Jonathan Levi

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24.May.2023. Flight from Manila to Kuala Lumpar

  • I have completed 2 section. What are my takeaways and actionables.
  • May 2023 Target from Harry Lorrayne
  • May 2023 Target for creating Visual Markers
    • Identify 5 things that you for which you can create visual markers.
  • Start using chunking. The best place to begin is using Peg System from Harry Lorrayne.
  • How Memory Works. Working Memory, Short Term Memory, and Long Term Memory.
  • The Hose, The Funnel, The Bucket. Increase the Bucket size, then Funnel size, then Hose size.
  • You know what is progressive overload, you know what is pomodoro effect.
  • You know what is progressive overload, you know what is pomodoro effect.
  • You know what is hippocampi, and neuroplasticity.
  • You know what is Dual Coding & ‘Brute Force’ Learning.
  • Visuale Markers: I tried this earlier, but it did not go very well. It seemed like I am not able to remember/recollect images. Let me take easy concept and put it into markers.

Traversing the Memory Palace

  • How to get this Assocation. If I can do this, things will get smooth: Speed Reading -> Dance -> Object of Desire
  • Book: Atomic Habits
  • Book: Compounding

Living Room Memory Palace

Speed Reading by Jonathan Levi !

This is the life changing course that I have ever done. I have to come back to this as often as possible. Make it part of my daily life and you will live my dreams. Go on Naresh, its time to live your dreams!!! I am keeping some location in Memory Palace unused, if need later for some information.

Main Door Front - Progressive Overload

Throughout the course, we’re going to be using a training methodology called progressive overload, progressive overload is a fundamental principle at the core of all strength and fitness training, and it’s applicable to your mental skills as well. The basic idea is to always be training near or just below your limits. You always lift weights that are relatively heavy or run at a pace that is relatively challenging, by doing this, you avoid the injury and the damage and the frustration that could result in training beyond your limits. But you also avoid getting stuck in a rut by not pushing yourself enough. Most importantly, every time you progress, you immediately increase the level of intensity to maintain your progress.

Main Door Peep Hole - Pomodoro technique

Pomodoro technique, which is a method used to prevent fatigue and frustration. Basically, you’ll train for twenty to twenty five minutes and then take a five minute break and then train for another twenty to twenty five minutes and then take another five minute break after four pomodoro or twenty to twenty five minute periods, you’ll take a longer break, a 15 to 30 minutes. This method has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to maintain focus and creativity. So check it out

Main Door Back - Memory

Well, once you’ve used your working memory to process, understand, and interact with a piece of information, your short term memory is what keeps it in your mind for about 15 to 20 seconds. This might seem like a really short amount of time, and it is, that’s why for the majority of the course, we’re going to focus on improving the connexion all the way from your working memory to your long term memory. This is because if you do a good enough job creating those short term memories that’ll stick till you get to the end of a page or an article, you’ll only need to use some simple review techniques and regular maintenance to keep things in your long term memory, where we eventually want all our new information to remain.

This means that right now, our working and short term memory are the primary bottlenecks. Without the right infrastructure and base skillset to improve these two types of memory, speed reading is pretty useless, even impossible

Main Door Ganpati - Buffers

Our brains do use several different types of buffers to work with the various types of information. This basically means that words, ideas, images, and scenes, they don’t all use the same path to get to the short term memory.

Main Door Magnetic Stopper - Neural Network

But basically memories are created when your brain sends neurotransmitter signals to two neurons at the same time. This strengthens the connexion between those two neurons and presto, you have a new memory. This is an important point to make because it shows that the creation of memories requires connexion between two neurons or a connexion to existing neurons in your brain. The other thing you need to know is that when this happens over and over again the cluster of neurons and their synaptic connexions become something called a neural network. From artificial intelligence research we know that neurons work better in these types of clusters. This means that when several neurons fire together the signal is actually amplified. That’s why it’s so crucial to store memories in several connected neurons and to further connect them to the memories that we often use.

