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You Can Develop A Great Memory--America's Grand Master Shows You How
Free Press
December 2005
224 pages ISBN: 074327265X Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Ever forget where you put your car keys? Or forget a name
five seconds after meeting someone? Forgetting is normal but
not inevitable. Now, Scott Hagwood's Memory Power
provides the solution. His amazingly easy-to-master guide
shows you how to develop a great memory, no matter how weak
you think yours is. Scott was just an average guy with a
below-average memory who nevertheless went on to become a
four-time National Memory Champion. The brain
changes physically as memory skills improve, as Scott
Hagwood knows firsthand. His astonishing transformation from
mediocre student to international memory champion led Wake
Forest Medical Center to perform brain scan tests on him
with amazing results. The tests showed how certain memory
exercises actually change your brain to make remembering
easier and more efficient. Hagwood shares the secrets that
unleash this inner genius within us all -- everything from
remembering car keys to training the mind to juggle multiple
bits of information at the same time, thus improving
practical and creative ability. At age
thirty-six, Hagwood developed thyroid cancer and was warned
that severe radiation therapy might cause memory loss. He
soon learned that simple, daily memory exercises could
restore and even boost his ability to remember faces,
numbers, and text. Complete with tips on keeping a memory
journal, Memory Power uses techniques of sight,
sound, smell, color, conversation, face recognition, and
more to sharpen memory association and information
retrieval. Through step-by-step instruction you'll learn the
basics: how to connect items together in your memory banks;
how much to absorb before a review needs to take place; how
to relieve the pressure of remembering facts in social
situations. Students who encounter endless
facts to memorize, professionals who make presentations,
salespeople who need to put names to faces -- all require
the asset of a strong memory. Luckily, as Hagwood proves,
memory is a muscle and needs only a little stretching to
produce powerful results. You will discover the truth that
an astonishing memory can be learned and is not reserved for
the few gifted at birth.
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