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\\\\\\\"I know what it is like to forget someone\\\\\\\'s name. In my time, I have forgot-
ten appointments, telephone numbers, speeches, punch lines of jokes,directions, 
even whole chapters of my life. Up until recently, I was the most absent-minded, forgetful person you could imagine. I once saw a cartoon of two people dancing rather awkwardly at the Amnesiacs\\\\\\\' Annual Ball. The man was saying to the woman, 
\\\\\\\'Do I come here often?\\\\\\\' I knew how he felt.

Within the last four years, I have become the World Memory Champion. I regularly appear on television and tour the country as a\\\\\\\'Memory Man\\\\\\\', rather like Leslie Welch did in the 1950s. There\\\\\\\'s no mockery in what I do - no special effects or electronic aids. I just sat down one day and decided enough was enough: I was going to train my memory.\\\\\\\"

Dominic O\\\\\\\'Brien

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Product Description

This manual explains Dominic O\\\\\\\'Brien\\\\\\\'s system intended to help the reader remember names, faces, telephone numbers, pass exams, learn languages, win at Trivial Pursuit and clean up at the blackjack table. O\\\\\\\'Brien is able to memorize the sequence of 36 shuffled packs of cards using his method.

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CONTENTS
   1: Introduction
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   2: How to remember lists
   3: What\\\\\\\'s in a name?
   4: How to remember numbers
   5 : The mental diary
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   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 calf:ndar

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   11: How to recall \\\\\\\'lost\\\\\\\' chapters of you r life
   12: How to learn languages
   13: How to remember geographical facts

IV.
   14: How to remember history
   15: Popular mnemonics
   16: How to memorize a pack of playing cards
   17: How to win (always) at Initial Pursuit
   18: Memory and sport
   19: How memory can improve your golf swing
   20: How memory can improve your chess game
   21: On cards - how to memorize thirty-five decks
   22: Number crunching

V.
   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

VI.
   28: Conclusion
   Appendix A: Name and face exercises
   Selected Bibliography

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