Improve Your Memory Now: Tools & Exercises to Maximize Your Brain [Abridged, Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Gary Small (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2003

How would you like to easily remember the names of every person you meet? In The Memory Bible, Dr. Gary Small showed that memory loss is not inevitable-and you can restore your brain's vitality. Improve Your Memory Now is designed to boost your memory from the very first time you use it. Distilled from Dr. Small's revolutionary work as director of UCLA's Memory and Aging Research Center, this program teaches you proven techniques such as the "Look, Snap, and Connect" to improve recall, "mental aerobics" to boost your brain power, and much more.

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Book Description

Breakthrough nutrition and lifestyle recommendations for keeping your brain healthy for life; A memory self-assessment exercise to gauge the memory improvements you will gain during this course; The Look, Snap, and Connect technique for remembering names, faces, information and anything else better; Mental aerobics to boost your brain power --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This is an unabridged, original audio workshop based on the material in Dr. Small's, bestselling book, The Memory Bible.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Abridged edition (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591790816
• ISBN-13: 978-1591790815
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #436,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not great, September 17, 2003

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This review is from: Improve Your Memory Now: Tools & Exercises to Maximize Your Brain (Audio CD)

VERY dissapointing. Absolutely nothing new here. The same rehash of memory techniques seen before. More than half of the first CD is about brain functions, aging, and Alzheimer's. While I see the rational for understanding how the brain works before working to improve memory, this discussion goes on and on (and on and on and on...) and is extremely redundant. In fact the narrator repeats several basic points and phrases numerous times. Sounds more like someone giving an off-the-cuff talk than a lecture or reading. Very little depth to the info. I have other complaints about this audio book but I think I've said enough.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful tools for the average person to improve memory skills, June 17, 2006

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K. Normand (Lafayette, LA - The Heart of Cajun Country) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Improve Your Memory Now: Tools & Exercises to Maximize Your Brain (Audio CD)

I enjoyed listening to this brief overview of common memory building and memorization techniques. It seems to be a good introductory book to this subject. Six months after I listened to the audiobook, I am still using some of the techniques described by the author. There is also some good background information concerning general health and keeping the brain fed and "exercised".

In reference to the comments by other reviewers concerning redundancy, I don't remember getting the impression of too much repetition when I listened to it. In fact, I remember that repetition is a key to memorization. (Maybe the author was repetitive on purpose!)

I would recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their memory skills, or anyone interested in learning a bit about how memory works in the brain, and how to make it work a bit better.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars it is a very simple book, September 6, 2008

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I. Wong (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Improve Your Memory Now: Tools & Exercises to Maximize Your Brain (Audio CD)

I was quite disappointed with this book. i thought there are some trick or technique to improve memory. but in fact it is more about common sense stuff. which i already know. and you wonder where the author does his research about the knowledge he gathers.

anyway. i gather if his advice is eat well, be active. then why bother reading this book ?