“All that I am, everything that I have been I owe to the work habits that I have acquired from my boyhood.” - Napoleon

With a sense of destiny and a driving ambition Napoleon demonstrated his most important skill he acquired - that of effortful and imaginative study. This class is for serious students with serious goals who are determined to succeed. 

Topics Presented: Napoleon's work ethic, Napoleon's reading methodology, Napoleon's annotations, Napoleon's ruminations, Napoleon's battlespace visualization, Napoleon's algebraic and geometric method of thinking. 

While we know him as a Military Genius; that genius was the result of his deliberate and focused approach toward study. This class is meant to use Napoleon as an example of how to use effort and imagination in order to read a book once and "gain its essence" (Napoleon). 

There are no "quick fixes" toward expertise, nor are there any "gimmicks" or "silver bullets". Using research from history, psychology, cognitive behavior specialists, and sound classroom experience the student will find that the maxim "Read Hard, Think Easy" is true and worth the time devoted in developing a proper study methodology. 

“Memory is better when the context in which retrieval is attempted matches the context in which it's encoded.” – John F Kihlstrom  

No one is born a "genius" and there is no such thing as "luck". Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. So prepare to be "lucky".