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I don't know why self-help books do this. If I'm reading your book, I don't need the first 20% of it to be reasons I should read the book!?!
Once you get past the fluff, I think this is a good entry-level book into some memory techniques and ways to learn more efficiently. As someone with a degree in Education, this book.... taught me nothing new.
It did have some interesting examples of people who have achieved extraordinary things using the book's techniques, but it also has some examples where the author goes, "This guy did this, but no one knows how. Anyway, this chapter is about x technique." It felt like his editor asked him to add an example for every chapter, so he came up with some random examples when he couldn't find relevant ones. So. Most of the book is fluff.
Er... so, if you dislike reading journal articles, I'd recommend reading this book because the author has read the journal articles and distilled them for you. But if you do have access to journal articles about education that you're willing to read, I'd just read those instead. This book isn't bad. It's just mostly fluff and inefficient. (For a book about efficiently and quickly educating yourself, this makes me chuckle a bit)
Once you get past the fluff, I think this is a good entry-level book into some memory techniques and ways to learn more efficiently. As someone with a degree in Education, this book.... taught me nothing new.
It did have some interesting examples of people who have achieved extraordinary things using the book's techniques, but it also has some examples where the author goes, "This guy did this, but no one knows how. Anyway, this chapter is about x technique." It felt like his editor asked him to add an example for every chapter, so he came up with some random examples when he couldn't find relevant ones. So. Most of the book is fluff.
Er... so, if you dislike reading journal articles, I'd recommend reading this book because the author has read the journal articles and distilled them for you. But if you do have access to journal articles about education that you're willing to read, I'd just read those instead. This book isn't bad. It's just mostly fluff and inefficient. (For a book about efficiently and quickly educating yourself, this makes me chuckle a bit)