Memory craft: improve your memory using the most powerful methods from around the world 9781760633059, 9781760871406, 1760633054

Our brain is a muscle. Like our bodies, it needs exercise. In the last few hundred years, we have stopped training our m

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English Pages xiv, 306 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Year 2019

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Memory craft: improve your memory using the most powerful methods from around the world
 9781760633059, 9781760871406, 1760633054

Table of contents :
A medieval starting place --
Creating a memory palace --
Stories, imagination and the way your brain works --
Characters, characters everywhere --
Weird and wonderful portable --
When art becomes writing --
Lessons from the Middle Ages --
Learning in school and throughout life --
Does memory have to decline when you age? --
Memory athletes battle it out.

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