(Part 2) Best memory improvement books according to redditors

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We found 535 Reddit comments discussing the best memory improvement books. We ranked the 97 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

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Top Reddit comments about Memory Improvement Self-Help:

u/abudson · 57 pointsr/IAmA

For lifestyle changes the data suggest that the Mediterranean diet and aerobic exercise are the way to go. We go over this in more detail in our book Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory: What's Normal, What's Not, and What to Do About It https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Steps-Managing-Your-Memory/dp/0190494956/

u/waccused · 24 pointsr/YouShouldKnow

I strongly recommend this book. It covers the concept very well, then shows how it could apply to real life.
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Logical-Thinking-Lessons-Reasoning/dp/0312156278/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371266980&sr=1-1

u/tiersy · 12 pointsr/AskReddit

Sure, it is quite hard to find as a PDF though. This page outlines the system in enough detail to get well underway. Let me know if you have any queries, i'm more than willing to help out where possible.

u/vty · 6 pointsr/Austin

Ignoring the ad hominem, there is so much wrong with your post. Do you seriously think that doctors/lawyers don't get dumped because of their salary? You think that every single woman out there will put up with abuse, a bad relationship, boredom, or whatever typical complaint that breaks a couple up because of a higher than average salary? Yeah, some will, but if you think there aren't strong and intelligent women out there that won't .. I don't even know what to say. That's pretty misogynistic.

I wasn't trying to be a dick with my post, I was trying to give you advice- you sound like you've got some self esteem issues that you should work on. We all do, but being ignorant to them or lashing out at someone giving advice doesn't hurt anyone but yourself. For instance, I'm short and sometimes I let it get to me. I have to seriously kick myself in the balls a few times to build up the confidence to talk to a taller woman. I go to the Marquee all the time and I swear the average height of a woman at the clubs is 5'10, way taller than me. I had a problem for a long time where I'd make a snap-judgement and assume a woman who is 5'10 would sure as hell not want to talk to a dude who is 5'7. I mean, why, when she can talk to some 6'0 guy? I was making excuses for myself to keep me from the possibility of rejection, basically what you're doing with the whole money thing.


"Had the goods stolen from me," woah, dude. I can see the inner caveman in you just screaming "Thats my property!" Nothing was stolen from me, our relationship wasn't perfect and she found somebody that she enjoyed being with more. She's actually engaged now, and I'm happy for her. She's not a commodity to own or control, she's her own woman.

Anyway, the gist of my post was you're blanketing women with some ridiculous stigma because you had one woman leave you for a rich guy and maybe a few bad dates. I hope at some point you sit back and realize how ridiculous it is and how the only person being hurt by any of this is yourself.

There's a few books I'd like to recommend that are amazing and helped me out quite a bit. I used to be a very bitter/negative/snap-judgement person. I still can be from time to time, but I try to be cognizant of it.

Apart from cognitive behavioral therapy these helped me out a lot;

u/enhoel · 6 pointsr/education

Make It Stick - you can pretty much begin and end with that, but if you really want more of the same, check out How We Learn.

By the way, skip the Howard Gardner. Go Google the debunking of the multiple intelligences by cognitive science. Even Gardner has commented on how his work has been misused. I make it my personal mission to let every teacher and administrator that their "belief" in differentiation by multiple learning modalities is outdated and, frankly, wrong.

u/rednarg · 6 pointsr/booksuggestions

memory, just pick one book the basics are the same: A Sheep Falls Out of the Tree, Quantum Memory Power, not just memory techniques but with a section on Improve your intelligence

math: secrets of mental math

Among many others who can be given the title of the world's most intelligent person is Marilyn vos Savant: one of her books

u/affinityproduction · 5 pointsr/GetMotivated

Thanks for this. Have you heard of this book? I just started reading and seems really in line with everything you're saying.

u/jarvispeen · 5 pointsr/tipofmytongue

It's part of a book cover for this and it is probably what the author refers to as his secret memory formula

u/batmanrebirthed · 5 pointsr/BPDlovedones

Mine was like this earlier in the year.

Have you checked out neuro plasticity? It's about rewiring out all the shit. There's all sorts of games and stuff related to it. Also, I had to cut back on weed for it to work. That's been my go to "kill this feeling now" activity.


