Download PDF You Can Have An Amazing Memory Learn Life - Changing Techniques And Tips From The Memory Maestro Dominic O' Brien Eight Times World Memory Champion
Sinopsis
Unlike so many other guides to memory improvement, this book is not intended as an exhaustive introduction to every memory technique out there. Instead, it is an unveiling of my own journey into the power of memory and of my own discoveries about how the human brain works. I have won the World Memory Championships eight times so far and I’ve been able to do that because, by trial and error, and by careful, faithful perseverance and dedication, I’ve uncovered the specific techniques that have given me a perfect (well, near-perfect!) memory. This book is my way to share those techniques with you in ways that I know work – because these were the ways that worked for me.
In order to get the most out of the book, try to resist dipping in and out of it, reading the chapters by random selection. In the first half of the book, each chapter builds on the discoveries that come before – so, some techniques or details may not make sense if you haven’t read the information in sequence. The second half of the book provides all the various ways you can apply the techniques, either for dedicated practice or in day-to-day life, as well as some tips on how to make sure that your body is healthy as well as your mind – another important aspect of memory training.
Content
Chapter 1: Your memory, my memory
Chapter 2: How it all began
Chapter 3: Memory and creativity
Chapter 4: The power of association
Chapter 5: Dimensions of association
Chapter 6: Chains of association
Chapter 7: The Link Method
Chapter 8: Eureka! My first successful attempt
Chapter 9: Devising the Journey Method
Chapter 10: Using the Journey Method
Chapter 11: Evidence for the Journey Method
Chapter 12: Top 5 tips for creating a memory journey bank
Chapter 13: Spinning the memory plates
Chapter 14: From cards to numbers
Chapter 15: The Dominic System
Chapter 16: Double pairs and complex images
Chapter 17: Becoming card sharp: multiple decks
Chapter 18: Getting up to speed
Chapter 19: Decoding the brain: From techniques to technology
Chapter 20: The first World Memory Championships
Chapter 21: Championship practice: Binary digits
Chapter 22: Championship practice: Names and faces
Chapter 23: Championship practice: Abstract images
Chapter 24: The memory champion’s life: Making speeches
Chapter 25: The memory champion’s life: How to be a fact factory
Chapter 26: Using the tools: Study and learning
Chapter 27: Using the tools: Everyday ways to train your memory
Chapter 28: Using the tools: Just for fun
Chapter 29: Age equals experience, not forgetfulness!
Chapter 30: I’ve done all that, now what can I expect?
Chapter 31: Look at what you can do now!
Download PDF 30 Days to a More POWERFUL Memory by Gini Graham Scott
Sinopsis
Everyone wants a better memory—and
in today’s information-filled, multitasking age, having a good memory is more
important than ever. Whether you need to keep track of your e-mail messages,
impress the boss, give a speech, organize a busy social schedule, remember whom
you met where and when, or anything else, a good memory is a necessary tool for
staying on top of things. It’s especially critical if you’re part of the
Baby Boomer generation or older, because memory loss can accompany aging. But if
you keep your mind and memory limber, you can rev up your memory power—in
fact, it’ll even get better with age!
30 Days to a More Powerful Memory is designed to help
anyone improve his or her memory. Besides drawing on the latest findings from
brain and consciousness researchers, psychologists, and others about what works
and why, I’ve included a variety of hands-on techniques and exercises, such as
memory-building games and mental-imaging techniques.
While some chapters deal with basic ways of preparing your mind
and body to remember more, such as improving your overall health and well-being,
the main focus is on the techniques you can use day to day to improve your
memory. Plus I’ve included chapters on creating systems so you have memory
triggers or you can reduce what you have to remember, so you can concentrate on
remembering what’s most important to you. For example, you might feel
over-whelmed if you have 20 tasks to keep in mind for a meeting;
but if you organize these by priority or groups of different types of tasks and
write down these categories, you might have a more manageable organization of
activities to remember.
It’s also important to personalize developing your memory, so
you work on increasing your abilities in areas that are especially meaningful
for you. By the same token, it helps to assess where you are now to figure out
what you are good at remembering and where there are gaps, so you can work on
those areas. Keeping a memory journal as you go through the learning process
will help you track your progress, and will help you notice what you forgot, so
you can work on improving your weak spots as well.
