Following up on my post from yesterday, reporting that my percentile had dropped a great deal - I now know why. What the "daily spark" does is throws up a random level of a random activity at you... and in my case, it was level 4 of an activity I'd never even attempted at level 1! So my percentile in this is 8%, which dramatically drops my overall percentile. So I'm going to take two courses of action from this: practice that particular activity until I am up to level 4 and can raise my percentile to at least 75%; and in future, only attempt the daily spark if it is an activity and level I am at least close to!
02 July, 2015
New Direction
As much as I do love the SuperLearning course, and believe in its effectiveness, I've decided to take a step away from it for now. Rather than following it to the letter, I've decided to keep to its basic principles and teachings, but find my own activities to get me there instead. Foolish? Perhaps. But I believe this will be more sustainable. So for now, I'm going to focus on two things:
The website Brain HQ for the memory and "brain training" aspects; and the book Breakthrough Rapid Reading to learn to speedread.
I'll report back on how that works out for me...
The website Brain HQ for the memory and "brain training" aspects; and the book Breakthrough Rapid Reading to learn to speedread.
I'll report back on how that works out for me...
01 July, 2015
Week 1 Day 3
Brain HQ
My percentile has gone down since yesterday... but that actually happened after I did miserably at the "Daily Spark" exercise, so not entirely sure what it says about anything.
SuperLearning
Well... I really want to do the Week 1 suggested exercises... and I actually have an opportunity to do them today... but I just can't seem to motivate myself to do it. Not good enough!!! I need to make myself do this! I am telling myself that Brain HQ is better than nothing - and I do believe that to be true - but there is a lot covered by the SuperLearner exercises that ISN'T covered by Brain HQ, too. Aaaaaaand it happens to be the exercises I am least fond of. But I need to do them. Grrrrrrrr need motivation / to force myself into it.
Will see what happens between now and the next blog post.
My percentile has gone down since yesterday... but that actually happened after I did miserably at the "Daily Spark" exercise, so not entirely sure what it says about anything.
SuperLearning
Well... I really want to do the Week 1 suggested exercises... and I actually have an opportunity to do them today... but I just can't seem to motivate myself to do it. Not good enough!!! I need to make myself do this! I am telling myself that Brain HQ is better than nothing - and I do believe that to be true - but there is a lot covered by the SuperLearner exercises that ISN'T covered by Brain HQ, too. Aaaaaaand it happens to be the exercises I am least fond of. But I need to do them. Grrrrrrrr need motivation / to force myself into it.
Will see what happens between now and the next blog post.
Week 1 Day 2
Brain HQ
30 mins of Brain HQ was all I managed to fit in today - 5 mins in the morning and the other 25 mins I completed just after midnight.
Here's where I'm at now:
It's an improvement on yesterday, and I'm definitely happy with that. When playing "Right Turn", during my second go-through I found that it just sort of "clicked", and that relying mostly on "gut instinct" / intuition, I could get them mostly right... but I could also feel myself much more easily able to rotate the images in my mind's eye. Unfortunately I didn't seem to carry this through to the third go-through... but it's a start!
I also watched the first episode of "Redesign My Brain" Series One. This is an excellent show, and highly relevant to the SuperLearner course. It even features the Australian memory champion Tansel Ali (successfully) teaching Todd Sampson how to memorise a deck of cards using the memory palace technique. The guy who guides Todd to improve his cognitive functioning is also a co-founder of Brain HQ.
30 mins of Brain HQ was all I managed to fit in today - 5 mins in the morning and the other 25 mins I completed just after midnight.
Here's where I'm at now:
It's an improvement on yesterday, and I'm definitely happy with that. When playing "Right Turn", during my second go-through I found that it just sort of "clicked", and that relying mostly on "gut instinct" / intuition, I could get them mostly right... but I could also feel myself much more easily able to rotate the images in my mind's eye. Unfortunately I didn't seem to carry this through to the third go-through... but it's a start!
I also watched the first episode of "Redesign My Brain" Series One. This is an excellent show, and highly relevant to the SuperLearner course. It even features the Australian memory champion Tansel Ali (successfully) teaching Todd Sampson how to memorise a deck of cards using the memory palace technique. The guy who guides Todd to improve his cognitive functioning is also a co-founder of Brain HQ.
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