Harold Affram’s UNTAUGHT Stands Out in the Growing World of Memory Improvement Books

A person can prepare carefully, understand the material, and still find their mind empty when an important question arrives. It happens during examinations, interviews, meetings, speeches, and countless other situations where clear recall matters.

UNTAUGHT: The Memory System You Were Never Taught To Use by Harold Affram examines why this happens and presents a structured way to develop a memory that remains dependable under pressure.

When Preparation Suddenly Disappears

The central idea behind UNTAUGHT begins with a frustrating experience: knowing something before the moment arrives, then losing access to it when others are waiting for an answer. Many people interpret that silence as evidence of a poor memory. The book encourages readers to see it as the result of methods that never trained active recall properly.

Traditional study habits often depend heavily on rereading. Someone may review the same material several times and feel increasingly comfortable with it. That comfort can be misleading because recognizing information on a page is different from producing it independently.

Harold addresses this gap through a complete training system arranged across four levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Elite. The sequence gives readers a manageable starting point while allowing them to develop increasingly sophisticated abilities. Each stage contributes to the larger goal of remembering information accurately when the page is closed and the pressure is real.

The Memory Palace is included, although it serves as one technique within a broader collection of methods. This gives the book greater depth than a short catalogue of memory exercises. Its focus remains on building performance through repeated, purposeful practice.

Training Recall for Everyday Demands

The situations explored in UNTAUGHT are specific and easy to recognize. A student enters an examination after hours of revision, yet leaves believing the final answers failed to represent their knowledge. A professional forgets a name or essential detail during a conversation. A speaker looks down at notes and loses connection with the audience.

These moments can affect more than immediate performance. They may also influence confidence, professional credibility, and a person’s willingness to accept future opportunities. The book responds with a system designed for continued use, giving readers practical ways to strengthen how information is stored and retrieved.

Students are likely to appreciate the attention given to reading efficiently while preserving meaning. Speed has limited value when the reader finishes a chapter with little understanding of what remains. The exercises encourage stronger engagement with ideas, helping learners move toward recall that lasts beyond the next test.

At the Advanced level, readers work toward remembering an entire chapter two weeks after reading it, without returning to the text. It’s an ambitious benchmark that illustrates how seriously the system treats long-term retention.

Professionals can apply the training to names, facts, presentations, meetings, interviews, and client conversations. Public speakers and preachers may find particular value in developing the ability to communicate without constantly consulting notes. Stronger recall can help them stay present, maintain eye contact, and guide an audience through a clear sequence of ideas.

Practice Beyond the Main Book

Understanding a technique is only the beginning. Memory skills become reliable when they’re used repeatedly, evaluated, and strengthened over time. For readers seeking additional exercises, The Complete UNTAUGHT Training Workbook accompanies the main book.

The workbook helps close the distance between reading about a method and performing it confidently. Readers can move through the exercises page by page, beginning at the appropriate level and developing their abilities at a steady pace.

This companion format also makes the overall project feel more like a course than a conventional self-help title. There is a defined progression, practical application, and an expectation that improvement will come through active participation. Readers are given responsibility for the work while receiving clear guidance throughout the process.

About the Author

Harold’s connection to the subject began during an interview. He had prepared his answers, yet the information vanished once he was asked to respond. The experience prompted him to examine why preparation sometimes breaks down at crucial moments.

That question developed into a decade of study. In 2014, reading Moonwalking with Einstein changed his understanding of memory by showing him that it could be trained systematically. The discovery helped shape the ideas that eventually became UNTAUGHT.

Harold has experience in marketing strategy, consulting, copywriting, public relations, advertising, and content creation. He has written for brands, training rooms, and audiences in Ghana and elsewhere. He also works in a hospital Health Information Management department, an environment where accurate information and careful recall have practical consequences.

Based in Tema, Ghana, he writes about memory, mindset, business, and faith. His personal experience helps the book retain a warm, credible tone.

A Skill Worth Developing

UNTAUGHT presents memory as an ability that can grow through structured training. Its gradual system makes the subject approachable while maintaining a serious focus on measurable performance.

Available through Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions, the book offers students, professionals, and speakers a practical place to begin. For readers tired of forgetting at critical moments, Harold provides a clear route toward discovering what a trained memory can do.

We had the privilege of interviewing the author. Here are excerpts from the interview:

Thank you so much for joining us today! Please introduce yourself and tell us what you do.

My name is Harold Affram. I’m a writer based in Tema, Ghana. By day, I work in a hospital’s Health Information Management department — a strange place to end up, if you know what my book is about, since it’s a job surrounded by the cost of forgetting things that actually matter. By calling, I write about memory, mindset, and the systems that let ordinary people perform when it counts. UNTAUGHT is my first book, and it grew directly out of something that happened to me, not something I studied from the outside.

Please tell us about you journey.

Years ago, I sat across from an interviewer with every answer fully prepared. Then the question came, and where all that preparation used to be, there was just silence. Not a blurry answer — nothing at all. I walked out of that room certain something was wrong with me.

It wasn’t. What was missing wasn’t knowledge. It was training. In 2014, I came across a book called Moonwalking with Einstein, and it changed everything I thought I knew about memory. It wasn’t a gift some people had and others didn’t. It was something you could train, the same way any skill can be trained, if someone actually teaches you how.

That discovery stayed with me for years before it became a book. I kept coming back to the same question: why does school teach us everything except the one skill every single subject depends on? UNTAUGHT is my answer to that — a four-level system that trains memory the way an athlete trains one specific move, built for the student, the professional, and the speaker who’ve all felt some version of that same silence I did.

What are the strategies that helped you become successful in your journey?

The biggest one was refusing to accept “some people just have good memories” as an answer. Once I saw memory as something you can train, everything changed — even how I went about writing this book.

One small strategy I still use today, and it’s in the book: whenever I need to hold onto something quickly, I turn it into one vivid, slightly strange picture instead of trying to remember the words. Your brain holds onto a strange picture far longer than it holds onto a sentence. It sounds almost too simple, but it’s the seed the whole system grows from.

The other strategy was patience. I still have a full-time job outside writing, so this book was built in small, steady sessions around everything else — not in some perfect stretch of free time that never actually shows up.

Any message for our readers?

If you’ve ever walked out of a room certain you’d let yourself down — an exam, an interview, a moment you’d prepared for — I want you to know that wasn’t a verdict on your ability. It was just a gap in your training, and gaps like that can close. You were never incapable. You were simply UNTAUGHT.

Thank you so much, Harold Affram, for giving us your precious time! We wish you all the best for your journey ahead!