What if you could read faster while improving your retention? What if you brain was wired to be able to learn much better than you have ever done?
Learning is a skill that we apply every day, consciously or not. And so ‘learning how to learn’ will not just help you reach your targets and goals, but also revolutionise how you approach information, and life.
Genius by Choice is the book for you if you ever:
- become distracted while reading
- repeat things over and over again to memorise them
- feel nervous before an exam or a meeting
- wish you could read faster
- want to learn more efficiently in general
By applying the tools and techniques in this profound yet potent companion, you will find yourself:
- Studying books and enhancing your career
- Speaking a new language in a month or two
- Learning new skills and undertaking new projects
- Reading more books and enriching your mind
- Excelling at exams (academically and professionally)
- Presenting confidently, leading
Table of Content
PREFACE ………………………………………………………………………………… 11
FOREWORD by Luca Lorenzoni…………………………………………………13
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK …………………………………………………….. 17
PART 0. PRIMING…………………………………………………………………… 27
Chapter One: Welcome to Prime …………………………………………………. 29
Chapter Two: Dream Up …………………………………………………………….. 31
PART I. PREPARE ……………………………………………………………………. 37
Chapter Three: Motivation………………………………………………………….. 39
Chapter Four: Time……………………………………………………………………. 53
Chapter Five: Create Your Momentum………………………………………….. 70
PART II. READ………………………………………………………………………… 83
Chapter Six: Assessment ……………………………………………………………… 85
Chapter Seven: Strategy before Speed-the Five Boosters…………………. 94
Chapter Eight: When Your Goal Is to Understand ………………………… 103
Chapter Nine: When Your Goal Is not to Understand……………………. 109
Chapter Ten: Remarks and Practice …………………………………………….. 113
PART III. INTERNALISE ……………………………………………………….. 125
Chapter Eleven: Decoding and Understanding……………………………… 131
Chapter Twelve: Processing ……………………………………………………….. 136
Chapter Thirteen: Organising ……………………………………………………. 148
PART IV. MEMORISE ……………………………………………………………. 165
Chapter Fourteen: Characteristics ………………………………………………. 167
Chapter Fifteen: The Velcro Technique ………………………………………. 169
Chapter Sixteen: Memory Palace-and Its Many Aliases ………………… 181
Chapter Seventeen: Numbers (and Codes) …………………………………… 193
Chapter Eighteen: Applications (Trigger-New Information) …………… 211
Chapter Nineteen: Long-Term Memorisation ………………………………. 213
PART V. EXPRESS ………………………………………………………………….. 221
Chapter Twenty: Peak Performance …………………………………………….. 224
Chapter Twenty-One: Presentation Is Key ……………………………………. 239
CONCLUSION ……………………………………………………………………… 249
YOUR A-Z HANDBOOK………………………………………………………..253
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ……………………………………………………… 255
REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………………….. 257
About the author
Giulia S. Remondino is an Italian expat based in London. She is the founder of Genius in 21 Days UK and author of Genius by Choice.
A traveller at heart and fascinated by people’s inner worlds, she has used her passion for different cultures and the skills she teaches and shares in her writing to gain fluency in two languages, expand her business to three continents, and help people all over the world to improve their mental efficiency, work on their soft skills and create a more fulfilling life.
You can follow her on her You Tube channel and reach her on her Instagram account.Using only the tools she will share with you in this book, she has acquired fluency in two new languages and now runs businesses on three continents.