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Aim-Shoot Cycling
Watch the following video on how to navigate seamlessly between the aim and the shoot step. You will see
the results of this process in each of the subject-specific examples.

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Andy Jeong
 2 years ago

Hi Ashton,
So is it correct in me saying that when we first learn, we do one AIM-SHOOT cycle where the questions
are asked in our head, and we shoot directly onto the mindmap, and try to figure out how concepts
relate to what we’ve already learnt, and strictly answering ONLY the AIM questions proposed in this
cycle. After this first cycle, then we continue on again by going into the things deeply?
Thanks
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Andy Jeong  2 years ago

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Matthew Stefania
 2 years ago

Hi, to clarify, using the aim-shoot cycle, means that now writing down specific aim questions is
redundant, as we ask ourselves questions in our head simultaneously whilst creating the mind map.
However, we still need our list of key words (without written questions) in order to initiate this process?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Matthew Stefania  2 years ago

Hi Matthew, you might still want to write down your questions in the beginning. But indeed, once you
are use to the process, you do not physically write down the questions because you become proficient
in asking the questions mentally.

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Eloise Robinson
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  9 months ago

I tried this today and without writing the questions down I seemed to get into a good rhythm of
sticking exactly to the AIM questions (unless there were a few what is the difference etc for sub-
concepts etc). Is this okay to keep doing mentally?

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Eloise Robinson  9 months ago

Typing out the questions shouldn’t take too long. And it allows for people to give better
feedback for your work.

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Cole Beathler
 1 year ago

I’m confused about how this technique works with the beginner mindmap guidelines… Here, it seems
that the first couple keywords on the list just happened to give Justin a backbone (first couple keywords
on the list happened to be the 3-4 main concepts)… But, when I tried Aim-Shoot Cycling for aNotes
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topic (going straight down the list)… I ended up adding some keywords to my mindmap that were not
part of the backbone… According the beginner mindmap guidelines, you are supposed to add the 3-4
main concepts (up to 6-7) first… But, I find it difficult to do that now with the vertical down the list
question/answering method… I guess I could try to “park” the keywords that I… Read more »
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

From the “beginner’s mindmap guiode” the step 1 – identify the biggest concepts, take a bit of practice.
It’s quite normal to not be able to do this perfectly straight away, especially for beginners. Take a look
at the other examples and practice this more. Keep at it and you will get better at idenfying that
backbone.

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Attila Tsung
 2 years ago

Hi, I am doing the aim and shoot step for a subject called health and human development and I come
across this idea that there are 8 prerequisites of health. Just to confirm, I should look for connections
between the prerequisites to minimize the branches that come off “prerequisites”. Having 8 branches
would just be too many and would not be memorable?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Attila Tsung  2 years ago

Yes, that’s correct.

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Annmary Abraham
 1 year ago

Hello Ashton. I’m feeling a little confused with how Aim -Shoot – cycling works together and when i do
them. here are some questions i have: Since Aim is an upgrade of pre-studying , What we do in Aim is to
find the key words , find relationships, ask the questions and chunk right? so when moving on to shoot,
do we like delve into more detail and represent them on a mind map? or is this the part where we ask
the 3 questions + other questions. the part where we answer questions and find relationships, is that
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called the aim, the shoot or is it the “aim-shoot cycle”? is Aim and shoot done together or aim first
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Annmary Abraham  1 year ago

Yes, you are literally shooting straight after you AIM at the first keyword, then you move onto the next
keyword then SHOOT again.
This is a much higher level and ideally where you want to end up once you have mastered both AIM
and SHOOT.
If your curoisity leads you to new ideas, then you do indeed AIM and SHOOT again.

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Annmary Abraham
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

That makes sense, thank you.

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Ping Hsuan Hsu

 1 year ago

[Link] deleted the cognitive offloading backbone rough draft of the mindmap? Would it be better to
keep it or not as I practice this technique?
In addition, I also readjust the location of keywords to make better spatial arrangement. Is that good?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Ping Hsuan Hsu  1 year ago

Yes, since it’s a draft in order to produce your final product, the final product is what you want to
retain.
The drafts are good for reflection in previous steps of the process to isolate parts that you can
implement improvements.

