniques on
2:33how you learn and absorb those runs but
2:35the very first step
2:36is figuring out how much time a week you
2:39have
2:40and where you're going to do these runs
2:42and stick to it like a schedule
2:43of you going out religiously on these
2:46particular days
2:47during these set times that you're
2:48giving yourself to finish these runs
2:50and week in week out meeting those
2:52targets of trying to do 16 runs a week
2:55it's a very very important part of what
2:56you're doing because if you can do this
2:58if you can do 16 runs a week you will
3:01finish this aspect in 20 weeks
3:04and that allows you to then look at
3:06other aspects look at other things to
3:07study and
3:08change focus but if you can just stay
3:10focused for 20 weeks it's done
3:13every time you miss a week you're
3:14prolonging the time it's going to take
3:16you to complete this aspect
3:18so time management work out where you're
3:21going to do these runs that's the very
3:23first aspect that we need to cover
3:25one final thing when you're doing this
3:26study plan don't be ashamed or afraid to
3:29start off doing one run a day
3:31it's not easy when you first start you
3:33are not in the frame of mind of
3:35remembering all this information
3:36you're not in any sort of pattern that
3:38you feel comfortable with so first of
3:40all
3:40if you have to do one run today try to
3:43build up to two runs tomorrow or a
3:46couple of days time
3:47your aim is to try to build up to four
3:49rounds a day so don't feel
3:51that you have to go straight out and do
3:52four runs because as a complete beginner
3:54that might be too difficult but i can
3:56promise you everybody can do it
3:59you just need to know the steps to take
4:01to actually get to that stage
4:02so once we get to the part of this video
4:04where we're telling you how to do
4:05bluetooth runs listen closely because
4:06that's how you
4:07are able to learn and absorb all the
4:09runs that you're attempting to do
4:15one of the common mistakes when you
4:16first start is a misunderstanding of how
4:19you use a map when you're out on your
4:20bike
4:21a popular misconceived idea is that you
4:23would have the map placed on your board
4:25displaying the route that you're about
4:26to drive now if you've ever used satnav
4:29before you will know that it does not
4:31teach you or enable you to remember
4:33routes
4:34but what it does do is allow you to get
4:35from a to b
4:37with as little concern as possible for
4:38remembering the route whereas prior to
4:40satnav and prior to having a map on your
4:42board the technique you would have used
4:44would have been to open your map book
4:46have a look at the journey that you
4:47think you should use
4:48and attempt to remember key aspects of
4:50that journey so that you can relay them
4:52from memory
4:53by doing this you're actually activating
4:55your brain and attempting to commit to
4:57memory many of the key aspects of the
4:59route that you're using and trying to
5:00learn
5:02bear in mind that you are not trying to
5:03get from a to b as quickly or as easily
5:06as possible but you're actually trying
5:07to commit to memory as much of the key
5:09aspects of the route as possible
5:11this has achieved a far greater rate if
5:14you use your macbook or map app
5:16whenever you have a question about your
5:17journey or are puzzled by the route
5:19you may even have gotten lost getting
5:21lost and understanding why you got lost
5:24is an integral part of developing your
5:25sense of direction and navigational
5:27skills
5:28you will do plenty of looking at the map
5:31when you're home and studying and when
5:32you're doing point-to-point
5:34so don't have a map on your board carry
5:37it with you and use it to answer the
5:39questions
5:39as they arise
5:44very often you're going to hear people
5:45talk about visualization the fact that
5:47you're supposed to visualize the root in
5:48your head
5:49and there's a major problem with this
5:51because there is only two contributing
5:53factors
5:53to visualization one is the amount of
5:55times you've been there
5:56quite simply as a beginner you haven't
5:58been there enough the other is did
6:00anything
6:00memorable happen when you was there
6:02which is quite rare there won't be very
6:04much that's memorable when you was there
6:06so the visualization aspect that really
6:08causes people a problem is when they
6:10start calling over when they start
6:11reciting their runs
6:13they're attempting to conjure up visual
6:15images in their head whilst they call
6:16the runs and those images are not there
6:19and it affects the way that they call
6:21the run calling the run and saying the
6:23run fluently
6:24is your priority being able to say leave
6:27by matilda street right copenhagen
6:29street left caledonian road left
6:30carnegie street right mural street food
6:32rodney street being able to fluently
6:34say that with ease without too much
6:36thinking letting it flow
6:38that's your priority if you're saying it
6:40but you're always attempting to conjure
6:41up a mental image of the street you will
6:43be saying
6:44leave by matilda
6:48quite see it seeing it is completely and
6:51utterly
6:52unimportant because it takes care of
6:54itself
6:55in time you will be there again
6:58you will develop images over time but
7:01initially
7:02you must not let that affect you being
7:04able to say the run
7:06saying the run is the be all and end all
7:08of what you're trying to do as a
7:10beginner
7:11so don't worry about visualization it
7:14takes care of itself
7:15don't attempt to visualize the run
7:17whilst you're calling it attempt to be
7:19able to say the run with the pattern
7:21with a degree of fluency and with a
7:22degree of ease
7:24that's the aspect you're trying to
7:25achieve
7:29now for the crux of this video how do
7:32you learn each individual bluebook run
7:35first of all prepare the runs that you
7:36want to do today get the four runs from
7:38either your paper printouts or your
7:40paper book or from the actual app screen
7:43look at the four runs you want to do get
7:46your a to z premiere wall map
7:47the whole map you need to be looking at
7:49the whole map not pages from a map book
7:51stare at the map find the start point at
