Preface: In the Eye of the "Be Older"
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Chap. 1. Pavlov's Dogs: How memory training works
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Chap. 2. Memory Through History: Historic techniques that still work
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Chap. 3. From Absent- to Present-Minded: You cannot remember if you don't know.
"I'm writing at my desk. I'm interrupted, the telephone rings, someone calls me with an emergency, or maybe I just need to get a drink of water, and then, "Where the hell is my pencil?"I want to use that same pencil. It takes me...... Every time I'm interrupted and I slide my pencil behind my ear, instead of just doing it without thinking, I force myself to see a mental image. I actually see the pencil going not behind my ear (that would be too mundane and habitual) but into my ear, point first. I can almost feel the pain. I have forced my mind to be "originally aware", to be present at that instant. I have trapped a fleeting thought! So later, when I need my pencil, I remember exactly where it is."
"As you drop your keys into the flowerpot, form a mental image of the two vital entities, the keys and the place where you're putting them. Make it a silly or impossible image. Example: "See" a gigantic key growing in a flowerpot. Perhaps you're watering it to make it grow. It's all one quick picture, thought, or visualization, call it a connection or association, and you've just brought the Reminder Principle into play."
"Later, when you're back in the room and you need those eye-glasses, you'll think of them. Needing them means thinking of them, you have no choice. And, i you made that silly mental picture, the Reminder Principle assures that when you think "eye-glasses" you can't help but see them performing on television, or whatever image you have selected. No pause; you walk to the television set, pick up your glasses, and get right back to work."
"For example, say you want to save a special pen for your grandchild, so you hide it under a pile of underwear in your top dresser drawer. As you do, form that connection or association between the two things, pen and underwear. Easy enough. "See" lots of ink squirting out of that pen and soaking, ruining, all of your underwear. Each time you think of the special pen, that silly picture will come to mind, until you simply know where that pen is hidden. It becomes knowledge."
"When you lock your door and you want to remember that you did, see yourself inserting your head or your tongue into the keyhole! Silly? It sure is....."
Chap. 4. Oh, Pair: Start remembering by association
book/tree
typewriter/dog
lamp/scissors
eyeglasses/tv set
car/dollar bill
hat/bird
telephone/pen
picture frame/playing card
fish/bottle
paper clip/singing
Chap. 5. The Link System: Controlling where your thoughts lead
airplane/wristwatch
wristwatch/pill
pill/insect
insect/wallet
wallet/bathtub
bathtub/shoe
Every Good Boy Does Fine, EGBDF, the lines on the music staff
spelling of the word, believe, Never beLIEve a LIE
spelling of the word, piece, a PIEce of PIE
Aubrey/Audrey
Frances/Francis
stationery/stationary, stationEry=lEtter, stationAry, stAnding
desert=sand, one n, dessert comes after dinner, double n.
HOMES, Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior, in size order, On Each Hill Man Stands, Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, Superior.
I also formed a picture in my mind of Mt. Fujiyama made up of millions of calendars (12 months, 354 days) so that I could always know that the height of Fujiyama is 12,354 feet.
Chap. 6. 20 Percent Interest: The importance of interest and curiosity
Does a reader know that the number 6 on his wristwatch dial the Arabic six or the Roman numeral six?
Chap. 7. Better, Not Older: Discovering your staying/graying power
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Chap. 8. Silver Plate: Foolproof ways to remember words and meaning
s'il vous plait, silver plate
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, Bubble, bubble, toilet trouble.
Lead us not into Penn Station.
combien, comb Ben
Amajues, Portugal word, clams, What a mesh you is.
endocarp, visualising himself hitting a fish, a carp, with a gigantic peach pit.
cantankerous, visualising a large tin can driving a tank and making lots of errors. Can tank errors.
resupinate, There was a bowl of alphabet soup on the floor behind me, I bent backward all the way until I could read the soup, and then I ate it. Read soup and ate as I bent backward.
capricious, cap riches, Visualising a gigantic cap that's full of riches, cash, jewelry, etc. The cap is handing out the riches (or I'm doing it out of the cap) to different people, then taking it back to give to other people, changing my mind, being fickie.
anchorite, Visualising anchor that's writing as a hermit, perhaps with long hair and a beard, sitting all alone, whatever the word hermit brings to your mind, Anchor write --> hermit.
omphalos, Visualising my arm fall loose. The arm fell right into my belly button.
factotum, Visualising a handyman (whatever picture that brings to your mind, perhaps a person in overalls, holding tools) writing facts on a totem pole. (Fact toe ten would also do.)
castigate, Visualising someone casting a gate and being scolded for it, punished or criticized.
saturnine, You sat on a gigantic number nine and you're very sad and gloomy about it or the nine is gloomy because you're sitting on it.
rapacity, Visualising rapping a miniature city (rap a city) and you do it harder and harder because you're greedy. A rapper sitting on a large E would also do, rapper sit E.
sycophant, A gigantic ant is flattering you so much that you get sick of that ant: sick of ant.
peduncle, Visualising paying your uncle (paid uncle) with a handful of flower stalks instead of money.
litany, You lit (burned) your knee (lit a knee) and you're praying over the flame. (That's right, I don't care how silly you get, the sillier, the better)
fealty, You're feeling a gigantic cup of tea. You're asked to feel other things, but you won't, because you're loyal to the tea.
execrate, You're stuffing millions of eggs into a crate and you hate doing it. You detest the eggs. Get as much action into your picture as you can; you might see the eggs breaking and getting all over you.
reminiscent, You're ramming a gigantic cent (rammin' a cent) and you're reminded of having done the same thing in the past.
Chap. 9. Très Facile Vocabulary Power: Moving on to foreign-language vocabulary
singhakom, a Thai word for the month of August, Visualising a gigantic comb singing, a singer comb, (or sing ha comb) and then saw a strong gust (of wind) blowing it away. There are two entities: the reminder of the pronunciation (sing ha comb) and the reminder of the meaning (gust for August). You can get as specific as you like in your mental picture. For this one you might visualise yourself saying, "Aw" as the gust blow away the singer comb.
psalidi, the Greek word for scissors, Visualising a gigantic pair of scissors passing a lady: pass a lady
(The author does not write about how to memorise the gender of a word, which proves that the author's intention of learning vocab. is purely entertaining purpose.)
byxor, a Swedish word for trousers, Visualising a big sore on a pair of pants. You can see it bleeding, if you like.
slips, a Sweish word for necktie, Someone sleeps on your gigantic necktie. It's all so obvious. And, yes, my luggage was lost once on a trip to Sweden and I had to do some emergency shopping, so I had to learn/know/remember the words above.
pample-mousse, a Fr. word for grapefruit, Visualising many large pimple on a moose (pimple poose) and each pimple is really a greafruit.
bouchon, a Fr. word for cork, push on or brush on, Visualising yourself pushing a gigantic cork, or you're saying "boo" to a gigantic cork because it is shining a light on you; boo shone, cork.
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Chap. 10. What's in a Name?: It pay$ to remember names. Here's how.
rule 1: Be sure to hear the name.
rule 2: try to spell the name.
rule 3: make a remakr about the name.
rule 4: use the name during your initial conversation.
rule 5: say the name when you say goodbye.
Pukczyva, pronounced puck-shiv-a, puck shiver
Smolenski, small lens skiing.
