Train your brain. Keep your edge. 100 illustrated exercises for your 60s and beyond. Focus. Quick thinking. Learning.
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THE LOST ART OF MEMORY · DIGITAL EDITION
Brain exercises for your 60s, 70s and beyond.
Challenge your focus, work through a problem and learn something new. Start with 100 illustrated exercises and a 30 day plan that shows you where to begin.
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Pages 29 and 48FOR PEOPLE WHO STILL WANT A CHALLENGE
You want to follow the conversation, make sense of what you read and work an answer out for yourself. Keep Capable gives you a collection of exercises to put those skills to work, with enough variety to keep exploring.
Choose a word challenge, tackle a number problem or learn a memory technique. The steps are on the page. You make the attempt.
See what you can practise
HOW THE PRACTICE WORKS
Every exercise gives you illustrated steps, an example and a way to increase the challenge. Here is one idea you can try right now.
Link a new name to a vivid picture. Then practise bringing the picture, and the name, back to mind.
TRY THIS LITTLE EXAMPLE
Imagine Maya holding an enormous mango.
What was her name?
A METHOD YOU CAN USE WITH YOUR OWN READING
Page 48 teaches Read, Cover, Retell. Page 29 introduces the 1, 3, 7 Review. The practice is specific: retrieve without looking, then return after a gap.
Read a paragraph. Pick out the point you want to remember.
Cover the text so the page cannot give you the answer.
Retell it in your own words. Uncover the page and check.
For names, practise bringing them back on days 1, 3 and 7.
The exercises use retrieval practice and spaced review, methods studied in memory research, including research with older adults.
TEN CHAPTERS INSIDE THE LOST ART OF MEMORY
Words, focus, patterns, stories and more. Open a chapter below to see the exercises inside.
Find Your Words
Find Your Words · TEN EXERCISES
Try alphabet cues, describe the word you cannot quite reach and practise recalling words in categories. The book gives you ten exercises to work through.
Never Forget a Name
Never Forget a Name · TEN EXERCISES
Catch the name clearly, repeat it and connect it to an image or face detail. The 1, 3, 7 Review shows you how to return to names after a gap.
Everyday Memory
Everyday Memory · TEN EXERCISES
Give important objects a fixed home, say an action aloud and tie a plan to a useful trigger. Practise with the small things from your own day.
Remember What You Read
Remember What You Read · TEN EXERCISES
Read a paragraph, cover it and retell the main point in your own words. Check what you missed, ask a question and return for another recall attempt.
Focus and Attention
Focus and Attention · TEN EXERCISES
Practise one task at a time, use a protected focus block and keep a note for distractions. Work through exercises in attention and noticing details.
Quick Thinking
Quick Thinking · TEN EXERCISES
Try mental arithmetic, sorting, patterns and comparisons. Where the task is timed, record your own attempts so you can compare like with like.
Memory Tricks of the Masters
Memory Tricks of the Masters · TEN EXERCISES
Turn familiar places into a route for pictures you want to recall. Explore story chains, rhyming pegs and ways to group information into chunks.
Remember Your Life
Remember Your Life · TEN EXERCISES
Use photographs, music, places and sensory cues to bring personal memories into a story you can record and share.
Brain Games With a Purpose
Brain Games With a Purpose · TEN EXERCISES
Try pairs, tray recall, missing objects, drawing and picture questions. Each exercise gives you a specific task to practise.
Protect Your Brain for Life
Protect Your Brain for Life · TEN EXERCISES
Make practical plans around movement, learning, sleep, hearing, social time and food. Choose something from your own life to work on.
RESEARCH BEHIND THE METHODS
The book uses recall practice, spaced review and memory strategies studied by researchers. The studies below explain why those methods are worth understanding.
A review of ten learning techniques rated practice testing and distributed practice highly. Both ask learners to do something with information, then return to it over time.
John Dunlosky and colleagues, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2013
Read the researchIn the Synapse study, adults aged 60 to 90 learned demanding new skills over 14 weeks, averaging around sixteen hours a week. Productive learning groups improved episodic memory relative to lower demand activities.
Denise Park and colleagues, Psychological Science, 2014
Read the studyGIVE YOUR MIND MORE TO WORK WITH
A familiar puzzle has its place. This collection gives you more kinds of challenges to choose from, plus a plan to keep going.
ONE FAMILIAR PUZZLE
THE LOST ART OF MEMORY
100 illustrated exercises10 chapters, from words to quick thinkingA 30 day starter plan includedTHE KEEP CAPABLE COLLECTION
BOOK 01 · 100 illustrated exercises · 136 pages
Find your words. Remember their name.
100 brain exercises to practise focus, find your words and remember names. Includes quick thinking, a 30 day starter plan and a practice tracker.
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BOOK 02 · 56 workouts · 186 pages
Stay sharp in conversations.
Daily brain exercises help you practise finding the right words, remembering names and keeping your focus. Includes 56 ten minute workouts over 8 weeks, with answers.
$70.00 $29.99
BOOK 03 · 12 everyday memory drains · 49 pages
Find what makes thinking harder.
Learn about 12 everyday things that can make thinking harder, and what to check next. Includes simple checklists and questions to take to a doctor or pharmacist.
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THREE GIFTS WITH EVERY BOOK PACKAGE
Each gift is $40 on its own. Get all three free with any book or book package.
Phone wallpaper
A calm reminder when a word will not come. Keep five simple prompts on your phone, ready for the moment a word slips away. The image shown is a small preview.
1 page checklist
Know what to ask your pharmacist. Check the active ingredients on medicine labels and make a list of questions for your pharmacist. Never stop a prescription medicine on your own. The image shown is a small preview.
7 daily checklists · 9 pages
Take one small step each day. Simple daily checklists for sleep, medicine labels, attention, water, walking, hearing and keeping in touch.
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