7:53the very first point you want to do that
7:55day
7:55and follow it through with your finger
7:57or with a dry white pen
7:58drawing the route on do this for all
8:01four runs that you intend to drive that
8:03day
8:10this is introducing you to the road
8:11you're about to learn but more
8:12importantly it's giving you the location
8:14of the runs
8:15in the overall view of london this is
8:18going to help you with your sense of
8:19direction and give you an understanding
8:20of the position of these individual
8:22areas
8:24now look at the map and find the
8:25location of where you live
8:28look at the very first point and find
8:29its location and work out
8:31a very simple route from your home to
8:34the first point that you need to visit
8:36that day to start the runs
8:38look at the key areas you're going to
8:39pass on the way try to make the run
8:41use a route that you're kind of familiar
8:43with to some degree
8:44you're not trying to learn the route
8:46you're just trying to gain some sense of
8:48direction
8:49bear in mind that you're going to not
8:50have the map in front of you so you're
8:51going to commit to memory
8:53these key elements so when i'm looking
8:55at the map for this particular example
8:57i'm looking to go through victoria park
8:59through to mayor street
9:01up amherst road stoke newton church
9:03street and then i'll end up at green
9:04lanes
9:05for me that's good enough if i get
9:07confused along the way i will stop i'll
9:09open up my macbook i'll read the macbook
9:10and see why i'm confused
9:12and then i'll carry on once i get to the
9:15start of the run
9:16i take my macbook out again i take
9:17another look i follow through the run
9:19with my finger
9:20i'm looking at the turnings i want to
9:21take you kind of start to begin to
9:23understand the more you do this
9:25the distance you'll be traveling for
9:26each turning and then you start driving
9:29drive the route slowly take your time
9:31look for the names of the roads you're
9:33about to turn into
9:34so obviously on the first one you need
9:36to look for hybrid new park
9:40as you're driving slowly through the
9:41route if you notice any points of
9:43interest
9:43take a casual look don't make any effort
9:46to remember it just rely on your
9:47subconscious to absorb it
9:48if it does excellent it will absorb some
9:51information that you're not aware of so
9:52later on it becomes easier to learn but
9:54for the moment
9:55just take a glance have a look and rely
9:57purely on your subconscious to absorb
9:59any information it wants
10:00remember that your focus is learning
10:02that run if you try to distract yourself
10:04of other things
10:05you are going to try to take on too much
10:08information
10:09everybody has a capacity of information
10:11to take on board every day and for most
10:13people
10:14four runs is at the limit of that
10:16capacity
10:17here's the key to learning runs well
10:20every four or five roads are so stop and
10:22revise and practice those four or five
10:24roads
10:25call them over reach a degree of fluency
10:28it's important
10:29that you attempt to learn the run whilst
10:31you're out there
10:32never postpone the learning never say
10:34that i'm going to go home and try and
10:36teach myself to run later
10:37do it while you're there it'll help you
10:39with the understanding of that run
10:41and your memory of that run will be far
10:43greater so you practice the run whilst
10:45you're there move on left green lane
10:47right highbury new path left highway
10:49grove
10:50right some pools road
10:53leave on left green lanes right and
10:55right hybrid new park
10:56left hybrid road rights and falls road
11:00leave on left green lanes right and
11:02right hybrid new park
11:03left half before right some halls you
11:06want to be able to call those four roads
11:08fluently
11:08before you move on to the next four when
11:11you then move on to the next four
11:13you call all eight roads and then you
11:14get to the end of the run and you call
11:16the whole run through from start to
11:17finish
11:18as you're doing this it's going to
11:20enable you to see and feel the run in
11:22segments you'll see the first four
11:23the second fourth third four and so on
11:25so the run becomes compartmentalized and
11:27easier for you to call over
11:29so drive four or five roads each time
11:31don't drive more than that stop
11:33and learn those roads move on left green
11:35lanes
11:36right and right hybrid new park left
11:38highbury grove
11:39wrights and pauls road left and right
11:42high every corner
11:43lead by upper street right barnes bridge
11:45street
11:46left milner square forward milner place
11:49forward into gibson square
11:52when you're revising look at the run
11:54read what you need to say and then look
11:56away
11:56don't hold your hand on the page and
11:58slide it down uncovering each road at a
12:01time
12:01don't do that technique that's using a
12:03visual memory trigger
12:05you are not going to have that luxury
12:06you want to use the sound memory trigger
12:09you want to hear yourself say
12:10leave on left green lanes and that
12:12triggers the next words of right and
12:13right highway new park
12:14so don't do that technique of sliding
12:16your hand down the page
12:21once you've done that you can now move
12:22on to run number two you can look at
12:24your wiz links to give you a guide of
12:26how to get to run number two or just
12:27open your macbook
12:28figure out a route that you want to use
12:30to get to the beginning of run number
12:31two
12:32you don't need to remember any of that
12:33you're just using it as a basic learning
12:35that subconsciously you might absorb
12:37some of that information but again you
12:39must remember your focus your whole
12:41focus
12:41is trying to learn these four runs that
12:43day try as little as possible to confuse
12:46yourself by taking on extra data
12:48these four runs are going to be as much
12:50as you can cope with
12:52get yourself to the start of the next
12:53run and then follow the process the same
12:55drive four roads every time stop at four
12:57roads and learn those four roads
12:59drive another four add them together to
13:01make eight and call those eight roads
