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Improving one s memory is a vital component of good study skills, yet it s a skill often left out of lessons on how to study. The tips and techniques in this essential guide will help readers remember numbers, dates, facts, names, and places, as well as how to take notes on and recall what they ve read. These invaluable skills will not only help students do well in school but also improve their day-to-day lives, making it easier to remember things like meeting times, important appointments or loved ones birthdays, and items on one s to-do list. Detailed Table of Contents, Full-color photographs, For Further Information Section, Glossary, Index, Web Sites.

Do you want to be successful? Are you ready to improve yourself? Are you looking for a better and happier life? Harry Lorayne's unique system of memory builders and his secrets for unlocking your mental power will help you achieve these goals. Never again will you need to use reminders, notes, or post-its to remember fact and figures. You will be able to remember to-do lists, names, faces, and even phone numbers. Here in one volume, you will learn his unique proven techniques to: Increase you powers of memory and concentration. Strengthen good habits and discard bad ones.

Describes such memory techniques as the Link, Loci, Peg, and Phonetic systems and explains how these techniques can be applied to everyday life.

Offers tips and techniques for remembering facts, continuity, sequence, and detail in subject areas such as history, mathematics, literature, foreign languages, music, law, and the sciences.

United States Memory Champion Joshua Foer chronicles his exploration of human memory, examining how the memory can be improved and discussing the value of memory.

Explains why we remember and why we forget and presents several methods for increasing "memory power.".