These are my notes on Unlimited Memory by Kevin Horsley
Motiviation first couple of chapters
beliefs
Mental journey …. use the car and the body
The peg systems
-rhyming -shape
Discusses in Chapter 9 the mental journey in detail
Linking thoughts
Remembering names
- Concentrate
- Create
- Connect
- Continuous Use
Remembering Numbers
Using the Master System
- Sauce
- Soda
- Sun
- Swim
- Sir
- Seal
- Sash
- Sock
- Safe
- Soap
- Tie
- Noah
- Ma
- Ray
- Law
- Jaw …
- Daisies
Remembering Information by creating that information into art (an image with reference points)
Mind Maps (Tony Buzan)
Studying
-PIC (Purpose, Interest, Curiousity) -example: Using a shopping center to remember a syllabus
Quote from David Campbell … “Discipline is remembering what you want”
Quote from Elbert Hubbard … “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
Quote from William James … “The more we struggle and debate, the more we reconsider and delay, the less likely we are to act.”
Spitzer?
average person who learns textbook material remembers only the following:
After 1 day: 54% After 7 days: 35% After 14 days: 21% After 21 days: 19% After 28 days: 18%
Estimated that 2 years after leaving school the average person remembers three weeks’ worth of lessons
Recommendation for learning new material
repeat after 10 ten minutes will remain for an hour first review done backwards review after: 1 hour 1 day 3 days 7 days 14 days 21 days 28 days 2 months 3 months
Bibliography:
Tony Buzan … Use Your Memory Tony Buzan … Use Your Head Tony Buzan … Head First Memory by Baddeley, Eysenck, Anderson Covey … The Seven Habits Lorayne … Improve Exam Results in 30 days Luria … The Mind of the Mnemonist Maxwell … Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow’s success Robbins … Awaken the Giant Within Worthen & Hunt … Mnemonology: Mnemonics for the 21st Century Medina … Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thinking for the 21st Century Lorayne … How to Develop a Superpower Memory Higbee … Your Memory: How it Works and How to Improve It Price: The Activity Illusion Katie … Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life Hall: Movie Mind Demartini: The Riches within: your seven secret treasures Gruneberg: Linkword Language System - Italian Furst: Stop Forgetting Kandel: In Search of Memory: The Emergence of New Science of Mind