Use your memory / Tony Buzan.
By: Buzan, Tony.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : BBC Books, 1989Edition: Rev.ed.Description: 190 p,[4] p of plates : ill(some col.) ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0563208139 ; 0563208147 .Subject(s): Mnemonics | MemoryDDC classification: 153.14Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 153.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016851 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The potential of the human memory is truly astounding and yet most people never use their memory to the full. Buzan presents a number of ancient techniques together with his own mind-mapping method and demonstrates how to increase the power of the memory.
Bibliography: (pages 185-186) and index.
Introduction -- How to use your memory -- Part I: Memory - its history and systems -- Is your memory perfect? -- Checking your current memory capabilities -- The history of memory -- The secret principles underlying a superpower memory -- The link system -- The number-shape system -- The number-rhyme system -- The roman room system -- The alphabet system -- How to increase by 100 per cent everything you have learned so far -- Your memory's rhythms -- Part II: Memory - the major system -- The major system -- How to increase by 1000 per cent everything you have learned so far -- Card memory system -- Colour plate section -- Raising your IQ through the long number memory system -- Telephone number memory system -- Memory system for schedules and appointments -- Memory system for dates in our century -- Memory system for important historical dates -- Remembering birthdays, anniversaries and days and months of historical dates -- Memory systems for vocabulary and language -- Part III: Mind maps for memory -- Mind maps - Notes for remembering -- Remembering names and faces -- Re-remembering - Remembering what you have forgotten -- Remembering for examinations -- Memory system for speeches, jokes, dramatic parts, poems, articles and books -- Catching your dreams -- Conclusion and exercises for the future.