Visualization, memory, reading and research skills
Our fellow superlearner Gill Umair completed the course and became a very successful life coach. Here he shares some more of his wisdom with us. I hope you will enjoy it, get motivated by it, and finish the superlearner course with flying colors as a result of it. If you already finished the course, I …
We have many medical students and doctors. There is one question we get quite often: T.R.: I would love to know more about how we can structure patient presentations and their differential diagnosis. In a way where you never forget anything. And then once you have the differential and more effective method for not missing …
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Many superlearners work in business: entrepreneurs, managers, analysts, lawyers, accountants, economists…. With business, financial and legal analysis it is easy to generate a quick return on investment for all the reading and memorization training. However, these areas require more attention to details and some dedicated tools. Business subjects appear to be complex since they can …
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Remembering people is a common memory task described here and here and here. Some people find it very easy to remember other people. For me this has always been a challenge. Three times I learned to remember people from the first handshake, and three times I lost the skill from lack of use. Here I …
When we are talking about functional programming, we are talking about speed, efficiency and cross-platform support. Functional code is very close to machine language. It may use intrinsics of the processor, GPU code, SSE/Neon optimization, and lots of pointers. I love functional programming for its purity and no-nonsense approach. Functional programming may be dangerous and …
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A couple of weeks ago someone loved our article on time taking article. After a short discussion we decided to take it one step forward. We invited this article, since some of our students overwork and suffer from stress. The writers are brand-new non-profit organization improvedu and their support group. We do not usually do …
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A couple of weeks ago we got this infographic we would like to share: 10 tips for effective learning. What we like in this infographic is emphasis not on specific learning tips, but on how to organize your environment for effective learning. You are welcome to discuss.
I asked the superlearners on the programming group to send their advice to the beginning programmers. Below I summarize some of their suggestions with my own commentary. Always comment your code. Commented code is not only visually pleasing. We need to pass our code to other people to read. And if we have done something …
I did not understand about learning science until the second year of my PhD. At some point every method and technique I used started to fail. I read a lot, and the more I read the more helpless I felt. Things just did not work as I expected. Then I suddenly made a breakthrough and …
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Our program is quite tough. It suggests students to learn in ~8 weeks the learning skills that are meant to change their life. By putting this hard but not unreachable goal, we ask our students to work smart and hard. We assume that some students will succeed to master all the required techniques in 8 …
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