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How to Increase IQ: 7 Actionable Activities
The Magnetic Memory Method Podcast
09/08/21 • 14 min
If you want to know how to increase IQ, the answer is simple.
Create and complete goals.
Sounds like a sweeping statement, doesn’t it?
I’ll explain why it’s true on this page.
And rest assured, the main reason why intelligence goes stagnant in the first place is also simple to explain.
It comes from the absence of goals, or the bad habit of not completing the ones you set for yourself.
Think of it this way:
Failing to continually fuel yourself with goals leads to feelings of worthlessness and shame on a downward spiral to rock bottom.
But once you understand that intelligence requires goals in order to grow, there are endless self-directed missions you can create that are scientifically proven to make you smarter.
And to help you even more, I’ll give you a list of suggested activities that improve cognitive function quickly.
Ready to boost your IQ in ways that are easy and fun?
Let’s get started.
Can You Increase Your IQ?
In a word, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXl_s6wnmak
The only catch is that there are multiple kinds of intelligence.
Now, I’m not asking you to understand the difference between crystal and fluid intelligence. But if you want to increase your understanding of psychology and memory, you should learn about such matters.
You should also look into the science of IQ testing, which remains divided.
That division is a good thing because testing and retesting our assumptions is what science is all about. Richard Haeir is one of the more progressive scientists working on intelligence, and in this interview suggests that treatments to help people improve their IQ scores may be coming in the near future.
For now, I see every reason to believe you can increase your intelligence and it comes down to how you definite it. I also see no reason to limit the understanding of your “intelligence quotient” to a test that may not reflect the kinds of problems you tackle in your everyday life.
So how should the lifelong learner craft a personal definition of intelligence that can be worked on scientifically as an individual? Here’s an attempt:
Intelligence is the ability to learn new information.
And since there are many kinds of information, it’s important that you are specific. That’s where proper goal-setting comes in.
As you’ll discover today, you can pick individual kinds of information to focus on and get incredible boosts as a result.
Think of choosing specific goals like riding in a single lane. Instead of weaving around, you stick within the chosen framework. This fixity itself creates more focus, leading to boosts in intelligence.
How To Increase Intelligence:
An Important Nuance You Need To Know
Of course, some readers might be thinking:
“That’s my problem! I can’t learn new things!”
If that’s the case, don’t worry. Learning how to learn is the first goal you’ll want to set.
You can do that quite readily by learning related skills that will increase your meta-learning intelligence.
For example, you can focus on how to:
- Read faster
- Use objective reasoning
- Practice reflective thinking
- Think more logically
- Improve your memory using a Memory Palace
The point is to be goal-oriented. Pick one goal at a time. Master it thoroughly.
This nuance really matters because when people fail to complete a learning project, their intelligence about how to learn is lacking.
People who do not learn how to learn always remain frustrated with their inability to increase their intelligence.
But when you bolster up on how to learn, your intelligence can grow predictably.
What Increases IQ?
The big picture for some quick wins boils down to common sense.
For example:
- Regular exercise has been shown to boost your intelligence
- Medita...
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9 Deadly Critical Thinking Barriers (And How to Eliminate Them)
The Magnetic Memory Method Podcast
09/15/21 • 27 min
Want to know why the biggest barriers to critical thinking are so insidious?
The answer is simple:
It’s because they’re lurking inside you.
And if you don’t know that these barriers are standing between you and exploding your thinking abilities, you’re powerless to improve your situation.
Starting right now, let’s identify and remove the biggest barriers.
You’ll experience greater clarity of mind just by knowing what they are and how to get them out of your life.
The 9 Most Common Barriers to Critical Thinking (And How to Overcome Them)
As you go through this list, keep a journal.
Write down the ones that pose the biggest issue for you.
Then make time on your calendar to deal with each.
Rest assured, without putting in the time, nothing will change.
But when you do, your independent thinking abilities will explode.
One: Letting The World Revolve Around You
Most of us experience inner talk. And it’s normal to include yourself and your experiences in the topics you think about.
But those who have excellent critical thinking skills know how to contextualize their SRIN.
What is SRIN?
Self-referential Inner Narrative.
