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BrainWare Safari has been specifically designed to comprehensively develop the cognitive skills that are the most important for learning ability, as well as to enhance the desire and effort that are so crucial for mental performance.

The following principles are embodied in BrainWare Safari’s methodology:

1. An individual’s learning ability is not genetically predetermined in the way that physical attributes like red hair or blue eyes are determined. While learning ability is guided by an individual’s genetic code, it arises in significant part through the process of development.
2. The plasticity of the brain is greater in children, but the brain exhibits the ability to change and develop throughout life.
3. Human learning is hierarchical. Skills build in a learning pyramid, in which basic skills provide an underpinning for more advanced skills.
4. Processing skills are highly integrated in effective brain functioning.
5. The brain can only perform one skill consciously at a time. When multiple cognitive skills are required, as in most learning situations, all but one have to be performed automatically, at the subconscious level.
6. Visual processing, visualization and visual thinking (spatial-temporal reasoning) are vital in learning and thinking.
7. Stimulation is an important factor in motivating attention and meaningful participation in a learning activity.
8. Immediate feedback is necessary to enable error correction, and faster, more accurate learning.
9. Sequenced challenges that address the range of each individual’s strengths and weaknesses are required to provide the appropriate levels of challenge and intensity.
10. Success and self-confidence are vital parts of the feedback loop that increase desire and effort.

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