How to Train Your Memory

by Phil Chambers

A leading memory expert shows you how to make memory lapses a thing of the past. Find out how to have facts and figures at your fingertips. With lots of exercises and examples, this book will guide you from absent-mindedness to memory mastery.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

144 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2017

Reviews

[Abdul Rafay · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe it wasn't the right book in terms of ''Memory Training'' for me. I found it a bit advanced to apply the techniques and rules in our day-to-day life because the examples given in this book are of those extraordinary people. To be honest, the standards are quite intricate to follow up for a layman in order to train one's memory. I felt that this book is written for people who want to break or create some sort of ''Memory World Records''. Methods described in How to Train Your Memory can be of great use to prepare for some competition or olympiad. The very last chapter Mind Mapping certainly was of great help and if anyone is still eager to find about those techniques and methods, I'd suggest they should read the summaries of each chapter and they will get an idea of what the whole chapter is about.

[Mohammad Aqib · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing Book it really helped me and the fun part is that I hought this book physically in my area and i forget it somewhere two times after just buying it 🤣🤣

[Tariq Aziz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple techniques to improve memory and remember more things. Brain is also like all other muscles, the more you train/ develop it the better it performs.

[James Tomasino · Rating 2 out of 5]

Same old techniques. Memory palace, mneumonics, association, etc. It's just kinda bland and dry. The stories don't add much. Exercises are fine.

[Shahad · Rating 3 out of 5]

A practical and easy read!
It gave me useful tips and techniques that really make remembering things easier in daily life.

[Attique Younis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The concepts of memory boosting are marvellous, informative, expounded and very handy.

[Andreas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was highly recommended by Anthony Metivier in one of his podcasts. It covers everything you need to know to improve your memorization skills, and some more.

Vivid images are in the center of everything. In this book the author comes up with the Seahorse acronym: use all senses, exaggerate, put in action, use humor, order, repetition, symbols and finally enjoy. That's a lot to remember and personally I liked the See - Link - Action approach from "Remember It" more. Both should work though, it's rather a matter of preference.

Phil Chambers has a clean writing style that is easy to follow. There are many examples and exercises so that by the time I have reached the end my brain came up faster with links and images. From the 10 random faces and names I still recognized 7 after a couple of days. Not bad!

What I missed was humor. Nelson Dellis has so many funny or surprising moments in the book Remember It that make the topics more memorable and less dry. Just yesterday I looked up the recipe of his favorite sauce. Phil on the other hand is more serious. I don't know why he advises against the PAO system for daily use. Yes, it requires more dedication but learning 300 words instead of 100 (Major system) isn't that much and will greatly boost the efficiency. In addition it's the power of the tools that no matter how much you have to learn, you can do it.

The "Mind Mapping" chapter will be beneficial to people who have never worked with them. If you want to dive deeper I highly recommend Mind Map Mastery by Tony Buzan.

4.5 stars rounded down to 4 stars

P.S. One of my favorite book after all the years is still Mark Channon's Memory Workbook. I will look at his Improve your Memory next.