The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

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you can break down pretty much any word to it's phonetic components (i.e. silent letters aren't used, etc), and with this system you can convert pretty much any word into a number quite easily (components -> 7392210). Converting a number into a word is a little bit harder and it's a bit like playing a word game ("hmm, what's a word that I can turn 33 into with two m's and no other consonants... oh, how about 'Mom'"). I don't think the mnemonics for these are particularly good but there's only ten of them so memorizing them isn't that hard with some practice. Being good at memorizing numbers ends up just being an exercise in finding cute words from the consonants and then linking them together. Example if you want to remember, mouse, aeroplane, chair. Visualize a mouse flying over an aeroplane. And a chair dropping out of aeroplane. As you are forcing your mind to think more about the relations, it memorized the relations. (You are being more mindful here, the author even sorts every word wrt the alphabets, results: more mindful and hence a better memory) They had evidently been told thousands of times that there are real geniuses and figured I must be one of them.

A judge saw chalk (as the murder weapon), a chef on a ship (as the prime suspect) with a case (as the motive). (66-70) The rest of the book: In general you can probably notice a pattern that you can pretty much apply these ideas to anything that you find a consistent and creative way to convert into numbers. You can memorize locations, for example, by creating a simple 2D grid and memorize the location on this grid (good for something like the periodic table, or locations of towns, or something). Anything you can encode into numbers you can easily memorize (end of world war II was 09/02/1945 which just becomes 09021945 which you know how to memorize already). I'm still in the middle of the book, but I am truly invested into trying everything so that I can improve. The book is great becuase it provides little exercises to help you see immediate progress. You want to know my grocery list from TWO WEEKS ago? I decided to venture out to the store with no list in hand just to try myself out:I am fine, how is your day going? (At least 60 students staring at me, this is very nice but embarrassing) Link system tells you to link all the things you want to remember using a weird relation. (Not all of them at once, but as a linked list). And this works! It was embarrassing when the other students asked me how I thought I did on a test we had all taken. I always knew for sure that I got every answer completely correct and accurate in every way. I would just say, I did alright and I usually got the highest grade in the class on the test. Oh, there’s Joe's room, he has his little green Greek book open and is in deep study. Let’s see, it is 5:00 P.M. I think I’ll go to the music room and practice the piano. Come on in Mr. Young be seated. I have been a teacher for twenty-five years and no one has ever gotten a 100% on my "essay" final exam.

imo you should create your own list of words for these instead of relying on the books', and if you want to break from the major system pattern that's perfectly fine so long as you end up being able to remember it easily. You can memorize any information, so long as that information is associated with other information that you already know. Eventually, in my master’s degree study, I was able to “stop using” the secrets in the memory book. I found, I still easily got 100% on my final exams. It got so I could just set in the class and automatically remember every single detail of the professor’s lectures. I got so I could read a book and remember everything I read after one reading. Reminders - Put something extremely out of place and link that thing to what you want to remember, and when you see that again and think "why is this so out of place" you'll remember what you are trying to remember.He is slowly bowing his head and just standing there with his head bowed. I wonder how long he is going to keep his head bowed. Now he is slowly raising his head and looking into my eyes with that big chaser cat smile. How are you doing Scholar Young?