Petrocelli, pet row jelly
Bentavagnia, bent (weather) vane
Van Nuys, van noise
Carrasquillo, car S ski O (or oh), or car ass ski O
Morales, more or less, or more Alice
Jeffries, chef freeze/frames
Cherofsky, sheriff ski, or chair off ski
Ponchatrain, punch a train
Cusack, cue sack
McKenzie, me can see, Mack N Z
Dimitriades, the meat tree ate E's.
names that already have meaning, Brown, Taylor, Hart, Barnes, Hightower, Green, River(s), Freed, Lowe, Marsh, Piper, Plummer, Bloom, Sachs, Field(s), Gates, Bell, Galzer, Banks, Coffey, Holmes, Butler, Forrest, Knott, Baker, Cunningham, Gorman, Dewey, Katz, Pierce, Brooks, Klinger
Kolamecko, collar make O
Aldrich, old and rich
Marquardt, Ma quart, mark what?
Baldwin, bald one, bald win
Baxter, back stir, back stair
Anderson, hand and son, and her son
Evans, heavens, vans
Weber, web air, web bar
Talmadge, tall midget, tall Madge
Shapiro, shape pear (O), chopper row
Thompson, thump son, time son
Slocum, slow comb
Webster, web stir dictionary
Williams, will yams
Krakauer, crack hour (clock)
Tropeano, throw piano
Antesiewicz, anti savage
Halperin, help her in
Abramson, ram son
Falnagan, fan again
Michaels, mike calls, Mike kills
Kessler, cast law, kiss law
McLeod, my cloud, Mack cloud
Leonard, lean hard
Kennedy, can a day can of Ds
Patterson, pat a son, batter son
Reynolds, rain holds, wren old
Rigney, rig knee
Nixon, nicks on
Rafferty, rap for tea
Try some of your own
Padgett
Nussbaum
Abbott
Alexander
Cooper
Wellington
Simon
Bennett
Carson
Fleming
Crandall
Richards
Birnbaum
Allen
Malone
Lafferty
Mitchell
Monroe
Brewster
Frazer
Garrison
Bill, a dollar bill
Mary, a wedding
George, jaws or gorge
Harry, hairy or hurry
Sylvia, silver
William, will yam
Bernard, burn hard
Tricia, tree share
James, aims
Tom, Thomas, tom-tom drums, a tom cat
Charles, quarrels
Susan, suses Ann, sues ant
Phillip, full lip
Tony, toe knee
Robert, robber
Howard, coward
Jim, gym
Jack, car jack
Anita, an eater or anteater
Mike, microphone
Bernice, burn knees
Allen, alley, a lens
Chap. 11. Let's Face It" Never forget a face, even years later.
It can be anything: high forehead, low forehead, creases in the forehead, hairline, bald head, thin eyebrows, thick eyebrows, arched eyebrows, close-set eyes, wide-set eyes, big or small ears, outstanding ears, large earlobes, big nose, full cheeks, sunken cheeks, wide mouth, mustache, beard, thin lips, thick or full lips, large or small chin, cleft in chin, wrinkles, warts, pimples, dimples, anything. What you select may not be what someone else would select as the outstanding feature, but that doesn't matter. It's what outstanding to you that matters.
When I'm teaching this at a corporate seminar I sometimes ask the people to look at my face and shoot out the outstanding feature. I hear as many as six or seven different ones, and that's okay; that's as it should be. (It's usually the lines on my forehead. We used to call them "worry" lines; now they're "character' lines!)
What's important is that, to decide on the outstanding feature, you have to do what 99 percent of us don't habitually do: that is, loook, really look, at that face!….
Now you've just learned the second of the three steps, so let's review: Step 1: Form a Substitute Word or Thought for the name. Step 2: Select an outstanding feature of the face.(omitted) Step 3 is simply to connect Step 1 and 2.
I've used Mr. Bentavagnia as an example before. He seems to lock in the idea for people just learning it, so I'll use him again now. You've just been introduced to Mr. Bentavagnia. You listen to the name and apply Step 1, thinking of a bent (weather) vane. Then you move on to Step 2 and look at Mr. Bentavagnia's face. You see a large, bulbous nose, which you immediately select as the oustanding facial feature. Finally, you connect the two things via the use of a silly, ridiculous mental picture, as you've already learned to do. As you shake heads w/ Mr. Bentavagnia, and as you're looking at his face, see a bent vane on his face instead of a nose.
You can practice this by assining made-up names to pictures of faces in newpapers and magazines. Apply the system you've just learned to a few picture, then go back and see if you know/remember those names.
Big Nose = Bentavagnia.
Ms. Ponchatrane. Punch a train. Her large ears are the outstanding facial feature. Trains coming out of those ears and you punch one of them. Large Ears = Ponchatrane.
Mr. Pukczyva has an obvious cleft in his chin. To see many hocky pucks flying out of that cleft and they're icy and shivering, puck shiver. To see the pucks tearing the cleft apart.
Mr. Robrum has very bushy eyebrows. To see a bottle of rum over each eye instead of eyebrows, and you "rob" them. Bushy eyebrows = Robrum.
Mr. Cohen has deep creases from his nostrils to the corners of his mouth. You've selected those creases as the outstanding facial feature. Really see dripping ice-cream cones coming out of those creases. Facial creases = Cohen.
Mr. Fleming's face. His large mustache. To see it burning, flaming. Mustache = Fleming.
Ms. Cantrowitz. A large wart at the corner of her mouth. See brain (wits) coming out of that wart; To throw away those wits, but you can't. Can't throw wits = Cantrowitz.
Mr. Smith. A blacksmith's hammer and to connect it to his obvious thick lips. To see the blacksmith's hammer hammering those lips, which is what's making them so thick. Thick lips = Smith.
Katzenberger-Boyd. Cats eating a burger and giving some to a bird.
Mr. Kirschenberg. Very high forehead. To see an iceberg coming out of that forehead, or an iceberg instead of a forehead, and you're cursing it. Cursin' berg = Kirschenberg.
Chap. 12. I See Numbers!: Remembering numbers in a brand-new way.
014727132639092112
A stark naked man jumps up and down.
1=t, The typewritten t has one downstroke, or a horizontal 1 on top of a vertial 1 forms a t.
2=n, The typewritten lower-case n has two downstrokes.
3=m, The typewritten lower-case m has three downstrokes. Or, think of the 3M corporation; or if you stand a lower-case m on its side it becomes a 3.
4=r, Stress the final sound of four. Or, look at a capital letter R: using a bit of imagination, can you see a golfer about to drive? And, what does he shout as he is about to ake his swing?
5=l, The roman numeral L is 50. Or, hold up your open left hand, fingers together, thumb extended to the right, as if signaling stop, and you're forming a capital letter L w/ your five fingers.
6=j (and also sh, ch, soft g)
The digit 6 and the capital letter J are almost mirror images.
7=k (as well as hard c, soft g)
You can form a capital letter K w/ two 7s, one right side up, the other upsdie down.
8=f (and v, ph), An 9 and a small handwritten script f each have one loop above the other. Put a tail b/w/ the two loops of the 8 and it looks like the handwritten small f.
9=p (also b), The 9 and P are just about mirror images.
0=s (as well as soft c, z), Think of the first sound in the word zero or the first sound in the word cipher.
a STaRK NaKeD MaN juMPS uP aND DowN, 0147 271 32 6390 9 21 12.