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Atharv Motghare
 9 months ago

I’m a little confused whether to approach the shoot system like this, or like shown in the demonstration
of core techniques 2 in Ascent 1. In demonstration of core techniques 2, Justin emphasizes on chunk
structures. But here he doesn’t talk about chunk structure, even though the thinking process is almost
the same for both the demonstrations. Can you please clarify, Ashton?

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Atharv Motghare  9 months ago

Hi Atharv,
It’s actually the same system. We emphasise on the chunking in the demonstration video because we
saw people wanted more clarity on it.

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Atharv Motghare
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  9 months ago

So like the shoot-chunking demonstration is the advanced version of the normal shoot right?

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Atharv Motghare  9 months ago

No, not really. The chunking is actually done in the AIM step.
SHOOT is representing those chunks according to more guidelines.

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Atharv Motghare
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  9 months ago

Oh, now I understand, the chunking was part of the aim system. We can’t directly
start making important based chunk structures right off the bat, at least for our
level right now. We first need to create a rough (kinda messy mm) with the
keywords and importance based questions and then figure out the key of
importance like shown in the chunking video. After cleaning
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importance based chunks, we need to do the shoot step. Is my understanding

correct, Ashton?

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Atharv Motghare  9 months ago

Yes, that’s right.

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Surya Pali
 4 months ago

Hello Ashton!
Where exactly is Justin doing importance-based chunking here??
Is ‘Types’ a chunk here? Done at 16:55 – 17:55 (timestamp). But I am confused as to how it can be
importance-based.
Whereas w.r.t ‘Knowledge’ as importance-based chunk (From 21:00 timestamp) makes more sense, as
Metamemory , Social Metacognition, Self Concept seem to be important for ‘Knowledge’.
But overall, I have felt that Justin here wasn’t really chunking to high level/standards of chunking and
evaluation that he usually talks about. Or is there a gap in my understanding, Ashton?
Thanks.
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Surya Pali  4 months ago

It’s done through the AIM step. Asking and answering questions about importance will direct your
chunks to link to one another with importance.

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Surya Pali
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  4 months ago

I understand that, Ashton. But that doesn’t seem to be answering my question. Could please let
me know where Justin is importance based chunking in this video? Even a timestamp would
suffice.
Thank you. Because I think that would really clarify things for me.

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Surya Pali  4 months ago

The entire process is importance based chunking. It is not a specific step in this video, it is
the entire video. Importance-based chunking is the process of asking and answering
questions about importance that will direct your chunks to link to one another with
importance.

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Surya Pali
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  4 months ago

I see! Thanks Ashton! That clears up the perspective for me!

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Tan Sanyodkam
 4 months ago

So to clarify – has the list of keywords at the start of this video been pre-chunked (without inquiry) or
with inquiry as an aim step before he does the shoot example?
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Krish Mal
 2 years ago

Hi, when answering our AIM questions do you advise we write the answer?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Krish Mal  2 years ago

Yes. That is what the SHOOT step is as shown in the video.

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Derrick Mah Admin

 2 years ago
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Hi, it seems that Justin did something slightly different to what we were advised in the mindmap lesson.
Specifically, he wrote down the key terms as he went down the list of questions in the AIM step.
However, we were told to first write down all the key terms/concepts, link them together and then
answer the questions in order to link them further. Which approach is better?
Also, Justin just went down the list linearly in the video whereas I thought we were supposed to start
answering any of the questions based on what we felt curious about in the moment (order control)?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Derrick Mah  2 years ago

Please note that we will always be building upon the BASICS as we continue the lessons. This video is
entitled AIM-SHOOT Cycling, which shows you the progress of seamlessly cylcing between AIM and
SHOOT, which is the next level of the BHS.
Before we focused on only AIM, now it’s AIM and SHOOT. Please realise that NEW lessons will advance
from previous lessons in order for you to improve. Please learn the new lessons.
Also, Justin does not dissect everything linear, after a few seconds he already opens a new tab to
answer his questions using his ORDER control.

