I have had 2 other companies post comments wanting me to try out their product. I removed the comments because I want to give the Posit Science course a chance before I try any others out and I think it’s a bit naughty to dive in the comments without contacting me directly.

@ Supergranny – Not sure how the post will help, but go for it.

@ Sean – Wow! Good for you mate with sticking with it. I think you’ll find the book fascinating and you can build on it. I found it a really optimistic book in terms of saying “Look we have this brilliant onboard computer and guess what? It’s future proofed and way better than you think it is!”

Now that I’ve rebuilt my working mind I am interested in how to keep it going and to improve it.

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Interesting way of approaching the juicy topic of memory.

really liked the leg in cast analogy.

since you’re the king of controversial debate, specially in the comments field, i’ma throw out my thoughts on memory.

not sure how familiar you are with my story, but the relevant portion here is that i used to fail school and started working and eventually pulled my grades up. then i realised i didn’t need to put in nearly as much effort as i was or thought i had to. it was more realising that it was possible than anything else that made me do well.

i studied memory. at length. if you’re the king of controversial debate, i’m the king of extensive research ;)

also ordered a course. Kevin Trudeau’s Mega Memory. And it worked. It worked a treat in fact.

…but here’s the kicker. i stopped using the techniques and it continued to work. the techniques aren’t really formative in that you can use them a bit and the plasticity of your brain changes in as much as you use them as a method of going about the remembering process.

so i stopped using the techniques and yet i continued to have a great memory, going on to graduate high school with straight As after a 40% average two grades prior.

so…

i definitely think the course you ordered will work. maybe semantically like the actual techniques of mega memory, but more likely they’ll work because you think they work. good ‘ol power of belief. and that’s fine. i think it’s just as valid. placebo or not, it works. and if it works then it works. and if you have to buy a program and spend 90 days doing it then so be it, it still works.

and while you may say that physiologically your memory deteriorates, i think it’s more a self-inflicted deterioration (viz leg cast analogy) than anything else. my memory was worse than most 60 year olds when i was averaging 40% academically. it was my thoughts about the situation that messed with me.

if you think your memory is good then it’s good. convincing yourself that it’s good – that’s the tricky part…

stumbled and tweeted.

keep well and all the best
alex – unleash reality

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@ Laurie – I’ll definitely be reporting back and if it doesn’t work I will be utilizing their 90 day money back guarantee ;-)

@ Tracy – I actually found the book offered a lot of hope to people with all sorts of problems and one I would recommend to anybody in your situation or parents that are starting to become less and less mentally active. And yeh, sleep deprivation kills memory.

@ Foodie – Great stuff a fellow experimenter! Let me know how you get on please.

@ Rhonda L – I think the better question to ask yourself was “did you ever take the information in, in the first place?” Multitasking can cause us to miss stuff and be thinking of one thing as we do another. Not good for memory!

@ m.h.moore – I almost went into talking about what kills memory other than aging (which doesn’t), but thought it would get too long. Boredom and not being engaged in something is right up there though.

@ CoralM – I’m a big believer in the power of beliefs and I think that is possible. I don’t however, think iot has anything to do with the LoA.

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