Memory Craft Improve Your Memory Using The Most Powerful Methods From Around The World
E-Book Overview
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
E-Book Information
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Year: 2,019
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City: Sydney
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Pages: 337
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Pages In File: 337
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Language: English
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Topic: 198
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Identifier: 1760633054, 9781760633059
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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 1 Praise......Page 2 Also by the author......Page 3 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 CONTENTS......Page 8 LIST OF FIGURES......Page 14 INTRODUCTION......Page 16 What you’ll learn......Page 20 Why memorise?......Page 24 CHAPTER 1: A medieval starting place......Page 26 Medieval memory arts......Page 27 Visual alphabets......Page 28 My visual alphabet......Page 32 Memorising anything, from a shopping list to a speech......Page 34 Medieval bestiaries......Page 38 My bestiary for memorising names......Page 40 CHAPTER 2: Creating a memory palace......Page 46 The first written record of memory palaces......Page 47 Australian Aboriginal songlines......Page 49 Creating a memory palace for the countries of the world......Page 51 Memory palaces in history......Page 55 The modern tale of Solomon Shereshevsky and Alexander Luria......Page 59 Virtual memory palaces......Page 61 Continuous memory palaces—my History Journey......Page 62 Why absolutely everywhere needs a name......Page 66 My History Journey......Page 67 Mnemonic verses......Page 71 Dominic’s Rule of Five......Page 73 CHAPTER 3: Stories, imagination and the way your brain works......Page 76 Indigenous knowledge systems......Page 77 Memory and the human brain......Page 81 Exceptional memorisers are made, not born......Page 84 Putting it all together—lea