Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory: How To Release Your Superpower Memory In 30 Minutes Or Less A Day [Hardcover]

Kevin Trudeau (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 14, 1995

The author outlines his memory improvement program--as seen in his television infomercial--which makes use of the brain's photographic powers to allow instant recall of names, telephone numbers, financial data, speeches, and more. 25,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Labeled with a learning disability at an early age, Kevin Trudeau was convinced his problem was an inability to recall information. He read everything he could on memory improvement. Eventually, he developed his own program for memory retrieval and formed the American Memory Institute. His Mega Memory home study system is the most utilized self-improvement series of all time.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow (November 14, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068813582X
• ISBN-13: 978-0688135829
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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280 of 294 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The techniques work, but the book is bad, August 3, 2000

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Travis Cottreau (Wellington, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory: How to Release Your Superpower Memory in 30 Minutes Or Less a Day (Paperback)

Before I cut into this book, I have a few things to say up front. The techniques in this book work, there's no reason why they shouldn't, they've been working for years. I have to say, in some cases, I thought Trudeau's peg words were better than others I've read and he does all the usual techniques, albeit with different names.

That being said, I considered the book almost un-readable. After reading the much better "Your Memory" by Kenneth Higby (the best of all the memory books in my opinion), "Use Your Perfect Memory" by Tony Buzan and a couple of Harry Lorayne's books ("How to Develop a Super Powered Memory" and "The Memory Book" with Jerry Lucas), I found this book sub-standard. Trudeau baby feeds the information to the reader, constantly assuming that you are stupid. The amount of repetition is unnecessary, and seems just like padding (why not just tell you to re-read it?). There are a lot of statements like "Ok, now stand up and repeat the words out loud", "Now do it again" etc... He talks down to his readers throughout. If you don't mind that, you'll probably like the book.

On top of that, Trudeau never gives credit where credit is due. He leaves the reader to assume that all of these techniques are his own invention, when they are actually just variants of systems in common use. He uses a variation of a phonetic system created in the mid 1600's but never says as much, maybe he doesn't know. The book often reads like a Mega-Memory advertisement.

Finally, Trudeau gives tons of scientific "facts" about memory and imagery without ever feeling the need to back any of it up with a references (Apple didn't create icons by the way, that was Xerox). He says that you shouldn't take notes because it encourages you to forget what you've written, but saying it out loud enourages you to remember. Saying it out loud gets you to use your vocal cords and "Neruo-muscular memory" kicks in because you're using your vocal course which creates more memory links. What about your eye seeing you write something, your hand muscles moving the pen etc...? Aren't those neuro-muscular too? I don't know how many of the scientific "facts" are true or not, but I saw enough wrong to doubt most of the rest. The whole thing is written in a shoot from the hip fashion without verification from other sources.

All the other books I quoted either supplied references (Higbee), or avoided making scientific statements at all (the rest). Either way, I respect those authors much more.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Superslower time-waster, October 16, 2000

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This review is from: Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory: How To Release Your Superpower Memory In 30 Minutes Or Less A Day (Hardcover)

This is the third time I have tried to go through Kevin Trudeau's memory system, and I am convinced that it is useless. It requires countless hours of memorizing "picture words" through silly repetition and after mega-hours of study, I find that it hasn't helped me at all. So what if I can remember that the "picture word" peg for the number 88 is "fife"...now what? How does this help me improve my memory? I am studying computer science, and it is of no use to me whatsoever in this endeavor. Kevin Trudeau failed to keep his promise to give me a photographic memory. I feel swindled!

60 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Forget It., August 12, 2001

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A. Wolverton (Crofton, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory: How to Release Your Superpower Memory in 30 Minutes Or Less a Day (Paperback)

Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory will probably work for some people, but it will not be everything for everyone. The premise is that if you can visualize concepts for remembering names, numbers, etc., they are much easier to carry with you. This is probably true, and the beginning chapters can be accomplished very easily and do have limited use, but that's about it. To be completely successful with the system one would, as the book says, need to practice only 30 minutes a day, but for a very large number of days. I would slightly recommend part one of the book. Part two would be an excercise I'd rather forget. Success would probably come with total immersion, but I'll stick to my day planner, thanks.