I started here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003C2SOUG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

And then just kept reading. Cue my exwife laughing.

u/therealjerrystaute · 4 pointsr/AskReddit

Yes, I did speedreading. But it's not very suitable for highly technical material like engineering, scientific, or mathematical texts. And way too much work for recreational reading (it takes all the fun out of it). I liked testing my speed and comprehension after runs (because the results looked impressive). But I was in engineering college at the time, and so it wasn't applicable to things like chemistry and physics. I ended up only really getting a tangible benefit out of it just once, when I had to try memorizing a 100+ page instruction manual in an hour (and then pass a test), or possibly go to jail sometime later (long story).


Note that the more you read in general (the more practice you get) the faster you'll get naturally, up to a certain point. And the more you expand your vocabulary will help as well (since you'll understand more without the need to guess definitions from context, or look them up). But of course the speed reading techniques WILL greatly accelerate you-- at least for certain types of material (I'd read at least 2000 books by college, because I was a bespectacled teenage geek with virtually no social life; so I'd had plenty of practice, even before learning speed reading).


In college I actually got more use out of rapid note-taking, using a technique from a book called How to be twice as smart. That book has several items you might like in it (including mnemonic techniques I believe):

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twice-Smart-Brainpower-Unleashing/dp/0134023390

Mnemonics would probably be more useful to many people than speed reading-- but they are similar to speed reading in that it can take considerable work to utilize them. I read a book once about a guy with the best tested memory in the world, and it turned out he used his own geographical mnemonic technique in his head. He kept a whole virtual town in his noggin, and whenever he wanted to remember something, he'd find somewhere to put it in that imaginary town, and after that he could always return to retrieve it again (sorry for the very brief synopsis, but I read that 30+ years ago, and never tried to memorize it in detail at the time: I was reading it for fun and to avoid studying, more than anything else).


Yes, I believe there's mnemonic techniques you can use for general purposes-- but as I've rarely had need for such since college, I no longer have them readily at hand in memory (stuff you don't regularly use gets tougher to recall over decades). The Twice as smart book may list some of those.


I mainly used meditation and yoga to relax. I learned and used self-hypnosis to get myself through some particularly difficult engineering classes. Created a trigger I could use to put myself immediately into a highly receptive state during lectures, and actually visualize almost like a hallucination what the professor was describing in real time (the most vivid image in my recollection now has to do with the inner workings of an electric motor). The first time I took the class, I failed it. I think at least half the class failed with me. I was totally lost. My school used certain classes as filters to weed out big bunches of students, and encourage them to change their majors to something easier. The second time though, using the self-hypnosis, I got a B.

Yeah, it'd be a much better story if I'd gotten an A. But I was personally wildly pleased with the B! Plus the fact that I may have been one of the few students during the finals who wasn't scared out of my mind (some of the teachers did a great job at terrorizing us).

I also invested some time in something called Silva Mind Control, to try beefing up my powers of visualization. Basically it was very similar to self-hypnosis, only with some intriguing tales by the authors about the technique possibly helping you acquire certain superhuman capabilities as well (ha, ha). The superhuman promises stuff really helped me and a friend pursue it for a while. I remember spending a whole xmas vacation (4 weeks) doing visualization exercises from the book (it was mentally very strenuous). Also around that same time I read a sci fi book (maybe by Silverberg? unsure) where the hero himself used techniques like self-hypnosis to gain superhuman abilities. So I was really gung ho on it at the time! Ha, ha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silva_Method

Adam Smith Powers of Mind was another intriguing book I read around this time-- and seemed to list some major results relating to things like hypnosis and other forms of mental training that science at that time could not explain.

http://www.amazon.com/Powers-Mind-Adam-Smith/dp/0671447971

I've done/tried a LOT of stuff. Many of which might be embaressing to admit now. Like hung out with this hippy dude for a while who was really into Scientology (this was way back like 35 years ago, when Scientology was much less well known-- and more of a tantalyzing mystery-- than today). I actually read Dianetics by Hubbard.

I read all the earliest Carlos Castaneda books. Did acid, mushrooms, speed, pot, etc., etc. Drank to excess quite a few times. Bought a book called How to increase your intelligence (I think the link below is to the same work):


http://www.amazon.com/How-Increase-Your-Intelligence-Wenger/dp/0880471522

This book had some pretty weird exercises to do in it. But I know I did at least some of them (decades back).

