The Amazing Memory Kit: Everything You Need to Improve Your Memory!

by Dominic O'Brien

Absent-minded professors, take Now you can learn to boost your brainpower and perform amazing feats of memory beyond your wildest imagination. In The Amazing Memory Kit, Dominic O'Brien—eight-time winner of the World Memory Championship—reveals his memory-stretching secrets and shows you how to put them into practice with effective, innovative and fun-to-use tools. This all-inclusive kit features an entertaining, fascinating book revealing Mr. O'Brien's most successful techniques and tricks, two full-color memory journey maps, and a deck of 100 memory cards with specially commissioned artwork. In no time, you'll learn how to memorize more than 2,000 combinations of names and faces, lists of 100 items, and lots of important numbers and dates.

64 pages, Paperback

Published October 12, 2005

About the author

Dominic O'Brien is a British mnemonist and an author of memory-related books. He is the eight time World Memory Champion.

He began developing his mnemonic techniques in 1987 when he saw Creighton Carvello memorize a pack of 52 playing cards in less than three minutes on the BBC television programme Record Breakers. In order to memorize numbers, O'Brien developed the mnemonic Dominic system, which is similar to the Major System.

He gives lectures, and has been seen on television programmes such as The Human Body.

Dominic O'Brien had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for his 1 May 2002 feat of committing to memory a random sequence of 2808 playing cards (54 packs) after looking at each card only once. He was able to correctly recite their order, making only eight errors, four of which he immediately corrected when told he was wrong.