This is a fantastic book! My sister (who is in medical school) recommended this book as she was looking for ways to help remember the massive amount of information she was studying in preparation for exams. I am a University teacher so I'm always curious about tools students use to help them in their studies. I read the book in a couple of days because a bunch of light bulbs went off in my mind about how I could apply her research (for my teaching, to help my students, and also for my own personal use) and wanted to ingest it as quickly as possible!
The book is written in a very personal way, almost as a travelogue. She shows us how she came to each mnemonic strategy and how she uncovered their individual histories. My main take away is that humans have been using different strategies to remember names, places, events, cultural histories, etc, for thousands of years, and that learning these methods was essentially an important part of every person's education, regardless of culture, up until very, very recently. Why have we stopped learning and teaching these techniques that proved so useful for most of human civilization?!
For all those reasons, this book was well worth the price and my time. It really opened my eyes and made me want to do more research on a topic that I had virtually no interest in whatsoever when I began. A minor criticism however would be that the book isn't particularly useful for anyone who already knows about this history and is looking for step-by-step instruction on how to use the techniques. She does explain how she does it through anecdotes and there are some very helpful lists in the notes, but I wouldn't say the strategies are laid out in a way that would make quick reference easy or even possible.
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