Harry first got in to magic as a young teenager and it was his love for magic that lead him to memory training because he wan’t to do memory tricks as magic tricks. It was a demonstration that stuck in my mind and a decade later I was making my living imitating it. The memory demonstrations that I have done for decades now I learned by watching Harry Lorayne on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
I was honored to recently interview Harry Lorayne and here is that interview: He was a celebrity in his day but also a great teacher of memory training. Harry appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson a remarkable 24 times. His book, ‘The Memory Book’ with Jerry Lucas became a New York Times best seller. He traveled the country doing his memory demonstrations and amazing audiences for decades. He had charisma, memory demonstrations, stage presence and understood memory and how it works. On the other hand, Harry Lorayne embodied everything that set him apart from any other memory expert of the time. A lot of them but not always in the most ethical ways. His goal was simply to sell memory training courses. Kevin Trudeau made a push in the 1980s and 1990s but Keven never tried to be a true memory expert. In reality there is no one that is even close. It isn’t too hard to argue that Harry Lorayne is the greatest memory expert of the 20th century. Harry Lorayne The Yoda of Memory Training
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