Others call this the “blah blah blah” monkey-mind.
No matter what you call it, if you can’t think about contexts larger than your immediate self, it will be impossible to think critically.
Here’s what to do instead:
- Notice when you say or think things like, “I don’t personally know anyone this has happened to.”
- Stop and think about the larger context at the level of your neighborhood, your city, your region, your country, your continent, your hemisphere and the world. Where relevant, include the entire universe.
- Imagine a topic through the eyes of at least one other person. In autobiographical memory studies, this is called shifting from the field perspective to the observer perspective.
- Ask about what would be true even if you did not exist.
For more help, these critical thinking examples will help you think through other perspectives.
Two: Lack Of Critical Thinking Skills
If you want to remove the obstacles to critical thinking you’re experiencing, some study will be involved.
Critical thinking books abound and it is worth spending time with some of the best. Look for books that include examples and exercises.
You’ll also want to think about a particular goal for critical thinking that you have. For example, do you want to think better as a student preparing for law school? Or do you need thinking skills for being a better contributor to your family or neighborhood?
Setting a goal can help guide which resources you choose and your study and practice plan.
Three: Not Knowing Your Cognitive Biases
We are all included to make serious errors in our thinking.
But we’re not alone in making them. Far from it.
In fact, because all of us operate from having a human brain, psychologists have identified patterns.
These are called cognitive biases.
One that I suffer from quite badly is called “recency bias.” Basically, it’s very tempting for me to judge reality based on the most recent events, rather than looking at the broad scope of history.
I use all of the tips on this page to cope and improve. One of the most helpful is to engage in continual discussions with friends about history as I continue to read history.
The more you know and discuss the past, the more you are automatically reminded of a bias like this.
What cognitive biases are strongest in your life?
Four: Being In A Hurry
We’re all in a rush once in a while.
But it’s one of the biggest critical thinking challenges all the same.
If you don’t stop and think, mistakes are so much easier to make.
One of my favorite tools for making sure I don’t rush into making decisions without thinking about them is c...
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Why Is Philosophy Important? The Answer Can Change Your Life
The Magnetic Memory Method Podcast
02/03/22 • 38 min
Why study philosophy?
After all, aren’t philosophers just a bunch of people who use big words in unreadable books?
I mean, think about it...
Half the time it seems like they’re preaching to us about how we should act in the world while they bumble through their personal lives.
Although that assumption can prove true more often than I’d like, the importance of philosophy is not owned by philosophers.
It’s also not necessarily the “love of wisdom” as people often translate it from the ancient Greek, φιλοσοφία.
As Emmanuel Levinas put it, we might do better if we think about philosophy as “the wisdom of love.”
I find Levinas’ formulation useful because it reveals how better thinking can help us discover what’s truly important in life.
And when we focus on allowing the love in wisdom to guide us, we will almost certainly respond to our fellow citizens from an elevated position.
Sure, it might not involve “love” as such in a personal way, but it will certainly involve much higher levels of care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU2Z9J-MijI
What Is the Purpose of Philosophy?
Philosophy has many purposes. One of the best is that it helps us learn how to think. And the more we practice philosophy, the more we have a chance to keep our thinking skills sharp.
Thinking philosophically serves many outcomes too, including benefits for your career. You can benefit from philosophy as a lawyer, artist, civil servant, musician, programmer, manager, or author.
Even if you work in a career that seems like it wouldn’t benefit from critical thinking, you can still engage fruitfully in philosophy.
This is true in three senses because:
One: Philosophy is an active form of thinking.
Not merely think about the questions that arise in life, but to analyze and then argue in a way that produces positive outcomes.
Along the way, we might also create new concepts, a major point made by Deleuze and Guattari in What is Philosophy?.
We can also create entirely new subject areas or what the philosopher Michel Foucault called discourses.
For example, Foucault points out how Sigmund Freud made it possible to think about the nature of the mind in a way that created far more conversations about things like the “unconscious” than ever before.
By extension, philosophy helps us reorganize existing concepts in unique ways. This is important because if we always approach the history of ideas from the same types of organization, we risk having them always produce the same conclusions.
That’s why I’m always interviewing different memory experts and getting their take on memory science.
