文档介绍：HOW TO DEVELOP
A PERFECT MEMORY
CONTENTS
1: Introduction
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2: How to remember lists
3: Jl'hat's in a name?
4: How to remember numbers
I. 5: The mental diary
6: The mental in-tray
7: Memory and job interviews
8: How to remember speeches
9: How to remember directions
i 10: Learning the twentieth century calf:ndar
1 I: How to recall 'lost' chapters of you r life
12: How to learn languages
13: How to remember geographical facts
1 14 How to remember history
15: Popular mnemonics
16: How to memorize a pack of playing cards
17: How to win (always) at TTnirial Pursuit
18: Memory and sport
I 19: How memory can improve your golf swing
20: How memory can improve ynur chess game
21: hlorc on cards - how to memorizc thirty-five decks
i 22: Number crunching
23: Remembering binary numbers
24: How to win at blackjack
25: How to beat quiz machines
26: Memory and the Greeks
27: Famous memory men
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28: Conclusion
Appendix A: Name and face exercises
Sclected Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
know what it is like to forget someone's name. In my time, I have forgot-
ten appointments, telephone numbers, speeches, punch lines of jokes,
II directions, even whole chapters of my life. Up until recently, I was the
most absent-minded, forgetful person you could imagine. I once saw a cartoon
of two people dancing rather awkwardly at the Amnesiacs' Annual Ball. The
man was saying to the woman, 'Do e here often?' I knew how he felt.
\\'ithin the last four years, I have e the World Memory Champion. I
regularly appear on television and tour the country as a celebrity 'Memory
Man', rather like Leslie Welch did in the 1950s. There's no mckery in what I
do - no special effects or electronic aids. I just sat down one day and decided
enough was enough: I was going to train my memory.
LEARNING HOW TO USE YOUR BRAIN
Imagine going out and buying the most puter in the world. You
stagger hom