Abhishek - Mental math: tricks to become a human calculator

Mental Math Tricks To Become A Human Calculator By Abhishek V.R Ofpad The School of Genius

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All that I am & all that I will ever be, I owe it to my mother.
All that I am & all that I will ever be, I owe it to my mother.

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I want to begin by telling you a story. This is a story that I am pretty embarrassed to share. Yet it is one you need to hear because it will reveal how you too can do math in your head. You see I wasnt always good with numbers, and I certainly wasnt smart growing up. In fact far from it - I HATED math.

One beautiful morning, I was in the backseat of my cousins motorcycle enjoying the cool breeze hitting my face. My summer was coming to an end, and my cousin was dropping me at the railway station. I was returning home after enjoying the monsoon rains. Life was good until it decided to punch in the face. This was a critical day of my life. In another 30 minutes, the results of my exam were going to be out.

This was important because how much I scored in this exam determined whether or not I went to college. In school, I wasnt very serious about my grades. My entire time was either spent playing video games or talking to my high school girlfriend on the phone. I had no real goal or purpose. If you had asked me what I wanted to become, I would have told you, I am still figuring that out. I was just an average guy going with the flow.

I was happy with just getting by and thought I would just make my way into college without really trying. However, life was about to give me a wakeup call. My cousin and I reached the station, and we were waiting for the train. He was one of the few people who had a smartphone back then. While we waited for the train, my cousin offered to check how much I scored on his iPhone. He punched in my details and waited for the result to load.

Seconds seemed like ages. His excited face was replaced with a look of sympathy. The look on his face only told me that I didnt even get the bare minimum required to get into college. I grabbed his phone and saw how much I scored. My face turned pale. I got the worst scores possible in math.

It would take a miracle for me to go to college. I later learnt that all my friends did well. My girlfriend did so well that she was going to study medicine. She broke up with me soon after. In my own eyes, everyone around me seemed a lot smarter than me. I started loathing myself.

I lost all self-esteem. Needless to say this was one of the lowest points of my life. I had hit rock bottom, and I didnt know if I even had a future. I would spend the next few months in depression crying about everything that went wrong in my life. My parents were anxious. However, word got around, and one of my fathers friends offered to give me a recommendation.

Life gave me another chance, and I somehow went to college. But this wasnt enough to restore my lost self-esteem. Everyone I knew, got better grades than me. To my young mind, grades were a measure of intelligence. By that measure, I saw myself as having one of the lowest IQs in the world. The late president of my country once said, Dreams are not what you have when you sleep.

The true dreams are the ones that don't let you sleep. Becoming the smartest possible version of myself became an obsession that wouldnt let me sleep. I had to become incredibly intelligent, to restore my lost self-esteem. This made me want to learn everything I possibly could that would push the boundaries of my intelligence. I decided to start this journey from a place I hated the most MATH. It made a lot of sense to me back then to start here because my lack of love for it almost cost me my future.

So the first thing I did was learn how to do math in my head. I read every possible book there was. Tracked down every article and video published on the subject and absorbed it. I combined what I learnt from different places to create my unique system that would let anybody do mental math lightning fast. The techniques can be learnt in a few minutes. When I first discovered it, it started to change the way I thought.

Since calculations were done in the head, I acquired better memory habits. My concentration and my ability to think improved. But most importantly, learning how to do mental math pushed the boundaries of what I thought was possible. If I could now do math faster in my head after having hated it for a good part of my life, then I could do anything. I have been relentlessly pushing the boundaries of my intelligence in every way possible ever since. Now I have an MS degree and work in the field of data analytics.

Math is what I enjoy doing the most. Nobody believes me when I tell them I was an average student in school. They think I was gifted from birth. Remember, my brain is no different from yours when it comes to numbers. I am just a guy who happens to have a system which makes it easier to do mental math. This is a system that allows people like us to experience a life where math and numbers become useful, as we experience a new and powerful way to think.

This is the same system that has allowed me to effortlessly calculate numbers in my head faster than a calculator after having hated math for a good part of my life. And today, in this book, I am going to share the secret of doing mental math with you. The secret that will change your life the way it did mine.

The Ofpad Mental Math system is the only system to do math in your head faster than a calculator making math your new superpower. These radically simple techniques for mental math will work for you even if you hate math and if you are terrible at math, to begin with. This mental math book was written after analysing the techniques used by over 27 mental math geniuses across the world, from countries including Sweden, India and China.

I uncovered these hidden patterns and unique (sometimes 'odd') tactics they use to do math with superhuman speed. And now, starting today, their success can be your success. What is remarkable about this system is that it is so simple that even a child can do it. The strategies of these math geniuses can now be duplicated easily by you, giving you the power of using math and numbers in your life. You will enjoy an improved memory and develop a laser-sharp concentration, all while you calculate faster than you ever dreamed possible. You will not find complicated rules that work for specific situations in this book.

Instead, you will learn broad concepts that you can apply to all types of math problems. You will not find math techniques that will require you to use a paper. After you finish this book, you will start calculating in your head faster than before. However, for the techniques to become second nature to you, you will have to do the practice exercises that come with the book. Now, before we go any further, I need to be 100% honest with you. If what you want is a magic pill that you can swallow to become a genius (something you already know will never work in practice), then you can stop reading this book right now.

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