You Can Learn to Remember
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Published on 15. July 2014
144 pages
978-1-78028-870-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this easy-to-follow book you will learn simple, easy techniques and shortcuts to help enhance the power of your memory. From memorizing a speech or a simple shopping list to remembering peoples names and faces You Can Train Your Brain to Remember is an invaluable guide to help you train your brain for peak performance.
The book includes:
A simple overview to help you understand how your memory works.
Techniques you can use to improve your memory, including visualisation, imagination and association.
Specific methods such as Visual Pegs, the Story Method, the Journey Method, the Number Shape, Mind Maps and Dominic's very own method as well as many others.
Specific techniques for specific purposes which include, making a speech, keeping a date, remembering a name and reading and retaining.
You Can Train Your Brain to Remember puts improved storage, retention and recollection within reach of us all.
The book includes:
A simple overview to help you understand how your memory works.
Techniques you can use to improve your memory, including visualisation, imagination and association.
Specific methods such as Visual Pegs, the Story Method, the Journey Method, the Number Shape, Mind Maps and Dominic's very own method as well as many others.
Specific techniques for specific purposes which include, making a speech, keeping a date, remembering a name and reading and retaining.
You Can Train Your Brain to Remember puts improved storage, retention and recollection within reach of us all.
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Dominic O'Brien is renowned for his phenomenal feats of memory and for outwitting the casinos of Las Vegas at the blackjack tables, resulting in a ban. In addition to winning the World Memory Championship eight times, he was named Brain of the Year in 1994 and Grandmaster of Memory by the Brain Trust of Great Britain. He has made numerous appearances on TV and radio and holds a host of world records, including one for memorising 2,385 random binary digits in 30 minutes. He is author of How to Increase Your Memory, How to Pass Exams and the Never Forget! series (all DBP).
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- A brief history of memory
- Oral traditions
- The ancient greeks
- The ancient romans
- Memory's changing fortunes
- Memory in modern times
- The memory maze
- The landscape of the mind
- Exercise one: catching the "jizz"
- Left brain, right brain
- Waves of memory
- Types of memory
- How memories are created
- Exercise two: finding your digit span
- The reliability of memory
- Exercise three: hosting a memory forum
- Sleep, dreams and memory
- Memory and learning
- Theories of forgetting
- Lost memory
- Memory in children
- Memory and aging
- Enticing the echoes
- The memory gymnasium
- The art of memory
- The art of imagination
- Exercise four: painting a memory masterpiece
- The art of association
- The art of location
- The art of concentration
- Exercise five: a memory meditation warm-up
- The art of observation
- Exercise six: noticing the details
- Revision and repetition
- Memory and health
- Memory and the senses
- Exercise seven: the memory kaleidoscope
- Memory and music
- Exercise eight: staging a memory concert
- The art of recall
- Memory with a map
- Mnemonics
- Visual pegs
- Exercise nine: the memory forest 10-note keyboard
- The story method
- Exercise ten: making a memory chain
- Exercise eleven: weaving a narrative spell
- The journey method
- Exercise twelve: walking the walk
- Exercise thirteen: the memory house
- The dominic system
- The number-shape system
- Mind maps
- Memory in action
- Matching names and faces
- Exercise fourteen: what's in a name?
- Keeping a date
- Exercise fifteen: using a mental diary
- Finding the right word
- Exercise sixteen: crossword heaven
- Making speeches
- Memory and games
- Exercise seventeen: memorizing cards of chance
- Memory at school
- Reading and retaining
- Exercise eighteen: evaluate, assimilate, remember
- Speed reading
- Exercise nineteen: checking the sense
- Quick-fix retrieval
- Exercise twenty: clearing the seabed of memory
- The memory palace
- Living through detail
- Memory massage
- Dealing with life's demands
- Exercise twenty-one: The interview journey
- Time travelling
- Exercise twenty-two: harnessing schooldays
- Releasing the past
- Exercise twenty-three: disarming a memory
- The world of emotions
- Exercise twenty-four: rekindling the flame
- Keeping the mind young
- Exercise twenty-five: tracing connections
- Memory of the future
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