For example, speaking with people like Tyson Yunkaporta, Scott Gosnell and Lynne Kelly has provided clues for new ways we can talk about the philosophy of memory by reorganizing how we’ve thought about philosophers of memory from the past.
Two: Personal outlook on life
Active thinking also helps us produce answers to big questions that guide how we live our personal lives.
- What is existence?
- Why do things change?
- What is right?
- What is wrong?
- What inalienable rights do humans have? How about animals and plants?
- How do laws function and under what circumstances can they be ethically broken?
- What is the nature of the mind?
- What is science? Is philosophy itself scientific?
- What is art?
- How do we know that our definitions of the terms we use are correct?
- Why do we believe what we believe?
- Why do we take so many things for granted without examining them?
The purpose of philosophy is to ask and answer questions like these, and there are many more. The more we spend time answering such questions, the better equipped we a...
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Deliberate Practice: How to Harness Its Power
The Magnetic Memory Method Podcast
12/02/21 • 47 min
Are you confused by the amount of advice related to deliberate practice?
I don’t blame you. After all, there are lots of different kinds of skills that require different kinds of practice.
Not only that, but some people use a different term: dedicated practice. You might also see it called intentional practice. These variations on the term only add more confusion.
But there is an easy way to understand this concept and I’ll give you examples to make everything that goes into proper practice crystal clear.
And if you’re wondering if you need a coach or not in order for deliberate practice to work, we’ll discuss that too.
At the end of the day, deliberate practice will work for you. It’s just a matter of getting the facts straight and learning how to plan.
Since informing yourself correctly is key to practicing well, I’m glad you’re here. Let’s dive in!
What is Deliberate Practice?
The term is used often in sports science and is often defined as practicing according to specific steps or instructions.
Dedicated practice is planned, based on small component parts and improvement is meticulously tracked by capturing data. This data is then used for the individual person engaged in the practice to help them further improve by dialing down even deeper on key areas that require improvement.
For example, I study music and take courses online from Scott’s bass lessons. In one of his programs, Scott identifies 9 key areas of deliberate learning for musicians:
- Technique
- Fingerboard knowledge
- Accompaniment skills
- Theory and harmony
- Repertoire and performance
- Rhythmic development
- Chordal skills
- Soloing and improv
- Sight reading
Obviously, these areas don’t apply to all levels of skill, but the point is to break practice down into granular areas.
When it comes to how to memorize a song, for instance, you might dig even deeper into the theory component and study the modes.
You just have to self-identify where you need improvement the most and then make a plan to fill in the gaps. If you’re not able to spot these areas on your own, this is where a coach can be very impactful.
Deliberate Practice Examples
We’ve just discussed how a musician might break their practice down into several key areas.
This principle applies across multiple disciplines, so let’s have a look at a few.
Deliberate Practice in Language Learning
One of my favorite ways to apply this form of practice is learning new words and phrases in a foreign language. It works well at any stage, beginner, intermediate or advanced.
There are a few ways to apply deliberate practice theory to language learning.
First, you can make sure you hit the Big 5 skills in meticulously scheduled doses:
- Committing new words and phrases to memory
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Listening
But another way you can apply this form of practice to language learning is in how you approach memorizing phrases and vocabulary.
For example, let’s say that you’re learning a sentence in German like “Das Blaue vom Himmel versprechen.” It literally means the blue promise from the sky to indicate a promise that cannot be fulfilled.
If you find you get stuck on such phrases, a simple way to practice it more efficiently and ease it into long term memory, involves breaking it into 2-3 parts.
- Das blaue vom
- Vom Himmel
- Himmel versprechen
I tend to prefer starting in the middle and working on just two or three words in a loop. Then I add the end to create a longer loop before going back to include the beginning.
Incidentally, I adopted this approach from music, where it is very common for students to make the mistake of going back to the beginning of a song when they make a mistake. Instead, if you take a single bar and loop it in this exact same manner, you’ll help erase the mistake without having to replay the whole song.
This kind of laser-focused, purposeful practice helps make sure that you’re weeding out problem areas while allowing your brain time to process the whole.