Mary had a little lamb, 34151553 a pretty girl is like a melody, 941745057351
147 275 952 127, Truck, Knuckle or uncle or ankle, Linking truck to nickel, 952, balloon, to make nickel remind you of balloon, 127, dunk or think or dank or tang or tunic, to make balloon remind you of tank, Millions of balloons are flying out of a tank, you're blowing up a tank instead of a balloon, hundreds of balloons are lifting a tank into the air, whatever. See the picture you select.
Truck nickel balloon tank = 147 275 952 127
285 949 524 016 952 071 151 911 96
perfume, telephone, blotter, carton, to link perfume to telephone to blotter to carton.
948 315 829 514 7412
bear, medal, fan, belt, rock, rotten.
994 614 757 954
You can start you link w/ paper or piper.
4210 5214 6127 9071
Rents can start your link.
522 641 639 527
Linen is a good start.
9427 9205 5210 7412
Bring, praying, boring, pouring, and brink are all good starts.
Chap. 13. Peg(s) O' My Heart: Handling more challenging numbers as never before.
Peg words.
#1. tie.
#2. Noah.
#3. Ma.
#4. rye.
#5. law.
#6. shoe.
#7. cow.
#8. ivy.
#9. bee.
#10. toes.
To remember #5 is fork. See either a gigantic fork in a cop's uniform, walking his beat (upholding the law), or a judge banging a gigantic fork instead of a gavel. Be sure to see the silly picture.
#8 is pen. Millions of pens are growing on a brick wall instead of ivy or you're writing on a wall of ivy w/ a gigantic pen. See ink dripping all over the ivy. Select one of these pictures or one you think of yourself, and see it in your mind's eye.
#1 is pillow. You might see yourself wearing a large pillow instead of a tie. Or a large pillow is wearing a tie, or your head is resting on many neckties instead of on a pillow.
#6 is computer. You're wearing computers on your feet instead of shoes; a large computer is wearing shoes and walking; a gigantic shoe is typing at the computer. Use one of these silly picture and see it.
#9 is scissors. See many scissors buzzing around you and stinging you like bees. Or, millions of bees are attacking you and you're cutting those beeds in half w/ a gigantic pair of scissors.
#3 is flower. You might see a gigantic flower holding a baby, it's a Ma. Or, your mother is a gigantic flower, or your mother is holding a gigantic flower b/w/ her teeth, or she is growing in a garden like a flower. There are so many ways to go; all you need to do is visualise one ridiculous picture.
#10 is DVD. There's a DVD b/w/ all your toes; or each toe is a DVD, or you're placing a gigantic toe into your DVD player. See that picture.
#4 is car. See a gigantic bottle of rye whisky driving a car, or a car is drinking rye whiskey, or each wheel of a car is a bottle of rye whiskey. Or, use rye bread instead of the bottle of rye. Whichever you're using, see the picture.
#7 is egg. Imagine yourself milking a gigantic egg instead of a cow, or you're milking a cow and many eggs come out instead of milk, etc. See that picture.
#2 is Benadryl. I'm using this on purpose to show you that now you can remember an abstract thing because you know the Substitue Word technique. For this you might see an old man w/ a white bread (or whatever you're seeing to repesent Noah) bending a drill, bend a drill, Benadryl. Or, bent drills are boarding the ark two by two. Be sure to see this last picture in your mind. If you think you need a quick review, do so.
#6, computer, might be your reminder to buy a new mouse for your home computer. #2, Benadryl, could be your reminder to pick up your prescription. #7, egg, might be your reminder to pick up a dozen eggs, so forth.
#11, tide
#12, tin
#13, tomb
#14, tire
#15, tail
#16, dish
#17, dog
#18, dove
#19, tub
#20, nose
When you hear or see 14, you'll immediately see a tire in your mind, not the word, tire. So, if you think you'll use Peg Words up to 100, learn those listed, or make up your own words, so long as they fit the Phonetic Alphabet and don't confuse w/ any of the other words. For example, can would be fine for 72, except if you're using a tin can for #12.
Chap. 14. Use It or Loose It: Remember shopping lists, errands, appointments, and more
For #1, I'd like you to remember church. Form a ridiculous mental picture of tie and church. Perhaps, millions of neckties sitting in church, or you're wearing a church instead of a tie.
#2 is bear. Associate/connect Noah and bear. You might see many bears boarding the ark two by two. Or, a lare bear has a long white beard. Select one of these pictures, or one your thought of yourself, and see it in your mind.
#3 is soldier. Your ma is a soldier; see her marching or whatever comes to mind that a soldier does. I'm going to stop saying "See that picture" each time. I think you know that that's of utmost importance. If you don't "see" it there's no guarantee that it will come back to you.
#4 is search. You're searching for a bottle of rye whiskey or a loaf of rye bread. That could be too logical a picture, so be sure to make it ridiculous in some way. Finding millions of the item would do it for me.
#5 is ledge. You might see a cop (law) walking the beat on a high ledge, or a judge is on a high ledge banging his gavel.
Remember that when you have the time, it's not a bad idea to review. At this point, say the first five Peg Words to yourself and see if the item jumps to mind. That's the quick review.
#6 is speed. You can visualise a gigantic shoe moving at high speed. Remember that these are the silly pictures that come to my mind. Use whatever comes to yours.
#7 is jury. These are cows sitting in all the seats of the jury box.
#8 is bale. Visualise a bale of ivy, or bales of hay are climing up a wall like ivy
#9 is people. Millions of bees are stinging many people, or people are buzzing around like bees.
#10 is power. You can use lightning to represent power. If so, you can see lightning bolts shooting out from between your toes, or striking your toes. Or, mentally connect power drills to your toes.
The Bill of Rights
1. Church. To remind you of freedom of religion, press, speech. Obviously you could have used press or speech as your reminder.
2. Bear. To remind you of the right to bear arms. Different meaning, of course, but the reminder is there.
3. Soldier. To remind you of freedom from quartering soldiers. Quarter would also remind you of the amendment. Remember that you can put more than one thought into any mental picture. In this case, Ma to Soldier is fine, but you can get quarter into the same picture. (You ma is a quarter and marching or fighting like a soldier.)
4. Search. To remind you of the guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure. In my own original picture, I searched for the rye and seized it when I found it.
5. Ledge. I took some liberty here. I wanted to be reminded of previledge, which reminds me of previledge against self-incrimination. If you were doing this on your own, you might have chosen to see a cop arresting you (law), or you'd be in front of a jedge pleading the fifth.
6. Speed. To remind you of the right to a speedy trial.
7. Jury. To remind you of the right to trial by jury.
8. Bale. To remind you of excessive bail and ruel and unusual punishment prohibited. Again, two different bales, but still a reminder. A picture of gigantic ivy punishing someone would also have worked.
9. People. To remind you of people's right retained. You could have inserted rights (a prizefighter throwing rights) or retained.
10. Power. To remind of residual powers rever to the states.
All right, you've associated milk to yourself and now you need milk to remind you of bread. Perhaps a slice of bread is drinking milk; that's ridiculous. Or, you're pouring slices of bread out of a milk container. Next, you need dog food. Make bread remind you of that. Visualise walking a larege slice of bread instead of a dog (the bread is doing what a dog does when you walk it). Then make dog remind you of oranges; you're walking a gigantic orange like a dog, or a dog is peeling and eating a large orange. Your next picture might be you, peeling an orange and there's a head of lettuce inside. If you fele you need a better reminder for lettuce, use let us. And so on. You can makes the Link as long as necessary. Since each "image" is a separate one, the number of items doesn't matter; one leads you to the next.
