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Healthy Sleep, Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

One of the best ways to improve your memory quite drastically, is through sleep. Proper sleep hygiene can allow for the consolidation of memories. It also decreases cortisol due to stress. Stress is the silent killer of all things; your body cannot remain in high alert for an extended period of time. It is important that sleep is treated as sacred, and highest priority.  From this day forth, I pledge to sacrifice all other things, as to improve sleep, and improve health overall. I will stop drinking caffeine after noon. I will stop eating food at 8pm. I will stop using screens at 8pm.  I will stop consuming nicotine at 6pm. I will start my "going to bed routine" at 8pm.      Prepare everything for the next day (set out clothes, place everything in backpack)       Brush my teeth, wash my face, do a 5 min stretch I will wake up in the morning to do my morning routine     Bright Lite      Row - HIIT     Workout...

Memory - Establishing Roots

 To learn something effectively, you must be able to retain the information, and have quick recall. This involves establishing "deep" memories about the details of any given concept. Deep as defined as: connected to other concepts, accurate, and simple.  There are different types of memory: Mechanical/Working Memory, Long-Term Memory, S Types of Memory     Sensory Memory          Holds information coming through the senses for a period ranging Software: Anki 

Where to Start - The Plan

There has never been a time when I wasn't interested in learning new things. Yes, very cliche, I know. When I was in high school, I was interested in all the different classes that were available; Pyschology,  Economics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Geology... I was interested in what each discipline had to offer.  I tried to reach a "source" and it led me to Philosophy. I studied Philosophy for my Bachelors degree. However, that never really scratched the itch. It may have been the origin of the method to acquire all knowledge, but it certainly did not include the breadth of all knowledge.  I have since tried to think of ways that it would be possible to attempt to learn all things there is available to know. This is wildly ambitious and naive. But I think it is possible establishing through various methods with a single principle: Exponential Learning. Exponential can be mathematically represented by 2^x. How can this be applied to learning? What is learning? Learning is the...