Visualization, memory, reading and research skills
Some of our students have problems concentrating over boring or complex texts. I also have similar problem with some challenging texts. What usually works for me is rereading the text using various mindsets. I am asking myself: 1. How can I use this information? 2. Why is it different from common knowledge? 3. What is …
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Some of our students occasionally report headaches. There are many sorts of headaches, but they have one thing in common: wrong technique. There are many common ideas between going to gym and training your brain. Just like bad practice in gym can cause back aches and orthopaedic damage, bad practice with your brain can cause …
Thinking while reading is very natural for someone who reads slowly but very complex for someone who reads fast. First of all, when speedreading the brain is just too busy. It has to follow the prepare-read-analyse cycle of building up interest, absorbing the information and retaining the information absorbed. When generating interest it needs to …
This is a common mistake, a mistake that I do, and I do it even now after many years of training… Taking things that I know for granted… What facts support our knowledge? What resources do we use? Who are the authority figures behind current paradigm? What was the previous paradigm? Probably nothing is truly …
Being an engineer and having some understanding of brain activity, I enjoy comparing brain to an electronic device. Many complex electronic devices I work with have the following 3 elements: CPU to handle complex logic, GPU to analyse a lot of simple and repetitive information in a fast and parallel form and dedicated RTL circuitry …
This is a short list of simple exercises that you can practice any time and anywhere. Anna gives this list only to her most prudent students. For some limited time it will be open here for everyone to try. Afterwards it will be kept under password protection… Each exercise should take around 10 min, and …
Visual markers are useful not only for superlearning, but also for everyday life. Visual markers are a simple and effective mnemonic device for almost any everyday situation. The example of not finding your keys is getting really old, yet we will mention it once again. If you lost your keys, it means you did not …
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There is a good correlation between length and quality of life and one’s IQ. There is a lengthy presentation on this subject. In this post I want to focus on more practical aspects of healthy habits. When superlearning take regular breaks. I suggest to take for X min of work Y min of rest, when …
Only about 2% of people are good multitaskers. See this article for infographics. Using the multitasking skills, our working memory gets overloaded trying to shift focus. While it is possible to improve the context switch of the working memory [there are such excersises in our resources], we still drop at least 10 points of IQ …
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 …
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