Visualization, memory, reading and research skills
When reading text we often generate placeholders within the text. While regular students use a marker to highlight the text and sticky notes to find the place within the text, it can be too slow and not very elegant for a superlearner. Instead we use mental placeholders. Apparently Anna and I developed the same methods …
Remembering names is kind of a must in any superlearning scenario. This is something I do not actively practice, so I delayed this post as much as possible. It is known that ability to remember names will help you in life. In Anna’s course there was a 2-hours module of remembering names, until at some …
Writing this blog is one of the hardest things I had to adhere to. When I was starting I went blank every time I needed to write a post. Very soon I started to search the course discussions for a good subject. Eventually the course went out of the good subjects. Then I took some …
There is a huge list of logical fallacies one can make. In fact one of our memory exercises focuses on them. The full list is too long to follow… How can we use our knowledge to fight our own fallacies? First of all we need to manage our attention. This is counter-intuitive. We are not …
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One of the best hacks we try to teach in our courses is harnessing the powers of unconscious. Here I outline three examples of doing this. Plus one We have discussed synaesthesia before. We train synaesthesia for making sense in complex environment. Unlike the regular definition of synaesthesia, recently I read a new interpretation: The …
I have never met Leon other than over Skype. Leon (not a true name) is a web designer (kind of) that took the Udemy course starting in spring 2014. In summer Leon wrote several passionate posts and personal mails to [email protected] regarding his reading speed and fluency with markers. Then he disappeared for a couple …
We often compare brain training to physical exercise. In this sense I find this and his articles useful. I will try to adapt their points to what we do. Starting small When trying to learn superlearning skillset (and the skillset involves many different skills) it is crucial to transform practice into a habbit. The first …
Key numbers was the first real memory method Anna explained to me. It is generalization of story method for more complex structures. It is recommended to train this method with lists of linked items. The idea is very simple. We keep each story between 5 and 20 items connected by some sort of funny animation. …
Anna has recently added a new model to the course that deals with asking the right questions. We have discussed this issue several times in other posts, but here I want to describe Anna’s view of the subject as far as she explained it to me. Priming After we preread an article and before we …
While there are many ways to create markers and a large body of text about it in this blog, I wanted to focus on two major types of markers I expect each of you to use. Logical markers This is the default sort of markers you should use. In fact, they are so trivial that …
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