30 Days to a More Powerful Memory
30 Days to a More Powerful Memory
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Overview
Everyone wants a better memory—and in today’s information-filled, multitasking age, having a good memory is more important than ever. 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, it includes 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 it includes 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.
It suggests committing a 30-day period to working with these techniques, while readers can select the chapters that most interest them. This 30-day period is a time to hone new memory skills and make them a regular part of one’s life. The book also includes a few introductory chapters that describe how the brain works and the different types of memory that create a memory system. While the focus is on using these memory skills for work and professional development, readers can use these skills in their personal life, too.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940152688184 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Gini Scott |
| Publication date: | 11/03/2015 |
| Sold by: | Draft2Digital |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 754 KB |
About the Author
Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D. is the author of over 50 books and a seminar/workshop leader, specializing in work relationships and professional and personal development.
She has written a dozen books on work relationships, achieving your goals, and enjoying your work and life more, including: Want It See It, Get It!, Enjoy! 101 Little Things to Do to Add Fun to Your Work Everyday, A Survival Guide for Working with Humans, A Survival Guide for Working With Bad Bosses, A Survival Guide to Managing Employees from Hell, and Disagreements, Disputes, and All-Out War – all from AMACOM. A number of her books have dealt with management topics, including: Work with Me! Resolving Everyday Conflicts in Your Organization (Davies-Black) and Building a Winning Sales Team (Probus).
She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, and MAs in Anthropology, Mass Communications and Organizational/Consumer/Audience Behavior, and Popular Culture and Lifestyles at Cal State East Bay.
She has gotten extensive media interest in her previous books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, CNN, and hundreds of radio interviews. She has been frequently quoted by the media and has several Web sites for her books on improving work relationships and professional success, including:
-Enjoy! 101 Little Ways to Add Fun to Your Work Everyday (www.enjoythebook.com)
-Want It, See It, Get It (www.wantitseeitgetit.com)
-Disagreements, Disputes, and All Out War, A Survival Guide for Working with Humans (www.workingwithhumans.com)
-A Survival Guide to Managing Employees from Hell (www.workingwithhumans.com)
-A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses (www.badbosses.net)
The site featuring her books and speaking on work generally is at (www.workwithgini.com).
Her overall workshop is at (www.ginigrahamscott.com).
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction vii
1. How Your Memory Works 1
2. How Your Long-Term Memory Works 15
3. How Good Is Your Memory? 31
4. Creating a Memory Journal 49
5. Pay Attention!!! 57
6. Improving Your Health and Your Memory 69
7. Decrease Stress and Anxiety to Remember More 85
8. Increase Your Energy to Boost Your Memory Power 96
9. It’s All About Me! 105
10. Remembering More by Remembering Less 110
11. Using Schemas and Scripts to Help You Remember 124
12. Chunk It and Categorize It 134
13. Rehearse . . . Rehearse . . . Rehearse . . . and Review 145
14. Repeat It! 153
15. Talk About It 158
16. Tell Yourself a Story 164
17. Remembering a Story 170
18. Back to Basics 175
19. Take a Letter 181
20. Linked In and Linked Up 187
21. Find a Substitute 194
22. It’s All About Location 198
23. Be a Recorder 208
24. Record and Replay 213
25. Body Language 223
26. Let Your Intuition Do the Walking 227
27. Remembering Names and Faces 236
28. Remembering Important Numbers 245
29. Walk the Talk: Speeches, Presentations a and Meetings 255
Notes 261
Resources and References 265
Index 267
About the Author 277