Page-a-Minute Memory Book [Paperback]

Harry Lorayne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 29, 1996

If time is money, then memory is the bank and Harry Lorayne will show you how to make every minute count, dramatically increasing performance, productivity, and profits.
-- Enhance your powers of concentration and observation.
-- Double or even triple your daily work output, eliminate careless errors, quickly skim and retain business reports, news articles, and technical data.
-- Breeze through exams, improve your grades and classroom performance, reduce your homework time, and increase your free time.
-- Give speeches without notes and without anxiety, learn foreign languages more easily, excel at poker, bridge, and other games.
-- Heighten your mental agility, learning power, and conversational skills.
-- Discover the newfound authority, confidence, and pleasure that come from a quick, sharp, active mind.

Whatever your lifestyle or walk of life, begin your countdown to success today, and put a world of knowledge and know-how at your fingertips

Editorial Reviews

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"Ingenious."

-- The New York Times

"There Is Little Doubt You Will Find It Rewarding."

-- Reader's Digest

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If time is money, then memory is the bank and Harry Lorayne will show you how to make every minute count, dramatically increasing performance, productivity, and profits.
-- Enhance your powers of concentration and observation.
-- Double or even triple your daily work output, eliminate careless errors, quickly skim and retain business reports, news articles, and technical data.
-- Breeze through exams, improve your grades and classroom performance, reduce your homework time, and increase your free time.
-- Give speeches without notes and without anxiety, learn foreign languages more easily, excel at poker, bridge, and other games.
-- Heighten your mental agility, learning power, and conversational skills.
-- Discover the newfound authority, confidence, and pleasure that come from a quick, sharp, active mind.

Whatever your lifestyle or walk of life, begin your countdown to success today, and put a world of knowledge and know-how at your fingertips

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (September 29, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345410149
• ISBN-13: 978-0345410146
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Harry Lorayne is the world's foremost memory-training specialist and the author of The Memory Book, a New York Times bestseller for 46 weeks. His other books include Super Memory, Super Student; Remembering People, Memory Makes Money, and Harry Lorayne's Page-a-Minute Memory Book. He has appeared on national television many times, including 40 appearances on The Tonight Show, and has made hundreds of personal appearances, teaching seminars at major corporations, schools, and other organizations. His instructional 'Memory Power Package' of DVDs has sold thousands of copies on TV and the Internet. He lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step By Step Plan To Memory Improvement, January 17, 2004

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L. L Teuling "meloroze" (McAllen, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Page-a-Minute Memory Book (Paperback)

I have read other of Harry Lorayne's books and they have all been valuable.

But this one is unique in that it gives a page by page plan to learn the techniques. You can go through it at your own pace and it's presented in an easy to understand way. You can spend as much time as necessary with each page. You can finish reading it understanding the mechanics of memory a lot better, and even a surface practicing of the techniques will help a lot.

Of course, systematic practice will work even better.

Some of Lorayne's other books present more detailed information, but this one is a good, solid presentation of memory improvement and is maybe one of the easiest ones to begin to put into practice for immediate improvement.

It is especially good for people who have had no prior exposure to memory improvement and would like to have some practical advice that they can implement right away.

Try it! You won't be disappointed.

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's good stuff, May 6, 2001

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Chris (Houston, TX.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Page-a-Minute Memory Book (Paperback)

I think some of you guys are missing the point. If you recall Mr. loryane teaches the principles of memory and association at the beginning of the book. The examples in the book are used only to get you started using the systems not to teach you every single instance in which you might use them. You must grasp the principles of association and visualization first. When an understanding of those concepts have been established then you will clearly see how to twist and apply it to your own memory situations no matter what they may be. He says that at the end of the book. Read the first half carefuly then you will clearly see how he applies the concepts to situations and so will you. I have to say applying the systems to school is a lot better than my old rote technique I used all my life. I used these same techniques to raise my GPA a full point and get on the deans list twice in a row. So, any arguements are lost on experience. All those looking for a way to improve memory for school and life this is it. When you read the book don't skim and pretend like you are in some sort of training because you are. Finally, If you take it seriously, practice, and USE the systems you will reap the benefits, dont and you won't. Bye

56 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not For Everyone, April 20, 2001

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"dreamypickles" (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Page-a-Minute Memory Book (Paperback)

When I bought this book, I thought it was designed to help improve one's memory. What it is actually about is different techniques for remembering certain kinds of things. It is absolutely a good buy if you are looking to remember numbers or names. The techniques do require some work, though. I was hoping for help on memorizing dialog and speeches, and there is a small section on that, but I think there is probably a better book for it. I did improve my visualization skill, however. As a side effect of the exercises, my creativity has increased. I think this book is useful for students or people who must memorize dates or inventory numbers for work. I gave it a three star review because I thought the title misleading, and I did not feel that the book was written very well.