记忆力提升(学习英文之用).doc

Contents Introduction vii 1. How Your Memory Works 1 2. How Your Long-Term Memory Works 15 3. How Good Is Your Memory? 31 4. Creating a Memory Journal 49 5. Pay Attention!!! 57 6. Improving Your Health and Your Memory 69 7. Decrease Stress and Anxiety to Remember More 85 8. Increase Your Energy to Boost Your Memory Power 96 9. It’s All About Me! 105 10. Remembering More by Remembering Less 110 11. Using Schemas and Scripts to Help You Remember 124 12. Chunk It and Categorize It 134 13. Rehearse . . . Rehearse . . . Rehearse . . . and Review 145 14. Repeat It! 153 15. Talk About It 158 16. Tell Yourself a Story 164 17. Remembering a Story 170 18. Back to Basics 175 19. Take a Letter 181 20. Linked In and Linked Up 187 21. Find a Substitute 194 v V I ? C ONTENTS 22. It’s All About Location 198 23. Be a Recorder 208 24. Record and Replay 213 25. Body Language 223 26. Let Your Intuition Do the Walking 227 27. Remembering Names and Faces 236 28. Remembering Important Numbers 245 29. Walk the Talk: Speeches, Presentations, and Meetings 255 Notes 261 Resources and References 265 Index 267 About the Author 277 Introduction Everyone wants a better memory—and in today’s information-filled, multitasking age, having a good memory is more important than ever. Whether you need to keep track of your e-mail messages, impress the boss, give a speech, organize a busy social schedule, remember whom you met where and when, or anything else, a good memory is a necessary tool for staying on top of things. It’s especially critical if you’re part of the Baby Boomer generation or older, because memory loss can accompany aging. But if you keep your mind and memory limber, you can rev up your memory power—in fact, it’ll even get better with age! 30 Days to a More Powerful Memory is designed to help anyone improve his or her memory. Besides drawing on the latest findings from brain and consciousness researchers, psychologists, and others about what works and why, I’ve included a variety of han