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by
Jim Kwik
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August 29 - August 30, 2020
The most successful people in the world are lifelong students.
seven of my favorite simple habits to unlimit your studies.
Habit 1: Employ Active Recall
Active recall is a process through which you review material and then immediately check to determine how...
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To employ active recall, do this: Review the material you are studying. Then close the book, turn off the video or lecture, and write down or recite everything you remember from what you just reviewed. Now, look at the material again. How much did you remember?
Habit 2: Employ Spaced Repetition
Habit 3: Manage the State You’re In
Your posture also controls the state of your mind. Sit as if you’re about to learn the most crucial life-changing information.
Habit 4: Use Your Sense of Smell
smells are especially effective at bringing memories to the forefront of our brains. The scent of rosemary has been shown to improve memory. Peppermint and lemon promotes concentration.
Habit 5: Music for the Mind
music can put us in conditions that improve our ability to learn.
Baroque music seems to have some particularly valuable qualities.
“Baroque music, such as that composed by Bach, Handel or Telemann that is 50 to 80 beats per minute creates an atmosphere of focus that leads students into deep concentration in the alpha brain wave state. Learning vocabulary, memorizing facts, or reading to this music is highly effective.”
Habit 6: Listen with Your Whole Brain
Listening is critical to learning, and we spend a large percentage of our waking time listening.
“the human brain has the capacity to digest as much as 400 words per minute of information.
a tool that will help you listen with your whole brain. Just remember the acronym HEAR:
H is for Halt:
Do everything you can to tune all of this out and to be completely present with whomever you’re listening to.
listening involves more than just the words a person is saying; vocal inflection, body language, facial expressions, and more create additional context and provide additional information. You can absorb all of this only if you halt everything else.
E is for E...
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A is for Anticipate:
R is for Review:
Habit 7: Take Note of Taking Notes
notes allow you to organize and process information in a way that makes it most likely that you can use this information afterward.
T is for Think:
I is for Identify:
P is for Prioritize:
Your brain is the same way. If you don’t exercise it regularly, it might not be at its best when you need it the most.
if you make the effort to keep your brain in top shape, you’ll discover that it’s always ready to do superhero-level work for you,
Memory is arguably the most important part of the learning process. If you could not remember, then you could not learn anything.
There’s no such thing as a good memory or a bad memory; there is only a trained memory and an untrained memory.
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.
If you’re serious about boosting your memory, condition yourself to be truly present in any situation where you want to remember something.
there’s no such thing as a good memory or a bad memory, only a trained memory or an untrained memory.
This is a very important concept: Most people approach learning as a passive activity.
Your visual memory is very powerful.
By seeing the pictures a story paints and not just the words that represent those pictures, you create a stronger means by which to remember.
Thinking is done through the use ...
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a picture is worth a thousand words!
your memory is fundamental to nearly everything you do.
There’s really no way to unlimit yourself without having a well-trained memory, because memory governs your ability to reason, to calculate possible outcomes, and to serve as a resource to others.
loci method,
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Leaders are readers.
Welcome to the age of data. Never in history has there been such an information surplus. More information has been produced in the past few decades than in the previous few thousand years.
Studies show that there is a direct relationship between your ability to read and your success in life.
Due to the techniques I’d taught myself, reading had become one of my superpowers, paving the way to enormous breakthroughs in my learning.
