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How to Learn Almost Anything in 48 Hours

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How to Learn Almost Anything in 48 Hours by Tansel Ali offers practical techniques to rapidly acquire new skills and knowledge. Whether preparing for exams, delivering speeches, learning languages, or mastering new technologies, this book provides clear methods and exercises to enhance memory and accelerate learning.
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Ideal for busy learners, students, professionals, and anyone eager to improve their memory and learning speed in a time-efficient way.

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We all want to improve our knowledge, learn new things, and ace exams, but in this fast paced world we can feel a little time poor to really get the best from ourselves. In this amazingly practical book, memory coach and brain trainer, Tansel Ali unlocks the secrets to learning almost anything in just 48 hours.ย 

In How to Learn Almost Anything in 48 Hours, Tansel demonstrates techniques to apply to learning a wide range of things:

Studying Exams
Speeches and Presentations
Foreign Languages
Music Theory and Practice
Speed Reading
New Technologies and Software
General Knowledge, Trivia and Facts.

Includes exercises to hone your skills at memory and train your brain to learn well and learn fast, this is the ultimate book for anyone ready to sharpen their mind and expand their knowledge.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781743790564

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2015

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 235g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Tansel Ali is a 3 times Australian Memory Champion and one of the leading thinkers on memory in the world. He has memorised two telephone directory books in only twenty four days (that is over 2000 businesses and more than 24,000 digits). He has broken numerous memory records and competed in the World Memory Championships in Malaysia where he achieved the rank of Grandmaster of Memory.

Tansel runs a highly successful business as a memory coach and corporate speaker with a diverse range of clients from the corporate and business world, the Arts, education and entertainment. Tansel has spent the past 12 years training people to make the most of their brain in order to work more effectively and his unique coaching style and personal experience have contributed to many success stories.

In 2012 he coached TV personality and CEO of Leo Burnett, Todd Sampson to compete in the World Memory Championships in London by successfully memorising a deck of randomly shuffled cards. His work with Todd Sampson was the subject of hugely popular TV series , Redesign Your Brain on ABC TV and screened internationally.

Tansel has two Masters degrees in Information systems management and an MBA, and has over 12 years experience in IT and training and customer service. ย He is the author of The Yellow Elephant: Improve Your Memory and Learn More, Faster, Better.

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