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Total Memory Workout: 8 Easy Steps to Maximum Memory Fitness
The fact is that everyone forgets.
It can happen at any age. What most people don't know is that you can exercise your memory just like any other part of your body. For years, Dr. Cynthia Green, director of The Memory Enhancement Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been helping people--from busy parents and CEOs to retirees--achieve maximum memory fitness.
Total memory workout--8 easy steps to maximum memory fitness
In this remarkable book, Dr. Green outlines her simple and effective program to achieve maximum memory fitness in just eight easy lessons. Each lesson focuses on one aspect of memory followed by a series of specific "memorcises" designed to build memory muscle.
Inside you'll find fun and effective ways
Remember names and faces
Recall important information at work
Improve your retention of facts in books and technical data
Keep track of appointments and dates
Remember where you put your keys, left your glasses, parked your car
You'll also learn the ten lifestyle factors most likely to lower your memory potential--and how to change them--the best diet to boost your brain power, the truth about "memory enhancing" supplements such as ginkgo biloba, how certain medications may affect memory performance, and when memory lapses are normal and when they indicate an underlying disease.
Unlike other memory programs that rely on tricks and gimmicks, here are practical memory-training techniques that are easy to learn and that really work. Starting today, you can regain a level of memory fitness you never dreamed possible. You have nothing to lose but your car keys...again.
It can happen at any age. What most people don't know is that you can exercise your memory just like any other part of your body. For years, Dr. Cynthia Green, director of The Memory Enhancement Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been helping people--from busy parents and CEOs to retirees--achieve maximum memory fitness.
Total memory workout--8 easy steps to maximum memory fitness
In this remarkable book, Dr. Green outlines her simple and effective program to achieve maximum memory fitness in just eight easy lessons. Each lesson focuses on one aspect of memory followed by a series of specific "memorcises" designed to build memory muscle.
Inside you'll find fun and effective ways
Remember names and faces
Recall important information at work
Improve your retention of facts in books and technical data
Keep track of appointments and dates
Remember where you put your keys, left your glasses, parked your car
You'll also learn the ten lifestyle factors most likely to lower your memory potential--and how to change them--the best diet to boost your brain power, the truth about "memory enhancing" supplements such as ginkgo biloba, how certain medications may affect memory performance, and when memory lapses are normal and when they indicate an underlying disease.
Unlike other memory programs that rely on tricks and gimmicks, here are practical memory-training techniques that are easy to learn and that really work. Starting today, you can regain a level of memory fitness you never dreamed possible. You have nothing to lose but your car keys...again.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published August 31, 1999
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February 23, 2012
If you're a regular to this blog, you know that I'm queen of forgetfulness so I thought I'd do something about it. Hence, I browsed the nonfiction aisle late last month in the library and this book jumped at me. It was a quick read for a nonfiction. It was outlined quite nicely so it was easy to skim as well. But was it informative? Sure. It contained simple-practical tricks to memory building, addressed factors that decrease or enhance memory, and much more.
Did it help me? Hmm, I didn't take notes so I don't recall the exact steps therefore I can't say I'm exercising all to build memory muscle that the book outlined. BUT, I did take out something that stuck and the part of memory that concerned me most (involving daily habits; not concerned about having to memorize a poem or such). Basically, I learned to be conscious about being focused and to have a specific physical/mental place for certain things I don't want to forget. That's all, you ask? Baby steps .. reading one book will not magically cure me of forgetfulness. Yet, just from that I have noticed that I'm a little more focused or notice when I wasn't. Plus, I haven't lost my keys in awhile. :)
In short, this book is a good outline for self-help and I believe that the reader can find something useful and specific to his/her memory concerns.
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Did it help me? Hmm, I didn't take notes so I don't recall the exact steps therefore I can't say I'm exercising all to build memory muscle that the book outlined. BUT, I did take out something that stuck and the part of memory that concerned me most (involving daily habits; not concerned about having to memorize a poem or such). Basically, I learned to be conscious about being focused and to have a specific physical/mental place for certain things I don't want to forget. That's all, you ask? Baby steps .. reading one book will not magically cure me of forgetfulness. Yet, just from that I have noticed that I'm a little more focused or notice when I wasn't. Plus, I haven't lost my keys in awhile. :)
In short, this book is a good outline for self-help and I believe that the reader can find something useful and specific to his/her memory concerns.
Jinky is Reading
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October 1, 2014
A rather silly book with suggestions for learning and remembering random information. Some good tips on remembering names, though.
May 27, 2012
This is actually very good book. It takes you through 8 weeks of exercises to strengthen your mind.
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