![]() ![]() Thus, by keeping this a surprise he keeps the climax from sagging, which could easily happen since the audience knew from the beginning what the effect was going to be.īut when he reveals that the other combinations (that he didn't even mention in the explanation at the beginning) also add to the selected number, that's when the real surprise and audience reaction come in. This is a masterful presentation that should be studied, not to copy Mr Lorayne's way of performing it, but to really learn how to present a trick that could very easily be a flop if not presented properly.I was a PRISONER OF WAR in North Vietnam from September 26th, 1966 until March 4th, 1973. Shortly before I was shot down and captured I learned your MEMORY POWER systems. The prisoners of war had no reading or writing material, so we relied solely on memory for sanity, entertainment, names of other POWs, military directives and orders. You won’t regret it.Īnd while you’re there, look out for these additional Memory Palace Book suggestions.During the first months of captivity, while flat on my back in a cast, I applied your systems for my own benefit, and it indeed worked! I then taught it to hundreds of my fellow POWs over the next six years. I’m not sure why, but I still really like him.Ĭheck out The Memory Book on your Kindle, in print or at your public library. If he really doesn’t use these techniques, no problem.īut what many find shocking is how he sometimes seems to dislike the Memory Palace approach with a sentiment approaching aggression. It’s one that has puzzled many students of memory. This lack of attention to the method of loci and mind mapping appears to be a quirk of Lorayne’s. Complaints About The Memory Book By Harry Lorayne?ĭespite mountains of evidence demonstrating just how great the Memory Palace technique is, there is no focus on it. Even thought it was published way back in 1974, The Memory Book still raises new questions. (I know there are some historians who read this newsletter who will probably hate me for wording the past that way, but alas …)Ħ. It is an important book in the movement to bring us out of the dark ages in which mnemonics remains relatively unused in comparison to times of yore. Reading other people with a similar interest in positively expanding the powers of your mind is an amazing experience.ĥ. They don’t bother with “thinking outside of the box.” They teach us how to think inside the box first – something that is sorely lacking in classrooms around the world.Ĥ. You might even pick up a few new tricks related to the Major Method.ģ. They inspire new ways of thinking about imagination and using it to store information in the mind. This is because they focus on the peg system and related techniques almost entirely.Ģ. They make what seems like a complex process incredibly simple. Here are a few more things I like about it:ġ. As many a great detective has known, eavesdropping is a great way to learn. This feature of the book gives you the feeling that you’re sitting in on a conversation. (You can expand your perspective even further by considering Lorayne in the context of Dominic O’Brien too.) Instead of receiving a mono-voice lecture on the topic, you get two points of view. That’s because The Memory Book is actually a dialogue between two memory experts, Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas. I personally re-read one book a month on average.)Īnd The Memory Book is well-worth going through at least a few times. (Speaking of which, if you don’t have a re-reading strategy, then I recommend you get started with one. That matter aside, you’re in for treat when you pick up this book. It’s still a chapter on vocabulary all the same and its slimness inspired me to write my own books on how to memorize words. There are only 12 pages on how to memorize vocabulary. On the bad side, here’s the books major deficit: The Memory Book features amazing chapters on association, substitution, memorizing names and faces and of course vocabulary … Yet, strangely, I rarely find it cited in the literature about memorization. Is it the be-all-and-end-all of memorization books?īut it is well reviewed on Amazon, and many are right to praise it. ![]() People have been talking for years about Harry Lorayne’s The Memory Book.
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