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Narrated by Nancy Linari
Lynne KellyUnabridged — 8 hours, 18 minutes
Narrated by Nancy Linari
Lynne KellyUnabridged — 8 hours, 18 minutes
"A tour de force in memory techniques ranging from medieval mnemonics to the latest strategies and heuristics used by world-leading memory champions. The book shows that memory can be learned and trained with a wealth of examples and routines that can be practised by anyone."
"Memory Craft is essential reading for anyone interested in memory improvement techniques. Highly recommended."
"Memory Craft is captivating and well worth reading and re-reading. You will discover a wide variety of inventive, fun to use and surprisingly powerful techniques that may very well end up changing your life."
"Weaving the deep history of memory techniques along with the techniques themselves, Memory Craft is a memory book like no other I’ve ever read."
"Memory Craft is the best practical book on memory training."
"Memory Craft provides a comprehensive understanding of man's earliest and most powerful survival tool, memory."
"Readers can readily implement her ideas and train themselves to use these mnemonic devices just as the ancient ones may have done so long ago."
"Dr Lynne Kelly explores the ancient memory techniques that exploit our brain's natural instinct to ground knowledge in landscapes, movement, objects, stories and songs. Lynne shares her practical experience with using these methods to teach us how we too can memorise anything from the history of the world to learning a foreign language. Along the way we gain profound insights into how these "memory crafts" can not only inform educational practices, but also potentially protect our memories from decline as we age."
"Entertaining, educational, fun and has easy to follow methods so everyone can learn how to increase their own memory capacity."
"Memory Craft is captivating and well worth reading and re-reading. You will discover a wide variety of inventive, fun to use and surprisingly powerful techniques that may very well end up changing your life."--Francis Blondin, two times Canadian Memory Champion
"Memory Craft is essential reading for anyone interested in memory improvement techniques. Highly recommended."--Josh Cohen, co-founder, artofmemory.com
"Memory Craft is the best practical book on memory training."--Anthony Metivier, host of the Magnetic Memory podcast
"Memory Craft provides a comprehensive understanding of man's earliest and most powerful survival tool, memory."--Dominic O'Brien, eight times World Memory Champion
"A tour de force in memory techniques ranging from medieval mnemonics to the latest strategies and heuristics used by world-leading memory champions. The book shows that memory can be learned and trained with a wealth of examples and routines that can be practised by anyone."--Professor Todd Landman, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
"Dr Lynne Kelly explores the ancient memory techniques that exploit our brain's natural instinct to ground knowledge in landscapes, movement, objects, stories and songs. Lynne shares her practical experience with using these methods to teach us how we too can memorise anything from the history of the world to learning a foreign language. Along the way we gain profound insights into how these "memory crafts" can not only inform educational practices, but also potentially protect our memories from decline as we age."--Dr Meredith McKague, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
"The narrative covers the ground well and entertains as it travels. Of benefit to anyone seeking to remember a scrap of information for more than a couple of minutes."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"Weaving the deep history of memory techniques along with the techniques themselves, Memory Craft is a memory book like no other I've ever read."--Nelson Dellis, four-time U.S. Memory Champion
2019-09-29
An Australian "memory champion" offers some tricks of the trade.
The human brain processes huge amounts of sensory data every day, only some of which gets lodged in it for future access. This can be a problem when trying to remember, say, the name of a person—for which reason cultures from around the world have developed memory-training regimens. "A highly trained memory was greatly admired in the classical Greco-Roman era," writes Kelly (The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments, 2017). "Not only was it useful in politics and speech making, it was also a terrific way to show off." So it was that the Roman philosopher Seneca lined up 100 students, had each recite a line of poetry, and then repeated the lines in order—and then backward. Kelly examines the techniques employed to perform such prodigious feats, among them the "memory palace," a mental construct made up of rooms, pieces of furniture, and such that are then populated with facts and figures. The author writes that she has more than 1,000 such locations—and other memory experts have many more. Among the other techniques that she discusses are "visual alphabets in the shapes of animals and humans," narrative scrolls that develop character-rich stories to aid memory, ingenious mnemonic devices, memorizing long sequences of numbers by means of attaching sounds to them, and perhaps the most useful brain-as-muscle exercise by which one should review a piece of information five times over three months in order to move it into long-term memory. Kelly's book takes a gee-whiz approach to a scholarly body of literature that includes Frances Yates' classic books on Renaissance memory studies and recent works of neuroscience such as Daniel Levitin's The Organized Mind, but the narrative covers the ground well and entertains as it travels.
Of benefit to anyone seeking to remember a scrap of information for more than a couple of minutes.
| BN ID: | 2940178469361 |
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| Publisher: | Scribd Audio |
| Publication date: | 12/21/2021 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Sales rank: | 1,234,449 |
