Memory Craft Improve Your Memory Using The Most Powerful Methods From Around The World

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Our brain is a muscle. Like our bodies, it needs exercise. In the last few hundred years, we have stopped training our memories and we have lost the ability to memorise large amounts of information. Memory Craft introduces the best memory techniques humans have ever devised, from ancient times and the Middle Ages, to methods used by today's memory athletes. Lynne Kelly has tested all these methods in experiments which demonstrate the extraordinary capacity of our brains at any age. For anyone who needs to memorise a speech or a play script, learn anatomy or a foreign language, or prepare for an exam, Memory Craft is a fabulous toolkit. It offers proven techniques for teachers to help their students learn more effectively. There are also simple strategies for anyone who has trouble remembering names or dates, and for older people who want to keep their minds agile. Above all, memorising things can be playful, creative and great fun. 'Weaving the deep history of memory techniques along with the techniques themselves, Memory Craft is a memory book like no other I've ever read.' - Nelson Dellis, four times USA Memory Champion 'With her infectious enthusiasm and depth of personal experience, Dr Lynne Kelly teaches us how we too can memorise anything…[and] potentially protect our memories from decline as we age.' - Dr Meredith McKague, University of Melbourne

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• City: Sydney

• Pages: 337

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• Language: English

• Topic: 198

• Identifier: 1760633054, 9781760633059

• Commentary: The best memory techniques humans have ever devised, from ancient times and the Middle Ages, to methods used by today’s memory athletes.

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• Toc: Cover......Page 1Praise......Page 2Also by the author......Page 3Title Page......Page 4Copyright......Page 5Dedication......Page 6CONTENTS......Page 8LIST OF FIGURES......Page 14INTRODUCTION......Page 16What you’ll learn......Page 20Why memorise?......Page 24CHAPTER 1: A medieval starting place......Page 26Medieval memory arts......Page 27Visual alphabets......Page 28My visual alphabet......Page 32Memorising anything, from a shopping list to a speech......Page 34Medieval bestiaries......Page 38My bestiary for memorising names......Page 40CHAPTER 2: Creating a memory palace......Page 46The first written record of memory palaces......Page 47Australian Aboriginal songlines......Page 49Creating a memory palace for the countries of the world......Page 51Memory palaces in history......Page 55The modern tale of Solomon Shereshevsky and Alexander Luria......Page 59Virtual memory palaces......Page 61Continuous memory palaces—my History Journey......Page 62Why absolutely everywhere needs a name......Page 66My History Journey......Page 67Mnemonic verses......Page 71Dominic’s Rule of Five......Page 73CHAPTER 3: Stories, imagination and the way your brain works......Page 76Indigenous knowledge systems......Page 77Memory and the human brain......Page 81Exceptional memorisers are made, not born......Page 84Putting it all together—lea