How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week: 50 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills

by Dominic O'Brien

Overview

Complete with 52 key lessons and self-testing methods, this book provides you with the tools you need to enhance your memory
 
Written by an eight-times World Memory Champion, this book is an expert course in memory enhancement. Dominic O'Brien takes you step-by-step through an ingenious program of skills, introducing the tried and tested techniques that have played a crucial role in his triumphant championship performances.
 
Dominic paces the course in line with his expert understanding of how the brain responds to basic memory, providing a realistic but impressive timeline. Not only will you be able to expand your mental capacities quickly and effectively, but you’ll see how the benefits of improved memory can lead to greater personal and career success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780287904
Publisher:	Watkins Media
Publication date:	01/28/2014
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	347,253
Product dimensions:	4.95(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Dominic O'Brien is renowned for his phenomenal feats of memory and for outwitting the casinos of Las Vegas at the blackjack table. He has won the World Memory Championship eight times, the 1994 Brain of the Year and named Grandmaster of Memory by the Brain Trust of Great Britain.He has made numerous appearances on TV and radio. His previous publications include Learn to Remember (DBP, 2000), The Amazing Memory Box (DBP, 2001), Never Forget! Names and Faces (DBP, 2002) and Never Forget! Numbers and Dates (DBP, 2002).

Table of Contents

Introduction 8

1 Memory Tools 10

Step 01 How Good is Your Memory? 12

Step 02 Visualization and Observation 16

Step 03 Acronyms 18

Step 04 Turning Numbers into Sentences 20

Step 05 The Body System 22

Step 06 Association: the First Key 24

Step 07 The Link Method 26

Step 08 Location: the Second Key 28

Step 09 Imagination: the Third Key 30

Step 10 The Journey Method 32

Step 11 Concentration 38

Step 12 The Language of Numbers 40

Step 13 The Number-Rhyme System 44

Step 14 The Alphabet System 46

2 Memory Construction 48

Step 15 How to Remember Names and Faces 50

Step 16 How to Remember Directions 54

Step 17 How to Remember Spellings 58

Step 18 How Co Remember Countries and Their Capitals 60

Step 19 Learning a Foreign Language 63

Step 20 How to Remember Your Past 66

Step 21 How to Remember the Elements 68

Step 22 Develop Your Declarative Memory 70

Step 23 The Dominic System I 72

Step 24 How to Remember Jokes 78

Step 25 How to Remember Fiction 80

Step 26 Read Faster and Remember More 82

Step 27 How to Remember Quotations 84

Step 28 Memory and Mind Maps® 87

Step 29 How to Remember Speeches and Presentations 91

Step 30 The Art of Revision and Maximizing Recall 94

3 Memory Power 96

Step 31 The Dominic System II 98

Step 32 How to Remember Telephone Conversations 101

Step 33 The Dominic System III 104

Step 34 How to Memorize a Deck of Playing Cards 108

Step 35 How to Become a Human Calendar 112

Step 36 How to Remember Historic Dates 118

Step 37 Telephone Numbers and Important Dates 120

Step 38 How to Remember the News 124

Step 39 How to Memorize Oscar Winners 126

Step 40 How to Remember Poetry 129

4 Memory Masterclass 132

Step 41 The Roman Room Method 134

Step 42 How to Remember Historic and Future Dates 138

Step 43 How to Store a Memory within a Memory 140

Step 44 How to Memorize Binary Numbers 143

Step 45 How to Memorize a Dictionary 146

Step 46 How to Memorize Multiple Decks of Cards 149

Step 47 How to Memorize a Room Full of People 152

Step 48 Healthy Body, Healthy Memory 155

Step 49 How to Win at Quiz Games 158

Step 50 Games to Boost Your Memory Power 160

Step 51 Number Memorization Exercises 162

Step 52 How Brilliant is Your Memory Now? 166

Conclusion 170

Further Reading 172

Index 173

Contact the Author and Author's Acknowledgments 176