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SECRETS OF ATTAINING
A PHENOMENAL MEMORY
By Nishant Kasibhatla
World Record Holder & Grand Master of Memory
Trainer. Speaker. Author of best-selling book
CONTENTS
Introduction Page 2
About Memory Vision Page 2
Workshops Page 3
About Nishant Kasibhatla Page 4
5 Lessons Mini-Memory Course Page 5
Lesson 1 - The Main Culprit For Having Bad Memory Page 5
Lesson 2 - 3 Magic Qs to Improve Your Memory Page 7
Lesson 3 - Need some glue to fix your memory? Page 9
Lesson 4 - Your brain’s GB, Mhz, RAM statistics Page 11
Lesson 5 - Stretch Your Memory Now Page 13
Course Review Page 15
Bonus: Top 3 Memory Myths Page 18
Email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com
Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Introduction
There is good news for everyone who wants to improve his or her memory.
New research has shown that your memory power can keep increasing - all
you have to do is to keep exercising it constantly. The more you jog it, the
better your memory functions.
It works like this: The brain has some 10,000,000,000 neurons and the more
connections you stimulate between neurons, the more efficiently they
recollect information. In the Information Age, you accumulate so much data
on academics, business, income tax, entertainment etc through newspapers,
magazines, Internet etc., that you find ourselves caught in an Information
Web. This ebook will give you valuable information to take control of your
memory.
Founded in 1996, Memory Vision is a pioneer in soft skills training that leans
toward efficiency and productivity. Birthed on the simple belief that everyone
should be able to experience a work-life balance, we learnt through and with
our clients how we can enable everyone to achieve peak efficiency and
productivity.
Brilliant ideas can only take flight with a firm execution. In that light, our
modus operandi centers on employing a fun-filled and effective training
method, coupled with a life-long support infrastructure. Drawing from our
experience across multiple industries, we have developed a set of training
programs for all.
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Workshops
Corporate Training
Half Day / 1-Day Training Programs
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
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Nishant Kasibhatla
Trainer. Speaker. Author
Grand Master of Memory & World Record Holder
In his speeches and workshops, Nishant has empowered thousands of people, helping them
challenge their limiting beliefs and achieve greater heights of effectiveness.
Nishant is the author of one of the most comprehensive best-selling books on memory
techniques: Instant Memory Improvement. He has compiled 2 Audio CDs for students: 11
Easy Ways To Become A Top Student and 11 Easy Ways To Develop A Positive Mindset,
Manage Time Effectively and Remember Things Easily. He has also written a ‘memory-
improvement’ column for Singapore Press Holdings magazine ‘Shape’.
His newsest book “Maximise your memory power” (Marshall Cavendish Publishers) deals with
proven and powerful ‘information and memory management’ techniques to improve the
productivity of employees at all levels from executives to CEOs.
New book
Nishant has been featured on radio and television channels, as well as in magazines and
newspapers in many different countries: Singapore’s MediaCorp’s TV12 & 93.8 LIVE FM,
Singapore Press Holding’s Straits Times, The New Paper & Shinmin Daily, India’s Zee TV,
Hongkong’s South China Morning Post.
Watch Nishant Kasibhatla’s Video Interviews and read his press interviews at:
http://www.nishantkasibhatla.com/news.htm
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Lesson #1
The Main Culprit For Having Bad Memory Is..
This is the first of a series of 5 lessons I will be sending you in the coming
days.
In this lesson, I am going to tell you about the main culprit for having a bad
memory. Want to know what it is? Read on…
He ran out of his business cards and asked me to “note down” his telephone
number. Please pay attention to the dialogue between us. This will give you a
clue to the “main culprit” for having a bad memory.
Me: It’s ok. You tell me the number. I will memorise it.
Director: Are you sure, you can remember? Why do you take risk? Why don’t
you write it down?
He badly needed my memory training, and later his company became one of
my clients.
Well, what surprised me is his firm belief that I can’t remember the number, in
spite of telling him that I am a memory expert. Why is this?
This guy is not even happy with the belief I have in my memory. Think about
his belief in his own memory. Isn’t it amazing?
