Train your mind with the secrets and techniques at the back of the world's hardest feat of reminiscence: the London Knowledge

The Knowledge is a special ebook: a advisor to getting extra from your mind and your urban. an absolutely illustrated, lovingly specific examine London's top stored secrets and techniques, it's going to additionally take you down the pathways of your brain and train you the way to maintain your reminiscence sharp. Written through a certified London cab driving force and travel consultant, The Knowledge is the 1st ever publication to take readers contained in the legendarily tough - and fast-vanishing - set of abilities that every one approved cab drivers should have: an ideal , completely verified wisdom of each highway, alley, turning and landmark of London.

The black cab is an iconic image of London, yet to force it, potential cabbies needs to take what's usually thought of the world's toughest examination, related to studying each highway, turning and waypoint alongside 320 varied routes throughout London, in addition to each landmark inside 1/4 of a mile of the beginning and finish of every direction: altogether 25,000 streets and 2,000 locations of curiosity. studying the information takes years, and dozens of appearances at gruelling oral checks, yet those that go develop into a part of a special partnership, with out parallel anyplace on this planet. clinical stories have always proven that London cabbies who've handed the information have enlarged brains and near-superhuman reminiscence capacities.

The wisdom is the 1st booklet to take readers contained in the outstanding brain of the cabbie, with 50 actual wisdom routes throughout London, superbly mapped and illustrated to teach the streets and landmarks, with notes on their hidden histories and renowned institutions, and sections permitting the reader to check their reminiscence on those routes, followed with an advent discussing the background and technology of the data and publications to memory-training innovations utilized by cabbies and reminiscence champions round the world.