The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

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The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

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you can break down pretty much any word to it's phonetic components (i.e. silent letters aren't used, etc), and with this system you can convert pretty much any word into a number quite easily (components -> 7392210). Converting a number into a word is a little bit harder and it's a bit like playing a word game ("hmm, what's a word that I can turn 33 into with two m's and no other consonants... oh, how about 'Mom'"). I don't think the mnemonics for these are particularly good but there's only ten of them so memorizing them isn't that hard with some practice. Being good at memorizing numbers ends up just being an exercise in finding cute words from the consonants and then linking them together. I can’t memorize scriptures at church and I can’t even memorize the Cub Scout Oath. It is awful being me! I feel like the scarecrow in the wizard of Oz movie, you know, if I only had a brain, that’s me. Just like the rest of my family who do not even have high school educations. Mr. Johnson, your classes are so interesting and exciting you just inspired me to study and that's why I did so well on your final exam. Finally, I just gave up telling them the truth once and let them think what they wanted to. Remember the first law of real magic: People would rather believe a lie told to them a thousand times than the truth told to them once! imo you should create your own list of words for these instead of relying on the books', and if you want to break from the major system pattern that's perfectly fine so long as you end up being able to remember it easily.

They had evidently been told thousands of times that there are real geniuses and figured I must be one of them. I am a certified college professor and it is not the same in today’s institutions of higher learning. Also, the very expensive private colleges and universities had a tradition of respect and honor that seldom is seen in the much less expensive institutions of higher learning that the large majority of students attend. I never attended the less expensive state schools a few decades old. My schools were the hundreds of year old with the very best professors. Front door, (41); main front door, (46); closest corner of driveway, (51); Preis corner of driveway, (56); small gate, (61); other side of small gate,(66). I am going to start believing people even when I feel what they are saying couldn’t possibly be true. Basically, this is inspiring me to be open-minded; no matter what I had been told a thousand times to the contrary.

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The only negative point for me was the chatty style. I have read other books about memory improvement so the important things were clear to me. This wasn't the case when I bought the book in the 90s and I wouldn't recommend it if you need clear instructions. For seeing the system in action though it's absolutely priceless. If you are familiar with the various methods and want examples then this book is for you. It will take you a minimum of five hours per night to memorize these words for the daily tests. Until this time you have not known what true scholarship is. Look at the person to your left and the person to your right they will not be here tomorrow. The Memory Book is a guide written by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas. Although it looks like a novel, the book is more like a textbook in that to really get the most out of it, one has to do the suggested activities while reading the book. The point of this book is, if not already evident, to help improve one's memory. This is a basic primer to the easier techniques in mnemonics, and will allow you to learn a great deal about how to memorize large quantities of information, pretty much about any topic, with a little bit of creativity. The techniques they cover are the Link, Substitute Word, Major, and Peg systems, as well as some other useful applications like names/faces, playing cards, locations, etc.

A fit/foot tries to get a phone but foam (like plastic) from a fire keeps it in file(ing cabinet). (81-85) I remember when it happened. I am listening to the Dr. Rippy and I just realized I forgot to take notes on his lecture. What am I going to do? All my fellow students just walked out the door. I don’t want to tell Dr. Rippy how stupid I was to not take notes. Let me see, what was it; he was saying. Oh, I remember he was talking about the formula for changing a person’s frame of reference. You know I remember that complicated formula. He also talked about the different ways we can help people: by offering help, by indirectly helping them through their peers and you know I remember every single detail. I don’t need to take notes, it just all stayed in my head.

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Next, they would slowly bow their head and stand quietly for a few seconds with their head down. Then they would raise their head slowly look into my eyes with a big smile and ask how my day was going. After a short conversation, they would then move on to where they were going. They never walked within my line of sight without doing this ritual honoring, even when I was sitting with other students. While they were doing this, all the students around me watched in awe. The professors never passed me without doing this physical and verbal sign of high honor because I was one of the four Greek scholars in the University. They treated all four of us the same way. We were the only students treated this way by any of the professors. Not mentioned, but worth noting for speed is PAO (person, action, object) where you create three lists of 52 words each, and then use them to flip over three cards at a time and memorize the cards in 3-card chunks. This is much faster and easier to remember (reduces image count from 52 to 18) but obviously requires a bit more up-front memorization (156 links). Focus on what you want to remember--if you want to remember. The best example is learning someone's name. Forget it right away? You're not being aware enough. When meeting new people, rhetorically repeat, "What is their name? What is their name?" Have that be your main nagging thought. It almost feels unfair to give this book 4 stars instead of 5, since it's probably one of the most useful books I've ever read and easily the book I've most often gifted to others. But I hope the reason will become clear in this review. You want a free almost half million dollar education; get, read, and use the secrets in the memory book, I did.



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