Double Your Brain Power: How to Use All of Your Brain All of the Time [Paperback]

Jean Marie Stine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 26, 1997

Do you wish you could think faster, remember more, comprehend new information quickly?

Now you can! By applying breakthrough scientific discoveries and logical insights into your mind, you can discover incredible mental powers that lie untapped in your brain.

Within the pages of this book is a proven step-by-step program - based upon easy-to-use, scientifically-based tools and techniques - that is guaranteed to double your brain power. These simple short-cuts to power thinking help unlock the hidden abilites of your mind and make your mental powers soar.

You'll discover, for example, how these remarkable methods can help you... Instantly identify hidden meanings in people's conversation Absorb facts like a sponge - and repeat them almost word for word years later Solve math, business, and financial problems in half the time it takes you today Zip through complicated reports with ease Evaluate information and put it to practical use immediately Read and comprehend a book in as little as 30 minutes Burn facts, figures, and even whole books, into your memory

And using twice as much of your brain doesn't have to take twice as much effort. You simply learn how to use your brain more efficiently - producing double the results without using any more mental energy than before.

With "Double Your Brain Power," you'll see how to pass any mental challenge that's thrown your way...how to have every fact you've learned right at your fingertips...and how to leap light years beyond others in your ability to comprehend and respond to every mental challenge.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

A seminar leader and author of fiction and nonfiction works, Stine (Writing Self-Help/How-To Books, Wiley, 1997) here assures her readers they can indeed increase their abilities to meet the needs of a hectic life. She breaks down the exercises into five sections on reading, remembering, listening, learning, and evaluating. The chapter on listening "between the lines" is particularly useful. Those not turned off by the excessive exhortations and claims will find much that is helpful here. The text is easy to read and full of simple exercises. This is not a comprehensive, scientifically tested program but a collection of tools, some of which readers may find more effective than others. Recommended for medium to large public libraries.?January Adams, Franklin Twp. P.L., Somerset, N.J.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press (March 26, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131867016
• ISBN-13: 978-0131867017
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,087,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The book is helpful but not great, January 12, 1999

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This review is from: Double Your Brain Power: How to Use All of Your Brain All of the Time (Paperback)

This book falls into the category of books that claim that a few mental exercises can make Einsteins out of all of us, that the Einsteins and Newtons of the world are not that much different than the rest of us. While I don't agree with this belief, I do believe that mental ability can be improved through exercises and I found many of the exercises to be interesting and helpful. I had a problem with the author's demonstration of how these exercises can help the reader. In the introduction, the author has the reader read a section of text and then she introduces a "Brain Power Doubler" for the reader to use while reading a second section of text. The "Brain Power Doubler" is supposed to allow the reader to read the second section of text in less time than the first section of text even though the two sections are supposed to have the same number of words. When I went back and checked the number of words in both sections, I found several times as many words in the first section than in the second section, which had more to do with the time differences than the exercise.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pseudoscientific claptrap, February 20, 2003

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T. Lesher (Sewickley, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Double Your Brain Power: How to Use All of Your Brain All of the Time (Library Binding)

I picked this book up in a "bargain bin," so my expectations were rather low. Unfortunately, they were fulfilled.

The actual practices in the book are rather good. Some of them I've seen before and practice in my daily life. But the book itself tries to back them up with the saddest examples of cargo-cult science and unverifiable "case studies" I've seen this side of _The Peter Principle_.

One example: the author is trying to convince the reader that near-perfect recall is possible to achieve. As a convincing argument, she puts forth the fact that the average desktop computer has near-perfect recall, and scientists have stated that the modern computer is many years away from being able to emulate or compete with the human brain. Therefore, a human should be able to do anything a computer can! This kind of sad logic can be found in every chapter.

Intriguingly, the author includes a chapter on how to read critically. The fourteen techniques are all good, if not groundbreaking. The irony, to me, was that this book as a whole fails every test--from relying heavily on (flawed) analogy as noted above, to vague attribution (aside from a rather light bibliography, there are is not a single endnote backing up any of the many "scientific studies" referenced), to appeals to authority (the author likes to drop the name of Isaac Asimov as a "personal friend") and "emotionally loaded arguments" (the exuberant infomercial theme evident in the title is carried throughout the book).

All in all, if you already have a habit of reading or thinking critically, you will find this book hard to read. If you can hold your nose past the garbage long enough to read about the techniques, you may find them interesting.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The book has no practical information, April 6, 1999

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This review is from: Double Your Brain Power: How to Use All of Your Brain All of the Time (Library Binding)

This book was terrible. I bought it in the hopes of learning something better than the normal mneumonic techniques;however,her book showed techniques that were impractical and plain dumb. For all those out there looking for a good book on memory that will really WORK!!!! Try Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's The Memory Book. The techniques are easy to learn, but will take time to apply to information for school. However, you will be rewarded for your efforts.