I chose my photo of a pile of gigantic tyres because they
fit in entirely with today’s topic.
Tyres come in all sorts of different sizes and types for
specific purposes
~ purpose/intent is the driving force of TCR and it is continually
checked and refined
for your needs of the material being read to be read efficiently
~ hence the different tread for different situations.
You use consistent patterns when TCR that are suitable
for your current requirements.
As an individual you have the ability to be flexible and
mix and match to pile up your memory
and finally the important point is that memory is built
up in layers.
Whatever has
Mountain Dew got to do with Memory, Learning and Confidence?
Mountain Dew was his language, his experience, his
security.
My computer programmes, chocolate, purchased and created
aids belonged to the confused world.
Memory.
While memory is built up in layers it is stored in bits
in apparently random places
and re-created each time it is recalled.
I understand that a CD or DVD does not store information
in a sequential pattern
but in various segments across the disk; and yet the
music or film is recalled in perfect order.
If you load information: a,b,c,d,e,f,g onto a disk and a little late your delete b, c and f then the next pieces of information you load will fill up those
empty spaces first and not necessarily in linear order.
I think that this is one of the ways that a creative
combination of ideas can emerge – eureka!
Additionally you can think of memory recall as a chain
that has been build up of sequences.
If a link or segment is missing or defective then the
whole cannot be recalled.
In such I cases I would say, “I read something somewhere
that said something along the lines of ….”
Then they say that if you want to really know a subject
then you teach it. :)
Into this statement is built in the detailed learning of
the subject so that you can explain
or demonstrate it externally and that repetition of knowledge
builds with repeated practice.
Repetition or habit is one of five proposed learning
gateways to the mind.
For these reasons when Turbo Charged Reading you pour a
whole book into your innermind
in a few minutes then you give your new and growing
neurons time to collate, cross reference
and highlight the information you want
at this point in time before bringing this required information into your
conscious working mind. Therefore from your very first contact with this
information,
either printed or from an electronic screen, you do so in sequence
with each layer building on the last and so being an efficient
use of your time
as you do not elicit information that is not to be used
at this time.
Also with each successful layer followed you are building
confidence and long term memory.
When discussing memory there is the state and none state
theory of memory.
Where is memory is stored; is it confined within your
scull or in every cell of your body?
However, right now we are concerned with the memorising
of information, clearly and long term.
Does memory come before learning?
I leave that for you to debate.
Learning is acquired in layers, by process and practice leading
to increasing confidence.
Confidence is being able to perform a skill whereas self
esteem is having a secure inner regard.
Learning can enter the mind / body by a proposed five
routes.
Trauma, habit, hero worship (think pop stars,
advertisements etc), authority figures (think parents, law, religion etc) and
alpha (in hypnotherapy we use the authority of the self during the alpha state
to access the other four areas of learning.)
The focused learning state in any area of life uses the Alpha
wave state in the brain
as concentration, absorption, fascination, the reduction
of extraneous thoughts.
The learning state of alpha is natural and starts to
initiate as soon as you close your eyes
or focus increasingly inwards on a subject, novel, film,
conversation etc.
In doing any of these activities you could be considered
to be in an enhanced environment.
Each time you experience something your brain immediately
starts laying down the foundations
for its memory/recall and this requires a new neural
network – or extra space on the CD.
This is a purely physical matter; think of someone who’s
been confined to bed
and you recognise that their muscles atrophy or an
elderly person who’s hormones have altered
and therefore does not have the capacity of the young or think
of a person who’s family history indicates a ‘weak’ heart; if any of these
people increase their physical exercise
then new muscles and veins etc are created.
Similarly the great ‘they’ took a number of mice from
their boring cage and put them into a cage
with interesting activities. The
enhanced activity mice stayed in this enriched environment
for shorter and shorter periods of time so that
eventually the scientists found that
the building of neural networks started as soon as the
mice entered the enriched environment.
