How to Develop a Perfect Memory

✍ Scribed by Dominic O’Brien

• Publisher: Pavilion
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Edition: Hardcover
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This manual explains Dominic O'Brien's system intended to help the reader remember names, faces, telephone numbers, pass exams, learn languages, win at Trivial Pursuit and clean up at the blackjack table. O'Brien is able to memorize the sequence of 36 shuffled packs of cards using his method.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. How to remember lists
3. What's in a name?
4. How to remember numbers
5. The mental diary
6. The mental in-tray
7. Memory and job interviews
8. How to remember speeches
9. How to remember directions
10. Learning the twentieth century calendar
11. How to recall 'lost' chapters of your life
12. How to learn languages
13. How to remember geographical facts
14. How to remember history
15. Popular mnemonics
16. How to memorize a pack of playing cards
17. How to win (always) at Trivial Pursuit
18. Memory and sport
19. How memory can improve your golf swing
20. How memory can improve your chess game
21. More on cards - how to memorize thirty-five decks
22. Number crunching
23. Remembering binary numbers
24. How to win at blackjack
25. How to beat quiz machines
26. Memory and the Greeks
27. Famous memory men
28. Conclusion
    Appendix A: Name and face exercises
    Selected Bibliography