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| | Description | SUPERCHARGE YOUR BRAIN!
Discover the secrets of a world memory champion. By the age of eighteen, Christiane Stenger had won the annual Youth World Memory Training Championship-three times! Now she shares her proven brain-boosting program to help you think smarter, faster, and better than you ever thought possible. You'll learn how to: - REMEMBER lists, names, numbers, and more
- INCREASE your overall intelligence
- ENHANCE creativity and performance
- SCORE higher grades in school
- SUCCEED in work and in life
Packed with interactive exercises, activities, and quizzes, this fun-filled guide shows you simple everyday ways to improve your memory and sharpen your mental skills, using odd phrases, silly stories, and visual images you'll never forget. (The book's title, A Sheep Falls Out of the Tree, is a trick for remembering numbers!) Best of all, your new memory powers will benefit every part of your life, from home to school to work. So grab a pen and get started on improving your memory-with the training program of champions. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Christiane Stenger | | Paperback: | 224 pages | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill | | Publication Date: | February 11, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0071615016 | | Product Length: | 9.0 inches | | Product Width: | 5.98 inches | | Product Height: | 0.53 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.66 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 5.9 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 3 reviews |
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100 of 103 found the following review helpful:
 The best book on memory training...easy and clear to understand Aug 31, 2010
By Dan Gerard
Earlier this year I started a new job as an investigator. I was overwhelmed with all the questions and follow-up questions and all the various points I was required to cover. In desperation I sought help from mnemonics. A couple of decades ago I had gone through most of "The Memory Book" by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas. It was somewhat helpful at the time, but I did not pursue it. It seemed like alot of effort that was not easily applicable to real life learning and situations.
So, earlier in the year, when I was desperate for some memory help, I searched and stumbled upon Dominic O'Brien and his work (both his Quantum Memory Power audio and a few of his books-- including "How to Develop a Perfect Memory"). It opened up a world I didn't know existed. This new-fangled mnemonics and memory sports (competition has a way of improving through refining). Dominic O'Brien really inspired me but his DOMINIC system was hard (to come up with people for initials) and his breezy approach was not as helpful.
I went through other works: Scott Hagwood, Dean Vaughn, Tony Buzan, Frank Felberbaum, and lots and lots of online material. And on one of the online memory sites I found a review of a book by former junior memory champ, Christiane Stenger. I ordered the book and slowly devoured it. It is the best by far. It is much more tangible and straightforward than other books on the subject (with the possible exception of Dean Vaughn, which is very good, but I found his cube method harder to apply than the route/journey method). Stenger gives concrete and easily applicable techniques ("Imagine a beautiful giraffe...Imagine her shrinking, so she fits in a matchbox...Take paintbrush and paint her all blue. Imagine adding red dots to her blue hide..." p. 50). And it gives you extra confidence that the techniques are not just theory and suggestions (like alot of study books I wasted money on in college) but actually work because they have been used to reach the highest levels of the World Memory Championships.
What I found amazing is that this is a translation from the German. You would NEVER know it. It uses examples from American/English-speaking culture. I guess given her young age and globalism there is not the difference in language and culture there once was. And/or the translators did an excellent job.
If I had to choose one book on memory learning, hands down this would be my choice. The others have some good nuggets to add, but EVERYTHING one needs for a first-rate, world-class memory is in the book. In addition, I really liked the first part of her book where she details the benefits of memory development to other aspects of life and human development. It was very encouraging.
Also, this book has been the book that got top memory champs Dorothea Seitz and Dennis Mueller started (they both mentioned this book in interviews).
Lastly, the book is nicely laid out and user friendly. It is a MacGraw-Hill book so the binding and paper is excellent quality.
This book belongs in every library and in every school and on every bookshelf.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
The best memory book Oct 26, 2011
By Ronald J Lawrence
I've tried all the memory books, Harry Lorayne etc, and for dealing with mnemonic and other techniques this is by far the best.
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 A waste of money and time Oct 22, 2011
By Key Sun
I bought this book because the description of the book said that it offered some different and effective memory techniques. I have not found anything in the book that is new or different from hundreds of similar books on memory. There is only one page describing learning foreign languages and it does not suggest any good methods.
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