Rating: Average
Unlimited Memory blurb excerpt: Do you ever feel like you're too busy, too stressed, or just too distracted to concentrate and get work done?
In Unlimited Memory, you'll learn how the world's best memory masters get themselves to concentrate at will, anytime they want. When you can easily focus and concentrate on the task at hand, and store and recall useful information, you can easily double your productivity and eliminate wasted time, stress, and mistakes at work.
In this book, you'll find all the tools, strategies, and techniques you need to improve your memory.
My Opinion: I didn't love it. Although some of the content was really good, the book was much longer than it needed to be relative to the takeaway message.
Lessons from Unlimited Memory:
Learning is the ability to acquire and understand new information. Memory is what holds that information in place over time.
A great memory gives you advantages by helping you to:
Store and access more information quickly.
Make mental associations.
Build upon existing knowledge.
Grasp opportunities.
Increase your overall intelligence.
Only when you can instantly recall what you understand can you achieve mastery.
The 4 C’s of Memory:
Concentration.
Create Imagery.
Connecting Concepts Together.
Continuous Use.
5 barriers to learning new things:
You have and believe the excuses you tell yourself - self limiting beliefs.
Someone else is always to blame.
Too much stress.
You don’t take action now.
Your limiting belief will keep you trapped in a habit loop.
How to change your beliefs:
80% of change starts with identifying your why.
Question the belief.
Create a new belief and find research or stories to validate and support it.
5 affirmations or truths to tell yourself:
I was born with exceptional concentration and memory.
Memory improvement is important - this will move you from interest to commitment.
I have incredible abilities and an unlimited memory.
There is no failure, only feedback.
I don’t know it all.
4 areas to focus on to eliminate conflict and create peace in your mind:
Take control of your inner voice - catch yourself doing things right more often than wrong.
Stop multi-tasking.
Know what you want - PIC (Purpose, Interest, Curiosity).
Eliminate worry by substituting “what if” scenarios with “what would I do if".
Create and Connect: People who are effective learners apply their creativity to the learning process rather than trying to create a “snap shot” of content which they can recall.
Hear the information and 3 days later you will retain 10%, add a picture or create and image and you will retain 65%.
Use the SEE principle:
Senses. Use all 5 senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste, to experience and remember something more vividly.
Exaggeration. Things that stand out are more memorable. For example, you’d remember a football-sized mouse more than a normal sized one.
Energize. Inject humor, colour and action to make the content more vivid and fun! A neon-pink horse that’s dancing and singing is definitely more memorable than a brown horse standing still. To convert abstract data develop mental images by reducing each element into a memorable image connected to the sound. For example, “Washington” can be broken down into a picture of someone washing a tin.
10 types of intelligence: An example in the book which I thought was good to know.
Creative
Personal
Social
Spiritual
Physical
Sensual
Sexual
Numerical
Spatial
Verbal
To accelerate the transfer of information from the short-term memory to long-term, one can peg new information to an existing list that you’re already familiar with. Use different physical reference points to trigger information i.e Car, Body, Room in your home.
Attach a persons name to a defining feature or the location in which you met them.
To remember numbers you need to give them more meaning. You need to be able to change the numbers into words, words into images.
The number code:
0 is the S,C or E sound
1 is the T or D sounds
2 is the N sound
3 is the M sound
4 is the R sound
5 is the L sound
6 is the J or G sound
7 is the K or C sound
8 Is the F or V sound
9 is the B or P sound
Art and mind mapping is another powerful way to engage your creativity and thus memory.
In a presentation remember the FLOOR principle. People tend to remember the:
First things
Last things
Outstanding information
Own links
Repeated information
4 keys to creating more discipline:
Create a vision.
Make a decisions.
Stop listening to your feelings.
Daily action.
Unlimited Memory Best Quotes:
“When you use more of your imagination, you are using more of your memory”
“You are not remembering more, you’re just making it more memorable”
“We only learn by association - the process of connecting new information to old information”
“The secret to accelerated learning is organization”
“We need why power, not willpower"
“If you have no attention there will be no retention”
“Beliefs are like clothes, you can put them on and take them off”
“A mind in conflict cannot concentrate”
“People allow their attention to be pulled in different directions, very few people direct their attention”
“Where ever you are, be there”
What Next:
If you are interested in this book, you may want to check out our list of Personal Development book reviews.
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