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Kevin Trudeau's Mega MemoryTM How to Release Your Superpower Memory in 30 Minutes or Less a Day Kevin Trudeau William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York This book is not intended to replace the services of a trained health professional. All matters regarding your health require medical supervision. You should consult your physician before adopting the procedures in this book. Any applications of the treatments set forth in this book are at the reader's discretion. Copyright © 1995 by Kevin Trudeau All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, re cording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Inquiries should be addressed to Permissions De partment, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019. It is the policy of William Morrow and Company, Inc., and its imprints and affiliates, recognizing the importance of preserving what has been written, to print the books we publish on acid-free paper, and we exert our best efforts to that end. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trudeau, Kevin. [Mega Memory 1 Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory: how to release your superpower memory in 30 minutes or less a day / Kevin Trudeau. p. cm. ISBN 0-688-13582-X I. Mnemonics. I. Title. BF385.T78 1995 153.l'4-dc20 95-16470 CIP Printed in the United States of America FIRST EDITION 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BOOK DESIGN BY LAURA HOUGH This book is dedicated to all of the "memory masters" I have had the pleasure and honor of being associated with over the last fifteen years: Michael Van Masters J. Mark Dufner Fred Van Uew Blaine Athorn Jeremy Haworth Dave Coffill Matthew Goerke It was their sharing and willingness to learn that helped me become better! AcknoV#ledgments First, thanks go to Michael Van Masters for his determi nation and courage in the pursuit of Teaching Memory Training across the nation. To J. Mark Dufner, the man with the best natural memory I have ever seen: His personal power has always been awe inspiring. To Blaine Athorn, whose brilliance keeps amazing me day after day. Thanks also to Peter Tocci, whose work on this text was invaluable, Matthew Goerke, Andy Ambraziejus, and Kathy Niemeyer: Thank you all for touching my life and making a last ing impact. To Ed Foreman, the first motivational speaker I ever heard, whose words have helped me motivate toward action every day. And finally to Dexter Yager, the dream builder. If you didn't plant seeds of greatness in me, you certainly unearthed them! God bless you. Contents How to Use This Book Part I: Mega Memory 2 Learning Basic Association 15 3 Chaining: Putting the Power of Vivid Images 29 to Work 4 Creating Peg Lists: Mental File Folders 40 5 Using Your Peg Lists 52 6 Playing Concentration 64 7 Pegging the Tree List 72 8 How Your Body Affects Your Memory 84 9 Pegging the House List 100 10 Remembering Names: Part I 105 II Remembering Names: Part 2 112 vii viii Kevin Trudeau's Mega MemoryTM 12 Remembering Names: Part 3 123 13 Basic Day-to-day Applications 137 14 Reading and Mega Memory 154 15 Vocabulary, Spelling, and Mega Memory 163 16 Numbers and Mega Memory 169 Part II: Advanced Mega Memory 17 Advanced Mega Memory: Review and Introduction 177 18 Body List Phonetics 186 19 Picture Words 1-25 194 20 Picture Words 26-50 210 21 Picture Words 51-75 225 22 Picture Words 76-100 237 23 Polishing Your Name Recognition 247 24 Remembering Longer Numbers 257 25 Remembering Playing Cards 274 26 Day-to-day Reminders: From Birthdays to 292 Presidents 27 Using Acronyms and Remembering Written 305 Passages 28 Breaking Bad Habits and Retrieving Lost 313 Memories Name Guide 325 Index 353 How to Use This Book We are not given the world: we make our world through incessant experience, categorization, mem ory, reconnection. -Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars How would you like to make more money, increase your intelligence, and impress everyone you meet? All this is possible, and much more, when you have a Mega Memory. Imagine meeting over fifty brand-new people at a party, and a few hours later being able to say good-bye using the first and last name of every single person you met! Imagine making a speech without notes, or instantaneously recalling dates, appointments, things to do, directions, phone numbers, playing cards, verses of the Bible, lines of a play, poetry, facts, figures. Imagine being a student studying for exams and being able to recall instantly everything needed to earn great marks, and even more important, studying about one third the normal time to get those tremendous results. Imagine feeling totally confident in your own natural abilities be cause of your powerful memory. You can have all of the above with a Mega Memory. Sound 2 Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memoryn~ just like another sales pitch? It isn't-because you already have a perfect, instant-recall, better-than-photographic memory just waiting to be released. When you apply the techniques taught in Kevin Trudeau's Mega MemoryTM, you will do just that-release this natural ability to recall things you have heard, things you have seen, and even things you have thought about briefly and then forgotten--or thought you had forgotten. The only problem is, you may not know you have a great memory, a memory that has the capacity and flexibility of a high-powered computer. With the twenty-eight les sons in this book, you will be tapping that power. The Mega Memory program will teach you how to organize and process new information. You will be taught to take things that you see, hear, and experience and put them in a certain order so that this information will be available in your mind for recall in the future. The key word is "order"-the cornerstone of the Mega Mem ory program. Your brain operates just like a file cabinet. The more you place memos, letters, reports, notes, and documents into their proper files-the more organized you are-the easier it is to retrieve things when you need them. It's a simple, powerful, and ultimately very practical concept. Like so many schoolchildren, I had some problems with my studies, especially with remembering things. The situation became so bad in high school, several teachers told me I might have a learning disability. This warning pushed me to educate myself about memory and the way the mind works. And what I discovered was that I didn't have a learning disability, I just had an untrained memory. In showing you how to "file" away information, I'm going to be teaching you to train your memory. We won't spend a tremen dous amount of time on the theories of how the brain and memory work. The actual process of reading this book will constitute training because Mega Memory is a technique that you learn as you read. Learning to use your memory is just like learning how to ride a bike or jog or swim properly-you have to actually participate in the sport to achieve the best results. But it's also important that you be well prepared before you hop on that bike, run a marathon, or How to Use This Book 3 sWim long distances. That's why Mega Memory consists of both exercises and techniques. The exe,rcises will limber up your brain and prepare it for the techniques you will be applying in real-life situations. If you follow the instructions for the exercises precisely as given, you will reap the benefits and gain your desired results. The Ground Rules In order to get the most out of the Mega Memory program, it is very important that you follow these ground rules for using the book: I. You must go through the lessons in order. Each chapter builds upon previous chapters, so that you use what you have learned in new and exciting ways. But just like the jogger who risks injury if she hasn't done some exercises to loosen her muscles, or the swimmer who can't quite get his strokes together because he hasn't learned to feel comfortable in the water, you won't be able to release that Mega Memory if you haven't built the right foundation of skills. So don't skim the table of contents to find a chapter that may be of interest to you. That approach won't work. You must start at the beginning and complete one lesson after the other, mastering each one before you continue. 2. Each chapter in this book should be completed in about twenty to thirty minutes. Every lesson is designed to present a certain amount of material that does not take a large amount of time to absorb. If you read along and do the exercises and apply the techniques as they are presented, you will not be spending more than a half hour on each chapter. I've orga nized the book this way for a reason. People can concentrate on something only for so long before their attention starts to flag. (Just look at the short attention span required for television programs these days!) So don't overdo it. Many people find that working on one chapter a day is ideal. 3. If you read more than one lesson per day, take a ten- or fifteen minute break between lessons. Not everybody processes in for-
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