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Document Outline

• Title
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• A brief history of memory
  • Oral traditions
  • The ancient greeks
  • The ancient romans
  • Memory’s changing fortunes
  • Memory in modern times
• The memory maze
  • The landscape of the mind
  • Exercise one: catching the “jizz”
  • Left brain, right brain
  • Waves of memory
  • Types of memory
  • How memories are created
  • Exercise two: finding your digit span
  • The reliability of memory
  • Exercise three: hosting a memory forum
  • Sleep, dreams and memory
  • Memory and learning
  • Theories of forgetting
  • Lost memory
  • Memory in children
  • Memory and aging
• Enticing the echoes
  • The memory gymnasium
  • The art of memory
  • The art of imagination
  • Exercise four: painting a memory masterpiece
  • The art of association
  • The art of location
  • The art of concentration
  • Exercise five: a memory meditation warm-up
  • The art of observation
  • Exercise six: noticing the details
  • Revision and repetition
  • Memory and health
  • Memory and the senses
  • Exercise seven: the memory kaleidoscope
  • Memory and music
  • Exercise eight: staging a memory concert
  • The art of recall
• Memory with a map
  • Mnemonics
  • Visual pegs
  • Exercise nine: the memory forest 10-note keyboard
  • The story method
  • Exercise ten: making a memory chain
  • Exercise eleven: weaving a narrative spell
  • The journey method
  • Exercise twelve: walking the walk
  • Exercise thirteen: the memory house
  • The dominic system
  • The number-shape system
  • Mind maps
• Memory in action
  • Matching names and faces
  • Exercise fourteen: what’s in a name?
  • Keeping a date
  • Exercise fifteen: using a mental diary
  • Finding the right word
  • Exercise sixteen: crossword heaven
  • Making speeches
  • Memory and games
  • Exercise seventeen: memorizing cards of chance
  • Memory at school
  • Reading and retaining
  • Exercise eighteen: evaluate, assimilate, remember
  • Speed reading
  • Exercise nineteen: checking the sense
  • Quick-fix retrieval
  • Exercise twenty: clearing the seabed of memory
• The memory palace
  • Living through detail
  • Memory massage
  • Dealing with life’s demands
  • Exercise twenty-one: The interview journey
  • Time travelling
  • Exercise twenty-two: harnessing schooldays
  • Releasing the past
  • Exercise twenty-three: disarming a memory
  • The world of emotions
  • Exercise twenty-four: rekindling the flame
  • Keeping the mind young
  • Exercise twenty-five: tracing connections
  • Memory of the future
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Copyright