Because there are so many connexions and stories and experiences around that piece of information your brain determines that it’s critical and will never erode it away. Knowing this can benefit us tremendously. The process of super learning necessitates that we create more connexions to the information we want to learn

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Well first and foremost I want to dispel the myth that children’s brains are somehow better at absorbing new information or that they have a higher neuroplasticity.

Recent studies have actually shown that this is simply not true. The reason that children seem to learn with more ease is that they’re learning literally every waking hour and all information is new and exciting information for them. Furthermore, research shows that our brains do play by the use it or lose it rule. Most adults lose the ability to learn rapidly simply because they settle into their day-job and they stop learning in the volume that they used to as children, not because their brain chemistry or neuroplasticity have actually changed

Wall Bulb Holder - Games

Playing games with Wall Bulb Holder and getting electric shock

So, as you go along throughout the rest of the course, I want you to remember that the games are important, but that the real test of your super-learner skills is whether or not you can memorise everyday information, speed-read your daily reading assignments, and learn actual skills faster

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Chunking - psychological phenomenon

The chunking system is very good because it’s an entry level mnemonic technique. It’s not only much faster and easier to learn and play with than some of the heavier visual memory techniques we’re going to learn later, but it’s also a critical element of the overall technique. This is to say that even after we teach you the methods to remember things way more easily, you’re still going to be chunking details or memories into groups of three or four so that they can better comply with the requirements of your short term memory. Sure, we could train your short term memory to hold a larger number of items, but that would only slow you down and place a larger cognitive load on you. At three to five items there is no slow down so it’s preferable to work in this range. Furthermore, by chunking groups of items into one entity, we can stack five chunks of five objects each into our working memory and effectively store 25 items in our short term or working memory without any cognitive overload. Because of this massive advantage, you’ll notice that all of the world’s top memory athletes use systems that are based on chunking combined with powerful visual and spatial memory techniques that we’ll be learning later on in the course. The other nice thing about chunking is that it works with just about everything. Take a sequence of numbers or a couple pieces of information. For example, brown dog, tall fence, lost Frisbee. You can even try to chunk information about people into neat little bundles. It might seem strange, but remembering that information in chunks is actually much easier than if it were to be put all together

Samsung TV 65 Inches - Dual Coding and Brute Force Learning

Dual Coding. Remember how we learned that the brain has different buffers for working memory depending on the type of information it’s interacting with? Well, in dual coding, we try to get different types of working memory buffers to activate at once, thereby increasing the chances of retention and storage in long-term memory. In the coming lectures, we are going to emphasise how important it is to look at a text or a piece of information from different angles, to ask different types of questions and to use different senses, such as vision and smell, or even emotion, to engage with the material in different ways than you normally would. And this is why. This is also why we advocate a style of learning that I like to call “brute force” learning. This is a term that has been lifted from hacking, where a hacker will attack a server by trying thousands or even tens of thousands of passwords in the same form rapidly, often with a few different machines or different angles.

Samsung 11.1.4 Subwoofer - Visual Marker

In addition to all the other steps we have to take to prime our memory, it’s best that we also learn to transform concepts, ideas, and other important information into imagined visual pictures, or what we call markers, as soon as we possibly can. It won’t surprise you to learn, additionally, that the best and most memorable types of visual markers are strange, bizarre, or emotionally connected to memories. After all, adult learners need to connect information to pre-existing knowledge, and as always, our hippocampi are busy working away to determine what stuff matters and what stuff doesn’t.

In the last lecture, we told you that one of the goals of SuperLearning is to transform any and every piece of information you want to remember into an image, which we call, a marker.

Ultimately, you have to learn to go with what images come naturally for you. Try to lean towards whatever type of image you find most conductive for you to remember, but just make sure that, number one, there’s as much detail as possible.

All this is concept. No Memory Palace for this !!!

