USE YOUR PERFECT MEMORY --- DRAMATIC NEW TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING
YOUR MEMORY BASED ON THE LATEST DISCOVERIES ABOUT THE HUMAN BRAIN
3rd Edition, by Tony Buzan. Plume/Penguin Books, 1991
    INTRODUCTION (p7)

    HOW TO USE THIS BOOK (p9-10)

    PART 1--- MEMORY ITS HISTORY AND SYSTEMS (p11- 84)

      1) Is your memory "perfect"? (p13-18)

      2) Checking your current memory capabilities (p19-31)

      3) The history of memory (p33-40)

      4) The secret principles underlying a "superpower" memory (p41-45)

      5) The link system --- immagination, exaggeration, absurdity, association, color! (p47-50)

      6) The "number-shape" system (p51-58)

      7) The "number-rhythm" system (p59-64)

      8) The "Roman Room" system (p65-68)

      9) The "alphabet" system (p69-74)

      10) How to increase by 100% everything you have learned so far (p75-76)

      11) Your memory's rhythms (p77-84)

        Recall during the learning period

    PART 2 --- MEMORY --- THE MAJOR SYSTEM (p85-136)

      12) The major system (p87-106)

        When words refer to WORDS or CONCEPTS, bring them down to a more concrete level. They should NOT be pictured as some vague force or energy in space but the "memory word" should be visualized as pictorially or memorably as possible.

        Remember the rules: exaggerate, move, substitute, be absurd, use color!

      13) How to increase by 1000% everything you have learned so far! (107-108)

      14) Card memory system (p109-112)

      15) Raising you IQ through the long number memory system (p113-116)

      16) Telephone number memory system (p117-119)

      17) Memory system for schedules and appointments (p121-123)

      18) Memory system for dates in our century (p125-127)

    COLOR PLATE SECTION (p128-129)

        Plate III. A "Mind Map" which summarizes this book --- Explanation (p139-140)

      19) Memory system for important historical dates (p129-130)

      20) Remembering birthdays, anniversaries and days and months of historical dates (p131-132)

      21) Memory systems for vocabulary and language (133-136)

    PART 3 --- MIND MAPS FOR MEMORY (p137-184)

      22) Mind Maps --- Notes for remembering (p139-140)

        Most people forget what they note --- WHY? Because they use only a tiny fraction of their brain in the "note-taking" process!

        Standard "note-taking" systems use sentences, phrases, lists and lines, and numbers. Such systems use only the left-cortex memory principles of order, sequence and number, leaving out imagination, association, exaggeration, contraction, absurdity, humor, color, rhythm, the senses, sexuality and sensuality.

      23) Remembering names and faces (p141-159)

      24) Re-remembering --- remembering what you have forgotten (p161-163)

      25) Remembering for examinations (p165-167)

      26) Memory system for speeches, jokes, dramatic parts, poems, articles and books (p169-174)

      27) Catching your dreams (p175-176)

      28) Conclusion and exercises for the future (p177-178)

        Memory-improvement exercises

    APPENDIX (p179-184)

    BIBLIOGRAPHY (p185-186)

    INDEX (p187-190)
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