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I wanted to like this book more than I did, I think.
Good points: it gives you several immediately usable and practical mnemonic methods, it's a quick and understandable read.
Bad points (at least for me): It feels at times like a self help book sourced from self help books. I'm not saying everything Tony Robbins ever said was wrong; I'm just saying I don't need Tony Robbins quotes to get me to read a book, in fact it's actively unhelpful, and I'd cautiously advocate for the idea that you probably shouldn't build your whole life plan around anything a self help guru says. I'd love to see more actual research and less like...pop-psych affirmations about "spiritual intelligence" and where it's located. If we haven't learned to be profoundly skeptical of the Motivational Speakers of the world by the damn 21st century, what's the point?
And all of that stuff is, essentially, completely incidental to the fundamental subject at hand, which is "techniques and practices to remember things."
This is definitely a YMMV thing; to some people, these sorts of elements would make the experience better. But for me, they reduce the credibility and seriousness of a work, or at least distract from the primary reasons I'm reading it.
Good points: it gives you several immediately usable and practical mnemonic methods, it's a quick and understandable read.
Bad points (at least for me): It feels at times like a self help book sourced from self help books. I'm not saying everything Tony Robbins ever said was wrong; I'm just saying I don't need Tony Robbins quotes to get me to read a book, in fact it's actively unhelpful, and I'd cautiously advocate for the idea that you probably shouldn't build your whole life plan around anything a self help guru says. I'd love to see more actual research and less like...pop-psych affirmations about "spiritual intelligence" and where it's located. If we haven't learned to be profoundly skeptical of the Motivational Speakers of the world by the damn 21st century, what's the point?
And all of that stuff is, essentially, completely incidental to the fundamental subject at hand, which is "techniques and practices to remember things."
This is definitely a YMMV thing; to some people, these sorts of elements would make the experience better. But for me, they reduce the credibility and seriousness of a work, or at least distract from the primary reasons I'm reading it.