From Detect to Intellect: "Uncovering" the Memory Skills of Sherlock Holmes

Daniel Guilfoyle LCSW-R

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Learn how to develop a near photographic memory by being able to memorize almost any piece of information that you can either see or hear.
This book will teach you how to be able to memorize various pieces of information, such as names, numbers, letters, words, dates, places, and personal data, both rapidly and easily. Using such time honored mnemonic techniques such as the journey method, the link method, and the substitution method, you too can one day be able to become a "memory sleuth" in more ways than you can possibly imagine.

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• Self-help

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• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 16 janvier 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765236765
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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FROM DETECT TO INTELLECT: “UNCOVERING” THE MEMORY SKILLS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
 
 
“CLUES” ON HOW TO BE A MEMORY SLEUTH
 
 
 
 
 
DANIEL GUILFOYLE, LCSW-R
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.
 
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ISBN: 979-8-7652-3677-2 (sc)
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Balboa Press rev. date:  04/12/2023
CONTENTS
Dedication
Introduction
 
Chapter 1       The Genius of Sherlock Holmes
Chapter 2       The Brain Attic and Other Related Memory Techniques
Chapter 3       Dominic Mnomenic (Numbers Memory)
Chapter 4       Memory Pegs (Letters Memory)
Chapter 5       The Vocabulary of the Victorians (Word Memory)
Chapter 6       Master of Disguises (Names and Faces Memory)
Chapter 7       “You have been in Afghanistan” (personal information memory)
Chapter 8       FLASH technique (clothing memory)
Chapter 9       “Sense” sational literature (current events memory)
Chapter 10     The “Woman’s” touch (household memory)
Chapter 11     Bell’s Anatomy (medical memory)
Chapter 12     “The Address is 221B Baker Street” (map memory)
Chapter 13     Everything is in its proper place (mnemonic note taking skills)
Chapter 14     “You see but you do not observe” (observational skills)
Chapter 15     Self-care techniques, Holmesian style
Chapter 16     Conclusion
DEDICATION
To my adoring wife Erin, who continues to love and inspire me each and every day of our marriage. To my brother Matthew, who is the real “Mycroft” to my “Sherlock”. To my mother Lynn, who always encouraged my unending thirst for knowledge. To Dominic O’Brien, the man that inspired me towards my timeless “journey” into the field of memory improvement. To my late stepfather Steve, I love you and miss you dearly each day. And finally to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who without such a literary genius, this world would have been deprived of being a part of the timeless and classic adventures of the greatest consulting detective in the world, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
INTRODUCTION
Hello everyone, nice to meet you. Please allow me to introduce myself, as I am sure that most of you are unfamiliar with me. My name is Daniel Guilfoyle, and I am the author of a previous book on memory improvement, entitled “ From Shrink to Think: A Mental Journey through the Memory Journey ”. In this book, I introduced myself as a “shrink” who had decided to embark upon a “journey” into the world of memory improvement. I went over various techniques and methods of cognitive enhancement, as well as regaling you with some stories of my childhood, and how each story related to my unforeseeable destiny to achieve memory mastery. For those of you, who were not able to purchase this piece of literature, please let me start by re-introducing myself and explaining to you why I chose to write this second book on memory improvement.
As I previously stated, my name is Daniel Guilfoyle, and I am a “shrink”, or more specifically, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW-R). Rather than overwhelm you with the terminology and vocabulary needed to understand such a profession, let me try to summarize what it is that I do for a living. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, and a Master’s Degree in Social Work. I have spent numerous years providing mental health therapy to a barrage of different clients in various settings, such as clinics, schools, and even a men’s prison. Throughout my 17 year professional career, I have learned many clinical skills, such as cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, group therapy, crisis interventions, solution focused therapy, and play therapy. After having passed three national licensure examinations over the course of my career, I am now able to call myself a fully qualified psychotherapist, or in this case, a “shrink”.
For most of my adult career, I would simply do what most other rational adults would do when they had to go to work. I would get up out of bed, get showered, get dressed, grab my lunch, give my wife a kiss goodbye, and then leave for work in the morning. During the course of the day, I would engage in many social work related tasks, such as writing notes, speaking to clients, conferring with colleagues, and managing my phones and emails. Some days were easy; other days were down right stressful. Sometimes I would get the chance to enjoy my lunch, other days I would come home sick. All in all, never in my whole life did I ever imagine that one day, without warning, I would embark upon the greatest “cognitive” discovery of my life.
It was not until I was almost 37 years old, did I finally have my first real brush with memory improvement. It was a dark chapter in my life, as I was working at a maximum security men’s prison. Each and every day, I was exposed to countless instances of dangerous situations. Things like violently aggressive inmates, sadistic prison guards, unhealthy room conditions, countless security checks, and impending layoffs, consistently plagued my mind at each and every turn. Just when I thought that things could not get any worse, something else would later happen that would push me further and further down that dark hole in my psyche. I was afraid that I would never be able to crawl back out of this pit of hell that I was trapped in. Needless to say, I knew that I needed to get some help.
It was then that I went to see a therapist of my own. This person helped guide me back to some semblance of normalcy, by teaching me specific coping skills such as stress management, deep breathing, and my all-time favorite technique of all; guided imagery . In this technique, my therapist asked me to visualize a “happy place” of my own, where I was free to walk around anywhere I wanted to. Then she asked me to take notice of the things that I saw during my journey. I picked an old home that I used to live in as a child, and was able to see myself moving around freely from room to room, as if I was just floating around in the air. I took notice of the various items that I remembered being placed in each room. After this exercise was over, I started to notice that not only was I feeling much calmer and relaxed, but that my brain and mind both seemed to be much more focused and alert at the moment.
It was then that I started to become interested in the topic of memory improvement. So I decided to do some research and eventually looked up how such a simple meditation-like technique, could possibly have helped me to be able to reach such an improved state of mind. I looked up books on memory improvement, from variously accomplished national and world champion competitors. One of these competitors is a man who I feel I will be indebted to for the rest of my life. He is a man whose memory technique for memorizing numbers will be discussed later in the book.
During the next couple of years of my life, I started to compete at national and online tournaments, where I was pitted against some of the greatest memory champions I have ever met. I was instructed on how to do various related memory tricks, such as memorizing cards, words, names and faces, numbers, letters, personal information, and book related information. I realized that during this time, the more I practiced these techniques, the greater I seemed to get at them. My mind was doing things that I thought were virtually impossible. At one point, I almost felt as though I was of a genius “intellect”. But my journey was far from over.
Just when I thought that I could not be inspired anymore by anyone else in this world, another “genius intellect” came into my life in the most unexpected way. I was sitting down to watch TV one day, when I happened to be going through the channels, and came across a TV station called “BBC”. I had never really watched that channel before, but I knew that it was famous for showing different British television programs that I had enjoyed watching when I was younger. Yet on this one particular day, I just happened to catch an episode of a remake of a very popular British television series, which has been on TV before in many different forms. And that specific television program was entitled “Sherlock Holmes”. This was the newer vers