Superlearning 2000: New Triple Fast Ways You Can Learn, Earn, and Succeed in the 21st Century

Superlearning 2000: New Triple Fast Ways You Can Learn, Earn, and Succeed in the 21st Century

Superlearning 2000: New Triple Fast Ways You Can Learn, Earn, and Succeed in the 21st Century

Superlearning 2000: New Triple Fast Ways You Can Learn, Earn, and Succeed in the 21st Century

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Overview

“A marvelous resource for those who do not want to be limited by their beliefs. Read and learn about human potential, yours and mine.”—Bernard Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles

Speak Russian like a native, play tennis like a pro . . . and meet the challenges of a high-tech world with high-powered memory skills! Superlearning 2000 is the fast, fun, and innovative learning technique that enables you to master any skill or subject—from computers to athletics to conversational French—in a fraction of traditional learning time. Hailed by the Fortune 500 as the mental technology of the future, proven by super-achievers around the world, this revolutionary program will unlock your limitless potential, put you on the fast track to new opportunities and higher earnings . . . change forever the way you think about learning!

Discover:
• How you can fine-tune your memory and learn anything 2 to 5 times faster simply by tuning in to the right kind of music
• Which world-class mental techniques enhance athletic performance
• The step-by-step Superlearning techniques that keep you in step with technology
• How you can overcome learning blocks . . . and even learning disabilities
• How to boost creativity, rev up recall, and acquire expert know-how in any field while you relax!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307815224
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/07/2012
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 544
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder are the authors of ten books, including the international bestseller Superleaming, which has sold over 1.2 million copies and has been translated into fourteen languages. They've appeared on more than two thousand TV and radio shows and lectured widely in the U.S..and abroad. They've also created more than sixty Superleaming and personal development tapes.

Read an Excerpt

1
A New Edge
 
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail,” remarked Abraham Maslow. It’s time to reach into a bagful of new tools and stop hammering out the same old solutions. It’s time to give up horse-and-buggy learning. Time perhaps to tune in to a curious melody circling the world, special music that is helping people learn faster than they ever imagined, helping them change with a grace and ease they never thought possible.
 
In Herrenberg, Germany, middle-aged IBM employees close their eyes and heave a sigh of relief as the soothing strains of Vivaldi begin to play. Halfway around the world, on St. Lawrence Island in the frozen Bering Strait, Vivaldi’s “Winter” seems particularly apropos as a gang of feisty Eskimo teens close their eyes, too, and settle in for the day’s lesson between whaling stints. In Indiana a bright sixth-grader sets the music playing. She checks her graphs to see how the music has influenced her classmates’ test scores. In Montreal a would-be champion feels his body relax to the wonderful music as vivid images of a tough karate match pivot in his mind.
 
Would you like to learn two to five times faster without stress? And remember what you’ve learned? You can. That’s what the people wrapped in the special music were doing. They are engaged in a new way to learn that we call Superlearning. They are using it to tap in to that ocean of potential that experts keep saying lies waiting in each of us. “I never knew learning could be so much fun!” exclaimed one German IBM employee, echoing the exhilaration that often springs as learning accelerates and talents open up.
 
Being able to soak up facts, figures, and high-tech data two to five times faster than before can help put you on the fast track to new opportunities and higher earnings. It’s proven to save enormous amounts of time and money in job training or retraining, and in learning the languages of the global economy. That’s part of the underreported good news. But it’s only half of the story.
 
Something else is important to all of us. Change isn’t an option anymore. The option now is to become an agent of change, not a victim of change. As never before, we need to be flexible, to know how to take charge of change without terrible struggle. As never before, we need the know-how to bring more of our abilities on line—that supposed 90 or 95 percent of human potential we don’t usually connect with. A hundred years ago William James calculated we use only about five percent of our innate ability.
 
“It’s more like three percent. Few of us use even five percent of our capacity,” insists Dr. Raymond Abrezol, who has trained hundreds of Olympic stars.
 
How far might we reach? “The ultimate, creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite,” says writer-educator George Leonard. That’s a quote from our first Superlearning book, published in 1979. It always sounds so good, so wide open. But then what do you do? How do you wake up and not see the same old person in the mirror in the same, old groove every morning? Here are some new quotes from individuals who’ve found one way to begin to bring more of themselves alive.
 
“Besides increased facility in learning, Superlearning has been the starting point of profound and highly beneficial changes in my personality,” writes Montreal neurologist Christian Drapeau.
 
Another Canadian, the well-regarded writer Robina Salter, says simply, “My acquaintance with the new approach created a paradigm shift in my life.”
 
“Again and again teachers, trainers, and learners say that the courses have changed their lives,” reports Gail Heidenhain, director of Delphin, a German business training company that uses the new techniques. “It is one thing to say that everyone has much hidden potential, but how much more powerful to actually discover that I have potential I never dreamt I had. Only then does theory come to life.”
 
