Maximize Your Memory
Techniques and Exercises for Remembering Just About Anything
by Jonathan Hancock
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Pub Date 25 Aug 2020 | Archive Date 26 Aug 2020
Quarto Publishing Group – Wellfleet Press | Wellfleet Press
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Description
With an emphasis on how to learn and exercises to strengthen your mind as you age, Maximize Your Memory expands your memories into powerful tools that will improve and revolutionize your everyday life and help you conquer personal challenges. Through creative imagery, storytelling, and frameworks to map out things you wish to memorize, you can learn how to log complex, multi-pronged reliable memory.
Learn the basics of memory along with quick tips and tricks before moving into more specialized recall techniques, such as the memory castle developed in ancient times; how to memorize names, people, and places; and how to incorporate memory exercises into your life. Also included are tests for your memory skills with imaginative games and practical exercises featured within each chapter. Memory-training exercises make remembering fun, easy, and creative.
Most people want to learn better and faster, retain more information, and be able to apply that knowledge at the right time. But the reality is that we forget a lot of what we learn. In fact, research shows that within just one hour, if nothing is done with new information, most people will have forgotten about 50% of what they learned. After 24 hours, this amount increases to 70%, and if a week passes without that information being used, up to 90% of it could be lost. To improve knowledge acquisition and retention, new information must be consolidated and securely stored in long-term memory.
Here are just a few ways that your relationship to your memory can be improved:
- Use the power of your imagination to remember systematically
- Create mental "file cards" for storing information
- Learn dates and times, names and faces, foreign languages, directions, presentations, shopping lists, and more
- Become a winner at bridge and other card games
- Understand how your memory changes over time
- Make yourself more memorable in social situations
The Puzzlecraft series from Wellfleet Press tackles some of the greatest conundrums of our time. Learn how to navigate the world’s trickiest mazes, solve the most complex crosswords, and finally get the answer to “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Follow literature’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he guides you through hundreds of challenging cross-fitness brain exercises inspired by his most popular cases and adventures. You can also train your memory to perform better and learn the meanings behind your own personality traits or the traits of others. These handy and portable paperbacks are sized perfectly to travel, whether on vacation or just for your daily commute. The intricately designed covers and bold colors will capture your attention as much as the engaging content inside.
Other titles in the series include: The Curious History of Mazes; The Curious History of the Crossword; The Curious History of the Riddle; Escape from Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Code Breakers; Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Math & Logic Games; Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Visual Puzzles; Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Lateral Brain Teasers; Solving Sherlock Homes; Solving Sherlock Holmes Volume II; and The Book of Personality Tests.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781577152293 |
| PRICE | US$17.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 160 |
Featured Reviews
Christina L, Reviewer
This book is great - but dang, it is HARD! I have always considered myself a pretty smart person, but I could not even ace the simplest tests in this book. (I might even fail....Person, man, woman, camera.....don't get me started.) This book has a lot of great tests and exercises for improving your memory. I tried many of them with some tough results! I must confess I have not completed them all yet - I think they are best done over a longer period of time, kind of like a cookbook, on various days, because otherwise your brain will exhaust itself!. The whole book is chock full of fantastic information and I greedily lapped it up. I am that person who is always trying to "hack my brain" to make it as sharp as possible, especially as I get older and lose memory. (I recently had a brain MRI and the report said that I had a "normal amount of [white marks demonstrating loss of cognitive function] due to age". OH REALLY. So clearly I need this book.). I really appreciated the illustrations that were great for mnemonics in the various exercises and found all the instructions in the book extremely helpful. I think this is a book that might be slightly easier to read in physical form, although I also really enjoyed the electronic version. (Then again this may be my age talking...AGAIN!)
4.5 stars for a great book with really hard exercises that I will continue to work through. The book suggests that you compare your results on the test at the beginning with the test at the end and I am excited to do that!
Thanks to NetGalley, Quatro, and Jonathan Hancock for the ARC of this awesome book!
Susie F, Reviewer
Brilliant book, highly informative but without being a boring read. I loved the layout and illustrations.
Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.
Reviewer 594011
Interesting book with a range of interactive exercises. I'll admit, I did find the amount of reading a bit tiresome, but the layout is pretty good with illustrations and quick tips to help keep you engaged.
Should note that quite a few of the exercises are auditory and need the help of a friend to complete.
Kate Z, Reviewer
Very neat book with a lot of interactive brain activities! Some are quite difficult but they definitely do their job!
Angela S, Reviewer
This was a super cool book on maximizing your memory. I’ve always loved books that help my mind and teaches me new things, and this was one of the best on brain and memory I’ve seen in a while. Illustrated and very visual, with themes for each chapter such as home, directions, numbers, etc. Offers memory tips, progress, and recaps. Lots of great exercises for memory. And it was fun! Well organized. Lots of great tricks, ideas, and motivation. Very creative. Highly recommended. Definitely something to keep and go back to again and again.
Maren R, Reviewer
A good book with lots of practice exercises and infos.
Sadly for me this wasn't exactly what I was looking for, since I was hoping for more ideas on how to help memory without doing the exercises in the book since I was looking for osething to do with my grandmother to help her memory, and this book didn't over that. I might have read the summery wrongly in hopes this book would give me what I wanted, or I was just looking for things that weren't there.
Either way it's a great book to help build memory
Melissa M, Reviewer
This is actually a fun exercise book for those of who find ourselves increasingly the victim of “senior moments”. The beautiful graphics enhance the reading experience, and the techniques for memory building are sound, science based, and easy to understand. A variety of different applications are discussed, including speech-making, learning languages, and memory and aging. Progress tests along the way give the reader a chance to try out the new skills and see remarkable progress.
This book was a little hard to use in its epub version. Paging back and forth was tricky and slow, and I had trouble getting the pages to fit on my screen so that I could access all the information I wanted easily. I think this is one of the rare books that I would want in paper!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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