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30 Days
Memory
Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.
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to a More POWERFUL
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Scott, Gini Graham.
30 days to a more powerful memory / Gini Graham Scott.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-7445-7
ISBN-10: 0-8144-7445-4
1. Mnemonics. 2. Memory. I. Title. II. Title: Thirty days to a more powerful
memory.
BF385.S36 2007
153.1 4—dc22
2006032832
2007 Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
This publication may not be reproduced,
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a division of American Management Association,
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0987654321
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Dedicated to the many people who gave me suggestions
on how to remember, including Felix Herndon, who
invited me to sit in on his Cognitive Processes class at Cal
State, East Bay—a source of much inspiration for many
of the memory principles described in the book.
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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
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