The book then explains how Jean de Brabant, the author, tripled his own memory unwittingly, without resorting to specific memory enhancement exercises.

It explores different elements of memory, such as its definition, the classical methods of memory training and the importance of the mind/ body relationship.

Jean makes us understand the principal reason for memory decline: the lack of training.

Memory being akin to a muscle deteriorates, from lack of exercise.

Whom do you know who has trained his or her memory since school, since university?

If you wish to increase your memory, you must train it systematically, at least five minutes a day.

Jean will explore with you various memory improvement methods and will lead you to the memorization of poetry as the most beneficial and eventually seductive method of memory enhancement.

He will propose easy poems to start, leading you on to a richer and more rewarding experience. If you prefer, at least at first, to learn speeches or songs, or even opera arias, you will be guided in that direction.

A continued daily minimum time investment will lead you to a tripled memory in a few years!

A chapter will deal with the memorization of numbers. Another will enable you to easily calculate, in seconds, the day of the week corresponding to every date of the year, whether it be March 5th, October 31st or Christmas.

An anthology of some of the most beautiful English language poems, speeches and songs will follow.