Bathia - Memory Power!

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Dhaval Bathia

MEMORY POWER!
ISBN 978-81-8495-650-4

First Jaico Impression: 2015

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Preface

From an ordinary child to a whiz kid

This incident took place in my early teenage years.

I was watching a TV show with my family, where a senior university professor performed a seemingly unbelievable stunt in front of the audience. He memorized a deck of well- shuffled cards and recited the name of each of the 52 cards (four of spades, seven of hearts, etc.) in front of the audience with unfaltering accuracy. All of us watching this show were highly impressed. At that point, we presumed that this professor was perhaps an extraordinary individual, blessed with supernatural intelligence. How else in the world could he possibly memorize an entire pack of well-shuffled cards?

However, the most interesting part was yet to come. The second participant in the show was an 18-year-old girl, who claimed that she had memorized all the calendars of the past century. In other words, if you asked her any date from the year 1901 to 2000, she could tell you the day of the week corresponding to that date. The anchor of the show asked her random dates (such as February 2, 1931 or December 4, 1974). The girl was able to state accurately whether that particular day was a Tuesday or a Friday or a Sunday.

The show went on to feature some spectacular and bewildering demonstrations of the power of memory by many other participants. I was so impressed by the show that I could not help discussing it with my family at the dinner table that night. Seeing my enthusiasm, my father decided to cancel all his social appointments for the upcoming weekend and spend time with me on further research. I clearly remember it was a Saturday morning and we were both hooked to our laptops; running Google searches for every single video, e-book, presentation and audio file that was available on memory, mind power and similar topics. The whole day was spent in frantically downloading every piece of information that we could find on memory.

I watched in excitement as my father printed book after book for me. In the coming months, I immersed myself in learning and practicing all the techniques. Since I was a school student then, I could relate and remember all of what I learnt in school with the memory techniques that I was practicing. My dad gave up his leisure time on weekends to monitor and revise my progress.

Days, weeks and months passed by. Exactly a year later, I was featured on the same television show on memory with more or less the same participants. After seven grilling rounds of intense mental testing, I was unanimously adjudged the winner.

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Many miles away, my family was also watching the show. They were overjoyed to see me win the gold medal. My father sat in his signature armchair and watched me with tears of happiness running down his cheeks. He knew his son had arrived.

About the Author

Dhaval Bathia (BCom, ACS, LLB) is an international bestselling author, trainer and businessman. He wrote his first book at the age of 17. It became a popular hit within weeks of its launch. He then wrote four more books, all of which have become bestsellers and have sold over 200,000 copies in 14 languages worldwide.

He has trained millions of people in seminars, workshops and conferences in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the USA, Mexico, the UK, Mauritius, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the UAE. He is on the advisory boards of the educational ministries of many countries, where his math and memory systems are being gradually implemented in the mainstream curriculum.

Dhavals infomercials on Vedic Mathematics have been broadcast by Star TV, Zee TV, Sony TV and many other television channels. He was awarded the Young Achiever of the Year by Rotary International and Honorary Patron by the Indo-Kuwait Friendship Society.

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