On Tuesday nights we focus on honing skills that allow the student to build and direct their mental capacity. We also make space for guided explorations of the more jovial frontiers of cognition. We don’t teach guided meditation for relaxation and stress reduction, Denver has some very good places for that.
In practical terms, students are given the tools needed to utilize more of their inherent intellectual capacity. From a performance standpoint, we actually practice being smarter.
These skills include:
- Deepening Memory
- Reading, Study and Information Absorption
- Focus and Mental Endurance
- Analysis, Synthesis, and Critical Thinking
- Integrating Strategic Thinking into Perception
- Integrating Creativity and Intelligence
- Meditation and Dreaming
Deepening Memory
If you went to a public school, like most of us, you were asked to remember a lot of things, but you probably weren’t given many tools to help you do that, let alone the background neuroscience to explain how memory works. You may have been lucky enough to have a teacher who helped you out with some pneumonic devices. Well, in these classes we give a lot more tools, and coach you through the entire process of building lasting mental retention.
Developing a strong memory is largely a matter of context and meaning, and that doesn’t change whether you lean toward auditory learning, or visual. Effective learning is about how to identify triggers, establish connections to meaning, and frame subject matter in terms of the greater story of your efforts. We’ll walk you through all that, and point out all of the pitfalls that commonly slow people down.
Reading, Study and Information Absorption
Ninjutsu is a large and daunting study. The foundational material is more vast than any three other common martial arts combined. And then we expect advanced students to develop sophisticated specializations.
Add to this that practitioners of Ninjutsu have a legacy of information gathering, and strategic mastery to uphold. The impetus to understand how to assimilate data is significant for the serious genin.
Still, for those not on the path of the diehard shinobi, too many of us don’t distinguish much between how we read a novel, magazine article, or text book. More significantly, we don’t plan effective strategies for learning subjects based their specific challenges, and our goals concerning them.
Focus and Mental Endurance
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Integrating Creativity and Intelligence
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Analysis, Synthesis, and Critical Thinking
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Integrating Strategic Thinking into Perception
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Meditation and Dreaming
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July
July 22 – Pairing Mental and Physical Endurance
On this evening we will be doing simultaneous mental and physical endurance exercises.
July 29 – Games of Strategy
On this night we will be playing go, chess, or both. If you have a board bring it. We have a limited supply.
August
August 5 – Art of War Chapter One, Assessments continued
On this evening we will discuss the applications of assessments. If you are able to attend try to have read at least the first chapter of the Art of War, and if at all possible the translators introduction to the text. We are working from the Thomas Cleary translation.
August 12 – The 36 Stratagems 7 – 12, Stratagems for Confrontation
On this evening we will be discussing the second set of stratagems. If you plan to attend please try to do the reading before hand.