We all want to live happily and yet to achieve something in our life. This is called work-life-balance. Here is my personal experience from the last several months. One of the issues that I want to focus on is finding again the balance between work and life. First of all: why did I loose the …
Learning resources – cheatsheet
Guides at your disposal Link Descriptions Recommended usage Udemy Basic course on Udemy. First watch a section per day. After finishing the whole course, watch proper lecture according to your training. Wiki Mainly frequently used terms. Use this as a cheat-sheet to the lectures. Also if you cannot spare a dime for the actual course… …
Users are welcome to submit their posts
We are interested in your stories: your motivations, your progress, your personal discoveries, how you overcome difficulties, the strategies you have chosen. You can edit our new wiki or submit posts on this blog. Users are welcome to submit their posts. We will publish only the best of them. If you thing that your post …
Proposed training schedule
Almost all of our students on day one want to see the training schedule that will take them to their goal. Previously we tried to control the selection of options to funnel all students through the same resources. Currently, we try to widen the arsenal of the training tools you can use. Introduction Take our …
Multicolumn saccade formatter
You can practice reading texts in one, two or three column saccade. I do not recommend going above 3 columns. Personally, if your computer allows, I recommend 3 saccades on 1000 px lines.
Test yourself – psychological tests of IQ
More often than not our students ask themselves: what kind of person am I? Do I have a good memory? Do I think fast? Am I better at spatial IQ, verbal IQ or emotional IQ? Now you can test yourself free of charge using simple questionnaires compiled by some of the best psychologists online. Press …
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Rereading text
One of the misconceptions some of our students form is that rereading text is bad. It is true that rereading single words and sentences may be counter-productive, but there are several highly efficient methods to reread content. In fact we teach several methods during the course. Prereading Before actually reading the text we urge our …
Superlearner life balance
Finding a balance in one’s life is difficult for everyone, but is is even more so for superlearner. Having the ability to learn virtually anything extremely fast puts an extra strain on the curiosity. Recently I had a meeting with Jonathan. Since reaching higher superlearning abilities he reads less (not more!). I asked him why. Jonathan …
I can’t visualize fast enough for my reading speed.
Well, this is the ugly truth. Nobody can visualize fast enough for their reading speed. That is if we visualize each and every word. However, why would we visualize each and every word? For some tasks we define the goal as 100% retention. It could be learning a new language, or learning a poem or …
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Using search engines for research
We have a specific set of lessons regarding usage of search engines. But rather than concentrating on the technical subjects of web search, in this article I want to address come creative aspects. When we try to search for answers it is interesting to consider the issue from various perspectives: the issue we are looking …