ALPHABETICAL BRAIN® VOCABULARY HUMANIST SECULAR THINKER MIKE BYSTER August 25, 2022 THE POWER OF FORGETTING: Six Essential Skills to Clear Out Brain Clutter and Become the Sharpest, Smartest You by Mike Byster. Harmony, 2014 (352 pages) Quote = “Memory is the mother of all wisdom.” by Ancient Greek Scholar, Aeschylus (525-456 BCE) Quote = From book structure: Six Essential Forgetting Skills: [1] SKILL 1 = FOCUS [2] SKILL 2 = CONCENTRATION [3] SKILL 3 = RETAINING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION BY ASSOCIATING, NOT MEMORIZING [4] SKILL 4 = THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX [5] SKILL 5 = ORGANIZATION [6] SKILL 6 = FORGETTING BOOK OUTLINE Note = Numbers in parentheses refer to pages INTRODUCTION — A forgettable story (1-14) POP QUIZ — How well can you retain information, remember, and forget (14-15) PART I — THE POWER OF FORGETTING (17-74) 1) THE ESSENCE OF A PRODUCTIVE THINKER — How it's possible to develop a clear, quick mind regardless of IQ (19-48) 2) THE POWER OF MENTAL HABITS — It's all about patterns! (49-74) PART 2 — MASTERING THE SIX SKILLS OF A PRODUCTIVE THINKER (75-282) 3) SKILLS 1 AND 2 — FOCUS AND CONCENTRATION: Can you focus on your concentration? (77-106) 4) SKILL 3 — RETAINING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION WITHOUT "MEMORIZING": Increasing mental capacity through the fine art of association (107-157) 5) SKILL 4 — THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX: What Hitler and your mother-in-law have in common (158-193) 6) SKILL 5 — ORGANIZATION: Harry held little baby Bobbie, causing Nancy one fantastic nightmare (194-245) 7) SKILL 6 — FORGETTING: Memory's linchpin (246-282) CONCLUSION — Prosperous, productive, and prolific (283-290) APPENDIX A — Q&A: Odds and ends and a few more reminders in the classic FAQ style (291-310) APPENDIX B — ADDITIONAL GAMES TO ENGAGE EVERYONE FROM NINE TO NINETY-NINE: Plus tricks to amaze your family and friends (311-340) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (341-343) INDEX (345-352) AUTHOR NOTE, SUMMARY, AND BOOK DESCRIPTION AUTHOR NOTES = The author, Mike Byster, is the creator and founder of an award-winning memory training system Brainetics, LLC. www.mikebyster.com SUMMARY = The book is an uncommon guide for accomplishing more every day by engaging the unique skill of forgetting. Mike Byster shows you how to become a more efficient and effective thinker by learning how to forget in practical detail. This highly anticipated book reveals all and proves that everyone has the capacity for genius. BOOK DESCRIPTION = By training your brain with Mike Byster's exclusive quizzes and games, you can develop the critical thinking skills to become more successful in all you do, each and every day. Byster has helped thousands of people achieve a better, faster, sharper mind through this award-winning Brainetics program. While not everyone is a natural-born genius, everyone can cultivate the new skills and develop a mind to rival the best thinkers and watch the six thinking skills transform their lives. By using the essential six thinking skills in this book, you can learn how to be a more agile thinker and productive individual by changing the quality of your work and life balance forever. You can overcome the staggering volume of daily distractions that lead to brain fog, an inability to concentrate, lack of creativity, stress, anxiety, nervousness, angst, worry, dread, and even depression. The key to becoming more successful, more imaginative, more confident, more adaptable to change, and more effective at work, home, school, and life is learning how to forget. EDITORIAL BOOK REVIEWS RECOMMENDATION: You may print this text and read it and edit it by adding or deleting ideas. Also you can underline or highlight with colored inks or read it out loud to use proven memory boosters to help you capture this brain information in your long-term memory consolidation system. Then, you can read your edited version of these ideas according to a reinforcement schedule; such as in a few hours. Then in a few days you can repeatedly skim your version several times during the next week or two to take advantage of the power of the spaced-repetition method of memorization. REMEMBER ALWAYS: You Are Your Adaptable Memory! instantly return to: HOW TO LEARN THE 15 BRAIN IDEAS FAST ALPHABETICAL BRAIN® VOCABULARY produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas®