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Re: Summary insufficient, click through the link.
Send your favorite women here: https://www.mindtools.com/page...
Then, send them to watch a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then, stop the fucking WHINING!!!!
You're a guy, aren't you Bruce? WTF do you get off whining and crying all the time? "Oh, boo-hoo, men are so horrible, and they mistreat women so badly!" Seriously dude, get yourself some asstertiveness training, grow a pair, harden the fuck up, and stop SNIVELING! We really don't need the SJW's wandering aimlessly about, telling us how horrible we are. Set an example, and STFU. You gain no sympathy for your cause by sniveling. There are plenty of men who are willing to stand with the women, but you are just an embarrassment. Real men don't want to be seen in your company. Hell, real women don't want to be seen in your company. Nobody wants to be seen with a bitch.
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Re:Palaces?
If you want to read up on the topics of memory systems, here are some terms to Google:
Loci - a memory system to "walk a path" in your mind, placing objects at predictable locations along the path. Then you re-walk it, and can "see" what objects were left there. Links: 1 2
Major System - a system that translates digits to consonants, so that numbers can be pictured as words: Links: 1 2
Link System - a system to chain together 2 objects, so that a list of arbitrary length can be remembered 2 objects at a time. 1 2
Dominic System - a system that converts numeric values (typically 2 or 3 digit numbers) to memorable people. Links: 1 2
Memory Palace - a way of using loci on a massive scale Link
I can attest to this stuff being legit. I was shown the link system technique years ago and dabbled in it, and it does indeed work. I don't necessarily do it now, but I do have a good memory with some things.
This has my interest piqued again, I need to take a look at this stuff. -
Re:Palaces?
If you want to read up on the topics of memory systems, here are some terms to Google:
Loci - a memory system to "walk a path" in your mind, placing objects at predictable locations along the path. Then you re-walk it, and can "see" what objects were left there. Links: 1 2
Major System - a system that translates digits to consonants, so that numbers can be pictured as words: Links: 1 2
Link System - a system to chain together 2 objects, so that a list of arbitrary length can be remembered 2 objects at a time. 1 2
Dominic System - a system that converts numeric values (typically 2 or 3 digit numbers) to memorable people. Links: 1 2
Memory Palace - a way of using loci on a massive scale Link
That should get you started. Follow links on the wikipedia page, and you'll know more than you ever wanted to know.
I've found memory techniques VERY helpful in business, and I amaze people on a day-to-day basis with my memory (which was extremely poor before I began studying the subject). Now I'm the guy who the office always goes to, when they are trying to remember how we handled a past situation, or what's the name of that customer/product/technique, or whatever.
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Numbers are easy...
Look at your slashdot ID. 157947 can be written as 1 - 57 - 9 - 47. Its all downhill from there.
47 is easy if you are a Star Trek or a Hitman fan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47_(number)
9+1 are 10. Which is how much you need to add (as you are going downhill, or backwards) to 47 to get the SECOND PAIR of numbers.Or you can start at 15, the first 2 digits, divide it in half like they are integers and get the 7, add 2 and get 9, add the 2's you used so far to get 4, and either subtract that 2 you added to the 9 earlier to get the final 7 or just remember that 1337 starts with 1 and ends with 7.
Yeah... I know... I've been confusing people with my number mnemonics for years.
I've looked at my fiancee's phone number thousands of times since we started dating 7 years ago, and all I remember is that it has like an 8 in it.
Or, why don't you try spelling it?
Or use some other mnemonic
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Re:Saw something similar before
You would just look at a certain fixed point on a blank page and it would feed you one word at time at whatever speed you select. The words always showed up at the same position, so in terms of this article your "straw" would be in a fixed position.
The sad thing is that such an approach actually defeats one of the best tools for increasing reading speed and comprehension.
I was able to read quite a bit faster, but I did not have the money to spend on it at the time. I also wasn't sure how useful it would be outside of novels.
In my formative years, I was fortunate enough to attend a school that taught reading in a fairly non-traditional way. Of course, I started like everyone else: learn to read letters, then groups of letters that make sounds (phonetic groups), then phonetic groups that make up words. The difference is that once we had been taught a reasonable level of skill in this regard (and a decent base vocabulary), we continued the pattern -- we learned to read groups of words as phrases, then phrases as sentences.
That is, we learned not to read a phrase or sentence as a string of words, but as a discrete unit of information. Most people are never taught this (though many avid readers figure it out on their own, whether consciously or not).
The result for my life is that I can read even fairly technical documentation very quickly, and without sacrificing comprehension. People I know who learned this method later in life claim that it's actually improved comprehension. I'm not exactly a "speed reader", by most definitions, but I do read significantly faster than average -- even when that average is among avid readers.
The "straw" approach of only seeing a word or two defeats both the speed and comprehension of readers who've learned to process information this way. Maybe it's better in that it would require less training than the method I'm used to -- I don't know -- but it's certainly not any better for me.
The only link I could find before I stopped caring to search was a company who wants to sell their services, but they describe the basic idea I'm referring to: MindTools is their name. -
Re:1000 digits in an hour not particularly impress
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Better phone number schemeOne of the flaws of the current phone numbering scheme is the difficulty of mapping nearly 10 billion combinations (10^10) into something that people can remember. Sure, having "only" 10 digits to key in (or write down, in a bar) is much easier than an email address. 7 was better.
A simple solution would be to use the Major System, instead of the lousy encoding on the current phones. This system has been used by memory experts since the 1600's.
Instead of 2 having "ABC" and 3 having "DEF", the phones would have each digit encoded with consanants, and EVERY phone number would be able to be mapped to a memorable phrase.
For instance, if you met Jenny (867-5309) in a New York (212) bar, she could slip you her "number" as "hunting fishkill mishap", and you could remember that (assuming you didn't have 10 beers). In the morning, you could just key in the critical consanants (n-t-n g-sh-k l-m-sh-p) from her phone phrase, and you'd have her number (n-t-n, from hunting = 212, g-sh-k = 867, l-m-sh-p = 5309).
The major system more evenly distributes words over a number space, so that you can remember them better. It's a shame that Ma Bell didn't lay out the phone this way in the first place - we'd all have better memories, and have learned from 400 years of memory techniques.
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Creativity
This so called 20%, at least for me, is when I enter the state of flow. There are specific requirements to be met so that one can enter this state of mind, in which the person is very creative and time seems to go faster, among other things. Read this for more information on entering the state of flow.