How to Remember Anything: The Proven Total Memory Retention System [Paperback]

Dean Vaughn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 17, 2007

The Only Book of Its Kind--Build Memory Power Whether You're 8 or 80
 
 Dean Vaughn's How to Remember Anything is a remarkable system for harnessing your brain's capacity for memory. Vaughn's user-friendly ten-step system goes beyond the drills and repetitions many of us learned as children by tapping into the power of sight and hearing. Visualizations, sound-alike words, and odd juxtapositions of objects (the more illogical the better) are some of the elements of Vaughn's sure-fire program to remember and retain everything from the names of the presidents of the United States to birthdays and appointments. Millions of individuals have benefited from this remarkable, proven memory system. You will too!
 
How to Remember Anything will help you remember:

 

* names and faces 

* vocabulary and world languages

* where you put things 

* numbers, reports and meeting agendas

* appointments, birthdays and anniversaries

* your schedule and things to do

* how to speak in public without notes

* geography, geometry

* ANYTHING!

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About the Author

DEAN VAUGHN is the president of Dean Vaughn Learning Systems, Inc., of Hershey, Pennsylvania.. His more than 20 books, video courses and computer programs have been applied to a wide range of subjects, from elementary reading and mathematics to the field of medicine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (April 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312367341
• ISBN-13: 978-0312367343
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #20 in Books > Self-Help > Memory Improvement

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works for me, June 11, 2007

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Thomas R. Corwin (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This book is based on the idea that pictures (visual images) are easier to remember than meaningless words or numbers. The author shows you how to translate non-visual concepts into visual images that really stick. As an optometrist, I decided to try out his system by memorizing the names of 5 kinds of contact lenses and the oxygen-flow number associated with each, in order from highest to lowest. It took me just a few minutes. It uses all three of the basic methods in Vaughn's book: the room (locus) method for remembering things in order, the "audionym" method for making a visual image from an otherwise abstract word, and the "number code" for translating numbers into words. None of this is new, but Vaughn presents it well, with lots of examples and pictures. It would be an excellent book for exam-taking students.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn how to learn, April 12, 2011

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This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn how to learn. We learn by remembering what we are taught, so knowing how to remember is knowing how to learn. The methods in this book are very arcane to the majority of people, but that's because memory enhancement is not a popular subject in the U.S. I have a lot of educational books I am to do over the summer, and this book will help me learn how to retain the information I am taught. I believe learning how to learn should be mandatory in the first year of public education in the U.S. Anyways, you can remember anything with the methods taught in this book. I recommend this book to everyone who is not evil. There is one important point I would like to make though. The "numbered room" system taught as the first method in this book is inferior, at least in my opinion, to the "memory palace" method. Just to give you an idea of what these things are, they are mental environments where you store imaginary images. I don't need to go to in depth to explain why the "memory palace" is better. The "numbered room" forces you to use environments that are square or rectangle, and you need to order your information according to the layout the book gives you. By putting your images in this sequence in your "numbered room", you can access the images in the order of which you placed them, assuming that you need to recall information in order from first to last. With the "memory palace", you can still put images in a mental environment, but it doesn't need to be a square or rectangular room. You can also order the information from first to last as well. The "memory palace" does the same thing as the "numbered room", but it is less limiting. All the other methods in this book are fine. For information on the "memory palace", either do your own research or check out the book "Moonwalking With Einstein".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Memory is Hard!, April 14, 2009

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Still working through this. Not EASY to use. Then again, maybe I'm just a little old and a little dense. But the techniques described take much, much, much practice. On the other hand, I seem to remember what it taught in the first 10 pages a monthly later, and that's as far as I got so far, so maybe it's working.