There's quite a lot of mind expansion possibilities to be found in various editions of the old Whole Earth Catalog too. The WEC was basically the internet in a book, before the internet existed. Only the WEC pointed almost exclusively just to excellent books on almost every significant topic under the sun.

The WEC was where I found the main two books on self-hypnosis I ended up using (among maybe 100 other tomes).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog




This is just a sampling of my own plodding course. But maybe you'll find something useful (or at least entertaining) among it all.

u/imabustya · 4 pointsr/IWantToLearn

Maybe your problem isnt all the presented techniques for improving memory but something even more simple. Memory is just a part of your body just like memory is apart of the computers you are learning about. If you have a bad computer with tons of memory it will do you no good. What I am getting at here is that one of the easiest ways to improve memory is diet and exercise. Improve your body and brain physically instead of just doing it mentally. I bet that eating better (balanced diet/vitamins/supplements) with exercise will get you better results early on than learning mental processes. I'd recommend a book called Your Miracle Brain by Jean Carper to get you started on healthy brain development.

u/MmmMeh · 3 pointsr/LifeProTips

Yep. This method has been used apparently for millennia, and is still considered the best way. ("Memory Palace" is a more common name, but it has many less common names.)

See "Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything"

> ...follows Joshua Foer's compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship.

> The techniques he mastered made it easier to remember information, and Foer's story demonstrates that the tricks of the masters are accessible to anyone.

http://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything-ebook/dp/B004H4XI5O/

Or lots of other books...I see "The Memory Palace":

http://www.amazon.com/The-Memory-Palace-Everything-Shakespeare-ebook/dp/B007V3FLTE

Edit: here's the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

u/rebelrob0t · 3 pointsr/REDDITORSINRECOVERY

I went to one AA meeting when I first got clean and never went back. I understand people have found support and success in it but to me, personally, I felt it only increased the stigma of drug addicts as these broken hopeless people barely hanging on by a thread. It's an outdated system that relies on little science or attempting to progress the participants and relies more on holding people in place and focusing on the past. Instead I just worked towards becoming a normal person. Here are some of the resources I used:

r/Fitness - Getting Started: Exercise is probably the #1 thing that will aid you in recovering. It can help your brain learn to produce normal quantities of dopamine again as well as improve your heath, mood, well being and confidence.

Meetup: You can use this site to find people in your area with similar interests. I found a hiking group and a D&D group on here which I still regularly join.

Craigslist: Same as above - look for groups, activities, volunteer work, whatever.

Diet

This will be the other major player in your recovery. Understanding your diet will allow you to improve your health,mood, energy, and help recover whatever damage the drugs may have done to your body.

How Not To Die Cookbook

Life Changing Foods

The Plant Paradox

Power Foods For The Brain

Mental Health

Understand whats going on inside your head and how to deal with it is also an important step to not only recovery but enjoying life as a whole.

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

The Emotional Life Of Your Brain

Furiously Happy

The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works

Educational

If you are like me you probably felt like a dumbass when you first got clean. I think retraining your brain on learning, relearning things you may have forgot after long term drug use, and just learning new things in general will all help you in recovery. Knowledge is power and the more you learn the more confident in yourself and future learning tasks you become.

Illegal Drugs: A Complete Guide to their History, Chemistry, Use, and Abuse

Why Nations Fails

Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud

The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Financial Peace Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Restoring Your Family's Financial Health

Continued Education / Skills Development

EdX: Take tons of free college courses.

Udemy: Tons of onine courses ranging from writing to marketing to design, all kinds of stuff.

Cybrary: Teach yourself everything from IT to Network Security skills

Khan Academy: Refresh on pretty much anything from highschool/early college.

There are many more resources available these are just ones I myself have used over the past couple years of fixing my life. Remember you don't have to let your past be a monkey on your back throughout the future. There are plenty of resources available now-a-days to take matters into your own hands.