Chap. 15. Real "E State": You can remember state capitals easily
01. (tie) Alabama/Montomery. Alley bum, or album; General Montgomery (the beret he always wore), or mount gum airy.
02. (Noah) Alaska/Juneau - I'll ask her, or baked Alaska; d'you know? Or June, oh.
03. (ma) Arizona/Phoenix. Air zone. Fee nix. or Phoenix rising.
04. (rye) Arkansas/Little Rock. Ark and saw. Ark can saw. Ark Ann Saw. Little rock.
05. (law) California/Sacramento. Call a fawn (yeah); scarament or sack men toe.
06. (shoe) Colorado/Denver. Color a doe (or toe); den where?
07. (cow) Conneticut/Hartford. Connect a cut; hard Ford or hard fought.
08. (ivy) Delaware/Dover. Della wear, tell her where. dough for, dove.
09. (bee) Florida/Tallahassee. Flower there. Tall lass see.
10. (toes) Georgia/Atlanta. George, gorgoues. Hat lander.
11. (tide) Hawaii/Honolulu. How are ya', ha why E; honor Lulu.
12. (tin) Idaho/Boise. Ida hoe, potato;boy see, noisy.
13. (tomb) Illinois/Springfield. ill noise; spring field.
14. (tire) Indiana/Indianapolis. Indian;indian nap (pole is)
15. (tail) Iowa/Des Moines. I ower her; the mine, day mine.
16. (dish) Kansas/Topeka. Cans ass; can sass. Toe peekr, the peeker.
17. (dog) Kentucky/Frankfort. Can't talk. Ken tuck E; frankfurter.
18. (dove) Louisiana. Baton Rouge. Louise see Anna. Baton rouge (red).
19. (tub) Maine/Augusta. (horse's) mane; gust (of wind); august.
20. (nose) Maryland/Annapolis. Mary land;an apple is.
21. (net) Massachusetts/Boston. Mass chew sits; boss ton.
22. (nun) Michigan/Lansing. mix again; land sing.
23. (name) Minnesota/Saint Paul. Mini soda;t'aint Paul (or pull), Sand Paul.
24. (Nero) Mississipi/Jackson. Mrs. sip.; jack son.
25. (nail) Missouri/Jefferson City. misery, mis airy; d'ya have a son, chef a son.
26. (notch) Montana/Helena. man tan her; Helen, hell and her.
27. (neck) Nebraska/Lincoln. new brass car; Lincoln penny (or car), link on.
28. (knife) Nevada/Carson City. never there; car son (city - see tea, sit E)
29. (knob) New Hampshire/Concord. new hemp (or ham) sheer; con (prisoner) cord.
30. (mouse) New Jersey/Trenton. new jersey (cow); train ton.
31. (mat) New Mexico/Santa Fe. new sombrero, new mix a coat; Santa (fee)
32. (moon) New York/Albany. new cork; all bend knee; all ban E.
33. (mummy) North Carolina/Raleigh. I use "wind" to remind of "North"; wind carry liner; raw lea, roll E
34. (mower) North Dakota/Bismarck. (wind) decoder, the coat; bees mark
35. (mule) Ohio/Columbus. oh, hi O, high O; Christopher, call him boss.
36. (match) Oklahoma/Oklahoma City. Ok homer; OK homer, see tea.
37. (mug) Oregon/Salem. ore gone; sail M, sale ham.
38. (movie) Pennsylvania/Harrisburg. pen sill vein; hair is berg; Harry's berg.
39. (mop) Rhode Island/Providence. rode island; prove dance; provide Ns.
40. (rose) South Carolina/Columbia. sows carry liner; column bee.
41. (rod) South Dakota/Pierre. sows decoder, sow the coat; pier.
42. (rain) Tenneessee/Nashville. Ten I see, tennis E; gnash villa.
43. (ram) Texas/Austin. taxes; awes tin.
44. (rower) Utah/Salt Lake City. you tar, ewe tar; salt lake (see tea).
45. (roll) Vermont/Montpelier. vermind; mount peeler.
46. (roach) Virgina/Richmond. virgin, where gin; rich man, rich mount.
47. (rock) Washington/Olympia. washing ton; oh limp (pier)
48. (roof) West Virginia/Charleston. vest virgin; the dance, Charles ton.
49. (rope) Wisconsin/Madison. wise con sin; mad at son, medicine.
50. (lace) Wyoming/Cheynne. Y roaming; shy Ann.
Chap. 16. Important Numbers: Cultivating your "Imaginuity."
In the early 1960s telephone numbers included exchange names such as OXford, STerling, ESplanade, PEnnsylvania, BUtterfield, and RHeingold. You dailed the first two letters of the exchange, then five digits, as in BU 8-1234.
I'm sure you've seen the ads for 1-800-DIVORCE, and the like.
Mr. Walker's number, 746-9021. To see anyone walking, and you crash (746) into a peasant (9021), or perhaps poiosned came to mind. And, if you have to, if the number is told to you quickly, use your up-to-99 Peg Words.
Mr. Walker's area code, 314. Add motor or meter to your mental image.
Butter or batter for 914. Mats, moats, or meta for 310. No tune, not me, or need him for 213. Church or George/Georgia for 646. Buttock or paddock for 917. Indian, antenna, or nothing for 212. Latch for 516 . Nest for 201. Pest for 901. Bottoms for 913. Mask for 307. Miser for 304. Retire, rotor or reader 414. rotten for 412.
Dr. Ame's number, 715-410-2009. To see yourself aiming (Ames) a stethoscope (doctor) at cattle (715; or you could use cuddle). Connect that to rats and noses up (all the rats put their noses up), or to nice sip or news soap.
An electrician's number, 862-9421. To see an electric plug fishing (862) and drinking brandy (9421) or to visualise fashion brand.
Miss Ross's extension, 116. Associte either to touch, to attach, dotage, or tot itch to roars or rose.
Mr. Leventhal's extension, 101. Connect test or toast to eleven tall, leaving tall, or vent tall.
Mr. Byrne's intercome 121. Associate burns to tent.
The shipping department's extension, 712. Visualise lots of cotton being shipped.
Most Manhattan, NYC zip codes start w/ 100.
Mr. Knapp's address is 946 West 95th Str., NYC 10025. You're napping (Knapp; if you want to remember his first name, Bill, a gigantic bill is napping) on a porch (946) wearing a 10-gallon hat (my standard picture for 'west'; you can use vest or best. I use yeast or beast to represent east). The hat is made of new cork (New York, or use the Empire State Building). The cork is ringing a large bell (95th Str.) as that bell tosses a nail (10025;or use disease nail). You can visualise this in a second, certainly in less time than it took me to write it all out.
30264, mason chair, mouse nature.
07450, score lass, scare less, squirrels.
90715, basket low, pass castle.
10014, tosses tire, dozen there, ties stare.
11978, tote up coffee, tot pick off.
10016, teases dish.
90402, pass raisin, buys raisin.
10128, taste knife.
95742, black rain, plaque run.
30374, mouse maker.
89014, ivy paster (or poster, pastor).
Toaster, $49.15. Connect toaster to reptile (perhaps you're toasing reptiles, or a toaster is slithering around like a snake). Obviously, you know that the toaster you're interested in doesn't cost 4,915.00. So reptile can only mean 49.15. But, in circumstances where you do want to "break it down",, use a different word or phrase to tell you the dollars in front of the demical point and another word for the amount, the cents, after the decimal point. For $49.15, rope tail ro rob towel would do it. Be sure to see the picture of toaster to reptile.
