How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week : 52 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills

by O'Brien, Dominic

• ISBN13: 9781844831883
• ISBN10: 1844831884
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-28
• Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE

Summary

From the little things (recalling statistics and facts) to the big (keeping track of anniversaries and important appointments), a good memory is essential to a happy life and a successful career. Improve yours, with these 52 proven techniques that helped win Dominic O'Brien accolades such as "Brain of the Year" and "Grandmaster of Memory." O'Brien has designed this guide as a year-long course in memory improvement, complete with a paced program of study that starts with the basics and slowly builds. Use it as a handy reference to target specific memory shortcomings: exercises such as "Pin Number" and "52 Shopping Items" provide tailored approaches to real-life situations. Combining an expert understanding of the brain with tested methods, O'Brien has produced a potent, memory-boosting tool.

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(2)
1 MEMORY TOOLS	10	(38)
Step 01 How Good is Your Memory?	12	(4)
Step 02 Visualization and Observation	16	(2)
Step 03 Acronyms	18	(2)
Step 04 Turning Numbers into Sentences	20	(2)
Step 05 The Body System	22	(2)
Step 06 Association: the First Key	24	(2)
Step 07 The Link Method	26	(2)
Step 08 Location: the Second Key	28	(2)
Step 09 Imagination: the Third Key	30	(2)
Step 10 The Journey Method	32	(6)
Step 11 Concentration	38	(2)
Step 12 The Language of Numbers	40	(4)
Step 13 The Number-Rhyme System	44	(2)
Step 14 The Alphabet System	46	(2)
2 MEMORY CONSTRUCTION	48	(48)
Step 15 How to Remember Names and Faces	50	(4)
Step 16 How to Remember Directions	54	(4)
Step 17 How to Remember Spellings	58	(2)
Step 18 How to Remember Countries and Their Capitals	60	(3)
Step 19 Learning a Foreign Language	63	(3)
Step 20 How to Remember Your Past	66	(2)
Step 21 How to Remember the Elements	68	(2)
Step 22 Develop Your Declarative Memory	70	(2)
Step 23 The Dominic System I	72	(6)
Step 24 How to Remember Jokes	78	(2)
Step 25 How to Remember Fiction	80	(2)
Step 26 Read Faster and Remember More	82	(2)
Step 27 How to Remember Quotations	84	(3)
Step 28 Memory and Mind Maps®	87	(4)
Step 29 How to Remember Speeches and Presentations	91	(3)
Step 30 The Art of Revision and Maximizing Recall	94	(2)
3 MEMORY POWER	96	(36)
Step 31 The Dominic System II	98	(3)
Step 32 How to Remember Telephone Conversations	101	(3)
Step 33 The Dominic System III	104	(4)
Step 34 How to Memorize a Deck of Playing Cards	108	(4)
Step 35 How to Become a Human Calendar	112	(6)
Step 36 How to Remember Historic Dates	118	(2)
Step 37 Telephone Numbers and Important Dates	120	(4)
Step 38 How to Remember the News	124	(2)
Step 39 How to Memorize Oscar Winners	126	(3)
Step 40 How to Remember Poetry	129	(3)
4 MEMORY MASTERCLASS	132	(38)
Step 41 The Roman Room Method	134	(4)
Step 42 How to Remember Historic and Future Dates	138	(2)
Step 43 How to Store a Memory within a Memory	140	(3)
Step 44 How to Memorize Binary Numbers	143	(3)
Step 45 How to Memorize a Dictionary	146	(3)
Step 46 How to Memorize Multiple Decks of Cards	149	(3)
Step 47 How to Memorize a Room Full of People	152	(3)
Step 48 Healthy Body, Healthy Memory	155	(3)
Step 49 How to Win at Quiz Games	158	(2)
Step 50 Games to Boost Your Memory Power	160	(2)
Step 51 Number Memorization Exercises	162	(4)
Step 52 How Brilliant is Your Memory Now?	166	(4)
Conclusion	170	(2)
Further Reading	172	(1)
Index	173	(3)
Contact the Author and Author's Acknowledgments	176