■ The Big IDEA
This package is a combination of six cassette tapes along with a workbook and other handouts. Colin Rose is a British expert on accelerated learning techniques and Brian Tracy is a well-known U.S. peak performance coach. According to Rose and Tracy, intelligence is not fixed, it is like a muscle that can be developed, and learning how to learn is the key. The authors cite several examples where corporations have successfully used these techniques to improve their employees learning capacity. For example, one major telephone company cut their training in half with some of the accelerated learning techniques described in this package.

All information enters the brain through one of the five senses. The majority of this information processing is through touch (kinesthetic), sight (visual) or sound (auditory), and most people rely more heavily on one of these methods, (kinesthetic - 40%, visual - 35%, auditory -25%). It is best to use all three if possible (multi -sensory learning). For example you could read the learning material out loud (auditory), view graphic images related to the topic (visual) and feel actual samples of a related item (kinesthetic).

Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven intelligences, or aptitudes. These include: Linguistic intelligence, Math and logical intelligence, Visual/spatial intelligence, Musical intelligence, Interpersonal intelligence, Interpersonal intelligence, and Bodily intelligence. Unfortunately, traditional education only uses a few of the. Gardner recommends using at least two to three of them whenever possible to maximize learning.

■ About the Author
Colin Rose is founder and chairman of Accelerated Learning Systems, and consults with many universities and corporations such as Motorola, Xerox, and IBM. He lectures frequently at conferences and symposiums across the globe. In the United Kingdom he is working at a government level to set up a national network of centers for parent education and is a member of the steering committee of the Learning Society, a collaborative undertaking of the British government, the Royal Society for the Arts, and industry. He lives in England.

Brian Tracy (born in Canada in 1944) is a self-help author who has recorded many of his works as audio books. His talks and seminar topics include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness, and business strategy.

When he was 30 he attended the University of Alberta, eventually earning a masters degree in business; he is now the Chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in Solana Beach, California, with affiliates throughout the United States and in thirty-one other countries.

In 1981 Brian assembled his "success system" called The Phoenix Seminar. Three years later he released the seminar as a self-help audio tape called "The Psychology of Achievement".

Tracy is a member of the board of trustees for the Heritage Foundation, an influential Washington, D.C.-based public policy research institute.[1]

Much of Tracys self-help material is based on the works of other "success" gurus such as Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn and Denis Waitley. He has recently launched Brian Tracy University, an online syllabus designed to focus primarily on entrepreneurs, business owners and sales professionals. The Brian Tracy College of Management and Entrepreneurship at the distance learning school Andrew Jackson University is named after him.