5 Brain Workout Techniques and Schedules:
We have previously discussed the significance of deliberate practice techniques in our blogs “Mastering Your Craft: The Power Of Deliberate Practice Techniques” and “5 Surprising Ways Deliberate Practice Can Improve Your Stock Trading Skills“.
This blog post will focus on creating and scheduling one deliberate practice brain workout technique to help us recognize candlestick chart patterns. We will design and schedule five methods, which we have already posted on the SPY free course or blog.
Here’s why we’re doing this:
Imagine telling yourself every day that you will only see blue cars while driving, but you will see cars of various colors. However, you start focusing on blue cars and counting them for ten days. Some days, you spot one or two blue cars; on others, you see many of them. Gradually, your brain starts recognizing only blue cars and ignores other colors. If you continue doing this for a month, your brain will see blue cars unconsciously.
Similarly, when you train your brain to recognize stock candlestick chart patterns, structures, and styles, your brain will immediately notify you when you see the candlestick chart. We always say, “Trust Your Brain,” because it works.
If you’re not convinced, try the technique described above for a week or ten days, and you can see the results for yourself.
Brain Workout Techniques Design
Break the technique into two sessions, one in the morning and the other in the evening or at night (an hour before bed).
Each session should last 25 to 45 minutes (a neuroscientist says most adults cannot concentrate for more than 45 minutes because working/attention memory slowly loses focus).
Choose a place with zero distractions (no screen time, phones, alerts/notifications, noise, social media, or chitchats).
You can just keep a timer next to you (avoid a phone timer; a predefined timer is better. You can get one on Amazon or note down the time on the computer screen).
Close all apps, screens, web browsers, and tabs on the computer except one tab and the session you want to start. The idea is to give full attention to the focused session.
Make sure you’ve done all the above preliminary tasks.
You can have one or two sessions based on the specified time in the morning and evening. Each session lasts 25 to 45 minutes. If you can complete all five activities in 20 – 25 minutes, you can do two sessions if you still need more than one session.
Remember, "More practice makes it easy to learn new things faster."
Daily Brain Workout Schedule
Morning Session
Evening Session
- Open the SAP 1MIN Chart - Quiz on the blog or course page and immediately start the Quiz. Note how many answers you get right or wrong.
- Open the SPY 1MIN Chart - Visualize page on the blog or course and give a picture walkthrough of all the screenshots individually. See why and what you missed in the Quiz and visualize the charts and patterns.
- Open the SPY 1MIN Chart - Memory Game on the blog or course page. Play the memory game and note how long it takes to solve all those cards/pictures.
- Open the SPY 1MIN Chart - Image Pairing page on the blog or course page, play the image pairing game, and see how many minutes it takes to pair those cards/pictures.
- Open the SPY 1MIN Chart - Image Sequencing on the blog or course page and play the image sequencing game.
- Open the SPY 1MIN Chart - Visualize page on the blog or course and give a picture walkthrough of all the screenshots individually. See why and what you missed in the Quiz and visualize the charts and patterns.
- Open the SPY 1MIN Chart - Memory Game on the blog or course page. Play the memory game and note how long it takes to solve all those cards/pictures.
- Open the SPY 1MIN Chart - Image Pairing page on the blog or course page, play the image pairing game, and see how many minutes it takes to pair those cards/pictures.
- Open the SPY 1MIN Chart - Image Sequencing on the blog or course page and play the image sequencing game.
- Open the SAP 1MIN Chart - Quiz on the blog or course page and immediately start the Quiz. Note how many answers you get right or wrong.
If you have spare time, try spending five minutes doing active recall or jotting down the information you’ve learned in your own words. Active recall effectively stimulates your brain and reviews what you have read or seen during these exercises. Active recall is a highly rated learning technique many experts and institutions use.
Research Studies and Blogs on Active Recall
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