13:03get to the end of the run and make sure
13:04you can call the whole run through
13:06from start to finish nice and smoothly
13:08and fluently if you can't you stay there
13:10until you can
13:11but before you move on to the third run
13:14call the first run
13:15and the second run and see if you've got
13:16the fluency for both of them
13:18and then do the third run then do the
13:20fourth run when you finish the forefront
13:22sit at the end of the fourth run don't
13:24go home and then tell yourself i'm gonna
13:26concentrate all on it later you must do
13:28it there it's the best time
13:29you're gonna sit now and be able to call
13:31all four runs from start to finish
13:34and you should be relatively smooth at
13:36calling all four runs
13:37and then go home when you go home
13:41you now need to call all four runs again
13:44hopefully with a partner but if you
13:45haven't got a partner you have to do it
13:47on your own
13:48with a partner anybody in the house who
13:50would sit and read those runs for you
13:52whilst you call them
13:53gives you the motivation to actually
13:55improve your standard
13:56you should be able to call all four runs
13:59in under four minutes as a minimum
14:00standard
14:01but hopefully you'll call all four runs
14:03in around two minutes
14:0430 seconds and run is a nice steady
14:07talking pace
14:08mana house station to gibson square
14:09leave on the left green lanes right and
14:11right high bring park left highbury
14:13grove
14:13rights and pools road left and right
14:15harboury corner left upper street
14:17right barnsbury street left milner
14:19square at four million place forward
14:20into gibson square
14:21thornhill square to queen's square leave
14:24by matilda street right copenhagen
14:26street
14:26left caledonian boat left carnegie
14:28street right muriel street
14:30for rodney street for penton rise for
14:32kings cross road
14:33right acton street left grazing mode
14:35right guilford street
14:37left guildford place four lambs conduit
14:39street right great ormond street to fall
14:41into queen square
14:42chancery lane station to rolls road
14:44leave on the left high hole in the
14:46forward hole and forward holding circus
14:48lead by charter house street right
14:50farringdon street four lug gate circus
14:52ford new bridge street forward
14:53blackfriar's bridge four blackfriars
14:55road
14:56left southwark street right southwark
14:57bridge road left marshall sea road
14:59four great dover streets comply
15:01bricklayer's arms roundabouts at lead by
15:03old kent road
15:04left row cross street at left or right
15:05rolls road
15:07paige's walk to some martin's theatre
15:10leave on the left grange road for bermsy
15:12street
15:12left along lane right great dover street
15:14full marshall sea road
15:16left southwark bridge road right great
15:17suffolk street left weber streets
15:19left the cut right wall to the road
15:21comply tennyson's way leap of waterloo
15:23road four waterloo bridge
15:25forward lancaster place forward aldwich
15:27left catherine street left exeter street
15:29wellington street for bow street forward
15:32endel
15:32street left shelton street right mercer
15:35streets comply seven dials at libra
15:36mercer street
15:37left shaftsby avenue left west street
15:39set down on the left
15:41it's possible to call much faster than
15:42that and i'll give you examples of
15:44calling it
15:44two minutes for four runs and faster
15:46than two minutes for four runs
15:48manor house station to gibson square
15:50leave on the left green lanes right in
15:51my head we knew about left hard will
15:52grow rights and balls right left and
15:53right highway corner left upper street
15:55right barnstorming street left me on the
15:56square four middle place forward into
15:57gibson square thornhill square to
15:58queen's square leap on matilda street
16:00right overnight in street left
16:01caledonian boat left gone eager street
16:02by mobile street for rodney street for
16:04pennsylvania king's cross rover acting
16:05street left grazing over guilford street
16:07left guilford place or a landscape
16:08jewish street right great ormond street
16:09forward into queen square chancellory
16:11lane station to rolls road
16:12even the left high hole and forward
16:13holding forward hoverboard circuits here
16:14by charlestown street i found the street
16:16for luggage service warning bridge
16:17street for black friday's bridgewater
16:18black friday's role of southwark street
16:19my southern patrol left master survivor
16:21david street and blood bricklay's arms
16:22roundaboutly but i'll get rid of the
16:23frog street left at the right rolls road
16:25pages walk to some martin's theater even
16:27left grange road for burmese streets
16:29left long lane right where dover street
16:31four master survivor southern bridge
16:32rover up with suffolk street of weber
16:33street left the car by water the rogue
16:34and blood tenders and flavored water
16:36for waterloo bridgeville lancaster
16:37placeholder which left catherine street
16:39athletics street by wellington street
16:40for bow street for endless street left
16:42shelton street like mercer street and
16:43pleiston and dallas mercer street left
16:45sharpsbury avenue left west street down
16:46the left
16:49and now begins your daily routine now
16:51you're going to start calling over
16:53and that's what i'll explain to you next
16:58calling over the runs reciting them
17:00every single day
17:01this is going to become part of your
17:03routine and it's unavoidable
17:05you are going to need to call over the
17:07runs you do
17:08the runs you're doing will only go in
17:10your short-term memory so
17:11any time that you leave these runs
17:13behind and don't call them over
17:14you'll forget them they have to be used
17:16on a regular basis
17:18you're going to hopefully use them every
17:20single run at least once a week and
17:21maybe around about twice a week when
17:23you're first starting
17:25when you first start it's fairly easy
17:26because you only have four runs a day to
17:28call over the four that you did
17:29yesterday but it soon gets
17:31up and up by the following day it's 8
17:33and then it's 16 and then it's 32 and
17:35then it's 80.
