Improve Your Memory: Proven Techniques to Maximize Your Brain Power Immediately

by Gary Small

How would you like to remember the names of every person you meet? To recall phone numbers and appointments easily? And to keep those powers for a lifetime?

Dr. Gary Small, director of the UCLA Memory Aging Research Center, teaches you how to dramatically enhance your memory capacity in just 72 minutes. "Improve Your Memory" offers you powerful tools to boost your brain power, including nutritional advice, mental aerobics, and a powerful technique for remembering names, faces and anything else better.

Excerpted from the 2-CD program "Improve Your Memory Now."

Course objectives: Discuss how a person's subjective rating of their memory function can impact their memory functionUtilize exercises that help to remember words, information, to-do items, names and faces, and numerical sequencesDescribe Small's key methods for improving memoryIdentify the reasons why most people don't remember things wellExplain how relaxation exercises can help improve memory

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Health, Audiobook

Audio CD

First published July 1, 2003

Reviews

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick book, I like the little strategies given to help with memory. I thought my memory wasnt the best but after the very first exercise I got 9/10. To remember it i implemented one of the strategies listed before even hearing it. One reason I forgot the last word was I got distracted thinking whens the last word coming. Turns out I might not have a memory issue its more about being distracted😂 Turns out being distracted is one reason our memory performance could be lacking

[Brian · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not impressed that he took Harry Lorayne's method of memory and boiled it down to almost useless. Added some interesting factoids about the brain though.

[Mircah Foxwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short book (2 hr audiobook) on brain health, particularly as it pertains to aging brains and dementia. It was written in 2007, so I’m sure there is updated research by now. Nevertheless, he says in short that 2/3 of your risk of Alzheimer’s is governed by your lifestyle choices, and it is never too early to make good choices. Things linked to better brain health include regular aerobic activity; diet high in good fats and veggies, and low in bad fats and processed food; reducing life stress; and continually challenging your brain to learn new things.

The second part of the book includes some strategies for improving memory recall, including chunking, associations, and visualization.

Worth reading, if only for the reminder that your daily choices count in determining how well you age.

[Jay Best · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read a ton of memory books and listened to a lot of audio and other training systems.

This is solid, covers the best methods and is quick, clear and gets to the point.

1 hour audio to cover all the best memory methods is awesome. If you are struggling with memory or recall, a student, or someone who wants to retain what they learn, this is an awesome book.

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short and sweet. I liked the peg method for numbers 1 to 0, but while ready another book on memory they discussed the numbers based on phonetics so you were able to put 2 digits together. But anyway it was a new concept for me and glad I came across it and love have other references when reading similar books of the same concept.

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

I listened to this as an audiobook.
Okay-ish

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick listen. Good tips though for being very short I struggled to keep attention at times. Would revisit tips via online summaries again most likely.

[Annie · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some pretty helpful things but for the most part, some of it I already have been practicing for years (a sort of visual mnemonics that my mom taught me in grade school) and some suggestions were just laughable (use sticky notes) or impractical (leave the vitamins/pills on the counter so you see them and remember to take them....sorry, I don't want the clutter!). Sticky notes everywhere is just too much. Clutter City.

The two things I did take away from it were how to remember names and numbers. I've already remembered three people's full names in the last two days (very easily) and have "memorized" my long-digit library card and a couple other long account numbers -- all using simple visual connections. I love it!

[JJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brief, but with some helpful tips

[Robert Lo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brief, simple technique that one can practice daily.

[Zoom · Rating 3 out of 5]

From what I can remember, this was an okay book. Part 1 (which was about memory) was more interesting than Part 2 (strategies and tools for improving memory).

[Shiraz Esat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Listened to this as an audio book and found it interesting and easy to follow.