Deliberate Practice in Painting And Art
When I taught film studies, we talked a lot about the “deep narrative” of a story, which is why my ears picked up when I read the artist 1 Listener
Concrete Thinking: What You Need to Know (and How it Differs From Abstract)
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11/03/21 • 44 min
Want to know why concrete thinking is so difficult to define?
It’s because people use the term in many different ways.
Many will refer to how Jean Piaget used it.
In his work, the term essentially means that children interact with the world in very direct ways with very few concepts. As we grow, we develop and use a variety of abstractions to navigate the adult world.
Although this may be true, it doesn’t make abstract thinking the opposite of concrete thinking.
You can experience some incredible concrete abstractions, after all. Flags, for example, represent entire countries at an abstract level. Yet a flag is also incredibly concrete.
So what gives?
If you’re confused, don’t worry. We’re going to get to the bottom of things on this page.
That way, when people say things to you like “concrete thinking is literal thinking,” you’ll be able to respond...
“Yes, it is that, but also so much more.”
Are you ready?
Let’s dive in!
What Is Concrete Thinking?
The first thing we need to understand is that thinking is always about representing knowledge.
The world is a very complex place, but for the sake of simplicity, we can boil our experience of it down to two kinds information:
- Material
- Conceptual
When people cite Jean Piaget as an expert in concrete thinking, I believe this is a false attribution.
Here’s why:
Piaget was really talking about something called concrete experience.
In the first of his four stages of development, he discusses Sensorimotor development, which takes place between birth and the age of two.
During this stage, the goal of the child is to establish what is called “object permanence.” In other words, the child “remembers” that objects exist even when they are outside of awareness.
Concrete experience with objects is needed for this to take place.
It’s only during stage 2 that symbolic thought, which involves abstract thinking begins to emerge. Later, logical thinking and then scientific reasoning develop at different levels depending on the individual’s context.
The Real Definition Of Concrete Thought
I believe Maxine Anderson puts it best in a book called, Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain:
“Simply put, the concrete state of mind relates to reality in terms of sensory perception and sensory experience, defining reality in terms of what the peripheral senses convey. More specifically it is a state of mind in which metaphor and symbolic thought are not available.”
To better understand this, try this exercise:
Place an orange in your hand. Think about how it feels in your hand and how it will taste.
Those are concrete thoughts. Although an abstract thought about how much the orange weighs or what country it comes from might arise, thoughts about feelings and taste are based on your concrete experience of stimuli in your immediate environment.
3 Concrete Thinking Examples
Other lists of examples claim that “concrete thinkers” don’t understand phrases like “it’s raining cats and dogs.”
Frankly, I’m not sure if that’s true. If some people can’t understand or relate to popular idioms, other issues may be involved, such as literacy levels, reading comprehension and sufficient practice with self-expression.
So with the immediacy of your physical senses in mind, let’s look at some more examples. These will help better illuminate the concrete thinking process.
One: Visible Thinking
Although Visible Thinking is a book for mathematics teachers, I believe its key points apply to all kinds of thinking.
The authors basically point out that even the most abstract and conceptual concepts can be made concrete by:
- Speaking them out loud
- Hearing others discuss them
- Drawing them on a chalkboard
- Writing about them in a journal
Memory expert Tony Buzan was a huge proponent of visual thinking. His style of mind mapping has helped thousands...
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David Perell On Writing, Learning In Public And Why Spaced Repetition Sucks
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11/18/21 • 77 min
David Perell is an author who helps people excel in what you might call the business of creativity.
And frankly, I think he’s a memory artist too.
For example, everything that has to do with writing winds up involving the most positive form of spaced repetition. It’s like the ultimate mnemonic device.
But it’s not traditional spaced repetition or rote learning.
It’s creative repetition.
But these matters aren’t the only reason I wanted to interview David.
I’m also interested in how he’s using technologies of today to educate people.
As the founder of Write of Passage, David helps people generate ideas systematically and transform them into living, breathing and published pieces.
He is doing this though cohort-based training programs online and has been generating incredible results for people who tired of ineffective writing methods.
If you’re interested in expressing yourself through writing and developing career-level chops, definitely check his program out.
As I often like to say, writing is the source of all wealth. I believe it is also a key source of memory too.
