Introduction

• Who Needs the book • How to Use This Book• How This Book Is Organized• Icons Used in This Book

Icons Used in This BookPresents information about memory gathered from my practice as a psychologist

Targets information that you can apply at once to improve your memory.

Cautions you away from certain kinds of behavior that can derail your memory improvement effort

You could tag the whole book with this icon, but I reserve it for big ideas about memory

Gives you the deep background on a few selected topics

Understanding MemoryChapter 1: Cultivating Your Memory Skills

Wondering about

• Wondering about Skips in Your Memory

• Clearing the Air of Random Noise and Ridiculous Ideas

• Improving Your Memory

Chapter 2: Avoiding the Memory Suppressors

•Minimizing Subtle Brain Rot• Keeping Clear of Neurotoxins• Saying No to Certain Food Additives• Saying “No, Thanks” to Alcohol and Marijuana•Getting Clear on the Side Effects of Rx• Stamping Out the Butt• Slowing the Dementias• Keeping Your Thyroid and Pancreas from Causing

Memory -Drift

Chapter 3: Eating To Remember

• Breaking a Fast — Breakfast• Vegging Up• Carbo Loading: Go Complex Instead of

Simple• Getting Your Fats Right• Boosting Your Neurotransmitters• Vitamins: Eating Foods that Put the Bs

in Your Brain• Avoiding Foods that Aren’t• Making Sure You’re Hydrated

Chapter 4: Tricking Yourself into Remembering

• Introducing Mnemonics, Your Memory Sidekick

• Putting Memories into Familiar Places

• Telling Yourself a Story to Link Memories

• Choosing the Right Mnemonic at the Right Time

Chapter 5: Supplementing Your Memory

• Vitalizing Your Memory with Vitamins• Taking Advantage of the Chinese Gs• Using Your Herbal Cornucopia• Charging by Hormones• Bathing in Minerals• Making Less More

Part III : Preserving Your Memory

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting Your Forgetfulness• Cutting through Memory Fog• Getting It Down Cold by Overlearning• Getting Organized• Rhyming Memory• Getting the Meaning of the Memory• Feeding Back to Remember

Chapter 7: Keeping Your Memory Sharp as You Grow Older

• Making Full Use of a Vintage Brain

• Mental Gy mnastics: Inflating a Shrinking Brain

• Becoming an Old Dog Who Remembers New Tricks

Part IV : Exercising Your Memory Every Day

Chapter 8: Schooling Memory

• Organizing Your Recall• Striving for Meaning

Instead of Rote• Taking Notes and

Remembering What You Heard at Lectures

• Remembering What You Read

• Remembering How to Spell

Chapter 9: Taking a Powerhouse Memory to Work

• Interviewing for the Job• Remembering How to Pass Political

Probation• Dealing with Passwords and

Procedures• Remembering New Technology• Satisfying Customers• Dealing with Deadlines• Remembering Your Co-workers• Stressing Your Memory at Work• Speaking from Memory

Chapter 10: Acing Exams

• Replacing Your D– Habits with A+ Habits

• Underlining with a Rembrandt Touch• Using Your Memory Techniques• Going to the Bathroom and Other

Good Ideas

Chapter 11: Remembering People

• Facing a Face to Remember• Putting a Name on a Familiar Face• Using Conversation to Unzip the

Person Within• Sharing Memories: How People See

Things Differently• Putting People in Pigeonholes• Car Talk — Wheeling in the Person• Remembering the Pecking Order• Making Connections at Meetings• Remembering All Kinds of People

Chapter 12: Taking Stock of Important Dates and Strings of Numbers

• Getting Briefed on the Technique• Celebrating Those All-Important Day s• Creating Rhymes for Historical Dates• Tying a String around Appointments• Getting a Handle on Recurring Events• Working with Rotating Schedules• Getting to Your Appointment on Time• Remembering Strings of Numbers

Chapter 13: Keeping Your Memory Intact in a High-Speed World

• Stay ing Organized at the Center of the Cy clone

• Dodging the Hazards of Multitasking• Breaking Away from a Media-Crazed

World• Aiding Your Memory with External

Cues

Chapter 14: Ten Best Ways to Improve Your Memory

• Consume a Balanced Diet• Relax Your Brain• Exercise Your Memory• Take Supplements• Stimulate Your Mind• Focus on Memory• Stay Organized• Associate, Pair, and Connect• Use Memory Aids• Keep the Right Attitude

Thank You Presentation By Rupesh Suradkar MBA3 1356