The Key to Study Skills: Simple Strategies to Double Your Reading, Memory, and Focus

by Anna Goldentouch, Lev Goldentouch, Suraj Sharma

The Key to Study Skills is a guide for simple strategies to Double Your Reading, Memory, and Focus. Written by the creators of the #1 bestselling course "Become a superlearner" and a book with the same name, the book includes everything you need to read 1000 words per minute and remember almost everything you read. At this speed would let you read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in just 77 minutes. The Bible would still take 13 hours... In today’s information-driven society, effective learning is the key to a successful career and a happy life. As the demands on our learning capabilities continue to grow and outpace our old learning methodologies, there becomes an ever more pressing need for advanced memorization methods, speed reading skills, and analytical thinking to multiply our learning and creative potential. Similarly, we can use these same techniques to overcome both perceived and diagnosed limitations to our learning skill-set. The skillset taught by this book is intended for everyone. The students who suffer from dyslexia, ADHD or other learning disorder acquire the speed reading skill and report improved focus, joy from learning and increased focus. For the last decade, learning enthusiasts Anna and Lev Goldentouch have taught thousands of students, culminating in the blockbuster course created in collaboration with one of their star Become a SuperLearner. Every challenging student question and every difficulty encountered through thousands of hours of research has been crystallized into this book. Join Lev and Anna in a fascinating quest to discover the key to study skills, memory mastery, and supercharged reading.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

436 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 5, 2015

Reviews

[Andreas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learnt about the author Lev Goldenouch when I did the Udemy Superlearner course. To become a real ''superlearner'' you need to train certain skills first and while the course is very extensive, I felt the need for a book to lookup things in more detail.

This was a great decision. The book contains many background information, exercises and answers to questions from other students. What I liked was the (in a good way!) scientific approach. All methods have been tested, refined and tuned for best results so what the reader holds in his and her hands is the outcome of many years of research and practice.

The big question is: does it really work? I can reply with a convincing yes but you need to work first to acquire the right skills. This takes time and there is no shortcut for it. The good news is that the author has set up a webpage with everything you need so the only thing needed is commitment. Overcoming old habits is not easy...

If you wonder if you should buy this book or not, go to the author's website and check his blog: KeytoStudy.

I can also recommend the Udemy course. The pricing scheme is a bit weird on that site, every couple of weeks they run a sale and you can get every course for €10 - 17€.

[Matheus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Written by the brains behind the Become a Superlearner course, this book is best thought of as the extra or final content of said course. Its techniques go far more in-depth than the original material, creating room to build your own personal learning style once you have improved your reading speed and learned basic mnemonics.

Its content is extremely diverse and touches upon fascinating techniques most people can't even begin to imagine. Must-read.

[Suraj Lourembam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Needs the udemy course to fully understand the book. The Kindle edition has some issues.

[Tim Dierckxsens · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recommend to follow the udemy course become a Superlearner before reading and applying this book.