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Derrick Mah Admin

 2 years ago

Also, in our first aim-shoot cycle, should we focus on the main headers instead of the sub-concepts?
Justin in this video ignored the “metacognitive regulation” but did include subheadings under the “Types
of metacognitive knowledge”.
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Derrick Mah  2 years ago

He precisely did skip some finer details, you can see what he focused on in this video, so why did you
say he did not use order control?

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Derrick Mah Admin

 Reply to Ashton Sheares  2 years ago

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sorry I mean he definitely used order control but it was more the fact that he started from
“metacognition” as the first term, whereas I was wondering if we could start from anywhere e.g
autonoetic consciousness

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Derrick Mah  2 years ago

Metacognition is the title of the topic. It’s always good to start there as it is part of the
overall backbone of what you are studying.

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Uday Dhillon
 2 years ago

Hi Ashton,
So Justin didnt chunk or categorise keywords in prestudy, he just went straight into aim with what he felt
like were important topics. Can we do this or should we still be doing that?

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Uday Dhillon  2 years ago

This lesson is about the SHOOT step. Please ask your question about the AIM step in the relevant
lesson.

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Andy Jeong
 2 years ago

Hi Ashton,
When we also ask questions about relation in our head when we do this cycle, are you asking how it
relates to all other things? For ex, you are learning concept D, so you are asking how does it relate to A,B
and C, and connect where there are appropriate connections?
And also, as you go further, like what Justin did in the video, we can arrange the info to look more neat?
Are we allowed to do this as we SHOOT?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Andy Jeong  2 years ago

You can defintely make as many connections as possible.

In terms of making the mindmap neater, don’t worry too much about it now, we will cover it in the
next stage.

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Derrick Mah Admin

 2 years ago

I’m doing IB Psychology where we have to memorise studies for each topic/learning outcome. I was
wondering if it would be a good idea to create a master mindmap with all the associated studies hanging
off of the topics so I can organise which studies is used for which topic. However, this is not really in
accordance with the BHS.
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Derrick Mah  2 years ago

Studies are just examples or quotes like in English. They are never the core of your mindmap. As you
mentioned, they do indeed hang off the topics. If you take a look at the layers of learning lesson, they
would be considered in the outer layers. Defintely still in line with the BHS.

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Derrick Mah Admin

 Reply to Ashton Sheares  2 years ago

So for the AIM step, the keywords would be the different topics in the syllabus and the different
studies right? Would we SHOOT like a biology mindmap or more like English with the
background (research context), themes (topics) and examples (studies) ?

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Tejas Rajaputhran
 Reply to Derrick Mah  1 year ago

Did you get any answers to this question? I’m in a similar situation
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Tejas Rajaputhran  1 year ago

Psychology is defintely a science.

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Matthew Pham
 2 years ago

Hi Ashton,
I am seriously liking the AIM-SHOOT cycle, but I have a couple queries regarding it. To solidify my
understanding of the cycle, we firstly find our key terms and arrange them in the order it was given to us
(doesn’t seem to matter?). We then begin shooting to grasp the connections between the main
concepts/sub-headings and form the backbone for our mind-maps, allowing order control to lead this.
Furthermore, does this mean we should be working towards mentally questioning the content? and
slowly, we let go from writing them down?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Matthew Pham  2 years ago

No. Please stick with the lessons and try not to think ahead especially for shortcuts, or you may end up
failing in using the BHS properly.
Order was talked about in order control lesson. It defintely does matter if you have the wrong
keywords and the wrong order. But if you have it right, everything should feel very natural.

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Matthew Pham
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  2 years ago

Understood, Thank you.