17:36so you soon end up with 80 runs to call
17:38over those 80 runs should take you
17:41one hour to call over broken into two
17:43half an hour sessions
17:44so for 30 minutes call over and you
17:46should hopefully be able to call 40 runs
17:48in that time
17:49have a small break and then do it again
17:51call another 30 minutes and you should
17:53be able to call the other 40 runs
17:55now that's only one blue book and that's
17:56the easiest part of the knowledge is
17:58getting that first blue book and getting
17:59the standard call over
18:00up to scratch then it steps up a level
18:03because you're now
18:04attempting to learn a second book whilst
18:06you're learning this second book
18:08you cannot put the first book to one
18:10side so you're going to need to call
18:12both of them for the moment so when
18:14you've called the first one you come
18:15home the next day and you're now calling
18:17one book plus four runs that you've done
18:19from book two
18:20then it's eight runs from book two and
18:22what you would generally do here is
18:23you'd reach a book and a half
18:25once you've done book one and half of
18:27book two you can split them onto
18:29alternate days
18:30so today i will call book one and
18:32tomorrow i will call the half of book
18:34two that i've done
18:35at the same time i'm continuously trying
18:37to learn the other half of book two
18:39and the ones that you're learning are
18:41brand new the four runs that i've done
18:42today
18:43they need to be called every day whilst
18:45you're learning them to get them up to
18:46scratch
18:47once you've completed the second half of
18:49book two you can now call book one and
18:51book two on alternate days
18:53seven days a week never miss a day every
18:55day one hour of your day the very
18:57first thing you do generally in the
18:58morning is to call over for half an hour
19:01have a break half an hour stop
19:03so you would have called the whole
19:04module in that hour's time span
19:07now it steps up another level you're now
19:10about to start learning book free
19:12and at the same time you're calling book
19:13one and two on alternate days
19:15but the first half of book free you're
19:16calling every single day whilst you're
19:18learning it
19:19so you've got to fit this in so your
19:21hours revision is turned into an hour
19:22and a half
19:23every day so eventually you finish the
19:25first half of book three
19:27when you've done that you can put that
19:28onto the third day
19:30and now you're calling book one today
19:31book two tomorrow and half a book free
19:34on the third day
19:35but at the same time you're trying to
19:37learn the second half of
19:38all of book three and this process goes
19:41on
19:42until you get to book four and then
19:44eventually you reach the stage where you
19:45can call book one
19:46book two book three and book four over a
19:49four day period
19:50and on the fifth day you don't rest it
19:52goes back to the beginning
19:53and you start at book one again and
19:56that's your call over regime day in day
19:58out you're going to be calling blue book
19:59runs
20:00don't stop don't miss a day stick with
20:03it keep the fluency because once you get
20:05the fluency
20:06it's easy to keep if you keep calling
20:07over but very easy to lose if you stop
20:09calling over
20:10if you go on holiday keep calling over
20:13never ever miss a day of calling those
20:15runs your fluency
20:16is a key part to the way that you think
20:19the speed of thought you'll have when
20:20you're trying to process point to point
20:22and you're going to speak clearly when
20:24you're speaking to an examiner
20:25because of the fluency from the blue
20:27book so keep that going
20:32let's imagine that you're trying to
20:34remember a deck of tarot cards
20:36let's break them into four sets so
20:38you've got 12 tarot cards then another
20:4012 then another 12 then another 12.