How Do We Apply Visual Memory To Reading

One of those future lectures will come up when we get to speed reading, and it’ll explain in detail how you’ll use regular intervals of pauses during your reading. This is not just because speed reading is very exhausting for the eyes and for the brain, but also because these pauses allow us to optimise the process of learning

You see, just like there are at least three types of memory, there are also three stages, or processes, of memory. They are, encoding, storage, and retrieval. Where most people get into trouble is that they try to do all three at once. Have you ever read a paragraph or a page of text only to realise that you’ve been deeply immersed in thought and you haven’t actually paid attention to anything that you just read? This is what happens when you’re trying to do all three memory processes at once. On the other hand, if you’ve ever studied process operations management or economics, you know that grouping similar tasks together is an efficient way to minimise waste. I mean, you don’t wash one shirt at a time and then put it in the dryer all by itself. You wash all of your clothes together, put them all in the dryer together, and then fold them when they’re all done, right? With reading, you’ve been doing it one shirt at a time, trying to multitask the washing and drying and folding for each shirt. It’s just as inefficient as it sounds, and so we’re going to separate it out into three separate processes to reduce cognitive strain and improve overall efficiency

Now I know what you’re thinking, how exactly do we do that? Well, because of the limitations on your short term memory and the inherent difficulty in multitasking visualisation with reading, we’ll be learning how to make short pauses of about one to two seconds after each page, or even take micro pauses of just fractions of a second after reading information-dense paragraphs. You’ll also take longer pauses every 10 minutes or less to review what you’ve already hopefully put into the beginning stages of long term memory. As we’re going to discover, when we learn about space repetition software, you brain needs to periodically repeat and review information in increasingly long intervals in order to remember it and prove to the hippocampi that it’s relevant and worth remembering. This is similar to the idea that you must continue weight training to improve your strength and increase muscle mass. If your brain, like your body, thinks that the information you’re using is a one off occurrence, it won’t waste the time investing the resources to remember it.

In short, this is why we take small pauses after each page and much longer pauses of 15 to 30 seconds after each chapter, to play back and retrieve our stored markers and perform a form of spaced repetition to improve our long term retention. This also means that it’s not a bad idea to spend a few minutes a week reviewing markers and ideas from books you’ve read months or even years before, if you really wish to remember them

While we’re discussing images and visual markers, it’s worth noting that not all markers have to be visual. In fact, smell is actually a more memorable sense than vision. Of course, we can’t understand an entire book using our sense of smell alone, and so we’re focusing on images, but if you read about, say, chocolate, and you can conjure up the smell or the taste of chocolate, that’s actually a great marker for remembering that data point. And if it works for you, even better. Whatever types of markers we use, whether they’re visual or sensory or some other types that we have yet to learn about, it’ll almost certainly be a mix in the end. This mix of markers, when retrieved and reviewed, reminds us of the details that we’ve decided we need to remember. And when combined with our existing knowledge and opinions and ideas about the content, it allows us to dual code and store information into long term memory very quickly and very effectively

So, instead of reading back over the chapter, we can retrieve all of the markers we’ve created and start thinking about how they’re connected together logically. We play them back almost like a film strip in our minds, and that helps our retrieval

Creating Effective Markers For Better Memory

First and foremost, high quality markers represent specific ideas or concepts that can be easily understood.

Next, high quality markers are themselves imbued with rich detail such as colors, textures and so on.

Third, high quality markers are clearly and logically interconnected to one another.

Fourth, high quality markers emphasize outcomes or resolutions, not questions or initial conflicts

Fifth high quality markers come in volume. At this stage, the more the merrier.

And finally, markers draw upon existing memories whenever possible. Great.

Samsung 11.1.4 Subwoofer Table - Visual Memory & Reading

logical markers. These logical visual markers follow convergent thinking, meaning that they condense and put things together. The truth is though that logical markers are often so trivial that we don’t even notice we are making them. They may be somethings as simple as a negative emotion of anger between Austria-Hungary and Serbia or as complex as a schematic or a diagram that explains all the interactions between all the different warring nations.

Examples of logical markers can include: emotions, such as excitement, anger, or confusion; symbols, such as question marks or exclamation points; arrows, x’s, circles, and check marks, and even diagrams, schematics, or flow charts

your success really depends on you using your skills and finding that they’re useful in your daily life. If you don’t believe that these skills are useful, you won’t put in the effort and ultimately, you won’t get very far at all. And so, it’s only fitting that your homework is to try these new skills out with, well, just about anything.

