Introducing:
The Super Clever Advanced Learning Method (SCALM)
A Universal Method to Learn Any Subject and to Memorize Entire Books!
By
Chris M Nemo
Copyright 2020 by Chris M Nemo- All rights reserved.
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This book is dedicated to
My late Father and Mother
(G. and I.I.)
I love you with all my heart and miss you every day!
Table of Contents
Introduction
Thank you for your purchase of my introductory book on the Super Clever Advanced Learning Method (SCALM) . Youre one step closer to becoming a Super Learner, because t he most important promise of this book is that you can become one!
All it takes is a little motivation and a method to facilitate your learning. This book will teach you the method step by step, and I am sure that, after you will see how easy the learning process becomes for you, your motivation will come by itself.
In this book, I want to present to you my original and extremely efficient method for learning any kind of information, a very versatile method that combines the most efficient memory techniques.
I created this method after many years in which I had to learn a lot of abstract and highly diversified information. At one point, I asked myself the question: How could I approach in a unitary way the memorization of any kind of information, whether it is a biology essay or a philosophy book? What are the universal steps of any learning process and how can I adapt them to any type of material that I have to learn?
The answer came when I began to study and practice memory techniques. I discovered that, by combining these techniques, not only did the learning process become faster but at the same time the learned information remained much longer stored in my memory.
Over time, I became a proactive learner and I synthesized a series of steps that transformed my learning into a pleasant and extremely effective experience.
There is a methoda formula if you willbehind any Ultra-Efficient Learning. And thats what this book is all about: taking you behind the curtain and showing you that formula.
Indeed, this great learning tool, that I have named the Super Clever Advanced Learning Method (SCALM) is extremely effective because of its versatility. It can be applied to any type of material you will have to remember.
If you search on Google: which are the most effective learning techniques , you will find a ranking of the 10 most known techniques, ordered by their efficiency, and you will find that the most effective care based on practicing the learned concepts. But what do we do if we have to learn abstract things, without practical applicability, as is the case with over 90% of the information we need to learn throughout our studies or in our professional life?
The SCALM technique comes with a new approach, meant to transform abstract notions into concrete things and unintelligible concepts into easily memorable images, by combining the most efficient memory techniques invented by mental athletes for memory competitions. These extremely advanced, but at the same time easy to learn and to apply techniques, make also the SCALM method very easy to understand and to use, once you understand the principles on which it is based.
This method solves the problem of memorizing abstract information through a series of simple steps that will turn hundreds of pages of intricate information into easy-to-remember images.
What is truly spectacular about the SCALM method is that it can help you memorize entire books. This doesn't mean that it offers you a miraculous solution to memorize information, as many photo-reading techniques claim to do. The SCALM learning process involves a work of deconstructing, organizing, and reconstructing (recoding) the material, all these stages being part of the natural process of efficient learning.
In simple terms, it translates the abstract information into the alphabet of the brain, which is made up of concrete images, thus making it possible to memorize it in the long term.
I must say that the SCALM learning is by no means Rote Memorization, because it transforms a lot of random data into a memorable construct, like a digital album of memorable images for the brain and because it works directly with the brains grammar, which is made up of images.
By following a series of clear steps and simple rules for memorizing different types of information, The SCALM technique brings a systematic approach to a task that seems difficult for all of us: memorizing hundreds of pages of horribly abstract, unattractive and unrelated information.
I have to tell you from the beginning that this is not a theoretical book. Although I will try to explain in detail each concept and each step of this simple method, I hope this book will not seem very theoretical to you. I will try to add as many examples as possible, to help you better understand how the method works.
You might view this book as an opportunity to improve your proactive learning abilities and to add to your learning toolset an invaluable technique.
In the following pages, I will show you how this method works and we will start with an introductory example and I'm sure you'll be amazed at the ease with which you can learn new things using the SCALM method. That being said, let's dive indirectly to the SCALM learning process.
PART I: The SCALM Learning Process
Chapter One: Meet the SCALM Technique
The essence of the SCALM techniques consists of the deconstruction, organization, and then reconstruction of the material, so that it is brought into a memorable form for you. For this purpose, it contains 5 steps, and SCALM is an acronym for these steps, which are:
Structure
Chunk
Associate
Locate
Memorize.
The first step of the method is to Structure the information . This stage aims to create an overview of the material to be memorized, which will help us to organize the memorization process. In short, at this stage we create a general map of what we have to do.
There are cases where the material is already organized by the author in the form of tables, charts, or lists, and we can use these as an overview of the information. Of course, all books also have a table of contents, but it is often difficult to use because of its text form. For this reason, the SCALM technique often uses a very efficient tool, invented by the great memory and learning expert Tony Buzan, who is called Mind Map . A Mind Map is a synthetic diagram that provides an overview of the material and helps us organize our memorization process. Basically, in this step, we create a structure that will help us understand how the material is structured, like a tree in which we will hang later the memorable images associated with the learned things.
The second step of the SCALM method is Chunking , a process by which the material is broken down into organized and meaningful pieces of information.
You have probably heard the saying that you eat an elephant one bite at a time and this is the principle on which any complex human activity is based. The same principle applies to learning. At this stage, we break down the material into smaller pieces, which will be easier to associate and manipulate in our minds. In the end, we will have a lot of pieces that we then stick like leaves in the tree that is our mind map.
The next step is the Association. This is the core of the mental process of memorization. Association is the central element of any memory technique and it means creating a mental connection between the abstract information you have to remember and a concrete image as a person, an object, or an animal. This easy-to-memorize image will act as a trigger to bring the other to light, from the depths of your memory. It works like a shortcut that launches an application from your computer. The leaves in our tree take concrete shape and, at the end of this stage, we will have a tree full of simple and concrete pictures (like a horse, a lion, or a king), which we will have to memorize in the next stage.