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Guy Archibald
 2 years ago

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Hi,
Justin hasn’t really used a heap of abstract drawings here, at what point do we start creating abstract
drawings or is it simply when more complex relationships come up and it makes natural sense to draw a
picture?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Guy Archibald  2 years ago

Hi Guy, you should use abstract drawings whenever possible as it really helps to represent the
information in a way that you understand it. You might not have it for the titles of topics/subtopics but
rather the way you describe them.
We can’t include too much of this because you will often find that it makes no sense to any one else
other than the person who drew it. This is making your learning personalised with a very high
retention rate.

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Hannah Williams
 2 years ago

Hi Ashton, if we are comfortable with Aiming and writing questions out, are we allowed to go ahead with
what Justin has done and go through our chunks and aim mentally whilst using order control?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Hannah Williams  2 years ago

Hi Hannah, of course you can! If you have consolidated the the AIM step, you can indeed go straight
into chunking and aiming mentally, then writing out your mindmap. There is actually an advanced
variation later on (hip-shot technique) that makes this easier. So do keep an eye out for this.

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Navya Shaju
 2 years ago

Hi, so I was just wondering is our method of note-taking for the shoot step (ie answering the aim
questions) mind mapping? so the only time when we physically write down the notes is when we draw a
mindmap, there’s no additional notating on the side in which we answer our aim questions right?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Navya Shaju  2 years ago

Yes, indeed it is a mind map. Any “additional notes” you are referring to should be inside the mind
map.

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Areej Mukhi
 2 years ago

I can see that Justin has made questions in his mind can I do that as I go rather than just writing down
questions and than answering
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Areej Mukhi  2 years ago

Yes of course you can, if you can draw the mindmap straight away without having to individual write
down the question and answering, that is fine. In fact, that is the point of the aim-shoot cycle.

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Zachary Tang
 1 year ago

So would we be creating the AIM questions as we progress through the topic? Instead of the way we
learnt previously, by creating a list of aim questions before we start the topic.
Also, the video shows Justin creating his mind map bit-by-bit, would this be the next progression from
mapping out the keywords (from the Beginners mind map guide)?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Zachary Tang  1 year ago

Yes, please do use AIM and SHOOT steps in learning future content and you can also use it for
pervious content to make sure you have learnt it correctly.
The SHOOT step is indeed the beginning of making mind maps properly.
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Chau Dang
 1 year ago

Hi, would you recommend drawing out a skeleton of the mindmap first during the initial stages of the
SHOOT step and then when we learn about more details, draw the mindmap again with more spacing
etc.? This is opposed to just adding the details to the original mindmap (I’m worried it might be too
crowded).
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Chau Dang  1 year ago

Hi Chau, we have examples of how to do it in the sublessons. The question does seem a bit broad, so
please do look at the examples and ask again if there’s still something you are unsure of.

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 1 year ago

Yes, drawing the mindmap requires you to chunk to make sure that the information is grouped together
and connected properly.
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

Yes, that’s alright

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 1 year ago

That’s right, you want to personalise the information so it is best remembered for you. Everyone will do
this slightly differently which is fine as long as it works for you. Note that this is just one example that
works best for one person.
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

You can keep whatever is memorable to you and accurate to the information.

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Zachary Tang
 1 year ago

So with AIM-SHOOT Cycling, we are basically going through our list of keywords and doing importance
based chunking as we go, right?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Zachary Tang  1 year ago

That’s a part of it. You are doing AIM and SHOOT and going back to AIM again and SHOOT again in that
cycle.

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Rachel Mairura
 1 year ago

In this demonstration, Justin did not type answers to each of the “Why is it important” questions and
created the mindmap having the answers in mind. Can we do it like shown in the video, or do we have to
type the answers to our aim questions before doing the mindmap?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

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Hi Rachel, please note that the connections made with the mindmap are the actual answers. There is
no reason to type the answers in a sentence or paragraph if it can represented in the mindmap. This is
why from the beginning, we’ve encouraged paraphrasing, drawing non-verbals and making mindmaps
to process the information as it is better for retention. Strongly recommend you do the same thing too

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Neeraj Yarlagadda
 1 year ago

Hi Ahston,
We were advised in the mindmap lessons to first make connections and then answer the AIM questions.
Can I please make connections while answering the questions like Justin did as it really makes more
sense to me? Literally, him doing this helped me learn the detailsvery well.
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Neeraj Yarlagadda  1 year ago

Yes, it should be a cycle of AIM and SHOOT and back to AIM and SHOOT again.

