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Summary: A few concepts in this book
Review: Describing an image links the visual part of your brain to the linguistic part, causing an increase in synaptic connections. We learn best when we balance mental input with output. For example, a good conversation is better than just talking or just listening. You learn alot more when your mind actively organizes, instead of passively reading. So take notes and write a brief review of what you have read; if you make a habit of just that, you will get smarter.
I don't know about "Image streaming", but several other concepts in this book are very valuable.
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Summary: Raising Your IQ Requires More Work.
Review: Hello everyone, I truly believe that you can raise you IQ but it requires a little more work than Mr. Wenger suggests. His book I think is very important for it suggests a method that if used correctly may help people increase their IQ. Here is my method:
1. Obtain a book named "How to Solve It" by George Polya (ISBN 0691023565), it contains great advice on how to go about solving nearly any type of problem, the ideas are a little abstract and sometimes difficult to apply. Don't just skim the book, do every single problem in the book.
2. Obtain a book named "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving" by Paul Zeitz (ISBN 0471135712), this is the best book on problem solving. It will teach you how to think so you can solve nearly any type of problem. Don't just skim the book, do every single problem in the book.
3. After you have gone through those two books, obtain a book named "Giant Book of Mensa Mind Challenges" (ISBN 1402710496). Solve every single problem in the book, go through the problems until you can solve any variation of the problems in a reasonable amount of time.
4. Use Mr. Wengers image streaming technique, but instead of thinking of random "virtual worlds" in your head, focus on a Mensa problem and image stream your manipulation of its solution in your head. Do this until you can solve nearly any Mensa problem completely in your head never opening your eyes and writing something down.
If you follow these 4 steps I guarantee that you will increase your IQ.
More advice on how to increase your IQ:
1. Obtain a memory improvement system by Harry Lorayne
http://www.harrylorayne.com/index.html
Use it to memorize as many solutions to Mensa problems as possible, when test time comes and you notice a similar problem, it will be as easy as cake.
2. Obtain or take part in a speed reading course, this will greatly facilitate reading the Mensa problems, also you can easily read more books on solving Mensa problems.
3. Though research shows that Gingko Biloba alone does not increase mental ability, it does increase blood flow to your brain, so what you do is take a slow release Iron supplement (read the label don't over do it). The gingko runs more blood to your brain and the extra iron allows more oxygen to reach your brain cells increasing their efficacy, allowing you to think faster. Combine this with gotu kola. You should take the gotu kola every other day and the ginkgo twice a week. Drink coffee as often as possible. All of this is like nitrous injection or supercharging for your brain.
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Summary: the self improvement bible!!!
Review: I bought this book several years ago and I still refer back to it often, it has become a classic in my home and in my consulting business. I have Image Streamed regularly and have seen improvements in virtually every area of my life. Not to mention it is FUN and relaxing! And the chapter on techniques for children alone is worth the money.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking to enhance their creativity and access the dormant areas of their mind.
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Summary: Almost zero effect
Review: I purchased this book almost seven months ago and have followed its teachings to a T. I am displeased to report that I have experienced no significant increases in my IQ, memory, creativity, or any other mental faculty that this book claims to improve. I would like to stress, though, that I feel Dr. Wenger's intentions are genuine and that there probably are people who have experienced marvelous gains of mental ability through his teachings. I am not one of them, and that is why I tossed the book in my garbage this morning. I will try The Memory Book next and report back on that.
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Summary: The real way to become a genius
Review: I recently watched a programme about parents who are trying, without success, to make their children geniuses. They do one of two things. They either take sperm from great scientists and hope that genius is easily inherited (which it isn't) or they bomabard their young children with information that is taught in school in the hope that they will learn it all and be a genius on the level of Newton and Einstein. They fail miserably so the programme concludes that "Genius is beyond science" (occasionally they get their child into university earlier than most people but that is ultimately superficial). It is clear that these people do not even understand what genius is:Genius is what creates something brilliant and original By "brilliant and original" I mean ideas such as Newton's Laws of Motion, Einstein's Theory of Relativity etc. These are not achieved by everyone except the rare geniuses because our natural ability to think on our own is squelched. As Einstein said of Faraday's dynamo "Faraday never went to school, and therefore preserved the rare gift of thinking freely". This book is about restoring that gift. Dr Win Wenger discusses "Image Streaming", to restore our lost access to our subconscious. Much more is discussed as well. This could change the face of the planet, and bring back the Golden Age experienced in Ancient Athens.
