Recently I was asked how many tasks a person can do at the same time at high level of accuracy. I said “9”. My friend said “there are 7 people in my group, so only 7”. I smiled politely. I can do approximately 9 tasks MYSELF. If I had a team, maybe I could do …
Mindfulness and superlearning wisdom
While superlearning ultimately is a way to gather knowledge, it is not the way to generate wisdom. In one of the future posts we will describe information vs knowledge vs wisdom, but for now we just say that wisdom is a way of using knowledge properly. In fact it is very much alike the difference …
Optical illusions and how the brain tricks us
The first thing we teach in our superlearning classes is brain trickery. We trust our brains without questions and do not suspect them to lie. However, when trying to recreate a whole article from memory we typically start from ~20% retention! In fact we loose much more than we get, unless we train our observation …
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Perfectionists’ dilemma
Being a perfectionist is really hard. Nothing short of perfect is just good enough, so everything requires immense efforts. This could work successfully for a kid, but a grown-up needs to balance activities. Having a responsible job we need to balance three simple things: delivery time, quality of work, effort invested. The same three criteria …
Changing your everyday life
Superlearning is a life-changing skill. Once you manage to learn skills FASTER, the next logical step is applying the same abilities in your everyday life. Therefore immediately after managing superlearning our students find themselves doing all sorts of fun: Speeding up. There are things that can be easily sped up: you can fast-forward video or …
Superlearning – the key to the perfect job
Recently I read this and this articles and remembered the time I just started discovering superlearning. After finishing my PhD and successful exit of the company where I started my first job I was a bit lost: what to do next? I was sure my education and working experience will provide me a job in …
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Why does speedreading work?
You can find many people explaining that speedreading does not work, cannot work and should not work. Yet 90% of our students read 800wpm+ with 80%+ retention. How can it be? Being data scientist this is not surprising at all. Most of us have many channels for information handling. It is very similar to viewing a …
When should you take the “advanced” course?
The Udemy course of Anna’s 1-on-1 Skype course are intended for everybody. The advanced course is attended for professionals that read large amounts of technical data: computer scientists, financial experts, lawyers, medics. The advanced course offers huge advantages highly anticipated by the most successful superlearners: Analysis of complex technical material, learning whole areas of knowledge; …
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Some interesting books
We have a large library of books on various subjects. Anna thinks that having books in our home defines us as a family. Many of our books deal with subjects covered in this blog. Below are some hand-picked products on Amazon. You may benefit from using them. (Notice: I used Amazon widget. You need to …
Daily reading
How much should you read every day? Our students love to read. Our students want to read. Our students need to read. Actually I am not so sure this is true. How many books/articles/blog did you read last year? Was it less than 1000 pages? If so you will eventually loose your reading skills… Was it …