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I wish I'd had this book in medical school! | The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play | Harry Lorayne, Jerry Lucas

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	• The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play Harry Lorayne, Jerry Lucas Ballantine Books, 1996 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Useful Memory Improvement Tools

The memory improvements technics in the book work - all you need is enough motivation to train yourself to use them.

good, not great

One theme is constant throughout the book: association. You relate what you are trying to remember to something in the real world or between objects if you are trying to memorize a list. Helpful, yes, but I felt as though some chapters could have been much shorter or thrown out altogether with this concept running throughout the first 90 pages.

I wish I'd had this book in medical school!

This book saved my career!
I was working 100 hours a week as an OB-GYN and needed to take my oral boards. I knew they would never ask the easy stuff- how to do a vaginal delivery. No, they were going to ask the crazy stuff. They did too, what anti-malarial drugs are safe in pregnancy, for example.
I had neither the time nor the energy to go over and memorize the hundreds of pages of notes I had gotten from my board review course.
After reading "The Memory Book", I was able to process and retain enough information to easily pass my exam. The techniques I learned have been very useful since. I can go to a party with twenty strangers and say goodbye to everyone by name. I'm now teaching anatomy and physiology, and I can remember lists of things so my lectures flow much better.
I suggest this book to all my students, as well as "Super Memory, Super Student" by the same author. My college is thinking of making the book a requirement!
Buy this book!! You will not regret it.
Russ Palmeri, MD, FACOG

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Improved my memory, it may improve yours

I bought this book in the hopes of finding some sort of system that'll help me remember things more effectively and efficiently. This book did that.

This book is very readable. It doesn't use heavy terminology nor does it get too deep on some concepts that merely need a few pages to discuss. It stays on focus and encourages you to take a break every now and then to practice what you learned. The practices can be skipped, but they are very good practices.

The systems discussed are very practical and can be silly at times. For example, Al likes to BAM (comic book sound effect) and Al likes to ska (term for a type of punk music). For me this is my substitution for Alabama and Alaska, and it helps me remember, in-order, the 50 states. The systems help me remember many things that I need to know for exams or a simple shopping list.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn techniques for remembering things in sequence and out of sequence, peoples names and faces, long lists of numbers, and almost anything else that you need to remember in your daily life.

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Instant memory training.

Finally a detailed system anyone can use and apply. Lorayne and Lucas in "The Memory Book" share some very valuable informations. A true necessity in the business world !

Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful, at work, at school, in sports and play. Discover how easy it is to: file phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head; learn foreign words and phrases with ease; read with speed--and greater understanding; shine in the classroom--and shorten study hours; dominate social situations, and more.

From the Paperback edition.

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