“After thirty years of teaching, I knew there had to be a better way,” says Californian Bruce Tickell Taylor. “Superlearning has changed my life for the better and that of my students too.”
 
Dr. Mayumi Mori, a pioneering Japanese educator, heard these comments from her accelerated learning class: One student wrote, “I felt as if I had touched upon something very deep and essential as a human being.” Another marveled, “Who could even imagine that one could be moved so deeply in lessons like English conversation!” From Yokohama to New York to Heidelberg, something is stirring as people begin to sense their own possibilities. Most are surprised how easy it is to connect with new talents—once they know how. Except for one young man. His passion to realize the dreams pushing up inside him became a life or death challenge.
 
On the cloudy night of September 10, 1976, Bulgarian Ivan Barzakov waded away from the shore into the choppy Adriatic Sea and began to swim. He was swimming for America. First stop would be the marshy Yugoslavian coast almost seven miles across open, shark-infested water. Barzakov wasn’t a champion swimmer, just a good one, when he wasn’t fighting off asthma, a frequent fight in Bulgaria, where needed medication was rarely available. Ivan Barzakov had one thing going for him. He was a teacher trained in a new form of learning developed by the Bulgarian M.D. Georgi Lozanov, a method that is the taproot of all Western Superlearning systems.
 
“I had the kernels of the mental technology,” Barzakov says, and he used it to relax and keep stroking when the unremitting cold almost paralyzed him. He summoned it to block two incipient asthma attacks. Stroking farther and farther out, “I had to use the mental technology to block memories of death. On several occasions in the sea I have almost been chased by death. Years before, I’d tried to escape by swimming to Turkey, but the cold forced me back.”
 
Swim, Ivan, swim for America … arm-wearying stroke after stroke. About the time he realized he’d never swum so far before, “I heard noises, I thought the Yugoslavs must be dumping something in the sea—then suddenly the water all around me shifted. It seemed to boil! Later I learned it was the moment of the great earthquake in Trieste.” But Ivan kept swimming. He made it through the treacherous Yugoslavian marshes, across the border to Italy, and into a refugee camp—the sort with one shower for five hundred people.
 
Today Ivan Barzakov with his American wife, Pamela Rand, another innovative teacher, leads OptimaLearning Systems in Novato, California. He’s nurtured those kernels of mental technology into full-blown techniques to help others find the freedom of enhanced performance. In 1992 a seemingly impossible full circle closed. Barzakov was invited to bring his expertise back to Bulgaria to help his countrymen navigate the treacherous turbulence of changing from police state to free economy.
 
What propelled Barzakov to commit himself so completely to the black Adriatic waves? “The number one issue was to be free of the oppressive Communist yoke,” he told us recently. Then he added another goal “no less important.”
 
“I had the privilege to work with Dr. Lozanov’s experimental education, and I knew these ideas were just at the beginning. We were accelerating language learning and memory. But I felt there was something more, much more. It’s what so attracted people in your first Superlearning book, a feeling for the enormous potential of human beings, the excitement of our capacities.… With this technology I knew we could touch a profound source within us. But that could only happen in the West, particularly in America.”
 
A Wake-Up Call
 
A global wake up call has been ringing for quite a while. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton resonated to it during the TV debates when he said, “To keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result is a form of insanity.” It’s a good quote, from personal-development coach Tony Robbins. Candidate H. Ross Perot almost seemed to be echoing us as he repeatedly insisted, “We have to learn how to learn.” That’s been the rallying cry of Superlearning since its beginning.
 
“The horizon leans forward offering you space to place new steps of change,” Maya Angelou said on the cold, clear high noon of the inauguration of the forty-second president of the United States. She looked out at the listening women, men, children thronging the Capitol Mall. She looked farther to the vast land, and the long drumroll of history unfurled behind them. “Give birth again to the dream,” Angelou prodded. “Now, finally awakening, say, ‘Good morning.’ ”
 
In what may go down as the do-it-yourself decade, you’ll have to say “Good morning” on your own. Our establishments, reared by the old status quo, aren’t going to do it for you—which may be why we so quickly tire of our leaders. They haven’t made everything all right again. As change hits like shock therapy, no one quite knows how the pieces are going to rearrange themselves. It’s becoming clear that if we are going to flourish, it’s time to stop nattering about solutions and potentials and actually start becoming the free-ranging, accomplished human beings we are designed to be.
 
The know-how to set you on your way is growing. You can find a lot of it in Superlearning. You can find, too, that it doesn’t matter where you are in life, whether you’re old or young or what your past encounters with education have brought. The beauty of it is you can finally take a deep breath and relax. Instead of adding pressure in the push to do, do, learn, keep up, accomplish, excel, Superlearning drains stress away. You can learn how to learn through the circuitries of pleasure. Does it sound too good to be true? We thought so too.
 

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