From the course: Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career and Outsmart the Competition (Blinkist Summary)

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Being strategic with memorization sessions

Being strategic with memorization sessions

From the course: Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career and Outsmart the Competition (Blinkist Summary)

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Being strategic with memorization sessions

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- [Instructor] Blink number eight. Smart, strategically spaced memorization sessions ensure that what you learn really sticks. In 2016, Nigel Richards won the World French Scrabble championships, despite not speaking French. There are 386,000 French words approved for Scrabble, and Richards committed them to memory. That's extreme ultra learning. Your ultra learning project might not require so much memorization, but you'll probably need to memorize some facts, formulas, or procedures. So how do you learn things so that they stick? The most productive strategy you can employ is to settle on a memorization system and incorporate it at regular, closely spaced stages throughout your project. The key is to use a memorization system that's both easy to integrate into your project and well-suited to the type of project you've decided to tackle. It can be tempting to commit things to memory in one burst. If you do this you…

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