Recently I started using reddit, answering all those students who look for extra advantage in their classes. Soon I understood that speedreading and memory technique alone will not work. I ended up giving this advise: (1) Be healthy. Eat healthy food, sleep 6-8 hours per day, drink ~3 cups of coffee, meditate/do sport. (2) Be …
KeyToStudy Offers:
Memory, Speedreading, and Analysis
KeyToStudy Overview:
Memory, Speedreading, and Analysis
ProlificFocus Overview:
Productivity, Motivation, and Projects
ProlificFocus Offers:
Productivity, Motivation, and Projects
Reaching out of your comfort zone
Recently I read this article suggesting that reaching out of your comfort zone has a great potential for exciting magical experiences. This seams to be a profound understanding. When out of comfort zone we feel uneasy and vulnerable. In fact we are ready to work hard and generate creative excuses just to get back into …
Being a superlearner: 8 lifestyle aspects
Being a superlearner is a lifestyle choice. What does it really mean? Below are 8 aspects of what being a superlearner is all about. Search for wisdom. The ultimate goal of superlearner is probably search for wisdom. There is a story that king Solomon got to choose his blessing. While he could choose power or …
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Train yourself like navy seal: visualization and goal setting
Since we learn to master vivid visualization, we can use this wonderful tool for goal setting. This article describes in-depth several goalsetting visualization. Please read it after reading my post – for detailed description of each visualization aspect. And this article describes the science behind why visualization succeeds, read it to get some scientific background. …
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Prereading and reading tactics
We are strong proponents of pre-reading, yet the issue is only briefly mentioned in our course. There is a good reason for it. There is no one good prereading strategy, but several recommended strategies for various scenarios. Instead of discussing various pros and cons I will describe “a day in my life”. My days are …
High level visualization: Gaming and mental templates
I am using my own version of loci method I call “high-level visualization”, which is more of a game than a house. I have wrote several articles about this before. Here I address this method from a different angle. The loci method enables accurate memorization of huge amount of information. Most of memory champions use …
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Visualizing numbers
Many of our students go blank when viewing numbers, tables and formulas. Some they have necessary skills to understand the math, but cannot make it vivid enough. Here I address this and additional reasons. Short numbers. The simplest sort of a problem with numbers is a lack of interest. For me it is hard to remember …
Superlearner story: Marina
The stories of various people we teach may prove interesting to you. While we change the names, most of other facts are true. Probably some of you will recognize some of the people behind the stories. We ask you not to disclose their identity. The first superlearner whom we can tell about we will call …
10 tips for speedreading
Jonathan is planning to publish several speedreading tips in lifehacker.uk. While we are waiting patiently for approval, here are alternative tips by yours truly. Knowledge is intoxicating. Knowledge feeds our imagination, give us mental strength and resilience, fuels modern technology and economy – it is a key component of making us truly human (and possibly …
Innovation vs persistence
There is a trade-off between innovation and persistence that I see in my recent work. The innovation comes in form of new exciting opportunities. Out of the blue [there is actually a lot of work and planning around it, I will describe in separate posts] I generate interesting ideas, or I am approached by exciting …
