Super Memory · It Can Be Yours by Devi, Shakuntala -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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The Author Title Page Copyright & Permissions Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Get Set For An ‘Unforgettable’ Experience!

Throw Out the Mental Clutter Keep an Open Mind Rev Up Your Powers of Concentration Take it Easy! Check your Diet Memory Foods: A Ready Reckoner Check your Alcohol Intake Get into that Sun Muscle Up your Memory Get Good Medical Care Think you Can — and You Will Crush These Memory Myths Do You Lead With Your Eyes or Your Ears or...? What is Your Orientation? Workshop Extra And One Last Thing...

Chapter 2. Think ‘Like Crazy’ — and Remember Like a Wizard!

Mind Pictures: Why we Remember Nicknames Better How to Remember a List of ‘Things-I-must-do-today’ Workshop Extra And One Last Thing: Practise, Practise ... Just Do It!

Chapter 3. How to Remember Names

Whats in a Name? A Great Deal! Two Kinds of Poor ‘People Memory’ Reinforcing Active Memory: Filing the Name for the Short Term Reinforcing Super Active Memory: Filing the Name in Your Long-term Memory Use Absurd Association Workshop Extra

Chapter 4. How to Remember Faces

Remember the Person by Remembering the Personality The Eyes The Facial Features Distinctive Features Gestures Smile and Laugh The Voice How to Link the Name to the Face

Chapter 5. How to Remember Telephone Numbers

The Grouping Method The Rhyming Method

Chapter 6. Memorise the Longest Number in the World!

The Number-Sound Code Explained Get Set Now for Some Net Practice! Words to Numbers, Numbers to Words How to Remember Those L-O-N-G Numbers! Workshop Extra

Chapter 7. Mind-boggling Card Tricks for Everyone!

Card trick # 1: Who’s Got Which Card? Card trick # 2: Guess the Missing Cards Card trick # 3: Guess My Hand Card trick # 4: Spin off the Sequence Card trick # 5: Read My Mind and I’ll Read Yours!

Chapter 8. Develop the Memory of a Chess Champion! Chapter 9. Instant Recall through Classification

How Should You Group? Catalogue Your Personal Library Classify Your Clippings Classify Your Stock-in-Trade Classify Your Work Material Classify Your Time But Isn’t ‘Order’ Inimical to Creativity?

Chapter 10. The End of ‘Absent-mindedness’!

Clear out the Clutter Have ‘A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place’. Get into the Efficiency Habit Cure Yourself of ‘Hurry Sickness’ Don’t Allow Yourself to Become One-Dimensional Learn to Say ‘No’ Do not Strive for Perfection Delegate, Delegate! Live for Today Workshop Extra The Best Ways to Take Notes Keep Two Notepads. Here’s Why... Self-conscious About Writing? Why?

Chapter 11. A Good Memory Makes A Great Speaker!

Don’t Memorise Your Speech! Do Put Your Memory to Work on Your Speech Prepare a Speech Plan Don’t Worry About Nervousness Do Look at Your Audience Do Trust Your Memory Trust Your Memory’s ‘Reserve Power’

Chapter 12. Memory Tricks and Treats

A Year’s Calendar At Your Finger-tips: The Sunday Treat! Easy Verse for Recalling Dates: The Rhyming Treat! Remembering The Right Spelling: The Letters Trick! Abbreviations As Cues: The Short-and-sweet Treat! Sentence Formation: The Stand-in Trick! Two Final Memory Tricks Workshop Extra-I Workshop Extra-II