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fascinating ways to enhance cognitive funtioning, January 21, 2012
This review is from: Super Memory - Super Student: How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days (Paperback)
I read this book, applied it's memory techniques, aced my finals last year. If your looking for ways to improve your mental capacity to learn and retain information, this book is worth reading for sure. It's also quite fascinating too. The writing actually spurred me to investigate a bit further into how the mind and memory really works. During my research I came across something called "smart supplements", and after experiencing them for myself; anyone reading this book could probably also benefit from their affects. They are named nootopics and were first discovered 30+ years ago used to treat serious medical conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and ADHD. Then after scientists began recommending them as cognitive enhancers to the public, they started to become a very popular brain supplement. Two weeks after I took these I scored the highest I ever have on a physics test and got over 100% on a chem. Quiz the same day. A week later I had a bio test and unfortunately I haven't gotten that back yet, but I feel more confident it than any test previous. I didn't change my study habits at all really, but my studies have been more focused. I get "in the zone" so to speak and just pound down the homework. This is exactly the effect I wanted. This supplement will not make you "smarter" but they have allowed me to unlock some hidden potential in a way I cannot describe. There are a number of different nootropics currently available, the only one's I have tried thus far are below; Piracetam Bulk Powder Heavily Discounted Multiple Quantities Available (100 grams)Pramiracetam 10 Grams Bulk Powder Strongest Racetam 15x Piracetam 10x Oxiracetam 5x AniracetamI feel sharper, quicker, noticeably more able to find the right word. Remembering simple details or more complex diagrams seems less difficult. Its weird, because I'll look at a diagram a couple times and then kinda discover that the next time I look at it I remember more than I thought I would. It's like an added clarity. The entire phenomenon is difficult to describe because you don't FEEL different but yet you will notice things about your brain functioning being... just better.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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A memory classic tailored for struggling students, May 12, 2008
This review is from: Super Memory - Super Student: How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days (Paperback)
To any student, struggling academically or not, this is the definitive guide to immediately applicable, practical mnemonics for virtually every subject you'll study in school.
Lorayne begins the book like he does any of his others. He introduces the reader to the Link system of memory for memorizing lists of words, then the Peg system for memorizing numbers. He discusses the basic building blocks of his system, such as the substitution, exaggeration, and irrationality methods. After testing the reader with the new systems a bit, and rightly predicting that they will be amazed with the systems, Lorayne shows how to implement the two systems so one can memorize pretty much anything one needs to know. He explains in detail how to efficiently memorize both native and foreign vocabulary, dates in history, even math and chemisty formulas. His examples are so detailed, by the time you finish the book you'll have memorized the whole periodic table and the amendments to the Constitution!
If you've already studied Lorayne's memory system from another one of his books, it's best to skip this one; there's basically nothing new, and it's mostly geared towards students: it doesn't even have some of the systems of his other books, such as memorizing faces and names when meeting new people. The writing is very informal and speech-like, making students feel (as did I) comfortable with it all the way through. If, however, you've never studied mnemonics and are looking for a well-rounded system that you can apply to anything and everything you want to learn, this may be the only book you'll need.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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If you are willing to try, this book will definitly improve your grades, September 21, 2006
This review is from: Super Memory - Super Student: How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days (Paperback)
This book requires a little effort to apply the techniques. But after you try you will be applying you super memory everywhere. It overviews things that we have been doing since child hood to learn and shows you how to use it consciously. After reading this book I realized that any thing I remembered was by using the tips outlined in this book. But now I understand how to apply it every day to better my grades and people skills (people love it when you can remember there name after you have heard it only once.) As for school work I wish I had this book years ago. Anatomy and physiology would have been so much easier. I think all great students use momory techniques to excell and after applying this book you can know how to do it to. Give it a try.
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