Most people don’t believe in their existing memory capacity. There are many
reasons why this happens.
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1. You might have tried a variety of ways to learn new information, but
nothing worked.
2. Listening and believing in “anti-memory-power” statements like “Write it
down, otherwise you will never memorise it”
3. Feeling de-motivated and cursing your memory even for minor memory
lapses.
4. Telling everyone “you have a bad memory” (and sometimes feeling
proud for saying that!)
5. etc
Was I exaggerating? You now that I was not. And if you did not fall into any of
the above categories, then the only thing I can say about you is:
Lucky You!
But for a majority of people, this is the reality. If you want to improve your
memory, you must first have a belief in your memory. How?
Will it be OK for you to belittle your good friend by talking bad about him/her?
Will it be OK for you if someone else talks bad about your good friend?
Would you say encouraging or discouraging words to your good friend?
Answer the above questions and you are on your way to a great start.
Nishant Kasibhatla
Grand Master of Memory
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Lesson #2
3 Magic Questions to Improve Your Memory
Albert Einstein said a long time back “Imagination is more important than
knowledge”.
The point to note is the word “more” in his statement. That means knowledge
is important. But imagination is more important.
?????????
Think about it. A majority of schools in the world do not teach any memory
techniques or strategies for children. As a result of which, the student has to
devise his own ways of memorising information and usually end up acquiring
one particular way of memorising information. And that is REPETITION.
Right from the student stage to the adult stage, many people slog to learn
information in the wrong ways.
That’s right. The easiest way to memorise information is to pay attention. This
appears so simple, but it is alarming to note that many people don’t even
have a slightest clue of how to pay attention.
3. Fun: Try to search ways and means with the help of which you can
have fun while memorising. I know this sounds difficult. Most people
associate learning and memorising with stress. The more you do this,
the more stress you will continue to have while memorising. Think
different. Try to have fun.
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But as I have told you earlier, just the knowledge about this doesn’t help
much. You need to take action. From now on, answer the following 3
questions whenever you want to memorise any information.
3 MAGIC QUESTIONS
What if you could not answer some of the above questions? It still works! By
just TRYING to answer the above 3 questions, you are thinking about the
information in a way you never did before. You literally force all of your
attention on the information. This is so simple and effective.
Yours memorably,
Nishant Kasibhatla
Grand Master of Memory
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Lesson #3
Need some glue to fix your memory?
Don’t get frustrated. Read this mail to find about the super-powerful glue,
which can help you stick anything to your memory. And, it’s free! I will tell you
about it in this lesson.
Some time back, I was dining with a friend in a restaurant. We were waiting
for the food we ordered. In the meantime, we were enjoying the music played
by the local band there.
Then came an announcement by the singer that they have hired a new guitar
player and he is going to showcase him.
Suddenly, my friend looked at his watch and said “Oh my God! I gotta go”.
My friend told me that he needs to pickup his daughter from the guitar class.
And he actually left the place without even eating the food.
My friend got “reminded” about her daughter’s guitar class after hearing about
the guitar player!
Isn’t it interesting? I am sure, you must also have had some similar
experiences in your life.
If you use the reminder principle in a positive way, it can help you in an
amazing way to improve your memory phenomenally.
If you want to memorise information in an easy and fast way, you need some
“mental glue” with the help of which the information sticks in your brain. This
mental glue is………….
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Association
Think about it this way ----- Your brain has some trillions of data. Each bit of
data is a potential hook onto which you can “hang” new data. Here are some
tips to use the power of association to your advantage:
1. Recall your school days where some of your teachers taught you some
concepts by “relating” them to real life examples. This way you learnt
faster, right? If you did it in your school days, there is no reason why
you can’t do it now.
2. From today onwards, make it a point to associate the new information
with something that you already know.
3. Try to think of some information that is similar or compares to the
information you are learning?
4. If you could not do the above, then “teach” the information you are
learning to someone else! This helps in a great way to “fix the
information” in your brain.
Remember this, if you don’t use glue, you can’t make things stick. Similarly, if
you don’t use “association”, the information doesn’t stick to your brain.
