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: Motivational Keynote Speaker – Bob Gray – Memory Edge
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 […]
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, […]
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
Memory Music and Smell
Increase your memory with perfume and music.
Improve Your Memory Instantly
If I asked you to go grocery shopping without writing a list, how would you attempt to remember it? Let’s say you needed: Chicken Eggs Milk Ketchup Laundry Detergent Toothpaste Bread Mushrooms Lettuce Peas Most people would use rote memorization, constantly repeating the list over and over until they thought they had it, painful […]
One powerful trick for remembering names
Never forget a name again. In almost 30 years of delivering memory enhancement keynotes and workshops, without a doubt the number one issue I hear over and over again is remembering names, or rather the inability to recall someone’s name. I have a 90-minute keynote covering just this issue. We don’t have ninety minutes right […]
Dyslexia, Memory and Dinner Plates
And which wine glass is mine? Last week after my keynote presentation, a young couple with their 7 or 8 year old daughter came up to me and asked if there was a ‘memory trick’ that would help their daughter, they said she was dyslexic and kept mixing up the letters ‘b’ and ‘d’. Although […]
