How to remember things: you NEED this book

BE6 This "Ageless Memory" book may be the best book I've read in 20 years. Why ? It shows you how to remember things and not easily forget them. When a child turns 5 years old they should read this book.

Most of us were never taught how to easily remember things. For one thing, our (my) teachers didn't know how, so how they could teach great techniques to remember things? We're talking about a complete system, not just a tip here or there.

Harry Lorayne will show you how to remember in a way that is fun and effective. Using his technique, solely as a mental exercise I have remembered all 58 California county names. You can say a number, and I can tell you what county (alphabetically) the corresponding county is. Tell me a county and I'll tell you what number it is in the list. This never would have even been attempted by me without these techniques. Trying to remember 58 counties by rote memory would be absolutely painful. And I would forget them quickly.

One key to remembering things is to set "pegs" in your memory to attach information to. The mind will naturally tend to remember what you associate to these pegs.

Another key is to associate letters (consonants) to the digits 0-9. Notice you remember a web site like "google.com" but really in the computer google.com just translates to numbers which you would have a very hard time to remember.

So if your ATM pin was "7891" you could substitute "coffee pot". Think of a giant coffee pot pouring out hundreds of dollars of bills. The "7" translates to a "C" (-or "K"), the "8" to an "F" (-or "PH"), the "9" to a "P" (-or "B") and a "1" to a "T" (-or "B"). (Vowels are ignored.)

The techniques are not too difficult to remember either. Use your wonderful imagination.

One final example (this comes from his book). How difficult would it be for you to remember this number?

014727132639092112

Well it easily translates to this sentence: "A stark naked man jumps up and down"

You could easily remember that.
My metaphor for this memory training: you can learn to lift 1000 pounds with one arm with this little training regiment. Just lift 10 pounds a day 50 times a day for 3 weeks. Wouldn't that be worth it to gain such strength? That pretty much describes my thoughts on these memory techniques. It may be life changing, especially for anyone who need to memorize/remember lists of things.