Yours memorably,
Nishant Kasibhatla
Grand Master of Memory Vision
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Lesson #4
Your brain’s GB, Mhz, RAM statistics
What are the things you look for when you are buying a new Computer.
Usually these:
If I say your brain is like a computer, would you agree? I am sure, you will.
But I do not!
Imagine a newbie chess player telling a chess champion “You play chess like
me”. How does that sound? Funny, right?
If that is the case, let us now see the results of Brain v/s Computer
Fact 1
Each brain has 1 million million neurons (brain cells)
Each neuron is equivalent to one personal computer in capacity
Fact 2
The CRAY Super Computer operates at 400 million calculations per second
The CRAY Super Computer would have to run non-stop for 100 years if it has
to achieve what your brain can do in 1 minute
Fact 3
Start telling 10 words per second to a just born baby
Continue to do this till he reaches the age of 100 years
Now, if he can remember all the words that he listened throughout his lifetime,
he would have used not more than 50 % of his memory power
In short, your brain has the potential to outsmart any computer that will ever
get created in the future!
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Some guidelines:
1. Use your brain! I mean use it more! The more work you give your
brain, the sharper it becomes.
2. Learn some thing or the other everyday. Be a life-long learner.
3. Ask your brain for help! That’s right. Want solutions to any problem?
Write your problem on an A4 sheet. Lock yourself in a room and make
sure you don’t get disturbed. Spend 30 minutes. Think coolly. You will
be amazed by what you can brain can do for you. Try it to believe it!
4. Last, but definitely the best, order “The Ultimate Memory Course”!
(http://www.theultimatememorycourse.com/order.htm) This course
contains great workouts for your brain. And you will have great fun
doing them.
It’s time to make the most of your brain. Take a commitment to give equal (if
not more) importance to mental exercise as much as you give to physical
exercise.
Yours memorably,
Nishant Kasibhatla
Grand Master of Memory
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Lesson #5
Stretch Your Memory Now
A few years ago, one of my friends invited me to a local club for an evening
get together. After some time, my friend introduced me to the guests saying
that I am a memory expert and that they can “test” my memory power.
Well, I was ready for the challenge. One of the audience members came to
me and whispered:
His looks suggested me that he is going to try his best to make me fail.
I love such challenges. I was sort of anxious to see what kind of memory test
it’s going to be. After few minutes, they prepared a test. The details are here:
I had to
You know what, I was totally relieved after knowing the tests. It was peanuts
for my memory.
Imagine the kind of feeling you will have if you can honestly tell yourself “I
have a great memory!”
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5. Use the knowledge you have memorised in your day-to-day life.
6. Want to learn information fast? Teach it to some one else.
7. Give your brain its due exercise everyday.
It’s no exaggeration, if I say, the least used part of the body (in terms of the
potential versus utilization level), is often the brain. Research indicates that
the average human being uses less than 5 percent of his brainpower. Ok, you
might have heard somewhere that we use less than 1%.
What is important is to think about using the unutilized potential of the brain.
By the way, I passed all the 3 tests at the club. And that skeptic guy who
warned me “to stretch my memory” actually has invited me to his home for a
dinner!
Yours memorably,
Nishant Kasibhatla
Grand Master of Memory
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Course Review
Here’s The Recap of The Mini Memory Course
I hope you have liked and benefited a lot from my 5 lessons of the Mini
Memory Course. The information given in the 5 lessons is very valuable as far
as memory improvement is concerned.
In case, you have not finished reading any of the 5 lessons, I strongly
recommend you to do read those lessons immediately.
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Lesson #1- The Main Culprit For Having Bad Memory Is..
-------------
Will it be OK for you to belittle your good friend by talking bad about him/her?
Will it be OK for you if someone else talks bad about your good friend?
Would you say encouraging or discouraging words to your good friend?
Answer the above questions and you are on your way to a great start.
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Lesson #2-The 3 Magic Questions to Improve Your Memory
-------------
From now on, answer the following 3 questions whenever you want to
memorise any information.
3 MAGIC QUESTIONS
What if you could not answer some of the above questions? It still works! By
just TRYING to answer the above 3 questions, you are thinking about the
information in a way you never did before. You literally force all of your
attention on the information. This is so simple and effective.