20:42so you're going to remember the order of
20:44these tarot cards imagine how difficult
20:45that's going to be especially
20:47when you don't know the name of any of
20:48the tarot cards you've got to learn that
20:50first so unlike a deck of cards where
20:51you already know
20:53that it's four sets of the same thing
20:55repeating itself
20:56just by hearts clubs diamonds and spades
20:59with tarot cards you're going to have to
21:01learn
21:01individual names it's a completely fresh
21:03start so imagine you was about to
21:05remember that
21:06and every time you learn 12 tarot cards
21:08you learn the order of those cards
21:10do you really think it's a good idea to
21:13attempt to learn
21:14something else outside of this pack of
21:16tarot cards you're trying to learn
21:18as if you had the capacity to learn
21:20something else and then come back and
21:22carry on learning the tarot cards as if
21:24it was easy
21:25learning a deck of cards just a plain
21:27deck of cards is hard
21:29and you're doing that every day when you
21:31do four runs and every time you try to
21:33do something else on top of that such as
21:35learn points in a quarter mile radius
21:37every time you do that you're increasing
21:39the amount of information you want to
21:40try and take in
21:41it's not getting done for nothing you
21:43are going to spend time
21:45physically driving around a quarter mile
21:46radius at the start and at the end
21:48that's going to cost you between 30
21:50minutes to an hour of your day
21:51and that means you're not doing another
21:53run so by doing that
21:55you are sacrificing doing a run you're
21:58not getting
21:58extra done you are sacrificing doing
22:01something else
22:02now the thing about this something else
22:04is it's a completely different subject
22:05you can study the runs and you can study
22:08the points
22:09but the runs involve your short-term
22:11memory and need to be revised
22:12often the points involve revision but
22:14they will involve your long-term memory
22:16and once they are remembered
22:17they're kind of done they will stay with
22:19you for a longer period of time
22:20so there's two complete different
22:22disciplines here the other thing is
22:24the points of interest are on the roads
22:27that you've learned
22:28so if you knew the roads the points of
22:30interest by degree become
22:32easier to learn then the aspect of these
22:34points in terms of which ones are
22:36important and which ones are not
22:38if you find points at the very first day
22:40that you start doing mana house station
22:41at gibson square
22:42and you're going to carry on doing
22:44points that way you are going to take a
22:46hell of a lot longer to complete the
22:47runs
22:48which means the points that you found on
22:50day one are now
22:51quite old and may have gone may have
22:53changed names or may no longer be
22:55important
22:56so you have learnt that stuff for no
22:58reason at all because it's no longer
23:00important to the knowledge
23:01at this present stage in time and this
23:03is the thing about points they need to
23:05be relevant to today's knowledge
23:07and if you're going to spend one or two
23:09years doing your blue book runs
23:11then basically the information that you
23:12did at the beginning is now one or two
23:14years old
23:14and it can be out of date the other
23:17thing is this generally the schools
23:19go for an idea of putting a symmetrical
23:21amount of points
23:22on each map we don't do that always and
23:26we put as many points in the area as we
23:27think
23:28are important and if it's a very weak
23:30area we put every single point that we
23:31think has been asked
23:33ever whether you find them or not is up
23:36to you but the fact is
23:37that if you was to do a map in my fair
23:39there is hundreds of points that are
23:41relevant
23:42today so if i ask you to find eight it's
23:45not
23:45really that relevant in terms of
23:48the amount that's in the area you're
23:50just finding eight if i give you a much
23:52weaker area which would be
23:53maybe down near mitchum lane and i'll
23:54give you another eight points to find
23:56down there
23:57when there basically isn't anything
23:59that's being asked at all in that area
24:01and if it was asked it hasn't been asked
24:02for many many years
24:04so by doing that you're now finding
24:06eight points that are not important
24:08eight points only in mayfair when there
24:10are
24:11a vast amount more important in there so
24:14really you should be doing the points
24:15based on importance
24:17there's going to be about three thousand
24:18different points asked on fifty sixes
24:21and there is about six to seven thousand
24:23points asked on twenty eights and twenty
24:25ones
24:26so you need to know exactly what three
24:28thousand you should be finding
24:30the three thousand you should find are
24:32the ones asked the most
24:33right now in the time that you're coming
24:35up for your appearances
24:37if you're finding points from one or two
24:39years ago they may no longer be relevant
24:42also you want points that are asked
24:44frequently as a beginner
24:45as you get more advanced you can start
24:47taking care of the lower numbers
24:49i have heard people say the examiners
24:51can ask you anything it's true they can
24:53ask you absolutely anything
24:55but they're most likely going to ask you
24:56something they've asked before most
24:58likely
24:58so if you're going through this and you
25:01don't yet know bbc
25:02rehearsal studios then you're in trouble
25:04because it's at the
25:06third most asked point of all time so
25:09you need to make sure you at least know
25:11these points because the odds of you
25:12being asked them the statistical chance
25:14of you being asked them
25:15is very high whereas the odds of you
25:18being asked
25:19something very very small oliver
