by Tansel Ali
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tansel Ali is a three-time Australian Memory Champion, international memory expert and coach, who trains people and organisations to improve memory and increase performance. He frequently appears on television and radio and has featured in Todd Sampson’s award-winning ABC documentary Redesign My Brain. He may, however, be best known for memorising Sydney’s Yellow Pages in only twenty-four days. His first book was The Yellow Elephant: Improve Your Memory and Learn More, Faster, Better. Tansel lives in Melbourne with his wife and three children.
Website: tanselali.com
Twitter: @tanselali
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Daniel Kilov is a memory athlete. He was the silver medallist at the 2011 and 2012 Australian Memory Championships. He also broke the Australian record for the abstract images event, having memorised 115 abstract shapes in sequence. Since then, Daniel has become a sought-after speaker and educator, described by the media as one of ‘the nation’s finest thinkers and communicators’. He was a speaker at the 2011 Australian Mensa Conference and at two TED conferences in 2012. In 2014 he gave another TED talk and spoke at the Mind and Its Potential conference. Daniel believes that we are all mental athletes and that in today’s competitive world we all need to remember more, and be more creative, innovative and focused.
Julien Leyre is a French-Australian writer, educator and social entrepreneur. In 2011, he founded the Marco Polo Project, a non-profit organisation that explores new models to help people understand China and develop cross-cultural empathy by celebrating literature and language. He’s currently completing a PhD at Monash University, mapping the digital ecosystem of Chinese language learning and his website is: marcopoloproject.org.
Published in 2015 by Hardie Grant Books
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How to Learn (Almost) Anything in 48 Hours:
Shortcuts and brainhacks for learning new skills fast
eISBN 9781743583432
Cover design by Luke Lucas
