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Optimizing Brain Fitness

By: Richard Restak, The Great Courses
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With its up to 500 trillion synaptic connections, your brain is easily the most powerful machine in the world. Even more incredibly: This amazing machine is constantly changing through a process known as brain plasticity. And you can take advantage of this process to improve and enhance your brain’s jaw-dropping powers - at any age.

Now, discover the secrets to increasing and expanding your brain’s power to meet everyday challenges and enhance the quality of your life with Optimizing Brain Fitness, an engaging 12-lecture course that shows you how to take advantage of the basic principles of brain operation and build the brain you want to live with for the rest of your life. Delivered by Dr. Richard Restak, an award-winning teacher, practicing neurologist, and professor at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, these lectures are packed with vital information and research-based exercises you can perform every day to tap into your hidden mental potential.

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This course is very educational. However it requires work to do exercises the author specifies . I gleaned that they also require creativity which in itself is advantageous to a healthy brain. Give this material a chance and hopefully you will see favourable results.

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I enjoyed it and thought that it had a few things I could use in my daily life. I found that this could used to make me better and was worth a listen for anyone trying to learn and get better.

great learning experience

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great contents and very clearly explained. I would recommend thist book if I have a chances. thank you

excellent book

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This book is a book that I will listen to several times I received so much knowledge, background information and practical exercises that I can do for my own memory and mind

Practical and important knowledge

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Very informative. Almost everything is important. I have bookmarked a lot in the first 3 chapters alone.
The author provided activities to apply each lecture. For me they are easy to do but some people may have a hard time doing some of them. I will definitely listen to it again. Worth listening and recommending as long as you can endure the boring narration of the speaker.

Very informative. Almost everything is important.

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The author's pace and vocal clarity was exceptional. He articulated wonderfully of cognition elements and ways of improving memory, processing, and decision-making. I have been motivated to take my brain health to the next level.

Maaaaarvvelous

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very easy to understand. easy on the ears. listen twice. will listen to this agaun

great

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Loved it at the end, beginning was too complex for my taste. However, this is one of those memory books you're looking for.

Halfway until the end you start to appreciate this book, especially at the end.

Impressed on the organization of the chapters

Beginning like I said is meh, only because it's technical and explains the different parts of the brain...but that info actually helps later on to understand what parts of the brain the next chapters are on about.

Favorite thing about it was that it contains plenty of explanations/examples on how to truly improve your brain (last chapters)

Worth it at the end

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I found This book to be extraordinarily informative and easy to digest ( absorb into my mind) I will be looking forward to listening to other books from this author/course.

Profoundly informative.

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thought it was good. with anything, we have to apply the learned knowledge. brain function can be improved at any age.

great book for improvement

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