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Arnav Gupta
 1 year ago

I have consolidated my competency with AIM, I am trying out the new hipshot variations, to clarify
everything that applies from the AIM-SHOOT examples (such as the major emphasis on layering) and
everything mentioned, it is just that we are mentally doing AIM, can you please clarify?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Arnav Gupta  1 year ago

Hi Arnav, please post in the hipshot lesson as you may confuse people who are not up to there yet by
discussing it here.

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Arnav Gupta
 1 year ago

Are multiple passings more relevant to shooting or skinning, as I find it makes my encoding more
concise?
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Isaiah Ajaero
 1 year ago

Hello Ashton, I’ve noticed in this metacognition example that Justin is simply answering the questions,
forming chunks where necessary but not particularly focusing on creating chunks.
So, in SHOOT, what is our #1 focus? Are we supposed to be primarily focused on simply answering the
questions and forming intuitive relationships, or are we meant to be primarily focused on creating
chunks? I’ve noticed a lot of people emphasising chunking a lot and I’ve been given the impression that a
mindmap should consist basically entirely of chunks, however that doesn’t seem to be the case in this
example.
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Isaiah Ajaero  1 year ago

Please take a look at the resulting mindmap, there is defintely chunking. You can see groups of large
information around the centre then it branches off to smaller information outwards.
Then main focus in SHOOT is representing the chunks in AIM in the form of a mindmap.

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Isaiah Ajaero
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

So to clarify, is this the exact process we should be using while shooting?

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Isaiah Ajaero  1 year ago

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Julie Lee
 1 year ago

Should we write down the questions and then write down the answers in words first before putting it on
the mindmap, or should we just have the list of questions and fill in the mindmap as we find the answers
without writing them down in words like Justin did in the video?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Julie Lee  1 year ago

You can just put it on your mindmap, because your mindmap is representing those answers to your
questions.

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Annmary Abraham
 1 year ago

When i ask the questions in my AIM about how it’s important, related and can be applied and answer it,
would my cognitive load decrease if i said out my answers out loud.
like If instead of just thinking about it, would the effect be the same if i say my answers out loud/explain
it to myself before going for the SHOOT step?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Annmary Abraham  1 year ago

No, your cognitive load will not change by any significant amount by saying something out loud.

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Annmary Abraham
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

Thank you very much!

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Annmary Abraham
 1 year ago

Also , just to clarify, do i do the AIM step before classes and the shoot step after the class at school?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Annmary Abraham  1 year ago

It is ideal to do all the steps (AIM/SHOOT/SKIN) before class and treat class like a revision session.

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Annmary Abraham
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

ok, thanks!

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sindre Ofsti
 1 year ago

Have I understood this correctly?

After noting down keywords, while asking “what is it?” we organize the information under bigger
subheadings. Then we put the bigger headings we think are most important on top of the page so we
can can more easily start creating the correct base of the mind-map when going through aim-shoot
cycling.
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to sindre Ofsti  1 year ago

That is a very simplified version of the lesson. You are more asking “why” and “how” questions to build
relationships.
Take a look at the examples for more detail.

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Shreesh Sinha
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Hi Ashton, are there any examples for anatomy that I can see? Does this apply the same way to
anatomy?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Shreesh Sinha  1 year ago

The Biology would be very similar.

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Ope Adagunodo
 1 year ago

Is it better to write out all question first for each keyword (why it’s important + how it relates to…) and
then answer each questions and then make a mind map OR should I follow how Justin has made his
mind map in this video (complete the mindmap as you ask and answer questions)?
Thank you
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Ope Adagunodo  1 year ago

Please do write out the questions. When answering them, you don’t have to answer them linearly but
can put it straight onto the mindmap.

