Warum fällt das Schaf vom Baum?

by Christiane Stenger

Sie kann sich 240 Ziffern in fünf Minuten merken. Wie ist sowas möglich? Christiane Stenger, mehrfache Jungendweltmeisterin im Gedächtnistraining und bekannt aus Günther Jauchs Grips-Show, verrät ihre persönlichen Techniken, mit denen sich jeder Fakten und Zusammenhänge besser merken oder Sprachen leichter lernen kann.
Schon nach wenigen Seiten von Warum fällt das Schaf vom Baum? ist klar: Man muss wirklich kein Genie sein, um Namen, Geburtstage und Pin-Codes im Kopf zu behalten oder den verlegten Schlüssel wieder zu finden. Man muss dazu nur wissen, wie das Gehirn Informationen abspeichert und sie ihm mit den originellen Visualisierungen und Eselsbrücken von Christiane Stenger „merkgerecht“ servieren.

Mit einem einfachen Test kann man die persönliche Merkfähigkeit vor dem Training und seine Fortschritte dabei messen, die sich schnell einstellen. Dann werden die kleinen grauen Zellen mit verblüffend einfachen Mnemotechniken fit gemacht. Zu jeder Übung gibt es Lösungen oder Beispiele. Dieses Training hat nichts mit trockenem „Büffeln“ und Leistungsdruck zu tun und ist auch nicht nur für den Beruf gedacht.

Das Trainingsprogramm von Christiane Stenger verbessert die Konzentrationsfähigkeit, beflügelt die Kreativität, beschleunigt die Auffassungsgabe und stärkt Stressbelastbarkeit und Selbstvertrauen. Diese Fähigkeiten kommen einem in allen Lebensbereichen und in jedem Alter zugute.

Wenn Christiane Stenger frisch und witzig erklärt, warum Schafe von Bäumen fallen und Tannen manchmal im Nil baden, macht Gedächtnistraining richtig Spaß. Es ist nie zu früh oder zu spät, um damit anzufangen.

Genres: Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[MindOverMatter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is very interesting and also contains many practical examples. The start is a bit sloppy, but it builds up very well. As the author has been very young obviously when she wrote the book, it contains examples of a school kid which sometimes are not so interesting - at least in the first couple of chapters. When she talks about the major method/master method and gives tipps on how to build up own mental palace routes, however, the book starts to be really inspiring and very enjoyable. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book for the exercises and all the valueable inspiration and sharing of her experience. Due to the inspiration drawn from the book, I have started to change my every day behaviour and have become more aware of my surroundings and also try to play around with visuals in my mind, build up routes as I go and practice with the major method and story telling. I highly recommend reading the book. It was totally worth my time and I will surely read it again - and in the meantime I'll practice a lot. :)

[federico · Rating 5 out of 5]

General view of mnemonics.

This is good book if you are interested in mnemonic techniques has a description of the peg system ,route method ,mind palace and a program of exercises to try this techniques.
I found this book very valuable as and introduction of these techniques if you already know the basics of Mnemonics and are you looking for more specialized techniques looks else were but it you’re just finish to to ream moonwalking with Einstein and want to learn to do the same this is the book to start.

[Melanie Hubbard · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very practical way of enhancing memory!

[Jennie S · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book with useful tricks to help improve the reader's memory. I have read a few books on memory techniques and took a course in Human Memory and this book covers most, if not all, of the memorization techniques out there. It also does a really good job of explaining how they are used.

The author seems credible. She uses the same techniques in her book while competing for the world memory championship.

It's definitely not one of those self help books that tries to motivate the reader to practice over and over again with vague stories of how the author achieves some self-proclaimed success and urges the reader to just do it without any specific guidance. With interesting short stories and practices that let you use your newly learned skills right away, this book promises everything on the cover and a bit more.

[Tim Nowotny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of these book that promise a lot and do even more. The thinkers in this one really work if you give it a little bit of practice (which is fun). I really have the feeling that I will use the things written down there and what more can zu wish for?
Mz only critique would be that you could even make it shorter since many of the later chapters are only variant of the base techniques.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

gekürzte Hörbuchfassung, hat mir gut gefallen. Werde jetzt nochmal das Buch in die Hand nehmen.