25:21plunkett chapel for example
25:23the odds of you being asked oliver
25:24plunkett chapel in today's knowledge
25:26is pretty slim now if they see this
25:28video maybe they'll start asking it and
25:29become a popular point again
25:31but it was a popular point back in the
25:3380s and 90s it hasn't been popular since
25:36the kind of illusion here is that doing
25:38two jobs at once you are killing two
25:40birds with one stone
25:41and you're not quite simply you're not
25:43you are literally doing two jobs
25:45and those two jobs will trade twice as
25:47long and there are very few examples
25:49none that i can think of where it's
25:52quicker to do both these job by
25:53intermittently changing between the two
25:56it's always faster to finish one job and
25:58then move on to the next
25:59and especially that the second job
26:02actually has a foundation that's built
26:04upon the first job
26:05so if your new roads points are easier
26:07to learn
26:08the metaphor we usually use is building
26:10a brick wall you are going to build a
26:11brick wall that's 3500 bricks
26:14do you lay 50 bricks and then paint
26:17those 50 bricks and then lay another 50
26:19bricks and paint those 50 bricks and
26:20carry on like that
26:21or do you build the whole wall and then
26:23paint the whole wall just think about it
26:25for a second that the fastest way that
26:26you're going to achieve the overall goal
26:28is it to do it bit by bit swapping
26:30between the two jobs or to do one thing
26:32completely and then do the other thing
26:34that is actually
26:35on top of the completed job that is the
26:37wall
26:38by separating the two jobs and getting
26:40one job done first and then doing the
26:42second job after
26:43it is the fastest way to achieve the
26:45overall goal
26:46you need to find the points that are
26:48actually important you do not want to be
26:50finding a point that was asked
26:52five years ago you want to be finding
26:53stuff that's asked now
26:55you also want to be finding the points
26:57that have been asked frequently
26:58so really as a beginner anything less
27:00than 20 times or more
27:02you shouldn't really be bothering with
27:0320 times or more is going to amount to
27:05about 3 000 points anyway
27:07they're the points that you need to be
27:08finding now if you take this particular
27:11map as an example
27:12on this particular map when the filters
27:14are set to zero
27:15everything's open there are 17 points of
27:17interest that is asking you to find
27:20now if we change that filter and turn it
27:22to just being every single point this
27:24year
27:24there are now 11 points to find and then
27:27if we change it again
27:28and make it everything that's asked 20
27:30times or more there are now 10 points to
27:32find
27:33so the 10 points you want to find are
27:34those you do not want to be finding the
27:3617
27:37because that 17 is going to contain a
27:39lot of points that are just
27:40not relevant to today's knowledge
27:44so be smart with the way you go pointing
27:46you are a beginner you need to be
27:47finding
27:48the most popular points let's look at
27:51the arguments put forward as to why you
27:53should do the points when you're doing
27:54the runs
27:55one is it's what tfl suggests you do
27:58well that's a suggestion they've always
27:59made
28:00and that's the same thing that students
28:02who studied the knowledge
28:0450 60 years ago did they've always said
28:06it do the dumbbell system search to call
28:08my radius
28:09now back then they had 468 runs to learn
28:12and they used to complete the knowledge
28:14in seven months
28:16completely so how did they do that
28:19they basically chased the questions that
28:21were being asked by the examiners
28:23and copied their friends because the
28:24questions were the same
28:26now sadly or excitedly whatever way you
28:28want to look at it the questions now are
28:31hard
28:31the amount of questions we have and the
28:33amount of points we need to find
28:35is much more greater than it was then
28:38so you've got a real load of work on
28:39your hands but the technique that
28:40they're suggesting you did back then
28:42doesn't apply now it does not work
28:44it's not the way that you should do this
28:45and learn this a vast amount of
28:47information
28:48you need to use a little bit more modern
28:50techniques that involve how memory works
28:52and how you can cope with this vast
28:54amount of information and basic logic
28:56the logic is that 3500 road names
29:00to start learning is already quite a
29:03task
29:03and i'm always shocked when i hear
29:06people think that they can actually do
29:07something else at the same time
29:10one of the arguments as well is that if
29:12you're there if you're at manohar
29:13station
29:14you may as well have a look around that
29:17is such a bad idea
29:18because the run itself you're about to
29:20do is you looking around
29:22you are about to do four runs why do you
29:25want to cloud the
29:26images that you're going to create of
29:27those four runs
29:29with an area at the start or the finish
29:31of that run
29:32you're going to magnify the amount of
29:33information you're trying to take on
29:34board
29:35when already the four runs is really
29:36difficult to learn
29:38so why are you having a little look
29:39around and clouding yourself with images
29:41from something that you don't actually
29:43know whether you need or not
29:45and many of these quarter mile radiuses
29:47are going to involve you driving around
29:48roads that are
29:49actually not necessary to learn so when
29:53you've done the 3500 road names we can
29:55start filling in whatever gaps it may be
29:57that we've got with our knowledge
29:59later but please keep in mind that this
30:01task of 3500 road names
30:04is a very difficult task in itself
30:07why do you think you should or could
