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How to Learn Anything Quickly: An Accelerated Program for Rapid Learning

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This is the book we should all have been exposed to early in our school years. It would have made our respective remainder of our academic career much more successful and fun.

The two tests within the book are excellent and accurate. It measures you on two axis, the first one whether you are quantitative oriented (left brain), or more creative/artistic oriented (right brain). The other axis measures what is your main informational sensory channel (visual, audio, kinesthetic). By combining the results of the two tests, you will know what is the best way for you to absorb information and learn new stuff.

I have read tons of books on this subject. This is the clearest.

It kind of seems like you'd have to apply everything in this book just to reading this book if you want to learn anything. The author breaks up accelerated reading into eight superlinks. For example: left-brain visual, right-brain auditory, etc. If you fit into a single category like that perfectly, then this book will really help you. But, like myself, I don't think people are that easily labeled, and having read the book cover to cover, I found very little useful information. In fact, a lot of it just states the obvious. For instance: "Auditory learners should ask for information to be presented in an auditory manner." Well.... duh. See what I mean? However, there is a section on memorization that I found a little insightful. But for the most part, the thing I will remember this book most for is that it specifically tells us that not all people learn alike. That's something all of us need to understand.

On the one hand, the various learning styles were interesting. I don't think I would call them learning styles per se, but more general concepts of how one processes information, from meeting people to entering a room for the first time.

As a learning method, the book falls short. The tests lean heavily on 8 specific styles. At the same time, the author acknowledges mixed or integrated styles (combinations of the 8, applied in different ways). Yet after identifying these two styles, the author abandons them for the rest of the book, providing no guidance or suggestions at all for applying an integrated or mixed learning style. You're left on your own to figure it out, which pretty much negates the book's usefulness.

In general, it was an interesting read for the concepts and ideas. For practical application, it was disappointing.

This book is a must for anyone who wants to learn more about their own and others' learning styles. Teachers and parents often teach according to their own learning style, and this books breaks that tendency, by describing multiple learning pathways. For the reviewer who complained that the author didn't advise those with multiple modalities, I find that you can use your creativity to blend the author's techniques. (for example, if you are visual and kinesthetic, use colorful diagrams AND movement to enhance learning). I also appreciated that tactile and kinesthetic were given separate attention, since they are often lumped together in other books. Highly Recommended!

An excellent book! After the two tests (which put me strongly in the "Left-Brain, Auditory" category), the description was so close to me that it scared me. Not like one of those Astrological signs where you say: "yeah, that sounds like me AND ANOTHER MILLION PEOPLE". This one gets you squarely. And leads you to the quickest and best way to learn new stuff.

After reading this book, it gives me confidence that nobody in this world is stupid. They just have to know how to learn in the way that most suits them. It's a great book.

You know, there is no other book like this man