I am totally updating my initial review of "Secrets of Mental Math" because I am more than enough of a Man to admit when I am wrong! My initial review was fueled by frustration that should have been directed at the awful school system we suffer from (I LOVE America, I do NOT like out school system, grade school, jr. high, highschool--I really enjoyed and learned a lot in College:)<br><br>Anyway, I locked myself in a quiet room with "Secrets of Mental Math" a pen and paper and some hot, strong coffee and I FORCED myself to do all the examples and read until I did find the "how to" (initially they just show off and this pissed me off because it reminded me of the smart kids in the front row that answered every question easily and mislead the teachers into thinking we all understood how to do things when in fact most of us were almost "drowning" and stuggling just to pass the class and the teachers just wanted to teach to those bright students and left the rest of us in the dust--the authors totally show off yet they also teach )<br><br>So now after a few days of practice I am actually able to do some cool math magic, even in my head! I am a bit Math Dyslectic (not sure if this is a real learning issue, yet I know many people tend to "switch numbers" when they are under stress and I got many "wrong number phone calls" over the years from people trying to dial a 948 and instead they misdialed a 984 and so got the wrong number. I sometimes do this with addresses too and I know I had "bad math teachers" who actually used "bad hypnosis" to program me that "you just aren't good at math, be glad you are so smart in most other subjects..."<br><br>So I deprogrammed myself with Self Hypnosis, NLP, EFT, etc. and now I know to be really careful of my "bad habit" of "switching numbers" and also of using tiny corners of pages to do arithmatic and so I can barely even read my own handwriting (this comes from the "you have to show your work or we think you are cheating" from bad school systems because early on I learned to be good at math from my European born mother and I "got in trouble" with the schools for "doing things my way" and eventually they just confused me so much that I "WAS bad at math" and now I am actually quite good and improving all the time.<br><br>My apologies to the very good authors of "Secrets of Mental Math" and I am grateful for their very good book and glad I am stubborn enough and open minded enough to give things another try and so I can learn better and be more Limitless :)<br><br>Michael Twomey