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Absolutely hands down this: http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/dp/0345337581 http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/

Absolutely hands down this: http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/dp/0345337581 http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/d... Within a day I was memorizing lists of 75 items forwards AND backwards. Completely random items as well. It makes remembering names a joke, you will remember them for years. I gave the book to my 15 year old brother and explained to him how much the book meant to me and that it was a very quick read (most of the good stuff is in the first 2 chapters anyway) Keep in mind hes 15.. 24 hours later he comes back to me with a list of 100 items (to outdo me).. lists them forwards and backwards. That's my boy. I distinctly remember going to a salon one time and they had tons and tons and tons of bottles of gel, shampoo, hair products lined up in a styled fashion along the middle of the wall going across the wall. by the time my haircut was done I turned around and listed off every shampoo bottle in order and the hair stylist was just like "WTF!!". She probably felt like i was a freak, but I felt really good. Trust me, its great going to the grocery store and not needing a list, and coming up with all 35 items... makes you feel like a boss.

martinced 14y ago
Oh, these memory tricks... Not unlike the ones waiters and martial arts practitioners do use. You hardly need a book for that: I saw a waiter talking on TV about what he was doing. I heard two or three sentences or so. And, hacker way, I devised my own memory trick to remember items. No book needed for that ; )
- vikramhaer 14y ago
  Mind sharing what it was that the waiter was talking about? As well as the way you devised? Would be great to get some insight!
  - louthy 14y ago
    He's forgotten ;)
mitchi 14y ago
You are not using the loci method are you? (The memory palace) It takes me 10 minutes to memorize a deck of cards right now. It took a lot of time to assign characters to my cards and considerable time to set up mental journeys to store the characters. It's a mental algorithm but the setup is not trivial. Maybe you are just gifted but I'll say it for the others, it's not that easy.
- TallboyOne 14y ago
  Not gifted, but I have a very good imagination. So does my brother, and that's what the method he uses in the book I read is based off of, so perhaps that's it.

martinced 14y ago

Oh, these memory tricks... Not unlike the ones waiters and martial arts practitioners do use. You hardly need a book for that: I saw a waiter talking on TV about what he was doing. I heard two or three sentences or so. And, hacker way, I devised my own memory trick to remember items. No book needed for that ; )

vikramhaer 14y ago
Mind sharing what it was that the waiter was talking about? As well as the way you devised? Would be great to get some insight!
- louthy 14y ago
  He's forgotten ;)

mitchi 14y ago

You are not using the loci method are you? (The memory palace) It takes me 10 minutes to memorize a deck of cards right now. It took a lot of time to assign characters to my cards and considerable time to set up mental journeys to store the characters. It's a mental algorithm but the setup is not trivial. Maybe you are just gifted but I'll say it for the others, it's not that easy.

TallboyOne 14y ago
Not gifted, but I have a very good imagination. So does my brother, and that's what the method he uses in the book I read is based off of, so perhaps that's it.