A Sheep Falls Out of the Tree: How Anyone Can Develop a Fantastic Memory

by Christiane Stenger

Frazzled students and harried workers will value this advice from a self-described "totally lazy" teen, who became motivated to train and develop her memory skills in order to have more free time away from school. Contending that a keen memory is not only essential for students and an asset in test-taking but also a major factor in confidence and self-esteem, the book's breezy tone and simple exercises invite anyone who feels anxious about memorization to relax and practice with the included activity charts and simple memory tests. The author's struggle to rise above her "below average" academic performance as a child to become a teen protégé, excellent student, and world champion in memory performance will offer inspiration to anyone who worries about memory lapses or the stress of trying to remember important details under pressure.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[MindOverMatter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is very interesting and also contains many practical examples. The start is a bit sloppy, but it builds up very well. As the author has been very young obviously when she wrote the book, it contains examples of a school kid which sometimes are not so interesting - at least in the first couple of chapters. When she talks about the major method/master method and gives tipps on how to build up own mental palace routes, however, the book starts to be really inspiring and very enjoyable. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book for the exercises and all the valueable inspiration and sharing of her experience. Due to the inspiration drawn from the book, I have started to change my every day behaviour and have become more aware of my surroundings and also try to play around with visuals in my mind, build up routes as I go and practice with the major method and story telling. I highly recommend reading the book. It was totally worth my time and I will surely read it again - and in the meantime I'll practice a lot. :)

[federico · Rating 5 out of 5]

General view of mnemonics.

This is good book if you are interested in mnemonic techniques has a description of the peg system ,route method ,mind palace and a program of exercises to try this techniques.
I found this book very valuable as and introduction of these techniques if you already know the basics of Mnemonics and are you looking for more specialized techniques looks else were but it you’re just finish to to ream moonwalking with Einstein and want to learn to do the same this is the book to start.

[Melanie Hubbard · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very practical way of enhancing memory!

[Jennie S · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book with useful tricks to help improve the reader's memory. I have read a few books on memory techniques and took a course in Human Memory and this book covers most, if not all, of the memorization techniques out there. It also does a really good job of explaining how they are used.

The author seems credible. She uses the same techniques in her book while competing for the world memory championship.

It's definitely not one of those self help books that tries to motivate the reader to practice over and over again with vague stories of how the author achieves some self-proclaimed success and urges the reader to just do it without any specific guidance. With interesting short stories and practices that let you use your newly learned skills right away, this book promises everything on the cover and a bit more.

[Tim Nowotny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of these book that promise a lot and do even more. The thinkers in this one really work if you give it a little bit of practice (which is fun). I really have the feeling that I will use the things written down there and what more can zu wish for?
Mz only critique would be that you could even make it shorter since many of the later chapters are only variant of the base techniques.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

gekürzte Hörbuchfassung, hat mir gut gefallen. Werde jetzt nochmal das Buch in die Hand nehmen.