What Do We Do ?

Our course has one simple aim: teach people how to visually encode information . This is a hugely beneficial life skill . Applications span algebra to zoology . Our meta course is split . Course One is free for everyone , no registration , no credit cards are required . It’s purpose is to provide a 21st century framework for non-specialists to take back control . A framework to take back agency . A science based, evidence based framework that makes a start on leveling the playing field for the 1 billion plus who are poorly served by the 19th century listen and learn paradigm .

Are You Relevant In An AI era ?
Yes, very much so . While complacency is never a winning strategy . While we have seen AI advance rapidly over the last 2 years achieving things we never thought we would see . Ai has not mastered blind imprinting yet  . We still have to do the heavy lifting .To understand we have to take the ingredients [the raw information ] we have internalized and reflect upon it, boil it down and then apply . If your context window is large enough sourcing the same core information from multiple sources and perspectives is an incredibly useful exercise 
The Current Limits Of AI ?
Training and Re Training are like building a house you must begin with solid foundations and build upon that . Ai can speed up the process by selecting more appropriate material and presenting it to us in a more digestible way . Ai can  provide invaluable timely feedback by testing us, helping us to identify gaps in our knowledge . What it can’t do is learn and think for you . You have to do that for yourself .
How Do You Solve My Problem ?
Our working hypothesis your limiting factors are attention , focus and working memory not intelligence . How much can you absorb and how long can you hang onto it for is a limiting parameter . To unlock your ability to make connections you need a much bigger context window that persists for far longer . Working with Ai we provide the tools to train the human to be significantly better at these procedural tasks .

Who Is D.A.V.E ?

D.A.V.E stands for Digital Avatar Video Explainer. Dave was made possible by advances in AI over the last 2 years . Amongst other things Dave is fully trained on our FAQ’s documents .Dave is much more however than a glorified database . Dave is a fully autonomous RAG chatbot with a quirky sense of humour . 
In a sense Dave is a  24/7 employee   . Ask him anything subject specific and he may have a valuable insight , he may make you laugh and sometimes like every one of us sometimes he won’t have a clue

Who is D,A.V.E based on ?
Dave is based on Einstein , We chose Einstein and used D.A.V.E in every page for a simple reason . Einstein was quite clear in his assertion he had been failed by the system . He spoke about it frequently . He identified a simple visual solution and advocated for that solution to be adopted throughout his lifetime . Discrimination was available . From Jewish roots growing up in Germany who would argue . Instead Einstein risked ridicule by challenging the status quo . To suggest he didn’t know what he was saying , lacked self awareness or could not relate does not seem credible given the chronology of events over his lifetime .

Interpreting Our Tagline And Yet It Moves ?

The phrase And Yet It Moves was first attributed to Galileo . Over the years it has become shorthand for expressing the idea that a scientific truth remains true regardless of religious or political dogma . And Yet It Moves raises a quizzical eyebrow and it looks good on a T shirt . By referencing Galileo we are  questioning the institutional position that special programmes and smart drugs fix or patch the system adequately  .In our view this position is a little like standing behind an investment in developing the best Iron Lungs in the world at the expense of investing in the vaccine that eventually eradicated Polio . 

Evolving Education ?
A phrase in economics  market forces are supposed to capture evolution . expressing by the  idea that at any point in time stocks will be priced for perfection . I disagree but even if you do agree  . It is clear education is not evolving , it’s stuck, fixed unchanged for nearly 200 hundred years . It is hard to think of another sector which has not moved on in over 200 years . Think of the advancement in medicine ,mass communication , transport and computing in just the last 100 years .Now compare this to education .

The Need To Balance Stakeholders in Public Services ?
Public services are complex . Public education must balance a requirement to provide secure state sponsored child care with a duty as a huge employer who is obligated to provide a safe and predictable environment with the rights of individual student .

What Is The Alignment Problem ?
Let me tell you a story for context about a great British institution, the post office who stunned the nation with one of the great British scandals of our age .Playing out over 25 years, the post office, relying on flawed software bought from Fujitsu, accused sub contractors of stealing from them . The soon to be privatised post office used taxpayer money [roughly half a billion ] to maliciously prosecute and imprison the falsely accused . Families were destroyed mental health disorders and suicides followed .
In the face of strong resistance the post office doubled down . No crisis actors would not be allowed to damage the brand and derail the privatisation . They were after all the post office . They were by definition selfless public servants
After nearly 20 years of unwitting state sponsored harassment the sub postmasters eventually extracted justice from the Post Office in the high court where they proved their innocence and were awarded significant compensation . The question remains as the post office continues to drag its feet on compensation .
Who knew what and when and what did they decide to do about it . To rephrase this question did an alignment problem come into play .

What Course Do We Offer ?

We offer 2 courses: our free 60M Foundation course executive function and Bio Hacking . Our hands on accelerated training practice course .

Tell Me About The Executive Function Course ?

