Visualization, memory, reading and research skills
Quite often I urge the students to develop their personal style, but occasionally I wonder if they understand what I mean. Below are some examples. Each examples has its strengths and weaknesses, and you should focus on those that fit your own style. Technocrat This is one of my favourite styles. I produce stylized markers …
The Udemy course is standalone and you can take it to any direction you want, especially if you read this blog and ask questions. However many students choose a more controlled form of 1-on-1 Skype sessions. While we often encourage you to find your own personal style and works for you best, there is a basic …
Jonathan is trying to learn several languages in the same time. After mastering the vocabulary using mental markers and spaced repetitions, the next question was more complex. How can I quickly learn grammar? Grammar is difficult. It is hard enough if you want to perfect your English. It is much harder with other languages since …
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Some of our students have trouble actually visualizing the markers and need specific exercises. These exercises could be used with every level of visualization, but with different scope and complexity of objects. Heber Cloward Try holding real things and re imagining them for practice . It seems the more you practice the easier it …
For years I have been teaching the “advanced” course and yet I had only a handful of students. Advanced course teaches high-level visualization, linking large amounts of information, prioritization of information, powerful prereading and other interesting superlearning techniques. What is not a part of the advanced course The “advanced” course does not handle speedreading and …
When you try to develop superlearning skills it is very important not to loose sight of your goals. Do I want to develop a super-skill? Super-skills set us apart from other human beings, help promote our reputation on Linkedin and draw our people to us in various ways we enjoy. However this comes with a …
Luca Lenardi Tips on avoiding subvocalization I’m finding extremely hard to avoid subvocalizing. Whenever I’m trying to encode a saccade, I’m instinctively subvocalize the word I’m focusing. Is there any other specific tip or suggestion/exercise we can leverage, to avoid subvocalization? Thanks. Jonathan A. Levi Use the “Progressive Overload” methodology to gradually increase speed. At …
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In her courses Anna recommends resources that are out of scope of our Udemy course. We are planning to make some of these resources available for the readers of this blog. All resources are very simple flash and TOTALLY FREE. Game collection Games for the brain Probably the best collection of simple games. Trains visualization …
Our students learn to manipulate with visual markers they create, often relying on trial and error. There are at least two operations on visual markers that create basic knowledge representation: chunking and linking. Chunking deals with structuring information into manageable chunks. Linking deals with defining relationships between chunks and within chunks. Below is a discussion …
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