Accelerated Learning and Unlimited Memory Techniques and Strategies. Tips & Tricks for Students and Adults

by Jimmy Cooper

Have you ever heard the rumor that people only use 10% of their brains, and wondered how true that really is? You probably have. And there is some truth to it, but it's not entirely true because humans use much MORE than 10% of their brains. The statement should say that the average person only uses 10% of their brain's potential capabilities, which is absolutely true. 10% even seems like a stretch, I think it's lower than that. That doesn't speak to the lack of intelligence of humans, more so the incredible potential and capabilities of the human brain.

The capacity of the human brain is limitless and unfathomable, and what a lot of people don't realize is that the brain is like any other muscle in the body in the way that it can be trained and worked to grow, improve, and become immensely superior than it was. But the difference is that muscles have a maximum genetic potential that they can reach, while the brain does not. Every single human has a brain that has the ability to be "genius", but many are not because they never train their brains to grow and become smart. There are many, many things that one can do to improve their cognitive abilities and we will cover much of it in this book.

78 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 31, 2017

Reviews

[Jonathan Donihue · Rating 3 out of 5]

To be honest, I was expecting a lot more from an expert in the art of memorization. This book is really just a shallow overview of past and current ideas about how to improve your concentration and memory. I'm being generous by giving it three stars.

[Kristin Neville · Rating 1 out of 5]

My husband and I have been listening to this books on Audible, and as a special education teacher with a huge interest in reading and reading instruction, I had a huge problem with this book! The section on learning disabilities and specifically dyslexia is highly erroneous! The author claims that people with dyslexia can learn to read by trying harder, which only serves to make people with dyslexia feel even worse about themselves. He goes on to describe the best way to learn how to read is learning the shape of words, that we don’t actually look at the individual letters in words to make meaning. This is an instructional system known as whole word language or more recently balanced literacy which is only effective with about 40% of the school aged population. Both beginning readers and fluent readers learning a new word use the letter- sound correlations they have learned to sound out words. They use Broca’s area of the brain as they are learning how to read, but as fluency and your database of words develop, reading moves to Wernicke’s area of the brain. Even adults who have just come across a new word use these sounding out techniques to learn a new word when they are reading.

Very often, in people with dyslexia, they have difficulty with something known as phonological processing of language and manipulation of the individual sounds in words. As a result, without proper instruction in the five areas of reading, they cannot learn how to read or really struggle and often times fall whole years behind their peers in their reading skills.

Cooper has cherry-picked his data for this section, ignoring the hard work of Sally Shaywitz, M.D. and Keith Stanovitch, PhD. Unfortunately it calls into question the rest of his information. When it comes to books on learning, there are much better books out there!

Update: after looking up the author online and researching his CV, he does not have the credentials to be writing books about education, much less a degree in it. There are much better books out there written by people who know the topic.