Magic Tricks

While the concept that drives this video is great, unfortunately for me, I wasn't able to grasp everything on the first sit through of the video, so I needed repeated watchings of the video. This is where the shine started to fade rapidly. Repeated watchings made learning the system increasingly difficult because of the sheer amount of talking unrelated to learning his system of images interfered and distracted from the focus of learning.

What I mean by all of this is that a lot of the time spent justifying why one should keep working on this after every 5 or so cards, explaining how and/or why this particular system works (again, after every 5 or so cards), or why the Mnemonica stack is worth learning (yup, after every 5 or so cards) could have been spent quizzing--instead, after a few words of encouragement (helpful), I'm being given a sales pitch for this memorization system as late as 40 cards in (very unhelpful--there's no need to keep selling this to me for minutes on end after every 5 or so cards because, frankly, I've already purchased the video).

For example, after 40 cards in, why am I being given essentially a sales speech for this download again? When I'm asked only a few cards later to leave a review, all I can honestly remember is

I would encourage a re-shoot of this video, paying more attention to those elements that undermine the learning, to trim the excess, and better structure it to enhance the learning process. I do believe in this system, and I'm still working on it, but I think the teaching of the system could use a good look to really make this as beneficial as Rick says it can be, and also to put it on par with the quality of the teaching found in more well-produced Penguin downloads at this price--and then I would be happy to give this 5 stars.