How to Develop a Perfect Memory by Dominic O Brien

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Dominic O’Brien is the eight times winner of the The World Memory Championships and has a number of entries in the Guinness Book of Records including the memorisation of 54 packs of shuffled cards after just a single-sighting of each card. How does he do it? What is his system and how can it help YOU remember names, faces, telephone numbers, pass exams, learn languages, win at Trivial Pursuit and clean up at the Blackjack table?How to Develop a Perfect Memorywill show you in simple language and easy stages.

We have an exclusive on this ebook from Dominic O’Brien. The book is long out of print. You can find second hand copies being sold in the $100 to $400 range. It is considered one of the best books on memory ever written. Everyone should have read this one. It is enlightening.

first edition, 1993 by Pavilion Books Limited; 174 pages.

1. Dedication
   Preface
1. Introduction
2. How to remember lists
3. What’s in a name?
4. How to remember numbers
5. The mental diary
6. The mental in-tray
7. Memory and job interviews
8. How to remember speeches
9. How to remember directions
10. Learning the twentieth century calendar
11. How to recall ‘lost’ chapters of your life
12. How to learn languages
13. How to remember geographical facts
14. How to remember history
15. Popular mnemonics
16. How to memorize a pack of playing cards
17. How to win (always) at Trivial Pursuit
18. Memory and sport
19. How memory can improve your golf swing
20. How memory can improve your chess game
21. More on cards – how to memorize thirty-five decks
22. Number crunching
23. Remembering binary numbers
24. How to win at blackjack
25. How to beat quiz machines
26. Memory and the Greeks
27. Famous memory men
28. Conclusion
29. Name and face exercise
30. Selected Bibliography