(PRWEB) June 5, 2005
Everyone knows that they could get more out of their memory… but until now, hardly anyone has been able to do anything about it.
Whenever we forget a name, miss an appointment, struggle to learn for an exam or feel the terror rise in us at the thought of speaking from memory, we wish we had a memory we could feel confident about.
Everything we do is controlled by memory, and everything could be done better, if only we could take control of what’s going on between our ears. With a strong memory we could plan our lives better, manage our time, achieve more at work, be more confident socially, and cope with all the new information we’re faced with every day. We could keep our memory skills sharp and our minds active long into old age, and bring up our children in the best thinking habits.
But most people will never do anything about their memory, letting it fail them again and again and developing a conviction that theirs is probably the worst memory in the world.
Jonathan Hancock has one of the best memories in the world. A multiple memory world record holder and World Memory Champion, he was disillusioned by all the overcomplicated and overpriced memory guides on the market. He decided to create the first ever down-to-earth online guide to memory: a straightforward, practical, fun explanation of every aspect of learning and remembering, designed to meet everyone’s day to day needs, and at a price everyone could afford.
‘What’s the point of knowing how to remember pi to ten thousand places, or regurgitating all the teams that ever won the FA Cup?’ he says. ‘What people want to know is how to remember a couple of bits of shopping on the way home from work; the names of the people sitting at their table at a wedding meal; their friends’ birthdays, their computer passwords, their own mobile phone numbers…’
With six books about memory already under his belt and a decade’s experience of training people’s minds, Jonathan Hancock set out to create the first ever memory website designed for everyone.
‘The idea is that everyone who reads it will start benefiting from it immediately. It explains how the memory works in terms that everyone can understand, and demonstrates revolutionary techniques that anyone can put into practice right away. The most important thing is that people see how good their memory actually is, even though they feel they’ve struggled with it all their lives.’
Jonathan taught himself to have the best memory in the world, and he’s convinced that everyone can develop memory skills to help their lives.
‘For more than ten years I’ve been training people from four to eighty-four to start using their memories properly. I’ve not found anyone who didn’t amaze themselves with what they could do. Whether you’re a student struggling with exam revision, a stressed-out professional drowning under a tide of new information, or a busy parent desperate to stay in control of life, this website provides you with practical advice for harnessing the creative power of your memory.’
‘It’s a great feeling to be confident about your memory.’
Memorypower.org is the result of Jonathan’s personal adventures in memory. It explains the best strategies for learning words and numbers, lists, names, spellings, foreign languages… It reveals the secrets of speaking from memory, and demonstrates how everyone can start to be more memorable to others. It includes Jonathan’s own system for memorizing playing cards which won him two Guinness world records, and a unique technique for remembering numbers that has been described as the most powerful ever devised. It explains how your brain works, and what you need to do to make it work for everything you need to know.
‘I’ve seen how basic memory training changes people’s lives,’ Jonathan says. ‘Through memorypower.org, I want as many people as possible to realize how powerful their memory potential truly is.’
The author:
At the age of 16, Jonathan Hancock invented a system for memorizing playing-cards and broke the first of his two Guinness World Records. For three years running he was ranked as the best in the world at remembering names and faces. In 1994 he became the youngest ever World Memory Champion. He has used his memory skills to achieve a First from Oxford University, and to pursue a successful career as a broadcaster with the BBC.
Jonathan has written six books about memory and learning, including Maximise Your Memory (Reader’s Digest) and Mindpower System (Hodder). A consultant to telecommunications and entertainment companies, he also runs memory training courses in business and education, and has appeared on radio and television around the world as an expert on memory improvement.
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