Camera, $315.95. You're entering a gigantic camera, it's a motel(315), or you're taking many pictures of metal as a bell (95) rings. Use whatever you think of, but see the picture.
Chair, $147.10. Chair to targets or to trick toes, truck toes. Select one, and see it clearly.
Car, $18,995.00. A dove is driving a car and teaching a pupil (to drive). You could use dive pupil, tough pupil, dove babble.
Lamp, $71.50. Lamp to cute lass or cutlass. Form your mental image and really see it.
Cell phone, $59.50. Cell phone to lapels, labels, lip lass, lap lace. Select one and make your association.
Pen, $21.75. Pen to nautical or neat coal.
Computer, $1,750,00. Computer to tickles, tackles, talk less, tie calls.
To make up a word to represent the dollars, a word whose last consonant sound tells you the eights. Simply change all fractions to eights: ¼ is two eights, ½ is four eights, ¾ is six eights. Then connect your word/picture to the names of the stock.
For a stock selling at 49 ½, you might use roper. The last consonant sound tlles you "four eights", the rp of rope tells you the dollars, 49. Now, if you're wondering why roper won't remind you of 494 (no fraction) for the associated stock, you really shouldn't be buying and selling stocks. You certainly shouldn't be buying and selling stocks. You certainly should know if you paid in the $49 range or the $494 range for a stock. And if a stock is 494 ½, you could use repairer. Do you see why?
So, racket will represent, remind you, 471/8; friar 84 ½ (four eights). To associate the price word or phrase to your representative picture of the stock; telephone for AT&T. Mack rorar E for McCrory Corporation. Polar herd for Polaroid. A mini soda for Minnestoa Mining. A car saluting a general for General Motors.
A single mental image of a Mack truck roaring at an E (or an eel) that's squatting on a melon would remind you that McCrory is selling at 35 ¼ (melon = 35 and two eights).
To use a word that sound like the letter.
A, ape, hay
B, bean, beet
C, sea
D, dean, deal
E, eel, eek (scream)
F, effort, half
G, gee, jeans
H, age, itch, ache
I, eye, i
J, jay walking, jake, jail
K, cake, cane, key
L, elf, el(elevated) train, hell
M, hem, ham, emperor
N, hen, enema
O, old, eau(water), owe
P, pea, peek
Q, cue (stick), queue
R, hour, art, argue, aardvark
S, S curve, ass, escape
T, tea, tee, T-square
U, ewe, you, eunuch
V, veal, V for victory
W, waterloo, trouble you
X, eggs, X-ray
Y, wine, wild
Z, zebra
Chap. 17. Send Me a Telegram: Memorise the Morse code easily--it's fun!
Chap. 18. Stock Market Symbols: Triumph over the ticker.
The symbol for Boeing is BA. SEe someone bowing (either bending at the waist or using a bow and arrow!) as beans (B) are being thrown at him by an ape (A). There are always choices, you can visualise someone bowing as he receives his BA degrees, or bowing as someone says, "Bah.". If you were really trying to remember these things, you'd automatically lock in the first image that comes to mind.
The symbol for Marion Labs is MKC. I'd see a dres (hem, M) marryin' in a laboratory. It holds a wedding cake (K) and throws it into the sea ©. If you can visualise a girl named Marion, that will do, too, as will dogs (Labradors) for Labs.
Shaw Industries is SHX. You might imagine millions eggs (X) coming up on a shore and you "Sh" them (sh eggs) for SHX. An ass (S) scratching an itch (H) w/ an exit (X) sign would also do, as would "shucks,' if that came to mind.
Polaroid is PRD. Prod a camera, or prod a polar bear; or you can associate pea, hour, dean to camera or polar bear. (A million peas fly out of a clock and hit a dean; you take a picture of ti w/ your Polaroid camera.)
Philip Morris, Inc. is MO. Your ma (or Moe, the diminutive for Morris) is throwing a dress (hem/M) into water (eau/O). If you think it's necessary, get full lip or fill lip (Philip) into your silly picture.
Polymer Corporation is PLM. To see a polly (parrot) being a ma (polly ma = Polymer) to a plum (PLM) would do it, as would a silly picture of polly ma to pea hell hem.
Borden, Inc. is BN. You bought a den full of beans and hens (BN), or connect bought den to bin. Just a ban on milk (reminds me of Borden) would do it for me.
Newmont Mining is NEM. Visaulise a hen (N) and an eel (E) eating a ham (M) on a new mountain, and you've got it.
Chap. 19. One-Upmanship: Remember facts and show off your culture quotient.
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Chap. 20. Computer Tutor: Master that ma hine at any age.
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Chap. 21. It's About Time: Never forget those pills and appointments.
Start your mental countdown w/ ivy (8), and then let each Peg Word represent it shour. You can mentally go over the words, ivy, bee, toes, tide, tin to bring you to noon. For the afternoon, continue through tie (for 1 PM), Noah, ma, rye, law, shoe, and cow, which brings you to 7 PM. (Since there is no zero o'clock, the s sound in toes represents 10:00).
Chap. 22. Speak to Me!: Speak effectively without using notes.
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Chap. 23. Most Important: Reading/Learning: Includes the magazine memory feat.
Part of one of the lines in the script Annie talks about here ws, whether the soldiers cross the bridge. She kept saying, If the soldiers cross the bridge, which means the same, but the director wouldn't allow it. Annie sked me how she could remember to say "whether". I said, "Tell me, Annie, what's the first thing that comes to mind when I say 'whether'?" she immediately said, "Snow"! She thought "weather" instead of "whether." I said, "Good, visualise soldiers crossing that bridge in a snowstorm." She did. Problem solved. When she thought of "soldiers crossing the bridge," she also thought of "weather,' and automatically said, "whether the soldiers cross the bridge".
At one point, John said, "The cannons are roaring on Beacon Hill," and Abigail's (Annie's) next line was, "The children have the measles." How was Annie to remember that line? … I told her to visualise the cannons roaring, many tiny cannonballs flying out of the cannon's mouth, and those tiny cannonballs were hitting the faces of the children, causing measle sports or rashes. Again, problem solved; when Annie heard about the "cannons roaring," she immediately knew her next line was about the children having the measles.
Reading to remember (later)
Seeing poetry (later)
The Magazine Memory Feat (later)
Chap. 24. Deal Me In: It pay$ to remember cards--plus the missing card stunt.
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Chap. 25. Spelling Bee: No more spelling mistakes!
capitol & capital. Only when it refers to the building in Washington, D.C., or any capitOl dOme. In all other instances, it is spelled w/ an A, as in capitAl of a state, or capitAl/cAsh.
navEl & bElly button. navAl, nAvy (or wAter).
All lines or parALLel. (This is completely false. Mnemotechnic that is consistent w/ truth is required).
occasion. On oCCasion, I have an aCCident.
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Chap. 26. Bible Study: Become verse-atile.
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Chap. 27. The 400-Digit Memory Feat: You've never remembered numbers like this before.
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Chap. 28. Instant, Alternate, Peg Lists: More strategies for remembering lists of any kind.
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Chap. 29. Memory Potpourri: Remember calories, where you parked your car, directions, trivia, dates, and more.
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Chap. 1. Pavlov's Dogs: How memory training works
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Chap. 2. Memory Through History: Historic techniques that still work
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Chap. 3. From Absent- to Present-Minded: You cannot remember if you don't know.
