Amazing. Brilliant. Absolutely powerful.

I came to know about this book from a British illusionist, hypnotist named Derren Brown. He, himself is a house-hold name in England and famous for his tricks. However, this book was quite special in it's own light, seeing how it can be helpful in daily lives.

This book helps memorize abstract objects (in sequence and in-and-out of order), names of people you just met only once, long digits, telephone numbers, appointments, errands, foreign words, important dates etc.—just as the author assures you throughout the book. It's not filled with technical details about how your brain works or how it stores memory, fortunately. He just gives you methods to use to train your memory. The author also makes sure it's not a boring path to learning, as he frequently tells various jokes relating to memory and his personal anecdotes. You might have been surprised to see a performer reveal his techniques in the risk of gathering new competitions, but his purpose was honorable: the book could help people in practical life.

It was awe-inspiring to see myself improve my memory and perform my stunts; I sometimes started jumping up and down in joy. Not only is this a great book for some astounding memory stunts, it can help anyone in their daily life!

A business man traveling in the mid-west was told about an Indian, living in the vicinity, who had a most fantastic memory. Having just completed a memory course, and priding himself on his own newly acquired achievements, he decided to visit this Indian to see whose memory was better.

He introduced himself to the Indian and proceeded to test him. The memory expert answered every question quickly and accurately. His mind was a storehouse of knowledge, containing such information as the populations of nearly all American cities, important dates, scientific theories, etc. The business man couldn't stump him. Finally, he decided to try one last question.

"What did you have for breakfast on the morning of April 5th, 1931?"
The Indian didn't hesitate for even a second, as he answered, "eggs!"

The business man took his leave, completely stunned by this prodigious memory. When he arrived home, he told all his friends about it, only to have them scoff and say that eggs were usually eaten at breakfast, and that anyone could have answered that.

As the years passed, the man began to believe this, until one day he found himself back in the mid-west on a sales trip. One afternoon he happened to come upon the same Indian he had met here years ago. Wanting to show that his memory for faces was pretty good, he raised his hands in the traditional Indian greeting, and said, "How."

The Indian thought for just a moment, and then answered, "SCRAMBLED!"

كتاب يمثل نقطة البداية لرحلتي نحو هدف امتلاك ذاكرة قوية.
بسيط و مفيد

The book was published in the 50s, so it has this really gay feel-good, old-school annoying writing style, but surprisingly, it’s not too bad. It is supposed to teach you how to improve your memory, and it is basically done by association.

You have to use your imagination to think of silly things, relate them to each other, and then you won’t forget them. In brief, if you want to go shopping and want to buy eggs, then want to fix your car, then have a haircut, you make Links. You think of an egg fixing a car, and then the car having a haircut, so when you think of the egg, you get the silly image, you remember the car, and then you remember the haircut.

The other major one is the Peg system, where the author turns numbers into sounds, and makes words out of them. When you want to remember a long number, you can use the Pegs to turn them into words, and then turn them into images, and there you go, you remember them.

Most of them are for impressing your friends, but fuck my friends, they can suck balls. A lot of them don’t have real life application, but I do find the Peg system kind of fun. I’ve tried it with some phone numbers, and can finally remember them. Again, not earth shattering good, but I do find it fun and it is slightly useful. Remembering something is always better than not remembering it.

The book is written for your average reader, which does get on my nerves, because the average reader is a moron. It proudly says, Although naturally, quite a bit of research was necessary, I've discarded most of the technical ideas and thoughts be cause I found them difficult to understand and to apply myself. I am an entertainer and a memory expert, not a psychiatrist or a doctor, and I didn't think it necessary to go into an explanation of the workings of the human brain, and just how the memory actually works in terms of cells, curves, impressions, etc.” I don’t want to be bogged down by technicality, but a little bit to help me understand how something works wouldn’t kill you.

With today’s technology, we really do not need to remember everything, because we can jot them down on our phones, put reminders, schedule appointments, address books, dictionaries, and so forth, and I certainly will not say this is a bad thing. Technology should be used. But personally, I have always been slightly irritated by my shitty memory, and this is a small step to working on it. Attempting to remember is half the battle anyway.

Since school, most of the techniques are still benefiting me.

I read this 40 years ago when I was amazed at how quickly and easily I became able to remember things. It is a bit clunky now but is worth the read if you want an easy entry into the field.

Excellent points!
This definitely help me remember more stuffs!

With the Link Method you can forget a list whenever you want.
Train your observation skills:

Write the objects of a room in a list. Repeat it. See what you missed.

Look at one person for a moment, close your eyes and try to mentally describe every detail of this person's face.

Look at a shop window display. at a proficient level remember prices

There are 2 types of readers. Those who read to remember and those who read to forget

This book is awesome. Read it here:

How To Develop a Super Power Memory

Good tips on training the memory.
If this is true that there is no good or bad memory, only trained or untrained memory, it would help me a lot to train my memory.

Fascinating memory systems. I started this with a particular scheme in mind, but the progress so far is pretty cool. Ex: currently making lists of 50 random objects, numbering them one through 50, later I can name them, by number, in any order. Weird... It's a .pdf I have.

I really liked how helpful the steps in the book can be immediately applied. Although some techniques can be described as old and technology might help more than those techniques but it's an all around good read and gives one a sense of belief in their memory.

Great book. Already started using some of the methods. If you pay attention to what you need to remember, you are half-way there.