Product Title:
The Memory Book
Description:
Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas’s simple, fail-safe memory system, & you can be more efficient, more imagination, & powerful, at work, at school, in sports & games. Discover how easy it is to: file phone numbers, dates, numbers, & dates right in your head, learn vocabulary & phrases with ease; read with speed – & understanding shine in the classroom – & shorten study hours; into dominate social situations & much more.
This book has all the storage technologies that are typically taught in memory courses and other storage pound. Although they are sometimes introduced by other names, all techniques, variants and combinations of word-substitution (mostly used for foreign words, but also people, the names and words that can not be easily shown), Link, PEG, loci (sometimes as a Roman Room technique) and phonetic (letter for number substitution) systems. The book is primarily re-hashing information that was presented earlier (even by Lorayne himself), but the writing style makes it a book worth keeping.
The real strength of this book is about another of his kind of dialogue between Lucas and Lorayne. They are entertaining to read and almost never boring. There are anecdotes at the beginning of most chapters and spread throughout the book. Personally, I found Kenneth Higbee
‘s “Your Memory” a better book, it is a complete reference and more are why the memory is not only the how of remembering. Depending on your needs, you might this book seems like it has more examples of how he will use the systems and is much easier and a little less dry, although Higbee’s book very readable.
As with any other Memory Book, you take the time to learn the techniques and take considerable effort, but work very well. For a book on memory techniques, does not disappoint this book.
Rating: 5.4
Harry Lorayne, a master magician and entertainer card is also one of the world’s leading expert memory. “The Memory Book” will change your life, literally. In the book, Lorayne describes in detail several techniques, the memory, with a little practice, you have virtually everything you will remember. Among the techniques that I use three, most of the Link, Substitute Words and Peg are. The link is used to any number of products, such as 20 objects, etc. will remember the peg used to remember any number of objects in order. With a phonetic alphabet type for numbers, that the assignment is a consonant sound shows, for each number, how to memorize numbers easily Lorayne. The techniques really work. Honestly, I have never seen so little for something that has changed my life invested so much. A recommendation is in order: I am a professional teacher. The first day of class I use one of Lorayne’s techniques in my class that everyone in the class, including me, can remember the names of all others in the classroom. And it takes less than 20 minutes. The systems work. The only minor quibble I have with the book is that after reading this book, I read too much into enhancement of memory. Other books have used the same techniques to enhance memory, as I am confused, how much came from the techniques Lorayne with him, or were borrowed from the literature. This small point aside, you really need to do to have this book on your “READ” list. A true treasure.
Rating: 5.5
After reading “The Memory Book” that I can have one group of people who give me random words, one at a time, and remember yourself. . . in the order in which they were given. Then, given a number, I can quickly return the appropriate word. Or, alternatively, as I can remember a word, the corresponding number. It takes a few seconds for me to engrain every word, but I can easily do this with 20 words. I am confident that I could recall of more than 95 100, if I ever had a reason to try it.
I have always considered my memory rather than the poor. But after using the very simple techniques in this book, I am capable of memorizing things many people consider almost impossible to be with minimal effort. The first exercise listed ten words: airplane, tree, envelope, earring, bucket, singing, basketball, salami, nose and stars. Then, if to recall a childish way, not only every ten words but also in the order in which they were presented. Some may think at first glance, this is easy, but try it without a method! I had memorized in about fifteen minutes and now they seem to always be etched in my brain, that was over a week ago and I wrote in this post from memory! The next exercise was a list of thirty words, most of which were complex and I had never seen before. That may impress some people, but these methods have real practical applications.
Store names with faces, speeches, numbers (phone, credit cards, a 50-digit number when this ) are desired, as taught in the first half alone. The use of “binding” is taught is of central importance for the storage methods in this book. Each number 0-9 is a phonetic sound (s) assigned. By mastering the basics, you can quickly find out how you a list of 100 words / names if he really wants.
Here’s a simplified example. Memorize the following ten groups using a simple rhyming method:
1 Rolls
2 Shoe
3 Tree
4 Door
5 Beehive
6th Sticks
7th Sky
8 Tor
9 Weinstock
10th Pens
Now think of a word you want to save. This will be the first word in your memory. PEG Now this word the word “bun”. For example, if you thought about it, a cloud, picture a hamburger bun with a big pile of “cloud” is sitting in it instead of a hamburger patty. The more unusual the connection that you can imagine, the easier it will be to remember it. Peg your second word “shoe” and so on.
This is really awesome. Why this is not compulsory in primary schools?
Rating: 5.5
Anyone who has ever had a memory improvement course, then the material is presented here not done anything new. This book is neither good nor bad, it is average. If you purchased is Mega Memory by Kevin Trudeau in the 90′s then get upset because it is covered the same material for hundreds of dollars here for a fraction of that.
In a strange format two people will be asked and answered questions related to each other was the material they want to present. The questions are annoying and unrealistic, but necessary
I was looking for something new in this book. The techniques work. Your success is only by how much you pay is limited to them. I started with the same techniques at school and noticed an improvement in my memory.
The stuff just does not expect miracles or dramatic changes.
Rating: 5.3
This book definitely requires work. It is a “How To” guide that will only be effective if the reader is committed to the work of practice and share the techniques explained. I think one of the most interesting aspects of this is that good memory, like many other things can be a learned skill.
I like this book after the user has to improve especially helpful for you my poor memory. In particular, I went from a very good law student, based a capable researcher and writer and was preformed on the attachment tests in school, and even won a competitive advantage Moot Court Competition on advocacy skills to a JD, not the bar exam several times due an inability to remember details and jargon. After the time with all legal study aid possible, I turned to resources to improve my memory. While I can not say unfortunately, but I have the audit were BAR, I can say that I noticed a marked improvement in my relationship with my husband, and others, as I become attentinve remember details, and so the techniques in this book have a reliable person. In the past, if he or anybody else asked me to do things, even though I was well meant and sincere in my “Yes,” I had a serious problem with follow-up by inattention and poor memory performance. This book was helpful as an aid to overcome these limitations and assisited myself in a more responsible and less distracted irritating person to be with.
As a serious, logical, pragmatic person that has this book in my specificallly prompt Silly associations with the specific intent of remembering items think helpful. That would be something I would have to be done, of course, not always on my own! In the discussion with others I have found that many people already use many of the techniques described memory, and they were surprised were new to me. This book is very helpful for those of us who just have not gotton into those habits. As someone who never even remember me one of these Numonics whole school, it was a relief to know that there are other techniques that are more efficient for me. The book also discusses how memory and intelligence are different, and that the problem of poor memory, in particular, is a distraction not fully consious in the moment. It is helpful in identifying the source of many problems, memory is simply not in the habit of focusing on the everyday with full attention. Making this assumption is that something simple “and” easy “and therefore does not require much time and attention is a trap, after I more consiously to avoid employing the techniques in this book. The distinction between Intellegence and memory is one that I feel it is useful as those of us who have great ability, things have to be understood easily confirmed, but little capacity to remember. This distinction has me as a reader more power to feel memory use as a tool, and I believe offers needed encouragement to anyone who has either fought in work, school or their personal lives by bad memory.
Rating: 5.5