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Total Recall: How to Maximize Your Memory Power

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This book delves into different aspects of memory and has some good suggestions like how to study. It also covers why we forget and classifies the types of memory. It also (too) briefly covers the mnemonic memory systems.

However, if you want a good how-to on mnemonic memory systems I'd rather recommend Harry Lorayne's 'The Memory Book'

If you want a book examining why, I would recommend Kenneth Higbee's 'Your Memory'

Don't get me wrong, this book offers good advice and suggestions but it seems to be more of a jack-of-all-trades pulling in several different directions at once but not really being great at any one thing.

The best testimonial I can give for this book is that I read it three years ago and attribute ideas and associations I make everyday, directly and indirectly, to the diversity of content. Okay, it's written by a PHD but don't let that dimenish what you can get out of the book without being an academic type. I'm now searching Amazon for other memory books, really to learn about more about memory tricks and techniques, but I'm sure I'll continue to hold this book as the standard by which to judge the other memory books. It's much much more than tricks and techniques as it attempts to provide, as much as possible, the real meaning of human memory.

I was attracted by the title of this book. I expected this book to teach useful skills to maximize a person's memory power, as indicated by the book title. But in reality, the book touched very little on these topics and I learned very little from it. The book is talking a lot about experiments and other stuff.