A First Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi, book cover

Nassir Ghaemi

A First Rate Madness

Master it as if you wrote it without reading a single page from it with short interactive lessons you play.

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What it’s about

Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike…

by Nassir Ghaemi

  • Biography/Memoir
  • Health
  • History

How a lesson feels

A lesson is a game you can’t zone out of

Example lesson
Spark

Reading once isn’t remembering.

Most of a book fades unless you pull it back out of your head.

Guess

What helps you remember a book more?

  • Reading it again
  • Quizzing yourself on it
Exactly!

Pulling an idea out of your head makes it stick better than reading it twice.

The takeaway

Quiz yourself. Don’t re-read.

Ratings and reviews

Rated 4.0 from 53 ratings on Apple Books

  • Maya R.

    · 2 weeks ago

    The 5-minute quiz nailed exactly what I needed. The learning experience finally made the ideas stick.

  • James T.

    · 1 month ago

    I never finish books. Memrbl turned this one into a lesson I actually completed on my commute.

  • Aisha K.

    · 3 weeks ago

    Loved how personal it felt, like it knew which parts I'd struggle with before I did.

  • Daniel O.

    · 5 days ago

    Better than any summary app. The questions made me think instead of just skim.

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