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Title: Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It by Kenneth L. Higbee ISBN: 1-56924-629-7 Publisher: Marlowe & Company Pub. Date: 02 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compared to "The Memory Book"
Comment: I read this book before I read "The Memory Book" by Lorayne and Lucas and found that much of the same material is covered in both, but in entirely different ways. It's really an "either or" decision between the two based on what you want to gain.
Personally, between the two books, I prefer Higbee's book because of his thorough examination of memory, its history, case studies, analogies, and anecdotes. I find it to be inspiring to see its great applications and that most people benefit greatly from these techniques. This style helped me to retain enthsiasm to learn and yet was written in a plain and often humorous style.
"The Memory Book" has its own benefits. It lays everything out in easy to understand instructions and lists a few dorky "party tricks" you can do with some of the techniques (though who's really going to entertain friends with "memory feats"?). Lorayne and Lucas do offer something not offerred in Higbee's book: short chapters dedicated to using memory techniques for specific tasks such as learning music, stock symbols, sports plays, or locations. These chapters make up a small portion of the book and could easily be read off the shelf at a local bookstore.
To sum up, both books offer up basically the same exact memory techniques. It's up to your own learning style to decide which one you prefer.
Rating: 4
Summary: A place to start
Comment: Higbee's book, Your Memory, is a combined survey of mnemonic techniques and systems, with supporting research, and an introduction to memory - processes, myths and misconceptions, basic techniques. It contains numerous examples of memorizing lists, numbers, names, and faces. The chapter on study skills I found useful. But its relative lack of examples illustrating the application of mnemonic systems to complex, abstract material was frustrating.
The book progresses smoothly and logically. Higbee's style is clear and readable; though his analogies are awkward, the explanation of which often taking up more space than the concept they were meant to illustrate. Touted as a practical guide, I found it more of an introduction and a defense of the benefits of memorization - and a good one at that. Throughout he includes research supporting the effectiveness of the techniques he describes, references to other textbooks and guides, and explanations for why some material is remembered better than others. Higbee uses the first three chapters to dispel some common misconceptions of memory, such as the belief that it is a thing rather than a process, and to describe what memory really is and how it works. Chapters four and five form the core of the book. In these chapters the basics are described: meaningfulness, organization, association, attention, repetition, and context. The rest of the book is largely built on these principles. Higbee covers the Link and Story, Loci, Peg, and Phonetic mnemonic systems. Enough detail for each is given that, with practice, the reader can master them for memorizing things such as to-dos, names and faces, speeches, concrete facts, dates, and numbers. He tantalizingly mentions that they can also be used for memorizing material beyond facts and figures, such as abstract concepts, but fails to provide more than cursory instructions on how to do so. The instructions to substitute abstract words and ideas for concrete ones are well taken, but insufficient information is given on how to systemically apply memorization techniques while reading a history book, for example. Higbee also describes the synergy obtained combining some of these mnemonic systems.
I would recommend this book as a good starting place but with the proviso that it is not a workbook. Higbee himself stresses that efficiency in these techniques only comes with hard work and practice - but you will have to provide your own homework. It is also important to keep in mind that these techniques will not magically create a photographic memory (the existence of which Higbee largely dispels) nor will they prevent you from ever forgetting anything again. What you will get are processes for *improving* the chances of recalling needed information.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: I thought Kenneth Higbee's book was a great analysis of memory and different techniques of how to improve it. After reading this book I memorized a chapter summary of every chapter in the New Testament, and I can tell you what day of the week you were born on if you give me the date. A+
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Title: The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne, Jerry Lucas ISBN: 0345410025 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Power Reading : The Best, Fastest, Easiest, Most Effective Course on Speedreading and Comprehension Ever Developed! by Rick Ostrov ISBN: 0960170618 Publisher: Education Press (NC) Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Super Memory - Super Student : How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days (Super Memory Super Student) by Harry Lorayne ISBN: 0316532681 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 22 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Einstein Factor : A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence by Win Wenger, Richard Poe ISBN: 076150186X Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Memory Workbook: Breakthrough Techniques to Exercise Your Brain and Improve Your Memory by Douglas J. Mason, Michael Lee Kohn, Karen A. Clark ISBN: 1572242582 Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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