Enjoy this conversation and I hope to hear from you in writing soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMzpbKJMTw
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Why Questioning Everything Is the Smartest Thing You Can Do
The Magnetic Memory Method Podcast
12/22/21 • 27 min
Do you want to know why questioning everything is the best policy in life?
It’s because humans are prone to error, including the smartest amongst us.
In fact, there’s a principle called “the curse of knowledge” that highlights this problem.
A popular example of how this plays out in life is in the exchanges between Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes often points out how Watson doesn’t see the simplest things simply because he doesn’t question the details enough.
It’s not that Watson isn’t a smart guy. He’s a doctor, after all. But because questioning things is such a small part of his mental activity, he misses both the big picture and the granular details.
As a result, Holmes shines as an incredibly bright individual and Watson seems rather dim, despite his credentials.
If you’d like to learn how to question things with greater frequency so you can observe the world in-depth, stick around.
In this post, we’re diving deep into why you should always question everything and different ways to do it well.
Why Questioning Everything Is Critical to Great Thinking
The ancient Greeks knew that asking questions was their best bet when it came to critical thinking.
A lot of people associate questioning as a tool introduced by Plato through the Socratic dialogues.
Although it’s true that Plato used the character of Socrates to highlight the use of questions to sharpen our thoughts, inquiry is much older.
The Pre-Socratics, for example, devised what is called Eleatic Philosophy.
Parmenides of Elea, from which Eleatic Philosophy gets its name, is sometimes considered the first of the Greeks to use questions to explore the nature of reality itself.
How Questioning Removes Errors Quickly
Here’s the most important point about these philosophers:
They preferred to use logic instead of their direct senses.
And this meant using language in particular ways.
In fact, a lot of their wording boils down to a kind of math though the use of syllogisms that help with thinking logically.
Here’s an example of a typical syllogism:
“All mammals are animals. All elephants are mammals. Therefore, all elephants are animals.”
To test the validity of this statement, the philosophers would use questions that remove their senses.
It might sound silly to us today, but put yourself in their shoes for a moment.
If you were to use purely your sense of touch to assess an elephant, you could conclude that this animal is a reptile based on its leathery skin.
So, before the Greeks developed classification systems, many of which we still use today, they needed to question everything in order to rule out errors that could mislead them.
Another way to look at the questioning process is to understand the difference between abstract thinking and concrete thinking. In each of these types of thinking, you use different kinds of questions to arrive at the truth.
The Dialectic Approach
Sticking with the ancient Greeks, let’s look at Plato a little further.
One of Plato’s main contributions is called dialectical thinking.
Through the use of questions, it allows you to reason effectively by producing multiple ways of looking at just about any issue or problem.
It works because you use questions to examine your thoughts and the thoughts of others before, during and after arriving at conclusions.
In other words, the process of questioning never really ends.
This process is the core of the scientific method, in which nothing is ever “proved.” Instead, we use our scientific questions to help us produce evidence that either validates or invalidates our assumptions about the world and reality.
Without being able to ask and answer questions as an ongoing process, truth fizzles up quickly. And this is why Plato’s recording of the dialogues of Socrates is such an astonishing document.
Whether Socrates is right or wrong, what matters is the freedom to debate and keep questioning things.
Other Traditions Based on Questioning Everything
Although the ancient Greek philosophers are very important, they weren’t alone in urging us to question.
The urge to question everything why as a repetitive practice is found in other ancient texts like the Upanishads.
These texts were influential in forming contemplative tr...
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An Abundance Of Powerful “Monkey Mind” Meditation Tips with Ben Fishel
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05/02/19 • 97 min
We all deal with it. The never ending to-do lists, rushing here, there, and everywhere in our daily lives, like a hamster on a wheel.
From work, to school, family obligations, and social and extracurricular activities we never stop.
But it’s not just our physical bodies that are “all over the place.” It’s our minds as well. It’s like a “monkey mind” is running the show up there!
Unless, of course, you have some of the best monkey mind meditation tips out there.
The kind that show you the way to quiet the noise, perhaps even to silence this uncontrollable, restless mind that haunts our global civilization.
Think about it...
What if you could exercise self-control mentally in order to make more rational decisions, your best decisions, calmly?
