SECTION 3 LECTURES SECTION 3: THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF VISUAL MEMORY BECOME A SUPERLEARNER SECTION REVIEW ● Why Images Are The Most Powerful Way To Remember and Learn ● When And Why Creativity Training May Be Necessary ● What Types of Images Come Naturally To You? SECTION 3: THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF VISUAL MEMORY SECTION 3 SUMMARY 2 WHY IMAGES ARE THE MOST POWERFUL WAY TO REMEMBER & LEARN ● We can remember visual information far faster and with more clarity than we can remember things like spoken words ● Pictures are more heavily encoded, and they speak to different types of working memory buffers such as color, context, shape, and size. And they're more likely to have a higher number of neural connections, as they convey emotion, depth, interaction, and so much more. ● Visual information is also alarmingly fast. Research has demonstrated that we can comprehend the contents of an image in just a fraction of a second. ● For this reason, it’s best that we learn to transform concepts, ideas, and other important information into imagined visual pictures,or what we call “markers” as soon as we possibly can. ● The best, and most memorable types of visual markers are strange, bizarre or emotionally connected to memories. WHEN & WHY CREATIVITY TRAINING MAY BE NECESSARY ● Creativity is something we are all born with, and although we lose it through our conventional education and maturity, we can easily gain it back with just a little bit of practice. ● We can use the multiple images test to test your creativity and re-stimulate the mind to think creatively and develop thought patterns. ○ 1) Grab the nearest object to you. ○ 2) Write out as many uses as you can think of for that object. ● Even when being creative, your brain is constrained by the ways you’ve traditionally used it. You'll realize that you can approach the objects — or anything — from different perspectives. SECTION 3: THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF VISUAL MEMORY SECTION 3 SUMMARY 3 WHAT TYPES OF IMAGES COME NATURALLY TO YOU? ● Different types of images will be more effective for different types of people. ● To determine if you naturally gravitate towards a stereotypical image, a personal image, a fictional image or a graphical image, try this test: ○ Imagine a coffee cup as vividly as possible. ■ What is the design of the coffee cup? ■ How tall is it? How full? ○ Now what type of image did you choose? ■ Is it a stereotypical coffee cup that you might have seen in a catalog? ■ Is it one that you just made up? ■ Is it a coffee cup that maybe you remember from a previous experience? ■ Or, maybe it's actually a drawing of a coffee cup? ● Now take note of this because this is most likely your ideal style of image. ● Ultimately, you have to learn to go with what images come naturally for you. Try to lean towards whatever type of image you find most conducive for you to remember. But just make sure that, number one, there is as much detail as possible. ● With time, you’ll develop fixed markers for subjects that you spend a lot of time reading about, which will make calling up images much faster, and make it much easier to link together strings of images to form complex concepts that easily convert into long term memories. SECTION 3 SUMMARY SECTION 3: THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF VISUAL MEMORY 4 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM SECTION 3 ● Visual images are crucial to SuperLearning. The faster you can translate concepts, ideas, and other important information into “markers,” the better you’ll be able to retain more information. ● The best visual markers are strange, bizarre or emotionally connected to memories. ● Even though most people lose their creativity, you can gain it back with practice ● By recognizing what kind of images come naturally to you, you increase your retention by leaning towards whatever type of image you find most conducive for you to remember