How I Ventured Into Memory Improvement
For many years I believed I had a bad memory. I used to forget what people were talking to me about shortly after. I was never good at remembering names. I was horrified of speaking to a group people, anxious that I’d forget or say something silly. I barely even read as I’d get mentally exhausted when attempting to read, and re-read, and re-read, only to forget what I had read! Yet this all felt normal to me. I thought this was life and I accepted that my memory was not good. If I had any memorizing to do, I would either work twice as hard and exhaust myself out mentally, or just not even bother.
Then one day a friend told me he could memorize forty random objects in any particular order. After hearing that I knew I had to test him. Surely enough, he memorized random words I gave him perfectly. I immediately thought to myself, wow that’s a cool trick and asked my friend to show me how the trick works. He told me there was no trick to it. It was all ‘memory techniques’.
I was now fascinated by this concept of memory techniques. As I researched more I started to learn how these memory techniques worked. I would eventually also memorize random objects. As my interest grew I found techniques to memorize playing cards, exam questions, numbers, and realized that these systems were not just cool tricks, they empowered individuals with key skills to solve problems – the main one which is forgetting stuff!
My research eventually led me to discover that Australia had a ‘memory championships’ where individuals came together from around the nation to compete in events such as remembering the most names, numbers, playing cards, and other events that nothing a little memory training couldn’t handle. My friend and I entered the Australian Memory Championships in 2002. I came second and he third, and we broke several memory records along the way. From that point on, I realized that I didn’t have a ‘bad memory’ as I once accepted. I only had an untrained one.
Since that moment I’ve won The Australian Memory Championships three times, broken many records, competed internationally in the World Memory Championships, cheated death, memorized two Yellow Pages phone books in just 24 days, written a bestselling book on memory, The Yellow Elephant, appeared on television and various other forms of media, including two documentaries about the brain, developed a memory book app which had over 100,000 downloads on Android and iOS, and obtained two Masters degrees MISM and MBA, all within the time I got married and had three children.
Memory improvement didn’t just give me a better memory. It gave me self-empowerment, motivation, and new-found skills to help others and take on the world. I’m now fortunate to help individuals, schools, and organizations by providing services such as training and workshops, coaching, mentoring, keynote speaking, seminars, facilitation, MC and event hosting, so that individuals may realize their potential and achieve success. If someone like me with a once ‘bad memory’ could do it, so can you. Let me know what you’d love to achieve and I’ll create a customized solution to your needs.
A 3-Time Memory Champion, Celebrity Memory Coach, Bestselling Author, and the only person in the world to memorize 2 Yellow Pages phone books in only 24 days, Tansel is a world renown Memory Expert. As seen on TV, he coaches busy executives, celebrities, leaders, athletes and entrepreneurs to success. For bookings contact (03) 9351 1166. Visit https://tanselali.com