Visualization, memory, reading and research skills
There are many ways of remembering long numbers. It is easier to remember words than numbers, so most of the methods I know replace numbers by words. For example, remember texts where the length of each word is a number. It takes practice to generate such texts. Use this app when out of ideas. Enter …
Open Mnemonc Dictionary. Think of an abstract word and a way of remembering the word. If no words comes to your mind, choose randomly from GRE word list. Now search the word in the dictionary. Try to pick up new tricks. Add your own tricks to the dictionary to help the community.
Instructions: Open google search and choose random image. Look at the image for 10 seconds. Close your eyes and try to visualize the image. Be accurate regarding number and position of details. Remember as many details as possible. Try to visualize the entire image. Combo of various fun images (Get pictures!) Low level visualization: toy cars (Get car!) Middle level …
This exercise allows you to verify your reading speed. You enter your speed, your saccade size and your text – and the code runs the text for you. Please choose simple (fiction, unformatted) text of several hundred words for this exercise to work properly.
Please insert here your paragraph to generate tag cloud. For each word in tag cloud you need to decide if it is a good marker: 1. Will this word remind you the details you want to remember? 2. Is this word specific enough? 3. Can you generate a good visual marker for this word? Please …
Icons are the most simple versatile form of visual markers. I use some sort of icons to encode all abstract notions. One of Anna’s favourite exercise is remembering 20 images. The method requires 1. Chunking of the images into groups of 3-5 icons. Group by meaning or by colour or by association 2. Creating visual …
Another tool for learning. One of the most useful memory exercises is trying to remember 20 words. The method requires 1. Chunking of the words into groups of 3-5 words 2. Creating visual markers per word and linking markers within each chain 3. Speed element – needs to be done under 1 min 4. Many …
I spend a day developing a dead-simple php tool to practice saccade reading. All it does: takes content from other sites and displays it with given width. Please use with Chrome and on articles (blogs, wikipedia). The code may occasionally fail. Use 200px for beginner level, 400px for intermediate, 800px for expert.
From 1-August-2014 we are going to take summer vacation. On 1-Sept-2014 we plan to come back in a slightly modified format. So far we have been totally concentrating on creating posts. With over 100 posts available, we can relax the daily article routine. Instead we want to focus on the format of the blog: make …
Finding a balance in one’s life is difficult for everyone, but is is even more so for superlearner. Having the ability to learn virtually anything extremely fast puts an extra strain on the curiosity. Recently I had a meeting with Jonathan. Since reaching higher superlearning abilities he reads less (not more!). I asked him why. Jonathan …
