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An uncommon guide for accomplishing more every day by engaging the unique skill of forgetting, from the creator of the award-winning memory training system BraineticsIs it possible that the answer to becoming a more efficient and effective thinker is learning how to forget? Yes! Mike Byster will show you how mastering this extraordinary technique - forgetting unnecessary information, sifting through brain clutter, and focusing on only important nuggets of data - will change the quality of your work and life balance forever.Using the six tools in The Power of Forgetting, you'll learn how to be a more agile thinker and productive individual. You will overcome the staggering volume of daily distractions that lead to to brain fog, an inability to concentrate, lack of creativity, stress, anxiety, nervousness, angst, worry, dread, and even depression.



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Mike Byster

MIKE BYSTER has a single mission: to show people how to ignitetheir inner genius. Mike was born with a gift for numbers and patterns.He began noticing number patterns even as a young child,and when he was four years old he had memorized the birth anddeath dates of the presidents of the United States, in order. At eightyears old, he started developing memory games using mnemonicdevices that would eventually become part of his life's work as adifferent kind of teacher.Over the course of more than five thousand presentations inschools around the country between 1997 and 2007, Mike slowlycrafted and perfected an entertaining and award- winning five partDVD program called Brainetics™ that people can now use athome. Mike's program uses pattern awareness and mental multitaskingtools to build increased mental capacity. These techniquesnot only teach people the skills to think in new ways and solveproblems that they never thought possible, but they also give thema sense of self- confidence as they master the lessons and are able todo amazing mental feats.Mike fields more than ten thousand calls each year from schoolsrequesting him to visit, and he continues to conduct presentationsand teach kids in scores of schools each year free of charge. He alsooffers programs geared specifi cally at adults. Among the many outletsthat have featured him are 20/20, Reader's Digest, BloombergNews, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun- Times, andcountless local and regional media channels across the country.A native of Chicago, Mike still lives in the Chicago area withhis wife, Robin, and their teenage son, Josh (who, at the age ofseven, learned how to memorize a 212- digit number thanks to hisdad's teachings). He is a member of the National Council of Teachersof Mathematics.



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