I really think we need to reframe the conversation. The obsession with learning quickly I think is detrimental to learning in the long term. When we don't get the results as quickly as others when there's such a drive for quick acquisition. Let's talk about ways to learn efficiently and cutting out fluff, not quickly. Make sure we're really getting things before moving on to hit time goals. Take the time we need.
Since you turned off commenting on the video you posted about aphantasia: do you have it and how to combat it (presumably because you received some less than positive comments from some pretty frustrated viewers I’d like to politely put an idea to you here instead. In that video you mentioned that a student came to you claiming have aphantasia and you changed his mind by asking him to describe some details about the kitchen in his family home. I see where you’re coming from with your angle and why it may be easy to dismiss what the student was saying because he could recall information from his memory but here’s the thing, People with aphantasia still have memories, they just have no visual representation for that memory in their mind. Hard to wrap your head around? I hear you. It’s probably about as hard for you to wrap your head around as finding out people’s brains could actually conjure up a visual representation of whatever they were imagining was for me. (Really still seems like magic). Consider this example using a different visual impairment that might make it easier to understand. You’re friend is colour blind. He’s lived in the same house his entire life. One day you’re sat in his living room and he tells you he is colour blind. You tell him he isn’t and point at the wall and ask him what colour the wall is. He’s lived in the house his whole life, the wall has never been repainted, he’s been told it’s red for as long as he can remember. He’s aware that it’s red. “There you go, you’re not colour blind at all” you reply. He shrugs it off because he’s polite but he thinks for a moment about how ignorant you sound before forgetting all about it. Just because people have aphantasia doesn’t mean they have no memory of things. Our brains just store and relay that information in a non visual format when we recall it.
Hi Jonathan, I speak Italian, Russian, and English moderately. Thought I never studied Italian and Russian but my progression was fantastic specially In Italian. I don’t feel that although I’m living in the Uk. The time I spent to learn English would be very enough to make me Italian speaker or Russian as well. What would you recommend to achieve a good success in Englis? Thanks Your superlarner Daniel
Your video where you deny the existence of aphantasia is insulting and you completely either misunderstand or intentionally misrepresent the information you reference. You also have the comments turned off which tells me you know you've offended people. Stop telling people they are broken and you can fix them for money. Aphantasia is not a defect, it's not a lie, and it's not people being too stupid to know what visualizing means.