*Disclaimer: I am not here to argue about anyone's personal feelings on AA**







u/Bearly_Their · 2 pointsr/IWantToLearn

This book: https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Palace-Anything-Everything-Shakespeare-ebook/dp/B007V3FLTE?keywords=memory+palace&qid=1536188290&sr=8-10&ref=mp_s_a_1_10

It teaches the memory palace technique using the works of Shakespeare in chronological order. I had to stop reading it because I couldn’t forget the works I had already read and I really didn’t want to learn the complete works of Shakespeare in chronological order. It’s been months and I still remember several of them.

u/AlzMANH · 2 pointsr/IAmA

Let me mention more about the FDA approved medications: There are two classes. the first are medications that include donepezil (Aricept), rivastigmine (Exelon), and galantamine. These medications, called cholinesterase inhibitors, turn the clock back on memory problems by making the person's memory as good as it was 6-12 months ago. These medications are helpful in patients who have the mildest memory problems to the most severe dementia and everything in-between. The other class of medication has just one medication, memantine (Namenda). It is helpful for people with moderate to severe dementia who need help with attention, alertness, and apathy. It does not improve memory. We discuss these medications and more in our new book https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Steps-Managing-Your-Memory/dp/0190494956/

u/misplaced_my_pants · 2 pointsr/Nootropics

Some other links: Study Hacks articles, Anki, How We Learn (book that organizes all this information).

u/dougxiii · 2 pointsr/worldnews

There is a pretty fascinating book that examines the accuracy of oral traditions: The Memory Code by Dr. Lynn Kelly https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681773252/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_3T1RzbXN96XP2

u/Cascador · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Thanks a lot! That's exactly the kind of answer I was hoping for.

Any chance this is the book? http://www.amazon.com/How-Twice-Smart-Brainpower-Unleashing/dp/0134023390

u/Puffymagic7 · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance. I read it in my IB Bio class and I absolutely loved it. It will not only provide methods to better your mind but also ways to improve your overall health and well being. It really got me interested in neuroscience and gave me a great deal of respect for the field of medicine and science. Its actually amazing how many diseases that afflict the brain, that are not genetic, can be prevented with proper nutrition and exercise . Also, videogames, alcohol and coffee are great for the brain! In moderation of course. The author is fun, upbeat and kept me interested throughout. The book also includes a variety of puzzles and methods for practicing your brain exercises.

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u/EdwardCoffin · 1 pointr/BooksAMA

Could you tell me whether the book gives much useful information for applying the methods (or new methods), beyond what is generally known from articles like Method of loci and Art of memory (Wikipedia) or other books on the subject? I flipped through the book and from my (admittedly brief) survey it seemed to mostly be about the people rather than practical advice for would-be practitioners.

I've already read a book on the subject of memorization: A Sheep Falls out of the Tree by Christiane Stenger.

u/ralphsrewardcard · 1 pointr/AskReddit

if u want to be a problem solver, regardless of subject. here is a book from the highest iq woman.
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Building-Just-12-Weeks/dp/0553353489

u/solidcordon · 1 pointr/atheism

It can be. This book provides an hypothesis apparently consistent with available evidence that many (if not all) megalithic circles were used to teach and reenforce the stories of the people.

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https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Code-Secrets-Stonehenge-Monuments/dp/1681773252

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If the knowledge and use of these techniques was lost by a culture then their ability to avoid the "chinese whispers" phenomena would go with it.

Not sure if there are any megalithic structures around palestine / isreal and there's a tendency for religions to destroy any "temples" of the old ways anyhow.

u/MuffinRein · 1 pointr/ADHD

You should try reading a book called When A Sheep Falls Out Of A Tree

It's an excellent book on improving your memory through different means like lists, stories, and whole text recall. I read it in highschool and it did wonders for me :)

u/shiner_man · 1 pointr/languagelearning

I'm reading this book How To Develop a Perfect Memory. One of the techniques in the book, which has worked very well for me in language learning, is trying to associate my first reaction to a word with a very vivid image that equates to the meaning of the word.

For example, I came across the verb allenare while reading a book in Italian. I looked up the definition and it means "to workout".

Now my first impression of the word allenare is Allen. I grew up with someone named Allen. It just so happens that he was very skinny.

So in my mind, I picture my friend Allen trying to lift weights but he's struggling. He's sweating really bad. He has a headband on. People are laughing at him.

Now, whenever I see allenare (or allenarsi, allenarmi, or any of the conjugations of the verb), I see my friend Allen in that very vivid image. And now it's almost impossible for me to forget what that verb means.

I don't know if this helps you with creating the Anki deck but it has definitely helped me with learning verbs.

u/Additup · 1 pointr/science

I bet they were either up doing flash cards or reading this book over and over and over again.