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Wendy Li
 1 year ago

Hi Ashton and Justin, This video was super duper helpful in understanding the smooth transition of the
aim shoot step. I have 2 questions below Sometimes I feel my curiosity about a topic dwindling because
the question hasn’t been answered for so long as I have been separating the aim shoot step ie: 1 study
session for the aim (asking questions) and another study session for shooting – usually 1 day apart . By
the time I shoot, the natural curiosity i have generated is gone, any tips on this? Is the aims step just a
general guideline and we could take a more iterative approach ie: what Justin did in this video and skip
the question list from the… Read more »
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 Reply to Wendy Li  1 year ago

Hi Wendy, For your first point, the AIM is like what the name suggests, there to step up the SHOOT so
you can go into detail with the information in a correct manner. It is actually more important and
easier to fix when AIM is done correctly with a bad shoot. Rather than SHOOT done correctly, with a
bad AIM. Please note that Justin does NOT skip the AIM step in the videos, these videos actually take
the AIM examples from the previous stage and simply moves onto the SHOOT example. The questions
help build the curiosity that leads to the relationships. Later on, even if you don’t physically see the
questions being written down, they are being asked and… Read more »

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Wendy Li
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

Thanks for this helpful feedback Ashton! I will try these suggestions out.

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Cole Beathler
 1 year ago

To clarify, we should continue typing out our questions (to critique quality)… But, the difference now is
that we’re answering questions & having the answer lead us to the next question (ie AIM-Shoot Cycling)?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

Yes, AIM step does not change. Now we are adding the SHOOT step to the AIM step as you have
mentioned.

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Cole Beathler
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

But, now, with Aim-Shoot Cycling… We are not typing out all the questions (for AIM) at once…
Instead we type question(s) > shoot > type question(s) > shoot… Back & forth? So, in that case
the AIM step is kind of changing?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

Yes, it will change because the information that you get after SHOOT will enable you to
make a more informed AIM.

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Cole Beathler
 1 year ago

Why is he going through the list asking linearly? Isn’t part of order control answering a question… and the
answer leading you to another keyword (that may be one far away on the list… or could be the keyword
directly below on the list)?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

I think you have misinterpretted what “linear” means. Linear learning is just reading from the start to
finish, trying to memorise everything as you are reading. That’s not what is done in the video.

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Cole Beathler
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

Is it bad to not Aim-Shoot for a keyword, then do the one directly below it (same indentation
level)?… Because I usually Aim-Shoot for one on one part of the list… Then I’m led to another one
that is not directly below, but on another part of the list… I kinda jump around the list.

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 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

It may be a bit early to do that as your mindmap may look a bit too chaotic. This is
considered a higher-level technique that we do touch upon later on in the course.
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Cole Beathler
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

Ohh, okay. So, to be clear, for now, I should Aim-Shoot for one keyword, then
repeat for the one directly below, repeat for the next one directly below, etc. (same
indentation level)?

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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

No, do the AIM step as shown in the previous stage. Then SHOOT. Then with more
information from the SHOOT, you want to AIM again, then SHOOT (this is a bit like
the traffic-light system).
The AIM/SHOOT for one keyword, is something called the HIPSHOT technique,
which is left later until you can do AIM/SHOOT/SKIN well individually.

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Cole Beathler
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

I am interpreting this as… You’re supposed to: ask/answer questions for multiple
keywords > get a chunk > add the multiple keywords to mindmap (as much
cognitive load as you can handle)… This is what I do currently… But, adding one
keyword at a time is a more advanced technique?

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 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

Yes, don’t worry about it for now and just concentrate on AIM and SHOOT
mentioned in this stage and the previous stage.

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Matthew Williams
 1 year ago
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From 24.01 – 24.16, Justin says that some of the links between concepts will be so much that he won’t be
able to represent that in a mindmap. If we get to this stage with some AIM SHOOT attempts, whats the
best way forward? Should we split the AIM into smaller chunks and do them later, or keep the same AIM
SHOOT layout but draw up separate mindmaps?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Matthew Williams  1 year ago

Best way forward is to continue with your AIM/SHOOT and try not to go too out of scope from the
targetted material (which is why Justin stopped diving deeper into those parts).
At early stages of AIM/SHOOT it’s normal for the mindmap to get a bit messy, which is why we have the
3rd step – SKIN.

