MEMORY STRAWBERRY
The Complete Starter Kit
to a Better Memory
By
Chris M Nemo
Copyright 2020 by Chris M Nemo- All rights reserved.
It is not legal to reproduce, duplicate, or transmit any part of this document in either electronic means or printed format. The recording of this publication is strictly prohibited.
This book is dedicated to
My Family
(V., A., and D.M.)
Part 1.Introduction
Chapter 1.1. About this Book
As a memory writer, I read many books on memory improvement. Most of these books are full of dusty theories, containing dozens of pages with boring and theoretical stuff about the functioning of the brain and memory, but dealing too little with the practical part of this fascinating field. In the same way you don't have to be a computer programmer to know how to use a computer efficiently, you don't need to become a neuro-psychiatrist to improve your memory. Most of the memory techniques are very simple and easy to understand and you have probably already encountered them throughout your life. The key is the immediate practical applicability of the learned concepts, and this, unfortunately, is missing from most memory improvement books and courses.
In this book, I will not load your memory with abstract and useless theories. Instead, you will learn many powerful memory tools. More importantly, you will see how to use them in your daily activities to become more efficient in your studies, personal life, or career and achieve greater success.
The field of memory improvement is constantly changing, as is our entire society. The Internet is full of information about this area, but if you do not have a guide to help you discern this information, you risk getting lost along its winding paths. I hope that this book, through its clarity of the exposition and through its numerous examples and practical activities, will become a useful guide for anyone who wants to understand this field and, eventually, to start training their memory.
Beyond the practical aspects of everyday life, in which a trained memory can, definitely, help you achieve your personal or professional goals, memory improvement is also an increasingly popular sport nowadays.
More and more people practice this mental sport, becoming " memory athletes ". Hundreds of memory competitions and championships take place annually on the entire planet. There are titles recognizing achievements in this sport, for which thousands of memory athletes compete, such as International Master of Memory (IMM) or International Grandmaster of Memory (IGM).
Memory is one of the five Learning Mind Sports defined by the co-founders of the World Memory Championships, Tony Buzan and Raymond Keene OBE, which are: Speed Reading, IQ, Creativity, Mind Mapping and Memory . All of them are competitive sports, and collectively they can help anyone to become better in their studies or in their work.
The good news is that anyone can become a memory athlete, regardless of age, education or other conditioning, if he has enough motivation to learn the necessary techniques and to train properly.
But, as in any human activity, you have to start by learning the basics . First, you need to understand how memory techniques work and create your own set of favorite techniques, after which you can start practicing this sport.
This book is intended to be a condensed guide to memory techniques that will provide you with a solid foundation for practicing them in the future. The good news is that once you learn these techniques, it's like learning a new foreign language. New horizons and perspectives will open up to you almost as soon as you start practicing them, and your performance will move to a higher level.
In fact, armed with these powerful mind tools, you will become a completely new person. Memory training is similar to body training. Once you start this practice, you can already call yourself a " memory athlete ". The results will be visible from the first days of memory training. Soon, you will probably set new goals for the future, maybe to participate in a memory championship and (why not?), to become a Grandmaster of Memory .
Remember, all you need to become a memory athlete is a set of tools and a lot of practice. This book will teach you the tools and will guide you to effective practice. Keep in mind that the memory methods and systems presented in this book are tested and used by memory experts and they will also work for you.
To take full advantage of the book, try to resist following it until the end. I guarantee that every chapter is full of content and you will find plenty of practical applications that will help you understand the tools with which mental athletes work.
Whether you are at the beginning of your journey to improving your memory, or you already have notions in this area, I am convinced that in this book, you will find new and interesting things to apply to your daily activities. Improving your memory can be fun, and you can achieve astonishingly impressive results very quickly!
Try to keep an open mind when reading this book. Approach the techniques with a positive attitude and try to understand the practical exercises. Although I am not the one who invented these methods, I hope I will be a good teacher to help you understand what I wanted to present to you in this condensed book. The classification of memory techniques that you will find in this book reflects my view about them. In this book, I have created and defined the notions of structural techniques and encoding techniques , based on the experience I have in working with them and you will not find them classified in this way in other books published so far. In this book, you will not only find a lot of very effective memory methods, but you will be able to explore them in perspective and understand the place of each technique in the set of tools used by the memory experts.
Moreover, through the practical examples, you will find in this book, you will understand how you can combine these techniques in practice to achieve your goal of improving your memory and your ability to learn. The book is filled to the brim with great, informative and easy-to-understand applications, which will help you penetrate more easily into the secrets of this rather obscure and hermetic field of memory training.
Why did I choose the title " Memory Strawberry " for this book? Because memory improvement is about creating memorable images and sounds that stick in our brains for a long time. The rhyme in the title makes this book very memorable initially, but I am sure that its entire content, full of dense information, presented in a very practical way and accompanied by lots of examples, will make you come back to it anytime with pleasure and confidence. By reading this book, you are already on your way to becoming a memory athlete.
Thank you for choosing me to be your guide in this journey and I assure you that you will have a unique and life-changing experience!
Chapter 1.2. The Structure of This Book
First of all, let's clear up some things about memory improvement techniques. Their role is to help your memories stick better in your brain. At its most basic level, memory improvement is converting abstract things into memorable images for the brain, who thinks in pictures. Pictures are our brains alphabet . But what happens when we are dealing with abstract concepts such as love, freedom or honor ? Our learning's biggest problem is that the concepts we have to memorize in our studies, in our careers or in other everyday situations, are largely abstract. Numbers, dates, names, definitions, formulas, etc. are often abstract concepts that do not have a concrete associated image and, for this reason, cannot be easily retained by our brain. As an example, think of numbers.
