I am an information junkie. I need more and more. Any tips on new ways to cram information into my head?

Answer 1

Read the Bible. One can never get enough info from it.

Answer 2

You could learn speed reading. I read about how to do it a while back but didn't really practice enough to get the hang of it. Have seen Derren Brown do it quite impressively though so I think it must work. Just spent ages trawling through old diaries to find where I wrote this down so I wish I'd learnt it properly now - would have made that a lot quicker!!
Okay, its called photoreading by this author.
1) With eyes closed, vividly imagine holding a tangerine and putting it on the top back part of your head. You should feel relaxed and alert, imagine your field of vision opening up. Then open your eyes, maintaining relaxed alertness. You are not trying to maintain the tangerine image whilst reading, it is just a fixed point of attention to facilitate relaxed awareness.
2) Slowly inhale and exhale, relaxing the body and clearing the mind.
3) Soften your vision so that you can see the book in a kind of double vision.
4) Initially, rapidly move the eyes down the centre of the page, parts will attract you as being more important, here dip in, text reading a sentence or two and then continue turning the pages and reading as above.
5) Follow this with superreading.
To superread, the gaze must remain open, not trying hard to find specific information. With a soft, open gaze the eyes move more smoothly down the text. as you continue experimenting with noticing more, your visual field opens up.
Relax face and eyes and lightly focus in a way which allows you to move your gaze across the upper half of each sentence. Traverse each line in a single, smooth movement. Look for meaning units such as phrases. Read for thoughts, feelings and ideas not words.
Alternatively, instead of superreading, can skitter moving eyes in a rapid pattern over all the words in the paragraph - no set pattern, whatever works. Skittering works well for those with a strong pattern for analytical thinking.
6) Read any summary if there is one and then create a mind map to consolidate the information in your own words.

As I said, I don't know how effective this is, but that is a pretty much verbatim summary of the important bits in the book as I couldn't afford it so copied out the main ideas then took it back to the shop! Hope it helps anyway.

Answer 3

I too am an information junkie or addict! My recreational reading is reference books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, any non-fiction work. I could live in libraries or book stores. I could watch TV news and specials and be on the Internet 24/7 if my body would let me. I go to sites and stay up too late; that's when I just hit the high spots on a topic. I will follow link after link if it is good.
There is a down side to our addiction: Are the any people in your life? Or is all you time spent in the pursuit of acquiring more information? Your life needs balance. I have a family and there is only one chance to watch them grow up and be with the older generations.
I can ask questions that only a PhD. in Particle Physics can answer although I do not have nearly that much college credit in physics or math. I am more of a people person in some fields. I believe in asking the experts, not reading about it. You need to develop your social skills in this world.
My main advice to you is to try to lead a more balanced life: between the intellectual pursuits and social pursuits. Then your education will be complete.

Answer 4

Have you structured and ordered your knowledge. Try a few simple exercises where you reorganize your brain by assigning an alphabetical code to each memory axion. It takes a lifetime and then you lose it all anyway. You silly person live for sensation not knowledge, knowledge is accumulated through experience, experience life, its to short to be trying to be some sort of computer!!!!

Answer 5

Use dark science to graft a second head onto your torso!

Or read more - reading is usually considered the best way to learn things.

Answer 6

Find a website which offers software with subliminal messages to load onto your pc

Answer 7

try having a usb port hardwired to ur brain then download the entire web into ur sweed like johnny pneumonic then u will have more than enough ... job done

Answer 8

Create new knowledge never before known!

Answer 9

Very simple ...... Meditation ..... but don't get a lot of info about that too... just know any techniques and do it immeditely .. don't gather too much info about it ..

Trust me .. it would work

Answer 10

Sell your house and move into a library.