![]() ![]() ![]() And if you know/remember it, you’ve learned it! If you know something, you’ve remembered it if you remember something, you know it. I realized that "remember," "learn," "know" are synonyms they all mean basically the same thing. "Hey," I thought, "if I can remember the answers to the questions, if I could simply know/learn those answers faster, I wouldn’t have to put in all that study time. But, finally, the proverbial light bulb went on. I simply wouldn’t, couldn’t, put in all the necessary study time. Of course I knew why I was getting those failing grades. ![]() My father believed in corporal punishment, and when I brought home failing grades on my tests, he “corporal punished” me. When I was about eleven years old I had great motivation to get better grades in school. Well now, how does one become the "foremost memory-training specialist in the world," "The Yoda of memory training"? Okay, short version. (Over 20 times on The Tonight Show – and all the way back to I've Got A Secret, To Tell The Truth, Jack Paar, Ed Sullivan, David Susskind, Merv Griffin, That's Incredible, Mike Douglas, The Today Show, Good Morning America, 48 Hours, Regis Philbin, (in England, the Michael Parkinson Show, Paul Daniels Show, Just Amazing) and many more. You've seen me many times on all the television shows, remembering the names of everyone in the studio audience (plus memorizing a complete issue of Time Magazine and other feats of memory). My books have been Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Guild, and just about all other book club, selections. My books are the ONLY ones on the subject of memory training to EVER appear on bestseller lists – one of them ( THE MEMORY BOOK ) for over 50 weeks at top of the NEW YORK TIMES list. I have studied, practiced, applied, invented, sophisticated, manipulated, taught, demonstrated, written about, lectured on, conducted seminars on, memory training, memory improvement, techniques for well over half a century. The book sold over eight million hardback copies in just about every major language. And in newspapers and magazines all over the world. That ad appeared, from 1957 to 1966, continually, in every newspaper in the USA with over 5000 circulation, and in every major magazine. This is the headline that was on top of a 3000-word full-page advertisement for my first book. GIVE ME ONE EVENING AND I’LL GIVE YOU A BETTER-THAN-PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY! ![]()
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