Go, check out the PDF syllabus, do that assigned homework, and make sure that you’re learning how to create those high quality markers.

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Single Sofa - Learning Language

Go and Watch the Video. Benny Lewis (Carl Lewis / Boney Kapoor).

Benny Lewis, he struggled very much to learn Spanish in a classroom setting with a textbook. He said that things didn’t seem real enough and he couldn’t extract enough meaning or really get a feel for the words he was trying to learn. Oh boy, does that sound familiar. He also told me that he learned languages primarily by speaking to people in real life situations. He would try to get by in the language or listen to people in the supermarket speaking that language.

Again, Anki is a really amazing tool for learning languages. I’ve been using it myself to brush up on my language skills in three languages and I can tell you, it really, really, really works.

Unurprisingly, the secret to learning new vocabulary words, you guessed it. Using visual or sensory markers. Most people go wrong because they try to link one group of sounds, the English word, to a new group of sounds, the word in the foreign language. This creates one very weak connexion between the two pieces of information and that’s why you immediately forget a word when someone tells you the translation. Instead, you need to link this new and foreign combination of sounds to an existing mental marker, image, feeling, or smell that’s already densely built into a neural network. !!!

The Face on the Wall - Remember Name

Tailoring The Skills: Never Forget A Face Or A Name

Instead, you should try to connect that person to a visual marker of another person or even to a visual idea. Try to connect it to another person with the same name or even a story you heard about someone with that same name.

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Make actionable items from these points.

How To Learn Faster Using Proper Preparation Techniques

Oftentimes when we sit down to learn we are full of excitement, passion and enthusiasm. We are eager to dive in, to sink our teeth into this new subject and give it our best shot. But the truth is that while it’s great to have enthusiasm for learning, enthusiasm without planning can do more harm than good. Ok.

What had gone wrong? Poor planning, instead of sitting down to get a broad overview of the Russian language, a view of the forest from 30000 feet, I had gone straight for the trees rather than developing a plan for how I would shift between vocabulary and grammar or transition from one grammatical case to another, I simply jumped in and what looked like the beginning.

This concept, the idea of preparing and structuring your learning in a logical way before you even start comes up a lot in accelerated learning circles.

In his accelerated learning book, disguised as a cookbook, the four hour chef life hacker extraordinaire Tim Ferriss shares his two frameworks for preparing to learn anything faster dis deconstruction. How small can I break things down into their basic units of learning, such as individual vocabulary words or grammatical rules?

Selection, what are the 20 percent of those units that will give me 80 percent of the benefits? Pareto’s principle

Sequencing, what is the best order in which to learn these units stakes?

How can I use psychology or social pressure to condense my timelines and push myself to learn faster?

Whatever you’re learning, thinking ahead is key. Recently, when I interviewed Zac Evans, creator of the popular piano Superhuman Accelerated Learning Course, he told me a very similar story. Zac explained to me that a significant portion of the success he generates for his students lies in simply thinking ahead, breaking things down into individual skills or sections, and then tackling them in the right order. Zack also pointed out that unless we plan out our learning in a methodical and deliberate way, we fall prey to bad habits, wasted time or complacency. Zac himself learned this by accidentally leaving his camera recording during a practice session, only to find out that he had wasted the entire two hours playing pieces he had already mastered.

So before you begin to study a new subject, there are a number of questions that you must ask yourself.

Why am I learning this information and how and when will I actually use it?

For WAS find the relevant sections that need to be done. Period.

Next, what level of understanding or knowledge do you need? One question that I’ve long felt is missing from the conversation on preparation is that of depth. There are many levels of understanding and knowledge ranging from being able to recall when something sounds right to basic recall of facts, a holistic understanding or at the highest levels, actually being able to think originally and independently on a subject to what level do you need to know the information you are learning? Do you need to be able to recite other people’s works word for word and challenge them for your PhD thesis? Or do you simply need to know where to look something up the next time a patient presents those symptoms, the extent to which you need to know something dramatically changes the way that you will go about learning it and how much time you’ll spend on it.

