Personal experience of Magical powers of brain and 10 distinctions

Magical powers of brain 

First of all i want to say that this was a very interesting book because i learned so many facts of the human brain, the way it works, how to use it more effectively and the most important thing how to improve my life by using my brain, such a great story of a basic character that perfectly could be one of us, well about my personal experience i have to say that when i was reading this book i could relate many personal experiences that i had in the past with the story of the book but i will say the one that was more important for me, in the book the author Gautam Jain explains something about the importance of   retention in which explains that "When the brain hankers to remember any information by using of five senses can boost its retention power tremendously, and then it can retain it for a long time" (G.Jain 26)  and i remember one time when i was in school and i had to do a very important exam so i decided to study but when i was doing it i realized that i was not learning anything i was just reading for hours without learning a single thing! and i remember that i got a bad grade and i felt so disappointed with myself because i was a very good student but i failed that time then i remember that i asked my dad help and he told me a very good technique for studying and that was retention (the same that the author explained) he told me that if i wanted to study better for an exam i had to apply this technique, he said that every important thing that i had to read i had to repeat it until my brain had absorbed that information and then i started appying this technique and i got better grades! and since then every time that i have to study for any exam i apply this technique and i always get good grades!  

Citation was taken from: Gautam, Jain. Magical Powers of Brain. 2017

10 distinctions between winners and whiners  

When i was reading this book the first thing that i realized was that most of my life i have been a whiner because i have been doing negative things in my life, things that could not define me as a winner but as a whiner, so reading this book for me was like a journey of self-discovery because i learned so many things that i have to improved but i will tell one particular experience that i had in the past, in this book there are 10 distinctions but i could relate my experience with two of them,the distinctions number 10 which is called "Winners take responsability. whiners play the victim" and the number 2 is called "Winners are focused minded, whiners are scatterbrained" i remember when i was in basic school, i used to have many exams but the problem was that i was too lazy to study for those exams and i always got bad grades, and when i saw the bad grades i played the victim and i didn't take the responsability for my actions and i started to blame everyone around me because i didn't feel that i was the problem and acording to Keith Cameron "Whiners play the victim because they allow their fears to grow into worry, their worry into suspicion, and their suspicion to grow into division" (5)  so i realized that i was the big problem and i began to change my situation in order to take the responsability for my actions but there was another problem and here is when the distiction number 2 comes, i used to feel that i couldn't be in peace with myself if i didn't finish all the things that i had to do and in other words i was scatterbrained and according to Cameron "As long as you are scatterbrained, you will be stressed.When you learn to focus on your top priorities , your mind becomes quiet and you find yourself at peace" (80) i didn't know anything about this and i always tried to do everything at once but it was impossible so i asked for help and i learned to prioritze the most important things for my life and since then my life changed i am not stressed anymore and i don't play the victim and i take the responsability for my actions. 

Both citations were taken from: Cameron, Keith. 10 distinctions between winners and whiners. 2011.