3 accelerated methods for college students and everyone else

What I remember of him is that he had very inefficient way of studying. For instance he read a paper out loud and afterward tried to memorize by rehearsing what he read in his mind, this is highly inefficient .

At that time, I had minimum interest in accelerated learning, I just had one book called Supermemory, I let my friend read that book, but that book sadly was mostly theory and fluffs with nothing you could use in real life.

When I started to work as a computer programmer I had to absorb large quantity of information in short period of time. I will always remember how I studied a 1200 pages programming manual in a week. At that time, I had great interest in accelerated learning, I was in a Do-or-Get fired situation. I want to share highly efficient methods I used over the years.

All these methods and techniques work well if you have discipline without that you will get nothing out of them or out of your study. I have known about the Superlearning ™ method for a long time and I told it to my friend but he didn’t had the motivation and the discipline to do it….

…that’s the problem when you study something because you think it will provide a good pay instead of because you like it, you have to deal with lack of motivation.

So assuming you have the motivation here are some good methods and techniques you can check out

The Memory Bookby Harry Lorraine and Jerry Lucas

It is a quick read , learning curve is only an afternoon, you can very quickly use the methods in that book, I was surprised that the stuff in the book actually work.
It presents simple techniques such as the Link, Substitute Words, and the Peg. You can use theses methods to memorize lists of words, foreign words, names and numbers. Quick read easy to use and very cheap $ 6.99 dollars.

Superlearning (Tm)

Superlearning is the method I used to learn English vocabulary (my native tongue is French), you can learn the method from the book of the same name, once you finish the book you can directly apply the method.
The method is unorthodox but quite simple, you have to assemble list of vocabulary you want to learn , you record them with a particular rhythm interval and listen to your tape with Baroque music, you will have also to breath in a particular rhythm, sound like a lot of work but it is worth it. When I did it was to absorb 100 new words a day and it worked also by the time you finish to assemble your tape for your session, quite some material are already memorized.

Photoreading ™

Photoreading is the most difficult to learn method with the longest learning curve. It is a 5 steps approach , Step 1 is to prepare by stating a clear purpose and getting into an ideal state of mind for reading. (It is not going into deep trance per see) , just light relaxation.

Step 2 – preview the materials so that your brain learns how to sort the information that will soon be absorbed by PhotoReading, I quite like the tangerine exercise from the method.

Step 3 is the Photoreading phase, some don’t quite get it, It was difficult for me I have to say.

Step 4 is the Activation where you go literally shopping in the material you photoread to find material you can use at a conscious level, photoreading is done too quickly to have conscious knowledge of the photoread material directly that is why activation is necessary.

Step 5 – Rapid Read helps to get a greater comprehension of the photoread material. This makes sense if you have to absord large technical manuals.

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