In just 60 minutes we lay out the M:O:A:T framework. A simple and ingenious solution for all ages . We will show you how to boost attention, focus and working memory and we will introduce you to the ideas of Pestalozzi. The pioneering teacher and reformer who had a profound impact on a Einstein . All we ask for is just one hour of your time .
Einstein inspired the major paradigm shift is a change of learners role from the actors voice to directors vision . Practical , drug free and evergreen. Actionable strategies that have stood the test of time. Our free 1 hour primer contains an introduction to Pestalozzi the man who taught Einstein .

Tell Me about The Bio Hacking Course ?

Training in practical life skills . Memory Strategies .Time Management . Examination Strategy Organisation and Note taking Originally created to address widespread Misuse, Abuse & Diversion of Prescription study drugs within elite higher education institutions and amongst knowledge workers.
Bio hacking is a Visual Thinkers Operating Manual .
Boost working memory capacity . Use our Profiling tool to compare yourself to Einstein . Access interactive exercises to expand the hippocampus. Amplify and Accelerate . Master the 3 disciplines . Reading , Communication and Presentation secrets .

Why Haven’t You Heard Of Us ?
We address the needs of an un-needy cohort , who can just about cope until they can’t . Who get by until they don’t . We are not seen as a priority . We are not seen and we are rarely heard . Governments are by far in theory our biggest client 93% of pre college education is publicly funded and free at the point of access . 100% of university funding is controlled but not paid for by the state
To fund an independent study will cost a fraction of a fraction of a penny . To date we have not been funded .
We live in hope that the next generation of children will not be thrown under the bus as our generation was . We live in hope that the generation of sleepers will be mobilised to act as they always have , behind the scenes as agents of change.
What Is An EPA Training programme ?
E = Engagement . We use Video as a starting point and a destination . P = Passive .Passive in this case a text based course [executive function] that relates foundational theory . A = Active . Active learning [Bio Hackery] is where theory meets practice where feedback loops begin and learning is deepened
What is the point in today’s world ?
Teaching plastic brains to think visually . Einstein’s simple, ingenious and practical solution to today’s problem of attention and capacity overload .

What Is the Aim Of the 1 Billion Lives Cohort Study ?
Our ambitions for the 1 billion lives study are varied . Improving outcomes for visual thinkers everywhere . To implement the lessons of the nun study by addressing core deficits associated with early onset Alzheimer’s . To provide a practical adaptive framework and practice for dyslexic and adhd thinkers to navigate education and training on their own terms . To amplify high functioning aspergers academic talents .

This is just a memory course right ?
There is nothing wrong with memory courses , but we are much more .We provide a grounding in how to think through the M:O:A:T framework .We believe radical change begins at a fundamental level . Higher order thinking skills depend on working memory . How you internalize and store information is really, really important . Effective intervention creates agency. Reducing the opportunity for exploitation and abuse .

Video ?
Add Me App – Video [engagement] has turned youtube into the worlds second most popular search engine . The mega trend is towards digitisation. Video appeal is it’s simplicity . Video allows you to show, not tell . To add me as an icon to your iphone Home Screen follow along with our brief video tutorial
Does memory really matter today ?
According to the academy of medical science just a 10% improvement in memory will result in significantly better SATS , A levels , College admission and Degree performance across the board .

Isn’t this old news ? . Lipstick on a pig ?
To those who say it can’t be done we say – it has been done .Clinical tests have been beaten . IQ tests scores have risen and the results of supervised spectrum disorder tests have been reversed . Of course you can redesign the tests but in the real world the workaround works . It’s the tests that are flawed .

Vuja Da not Daja Vu What’s the difference ?
To those who say we have been down this road before .We say look again . Sometime all we have to do is view something familiar but from an entirely new perspective . Rather then emphasise speed and perfection we are interested in time and connection .
The ability to hold onto more information for longer multiplies connection . To learn more about our simple approach and it’s advantages follow the link below to enrol in a free course https://1billionlivesstudy.com/lessons/introduction/

Listen to me I shall say this only once ?
Answer – Unless you are a statistical freak, an auditory savant, studies have shown after 3 days detailed recall slips to around 10% .Recall increases to over 60%, only when you see or imagine . Source John Medina Source Alan Paivio [The Picture Superiority Effect ]
Time is money?
Answer – Within hours information will stop fading . You will gain the ability to switch your focus and concentration on and off .
Who cares about testing well?
Answer – Nobody . This is not a trick you are learning to learn more efficiently, saving you time in the long run .
Isn’t this programme just is like a fad diet once you stop you are back to step one back where you started ?
No. After 12 days an aptitude will be ingrained . When explicitly applied fundamental change in process that alters capability permanently
Will I have Rain Man Like superpowers?
We are aiming to level up our user into the top 1% when it comes to functional working memory . Anything beyond that is down to natural aptitude and hard work .
The DS or Digit Span Is Just About Remembering Phone numbers ?
The numbers are a proxy the real test is ability to focus
I would of , could of should of … but I get bored I get distracted?
The ability to block out distraction while maintaining FOCUS for the 10 minutes or so it takes to complete the test is the test .

