In the mornings, you receive coaching and guidance in the techniques and strategies which will begin to transform the effectiveness of your learning. These techniques will include that of the ‘Loci-system’, invented by the ancient Greeks, which consists in using places- in particular buildings- as stores for information.
After lunch, you will be given a guided tour each afternoon around one of Oxford’s historic, intricate and beautiful colleges. Simple exercises in imagination will allow you to absorb these spectacular buildings into your mind, so that you can later use them as ‘palaces’ into which you can store your memories. After the ten days are over, you will have a vast and gorgeous array of buildings which you will be able to tour in your imagination to access whatever information you choose to stash there.
Returning to the Academy after the tour, you will solidify what you have learnt with some entertaining (if demanding!) games of concentration, imagination and memory.
At the end of the course, you will sit a test which will bring home to you the sheer extent of the progress that you have made. Here are the targets we guarantee you will reach:
You will be able to learn the order of a shuffled deck of 52 cards in 5 minutes.
You will be able to learn names and faces, lists and facts with the utmost ease.
You will be able to give a 15-minute presentation on any subject without notes.
You will be perceptually more alert to your environment
And
You will be able to learn at least twice as effectively as you had been able to before the course began.
GUARANTEED!!
How does it work?