If you can rearrange a word instantly and spell it in alphabetical order, you know that word very well. Thanks to this mental habit, I could spell amazingly well as a child. Ever since then, I have memorized words alphabetically as well as normally. It got to the point where I became used to requests from them to "calm down a little." Just after one such request, I remember looking at an oil company billboard and saying to myself, "What would 'SHELL' look like if the letters were arranged in alphabetical order?" I mentally rearranged it to "EHLLS," and I was hooked. On lengthy automobile trips my constant fidgeting, tapping, and so on got on my parents' nerves. By the time I was eight years old, I had so much nervous energy that it was hard for me to sit still. I can never remember a time when my mind wasn't occupied with some sort of activity, whether it was communicating directly with someone else, or being actively involved with a mental game of my own invention. The Arts Music for Beginners Reading The Memory Graph Potpourri Look, I'm a GeniusįOREWORD: JERRY LUCAS As a child, I had a peculiarly busy mind. 10022 Simultaneously published by Ballantine Books, Ltd., Toronto, CanadaĬONTENTS Jerry Lucas xi Harry Lorayne xiv Some History of the Art 1 In the First Place: Association 5 The Link 14 Substitute Words 20 Long Words, Appointments and Errands, Shopping Lists 26 Speeches 31 Foreign and English Vocabulary 38 Names and Faces 50 Absentmindedness 73 Long-Digit Numbers 83 The Peg 94 Style Numbers, Prices, Telephone Numbers ♱05 Playing Cards 111 Weekly Appointments Days of the Week 124 Anniversaries, the Zodiac, Historical Dates 135 The Alphabet and Picturing Letters 141 Start Your Children 145 Sports 149 The Stock Market 157 Politics 161 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-90705 SBN 345-24527-X-195 This edition published by arrangement with Stein and Day Publishers First Printing: June, 1975 Printed in the United States of America BALLANTINE BOOKS A Division of Random House, Inc. Harry is a great teacher of memory training.Copyright© 1974 by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas All rights reserved. His system revolved around seeing what you want to recall as an image and imagining it attached to something that is familiar to you. He was a legend and Time Magazine referred to him as the Yoda of Memory Training. Harry first got in to magic as a young teenager and it was his love for magic that lead him to memory training because he wan’t to do memory tricks as magic tricks. It was a demonstration that stuck in my mind and a decade later I was making my living imitating it. The memory demonstrations that I have done for decades now I learned by watching Harry Lorayne on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I was honored to recently interview Harry Lorayne and here is that interview: He was a celebrity in his day but also a great teacher of memory training. Harry appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson a remarkable 24 times. His book, ‘The Memory Book’ with Jerry Lucas became a New York Times best seller. He traveled the country doing his memory demonstrations and amazing audiences for decades. He had charisma, memory demonstrations, stage presence and understood memory and how it works. On the other hand, Harry Lorayne embodied everything that set him apart from any other memory expert of the time. A lot of them but not always in the most ethical ways.
His goal was simply to sell memory training courses. Kevin Trudeau made a push in the 1980s and 1990s but Keven never tried to be a true memory expert.
In reality there is no one that is even close. It isn’t too hard to argue that Harry Lorayne is the greatest memory expert of the 20th century.
Harry Lorayne The Yoda of Memory Training
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