Good news:
You can.
On this episode of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast, I sit down with Ben Fishel, author of the upcoming book Project Monkey Mind.
Hanging out with Ben at my favorite Memory Palace, The Menagerie
Ben is a meditation teacher, habitual traveler, and freelance writer.
On his website, Ben Fishel helps people navigate their challenges. Based on work from his prior website, Project Monkey Mind, Ben’s work has been featured on The Huffington Post, HighExistence, Tiny Buddha, and Pick The Brain.
In this episode of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast, we discuss the problems of the modern day monkey mind and how, through meditation, self-inquiry and self-discovery you can take steps to quiet it.
Ben shares some principles from his soon-to-be released book, especially regarding his Pyramid of Self and the need for knowing one’s self to make a transformation in your life.
Having control over your mind is possible, peace of mind is possible, and mental clarity, calm, and focus are all within your reach.
To learn how, all you have to do is scroll up, hit play and discover:
- The difference between real change as compared to our expectations of change
- Authentic self-help versus spirituality junk and the spiritual junkies it creates
- The importance of self-inquiry to discover both who you are and who you aren’t
- How a “hyper-egoic” consciousness due to social media can be detrimental to quieting the self-referential mind
- The benefits of finding a balance between goals and the karma yoga idea of letting go of outcomes
- Ben’s Pyramid of Self, a relationship between ego, narratives about yourself, your biology, and higher cause
- How the ego can provide a false sense of being bulletproof, and the drawbacks to such an attitude
- Why we should always be skeptical, or critical of gurus as the end all, be all to answering life’s big questions
- The human condition of coping (or not) with uncertainties
- How freedom and individual sovereignty are related and how to achieve them
- How meditation brings a needed silence that doesn’t come to the body naturally
Our Second Monkey Mind Meditation Conversation:
Part One:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dyzCuz2XBo
Part Two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPq3m6Mf0tY
Further Resources on the Web, This Podcast, and the MMM Blog:
Ben’s guided meditations on InsightTimer
The Wise Advocate: Become A Better Leader of Your Memory
Delayed Gratification Tips For Memory Training With Matt Dobschuetz
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06/19/19 • 87 min
All self improvement requires delayed gratification, especially memory training.
Now, I’m going to take you on an 180 degree spin, into the heart of a storm many millions of people face. Particularly men.
You see, I get a lot of private questions from people about memory.
And one of them involves online addiction, particularly around porn.
And that leads to compulsive behaviors, one of them being masturbation, more colorfully known as “fapping.”
Guess what?
Too much of it, especially when you’re wired for hours in front of a screen, definitely robs your memory of energy that could be used for memory training.
Worse:
There’s no denying that more of this behavior is happening now than ever before.
The good news is that people have become incredibly frank about the problem.
In fact, I often receive this question in my inbox:
“Should I try a no-fap challenge to help me improve my memory?”
To date, I’ve never addressed the question formally.
An instead of taking the stance and saying, “If porn and masturbation is a distraction from your memory training, eliminate it and see what happens,” I decided to call in an expert.
So let me introduce you to my friend Matt Dobschuetz.
Matt’s the man behind Porn Free Radio and RecoveredMan.com. He is a podcast show host, author and recovery coach for men dealing with addictions to pornography with one on one and group coaching through REV Group Coaching, which he founded.
On this episode of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast, Matt and I discuss the problems porn addiction creates for your memory training progress.
Memory Vs. Porn Addiction (And How You Can Win)
We cover methods to overcome these memory-robbing impulses, and the science behind why that dependency develops in the first place.
Matt shares his own journey with overcoming porn addiction and we discuss how it relates to memory, and how using memory techniques can help to eliminate porn dependency.
If you struggle with true intimacy with a partner...
If you find yourself gravitating towards masturbation for stress relief ...
If your sexual confidence is so low it’s almost nonexistent ...
And if you habitually watch pornography and don’t even know why ...
This podcast is for you.
