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I laughed.

Cheers Stacy.

BigShot wrote:I laughed.

The sad thing is it's true

-Stacy

Who's this?

MisterRawlings wrote:Who's this?

Never mind that, who the hell am I ?

haha I love James May's Man Lab. I wasn't talking to you, I was...talking to my drink. Genius.

I'd say that the memory chapter in Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind is superb. The book in general is excellent, but I think the chapter on memory is one of the most useful in the book. I've read Harry Lorayne's How to Develop a Super Power Memory - it's good, but I think Tricks of the Mind is better. Harry Lorayne's book is a lot longer, but doesn't really say much more than T.O.T.M. Also, the words used for the peg system are different, so it's probably best to learn one system and stick with that. The peg system in T.O.T.M. is the same as the one in Corinda's 13 Steps to Mentalism, too, so you might find that useful.

Another pretty good book on memory is Dominic O'Brien's Learn to Remember. However, a good chunk of the book is devoted to the science and physiological processes of memory, which isn't of much practical use.

From Sandi Toksvig's column in today's Telegraph magazine:

The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who died this month in 1892, was a quirky fellow who may have inherited the trait from his father, George. George was a rector who wrote poetry himself. He had a busy mind and one day could not recall his own name. It is said that he wandered about the village until a parishioner greeted him with a cheery "Good day to thee, Dr Tennyson." "By God, my man!" declared George. "You're right!"

You know, busy mind might be part of my problem.
It seems I'm often thinking about something or other when I should be focussing on the task at hand (like the introduction I'm part of, for example) instead of following a train of thought the task at hand as kicked off.

I don't think I've quite got to forgetting my own name yet though. :p

I created a memory palace after reading TOTM but I never went back enough and forgot everything.