Course Content
The Augment Course is divided into three educational modules.
1. How To Learn - this module comprises techniques for improving recall and learning skills. Students learn memory techniques, such as the salesman method, memory palaces, and spaced repetition. Students also learn the Feynman method for discovering the limits their own understanding of material, in order to understand it better.
2. How To Think - this module consists of large, ‘big-picture’ ideas that students can absorb into their own thinking about the world. Alongside a standard critical thinking toolkit - the idea that correlation does not cause causation, etc, students also learn - and assess - grander theories which purport to give shape to the narrative of human life and history. Students also study the use and abuse of statistics, including misleading graphs, and Bayes Theorem, a tool for making decisions in everyday life.
3. How To Persuade - this module seeks to communicate to students the scientific research on the topic of persuasion, looking at the work of Kahneman and others. We consider body language, presentation, first impressions, and the like. Students also study public speaking, looking at commonalities between great historical speeches, and incorporating those techniques into speechwriting of their own.
1. How To Learn - this module comprises techniques for improving recall and learning skills. Students learn memory techniques, such as the salesman method, memory palaces, and spaced repetition. Students also learn the Feynman method for discovering the limits their own understanding of material, in order to understand it better.
2. How To Think - this module consists of large, ‘big-picture’ ideas that students can absorb into their own thinking about the world. Alongside a standard critical thinking toolkit - the idea that correlation does not cause causation, etc, students also learn - and assess - grander theories which purport to give shape to the narrative of human life and history. Students also study the use and abuse of statistics, including misleading graphs, and Bayes Theorem, a tool for making decisions in everyday life.
3. How To Persuade - this module seeks to communicate to students the scientific research on the topic of persuasion, looking at the work of Kahneman and others. We consider body language, presentation, first impressions, and the like. Students also study public speaking, looking at commonalities between great historical speeches, and incorporating those techniques into speechwriting of their own.