"I'm writing at my desk. I'm interrupted, the telephone rings, someone calls me with an emergency, or maybe I just need to get a drink of water, and then, "Where the hell is my pencil?"I want to use that same pencil. It takes me...... Every time I'm interrupted and I slide my pencil behind my ear, instead of just doing it without thinking, I force myself to see a mental image. I actually see the pencil going not behind my ear (that would be too mundane and habitual) but into my ear, point first. I can almost feel the pain. I have forced my mind to be "originally aware", to be present at that instant. I have trapped a fleeting thought! So later, when I need my pencil, I remember exactly where it is."
"As you drop your keys into the flowerpot, form a mental image of the two vital entities, the keys and the place where you're putting them. Make it a silly or impossible image. Example: "See" a gigantic key growing in a flowerpot. Perhaps you're watering it to make it grow. It's all one quick picture, thought, or visualization, call it a connection or association, and you've just brought the Reminder Principle into play."
"Later, when you're back in the room and you need those eye-glasses, you'll think of them. Needing them means thinking of them, you have no choice. And, i you made that silly mental picture, the Reminder Principle assures that when you think "eye-glasses" you can't help but see them performing on television, or whatever image you have selected. No pause; you walk to the television set, pick up your glasses, and get right back to work."
"For example, say you want to save a special pen for your grandchild, so you hide it under a pile of underwear in your top dresser drawer. As you do, form that connection or association between the two things, pen and underwear. Easy enough. "See" lots of ink squirting out of that pen and soaking, ruining, all of your underwear. Each time you think of the special pen, that silly picture will come to mind, until you simply know where that pen is hidden. It becomes knowledge."
"When you lock your door and you want to remember that you did, see yourself inserting your head or your tongue into the keyhole! Silly? It sure is....."
Chap. 4. Oh, Pair: Start remembering by association
book/tree
typewriter/dog
lamp/scissors
eyeglasses/tv set
car/dollar bill
hat/bird
telephone/pen
picture frame/playing card
fish/bottle
paper clip/singing
Chap. 5. The Link System: Controlling where your thoughts lead
airplane/wristwatch
wristwatch/pill
pill/insect
insect/wallet
wallet/bathtub
bathtub/shoe
Every Good Boy Does Fine, EGBDF, the lines on the music staff
spelling of the word, believe, Never beLIEve a LIE
spelling of the word, piece, a PIEce of PIE
Aubrey/Audrey
Frances/Francis
stationery/stationary, stationEry=lEtter, stationAry, stAnding
desert=sand, one n, dessert comes after dinner, double n.
HOMES, Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior, in size order, On Each Hill Man Stands, Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, Superior.
I also formed a picture in my mind of Mt. Fujiyama made up of millions of calendars (12 months, 354 days) so that I could always know that the height of Fujiyama is 12,354 feet.
Chap. 6. 20 Percent Interest: The importance of interest and curiosity
Does a reader know that the number 6 on his wristwatch dial the Arabic six or the Roman numeral six?
Chap. 7. Better, Not Older: Discovering your staying/graying power
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Chap. 8. Silver Plate: Foolproof ways to remember words and meaning
s'il vous plait, silver plate
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, Bubble, bubble, toilet trouble.
Lead us not into Penn Station.
combien, comb Ben
Amajues, Portugal word, clams, What a mesh you is.
endocarp, visualising himself hitting a fish, a carp, with a gigantic peach pit.
cantankerous, visualising a large tin can driving a tank and making lots of errors. Can tank errors.
resupinate, There was a bowl of alphabet soup on the floor behind me, I bent backward all the way until I could read the soup, and then I ate it. Read soup and ate as I bent backward.
capricious, cap riches, Visualising a gigantic cap that's full of riches, cash, jewelry, etc. The cap is handing out the riches (or I'm doing it out of the cap) to different people, then taking it back to give to other people, changing my mind, being fickie.
anchorite, Visualising anchor that's writing as a hermit, perhaps with long hair and a beard, sitting all alone, whatever the word hermit brings to your mind, Anchor write --> hermit.
omphalos, Visualising my arm fall loose. The arm fell right into my belly button.
factotum, Visualising a handyman (whatever picture that brings to your mind, perhaps a person in overalls, holding tools) writing facts on a totem pole. (Fact toe ten would also do.)
castigate, Visualising someone casting a gate and being scolded for it, punished or criticized.
saturnine, You sat on a gigantic number nine and you're very sad and gloomy about it or the nine is gloomy because you're sitting on it.
rapacity, Visualising rapping a miniature city (rap a city) and you do it harder and harder because you're greedy. A rapper sitting on a large E would also do, rapper sit E.
sycophant, A gigantic ant is flattering you so much that you get sick of that ant: sick of ant.
peduncle, Visualising paying your uncle (paid uncle) with a handful of flower stalks instead of money.
litany, You lit (burned) your knee (lit a knee) and you're praying over the flame. (That's right, I don't care how silly you get, the sillier, the better)
fealty, You're feeling a gigantic cup of tea. You're asked to feel other things, but you won't, because you're loyal to the tea.
execrate, You're stuffing millions of eggs into a crate and you hate doing it. You detest the eggs. Get as much action into your picture as you can; you might see the eggs breaking and getting all over you.
reminiscent, You're ramming a gigantic cent (rammin' a cent) and you're reminded of having done the same thing in the past.
Chap. 9. Très Facile Vocabulary Power: Moving on to foreign-language vocabulary
singhakom, a Thai word for the month of August, Visualising a gigantic comb singing, a singer comb, (or sing ha comb) and then saw a strong gust (of wind) blowing it away. There are two entities: the reminder of the pronunciation (sing ha comb) and the reminder of the meaning (gust for August). You can get as specific as you like in your mental picture. For this one you might visualise yourself saying, "Aw" as the gust blow away the singer comb.
psalidi, the Greek word for scissors, Visualising a gigantic pair of scissors passing a lady: pass a lady
(The author does not write about how to memorise the gender of a word, which proves that the author's intention of learning vocab. is purely entertaining purpose.)
byxor, a Swedish word for trousers, Visualising a big sore on a pair of pants. You can see it bleeding, if you like.
slips, a Sweish word for necktie, Someone sleeps on your gigantic necktie. It's all so obvious. And, yes, my luggage was lost once on a trip to Sweden and I had to do some emergency shopping, so I had to learn/know/remember the words above.
pample-mousse, a Fr. word for grapefruit, Visualising many large pimple on a moose (pimple poose) and each pimple is really a greafruit.
bouchon, a Fr. word for cork, push on or brush on, Visualising yourself pushing a gigantic cork, or you're saying "boo" to a gigantic cork because it is shining a light on you; boo shone, cork.
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Chap. 10. What's in a Name?: It pay$ to remember names. Here's how.
rule 1: Be sure to hear the name.
rule 2: try to spell the name.
rule 3: make a remakr about the name.
rule 4: use the name during your initial conversation.
rule 5: say the name when you say goodbye.
Pukczyva, pronounced puck-shiv-a, puck shiver
Smolenski, small lens skiing.
