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#1 The same kinds of memory lapses that annoy and irritate you now annoyed and irritated me when I was younger. But when I applied my memory systems, techniques, methods, and tricks, my memory was a thousand times better than yours.
#2 The importance of exercising your mind cannot be understated. It is essential to your mental health and abilities, and it is never too...
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Get the Summary of Kevin Horsley's Unlimited Memory in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Unlimited Memory, you'll learn how the world's best memory masters get themselves to concentrate at will, anytime they want. When you can easily focus and concentrate on the task at hand, and store and recall useful information, you can easily double your productivity and eliminate wasted time, stress...
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#1 Memory is the fabric of our souls. It allows us to integrate and make sense of the experiences of our bodies, minds, and spirits. It makes us who we are and allows us to keep our loved ones close, even when they are far away.
#2 The current staging guidelines for memory problems are normal, preclinical: no obvious symptoms, but negative changes can be seen on biomarkers...
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#1 The complexity of oral traditions has been recognized only recently. Indigenous cultures were seen as intellectually inferior and primitive, but they were actually very complex and advanced. They memorized a great deal of information and used it to navigate their environment.
#2 The need to know the animals and plants that live in a specific area is common among Indigenous...
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#1 The role of traumatic memory in both pathology and healing is extremely complex. While this book is geared towards therapists who work with their clients' traumatic memories, it is also written for individuals who want to understand how their memories affect them and how they can come to an enduring peace with them.
#2 While contemporary psychotherapies can...
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#1 I'm going to teach you a new language: the language of numbers. I'll teach you how to remember any number, dates, birthdays, appointments, and telephone numbers. I'll also teach you how to memorize quotes, anecdotes, jokes, and material that will impress even the coldest of audiences.
#2 The World Memory Championships is a series of 10 events that tests your memory....
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#1 Memories are the end products of our efforts in the present to recover information that is stored in our brain. They are different from pictures or videos of events from the past, which can serve as memory stimulators but are not themselves memories.
#2 The art of memory is the art of attention. The attention that Johnson referred to is an internal attention: riveting...
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#1 The myths surrounding memory are that it can be improved through memory training, but that you can never improve your memory beyond a certain point. However, a realistic understanding of what your memory can do can help you achieve that potential.
#2 Memory is a process rather than a structure. It is not an identifiable structure, and the process cannot be...
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Book Preview: #1 My roots are in Brittany, the tip of France. I grew up hearing my ancestors speak Breton, a Celtic language that is difficult to understand today. I always sensed that I was a daughter of a rugged, cragged land and the mysterious ocean.
#2 My mother, Anne Le Théo, was the only daughter in her family. She was bright and successful in her studies, and she grew up into...
10) Summary of Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the P
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#1 The Odyssey is a prime example of the intertwinement of myth and rational labor. It illustrates the dialectic of enlightenment, as it shows clear links to myth, but it also contradicts those myths. The epic creates a universality of language, but it also disintegrates the hierarchical order of society.
#2 The German late-Romantic interpretation of antiquity, based...
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Get the Summary of Andrew Harrisson's How to Make Money Online Using ChatGPT in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How to Make Money Online Using ChatGPT" by Andrew Harrisson explores the potential of ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, in various online money-making ventures. The book details how ChatGPT can be used for content creation, customer service enhancement, and as a virtual assistant for...
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#1 The last picture of my mother, taken at the crime scene, is the formal portrait made only a few months before her death. She did not look at the camera, her eyes fixed at a point in the distance. She was 40 years old.
#2 I went back to the place where my mother was murdered. I had not been there since I was nineteen, when I had to clean out her apartment. I kept only...
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Get the Summary of Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Five Days at Memorial (2013) is a two-part investigation of the controversial events and decisions that took place at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina's landfall. The narrative recounts the harrowing days during which the hospital's staff, patients,...
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Book Preview: #1 I have many memories from when I was young, but the earliest is from when I was six months old. I was lying in a pram in the shadow of a tree, and I saw the sun glittering through the leaves and blossoms. Everything was wholly wonderful and splendid.
#2 I was born in 1878, and my parents were soon separated. I remember my mother spending several months in a hospital...
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Book Preview: #1 The most important part of the process is to know the stories behind the stuff, so you can freely let go of it. If you are in the process of decluttering, downsizing, or moving, telling your stories to an interested audience is the magic key.
#2 I had never understood the significance of the generation gap until I went through the belongings of Etta, a woman who had...
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#1 The first order of a neurologist's business is to listen to a patient's symptoms and clinical history. These testimonials contain rich information that helps the doctor locate the cause of the problem.
#2 The second step in diagnosing memory problems is to isolate the anatomical source of the problem. Memory specialists begin localizing the lesion that is causing...
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Book Preview: #1 Your brain can remember anything, and it does so by changing as a result of what you experience. Your brain perceives the sensory, emotional, and factual elements of what you experience through the portals of your senses.
#2 The four steps of memory formation are encoding, consolidation, storage, and retrieval. To create a memory, you must put the information into...
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#1 Memory is a pinball in a machine that messily ricochets around between image, idea, fragments of scenes, stories you've heard. But most of the time, we keep memories packed away.
#2 Around the room, with each student reading from a spiral notebook or legal pad, the mistakes popped up like dandelion greens. There were memory aces, but overall, the students' original,...
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Get the Summary of Summary of Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable...
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Get the Summary of William Egginton's The Rigor of Angels in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Solomon Shereshevsky, a journalist with an extraordinary memory, was studied by psychiatrist Alexander Luria, leading to a career as a mnemonist. Shereshevsky's synesthesia and memory affected his understanding of abstract concepts and sense of self. Meanwhile, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, facing a personal crisis,...
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