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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 relievethe 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.
Synopsis
A four-time National Memory Champion traces his rise from an average student to the subject of a Wake Forest Medical Center scientific study, sharing step-by-step instructions and memory-bolstering exercises that he used to overcome memory problems and combat the memory-loss side effects of radiation therapy. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Synopsis
Good memory isn't a gift, it's a skill you can develop. Memory Power shows you how.
Ever forget where you put your car keys? Or forget a name five seconds after meeting someone? Blank in the middle of a presentation or test? Forgetting is normal but it's not inevitable. Memory Power provides the solution to unleash your inner genius.
Scott Hagwood is a four-time National Memory Champion, but he wasn't born with photographic recall. At age thirty-six he underwent radiation treatment for cancer, which his doctors warned might cause memory loss.
Hagwood was determined to beat the odds, so he began to stretch and work his memory like a muscle. He soon learned that simple daily memory drills could restore and even boost his ability to remember faces, numbers, and text. His exercise plan was so effective that eventually his brain began to change physically, becoming more efficient in areas associated with memory.
Now Hagwood shares with you the easy-to-learn techniques he used to go from average Joe to the first American Grand Master of Memory. You may think you're forgetful or absentminded, but you, too, can tap into your latent but very real memory power.
Synopsis
Good Memory Isn't a Gift, It's a Skill You Can Develop.
Memory Power Shows You How.
Ever forget where you put your car keys? Or forget a name five seconds after meeting someone? Blank in the middle of a presentation or test? Forgetting is normal but it's not inevitable. Memory Power provides the solution to unleash your inner genius.
Scott Hagwood is a four-time National Memory Champion, but he wasn't born with photographic recall. At age thirty-six he underwent radiation treatment for cancer, which his doctors warned might cause memory loss.
Hagwood was determined to beat the odds, so he began to stretch and work his memory like a muscle. He soon learned that simple daily memory drills could restore and even boost his ability to remember faces, numbers, and text. His exercise plan was so effective that eventually his brain began to change physically, becoming more efficient in areas associated with memory.
Now Hagwood shares with you the easy-to-learn techniques he used to go from average Joe to the first American Grand Master of Memory. You may think you're forgetful or absentminded, but you, too, can tap into your latent but very real memory power.
Synopsis
Good Memory Isn't a Gift, It's a Skill You Can Develop.
Memory Power Shows You How.
Ever forget where you put your car keys? Or forget a name five seconds after meeting someone? Blank in the middle of a presentation or test? Forgetting is normal but it's not inevitable. Memory Power provides the solution to unleash your inner genius.
Scott Hagwood is a four-time National Memory Champion, but he wasn't born with photographic recall. At age thirty-six he underwent radiation treatment for cancer, which his doctors warned might cause memory loss.
Hagwood was determined to beat the odds, so he began to stretch and work his memory like a muscle. He soon learned that simple daily memory drills could restore and even boost his ability to remember faces, numbers, and text. His exercise plan was so effective that eventually his brain began to change physically, becoming more efficient in areas associated with memory.
Now Hagwood shares with you the easy-to-learn techniques he used to go from average Joe to the first American Grand Master of Memory. You may think you're forgetful or absentminded, but you, too, can tap into your latent but very real memory power.
About the Author
Scott Hagwood is the current United States National Memory Champion. He is the first and only American Grand Master of Memory. To achieve this prestigious title, he had to remember nine decks of playing cards in an hour, more than 800 numbers in perfect sequence in an hour, and a shuffled deck of cards in less than three minutes. He has appeared in a variety of print and television media, including Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Today Show, Fox & Friends, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, CNN, Games Magazine, Sports Illustrated, People, and AARP: The Magazine, to name just a few. Scott was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised near Knoxville, Tennessee. He is married with a daughter and lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction
Chapter 1 Meeting My Memory
Chapter 2 The "Write" Way to Remember
Chapter 3 Making Sense of Our Senses
Chapter 4 Association and Interest
Chapter 5 The Art and Science of Repetition
Chapter 6 Discovering the Roman Room
Chapter 7 Remembering Names and Faces
Chapter 8 Memory Enemies
Chapter 9 An Amazing Discovery
Chapter 10 Putting Your Memory to Work
Chapter 11 The Memory Gym
Appendix The Rules of the Memory Competition
Acknowledgments