Simple and Not So Simple Proven Ways to Sharpen Memory

By Vijay Sharma

The e-book is designed to improve earning potential through learning potential by sharpening memory as a tool and thereby improving quality of life based on a better and a much sharper way of thinking. In this author’s opinion, the book is worth every penny, even if those were made of gold or platinum. Accepting and following the systems/techniques in the book will narrow down the achievement gap and instill educational practices which will improve academic achievements. This in turn will lead to more money through a better paying job, prosperity, self-esteem and a better quality-of-life and all that a better purchasing power brings in.

This book is designed to improve earnings through learning’s while sharpening memory as a tool.
If someone answers “Yes” to any of the following questions, they are likely to benefit from reading the contents and their practice.
Would you like to improve your grades in schools?

As a parent, would you like to see your children scoring better in schools?
Would you like to see your friends, relatives and the next of kin successful in schools, colleges and universities?

Do you prefer a sense of accomplishment more than money?

Do you agree that a better memory is a much needed and often ignored asset to be a success in life?

Will you like to achieve goals of success, fame, recognition, self-love, advancement in your career and may be some more money?

The e-book, "Simple and Not So Simple Proven Ways to Sharpen Memory" by Vijay K. Sharma, PhD, DPC, MCP answers some of these questions, your wants, needs, prayers to fill some or many voids in your life and is designed the ways to steer the way to your success for sure! Practicing the contents of the e-book will reinvent you for your grand success!
Some short verses/notes to think over, seriously!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vijay Sharma
• Release date: Feb 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9780983386506

Vijay Sharma

Dr. Sharma is a scientist par excellence, author and a poet. Dr. Sharma did his PhD from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, aka, the Great Britain. The University of Aberdeen currently ranks as 129th University and is among the top 0.5% of the entire worlds' top leading universities (as last accessed in March, 2009). Dr. Sharma has 45 publications to his credit including 4 chapters in books from London, UK and 21 International/National Presentations. His 19 papers have been cited over 182 times as per Science Citation Index from countries around the world, such as, USA, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and India, to name a few of those countries. This is heartening to know when greater than 97% publications do not get even one or two citations. Literary Interests: "Simple and Not So Simple Proven Ways to Sharpen Memory" is his latest e-book and is available at Kindle, Smashwords.com, and other popular websites, including those of authors own. Other literary works/e-books, such as, those on self-help, fighting and winning over type II diabetes, Love Poems in English and Hindi, "Before the Gallows" a translation of Hindi Novel "Phansi Se Pahle" which when translated to English means “Before the Gallows” by Shri Man Mohan Kumar "Tamanna" will soon be coming to the websites for sale as e-books. “Before the Gallows” is a story of a cop, his love for a blind girl, his child and his ending up on the other side of law to seek justice, what led to this and what will all this lead to...?

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SIMPLE AND NOT SO SIMPLE PROVEN WAYS TO SHARPEN MEMORY

By Vijay K. Sharma, PH.D., D.P.C., M.C.P.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LEGAL DISCLAIMERS

PREFACE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

BEFORE YOU BEGIN…

INTRODUCTION

TYPES OF MEMORIES

FACTORS INVOLVED IN MEMORIZING

GENIUS IS PATIENCE

I CLEAR-r ROME EXERCISE OTHER SYSTEMS/TECHNIQUES

WHOLE OVER SURE TECHNIQUE

TID-TAD-SYSTEM OR TECHNIQUE

SAMI TECHNIQUE OR SYSTEM

THE FLOAT TECHNIQUE OR SYSTEM

FLASH BACK TECHNIQUE OR SYSTEM

D AND R-TECHNIQUE OR SYSTEM

DTR TECHNIQUE OR DIRECT SYSTEM

ODD TECHNIQUE OR SYSTEM

GLEAN AND GLANCE TECHNIQUE OR SYSTEM

HALL SYSTEM OR TECHNIQUE

LOCUS OR LOCI TECHNIQUE OR SYSTEM

TONING DOWN TECHNIQUES OR SYSTEMS

USING RHYMES OR FIRST LETTERS OF THE WORDS

QUESTION AND ANSWER STRATEGY

DD OR DJ MEANS

MEMORIZING SPELLINGS

WORDS AS KEYS TO NUMBERS TECHNIQUE

ASSOCIATIVE OR PEG OR TAG TECHNIQUES OR SYSTEMS

…INCIDENTALLY, WHY DO WE FORGET?

