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The Key to Study Skills: Simple Strategies to Double Your Reading, Memory, and Focus
To the course graduates: each of you is a hero capable of changing the world.
FOREWORD
The ability to learn and retain new information is a skill many people desperately desire. And yet, their desire shrivels up at the thought of effort, and they simply give up and never go on to acquire advanced learning skills including speedreading and memorization they desperately need to succeed.
I can sympathize. I used to be the world champion when it came to using excuses about dealing with my memory.
However, you do not have to wait as long as I did. And starting right now, you can go beyond dreaming about improving the quality of your mind. Instead of being like those who learn only a handful of words and phrases when studying a language, you can leap towards holding a decent conversation in a fortnight.
And unlike so many who cave into procrastination when faced with learning a new skillset for a new career, you need not let fear set in, nor must you do as they do and simply give up.
Why?
Because now you hold a powerful book in your hands. A tool that will not only help you overcome the fear that cripples so many, on that will teach you the skills you need to gain mastery over how you read and what you remember. These are the skills that will melt away any angst you have felt and make any worries or concerns about learning irrelevant.
Dr. Lev and Anna Goldentouch have the ability to make difficult concepts clear in an easy to follow, well laid out and organized manner. One of the main techniques they teach is speedreading. Speedreading is a scientifically verifiable art, and only the likes of Lev and Anna could convince me to try it. Plus, they have taught me new things about the art of memory that I will cherish and share for the rest of my life. Together, their instantly applicable lessons in learning make The Key To Study Skills invaluable.
Listen: The ability to learn is a skill by which practice and patience are the stepping-stones to a fuller and richer life. But ask yourself as you read
Is patience really necessary?
Not necessarily.
Within the pages of this book, you will learn the skills necessary to help you achieve your goal of learning and remembering what you learn at speeds so blazing hot, you will be amazed by just how much you can achieve in record time.
So, whether you are studying in school or immersed in autodidacticism, get reading The Key To Study Skills and brace yourself for a whole new and improved you.
Anthony Metivier, Ph.D.
www.MagneticMemoryMethod.com
August 2015
Berlin, Germany
PREFACE
Albert Einstein once said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
For years, I learned as I was taught in school. The techniques I learned worked, I was getting excellent marks, and I even finished a Ph.D. in a good university. I believed I had a good set of techniques and skills for learning. However, there was only one problem. I did not enjoy the process of learning.
When I married Anna, after a short courtship, the truth became apparent. The amount of content I consumed was well below my potential. My brain was starving for stimulation.
Anna taught me how to get out of my comfort zone. She taught me to read faster, remember more and help others. After ten wonderful years with Anna, her mission is also my mission to help people to learn FAST, remember what they learn and achieve their creative potential. We decided to name our techniques and teaching the KeyToStudy System.
In 2013 with help of Jonathan Levi, we mass-produced our method on Udemy:
https://www.udemy.com/superlearning-speed-reading-memory-techniques
Through the Udemy course, tens of thousands of students have learned the skills Anna and I teach. The course is also available as a book:
http://www.amazon.com/Become-SuperLearner-Reading-Advanced-Memorization-ebook/dp/B00VI7ZBUS
With the success of the Udemy course and the book, since each student was different, I had to answer thousands of questions. To help as many people as possible, I posted the answers to the questions on my blog:
www.KeyToStudy.com .
Another key advantage of the blog was and is the ability to provide free training exercises:
http://www.KeyToStudy.com/examplary-training-schedule/
Our students ask some great questions, and I answer those questions on the blog. With time, however, I decided to consolidate many of the questions and answers from the blog into a practical book. The purpose is to:
- Encourage our students to continue improving their skills.
- Answer questions.
- Spur new thoughts and ideas to encourage growth.
- Explain more in depth the concepts taught in our course and book.
This book is for those who have tried using other books or courses teaching speedreading techniques, creative learning skills, and memory techniques but failed. If the reader has never previously tried any other method, then you have before you a tested and successful method of improvement. Anna and I do not promise greatness; however, our goal and heartfelt mission is to help remove some of the obstacles on your way to improving your learning speed, retention and reaching your creative potential.
This book was created by our great community of students who were willing to share their difficulties and successes. Anna and I have spent countless hours researching the methods we present. Thorough research backs each method. I honestly believe the methods, skills and techniques presented (along with diligent practice) will help you unlock your learning potential, increase your reading speed, improve your retention, and skyrocket your memorization skills.
INTRODUCTION
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. - Herbert Simon
Read Faster And Remember More
Who wouldn't like to be able to read faster and remember more? In this knowledge and data-driven world, your overall productivity as a professional, student, or businessperson depends on how efficiently you can ingest, digest and process the information and data coming at you from every possible direction. During the last two decades, an adequate means to deal with the overwhelming incoming information and data has not been developed. Neither has there been any serious development or attention devoted to the idea of how learning styles must evolve with the changing circumstances of the digital age.