You Can Learn to Remember: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
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.
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You Can Learn to Remember: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
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.
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You Can Learn to Remember: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

You Can Learn to Remember: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

by Dominic O'Brien
You Can Learn to Remember: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

You Can Learn to Remember: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

by Dominic O'Brien

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780288703
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 07/15/2014
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 459 KB

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

A brief history of memory 13

Oral traditions 14

The ancient greeks 16

The ancient romans 18

Memory's changing fortunes 19

Memory in modern times 22

The memory maze 25

The landscape of the mind 26

Exercise one: catching the "jizz" 29

Left brain, right brain 30

Waves of memory 32

Types of memory 34

How memories are created 40

Exercise two: finding your digit span 43

The reliability of memory 44

Exercise three: Hosting a memory forum 47

Sleep, dreams and memory 48

Memory and learning 50

Theories of forgetting 52

Lost memory 54

Memory in children 56

Memory and aging 58

Enticing the echoes 61

The memory gymnasium 62

The art of memory 64

The art of imagination 68

Exercise four: painting a memory masterpiece 71

The art of association 72

The art of location 74

The art of concentration 76

Exercise Five: a memory meditation warm-up 77

The art of observation 78

Exercise six: noticing the details 79

Revision and repetition 80

Memory and health 82

Memory and the senses 84

Exercise seven: the memory kaleidoscope 85

Memory and music 86

Exercise eight; staging a memory concert 87

The art of recall 88

Memory with a map 93

Mnemonics 94

Visual pegs 96

Exercise nine: the memory forest 10-note keyboard 97

The story method 98

Exercise ten: making a memory chain 99

Exercise eleven: weaving a narrative spell 101

The journey method 102

Exercise twelve: walking the walk 105

Exercise thirteen: the memory house 107

The dominic system 108

The number-shape system 110

Mind maps 112

Memory in action 115

Matching names and faces 116

Exercise fourteen: what's in a name? 117

Keeping a date 118

Exercise fifteen: using a mental diary 119

Finding the right word 120

Exercise sixteen: crossword heaven 121

Making speeches 122

Memory and games 124

Exercise seventeen: memorizing cards of chance 127

Memory at school 128

Reading and retaining 130

Exercise eighteen: evaluate, assimilate, remember 131

Speed reading 132

Exercise nineteen: checking the sense 133

Quick-fix retrieval 134

Exercise twenty: clearing the sea-bed of memory 135

The memory palace 137

Living through detail 138

Memory massage 140

Dealing with life's demands 142

Exercise twenty-one: The interview journey 143

Time travelling 144

Exercise twenty-two: harnessing schooldays 145

Releasing the past 146

Exercise twenty-three: disarming a memory 147

The world of emotions 148

Exercise twenty-four: rekindling the flame 149

Keeping the mind young 150

Exercise twenty-five: tracing connections 151

Memory of the future 152

Bibliography 154

Acknowledgments 159

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