ANCILLARY FACTORS NEEDED TO STRENGTHEN MEMORIZING POWER

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SOME BOOKS FOR GENERAL READING

ABOUT THE AUTHOR-VIJAY K. SHARMA, PHD

Upcoming books by Vijay K. Sharma, PhD

Connect with the Author

YouTube Videos by the Author

IMPORTANT WEBSITES

LEGAL DISCLAIMERS

This book has been written with a purpose to stimulate learning and earnings of individuals, and other relevant benefits; which may or may not turn out to be the same with each and every buyer. Simply reiterated, this means that intentions of service and help to mankind are earnestly sincere, though the outcome may or may not turn out to be the same with every individual, as each may have a different or a variety of habits, expectations and some of them may be unrealistic too. This then has led to putting in these disclaimers.

This is also to thank you for buying this book AS IT IS for your personal reading. Terms of use at the website has stated that partial refund (minus $7.50 for the time spent in adjusting account(s) of this book may be allowed. Refund conditions may vary with the website you may buy it from, such as Google bookstore allows refund only within seven days of purchase.

This book cannot be resold either and if your friends need it, request them to buy their own copy. Currently, the book is a distilled essence of my experiences and expertise of several years in the area. However, this does not mean that further changes in that are not possible and may not be introduced, in revised or updated versions, as and when needed. By buying the book, you have read, understood and agreed to the Terms of Use/Disclaimers/Disclosures and the term of use may be changed unilaterally at any time by the author without any notification to you.

Any perceived slights against individuals or organizations are unintentional. The author makes no representation of warranties with respect to the contents of this book and specifically disclaims any implied warranties or merchantabilities or fitness for any particular purpose and in shall in no way be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial, social or emotional damage, or any other kind of damage including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential or other damages.

PREFACE

Many find that certain sayings, books, teachers, friends and relatives have influenced the course of their lives in some positive ways. This book is deliberated to serve a similar purpose, to improve your earning capacity through learning capacity by sharpening the tool of memory, a much needed asset for success in learning and other realms in life. Though each is endowed with different levels of memory, yet it is possible to make it better and better, till it reaches certain optimum level. However, success in such an endeavor also calls for some diligent efforts and vigilant, daily practice. Consider that the overall training will take about six months or so, this will keep your mind at ease from worrying about the outcome and will help somewhat build on patience too. I am hoping that reading this book and practicing the systems/techniques described therein will serve a good purpose in your life in bringing about some desired positive outcome. I will be more than glad to hear of your success story. You may drop some lines about it to and it may be posted at my website, assuming you may like to share it with the rest of the world. E-mail address is as follows:

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With a Good Luck Note for Your Success, The Author (Vijay K. Sharma)

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to all of you who aspire to reach a better, more fulfilling, meaningful and a rewarding pursuit of knowledge so as to increase your earnings through learning's; relying on a sharpened memory to achieve the desired goal(s) of success. I appreciate your interest and your will to forge ahead in following the techniques/systems described in this book for a better and an enlightened tomorrow in due course of time. With Good Luck for Your Success and with love- the author (Vijay K. Sharma)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many grateful thanks to all the family members, relatives, friends, students whose help has been instrumental in putting this book together for all those who may find it useful and meaningful for their success in education, learning and life.

Great care has been taken to cite all the references as applicable, if someone has been left out, this has simply been unintentional.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN…

CHECK YOUR MEMORY!

Current free memory status test for your own record:

This is about a FREE memory test you can do at your own pace.

This would be desirable and profitable for you to know your current status as to how fast and easily you can remember, that is, register, retain and recall information. Knowing this will help you to monitor your progress with the help of the systems described in the e-book Simple and Not So Simple Proven Ways to Sharpen Memory as you move along to perfecting your skills. Progress for your own peace of mind and self-reassurance can only be judged if you honestly know where you stand at the moment. The e-book not only sharpens memory but builds comprehension and creativity too!

Please follow along the simple steps mentioned below to assess your current memory status:

1. Take a blank sheet of paper and write your name on top with the current date on the left top corner of the sheet and label the sheet as Sheet 1. Feel free to do so as you are the only one who would be seeing it. It's for your own knowledge about yourself and your own record.

