Today I got this mail from Scott Young discussing a trade-off between quality and what he calls smoothness. Since this is an issue commonly addressed by my friends, I will tell my own lessons on choosing which books to read and how. When I was a kid I was banned from reading books. This is …
Superlearner project management tricks
One of the easiest examples of memorization is a way to visualize to do list. In fact if you ever completed linked list exercise, you can group your tasks together and remember 16-20 tasks for a long time without forgetting them. The real question here is what else should a superlearner do with his tasks? Do …
Is being smart worth it?
This is the list of some of the smartest people in the world. Some of them are extremely successful, others provoke more pity than awe. Probably as long as your IQ is below 160, the smarter you are the more successful you will be. IQ is influenced by many factors, not all of them in …
What should a superlearner learn?
Occasionally I want to know the answer to one simple question: what should superlearner learn? Being able to learn pretty much anything are you supposed to be a super-expert on some specific subject or have well-rounded skillset. Here is what I came up with, and I will love to get your feedback. I recommend selecting …
Speed reading infographic
We [especially Jonathan] put a lot of time and effort in creating this infographic for superlearning. We hope you will enjoy it.
Sports psychology for superlearner
Quite often we compare superlearning to athletic performance. This site explains the relevant sports psychology in the infographic we publish as-is.
Calculate saccade width
In many exercises we ask you to input saccade width in pixels. The saccade width in pixels can be calculated from the actual saccade width that would appear for example in a newspaper. With average line width of 1000 pixels, a typical computation is as following: Basic level = 3 columns = 5 words for …
Superlearner story: Jason
This is yet another true superlearner story. Please notice that the name has been changed for privacy reasons, but most other facts are true. Jason is easily excited. He is excited to help people, to build something new and to change his own life. He is excited to do physical activity and to talk before …
Persistence, curiosity, empathy
What are the values that you plan to pass to your children? How will these values affect their lives? This article implies that values of persistence, curiosity and empathy generate better students and more successful professionals. Let us try to understand why. Persistence Persistence is the key to success. If you set up a goal …
5 Practical Applications of Your SuperLearner Abilities
Perhaps one of the most interesting and common little “issues” I think about with a lot of SuperLearning skills is the issue of usability. Indeed, some of the most skilled and advanced SuperLearners (and also the most famous, after the publication of Joshua Foer’s bestselling book Moonwalking with Einstein) out there are the competitors in …
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