It is not simply a case of use it or lose it but also of
continuing or starting to build your abilities.
With Turbo Charged Reading after you have poured all that
information into your inner mind
and submitted a request for certain information that
satisfied your purpose to be recalled
for your first layer of learning recall; you then get out
of the way and give your neural network
the chance to organise itself and create the necessary
new neurons to satisfy your purpose.
Confidence.
I was engaged to help a 13 year old get past his problems
with algebra
(the fact that algebra is a complete mystery to me is irrelevant).
My intent/purpose
was to find the point just before his confusion; that being the point of his
security.
I found fractions as the first point of insecurity, the
frightening quagmire with no way out.
I used my skills, my ingenuity and we got nowhere. I then
grabbed the empty bottles of Mountain Dew he and his father had been drinking
and put a fraction of water in one of them.
Mountain Dew was safe, it was part of his understanding and it had nothing to do with
fractions.
Light dawned and very rapidly he was able to bring into
his confidence
the things his teachers had been trying to teach him.
I find it interesting that when you work with critical
incident de-briefing you take the person
back to their point of confidence before the trauma, or
series of little traumas,
and ‘lock’ them into their confidence. Another
description of this is to ‘anchor’ them
in the safe experience of themselves before the distressing
incident; or the last straw
that broke the camel’s back if there has been a series of
accumulating stresses.
How is this
expressed in Turbo Charged Reading?
By building up the sequence of Turbo Charged Reading
using the language
with which you are most familiar, expressed as ‘your
primary and secondary learning modalities’.
In ‘English’ that means starting with the simple and
building into the more detailed how-tos
of each stage: You pour the written information into your
inner mind thus bypassing your eyes
and conscious mind. Unexpectedly to your experience and
expectation, at this stage,
the information is unavailable to you; you have no
earthly idea of what you have read
as its bypassed your conscious mind and is
now part of your inner knowing – your store
of information. You then do nothing
while you let your innermind create the necessary neurons
that catalogue the
information read and cross reference it with what you already know and you
create new music or beer from what you already know but have not combined in
that way before.
Finally you bring the information that you require
at this moment into your conscious awareness.
These sequences are then built upon as your knowledge
(learning), security (confidence)
and memory
(recall) are extended (enhanced).
The usual last way of eliciting and recording the
information you wish from your written material
is to create a mind map and mind maps are an excellent
and efficient way
for most people to store and recall information.
Therefore I start the first Success Level of the five Turbo
Charged Reading levels
by creating mind
maps or in this case ‘Mind
Tress’ during our first session.
As a mind map covers the major learning styles (your safe
language/experience) of being visual
and I’ve seen some mind maps that are works of art.
Some people prefer their ‘mind maps’ in the business process mapping format or as bullet points.
For those who learn best by hearing I tell stories that
builds up dialogue in your mind
and these stories are copied with a few words
onto the mind map.
All TCR Success Level written work is repeated as MP3s
for convenience
and for those who prefer to listen as opposed to reading
at this point .
For the kiensthetic and those who like the security of
notes and handouts you are physically building up a representation of your
learning in a way that satisfies your personal experience
while encompassing
the necessary structure of the learning process.
TCR uses the body as part of the reading process.
For those of you who use olfactory and gustatory points
of reference
I’m afraid that you’ll have to add these memory
aids yourself and are encouraged to do so
as research values these modalities, especially for
revision and exams.
So with our Turbo
Charged Reading partnership we start with the end in mind
and build in
everything to ensure your success.
Turbo Charged Reading: Read
fast>>>Remember all>>>Years later
You can TCR software
and engineering manuals for spontaneously recall –
or pass that exam.
I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve
read.
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
How
to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?
Perhaps
you’d like to check out my sister blogs:
www.innermindworking.blogspot.com gives many ways
for you to work with the stresses of life
www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com which takes
advantage of the experience and expertise of others.
www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com just for fun.
To
quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will
know.
The
more that you learn; the more places you'll go.
