Progress tends to require that we look back as well as forwards - if OBrien and Buzan had merely replicated Harry's work and made no further contribution, I'd be the first to criticise (well, perhaps not quite as swift as you but not far behind!) but they both acknowledge Harry and have made their own contributions. I simply disagree that in this case those values have been compromised. I celebrate your passion for innovation and the fevour with which you demand that we respect others creative efforts (albeit couched in sarcasm!) - I share those values. but that does NOT infer plagerism in and of itself. The foundation may bear resemblance because the underlying material (the brain and it's natural language) is the same - association, hemispheric integration etc. My comments in this thread were specific to this topic - I feel that there is room for more than one voice in memory work - I feel that O'Brien and Buzan have enough of their OWN ideas in their published works, that their voices have also earned their place alongside Harry.
It is all too easy to throw out blanket statements that label the community which you too are part of (!) - no doubt there are those who will take the easy route and take rather than contribute, mimic rather than find their own voice - but by no means does this define us all - clearly your strong feeling reflects that you don't consider yourself among that crowd.so that's at least 2 of us! However, please don't then feel the need to label the 'magic community' as a group who advocate theft over creativity - I am one in the community who have not and will not knowingly take another's idea without permission and even then I seek to 'make it my own' by further work and refinement. It is admirable that you should leap to Harry's defence but there was no attack! In my opinion, 'usurption' is too strong a term but if you feel that is the case, of course you are entitled to that opinion. His foolproof techniques will help you keep your mind sharp for as long as you live, enabling you to go back to school and beat out the younger competition at work.Tony - in this thread I speak not as a member of the 'magical community' but as a specialist in study skills which I have taught for 15 years now professionally - I credit my sources and have encouraged my students to purchase and support the work of the innovators like Harry who have, as you say, refined and updated earlier work on memory (and the 'house' is by no means the only method that predates Harry's significant contributions!).
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