30:09learn something else
30:11at the same time one of the most common
30:12arguments i've heard people say
30:14is that if you don't do the points
30:16whilst you're there you're going to have
30:17to go back
30:18later kind of insinuating that you're
30:20going to run all the runs
30:21again you're not certainly with the
30:24method that we're doing for a start the
30:25radius maps are geographically arranged
30:27they're not arranged manifestation at
30:29gibson square unless you want to do the
30:31blue book method
30:31of pointing whilst you're doing the blue
30:33book which we don't encourage it to do
30:35they're geographically arranged and this
30:37idea that you're going to have to go
30:38back
30:40as if going back is a hindrance
30:43it's actually an absolute necessity
30:47do you really think that you can drive
30:49around london once
30:51doing the runs and the points at the
30:52same time and you go home and it's all
30:54hunky-dory it's all taken care of it's
30:56done
30:57it's not going to happen you do need to
30:59make another visit you will
31:01need to make several visits so by doing
31:03the point center run separately you're
31:05going to make that second visit and
31:06you're going to
31:06enhance what you learned from the first
31:09visit of those roads that you've been on
31:11but you're going to be finding points
31:12that are specific and relevant and
31:14you're going to be finding them
31:15based on their geographical position so
31:17that it's going to be very quick to get
31:19around and find them
31:20it's certainly going to be far quicker
31:21than had you went out and found points
31:24that no one asked
31:25in the order of manual station to gibson
31:27square and then went home and tried to
31:29study that
31:30because going home each night and trying
31:31to study these blue book runs alone
31:34is going to be difficult so now you're
31:37going home if you've done points and
31:39you're trying to study both these things
31:42again you're wasting your time currently
31:44what we do is when a student finishes
31:46their blue book runs
31:47they then go on to doing points and they
31:49will do it from the whiz radius app
31:50or the wiz radius paper books ideally
31:53from the wiz radius app because it takes
31:54care of the revision aspect which is
31:56quite complicated to do on your own
31:58once as a beginner that you have
31:59completed your points from the wiz
32:01radius app you step up to the wiz points
32:03app
32:03and on the wiz points app you can see
32:05everything that they're currently asking
32:07you can see how often they've asked it
32:09you can filter out everything that
32:11they've
32:11asked you can look at the stuff that's
32:1320 times or more
32:14and you can go and visit it based on its
32:16geographical position
32:18just by choosing it from the map if you
32:20want to know about the wiz radius app or
32:22the wiz points app you can watch that in
32:23our next videos where we'll be doing a
32:25full educational tour of both those apps
32:28there isn't a single justifiable
32:31intelligent reason why you should do the
32:33points at the same time as doing the
32:35runs there is none
32:37the runs themselves are difficult and
32:39when you've done all the runs you'll go
32:40and find points and those points will be
32:42on those runs
32:43and those points you go to find will be
32:45the most
32:46asked at that moment in time so you're
32:48finding the correct points
32:50that's the secret to doing this
32:52knowledge quickly you do not want to be
32:54doing something that is a complete
32:56waste you cannot just go out and find
32:58anything
32:59you need to find specifically what
33:01they're asking and they may ask
33:03something completely new that's true you
33:05cannot know everything
33:07but you can know the stuff they're
33:08asking the most and as they are
33:10something completely new
33:11because you've already took care of the
33:13business end of the points
33:14you can start going out and finding the
33:16other stuff that they're asking that's
33:18less and less popular
33:19to cover those bases but first of all
33:21let's find
33:22and know all of the big and large stuff
33:24that they ask often
33:25and there's a lot of it there's three
33:26thousand of these points that they ask
33:28more than 20 times
33:29so let's go and find those don't do the
33:31points where you're doing the runs
33:36a very common question is should i learn
33:38the runs before i go out or should i
33:40learn them when i come back from driving
33:42the run
33:43now you can do that but it's not the
33:45most
33:46time efficient way of achieving your
33:48goal if you was
33:50to learn the name of 20 people that
33:51you're about to meet at a party
33:54it would take you physically longer than
33:56if you met the people at the party and
33:57attempted to remember their names whilst
33:59you're there
34:00so if you're going to drive the run it's
34:02going to take you less time whilst
34:03you're driving it to then come home and
34:05revise it and learn that run to the
34:07depth that you want to understand it to
34:09whereas if you did that whilst at home
34:10before you went and drove the run
34:12it has no relationship to any memories
34:14and it will be harder to actually absorb
34:16that run
34:17and you're going to take longer while
34:18sitting at home to get the fluency
34:20then you go out and drive the run the
34:22overall time that would have taken you
34:24will be longer so you are better off
34:26going out
34:27driving the run learning in the
34:29technique that we've shown you within
34:30this video
34:31then coming home and revising and making
34:33sure you've got the fluency and the call
34:35of a standard that you're trying to meet
34:36another common question is can i learn
34:39more than 16 runs a week
34:41and of course yes you can it's entirely