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Matthew Williams
 1 year ago

At 34:00 Justin says that once the initial AIM-SHOOT cycle is done he will go back and look at the details
to learn them. Do you add these details to the mindmap, or make a new mindmap of each subsection
and add the details into a “section/group” specific mindmap? Or something else entirely? Thanks!
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Matthew Williams  1 year ago

Yes, you can add these details onto your mindmap, unless if it’s just things that you need to memorise
in which case, you may use flashcards to remember them.
These are the ‘arbitrary’ detail which you will see in the layers of learning lesson coming up.

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Cole Beathler
 1 year ago

When adding a concept to the mindmap, does Justin always ask How does it relate to [something already
on the mindmap]?… Does he ever ask How does it relate to [something that is not yet on the
mindmap]?… I would infer that you need to know the importance of two keywords in order to figure out
how they relate… So, I think he just tries to relate it to something already on the mindmap (already
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 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

Not just the “how” question but all of the questions from the AIM step and asked, with the answers
collated and processed into the SHOOT (mindmap).

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Cole Beathler
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

Sorry, I could have been more clear. I always ask the what & why important first for a keyword,
then I look to ask a How relate? or multiple… In the video, I noticed that Justin only asked How
does x relate to [something that was already on his mindmap] (x being the keyword he was
processing into the mindmap)… I would infer that asking how it relates to something not on the
mindmap yet / down the list would be difficult… Because he did not know what those keywords
were or why they’re important

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Cole Beathler
 1 year ago

I typed up AIM questions (before doing any AIM-SHOOT cycling)… and when I was answering the
questions (shooting) , I noticed that I was not getting any new questions (shoot not leading to aim
again)… A lot of the questions that I would have had were already typed up (How relate? questions)… So,
I came back to review this tutorial… and, I noticed that most of Justin’s AIM-SHOOT cycling came when he
would answer a Why imp.?, and the answer (shoot) would lead him to ask a How relate [to something
already on the mindmap]? question (aim again)… So, does most aim-shoot cycling occur when you
answer a Why imp.?, then you become curious about it potentially relating to something… Read more »
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 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago

The WHY questions are the most open-ended questions, which is why we encourage more WHY
questions especially “why is it important” as this promotes chunking by importance. The HOW and
WHAT usually comes as a consequence of the WHY.

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Cole Beathler
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

I am finding that my AIM questions are satisfying all the questions… And that I’m not getting
many new questions… When I go to answer those AIM questions… Because my AIM questions
are pretty much Why imp.? + All of the How? questions… In Justin’s demo, it seems like he is just
asking AIM questions (Why imp.? & How relate?)

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ANG LI
 1 year ago

Hi Ashton, I have a few questions about AIM-SHOOT cycling. During prestudy I found the “argument of
the book” and drew it onto a prestudy MM as the Logic Layer. I also am unsure about the way my
backbone is always seemingly circular…It made drawing concept harder bc the spacing inside was
limited. Can just a 1 sentence argument be the logic layer and is it bad that it’s circular? During my
keyword collection, I found myself taking too long and so I tired to skip some and only going to
“essential” L1 keywords to avoid being too bogged down in details (bc my pre-study helped). I then found
myself using my keywords like an “index” to “spring” myself to… Read more »
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to ANG LI  1 year ago

There is not enough actual evidence given here for meaningful feedback to be given. Please do submit
your work such as kolb’s, mindmaps, inquiry into expert feedback review. Alternatively you can use the
discord channels for feedback.

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ANG LI
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

I submitted it—just thought the above discussion might have thoughts on #2 mostly. Thanks!

