Amazon.com description: Product Description: How to Develop an Exceptional Memory, first published in 1962, is the classic book on easy-to-use steps for improving your memory in any situation. From remembering names, places, and dates to calculating numbers, remembering lists of words and objects, and memory games, How to Develop an Exceptional Memory teaches the skills you'll need to confidently master memory challenges. Included too are methods of improving motor skills in music and art, increasing reading speed and retention of what you've read, and biographies of a number of gifted individuals who were able to perform seemingly impossible feats of calculation and memorization.