Petrocelli, pet row jelly
Bentavagnia, bent (weather) vane
Van Nuys, van noise
Carrasquillo, car S ski O (or oh), or car ass ski O
Morales, more or less, or more Alice
Jeffries, chef freeze/frames
Cherofsky, sheriff ski, or chair off ski
Ponchatrain, punch a train
Cusack, cue sack
McKenzie, me can see, Mack N Z
Dimitriades, the meat tree ate E's.
names that already have meaning, Brown, Taylor, Hart, Barnes, Hightower, Green, River(s), Freed, Lowe, Marsh, Piper, Plummer, Bloom, Sachs, Field(s), Gates, Bell, Galzer, Banks, Coffey, Holmes, Butler, Forrest, Knott, Baker, Cunningham, Gorman, Dewey, Katz, Pierce, Brooks, Klinger
Kolamecko, collar make O
Aldrich, old and rich
Marquardt, Ma quart, mark what?
Baldwin, bald one, bald win
Baxter, back stir, back stair
Anderson, hand and son, and her son
Evans, heavens, vans
Weber, web air, web bar
Talmadge, tall midget, tall Madge
Shapiro, shape pear (O), chopper row
Thompson, thump son, time son
Slocum, slow comb
Webster, web stir dictionary
Williams, will yams
Krakauer, crack hour (clock)
Tropeano, throw piano
Antesiewicz, anti savage
Halperin, help her in
Abramson, ram son
Falnagan, fan again
Michaels, mike calls, Mike kills
Kessler, cast law, kiss law
McLeod, my cloud, Mack cloud
Leonard, lean hard
Kennedy, can a day can of Ds
Patterson, pat a son, batter son
Reynolds, rain holds, wren old
Rigney, rig knee
Nixon, nicks on
Rafferty, rap for tea
Try some of your own
Padgett
Nussbaum
Abbott
Alexander
Cooper
Wellington
Simon
Bennett
Carson
Fleming
Crandall
Richards
Birnbaum
Allen
Malone
Lafferty
Mitchell
Monroe
Brewster
Frazer
Garrison
Bill, a dollar bill
Mary, a wedding
George, jaws or gorge
Harry, hairy or hurry
Sylvia, silver
William, will yam
Bernard, burn hard
Tricia, tree share
James, aims
Tom, Thomas, tom-tom drums, a tom cat
Charles, quarrels
Susan, suses Ann, sues ant
Phillip, full lip
Tony, toe knee
Robert, robber
Howard, coward
Jim, gym
Jack, car jack
Anita, an eater or anteater
Mike, microphone
Bernice, burn knees
Allen, alley, a lens
Chap. 11. Let's Face It" Never forget a face, even years later.
It can be anything: high forehead, low forehead, creases in the forehead, hairline, bald head, thin eyebrows, thick eyebrows, arched eyebrows, close-set eyes, wide-set eyes, big or small ears, outstanding ears, large earlobes, big nose, full cheeks, sunken cheeks, wide mouth, mustache, beard, thin lips, thick or full lips, large or small chin, cleft in chin, wrinkles, warts, pimples, dimples, anything. What you select may not be what someone else would select as the outstanding feature, but that doesn't matter. It's what outstanding to you that matters.
When I'm teaching this at a corporate seminar I sometimes ask the people to look at my face and shoot out the outstanding feature. I hear as many as six or seven different ones, and that's okay; that's as it should be. (It's usually the lines on my forehead. We used to call them "worry" lines; now they're "character' lines!)
What's important is that, to decide on the outstanding feature, you have to do what 99 percent of us don't habitually do: that is, loook, really look, at that face!….
Now you've just learned the second of the three steps, so let's review: Step 1: Form a Substitute Word or Thought for the name. Step 2: Select an outstanding feature of the face.(omitted) Step 3 is simply to connect Step 1 and 2.
I've used Mr. Bentavagnia as an example before. He seems to lock in the idea for people just learning it, so I'll use him again now. You've just been introduced to Mr. Bentavagnia. You listen to the name and apply Step 1, thinking of a bent (weather) vane. Then you move on to Step 2 and look at Mr. Bentavagnia's face. You see a large, bulbous nose, which you immediately select as the oustanding facial feature. Finally, you connect the two things via the use of a silly, ridiculous mental picture, as you've already learned to do. As you shake heads w/ Mr. Bentavagnia, and as you're looking at his face, see a bent vane on his face instead of a nose.
You can practice this by assining made-up names to pictures of faces in newpapers and magazines. Apply the system you've just learned to a few picture, then go back and see if you know/remember those names.
Big Nose = Bentavagnia.
Ms. Ponchatrane. Punch a train. Her large ears are the outstanding facial feature. Trains coming out of those ears and you punch one of them. Large Ears = Ponchatrane.
Mr. Pukczyva has an obvious cleft in his chin. To see many hocky pucks flying out of that cleft and they're icy and shivering, puck shiver. To see the pucks tearing the cleft apart.
Mr. Robrum has very bushy eyebrows. To see a bottle of rum over each eye instead of eyebrows, and you "rob" them. Bushy eyebrows = Robrum.
Mr. Cohen has deep creases from his nostrils to the corners of his mouth. You've selected those creases as the outstanding facial feature. Really see dripping ice-cream cones coming out of those creases. Facial creases = Cohen.
Mr. Fleming's face. His large mustache. To see it burning, flaming. Mustache = Fleming.
Ms. Cantrowitz. A large wart at the corner of her mouth. See brain (wits) coming out of that wart; To throw away those wits, but you can't. Can't throw wits = Cantrowitz.
Mr. Smith. A blacksmith's hammer and to connect it to his obvious thick lips. To see the blacksmith's hammer hammering those lips, which is what's making them so thick. Thick lips = Smith.
Katzenberger-Boyd. Cats eating a burger and giving some to a bird.
Mr. Kirschenberg. Very high forehead. To see an iceberg coming out of that forehead, or an iceberg instead of a forehead, and you're cursing it. Cursin' berg = Kirschenberg.
Chap. 12. I See Numbers!: Remembering numbers in a brand-new way.
014727132639092112
A stark naked man jumps up and down.
1=t, The typewritten t has one downstroke, or a horizontal 1 on top of a vertial 1 forms a t.
2=n, The typewritten lower-case n has two downstrokes.
3=m, The typewritten lower-case m has three downstrokes. Or, think of the 3M corporation; or if you stand a lower-case m on its side it becomes a 3.
4=r, Stress the final sound of four. Or, look at a capital letter R: using a bit of imagination, can you see a golfer about to drive? And, what does he shout as he is about to ake his swing?
5=l, The roman numeral L is 50. Or, hold up your open left hand, fingers together, thumb extended to the right, as if signaling stop, and you're forming a capital letter L w/ your five fingers.
6=j (and also sh, ch, soft g)
The digit 6 and the capital letter J are almost mirror images.
7=k (as well as hard c, soft g)
You can form a capital letter K w/ two 7s, one right side up, the other upsdie down.
8=f (and v, ph), An 9 and a small handwritten script f each have one loop above the other. Put a tail b/w/ the two loops of the 8 and it looks like the handwritten small f.
9=p (also b), The 9 and P are just about mirror images.
0=s (as well as soft c, z), Think of the first sound in the word zero or the first sound in the word cipher.
a STaRK NaKeD MaN juMPS uP aND DowN, 0147 271 32 6390 9 21 12.
Mary had a little lamb, 34151553 a pretty girl is like a melody, 941745057351
147 275 952 127, Truck, Knuckle or uncle or ankle, Linking truck to nickel, 952, balloon, to make nickel remind you of balloon, 127, dunk or think or dank or tang or tunic, to make balloon remind you of tank, Millions of balloons are flying out of a tank, you're blowing up a tank instead of a balloon, hundreds of balloons are lifting a tank into the air, whatever. See the picture you select.
