Absent-minded professors, take note: 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.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Concise, effective but needs effort to learn.,
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This review is from: The Amazing Memory Kit: Everything You Need to Improve Your Memory! (Paperback)
I have O'Brien's audio program, and it outlines the same thing. Overall, his program is very effective. The kit includes a booklet , 4 memory maps and a deck of 100 practice cards.
I found the booklet to be the most valuable part of the kit. As for the memory maps and practice cards, I don't think they are necessary. My advice: read the book and remember the key concepts, but develop your own memory map so it is personal and more memorable to you. And if you need practice, why not just apply it to your everyday life, instead of using random and trival objects on a deck of cards. The booklet has the key concepts of his audio programs inside in a concise and effective format. His programs no doubt works, but only if you put effort in to it and apply the techinque in your everyday life. If you are in need of improved memory, this is a recommended buy.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
good memory maps and book,
By Incunabulum (Skokie, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Amazing Memory Kit: Everything You Need to Improve Your Memory! (Paperback)
I had previously read Dominic O'Brien's book "How to Develop a Perfect Memory". While his Journey Method sounded very useful, I was had a very difficult time trying to visualize a journey around my house or neighborhood. This kit was just what I needed. The book is very good and very attractive. And the memory maps served as excellent examples of how to create a memory journey. I found I could memorize one of the 25 stage maps in 10 or 15 minutes and immediately use it to remember 25 flash cards.
I don't know why it is that the memory maps he provides are easier for me to remember than real locations I'm familiar with; perhaps it is because they have very specific locations which are free from the clutter and distractions of real locations. I've also tried the peg word systems described by Lorayne and Buzan. While these are useful I find the journey method much easier, faster, and more fun to use. You should try this if you haven't yet, you'll be amazed by the power of your own memory!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dominic O'Brien's Memory Kit,
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This review is from: The Amazing Memory Kit: Everything You Need to Improve Your Memory! (Paperback)
After reading the book and using one of O'Brien's maps, I was able to memorize 25 objects from 25 cards in less than 3 minutes. I then constructed my own memory map and repeated using a different 25 objects/cards again in less than 3 minutes. While using O'Brien's map works, you have to memorize the map first. This can take a while. Making up your own map does not take long and is much easier to visualize and use.
I find this information valuable for study and memorization of information I need for my work. This kit is a good place to begin memory management.
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