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Michał B
 1 year ago
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Hi! Would like to ask: is there any “structured” way/technique of AIM-SHOOT for video materials. like this.
I know, that AIM can be done using Text Book related to topic, but sometimes (like this video), to AIM,
one needs to watch whole video. because lots of info is spoken. Also I observed, that jumping around
video to find answer is tedious, and it’s more convenient to just watch video, takes notes and then find
answer within them, but it requires additional work, to transfer knowledge from video into text.
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 Reply to Michał B  1 year ago

You can still use AIM/SHOOT for video in pretty much the same way. Of course it requires a written
guide of some sort of the video that lets you know where content is in the video.
If what you are looking for is to be able to AIM/SHOOT in real time, it will take some further mastery of
the ascent stages and we look at an advanced AIM/SHOOT technique at basecamp. But this really does
require full mastery in the ascent stages first.

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Michał B
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

Thank you Ashton! I will keep pushing

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Surya Pali
 1 year ago

Hello @Ashton, So from what I have understood from Justin above is that we should soon be
comfortable enough to go ahead in the following manner: Step 1: Do the AIM step and list down all the
keywords – Step 2: (Here it seems that he’s entered the SHOOT step) Ask WHY it is important and also
how is it related to others when relevant. Step 3: Represent the answers on a draft Mind map. So my
questions are: Q1: Is the above understanding accurate? (Especially when one has become more
proficient, because I understand the previous guidelines were so keeping in mind beginners) Q2: If yes, It
seems to me that at Step 1 asking the WHAT question suffices… Read more »
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 Reply to Surya Pali  1 year ago

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1. That is not an understanding, it’s just a brieft outline of the past 2 stages, which is so far correct.
2. Other way around. It’s redundant to ask WHAT when you can answer WHY and HOW questions.
What questions are very factual with little relationships.
3. You can break this up into multiple study sessions if you want.

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Azmi Zainal
 1 year ago

Hi Ashton,
Is it ok to do the AIM & SHOOT cycle by first doing importance based chunking i.e grouping those
concepts that have same reason for importance and then going further by doing the inter-chunk
relationships after that? I think this was mentioned before in previous lessons, and I find it easier to
group the concepts & think of it this way. Thank you!
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Azmi Zainal  1 year ago

Yes, it is highly adviseable to do importance-based chunking.

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Azmi Zainal
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago

Great, thanks Ashton!

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Michał B
 1 year ago

Hi! During watching this video, one question, maybe provocative, appeared: Why does SHOOT use Note
Taking? Why we don’t process everything in our heads: creating relations, chunking, etc. Would doing this
way lead to better processing, because of cognitive load?
My first answer is: because of the limitation of working memory, but I am not sure if this is correct
answer.

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 Reply to Michał B  1 year ago

Because if everything is kept you your head, you are far more succeptible in having a false sense of
fluency. Being able to write it down makes it much easier to assess your proficiency.
You probably have experienced this when someone listens to something, says they understand it but
is unable to accurately explain it or answer questions related to it.

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Arun Jeyanthan
 1 year ago

Hi Ashton,
This might be a dumb question, but should we ask several questions at a time during our AIM step
before SHOOTing? For instance, should I be looking at my list of words then writing down several
questions then drawing the mindmap as I answer them and repeating for each cycle? Or should I be
asking a question and answering one at a time?
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Ashton Sheares Admin

 Reply to Arun Jeyanthan  1 year ago

Yes, you should let the answers to your questions combine together first before trying to represent
them. So AIM first, gather the answers then SHOOT.

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Asena
 1 year ago

I get the impression from the Aim-Shoot Cycling video here that listing keywords can almost be
considered a pre-cursor to Aim-Shoot cycling, because here, Dr. Sung does the Aim-Shoot cycle after
gathering (and organising) his keywords.
Of course, the steps are closely interrelated, but am I off track?
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 Reply to Asena  1 year ago

Don’t think of AIM-SHOOT cycle as something different from what has been covered. Gathering
keywords is part of the AIM step.
AIM-SHOOT cycle is literally just AIM -> SHOOT -> AIM -> SHOOT -> etc.

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