Memo: The Easiest Way to Improve Your Memory

by Oddbjørn By

Better memory is not just useful for winning Memory Championships, but for every day tasks. Your mind has enormous potential - use it!

Memo was number 1 on the bestseller lists in Norway and Denmark for six consecutive months. But more importantly, it has helped people get a better life. Since 2006, the author has received more than 7000 grateful emails from readers. Readers that have used Memo successfully for exams, learning languages, delivering speeches and presentations, remembering dances, card tricks and much more.

As Antti R. from Finland wrote in an email:
"I have read memory books before, but your approach is by far the best: it's like your best friend telling you how the techniques really work. Thanks!"

Some memory books claims that you can remember names for the rest of your life or remember absolutely everything in a book - just by using a particular technique. Oddbjorn By set a memory world record in 2006 and knows the best memorisers in the world. And he knows that there exists no memory technique which can make you quickly learn and remember a whole textbook. Nor is it possible to remember everything, forever. Even the greatest memory athletes in the world forget names and Passports occationally.

But it s possible to improve your memory. By learning Memo.

The author experienced that when he almost lost the Norwegian Memory Championships to readers of his book. One of them even became a Grand Master at the World Memory Championships 2009 (a feat accomplished by only five people). Memo is indeed the book to make you a memory champion. Or more importantly: the book that improves your memory, lifts your grades, helps you deliver great presentations - so that you can accomplish your goals.

Memo draws on the most effective techniques from ancient Greece, international memory competitions and methods developed by the author. The purpose is to spend less time, while remembering more. Instead of using the hammer - repeating, repeating, repeating you can use Memo. Learn languages, anatomy, geography and speeches.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology, How To, Science

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Lasse Karjalainen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kirjan tekniikat ovat loistavia ja tavoittena onkin alkaa opettelemaan niitä. Jokaisen tulisi mielestäni hallita vähintäänkin perutekniikat, joiden avulla monenlaisten asioiden muistaminen on todella helppoa.

Kirja oli sikäli mullistava kokemus, että luettuani sen, uskon voivani muistaa hämmästyttäviä asioita. Voin opetella kaikki maailman valtiot pääkaupunkineen tai vaikka korttipakkoja jos siltä tuntuu. Opiskelussa tulen varmasti hyödyntämään kirjan antamia vinkkejä. Samoin kuin nimien muistamisessa.

Kirja opettaa myös lukuisia arjen muistamista helpottavia keinoja, osa oli ennestään tuttuja, osa uusia.

[Darlene]

This is for the English version of
Memo: The Easiest Way to Improve Your Memory
Kindle Version ASIN: B004X2WZ2M

[JHK · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 hours now gone in waste.

First i thought this book could help me remember what i understood in my study but this book entirely focuses on rote memorization of facts and information. Someone who’s interested in those methodologies might find it helpful, but if you’re a person looking for serious tips how to make concrete of your long term understanding, reading this book would be a complete waste of time.

[Pete Halsted · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a decent read, and has some great information, But I feel its lacking some meat and potatoes. It feels much more like a random brain dump of ideas, than an organized howto for improving your memory. There is a lot of good quality information, but other than some anecdotal examples you are left on your own to figure how on to start implementing and practicing the methods described.

[Madelén · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of those books that you just need. It's a necessity.

...You should probably get one of the recent ones though, because this edition is so old that they are removing it from libraries.

[Olga · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book saved my life! I was totally desperate before my language
exam. I needed to remember a lot of words and information. But
everything I tried to store inside my head just disappeared in few
days and I needed to learn it again and again. It was definitely easy
just to go and shoot myself. But friend of mine kindly stopped me and
recommended to read a book called “Memo”. It was so easy and
interesting and I decided to use this technique just for fun. I had a
long list of words I couldn't remember and tried to visualize every
word. It was really funny to place strange people and items to
different places!

It was the easiest way to solve my problem, I tried ones and still
using this method in different situations.

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the English version of the book. I would recommend doing the exercises, creating the journeys and doing some critical thinking about how the methods can be applied in your life. Personally I found the mental journeys a bit of a revelation. It clicked for me how to make it work. I plan to use this as a way to learn another language.

This is for the English version of
Memo: The Easiest Way to Improve Your Memory
Kindle Version ASIN: B004X2WZ2M

[Jake · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now I understand betterly the memory and the mind.

[Russell]

memory

[Mintti · Rating 4 out of 5]

hmm, I think this will be useful, if I remember to read it..

[Millie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was interesting, but not really for me.

[Tovetove · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kjempe bra!

[Lauri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Content 4/5
Writing style 2/5 (possibly because of the finnish translation)

[Filip Sekkelsten · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inneholder viktige prinsipper om husketeknikk, en slags DIY memoriseringsbok.