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Buzan reveals his methods with engaging enthusiasm, drawing upon extraordinary, surreal images to illustrate how the mnemonic system works. Some of these images are illustrated in full colour. For anyone who has difficulty in remembering facts and figures, people and places, Use Your Memory will be invaluable.
Is your memory perfect? Your memory is phenomenal. This statement is made despite the
following counterarguments:
- Most people remember fewer than 10 per cent of the names of those whom they meet.
- Most people forget more than 99 per cent of the phone numbers given to them.
- Memory is supposed to decline rapidly with age.
- Many people drink, and alcohol is reputed to destroy 1000 brain cells per drink.
- Internationally, across races, cultures, ages and education levels, there is a common experience, and fear of, having an inadequate or bad memory.
- Our failures in general, and especially in remembering, are attributed to the fact that we are 'only human', a statement that implies that our skills are inherently inadequate.
- You will probably fail most of the memory tests in the following
- chapter.
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