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Tony Buzan is well known for his books, tapes and videos on improving memory--the best known being Use Your Head. Master Your Memory is perhaps his most ambitious project aimed at giving people a memory system with potentially "hundreds of applications". The system, which originally dates from the 17th Century, revolves around the use of mental imagery ("pictures in the mind") as a basis for remembering facts--images are considered more robust as a means of remembering because their distinctiveness makes it less likely that each one will be confused with any other. The method is known as the "Self Enhancing Master Memory Matrix--SEM³". The matrix is a set of key images that can be manipulated to produce thousands of more complex images each relating to a particular set of facts (e.g. details about an artist). There is no doubt that the method has great potential if you can master it but it requires a good deal of creativity and time to construct all the different images. To this end I think it was a pity that Buzan did not give more examples of how the technique can work in practice. --Alan Parkin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Should be titled: WHAT to remember., 31 May 2002

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This review is from: Master Your Memory (The mind set) (Paperback)

There are exactly 33 pages on memory technique in this book. It must have taken Mr. Buzan a couple of hours to put together, considering almost all of this information is presented in parts of his other books.

The rest of the book is a short story, and twelve chapters of knowledge to remember. I really dont think this is such a bad idea, but the book should have been titled accordingly. If you would like a list of things to remember in order to improve your general knowledge of the world, these chapters fit the bill.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are trying to learn a language, DO NOT use the langauge chapter of this book! I speak Spanish, and can say that there are a number of errors in the Spanish section alone. Goodness knows how many errors their may be in the section on Chinese or Russian!!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Amazing yet badly researched book, 12 Dec 2006

By	John Braine "J." (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Master Your Memory (The mind set) (Paperback)

I have lots of very particular things to say about this book so brace your self for a bit of a read. I almost want to give this book two separate reviews - one with 5 stars and one with a lot less. When I first bought this book, I found the "major memory system" pretty advanced so I read `Use your memory' and then came back to this. The memory systems in both are great and they have assisted me in numerous feats, like remembering pin numbers and passing exams, and I think Mr. Buzan has provided a great wealth of knowledge to the world. However I find some of the claims a bit lofty and I have a number of criticisms.

1. I have a very bad basic memory and haven't found that it has improved much at all. I think you need a good basic memory before you can `Master your memory'. I have personally found the claims that memory training can improve your basic memory to be untrue (even though I do believe in the overall idea that brain excercise is very beneficial).

With lots of hard work and practice I have memorised all the countries, capitals and currencies of the world, details about 100 painters/paintings, 100 Spanish words, Pi to 1000 decimal places, and the Periodic table of elements. This is actually fun in an odd way and kind of addictive too. It is also a great way to pass time on the bus, or keep your brain occupied while waiting for the bus. However, I still have a very bad basic memory (e.g. I just had to look up what that thing with all the chemical elements was called!)

2. I wouldn't dream of trying to memorize a phone number on the spot. I'd still grab a pen. Again I think you need a good basic memory to hold it in your head long enough to use a memory system to memorize it. And memorizing a shopping list or something trivial just isn't worth the work most times.

3. The system isn't that good that once it's in your head, it stays there forever. I have to practice those lists over and over and by the time I've got to the end of one list again I've forgotten the others! Maybe I could be using the system better but again I think you need a good basic memory before you can `Master your memory'.

4. There is a flaw in the system which makes me question the claim that it is used in the same way by memory champions. The lists in the book go from 1 to 100. Yet the major system makes much more sense to memorize lists of from 0 to 99, as they are associated with something completely different for every 100.

5. I got the 2003 edition, and the lists to memorize are terribly flawed. I didn't think too much of it until I flicked through the 2006 edition and noticed that these lists still haven't been corrected! Did they just change the cover? This should be pocket money for Mr. Buzan to pay a researcher. I could provide a thorough list myself for most of them!

- A lot of the paintings are in different places, have different titles, artist details are wrong.
- The periodic table is missing several elements and some were renamed decades ago.
- I had to add about 30 countries to the list (and delete several countries that no longer exist) from the excellent Oxford A-Z of countries.
- Reading another review I only now realize the Spanish list is also flawed.

This all may seem very pedantic but it's bad enough (spending years at this stage) trying to memorize lists of trivia not only to try and improve your basic memory but also to gain knowledge only to discover a huge amount of it is wrong. Even an up to date resource area on a website would be good.

The plus side to all this is that through the research, I have gained a much bigger interest in the areas I have memorized, particularly painters. I've always had an intereset but now have a huge thirst for more knowledge of history of art. I have since read tons of art books and I have searched and downloaded images for the 100s of paintings (although a few don't seem to exist). And the lists do provide a great `peg of memory' to hang that information (I never get an art question wrong when University challenge is on).

In summary Tony Buzan's books are brilliant and I'm glad they have invaded my head, but research the lists before you memorize them and if you have a bad day to day memory don't expect any miracles. I do realize that different people have as different brains from each other as they do bodies so the latter may not be true for everyone.

4 Stars for the knowledge
1 for bad research

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2.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic memory technique but the book lacks good examples., 20 Nov 2001

By	chris.muirhead@blueyonder.co.uk (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Master Your Memory (The mind set) (Paperback)

The first 50 pages provide a fantastic framework that readers, who are prepared to really work at it, can use to develop their memory skills to unimaginable levels. The rest of this 185-page book consists of facts that readers can memorise! I would have liked Tony Buzan to provide the reader more with a lot more examples as to how the techniques can be used to memorise different types of information. I really struggled with this but perhaps it was written like this in order to force the reader to develop their own style rather than simply copying someone elses, which might have limited their horizons.

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