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Super-Learning
Using innovative, easy-to-follow techniques that have been proven in world-wide studies, this program will help listeners learn anything two to ten times faster and turn potential into high performance.
357 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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September 7, 2020
So very many nifty techniques to superteach oneself...
If one's serious, this book's been around since Pleistocene. Somehow, it aged not too badly. Suprise!
Of-frackity-course, some stuff is actualy snake skin oil but some of it is plenty good.
The advice ranges between the stuff it would be nice to use but what the hell does one has to do to get:
- Serenity? In order to learn better? Ok, I get it, people with SERENITY learn 2000% better but who are they?
... and stuff that's actually lovely and wonderful and easy to do and great if it works and fun if it doesn't anyway, like:
- Baroque music? It's great so no pain and likely gain. Win-win! Low-hanguing fruits plops right into the smoothie!
... and stuff that is, I dunno, oldie (and maybie goldie?):
- ok, listening to foreing languages in sleep is very old-school and I've no idea if it works (probably not!) but actually listening to stuff makes sense... so, slight modification would be needed? Good enough for me.
... and stuff that's actually supercool:
- meditations
- visualizations
- subconscious stuff
- mnemonics, brain palaces and other memory dev stuff
- oxigenate your room, dummy, damnit!
- stress off the fraggity!
- wakey-wakey up!
- cheer yourself up, no one else's gonna do that better than you!
- stress off!
- relax!
- yoga!
... and stuff that I'm not sure how to classify but some of it could actually make sense:
- sophrology?
I'm pretty sure that not everything from these 2k (or less, or more, didn't count!) ideas would work simultaneously for everyone but the great thing is that there are so many possible takeouts that probably anyone could find some ideas of personal use.
Ok, now I'm fangirling. I shouldn't. But damn. I love when books age gracefully.
If one's serious, this book's been around since Pleistocene. Somehow, it aged not too badly. Suprise!
Of-frackity-course, some stuff is actualy snake skin oil but some of it is plenty good.
The advice ranges between the stuff it would be nice to use but what the hell does one has to do to get:
- Serenity? In order to learn better? Ok, I get it, people with SERENITY learn 2000% better but who are they?
... and stuff that's actually lovely and wonderful and easy to do and great if it works and fun if it doesn't anyway, like:
- Baroque music? It's great so no pain and likely gain. Win-win! Low-hanguing fruits plops right into the smoothie!
... and stuff that is, I dunno, oldie (and maybie goldie?):
- ok, listening to foreing languages in sleep is very old-school and I've no idea if it works (probably not!) but actually listening to stuff makes sense... so, slight modification would be needed? Good enough for me.
... and stuff that's actually supercool:
- meditations
- visualizations
- subconscious stuff
- mnemonics, brain palaces and other memory dev stuff
- oxigenate your room, dummy, damnit!
- stress off the fraggity!
- wakey-wakey up!
- cheer yourself up, no one else's gonna do that better than you!
- stress off!
- relax!
- yoga!
... and stuff that I'm not sure how to classify but some of it could actually make sense:
- sophrology?
I'm pretty sure that not everything from these 2k (or less, or more, didn't count!) ideas would work simultaneously for everyone but the great thing is that there are so many possible takeouts that probably anyone could find some ideas of personal use.
Ok, now I'm fangirling. I shouldn't. But damn. I love when books age gracefully.
March 3, 2013
Be warned: if you read this book you may realize that we have, already at our disposal, the technology to teach people in ways that will make all of their limitations disappear, but our schools, colleges and universities are CHOOSING not to use them. They are instead, choosing to hobble people and make them dumb.
January 17, 2010
Some iron curtain 'men w goats era of soviet learning enhancement techniques using baroque music to accelerate learning by influencing brainwaves. I remember being inspired in 1992 or so, esp.since I like baroque. But I didn't have healthcare (& couldn't afford antidepressnts or counseling for full blown clinical depression ) and was all around pretty broke and just shy of homeless in nyc at the time, so my disadvantages to learning surpassed any advantages I may have gained from my using my cheap-ass boom-box. none-the-less I have kept it on my bookshelves ever since.
(though not revisited it yet.) 1985, 6th printing. black hardcover w no dust-jacket.)
(though not revisited it yet.) 1985, 6th printing. black hardcover w no dust-jacket.)
June 15, 2020
Chapter 18 is a game changer. Makes you realize how serene the human mind can get, and how effortlessly and joyously you can be anywhere at anytime you wish.
September 25, 2015
The music and Yoga-based relaxation exercises suggested in this book are very effective, but once you do enough Yoga, you rarely/never need such exercises.