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Summary: A very interesting and fascinating book
Review: I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in ways to improve ones intelligence. The book is very interesting and fascinating to read. I found myself being skeptical of some of the author's techniques but everytime that happened I would read more and find more and more concrete information supporting such techniques. The author uses a ton of great examples and touches on so many different techniques. After reading the book I have researched some of the techniques and found that they are supported by many other "accelerative learning" groups. I also followed up on prelimary studies referenced in the book and they do in fact check out. I also followed up on the effects of music on intelligence and it also checks out. In addition the very premise of the author's theory about pole-bridging - a technique used to create associations between all parts of the brain and therefore increase intelligence, is exactly what learning music does. It has been proven that children who learn to play an instrument and read music score exceptionally higher on SAT's, etc. than those who don't. The reason is because reading music uses the eyes, pattern recognition, timing, touch, listening and feedback. All different areas of the brain. It is these complex associations which allow someone to problem solve with ease. If you find yourself saying that the techniques in the book are ridiculous then you don't have an objective open mind. Everyone though the Wright brothers were wasting their time trying to fly. The very idea of a spherical earth was met with laughter and embarrassment. If you can think outside of the box then you will love this book.
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Summary: Waste of my money
Review: I've been image streaming since November of 2003. I recently took an I.Q. test and compared the results to an I.Q. test I took prior to starting. My I.Q. score indicates that my intelligence has not increased at all.
To anyone interested in buying "The Einstein Factor", I warn you that it is a gimmick. I have been image streaming for 15 minutes a day for the last 7 months and have not felt any increase in my mental capabilities. Also, Win Wenger states that your I.Q. will increase by twenty points after a few months...This can't be true because of the fact that a jump in I.Q. from 140-160 is much higher than a jump from 100-120.
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Summary: I'll make this easy for you
Review: Let's be honest with ourselves. If you have to read a book on how to be a genius, you're not a genius and never will be. Get over it and move on with your life. There are very few geniuses in this world. Most people you think are geniuses are just very smart people - not true geniuses. A true genius, for example, is William Sidis. Einstein may have been a genius - maybe not. Same for Newton and Feynman.
Anyway, this book has interesting ideas to expand your mind/think a little differently and that's about it. It won't make you a genius, that's for sure.
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Summary: Wonderful and it works!
Review: Realizing that this is a science that is in its infancy I am amazed at the results I've gotten from using this book. I haven't even been trying incrediably hard (though I'm now motivated to try much harder) and yet I've already learned techniques to solve puzzles and other things that I used to dread. A couple of notes: this book is good BUT you will get 1000% more out of it if you do the follow extra work.
A) Buy, read, re-read, and do the exercises in Learning How to Draw on the Right Side of the Brain. Image Streaming and Non-Verbal right sided thinking are almost the same thing. This book helps a lot!
B) Learn how to meditate. You don't have to become a guru just practice it a little bit. Image Streaming is mediation.
C) Learn a little bit about self-hypnosis. Just enough to put yourself in a trance should be enough so you'll know what it feels like and know how to get into that state without much effort.
D) Listen to, love, and savor classical/instrumental music. George Winston, Bach, Mozart, you name it.
I am an academic failure but because of this book and the other steps listed above I'm now going back to college to finish my undergrad degree and get a Ph.D in computation congnitive science. I've found that 99% of my "academic" troubles were based on negative thoughts and stuff that other people put in my head (ohh that (pick subject) is too hard, your smart but not that smart, etc.). 99.9% of your "mental" limitations are caused by this negative programming. Get rid of it and (assuming you don't suffer from physical brain damage) you will be able to join Mensa. I know, I went from having an IQ of 120 to having 131 according to eMode.com.
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Summary: Educators should Read This Book
Review: The benefits of doing the exercises described in The Einstein Factor are wide ranging. I've been working with this book for the last four or five years and have noticed not only an improved ability of recall, but also an enhancement of detail, color of imagery, texture, vividness. I do dream work, psychic readings for others, tarot, etc and my perceptions have been greatly enhanced via The Einstein Factor . On a more pragmatic level, I recommend this book to teachers, counselors and others working with children and young adults as it will improve their own skills in many ways.
Jaye Beldo:Netnous@Aol.Com
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