Up next, how can this information be broken down into small parts and recombined into broader categories or themes? What are the units of information in this subject? Are they verses of a poem? Functions in a programming language, chords on an instrument or words in a lexicon? Once you have determined these divisible elements, are you able to classify them into broader themes such as historical periods, key signatures or parts of speech?

Ian Chapman. Just do what is needed, and the rest you can keep deliberating.

Next, what are the most important things to learn based on my personal goals? As you likely know, Pareto’s Law states that 80 percent of the benefits are derived from 20 percent of the work unless you’re looking to become the world’s best at something, this generally means that you can save yourself the effort on a great majority of the information in any given subject. In music, most of us can probably skip learning the individual frequencies and physics of each note, just like most non-native English speakers, shouldn’t bother with the future perfect continuous case.

Mostly the best order will be the order of course from Udemy/Pluralsight. But in case of Ian Chapman, I was selective.

Up next, what is the right order in which to learn this information? Learning a heap of grammatical rules doesn’t make a lot of sense if you don’t know enough words to form a single sentence. Similarly, it’s probably not very useful to learn to read music until you know which keys play, which notes, as I learned when I tackled Rush and the order in which you learn things really matters and you can never reclaim the time spent learning the wrong things.

How wil this information be useful to me in future.

Next, how will I actually access this information? Knowing how you’ll access the information you’re learning is often just as important as knowing which information to learn.

All these pressure might give me heart attach.

The next question, what will your study schedule look like and how can you compress timelines? As Tim Ferriss teaches in his books, Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the time you allotted. We all know the feeling of writing an entire semester’s final paper in a matter of days or hours. So why not use this nifty psychological hack to our advantage by structuring our study sessions in methodical ways? Based on the answers to the questions above, we ensure consistency and persistence. Plus, by adding high stakes social pressure and condense timelines to the mix, we kick ourselves into high gear. My friend Dr. Benjamin Hardy, psychologist and author of the book Willpower Doesn’t Work, calls these automatic constraints forcing functions one to learn acro yoga fast, prepare for an advanced workshop three months from now, hoping to learn a new technology at work, volunteer to teach a workshop on it next quarter. By adding real world stakes, you’ll be motivated to structure your study plan and actually stick to it.

Breakdown the bigger task into smaller, manageable tasks.

The next question is equally important. How will I measure and track my progress in order to determine whether or not you are moving forward at the right place? It’s important to have a clear metric of success. For this reason, I often teach students about the idea of smart goals specific, measurable, ambitious, realistic and time based. If your goal is to get better and excel, it’s pretty hard to assess that. If your goal is to learn six new features of Excel, including pivot tables and macros by December thirty, first you’ll have a much easier time planning for success as you check off each individual feature. Plus, remember that what gets measured gets improved, but what gets measured and reported improves exponentially.

It is easy and straight forward to make plan to finish domain related course/but for technical courses it is really very difficult. In technical courses there are a lot of unknows (e.g. Microservices RI).

Another question you should ask is what will I do if things don’t go to plan? The last few questions will, with any luck, push you towards taking on some aggressive and ambitious learning goals and achieving them in record time. But the higher you shoot, the more likelihood there is of failure and we all slip up. Sometimes, no matter how positive you are, nothing is more frustrating than watching your best laid plans fall apart. In these times, it’s easy to spiral downward, beat yourself up or give up altogether. That’s why the best managers plan for occasional failures ahead of time. What exactly will you do if you fall off the bandwagon or get stuck on a particular subject? How will you get back on track and prevent one little slip up from derailing you and causing you to give up completely? A phenomenon that psychologists lovingly call the what the hell effect? Will you book extra sessions with a private tutor, make up time on the weekend, adjust your study schedule accordingly, and give yourself some slack by creating a specific action plan for what happens when you inevitably fall off track? You can minimize the damage and ensure that you waste as little time as possible. Armed with these nine questions, you are prepared to well prepare, you now understand why thinking ahead and creating a methodical success plan is far from a waste of time. In fact, it’s quite possible that every minute of preparation will save you an hour or more of deliberation. That’s why the next time you set out to cut down a learning tree, I know you’ll take a good, hard look at the forest first and then make sure your axe is razor sharp.

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