Product Description

Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful, at work, at school, in sports and play. Discover how easy it is to: file phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head; learn foreign words and phrases with ease; read with speed--and greater understanding; shine in the classroom--and shorten study hours; dominate social situations, and more.


From the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10066 in Books
• Published on: 1996-08-27
• Released on: 1996-08-27
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Publisher

While we were working on the covers of the repackaged mass market edition, I was intrigued
to see that one of the authors was an ex-New York Knick from one of the great championship
teams of my youth. I read Jerry Lucas's introduction with some curiosity and was hooked
immediately. I, too, had spent a great deal of my childhood inventing alphabetical and
numerical games. (As a result, I can still recite the phone numbers of a dozen or so elementary-school friends from thirty years ago!) I realized that I still used some of these tricks, but that there were even more ways I could use letters, numbers, and symbols to retain information. The techniques are interesting and ultimately fun. Oh, and let's not forget helpful.

Laurie Kahn, Associate Managing Editor

Inside Flap Copy
Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful, at work, at school, in sports and play. Discover how easy it is to: file phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head; learn foreign words and phrases with ease; read with speed--and greater understanding; shine in the classroom--and shorten study hours; dominate social situations, and more.


From the Paperback edition.

Customer Reviews

good, not great
One theme is constant throughout the book: association. You relate what you are trying to remember to something in the real world or between objects if you are trying to memorize a list. Helpful, yes, but I felt as though some chapters could have been much shorter or thrown out altogether with this concept running throughout the first 90 pages.

Improved my memory, it may improve yours
I bought this book in the hopes of finding some sort of system that'll help me remember things more effectively and efficiently. This book did that.

This book is very readable. It doesn't use heavy terminology nor does it get too deep on some concepts that merely need a few pages to discuss. It stays on focus and encourages you to take a break every now and then to practice what you learned. The practices can be skipped, but they are very good practices.

The systems discussed are very practical and can be silly at times. For example, Al likes to BAM (comic book sound effect) and Al likes to ska (term for a type of punk music). For me this is my substitution for Alabama and Alaska, and it helps me remember, in-order, the 50 states. The systems help me remember many things that I need to know for exams or a simple shopping list.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn techniques for remembering things in sequence and out of sequence, peoples names and faces, long lists of numbers, and almost anything else that you need to remember in your daily life.

Good content very bad printing quality
It looks like an old hardcopy riprinted. The book has value per se but it looks and is very cheap (pages not cover)