Use Your Memory

Like so many children, as a youth I was mystified by this wonderful and exasperating thing called memory. In casual and relaxed situations it worked so smoothly that I hardly ever noticed it; in examinations it only occasionally performed well, to my surprise, but was more often associated with 'bad memory', the fearful area of forgetting. Since I spent much of my childhood in the country with animals, I began to realise that the misnamed 'dumb' creatures seemed to have extraordinary memories, often superior to my own. Why, then, was human memory apparently so faulty?
I began to study in earnest, eagerly devouring information about how the early Greeks had devised specific memory systems for various tasks; and how, later, the Romans applied these techniques to enable themselves to remember whole books of mythology and to impress their audiences during senatorial speeches and debates. My interest became more focused while I was in college, when the realisation slowly dawned on me that such basic systems need not be used only for 'rote' or parrotlike memory, but could be used as gigantic filing systems for the mind, enabling extraordinarily fast and efficient access, and enormously enhancing general understanding. I applied the techniques in taking examinations, in playing games with my imagination in order to improve my memory, and in helping other students, who were supposedly on the road to academic failure, achieve first-class successes.
The explosion of brain research during the last decade has confirmed what the memory theorists, gamesters, mnemonic technicians and magicians have always known: that the holding capacity of our brains and the ability to recall what is stored there are far and deliciously beyond normal expectations.
Use Your Memory, a major new development from the memory sections of Use Your Head, is an initial tour through what should have been included as first among the seven wonders of the world: the 'hanging gardens' of limitless memory and imagination.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Is Your Memory Perfect?
Chapter 02 - Testing Your Current Memory Capabilities
Chapter 03 - The History of Memory
Chapter 04 - The Secret Principles Underlying a Superpower Memory
Chapter 05 - The Link System
Chapter 06 - The Number-Shape System
Chapter 07 - The Number-Rhyme System
Chapter 08 - The Roman Room System
Chapter 09 - The Alphabet System
Chapter 10 - How to Increase by 100% Everything You Have Learned
Chapter 11 - The Major System
Chapter 12 - Card Memory System
Chapter 13 - Long Number Memory System
Chapter 14 - Telephone Number Memory System
Chapter 15 - Memory System for Schedules and Appointments
Chapter 16 - Memory System for Dates in Our Century
Chapter 17 - Memory System for Important Historical Dates
Chapter 18 - Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries, etc.
Chapter 19 - Memory Systems for Vocabulary and Language
Chapter 20 - Remembering Names and Faces
Chapter 21 - Memory System for Speeches, Jokes …
Chapter 22 - Remembering for Examinations
Chapter 23 - Notes for Remembering-Mind Maps
Chapter 24 - Re-Remembering
Chapter 25 - Your Memory's Rhythms
Chapter 26 - Catching Your Dreams
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June 16th, 2007 13:59
thanks
July 21st, 2007 16:19
quite interesting, revealing. awesomely shocking what one is supposed to know.