Harry Lorayne (1926–2023)

Read by the author with enthusiasm and style, this is a witty and entertaining way to learn his easy, intuitive and powerful method. Don't buy the "over 50" thing. Anyone of any age interested in increasing memory retention could and should benefit from this quick, valuable read.

I read it in college and found it really stimulating. I've tried to apply some of the methods, sometimes with good success.

I enjoyed the Mind Power exercises at the end of each chapter. I'd rather have those exercises constitute the content of a book. At 65, I have memory issues and have tried a few techniques (like association as described in the book) to remember names and information. I'm sure this is a useful book based on the other reviews I see on Goodreads but just not for me.

Quite good introduction into memory techniques that teaches standard stuff in a very hands-on fashion - a short introduction of theory and then endless supply of examples. While examples are of course important in the introductory book, I've found it really overdone, especially in the second part - instead of more advanced matter the authors just keep listing examples endlessly (and they get quite dull and repetitive). In my opinion the book should have been either much shorter or more show more versatile and nuanced, for example they didn't even mention Memory Palaces (Method of Loci), which is the cornerstone of all memory techniques.

Probably worth reading, if only for the sheer amount of real life examples, but I suspect that one can find all the information in few articles and forum posts because the book does not really deliver any extra value - narrative, continuity, history etc. show less