Intelligent Memory: Improve Your Memory No Matter What Your Age

by Barry Gordon and Lisa Berger

Book Overview

Intelligent Memory, for many people, is at the heart of success in life. It's not the only factor - personality and luck play big roles - but it's perhaps the most important one that we can influence.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143034235
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Systematic method of improving thinking processes

Having done cognitive psychology at university - I have an appreciation for how well Barry has done in communicating some very complicated processes and made them accessable in a practical applied form. I think the fact that the book is simple and so well written may make some people think that the content is obvious. I especially enjoyed the chapters on attention, storing more memories, problem solving and creativity. The ideas of how to experts in a field develop their skill was really helpful. Thanks Barry, good book!

An inspiration for everyone who has senior moments!

I am 50-year-old woman with more than my fair share of trying to remember where I put my keys. Reading Dr. Gordon's book made me appreciate that I can use my IQ-type intelligence and 5 decades worth of living and learning to do what my working memory doesn't do so well anymore. The book also showed me how the stupid things I sometimes do are really the result of unconscious memory, self-defeatingly bad thought processes I use over and over again. The book addresses that challenge as well, telling us how to use conscious mental effort to wipe out these memories. Over all, I have been immensely helped by his suggestions about how stop worrying about my "memory for keys" and focus instead on improving my memory for productive thought. And, I thought the anecdotes and exercises were a lot of fun.

Everything you need to stop forgetting

If you've ever worried you were losing your memory, or perhaps your mind, this is the book for you. It talks about the kind of memory that's really important, which is not so much where you put your car keys as (for example) what keys are for, and the fact you can use a key to open a box as well as open a door. Some great tests of this kind of memory, which is key to creativity and to effective coping with the real world. A really fine and useful book for everybody.

Much more than a self-help book...a revelation into the mind

Any reader wondering about how our minds process and retain information must read this book. Although the reading lines on the cover present the book as an "improve your memory book" , it is in fact, very much more than simply a "how-to" book. A quick look at the table of contents and the many, many subheads in the various chapters only give a hint at the meaty information contained therein. The book is written in a clear, concise style that moves briskly along from subject to subject. There are a number of facinating quizes that illustrate the various aspects of the subject.Intelligent Memory is a window into how a functioning mind "connects the dots" of thought. The spectre of Alzheimer's is a very real fear for most people and as we age and can't find our car keys or the name of our neighbor of many years, knowledge about this subject is timely and necessary. Another aspect of the information that is quite riveting are the sections on creativity and the mind. Dr. Gordon and Ms. Berger have used their best creative efforts to produce a very readable and important book.I thoughly enjoyed this book and found its contents absolutely facinating. I recommend it to anyone curious about how their own mind and those of others really works and wants a good read in the bargin.