Visualization, memory, reading and research skills
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 …
Sometimes the text I read is heterogeneous and addresses the issues from many points. To keep track of various perspective I “colour” the text according to the dominant perspective of each paragraph. I try to follow the “colours” in the visualization themes and I try to be capable to reproduce the article photographically with “colour” …
One of the key points we learn in information theory is always looking for innovation. It does not matter if we are trying to build a search engine or send a rocket to the moon: we predict what will happen, and if we are sufficiently surprised by what actually happens we take notice. In my …
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 …
When teaching the advanced material of high-level visualization we put a great emphasis on analytical skills. This skill is required to eliminate introduction of false knowledge. False knowledge is generated when we build inaccurate markers not supported by text. We teach to eliminate false markers only after the students can generate and replace visualiations without …
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 …
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 …
