Stephen Hawking
1942–2018
Practices documented in his work and memoir: doing mathematics in his head, and explaining hard ideas to the public.
8 skills · 4 stages · first 2 lessons free · enrol ₹2,000/month for all
Domain skills
- 1960s
PhD at Cambridge
Continued research after his ALS diagnosis at 21.
Train: Decision Making - 1970s
Black hole radiation
Combined quantum theory and relativity to predict Hawking radiation.
Train: First-Principles Thinking - Method
Geometry in the mind
Described working visually and mentally as physical writing became impossible.
Train: Working Memory - 1988
A Brief History of Time
Wrote for general readers, cutting equations to one.
Train: Communication
Essential General Skills
Transferable skills mapped to this role.
Essential General Skills
Each skill includes a lesson, worked example, assessment, real-life task, and adaptive game. Two correct answers raise the challenge; one miss lowers it.
Working Memory
Your mind holds only a few loose items at once. Grouping them into chunks lets you hold more.
- Look at the full list once.
- Group into chunks of 2–3.
- Say the chunks quietly with rhythm.
- Recall chunk by chunk.
Memorise a family member's phone number using chunks, and recite it tomorrow without looking.
- Number Memory ↗
Each round adds a digit — practise chunking.
- Sequence Memory ↗
Remember growing sequences of flashes.
Span Ladder
Adaptive rule: two correct in a row raises difficulty, one miss lowers it. Accuracy so far 0%.
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