34:42up to you but you've got to make sure
34:44you're learning them doing 20 runs a
34:47week 24 runs a week or even 28 runs a
34:49week
34:49is not easy you need some time to absorb
34:52what you're learning
34:53and you must be reaching the standard of
34:55call over that we've pointed out in this
34:57video
34:58the absolute key is can you call these
35:00runs
35:01if you can drive them as quick as that
35:03and learn as many runs as that in a week
35:05and still be able to call them
35:07that's fantastic by all means go ahead
35:09and do it
35:10but in most cases the people that
35:12generally do that don't reach a high
35:14enough a standard of call over
35:15so be aware of that do as many runs in a
35:17week as you can cope with as an
35:18individual
35:19but just make sure that you can call
35:21them over
35:22let's cover some aspects about penning
35:24on because the biggest mistake i see
35:26here is
35:26excessive penning on by all means pen on
35:29the four runs you've learned today and
35:31maybe the four runs you've learned over
35:32the past week
35:33depend on the most recent runs you've
35:35done but do not sit there pinning on 80
35:37runs or 30 runs
35:39it's a waste of time and very often when
35:41people are doing that they're doing it
35:43instead of
35:44the main thing they should be studying
35:46which was how they call those blue book
35:48runs
35:48practicing and getting their call over
35:50level up to a higher standard
35:52but instead of that they're pending on
35:54so don't waste your time pending on too
35:55much you are going to be pinning on
35:57plenty
35:58when you start doing point-to-point by
36:00all means pen on a few runs
36:02but just the ones you've done recently
36:03pend them on before you go pin them on
36:05when you come back
36:06pin on the ones you've done this week
36:08but beyond that
36:09don't lose focus of what you're trying
36:11to achieve which is
36:12calling those blue book runs calling
36:14them fluently and to a very high
36:16standard
36:17anything that detracts from you doing
36:19that is a negative thing
36:21should you do the wiz links should you
36:22do the reverse runs and the answer is
36:24quite simple
36:24no you shouldn't basically by doing the
36:28runs forwards by doing all 320 runs
36:30forward
36:31you have learned around about 3500 road
36:34names
36:34many of them are going to be
36:36incorporated in the wiz links and the
36:37reverse runs
36:39a lot of those runs the wiz links and
36:40the reverse runs are going to be able to
36:42be answered
36:43just by deduction some won't be but a
36:45lot of them will be
36:46so one of the first things you can try
36:49anytime you get
36:50the inclination to do it is to actually
36:52start doing point-to-point with the
36:53reverse runs and with the wiz links and
36:55you can use the written
36:56run as a reference to what you were
36:58trying to achieve
36:59so you just read through it see if what
37:01you've done you think is okay and carry
37:03on so you don't need to do the reverse
37:04runs you don't need to do the whiz links
37:06you can test yourself on them afterwards
37:09by running them as if they were point to
37:11point and you can do this at any stage
37:13so if you've only done 80 runs
37:14ask yourself the question how could you
37:16get from
37:18thornhill square to gibson square for
37:20example a
37:21whiz link in reverse ask yourself how do
37:24you get
37:24from gibson square to manifestation and
37:27you do the run in reverse
37:28so you can test yourself begin to test
37:30yourself as if it was point to point
37:32so don't start getting in the habit of
37:34learning an
37:35abundance of preset recorded runs that
37:37you've learned off by heart
37:39start to develop the skill of your power
37:41of deduction of how you
37:43calculate a root and how you would get
37:44from a to b in a nutshell the five
37:51things we've discussed in this
37:52particular video
37:53are one make a study plan make a study
37:56plan and stick to it it makes a hell of
37:58a difference to you
37:58psychologically it gives you a great
38:00target you feel your progress being made
38:04two the way you use the map book don't
38:06have the macbook on your board
38:08keep it with you and open it whenever
38:10questions arise
38:12three visualization visualization is
38:15utterly
38:16unimportant it takes care of itself but
38:18what doesn't take care of itself is your
38:20ability to call the run
38:22that needs your focus and that needs you
38:24to practice and do that every day
38:26so call the run make that your priority
38:28four
38:29do four runs a day 4 days a week and
38:32finish 16 runs a week
38:33you will finish a book every 5 weeks
38:36you'll also finish all 320 runs in 20
38:39weeks and it's a great target to aim for
38:42when you're driving each run drive four
38:44roads at a time
38:45every four roads stop and learn those
38:47four roads and then drive another four
38:49and add them together to make eight keep
38:51doing that so you're able to call the
38:53run and learn it whilst you're out there
38:55come home and then revise five
38:58don't do the points doing the points is
39:01going to hinder your progress greatly
39:04it doesn't have a single advantage to
39:06doing the points whilst you're doing the
39:07runs
39:08you are about to learn 3 500 road names
39:11just by doing the blue book runs why did
39:14you want to try to do something else
39:15what made you think
39:16that you have the capability of learning
39:19something else
39:20at the same time and the major
39:21difference is this the runs you're doing
39:23are absolutely necessary
39:25the points you don't know which points
39:27you need to find and we can tell you
39:29that afterwards
39:30so let's get the runs done and let's
39:32make sure you're good at those runs
39:34okay good luck
39:42[Music]
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