My Memory Is Great ?
I would have said the same but the truth is no ones memory is great . Dunning and Kruger ran a study a few years ago to protect our ego . We are hardwired to overstate our abilities .
Can you remember instructions and directions . Do you ever walk into a room and forgot why . Have you ever read a textbook or listened to a lecture zoned out and had to start over . Can you remember names faces dates . Did you ace every exam . Do you really remember what you learnt in school .Can you remember 100% of the last training course you attended.

My Memory Is Not The Problem?
A few years ago somebody asked me If your working memory is so exceptional what has been holding you back , I started to stumble , then backtrack , considered attacking my accuser then and only then did I start to think . My tip of the nose perspective . The idea that What You See Is All There Is {WYSIATI] had blinded me to a plausible explanation. What and who was I comparing myself to .
Terrible Games -:)
It’s not a game, it’s a game trainer .
No certificates ?
It a lifelong practice , the one skill to rule them all
It doesn’t work !
In 2% of the population a condition called Aphantasia afflicts people and they are unable to construct mental imagery

I Understand, I Get It, I Don’t Actually Have To Score Double 10 On The Digit Span Do I ?
No , but at some point you will have to practice with rapid feedback loops and the DS is great sandbox .
I Don’t Get The Importance Of Working Memory ?
WM is a gateway . The Football Analogy . [not American hand oval] . You need to quickly get the ball under control, redistribute and move on . To make it in football you need a great first touch . To survive and thrive inside education, to get and keep a great job, to develop game changing ideas you need a great working memory .
Smart Drugs are better right ?
No . Given clinical library-like conditions, smart drugs are crushed . Smart drugs’ real usp is that they prepare your mind to put a shift in .
I Already Have A Great Memory For Numbers?
Only numbers ? . Once you master the visual spatial sketch pad . You can recall anything you want . In any order you want . Over a much longer time frame .
When Do I Learn To Count Cards?
While we  don’t discourage the practice with us you are not going to explicitly learn how to remember names and faces or decks of cards.

Last Week I Forgot Where I Parked My Car In The  Supermarket I  Could Never Remember A Deck Of Cards In Order  ?
Maybe ,maybe not  you are a blank slate . Past success or failure is irrelevant . Almost everyone however can learn to rank inside the top 1 percent of the population when it comes to functional working memory .
Nobody Likes The Smartest Kid In The Class ?
🙂
This Is The Internet, Everything Is Free You Just Have To Know Where To Look !
Nothing is really free on the internet
I could do this myself ?
There is not much future in reinventing the wheel but if you want to try that is your choice .
Will I ever use what I have learnt?
If you are lucky enough to have a job or occupation that requires you to learn new skills, new information, then the answer is every single day .
Isn’t It To Slow ?
Speed is over rated . There is nothing wrong with slowing down and thinking. Over the medium and longer time frames. you will be saving yourself a huge amount of time by building on solid foundations .
Attention?
Learning to turn off an inner monologue is the key to directing attention
Presentations?
Your message needs to be concise , simple and direct. rather than learn your lines cue from a physical internal or external environment
Thinking like Einstein?
Einstein was never the teacher’s pet ,his grades were appalling . so bad he was asked to leave his first school . The point is if you limit yourself you could be throttling your true potential . Language should not be the only thinking tool in your mental toolbox . If you want to think differently you have to think differently .
The government knows what it is doing?
LOL . Our system has a built in flaw . If only we were all medium size height weight and build , life would be simpler.
Why is this course not more visual ?
Our free course is text based for assessment reasons – that is how the world is . Until technology catches up you will have to do the heavy lifting
Overcoming Barriers?
The main barrier to new learning is emotional not intellectual . Nobody likes to feel stupid . The state of being grossly incompetent and knowing it is a humbling experience . It makes no difference first job , a company director wrestling with new technology , perhaps you are a 19 stone marine . The only thing worse is knowing that this state of affairs will persist indefinitely !
Expertise takes 10000 hours so what is the point of starting anything new?
It takes 10000 Hours to become an expert but … .according to research it only takes 20 hours or 45 minutes dedicated and productive practice each day for 1 month to get really good at something . Perfect is the enemy of better
Embracing Failure As Feedback ?
… The Silicon valley mantra . Ever tried, ever failed, never mind, try again, fail again, fail better . Einstein was always smart but he was no child prodigy . Prodigies exhibit exceptional functional working memory . It does not matter how smart . How high your IQ . If your functional working memory is not exceptional you end up spinning your wheels . Find out for yourself what happens when the wheels don’t spin , maybe the engine breaks or the steering fails but you are still one step closer to the finishing line . Adapt and overcome .
Is this for me ?
This course is for everybody . Young and old working or in full time education . Memory is the universal key to unlocking potential . Connections increase massively when memory span and span persistence is stretched over a longer time frame . Without connection, creative and conceptual leaps will not happen unless you buy the time to connect the dots.
Are Clinical populations disadvantaged?
No . Teaching plastic brains to think visually is a fresh start, a clean slate . Einstein’s simple, ingenious and practical solution to today’s problem of attention and capacity overload . ADHD , Dyslexia and; slowing the progress of early onset Alzheimer’s [ nun study ]