This is another memorization example. It is both very abstract and very precise. Let us handle it together. Please feel free to add your discoveries and specific problems as comments. Memorize these Economic formulas!
Book exercise
In Anna’s course all the students occasionally read and memorize the same books. A typical book would be this book. It is very suited for speedreading: not too long, not too short, lots of details supported by common knowledge, informative and popular, simple but well-formulated text, short saccades. Try to train speedreading on this book …
Advanced memorization exercise
Many of you have wondered how to memorize abstract notions. I suggest to do this together. Take this article. It should be important for virtually any superlearner, since it explains why smart people make mistakes. Now, use your markers skills to remember everything in the article. Take your time – there are many markers to …
Go find momo
Some of the best training exercises are quite unexpected. When we speedread and when we generate details on our markers it is important to have accurate visual perception. To have such perception, one can train finding objects in images. There are many hidden objects games. I used to play for months before my speedreading became …
Elite performers practice wisely: monitor yourself
Today I was approached by a student who did not use pomodoro technique. He practices too intensely, without breaks, more than 2 hours a day. As a result he suffered eye strain and could not read for a couple of months. Now he feels great, and he makes sure to follow the proposed methodology. His …
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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 …
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.
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.
