I was originally going to add "or you're a dimwit" but upon reading it I'm entirely confident that I could teach these techniques to most average seven year olds - that's literally how easy they are. I genuinely believe, after reading this twice, that if you are an average person and spend more than 2 hours practicing the things in this book and end up unable to memorize a deck of cards in order, then you are either lying about how hard you tried, or you have aphantasia. That said, this can be a pretty good thing as well, in some ways. you can "cure absentmindedness" by "linking every action you ever do to the next action you do", separate chapters for appointments/dates/birthdays/sports stats etc which all should have just been in the number-memorization section but inexplicably got their own chapters) There's also a surprising amount in here that just seems really dumb and impractical, clearly shoved in here to brag about how flexible these systems are (e.g. The book is written at around a third grade level, but includes stuff like chapters titled "Teaching your children", and the book has an extreme amount of hand-holding that made me end up flipping past several pages saying "yeah I get it, yeah I get it, yeah I get it". It's pretty strange and makes me question exactly what kind of audience the authors were writing for. 10+) ways to apply the same tools to different topics. My main gripe with this book is that there's a breathtaking lack of information in it, and instead mostly focuses on several (i.e. The techniques they cover are the Link, Substitute Word, Major, and Peg systems, as well as some other useful applications like names/faces, playing cards, locations, etc. This is a basic primer to the easier techniques in mnemonics, and will allow you to learn a great deal about how to memorize large quantities of information, pretty much about any topic, with a little bit of creativity. But I hope the reason will become clear in this review. Continue reading.It almost feels unfair to give this book 4 stars instead of 5, since it's probably one of the most useful books I've ever read and easily the book I've most often gifted to others. From the beginnings of performing close-up card magic at The Little Club in Manhattan. He impressed audiences everywhere he went. Once Harry set his mind to something, he did it. Anyone that knew Harry, knew how tenacious he was, so much so that he went from “telling the time by how many cigarettes he had smoked,” to quitting cold turkey due to health concerns. He was a shy child, who was quite savvy in three areas: the first was improving his memory skills to prevent his father from berating him for poor grades the second was studying card tricks to break out of his shy shell and make some friends and the third was picking up freshly discarded cigarette butts to get the last puff. Born on May 4th, 1926, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Harry would be the first to share that he was “one of the original dead-end kids,” playing on petrified mountains of garbage on Lewis Street and Avenue D which is now the FDR drive in NYC. The breadth of influence in both memory training and close-up card magic is astounding.
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