When you mastered speedreading, slow reading is not an easy task. We describe the reasons for slow reading, the difficulties that rise when reading slowly and how to deal with them. Recently I read an article on reading slowly. Reading slowly is a hard task for superlearner. Suddenly you have all this time and nothing …
Attention to details and nature
There are many ways to train your visual accuracy and attention to details. If you want to maximize fun while training attention to details, try to find the mimicry and camouflage in nature. See for example gorgeous national geographic images or discovery channel photos. For experts, try to distinguish poisonous snakes, mushrooms and plants from …
Knowledge vs understanding
Recently I read this article about difference between knowledge and understanding. Superlearner value pyramid I am a bit obsessed about various forms of information and knowledge, so I hope you will not hate me for this short value pyramid: Type Meaning Superlearner term Wisdom Ability to use understanding properly to change the world around us …
Card exercise equivalent
If you need to do the “card” exercise on your computer, this is a valid alternative. Please move your mouse over the greenish bar to progress through the text. The larger the distance between blue and red line the faster the text goes… If the blue line is above the red line, the text stops. …
Accuracy and synesthesia
Comparing texts visually is difficult. We call upon synesthesia to help us. Each number/letter gets its own colour. Go ahead and find the differences! There is a good chance that after a while the number/colour or letter/colour association will become stronger and you will remember numbers like Daniel Tammet.
Symbol recognition
This is a pretty common exercise for “fast thinking” check-up. You need to notice the numbers within the letters and recognize them correctly. Try running the exercise faster, up to 100msec per symbol. This exercise will definitely help you speedread and potentially may help suppressing vocalization.
From C to A in 5 days
Every student wants to have good grades. Every parent wants his child to be A+ students without loosing creativity and joyfulness. In this blog we plan to give some insights on how this can be done. This article is probably the first in series of planned posts that will be generated as we prepare materials …
Multitasking computations
It is notoriously difficult to multitask. In this exercise you calculate the sum of the numbers of the same colour e.g. red with red, green with green. The idea is to keep in your head outputs of previous computations per colour, and update them with each new result.
High-level chunking
High-level chunking allows to operate with up to 80 object in your working memory, using computer-like data structures. Since the size of working memory is correlated with IQ, this actually make you smarter. When dealing with large amount of information you may choose several strategies to encode it. High level visualization is probably the most …
Playful aspects of making markers
Some of our students are extremely driven and focused. Generally these are excellent qualities for superlearner. Unfortunately some of the playful aspects of marker creation require “letting go”. You cannot afford perfectionism when you read at 1000wpm. You should not remake markers when you use high-level visualization or “cartoon” method. You do need crazy stunts …
