The Complete Guide to MEMORY MASTERY by Harry Lorayne - Book Reveiw

My decision to read the book 'The complete Guide to Memory Mastery by Harry Lorayne' is driven by his previous book Mind Power, As I have shared in my previous book review that I read the book Mind Power by Harry Lorayne with the perception that it is a book on memory improvement but ended up reading a book on overall personality development. This time I got it right, Memory Mastery is the book is completely focused on organising and developing the power of your mind.

In the first chapter itself the author started with some questions to test our general observation with the title called the 'How keen is your observation?' and most of the questions asked are related to everyday things what we see but ignore to observe. I couldn't answer many of them though I see those things everyday like... which light is on the top of the traffic light? Red or Green?, The number 6 on your wrist watch is Roman number VI or Arabic 6?... The reason he explains why we are unable to answer such a simple questions that we see them everyday but we hardly give a chance to get it into our memory, things that we see every need a passport to get into our memory that is 'observation'. Without a keen observation, nothing will get a space in your memory...

Taking about habit is memory he quoted words of Thomas De Quincey "I feel assured that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible." and Plato said this way to show the importance of memory, "All knowledge is but remembrance."

I haven't finished reading the book yet! so I will update my reveiw once I complete the reading..

Secrets of Mind Power by Harry Lorayne...Book Reveiw

One of my close relatives, who got some idea on my memory power, has recommended this book 'Secrets of Mind Power by Harry Lorayne' to me saying, 'this is a very good book on memory training and its worth giving a shot'. Before taking this book, going by its title, I thought probably it would give me some helpful tips on how to remember things and on that note I started reading... Harry Lorayne, the author himself is the reason why I thought this book will give me some good tips on how to remember things because he is a reputed memory training expert. I understood just by flipping through few starting pages of this book that my preconceived notion was wrong about the memory kind of stuff.

This is a book that deals with overall personality development and all most all the topics deals with organizing oneself for self advancement.

The strong point of this book is there are number of real life examples with small stories in each and every chapter where every reader can identify himself. Application of the techniques were explained for almost every scenario. For example, there are numerous examples on how one can think effectively towards solving ones own problems within certain constraints.

The chapter on Think Logically - and No One Can Stop You concept is my favorite, which explains how correct thinking will guide you to success path by breaking your own fixed beliefs on certain aspects. There is a detailed discussion on creative thinking, which covers some of the basic objectives like how one can focus on thoughts, basic excesses of thinking, and how a normal thinking can be converted into logical thinking which can be used as problem solving mechanism.

Overall, this is a very good book on organizing one self towards successful life..