(Part 3) Best memory improvement books according to redditors

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

We went through the whole saga of false allegations destroying lives and families in the 80s and 90s, and we appear to be going through it again.

A lot of it back then was fueled by ideological psychological counselors inventing and imbellishing memories in the vulnerable patients they earned their living off of.

Some good books came out of the fiasco the last time around: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Repressed-Memory-Memories-Allegations/dp/0312141238/

https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Illusion-Remembering-Forgetting-Science/dp/1847947611/

I'm currently reading this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Remember-Everything-Want-Manage-Rest-ebook/dp/B00CL8F7EI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1411801585&sr=8-2&keywords=how+to+remember+everything

You can get it for free if you sign up for the free trial of Kindle unlimited.

Anyway, the book-specific parts of that book focus on a modified version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R that includes making a mind-map. Coupled with the other techniques in the book, you can memorize ENTIRE BOOKS without struggle (Effort does not have to be struggle. In this case, it's a lot of fun. Still takes a bit of time, but it does not feel like work.)

The focus-specific parts of the book talk about using a modified version of the pomodoro technique. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

I wish I'd read this when I was in school.

Why We Love the Church and How Then Shall We Worship have made me a better congregant and helped me better explain the benefits and necessity of the church to others.

Get Real has really helped me be a better evangelist (something i struggle with mightily).

My wife and my marriage have greatly benefited by my reading For Men Only

And there's this book on memory that I've given to a bunch of college students. Most of them use it to get better grades, but my brother is using it to memorize Matthew 5-7. It works quite well.

There are drugs that can help with specific problems but not everything.
If you have the chance, I'd recommend three books for meta-learning:

• Remember Everything You Read
  
• Thinking Fast and Slow
  
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
  
  Failing that, you can check out Thomas Frank.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Speed-Read-Improved-Development-ebook/dp/B009BSCZ0K

Recommended books:

Solomon's Memory Palace:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079HMMCKH

Learning Masonic Ritual:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DDT0S5C

Fun read on memory work, probably at your local library, Moonwalking with Einstein:
https://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything-ebook/dp/B004H4XI5O

...where he refers to the older sources Rhetorica ad Herennium: https://www.amazon.com/Rhetorica-ad-Herennium-Cicero-ebook/dp/B01IKZN3XW

and the sources summarized in Art of Memory by Frances Yates:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Memory-Frances-Yates-ebook/dp/B005TKD6UC/

The Medieval Craft of Memory looks interesting, but no time to read so far:
https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Craft-Memory-Anthology-Pictures-ebook/dp/B01AXLJDJ4

More modern approaches to the techniques are on:
https://artofmemory.com/

Buy This, it changed my life if you have struggle to remember (really cheap)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Memory-Power-up-Mind-Zone-Instant/dp/1844833860

Otherwise can you be more specific in what are your struggles, memory, math or what?

For what it's worth, random bullshit like this can actually end up in creative breakthroughs.

If you want to know why, read this book.

Basically, humans are creatures of habit, and our thoughts are habits, too.

When you try to make sense of random bullshit, your line of thinking (the firing chain of synapses) might follow pathways it might not have otherwise taken. We have constellations in the sky (Big Dipper, Orion, etc.) as a consequence of humans reasoning about random bullshit. And these constellations served an important purpose in navigation.

If a bullshit quote happens to inspire a "Eureka!" moment in some other line of thought, wouldn't you think of it as profound, in a sense?

Zen koans are like this. They're riddles that aren't necessarily meant to be solved, but rather, take a person through a specific journey of thought.

You brain, as it receives photons of light, which is how you "see" something, will recognize patters and "fill in gaps". For example if you look at a waterfall for a long period of time, (or for more modern example, watch the Rockband symbols continuously move downwards) and then look away to a solid surface, like a wall, you will see the wall as if it's "moving downward". This is because your brain, when it sees a continuous pattern to "save processing power" will just assume that the surface you are looking at, or pattern that you are seeing, will remain the same. Until it notices that the pattern is no longer the same, and then focuses again to update your image. I read about the phenomenon is this book, Mind Hacks. It's how some optical illusions work too.

Sure! I know it's a bit lame to link to Wikipedia, but it is usually a great jumping off point for this type of material. Here is the wiki for Episodic Memory, which is what we usually refer to as long-term autobiographical memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_memory

Here is another nice resource specifically about retrieval that covers a lot of key points: http://general-psychology.weebly.com/how-do-we-retrieve-information-from-memory.html

I teach a memory class using this textbook, which is very easy to follow. You might be able to find an e-version somewhere: http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Alan-Baddeley/dp/1848720017

Some good articles on it in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Successful-Remembering-Forgetting-Festschrift-Robert/dp/1848728913/

For example: https://imgur.com/a/QVNo7

Don't remember if there were any special studies on flashcards (pretty sure it was because most of the studies were flashcards). But from what I remember the benefit was from "making it more" difficult for the brain by jumping between unrelated topics and that this makes for better retention. Can highly recommend that book.

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http://www.amazon.com/How-Pass-Exams-Accelerate-Effectively-ebook/dp/B00FIMWOVS

http://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything/dp/0143120530/

http://artofmemory.com/

I'm a note taker/writer, too.

Recently I read The Memory Book and it helped me to eliminate some of my learning by writing. I'd imagine you're quite busy, but the chapters are short and easily approachable, probably like an hour or two for the main concepts?

Seems to be working for me, I did less writing and scored a 96 on my first intro genetics quiz.

Hope that helps!

E: well, that links to the german version of the book, but you should be able to find the english version pretty easily, and its late, so I'm leaving it.

If you find that helpful I'd highly recommend reading the following book. It's all about how we aren't taught how to think about learning correctly and one of their first tips is to always read the end first. It's a really great book.

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra/dp/B00R5081JU/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mind+for+numbers&qid=1570567230&sr=8-1

I'm sure there are plenty of books on it, but this is the one I learned it from.

There is at-least one book that explains how this works. The book listed below will guide you through adopting this technique using a step-by-step format:

Learning How to Learn: The Ultimate Learning and Memory Instruction
By Jerry Lucas:

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-How-Learn-Ultimate-Instruction/dp/1930853025/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407168961&sr=1-4&keywords=learning+how+to+learn