Press play now and learn more about:
- The rise in pornography accessibility with broadband internet and smartphones
- How erectile dysfunction relates to porn dependency
- Lack of focus as the result of a pornography habit
- The true reason behind lack of confidence in the bedroom
- How the experience of failure with overcoming porn addiction can bleed into everyday areas of life (school, work, and even simple conversations with the potential partners)
- How to recognize patterns that create opportunities for eliminating porn use and change those destructive patterns to positive growth habits
- Relating the Challenge-Frustration Curve to breaking the porn addiction cycle
- How to use memory techniques and exercises to overcome porn dependency and porn habit behaviors
- What triggers porn addictive behaviors (it’s less automatic than you think)
- How to deal with triggers and threats when they occur in real-life situations, both head on and through elimination techniques
- Using self-identification as a means to combat porn habit behaviors
- Being present and connected as powerful tools for recovery
My biggest takeaway from our interview?
I feel like the issues boils down to an inability to delay gratification. If you’d rather watch this episode of the podcast to discover tips for better strategies, just click play below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lGw1neEslw
Further Resources From And on the Web:
Recovered Man (Matt’s official website)
“Is Pornography Addictive?” (APA online)
Reading Comprehension Strategies: 13 Ways To Eliminate “Rewinding”
The Magnetic Memory Method Podcast
02/11/20 • 22 min
We’ve all been there. Drudging through a book that’s hard to grasp.
What started out with such enthusiasm soon becomes a joyless task.
‘’What does that mean?’’ you cry out.
And just as soon as you start getting into a reading flow... you’re rewinding again. It’s a killjoy. It sucks the pleasure out of reading.
It’s enough to make you quit.
And the scary thing is you miss out on so much when your reading becomes stagnated.
But reading comprehension strategies are not just for teachers or struggling students. Mature learners need to keep pace with the younger generations and test their comprehension, too.
With better comprehension, you can remember and use more of what you read.
Here’s what we’ll cover today:
1. Something’s Missing From Your Learning Toolbox
2. Be Purposeful For Pleasure’s Sake
3. Physical Books — One Antidote to Digital Amnesia
4. Evaluate and Expand Competence
5. Monitor Understanding To Leap Ahead and Recalibrate
6. Recognizing Story Structure and Maps
7. Generate Questions to Branch Out
8. Make Inferences (and Predictions) Along The Way
9. Seeing With Graphic Organizers
10. Summarizing And Panning for Gold
11. Memory Palace a Stairway To Heaven
12. The Major Method — Where Numbers and Letters Collide
13. Input-Output Lifestyle Choices
The Four Levels of Reading
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1. Something’s Missing From Your Learning Toolbox
How do you improve reading comprehension?
Maybe you’re a teacher and want to help your students with reading comprehension. Or you’re simply trying to uncover reading comprehension strategies for adults. Whatever the case, you realize it’s not just the topic you need to master first, but the correct tools for learning.
In a well-known essay, Dorothy Sayers discusses the lost tools of learning:
‘’Although we often succeed in teaching our pupils ‘subjects,’ we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think: they learn everything, except the art of learning.”
Since reading uses the information you already know, better memorization leads to clearer reading comprehension. The result? You can understand and remember more of what you read. The cumulative effect is powerful.
2. Be Purposeful For Pleasure’s Sake
Being purposeful about your reading goals aids comprehension. Drill down into your intentions and ask, ‘’what’s in it for me?’’
Why are you reading anyway? If reading isn’t meaningful it can become an empty pursuit. It’s another reason people quit in the second round.
On the other hand, when your reading is aligned with a clear aim, enjoyment follows. Not only that, it aids your memory as time marches on because:
Pleasure is instantly easier to remember!
If you’re still uncertain, start with steps that feel more basic.
For example, start practicing regular reading with less challenging novels — this will blend enjoyment and momentum. Then when you decide to tackle tougher books your comprehension skills are already well-honed.
3. Physical Books — One Antidote to Digital Amnesia
While digital books have many excellent benefits (cost, search ease, mobility, sustainability, sharing) it’s worth remembering the trusty paper book.
But why would you choose physical books over digital or eBooks?
For one thing, your precious memory plays a vital role in reading comprehension.
Digital amnesia affects our cognitive ability to remember – and learn more – faster. Since your aim is to become a better reader through magnetic memory, paper books help to:
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