IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY

A GOOD MEMORY IS A POWERFUL ASSET, BOTH IN BUSINESS AND IN DAY-TO-DAY-LIFE. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU'RE TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAMES OF PEOPLE WHOM YOU'VE MET SOCIALLY OR IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT A PARTICULAR CLIENT - GETTING IT RIGHT IS OF INESTIMABLE BENEFIT, GETTING IT WRONG CAN BE EMBARRASSING. FOLLOWING THE TECHNIQUES IN THIS BOOK, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO IMPROVE YOUR SOCIAL/ADAPTIVE MEMORY (FOR NAMES AND FACES), VISUAL-SPATIAL MEMORY, WORKING MEMORY (ESSENTIAL FOR BRIDGE AND POKER PLAYERS) AND FACTUAL, NUMERICAL AND VERBAL MEMORIES. THE BOOK BEGINS WITH A PRELIMINARY TEST TO ASSESS YOUR CURRENT LEVELS OF MEMORY FUNCTIONING FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION OF THE MENTAL PROCESSES INVOLVED IN THE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM MEMORIES. YOU'LL FIND AN INTRODUCTION TO MEMORY TRAINING AND STRAIGHT-FORWARD INSTRUCTION IN BASIC BUT EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVEMENT. THE TESTS THAT FOLLOW ARE INCREASINGLY CHALLENGING AND DESIGNED TO BOOST YOUR MEMORY POWER.