April 2, 2013
a good introduction to the super learning methods from behind the iron curtain and the work of dr Lazanov made accessible for the first time in the west
October 28, 2024
Desert island book. Enough said. I wish there were more stuff on Bulgarian psychic studies, Russian parapsychology, as well as their state-enforced accelerated learning program of both Russian and American CIA. This is is a gold and much better than the trite trinkets out there which get millions of views thanks to influencer connections and marketing hogging all the limelight.
A gem I discovered: Coachman effect.
I mean I know sometimes when I am completely in the zone reading a book is while in my driver's seat parked at a lot... That is because all the feel good 'highs' and 'endorphins' are associated with my 'driving seat' akin to modern day carriage pilot's seat. I can only imagine going through lush, rural country, vale, and meadows at Victorian England or even earlier Flanders in the 16th century and to enter a zone where alpha waves calm you down to beyond oblivion.
I tried to recreate this by devoting a space and leaning on the table from a chair, but it is not the same as driver's seat ritual. I remember Tom Bilyeu saying how he just sinks down in his armchair and that is his meditation: "You can tell me all day long I am not meditating but I don't care..."
Hence, these are the subtle nuggets you can get in this book. All Silicon Valley junk promote affirmations, box breathing, visualization, focus (with wink to a Headspace ad) and other cliche you have heard gazillion times. I do believe underground books like this exist which offer more value and bang for the buck. Also for creativity nerds, I would recommend Rory Sutherland.
A gem I discovered: Coachman effect.
I mean I know sometimes when I am completely in the zone reading a book is while in my driver's seat parked at a lot... That is because all the feel good 'highs' and 'endorphins' are associated with my 'driving seat' akin to modern day carriage pilot's seat. I can only imagine going through lush, rural country, vale, and meadows at Victorian England or even earlier Flanders in the 16th century and to enter a zone where alpha waves calm you down to beyond oblivion.
I tried to recreate this by devoting a space and leaning on the table from a chair, but it is not the same as driver's seat ritual. I remember Tom Bilyeu saying how he just sinks down in his armchair and that is his meditation: "You can tell me all day long I am not meditating but I don't care..."
Hence, these are the subtle nuggets you can get in this book. All Silicon Valley junk promote affirmations, box breathing, visualization, focus (with wink to a Headspace ad) and other cliche you have heard gazillion times. I do believe underground books like this exist which offer more value and bang for the buck. Also for creativity nerds, I would recommend Rory Sutherland.
January 28, 2018
I read this in the 80's at university and now it's part of the huge cull of books as we move country yet again. It didn't make me much smarter then and now they're pretty little hope left. As with most things it takes an effort beyond the return to get set up and consistently apply everything!
February 16, 2022
Short version: Listing to Baroque music at 50-60BPM will(?) help you concentrate and learn more effectively. Specifically, foreign languages are mentioned several times.
April 3, 2017
Apparently Bulgarians have extra-sensory powers including but not limited to predicting lottery numbers. You want that to huh?
Step number 1: Be relaxed.
Step number 2: Breathing.
The secret is to breath in for 2 seconds, hold your breath for 4 and breath out for 2 seconds. This timing will fit your breathing pattern into specific Baroque music, with 60 beats per minute (BPM). Make or buy a recording where the stuff to be learnt is spoken for 4 seconds, and listen to it so that your breathing stops for those 4 seconds.
The authors are certain of themselves, and the only reason the secret hasn't caught on is the fumbling of the Canadian government. Applying it wrongly & damaging trust, the Canadians have screwed it up for everyone. By this day, decades after publication, all blind people should be able to see, telepathy should have made Skype useless and, most importantly, we'd all be much more relaxed.
Step number 1: Be relaxed.
Step number 2: Breathing.
The secret is to breath in for 2 seconds, hold your breath for 4 and breath out for 2 seconds. This timing will fit your breathing pattern into specific Baroque music, with 60 beats per minute (BPM). Make or buy a recording where the stuff to be learnt is spoken for 4 seconds, and listen to it so that your breathing stops for those 4 seconds.
The authors are certain of themselves, and the only reason the secret hasn't caught on is the fumbling of the Canadian government. Applying it wrongly & damaging trust, the Canadians have screwed it up for everyone. By this day, decades after publication, all blind people should be able to see, telepathy should have made Skype useless and, most importantly, we'd all be much more relaxed.
May 19, 2022
Very interesting book! I liked some insights from the last century. I like that it has a lot of useful exercises for superlearning which I am eager to do. I felt kinda but I did not know how sound frequencies can influence people's minds and well-being.
April 6, 2013
This book is very nice to motivate own self to success.
February 7, 2019
I read this book in my teens and it was a life changer. Taught me the art of calmness.
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