2. Pick any 30 random words of your choice, the ones you feel highly comfortable with, such as cinema, cars, house, money, school, sports, music, GPA, tests, interviews, scholarship, grants and so on and start writing them on the blank sheet, one word per line, or one word per column if you decided to make two columns on the same sheet, while giving a number from 1-30 to each of them in the order you have written those words.

3. Please do not test your memory using numbers in some sequence, such as, 1-30 or any start point with an increment of 1 or on a pattern of 2, 3, 5 and so on. I hope you got the picture. You are honestly testing the current status of your memory for your own sake and good and do not want to make believe something which is not true at the moment.

4. Allow yourself 5-15 minutes or so to look at the sheet and remember the words of your choice you have written and in the order you have written them. Please make a note of time you invested on the same sheet. That is for your record too.

5. Put this numbered sheet facing down or away from you and take another blank sheet and label it as Sheet 2.

6. Start writing the words from memory on the new sheet (Sheet 2) and in the order you wrote them on the first sheet (Sheet 1).

7. Compare your answers on the Sheet 2 with those on the Sheet 1.

8. Each correct word, if in the same order as on the original Sheet 1, gets a score of 3.33. There are 30 words and 30 multiplied by 3.33 gives a value of 99.9%, which for the practical purposes, we take as 100%.

9. If you score 5 words in the same order, your score would be (5*3.33 = 16.65%) and for 10 correct hits, if those happen to be in the same order as the original order on the Sheet 1, the score would be (10*3.33 = 33.3%) and so on, depending on how many correct hits in the same order you are able to make.

10. If your score is less than 50%, you are strongly encouraged to buy a copy of Simple and Not So Simple Proven Ways to Sharpen Memory, if not already bought and start honing your memorizing skills with the help of the above stated e-book. You will be doing yourself immense good by doing so. The e-book copies are available for purchase for personal use at most popular online stores, including author's website www.drsharmasmicroandnanopedia.com

11. You may allow yourself some extra-time, if you think this would help you and test your score again as described above and label this sheet as Sheet 3.

12. Save Sheets 1-3 or more if you tested yourself more for your own record.

13. Read the e-book Simple and Not So Simple Proven Ways to Sharpen Your Memory and practice the systems described in them for a month's time or so.

14. Take out Sheet 1 you made in the step 1 above, remember the sheet with the new mastery you gained by reading and practicing the systems in the e-book.

15. Retest yourself as you did in the past (step 5) on a new blank sheet.

16. Note down the level of improvement you made by comparing your current score with what you had on Sheet 2 (made in step 6 above). Also note down the time it took you to remember it better and quicker than before. If this comes true in your case, congratulations in advance on your progress. Keep at it to further broaden the horizon of your success.

17. The goal here is to be able to remember 30 words/concepts in about 5 minutes or so and be able to write them down and/or speak in the order of 1-30 and in reverse order also, that is, starting from the word numbered 30 and going back to the word at 1 in the list you made the very first day when you started the test.

18. Such success may take some-time and the time taken will vary from individuals to individuals and the practice of systems described in the e-book, yet it's doable and would require your reading, re-reading and practicing the systems described in the e-book Simple and Not So Simple Proven Ways to Sharpen Memory by Vijay K. Sharma, PhD, DPC, MCP.

You need such success to excel in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) too. May read more about the role of a sharp memory in STEM at the author's website www.drsharmasmicroandnanopedia.com

You may ask your friends to do this 30 random words self-test to test their memory strength. They may select the words they like and may share their score with you or hide it (their score) from you. In either event, you would know that they have not fared well and would be helped by buying a copy, reading and practicing it for their own benefits!

Wishing you and your friends a great success!-The author

INTRODUCTION

Memory in man enables him to master details, sets the thinking process in motion, helps solve riddles by comparing and contrasting the present situation with the old information locked in the store house of memory and by that enabling him to decide for a better alternative to act. If memory falters, so does the progress.

No wonder that many a tributes and accolades have been showered over memorizing. Even the Holy Gita has been no exception to it, where Lord Krishna has linked meditation, concentration and memory, with the final stress on memory suggesting that its lack can degenerate a man into a beast.

Why does not this process of remembering ensure the same success in the realm of memory to everybody? The main difference lies in the attitude involved while registering the impression, retaining it and recalling it when required. If the attitude is correct and positive one, more success is assured. Let us see what the different kinds of memory are, what goes on while memorizing a thing and how we could evolve a better attitude or approach