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

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My interest in building a mnemonic method faded except the foreign language primer perhaps. This would have been useful before our most recent excursion into French speaking province but we have no such plans in the foreseeable future by which time this will be forgotten or hard to find. I re-discovered the book in the basement and couldn't remember a thing about it. Not a good sign for a book about improving your memory but it's never to late. It will take you a minimum of five hours per night to memorize these words for the daily tests. Until this time you have not known what true scholarship is. Look at the person to your left and the person to your right they will not be here tomorrow.

Ok time for me to study. I like standing by the window outside the Greek class before the class time. I can see the Greek class door from here. Thinking I have to go in there and take the test is just the motivation I need. I wonder why Professor Johnson wants to see me. He said he wanted me to come alone. I have never had a professor ask me to meet with them like this in such a clandestine manner. I wonder what he wants.

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I am a certified college professor and it is not the same in today’s institutions of higher learning. Also, the very expensive private colleges and universities had a tradition of respect and honor that seldom is seen in the much less expensive institutions of higher learning that the large majority of students attend. I never attended the less expensive state schools a few decades old. My schools were the hundreds of year old with the very best professors. The only negative point for me was the chatty style. I have read other books about memory improvement so the important things were clear to me. This wasn't the case when I bought the book in the 90s and I wouldn't recommend it if you need clear instructions. For seeing the system in action though it's absolutely priceless. If you are familiar with the various methods and want examples then this book is for you. My first twelve years of school I found to be impossibly difficult. I got C’s on my report card. The only A’s I got were in physical education and Choir. Everyone who took those classes always got A’s automatically it was a guarantee. I got C’s in my other classes. I tried so very hard to get a B but the test answers just would not stay in my head for the tests. I would forget what I had studied even after studying for many hours. Therefore, I logically assumed I was just not smart. The memory book made me seem to be a genius to the other students because they could see that I seemed to “never study”. I didn’t join study groups or study with others. I did not need to join a study group. I just got to totally enjoy college. I loved it because college was so very easy for me. Nothing to it, a piece of cake, it was absolutely positively wonderful a fantastic fun time for me! My new found mental abilities even astounded my professors. I had several professors who “every time” they saw me, would walk out of their way to come over to where I was standing or sitting. Then they would stop, look me in the eyes and say to me, hello scholar young.

imo you should create your own list of words for these instead of relying on the books', and if you want to break from the major system pattern that's perfectly fine so long as you end up being able to remember it easily. A fit/foot tries to get a phone but foam (like plastic) from a fire keeps it in file(ing cabinet). (81-85) Another fundamental are linked lists. Forming creative and outrageous associations between words helps to remember them and, this is the best part, you only have to memorize the beginning. The rest will flow from there and I can confirm that this method works great. Now I look down at the word and now I look out the window up into the white chiffon clouds. Ok, I got that one, now I just repeat this identical process over and over again. I glance down and look up into the clouds over and over. Hi Joe, I can’t talk with you right now. See you in the class. Finally, finished and I have a few minutes until class time.I felt a little guilty when the professors walked up to me daily and bowed to me in front of all the other students. It really didn’t seem fair when the other three Greek scholars had to study five hours each night and me only five minutes. Put things in the same place every time. To remember to do or get something put something in your path or awkwardly out of place to spur original thought. "anything that looks out of place [...] wearing your watch on the wrong wrist" The rest of the book: In general you can probably notice a pattern that you can pretty much apply these ideas to anything that you find a consistent and creative way to convert into numbers. You can memorize locations, for example, by creating a simple 2D grid and memorize the location on this grid (good for something like the periodic table, or locations of towns, or something). Anything you can encode into numbers you can easily memorize (end of world war II was 09/02/1945 which just becomes 09021945 which you know how to memorize already). Mr. Johnson, your classes are so interesting and exciting you just inspired me to study and that's why I did so well on your final exam.

Finally, I just gave up telling them the truth once and let them think what they wanted to. Remember the first law of real magic: People would rather believe a lie told to them a thousand times than the truth told to them once! They had evidently been told thousands of times that there are real geniuses and figured I must be one of them. Front door, (41); main front door, (46); closest corner of driveway, (51); Preis corner of driveway, (56); small gate, (61); other side of small gate,(66).

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He is slowly bowing his head and just standing there with his head bowed. I wonder how long he is going to keep his head bowed. Now he is slowly raising his head and looking into my eyes with that big chaser cat smile. How are you doing Scholar Young? The chapter on absentmindedness is helpful. “Think of what you’re doing during the moment in which you’re doing it” to solve absentmindedness. (p. 96) The authors advise to make an association each time you put down your glasses or whatever and to force yourself to make a picture association between the object and the spot where you put it and make this a habit. (p. 97) The picture may be something ridiculous but you must be paying attention. You must make the effort and it will become a habit quite soon. Sure enough, in a day only four students were left out of a whole regular size class because of the rigorous scholarship that would be required each night.

I can’t memorize scriptures at church and I can’t even memorize the Cub Scout Oath. It is awful being me! I feel like the scarecrow in the wizard of Oz movie, you know, if I only had a brain, that’s me. Just like the rest of my family who do not even have high school educations. I'm still in the middle of the book, but I am truly invested into trying everything so that I can improve. The book is great becuase it provides little exercises to help you see immediate progress. You want to know my grocery list from TWO WEEKS ago? I decided to venture out to the store with no list in hand just to try myself out:It was embarrassing when the other students asked me how I thought I did on a test we had all taken. I always knew for sure that I got every answer completely correct and accurate in every way. I would just say, I did alright and I usually got the highest grade in the class on the test. Hence this book! It is full of excellent exercises to strengthen your memory, to become one of those great people who make others feel so valued...all becuase of an acute awareness and a strong memory. Example if you want to remember, mouse, aeroplane, chair. Visualize a mouse flying over an aeroplane. And a chair dropping out of aeroplane. As you are forcing your mind to think more about the relations, it memorized the relations. (You are being more mindful here, the author even sorts every word wrt the alphabets, results: more mindful and hence a better memory)