Harry Lorayne's Page-a-Minute Memory Book

by LORAYNE, HARRY

• ISBN13: 9780345410146
• ISBN10: 0345410149
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-29
• Publisher: Ballantine Books

Summary

If time is money, then memory is the bank and Harry Lorayne will show you how to make every minute count, dramatically increasing performance, productivity, and profits. -- Enhance your powers of concentration and observation. -- Double or even triple your daily work output, eliminate careless errors, quickly skim and retain business reports, news articles, and technical data. -- Breeze through exams, improve your grades and classroom performance, reduce your homework time, and increase your free time. -- Give speeches without notes and without anxiety, learn foreign languages more easily, excel at poker, bridge, and other games. -- Heighten your mental agility, learning power, and conversational skills. -- Discover the newfound authority, confidence, and pleasure that come from a quick, sharp, active mind. Whatever your lifestyle or walk of life, begin your countdown to success today, and put a world of knowledge and know-how at your fingertips

Author Biography

Harry Lorayne is the world's foremost memory training specialist and the author of ten bestselling books, including The Memory Book, coauthored with Jerry Lucas.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Substitute Word System	11	(38)
The ``Slap in the Face'' Principle	16	(7)
Foreign Language Vocabulary	23	(5)
Observation Without Pain	28	(5)
Names	33	(7)
And Faces	40	(9)
The Link System	49	(42)
Speeches	60	(8)
The Business Edge	68	(5)
Numbers	73	(6)
The Phonetic Alphabet	79	(12)
The Peg System	91
Link or Peg?	109
Bonus Application: Appointments	112
Bonus Application: Perpetual Calendar	119
Bonus Application: Know Your ABCs	120
Bonus Application: Absentmindedness	122
Bonus Application: Spelling	128
Bonus Application: Student Aid	130
Bonus Application: Reading, Concentration, and Listening Techniques	134
Bonus Application: Arithmetic Clues	147
Bonus Application: Computer Programs	154
Making Your Own Bonus Applications	158
Last Few Words	161