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Super Memory - Super Student: How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days

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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.

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I 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.

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.

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.

I come from a family of 15, if you include my mom and dad, (9 other brothers and 3 sisters, if I remember correctly). When I was in grade school some of my brothers would taunt me and say "You're so stupid, why even go to school?" I just wasn't interested in school work until I got in sports in Junior High and one couldn't play if one didn't keep their grades up. So I worked harder at school work.
I remember when I was very young and my older, and much smarter, brother came home from Ohio State, he told everyone it is just extremely hard. He said he just couldn't hack it. So he quit college and joined the army. Well, I thought, if he can't make it in college how could I ever? So I resigned myself to never going to college. But about 15 years after graduating High School, my friends talked me into going to college. I'd tell them I'm just not smart enough. Well, they talked me into trying. So I bought Harry Lorayne's book. Smart move! Wow!
With this book I was able to have 6 pages of notes and memorize a key word for each line on the pages. So when I'd take my History exams it was always a piece of cake. I had names, dates, places, events all memorized, and it was EASY! My math classes were so much easier too. This book impacted in a positive way every class I took. With this book I was able to maintain a 4.0. Yes, that's right, a 4.0. Dumb little ole me that my brothers berated was actually the smartest one of the bunch. How? because I found out how to PROPERLY USE the brain God gave me by using Harry Lorayne's techniques!

Some of the students in college would give me the bird because they were jealous. I'd help some, who were not doing so well, with the techniques in this book and their grades would vastly improve just from spending a few minutes with them.

I wish to thank Harry for helping me by having this book available.

The title of the book is wrong though. If you work at the book (and it is fun!) you can raise your grades in a week. You can go from a 'D' or even an 'F' student to getting perfect grades on your tests if you just apply the techniques in this book. You can graduate with top honors in High School, and continue using this book in College and in Business after you get out.

I'm not paid to write this. No one asked me to. I give it 10 stars as 5 is just not nearly good enough.

I was every guidance counselor's nightmare - top 2% in standardized test scores, bottom 20% of my class. I hated school, and I hated college even more. Then I found Harry Lorayne's book and it changed my life.

My college had no maximum on the number of credits you could earn by challenging the course. After learning Harry Lorayne's methods I tested out of two and one half years of college in eight months and graduated early.

We home school our eight children and we use this book with every one of them, to great success. I'm also the director of a learning center where we use this book as well.

Read the book, do the exercises, and use the tools every day.

To the person from Indonesia who called this "the kiddy way," I must say this: When I was in college (40 years ago), I searched for memory aids and found only mnemonic methods; I considered them to be artificial and did not use them.

A year or so later, I met Harry Lorayne during a show (he was a mental expert and I was a musician). I was absolutely astounded at what he did and decided that however he did it, I would do the same thing. I told Harry that, and he laughed and said, "Just buy any of my books--they all say the same thing."

I promptly bought ALL of his available books, found that he was correct, and returned all but one, "How to Develop a Super-power Memory." Yes, the method Harry teaches may seem to be a "kiddy way" or simplistic, but it REALLY works. My grades were "A"s thereafter. I remembered whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, regardless of the detail.

If Harry Lorayne's methods don't work for you, it is ONLY because you did not apply them. Period. Do not for a moment think that "miraculous" results cannot spring from "simple" methods.

I also recommend anything Dr. Kenneth Higbee has written.

Get Lorayne's and Higbee's books; do what they say; you WILL be successful.

Peace.

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Harry Lorayne is simply the BEST! Intrigued by the advertising, I bought "How To Develop A Super Power Memory" when it first came out and every book he has written since. (I'm sure this made Harry happy, but it made me even happier!)

I taught it to my sons when they were young. One said he felt like he was "cheating" on tests in school because it he could actually "see" the answers in his mind's eye right in front of him! I sincerely wish I had been exoposed to the systems when I was in school. It would have made all the diffence in the world! What a LEGACY to leave with your children and grandchildren!! They will be forever thankful... and yes, they will fondly REMEMBER you for teaching it to them.

The systems helped me enormously at work, and now that I am retired, they keep me sharp. Knowledge -- memory -- BUILDS on peviously remembered knowledge. Why would anyone NOT want to use the systems once he is aware of them? Indeed, initially, it does take some concentration, but that only demonstrates that most of us are far too "mentally lazy" to begin with. Harry's systems will "buff up" those little gray cells and keep then shining for the rest of you life!

I have read several other memory improvement books but always keep coming back to Harry Lorayne's -- the Yoda of memory. WHY? As mentioned earler, because Harry Lorayne is simply the BEST!

Lloyd W. Cary ^o^
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I really like this book. If you have time and passion for the methods, you will have an excellent memory. I used the book for about two weeks and I used some of these techniques to improve my college test scores. Good buy and good results.

This book is a great book if you want to memorize simple tasks, or you just need to memorize simple things. But if your studying higher subjects, such as organic chemistry...There is no way your going to be able to use what is being taught... Sure it would work for one molecule...but how about the other 300??? Things are going to look fairly similar, and sound similar...and all of that jumble will make you more confused....It is just more simple to actually memorize the molecule (chemistry) itself if you have a whole bunch..but if you have just one thats fine. This goes the same for subjects such as biochemistry. You have to memorize so much, where it comes to a point that your "substitute" words in itself will become confusing because you have so many. Its not that I have not practiced it, but substituting words for every fact on biochemistry is not realistic. Especially if you have 60 slides a lecture. Peg words system works great if you have simple lists...but if your talking about advanced subjects that require intensive memorization, with intensive specificity, it will only confuse you to use these systems because theres just that many. This book however, does give some systems that can be useful such as forming words out of numbers...But being a science major, realistically...its not as helpful... In chemical reactions, they all have Carbons connected to different groups.. this system of creating an image in your head will definitely look similar to the previous reaction because all the reactions contain similar things. OVERALL, if your looking for a book to solve all your memory problems...this will not help. However, it will aid you into looking at things in a different perspective and you can use these systems on some things.

Harry is a long time educator and memory enhancement savant. I have been following his work closely for the past 14 years from my high schools days. This book gave me the confidence and self-motivation that our mind can be tricked to achieve amazing things. I use the word trick, because often what we see is a false-perspective of reality. Also, the vast areas covered in this book is a salute to Harry's diverse field experience from math to music to english to medicine. Thanks for sharing your secrets. Now, after this long and having done extensive research in Cybernetics, I still use this book to teach my students.