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How to Learn from YouTube Videos in an Efficient, Effective Manner by Talking to It

It’s a modern treasure trove of knowledge but you have to know how to maximize it’s potential

The Library of Alexandria was a treasure trove of knowledge. Scholars from around the world traveled to Alexandria, Egypt to walk the corridors of the library, snatch a scroll or two, and study. You sat and you read. No borrowing of scrolls was allowed. No orderly arrangement. You had a few students walking around that could point you in a general direction but for the most part, you searched.

And there was a lot to search. At it’s peak, the library help up to 400,000 scrolls. You could find the works of Homer, Plato, and Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Aristotle, along with medical texts by Hippocrates, poetry by Sappho, Pindar, and Hesiod, and scientific writings by Thales, Democritus, and Anaximander.

Lots of knowledge. Lots of scrolls. Lots of searching.

Today? YouTube has become our modern-day Library of Alexandria. Don’t laugh. It’s loaded with an endless sea of videos on virtually every topic imaginable. Got something to learn? YouTube is as good a starting point as any.