The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

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They had evidently been told thousands of times that there are real geniuses and figured I must be one of them. I really wonder if what he says is true. I will never be able to do what I just saw him do. That is way above my ability. I can’t memorize anything, it is very embarrassing, let alone doing it as fast as a lightning flash. Focus on what you want to remember--if you want to remember. The best example is learning someone's name. Forget it right away? You're not being aware enough. When meeting new people, rhetorically repeat, "What is their name? What is their name?" Have that be your main nagging thought.

Oh, there’s Professor Hamlin he’s way across the room. He’s looking at me. He’s coming this way. I think he’s going to talk with me. I have never had a Professor walk up to me like this. I wonder what he wants. He is standing right next to me smiling a big chaser cat smile. Wonder what he is going to say.

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I am going to start believing people even when I feel what they are saying couldn’t possibly be true. Basically, this is inspiring me to be open-minded; no matter what I had been told a thousand times to the contrary. Reminders - Put something extremely out of place and link that thing to what you want to remember, and when you see that again and think "why is this so out of place" you'll remember what you are trying to remember.

Brace yourself for this absolute truth told to you once. I just got finished studying the same Greek book for five minutes and I know for sure I will get a hundred on the test. I just wish people would stop trying to talk to me as they walk by; it makes it hard to concentrate. I remember when it happened. I am listening to the Dr. Rippy and I just realized I forgot to take notes on his lecture. What am I going to do? All my fellow students just walked out the door. I don’t want to tell Dr. Rippy how stupid I was to not take notes. Let me see, what was it; he was saying. Oh, I remember he was talking about the formula for changing a person’s frame of reference. You know I remember that complicated formula. He also talked about the different ways we can help people: by offering help, by indirectly helping them through their peers and you know I remember every single detail. I don’t need to take notes, it just all stayed in my head. It almost feels unfair to give this book 4 stars instead of 5, since it's probably one of the most useful books I've ever read and easily the book I've most often gifted to others. But I hope the reason will become clear in this review. New to me was the so-called memory graph, a system with coordinates that you could use to remember locations or anatomy easier. Very interesting was also the remark that your helper images will disappear after a while and just the fact will pop up in your mind. This allows you to re-use the pictures without getting confused, e.g. having 100s associations with rose might make it difficult what exactly was meant.

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you can break down pretty much any word to it's phonetic components (i.e. silent letters aren't used, etc), and with this system you can convert pretty much any word into a number quite easily (components -> 7392210). Converting a number into a word is a little bit harder and it's a bit like playing a word game ("hmm, what's a word that I can turn 33 into with two m's and no other consonants... oh, how about 'Mom'"). I don't think the mnemonics for these are particularly good but there's only ten of them so memorizing them isn't that hard with some practice. Being good at memorizing numbers ends up just being an exercise in finding cute words from the consonants and then linking them together. People use a similar system when blindsolving Rubik's Cubes, which turns the cube into a sequence of numbers and then applies algorithms to delete certain numbers, with the endpoint being there being no more numbers left. It's surprisingly straightforward and not-crazy!The Memory Book is a guide written by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas. Although it looks like a novel, the book is more like a textbook in that to really get the most out of it, one has to do the suggested activities while reading the book. The point of this book is, if not already evident, to help improve one's memory. Next, they would slowly bow their head and stand quietly for a few seconds with their head down. Then they would raise their head slowly look into my eyes with a big smile and ask how my day was going. After a short conversation, they would then move on to where they were going. They never walked within my line of sight without doing this ritual honoring, even when I was sitting with other students. While they were doing this, all the students around me watched in awe. The professors never passed me without doing this physical and verbal sign of high honor because I was one of the four Greek scholars in the University. They treated all four of us the same way. We were the only students treated this way by any of the professors.