Since this is a book on improving your memory in 30 days, you
should focus on committing a 30-day period to working with these techniques. You
don’t necessarily have to read the chapters in a particular order. In fact,
you may want to spend more time on certain chapters and skip others. That’s
fine, but the way you use your memory is a kind of habit, and it generally takes
about three weeks to form a new habit or get rid of an old one, plus an extra
week thrown in for good measure. So this 30-day period will be a time when you
hone new memory skills and make them a regular part of your life. With some
practice, you will find that these techniques become an everyday part of your
life, so you don’t even have to think about them. You will just use them
automatically to help you remember more.
I’ve also included a few introductory chapters that describe
how the brain works and the different types of memory that create a memory
system. This is a little like having a memory controller in charge as you take
new information into your working or short-term memory, decide what bits of
memory you want to keep and include in your long-term memory, and later seek to
find and retrieve the memories you want. But again the focus is on using what
you have learned to better apply the techniques that incorporate those
principles. You’ll also see helpful tips from people I have interviewed on how
they remember information in different situations, and I have included examples
of how I apply these techniques myself. Some of these techniques are memory
games that I have developed to make increasing your memory fun.
While the focus is on using these memory skills for work and professional
development, you can use these skills in your personal life, too.
Back in high school and college, it was always a struggle for me
to remember details. When I took a class in acting in my junior year, I found it
especially difficult to remember my lines. Later on, I still had difficulty
remembering things. For example, if someone asked me to repeat something I had
just said—such as when I was being interviewed for a TV show or teaching a
class—I could never remember it exactly, though I could answer the question
anew. Yet, looking back, I can remember quite vividly my struggles to remember,
even imagining where I was, the appearance of the room, and the like. That’s
the way memory works. When you have images, when something is more important for
you, when you use multiple senses to encode the experience in the first
place—when you don’t just try to recall words on a page or a series of
spoken words—you will remember more.
Over the years, I learned specific ways to enable me to remember
things better. Now, since I have been working on this book, I have found even
more techniques to improve my memory. I think you’ll find the same thing as
you read through the chapters.
So get ready, get set—mark your calendar and get started on
improving your memory over the next 30 days. Of course, you’re also free to
condense the program into fewer days or extend the process if necessary. Thirty
days is optimal—but adapt the program so it’s best for you.
Content
1. How Your Memory Works
2. How Your Long-Term Memory Works
3. How Good Is Your Memory?
4. Creating a Memory Journal
5. Pay Attention!!!
6. Improving Your Health and Your
Memory
7. Decrease Stress and Anxiety to Remember
More
8. Increase Your Energy to Boost Your Memory
Power
9. It’s All About Me!
10. Remembering More by Remembering
Less
11. Using Schemas and Scripts to Help You
Remember
12. Chunk It and Categorize It
13. Rehearse … Rehearse … Rehearse …
and Review
14. Repeat It!
15. Talk About It
16. Tell Yourself a Story
17. Remembering a Story
18. Back to Basics
19. Take a Letter
20. Linked In and Linked Up
21. Find a Substitute
23. Be a Recorder
24. Record and Replay
25. Body Language
26. Let Your Intuition Do the
Walking
27. Remembering Names and Faces
28. Remembering Important Numbers
29. Walk the Talk: Speeches, Presentations,
and Meetings
Download PDF Max Your Memory : The Comple Visual Program By Dr. Pascale Michelon
Sinopsis
A visual program
If there is one magic word to open the door to a better memory, this word has to be “picture.” It is a fact that pictures are easier to remember than words. As you will see, the method behind the majority of the memory-enhancing techniques presented in this book is to translate information into striking visual images and register these to enable better recall. This is one of the main reasons why Max Your Memory is a book that’s visually led with fun and engaging illustrations and short chunks of easily digestible text. Since learning becomes much easier when it is fun and relevant to us, most of the exercises throughout the book are not abstract but relate to familiar, everyday situations.
The chapters
The first step to boosting memory is to understand what memory is and how it works. Chapter 1 offers a clear, illustrated introduction to memory and brain potential. Chapters 2 and 3 focus on short-term and long-term memory respectively. The next two chapters offer key memory-enhancing techniques based on visualization and imagination (Chapter 4) and organization (Chapter 5). The book then explores memory for names (Chapter 6) and numbers (Chapter 7) and introduces key methods to improve memory capacity for both. The final chapter looks at some of the tweaks you can make to your lifestyle to maximize brain health: this includes information on nutrition, ways to manage stress, and tips to get adequate sleep and exercise.
