Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery, #1)

by Kevin Horsley

“The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.” ~ Brian Tracy

They were all written by Tony Buzan. The first book was Use Your Head, the second Use Your Memory, and the third The Speed Reading Book.

‘The Everest of Memory Tests.’

However, if you keep on doing what you have always done, you are going to get what you have always gotten. You need to do different to get different. Thus, a word of warning: mastering your memory is going to require a different kind of thinking.

The first section talks about improving your Concentration. The second section is about improving your ability to Create imagery and Connecting concepts together, and the final key is about creating a habit with Continuous use.

always defend what we believe. If you believe you have a bad memory, you will always act and think in accordance with that belief. Where your attention goes, your energy flows.

First, 80% of changing anything is about why you want to change and only 20% is about how you do it. Take responsibility; it is as simple as having a reason and making a decision that you want to change your beliefs.

1. I Was Born with Exceptional Concentration and Memory

There are four areas that you need to focus on to eliminate conflict and create more peace in your mind:

strong PIC in your mind:

A specific purpose would be: I want to learn at least six key strategies that will enable me to improve my memory.

You can learn to enhance your memory imagination system by making your mind movies exciting and sticky. The way to do this is with the ‘SEE’ principle.

The SEE Principle Use your S – Senses:

if you use the SEE principle. Remember you are only connecting two concepts at a time. If you imagine it for a few seconds it will stick in your memory and it will be easy to recall if you need it.

You have to do different, to become different.

The Car Method.

Your long-term memory (things that are in your memory forever, like your name and what your house looks like etc.) is like the packet that can be used to trap short-term information (new information coming in, like a new telephone number.) When you have

The secret to accelerated learning is superior organization.

You can also use any other forms of transport: buses, trains, airplanes, ships or even space ships as storage files or compartments.

Head First.

(remember the SEE principles),

Let me explain the first method, the rhyming pegs.

The method is simple; it makes memory pegs out of rhyming words and we will use the following rhyming words as mental files: One rhymes with the word Bun Two– Shoe Three– Tree Four– Door

In Anthony Robbin’s life changing book, Awaken the Giant Within, he has a list of The Ten Emotions of Power.

Practise feeling these emotions because you become good at what you practise. Anthony Robbins says, “You are the source of all your emotions; you are the one who creates them. Plant these emotions daily, and watch your whole life grow with vitality that you’ve never dreamed of before.”

The rhyme method can be extended by finding more words that rhyme with the number, e.g.: one - bun, sun, tum, gum and gun. With this method you can easily create a peg system that you can use to store up to 30 bits of new information.

Here is the second short peg list that you can use, The Shape System. It converts numbers into concrete shapes. It works in the same way as the rhyme list, only this time the pegs are shaped like the number.

Let me introduce you to The Journey Method with a short exercise. We are going to store twelve useful principles from one of John C. Maxwell’s books.

giving reminds us of Generosity.

I used this method to store the first 10,000 digits of pi. A friend of mine Dr. Yip Swee Chooi remembered the entire Oxford dictionary, 1774 pages, word-for-word with this method.

All that you have to do is condense everything down to a list of key words and then convert those lists into meaningful link stories.

Nothing in life works unless you work with it.

Now if you want to remember names like a memory master you have to focus on the four Cs.

Listen and get genuinely interested in the other person’s name.

When you meet a hundred people you use many of the same features, but amazingly there is never any confusion.

However, to make the name stick in your memory forever you have to continue using it. Talk about the name. If it is a foreign name ask the person what it means. How do you spell it? Also use the name in conversation.

I can remember a 50-digit random number in less than 20 seconds and 100 digits in 45 seconds.