--------------
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Lesson #3 - Need some glue to fix your memory?
-------------
If you want to memorise information in an easy and fast way, you need some
“mental glue” with the help of which the information sticks in your brain. This
mental glue is………….
Association
Think about it this way ----- Your brain has some trillions of data. Each bit of
data is a potential hook onto which you can “hang” new data. Here are some
tips to use the power of association to your advantage:
1. Recall your school days where some of your teachers taught you some
concepts by “relating” them to real life examples. This way you learnt
faster, right? If you did it in your school days, there is no reason why
you can’t do it now.
2. From today onwards, make it a point to associate the new information
with something that you already know.
3. Try to think of some information that is similar or compares to the
information you are learning?
4. If you could not do the above, then “teach” the information you are
learning to someone else! This helps in a great way to “fix the
information” in your brain.
--------------
Lesson #4 - Your brain’s GB, Mhz, RAM statistics
-------------
Fact 1: Each brain has 1 million million neurons (brain cells)
Fact 2: The CRAY Super Computer would have to run non-stop for 100 years
if it has to achieve what your brain can do in 1 minute
1. Use your brain! I mean use it more! The more work you give your
brain, the sharper it becomes.
2. Learn some thing or the other everyday. Be a life-long learner.
3. Ask your brain for help! That’s right. Want solutions to any problem?
Write your problem on an A4 sheet. Lock yourself in a room and make
sure you don’t get disturbed. Spend 30 minutes. Think coolly. You will
be amazed by what you can brain can do for you. Try it to believe it!
4. Last, but definitely the best, order “The Ultimate Memory Course”! This
course contains great workouts for your brain. And you will have great
fun doing them.
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Lesson #5 - Stretch Your Memory Now
-------------
Let’s have a look at some action steps that will guide you to start taking
control of your memory:
Yours memorably,
Nishant Kasibhatla
Grand Master of Memory
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com
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Fact: Most pills that are marketed as memory improvement pills are really not
effective. These pills are definitely good for the well-being of your brain.
These pills help you have a “healthy brain”.
Please understand that healthy brain does not necessarily mean sharper
brain. And if your brain is healthy, there is no guarantee that you will have a
great memory.
I will give you a good analogy to explain this concept. You can take some
medicines/pills etc to have healthy and strong hands. Does that mean you will
be able to play a piano? If you want to play a piano, you need to train your
hands to be able to do that. This requires effort and patience. Just having
healthy hands will not suffice.
Similarly just having a “healthy brain” will not suffice to have a great memory,
though it definitely helps. If you want to have a great memory, you need to
train your brain for that. The easiest way to improve you memory is to use
memory techniques. These techniques give a really good workout to your
brain and build your “memory muscles”.
Myth 2: If I cross the age of 40, it is certain that my memory power will
deteriorate.
Fact: Age is never a deterrent to learn any skill. And memorising is a skill. At
any age, anyone can learn any skill. The only thing which is required is the
“willingness to try’.
Have you not heard of people who went to ballroom dancing classes at the
age of 50? And you must be seeing several 60 yr old people jogging on the
streets every morning.
Now, these people chose the option to learn new skills. If a person can
choose to be physically fit the age of 60, there is nothing that can stop him to
be mentally fit. The most important word here is “ACTION”. If you are willing
to put in action, you can improve your memory irrespective of your age.
Fact: This is probably the “biggest” myth. You already have learnt about the
storage capacity of the brain in the section “Capacity of the brain”. You can
never use up the entire capacity of the brain. It is just impossible.
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That’s right. The more exercise you give to your brain, the sharper it
becomes. You learn new information by “hooking” it to the existing information
in your brain. So, the more you learn, the more hooks you create in your
brain. The more “hooks” you have in your brain, the more information you can
“hang” on to your brain.
Memory Vision Pte Ltd 14 Robinson Road #13-00, Far East Finance Building Singapore 048545
Tel: +65-6402 2310 / 9147 1247 email: nishant@nishantkasibhatla.com Website: www.nishantkasibhatla.com