Living With A Phenomenal Memory: How an Ordinary Man Developed Amazing Memorization Skills

In 1966, five-year-old Frank Healy was sick and stayed home from school. Bored and too ill to get out of bed, Frank began looking at a calendar and memorized an entire calendar year in a few days. With additional practice, he memorized everything he experienced by making mental notes throughout the day, from decades of Philadelphia weather facts to the history of space flight and a variety of other subjects.
Healy, a life coach who specializes in improving memory, documents events that play...