In this video, Bob Gray shares his experience with a vendor who offered to save him a $15 delivery charge if he could say a long word backwards. This skill is one for which he is in the Guinness Book of Records. The vendor’s personalized approach, including visiting Bob’s website and tailoring the email, made […]
Tag: Keynote Speaker
Mental Fitness Over 50: How to Keep Your Memory Sharp
Memory Tips for us ‘Older’ Professionals Recently, I had the privilege of speaking at an event filled with many experienced ‘older’ professionals, like myself, who’ve spent decades building their careers and accumulating a wealth of knowledge. As with every presentation I give, as I finished, several attendees approached me with questions and concerns about Alzheimer’s […]
Better memory better sales (VIDEO)
Better memory better sales. How often have you attended a networking event and you bump into someone you’ve met before and you cannot remember a thing about them? Imagine the impact you could have on your business and your sales if you could walk into a networking event and recall the names of everyone […]
Digital Amnesia
Bob’s latest Keynote Presentation: Digital Amnesia How Technology is Stealing Your Brain…and how to steal it back! Digital Amnesia: The experience of forgetting something important because you trust a connected device! Since we’ve been able to place more memory power in the palm of our hand than was used to land a man on the […]
A Quick Math Problem
Our brains lie to us Your brain doesn’t always tell you the truth, it often lies to you. Answer this problem quickly. A coffee and a cookie together cost $1.10. The coffee cost $1 more than the cookie. How much does the coffee cost? Most people say $1, which is wrong. The coffee costs $1.05 […]
Client Customization
Client Customization Memory Demo Here I show a customized ending to a keynote for my Australian client. One of my biggest challenges when I keynote is convincing the audience that I do NOT have an innate ability to remember things, it is not a ‘natural’ ability…it is an application of systems that ANYONE can learn, […]
Customer Service: How Speaking Backwards Saved me $15
This unexpected customer service took me by surprise. After delivering a recent keynote presentation, I decided to send the client a gift basket to say thanks. I looked up a company in Ottawa and chose a gift. The next day I received an email with my invoice and this note attached: Dear Bob, Thank you for your order. […]
The 10% Brain Myth
Do we use only 10% of our Brain? Ask the average person what percentage of our brain we use and the majority will say 10%, very few will say we use 100%, which would be the correct answer. Imaging methods have shown that even simple tasks produce activity throughout the whole brain. So where did […]
Remember names…lend your brain some money!
….and remember people’s names
Fun keynote turns into a memory challenge
After my keynote a sceptic remembers 30 digits! After a recent fun keynote, a gentleman came up to me and said he didn’t believe my memory was no different from his. He said that I must have been born with this ability to recite the capital cities, square mileage and populations of every country on earth. […]
