HOW TO DEVELOP A PERFECT MEMORY BY DOMINIC O’BRIEN

LEARNING HOW TO USE YOUR BRAIN

Dominic O'Brien is the eight times winner of the The World

Memory Championships and has a number of entries in the

Guinness Book of Records including the memorisation of 54

packs of shuffled cards after just a single-sighting of each card.

How does he do it? What is his system and how can it help YOU

remember names, faces, telephone numbers, pass exams, learn

languages, win at Trivial Pursuit and clean up at the Blackjack

table? How to Develop a Perfect Memory will show you in simple

language and easy stages.

INTRODUCTION

I know what it is like to forget someone's name. In my time, I have forgotten

appointments, telephone numbers, speeches, punch lines of jokes, directions,

even whole chapters of my life. Up until recently, I was the most absentminded,

forgetful person you could imagine. I once saw a cartoon of two

people dancing rather awkwardly at the Amnesiacs' Annual Ball. The man was

saying to the woman, 'Do I come here often?' I knew how he felt.

Within the last four years, I have become the World Memory Champion. I

regularly appear on television and tour the country as a celebrity 'Memory

Man', rather like Leslie Welch did in the 1950s. There's no trickery in what I

do - no special effects or electronic aids. I just sat down one day and decided

enough was enough: I was going to train my memory.