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| Learn More Now: 10 Simple Steps to Learning Better, Smarter, and Faster | 
 enlarge | Author: Marcia L. Conner
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 243026
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0471273902
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.1523
EAN: 9780471273905
ASIN: 0471273902
Publication Date: February 11, 2004
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"Leaders at all levels will benefit from Marcia Conner's amazing book of strategies, exercises, and stories to maximize learning. This book is a must for your reading list this year."--Ken Blanchard, Chief Spiritual Officer, Ken Blanchard Companies
"A road map to reawakening the natural process of integrating learning into our daily lives."--Kathy O'Driscoll, Human Resources Director, Microsoft
"Finally a publication that genuinely respects learner diversity as much as it offers tangible ideas for dealing with it....Marcia L. Conner is a true learning champion."--Gunnar Bruckner, former Chief Learning Officer, United Nations Development Programme
We're all born with a vast capacity to explore and learn. Unfortunately, many of us never discover what we're truly capable of. What if you could reclaim your birthright and tap into your full potential for learning? Imagine how much you could accomplish--how much you could become. Here's your chance to find out. Through her innovative learning programs, Marcia Conner has helped thousands of people unleash the power of their intuition to rediscover the joy of learning and to expand their personal and professional productivity. In Learn More Now, she distills her renowned learning solutions into an easy-to-use ten-step program that will help you:
* Learn better, smarter, and faster
* Identify your learning style and your motivational style
* Synthesize your experiences, perspectives, thoughts, and actions
* Develop new pathways in your brain to increase your opportunities
* Absorb facts on the fly and overcome information overload
* Optimize your environment for concentrating and learning
Packed with fun, easy-to-do action steps and exercises, Learn More Now will help you discover how to be more focused and aware, work in step with your natural rhythms, be improvisational in your approach, and transform your life into a learning adventure.
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 Bad beyond comprehension May 11, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was assigned this as my text book for a college course (I %$#@ you not). It is very nearly offensive to read. It is based on fallacious science and written in broken English by a woman who admits to having absolutely no higher educational credentials whatsoever. Which is especially humorous given that she presumes to explain brain chemistry to us, using research which has not been peer reviewed in ways that even the researchers never intended it to be interpreted (I'm sorry, my spleen can't think, and there is no scientific basis for that assertion [and you think I'm kidding about that, but she actually asserts that our organs, joints, and muscles can think in the most literal sense]).
Her methods range from hokey to downright ridiculous, leaving one's intellect offended and impugned by the experience. Anyone who has the misfortune to be assigned this as a text book, you have my deepest sympathy. Anyone who buys this of their own independent will, you have less of it, but still enough to fill the bowels of #$%&. Anyone who buys it and actually thinks it valuable, you have my sincerest scorn. I am at first tempted to feel bad for you, too, but at a certain point you deserve your fate as a punishment for a level of criminal stupidity which rivals even that of the writer (at least she managed to get people to give her money for her stupidity, after all - she gets credit for that).
Most pointless book I have been forced to (almost) read April 28, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I also had to read this book for AMU. I can't believe that this book actually has 4 stars from user reviews. As noted by some here, this book offers nothing new. It basically tells you how you learn in about 100 different ways. I read the first chapter in its entirety, but after that I only read enough to get by in the course. The author goes into unecessary detail about how posture, scent, surroundings, etc help one learn. There are tons of surveys throughout the book so you can learn things such as if you learn better alone or with others. I think we all already know what we prefer and don't need pointless quizzes to tell us.
Good book if you have an uneven leg on your coffee table! May 29, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I had to read this book for a class at American Military University. I do not have time to write in detail like Gaetan Lion did but I completely agree with him. This book is so obvious that I'm surprised that anyone gets anything out of it. Insightful? Not in the least bit. No offence to the writer, she seems like a nice person, but other than assigning her titles to things I already knew I got nothing from the book. I recommended to the college that they remove this book from their curriculum. If you are attending APUS and must read it all I can say is at least it's a quick easy read and if you agree with my review to please let the college know in the end of course survey.
 An excellent re-introduction to learning for students September 25, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I teach a college course that uses this book (it's a university-developed course that's required for all incoming students). The vast majority of my students get a great deal out of it. Many of them state that they wouldn't have picked up this book on their own, but that they are very glad to have read it. Most of my students are returning to school after absences of between two and twenty years. Some of them are instructors themselves (usually in the military), and start applying the techniques in the book to their own students (very successfully, I might add). It's a pleasure to be able to help people learn relatively simple tips to significantly improve their learning. One has to wonder how many of them might have been able to finish college straight out of high school had they been taught how they personally learn best. Unfortunately, most American schools don't seem to care what kind of learning style individual kids have. They just teach one way. If Conner's book were required reading for teachers, countless kids could benefit.
 A good book November 22, 2004
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Learn More Now is a good book about learning, it helps you undestand how your brain works and how we can get the most of our personal learning style to improve our understanding and recalling skills.
I believe it main weakness is not to propouse a general map of how to engage into studing (some general steps to follow), instead it goes thru differents technics and explanations on how you learn and how to improve your comprehension. It does all this in a easy to read manner.
If you are beginning to try to get the most of your time and getting better grades, this is a useful book to read, but will have to manage yourself to give some structure to all the technics included.
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