Truck nickel balloon tank = 147 275 952 127
285 949 524 016 952 071 151 911 96
perfume, telephone, blotter, carton, to link perfume to telephone to blotter to carton.
948 315 829 514 7412
bear, medal, fan, belt, rock, rotten.
994 614 757 954
You can start you link w/ paper or piper.
4210 5214 6127 9071
Rents can start your link.
522 641 639 527
Linen is a good start.
9427 9205 5210 7412
Bring, praying, boring, pouring, and brink are all good starts.
Chap. 13. Peg(s) O' My Heart: Handling more challenging numbers as never before.
Peg words.
#1. tie.
#2. Noah.
#3. Ma.
#4. rye.
#5. law.
#6. shoe.
#7. cow.
#8. ivy.
#9. bee.
#10. toes.
To remember #5 is fork. See either a gigantic fork in a cop's uniform, walking his beat (upholding the law), or a judge banging a gigantic fork instead of a gavel. Be sure to see the silly picture.
#8 is pen. Millions of pens are growing on a brick wall instead of ivy or you're writing on a wall of ivy w/ a gigantic pen. See ink dripping all over the ivy. Select one of these pictures or one you think of yourself, and see it in your mind's eye.
#1 is pillow. You might see yourself wearing a large pillow instead of a tie. Or a large pillow is wearing a tie, or your head is resting on many neckties instead of on a pillow.
#6 is computer. You're wearing computers on your feet instead of shoes; a large computer is wearing shoes and walking; a gigantic shoe is typing at the computer. Use one of these silly picture and see it.
#9 is scissors. See many scissors buzzing around you and stinging you like bees. Or, millions of bees are attacking you and you're cutting those beeds in half w/ a gigantic pair of scissors.
#3 is flower. You might see a gigantic flower holding a baby, it's a Ma. Or, your mother is a gigantic flower, or your mother is holding a gigantic flower b/w/ her teeth, or she is growing in a garden like a flower. There are so many ways to go; all you need to do is visualise one ridiculous picture.
#10 is DVD. There's a DVD b/w/ all your toes; or each toe is a DVD, or you're placing a gigantic toe into your DVD player. See that picture.
#4 is car. See a gigantic bottle of rye whisky driving a car, or a car is drinking rye whiskey, or each wheel of a car is a bottle of rye whiskey. Or, use rye bread instead of the bottle of rye. Whichever you're using, see the picture.
#7 is egg. Imagine yourself milking a gigantic egg instead of a cow, or you're milking a cow and many eggs come out instead of milk, etc. See that picture.
#2 is Benadryl. I'm using this on purpose to show you that now you can remember an abstract thing because you know the Substitue Word technique. For this you might see an old man w/ a white bread (or whatever you're seeing to repesent Noah) bending a drill, bend a drill, Benadryl. Or, bent drills are boarding the ark two by two. Be sure to see this last picture in your mind. If you think you need a quick review, do so.
#6, computer, might be your reminder to buy a new mouse for your home computer. #2, Benadryl, could be your reminder to pick up your prescription. #7, egg, might be your reminder to pick up a dozen eggs, so forth.
#11, tide
#12, tin
#13, tomb
#14, tire
#15, tail
#16, dish
#17, dog
#18, dove
#19, tub
#20, nose
When you hear or see 14, you'll immediately see a tire in your mind, not the word, tire. So, if you think you'll use Peg Words up to 100, learn those listed, or make up your own words, so long as they fit the Phonetic Alphabet and don't confuse w/ any of the other words. For example, can would be fine for 72, except if you're using a tin can for #12.
Chap. 14. Use It or Loose It: Remember shopping lists, errands, appointments, and more
For #1, I'd like you to remember church. Form a ridiculous mental picture of tie and church. Perhaps, millions of neckties sitting in church, or you're wearing a church instead of a tie.
#2 is bear. Associate/connect Noah and bear. You might see many bears boarding the ark two by two. Or, a lare bear has a long white beard. Select one of these pictures, or one your thought of yourself, and see it in your mind.
#3 is soldier. Your ma is a soldier; see her marching or whatever comes to mind that a soldier does. I'm going to stop saying "See that picture" each time. I think you know that that's of utmost importance. If you don't "see" it there's no guarantee that it will come back to you.
#4 is search. You're searching for a bottle of rye whiskey or a loaf of rye bread. That could be too logical a picture, so be sure to make it ridiculous in some way. Finding millions of the item would do it for me.
#5 is ledge. You might see a cop (law) walking the beat on a high ledge, or a judge is on a high ledge banging his gavel.
Remember that when you have the time, it's not a bad idea to review. At this point, say the first five Peg Words to yourself and see if the item jumps to mind. That's the quick review.
#6 is speed. You can visualise a gigantic shoe moving at high speed. Remember that these are the silly pictures that come to my mind. Use whatever comes to yours.
#7 is jury. These are cows sitting in all the seats of the jury box.
#8 is bale. Visualise a bale of ivy, or bales of hay are climing up a wall like ivy
#9 is people. Millions of bees are stinging many people, or people are buzzing around like bees.
#10 is power. You can use lightning to represent power. If so, you can see lightning bolts shooting out from between your toes, or striking your toes. Or, mentally connect power drills to your toes.
The Bill of Rights
1. Church. To remind you of freedom of religion, press, speech. Obviously you could have used press or speech as your reminder.
2. Bear. To remind you of the right to bear arms. Different meaning, of course, but the reminder is there.
3. Soldier. To remind you of freedom from quartering soldiers. Quarter would also remind you of the amendment. Remember that you can put more than one thought into any mental picture. In this case, Ma to Soldier is fine, but you can get quarter into the same picture. (You ma is a quarter and marching or fighting like a soldier.)
4. Search. To remind you of the guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure. In my own original picture, I searched for the rye and seized it when I found it.
5. Ledge. I took some liberty here. I wanted to be reminded of previledge, which reminds me of previledge against self-incrimination. If you were doing this on your own, you might have chosen to see a cop arresting you (law), or you'd be in front of a jedge pleading the fifth.
6. Speed. To remind you of the right to a speedy trial.
7. Jury. To remind you of the right to trial by jury.
8. Bale. To remind you of excessive bail and ruel and unusual punishment prohibited. Again, two different bales, but still a reminder. A picture of gigantic ivy punishing someone would also have worked.
9. People. To remind you of people's right retained. You could have inserted rights (a prizefighter throwing rights) or retained.
10. Power. To remind of residual powers rever to the states.
All right, you've associated milk to yourself and now you need milk to remind you of bread. Perhaps a slice of bread is drinking milk; that's ridiculous. Or, you're pouring slices of bread out of a milk container. Next, you need dog food. Make bread remind you of that. Visualise walking a larege slice of bread instead of a dog (the bread is doing what a dog does when you walk it). Then make dog remind you of oranges; you're walking a gigantic orange like a dog, or a dog is peeling and eating a large orange. Your next picture might be you, peeling an orange and there's a head of lettuce inside. If you fele you need a better reminder for lettuce, use let us. And so on. You can makes the Link as long as necessary. Since each "image" is a separate one, the number of items doesn't matter; one leads you to the next.
Chap. 15. Real "E State": You can remember state capitals easily
01. (tie) Alabama/Montomery. Alley bum, or album; General Montgomery (the beret he always wore), or mount gum airy.
02. (Noah) Alaska/Juneau - I'll ask her, or baked Alaska; d'you know? Or June, oh.
03. (ma) Arizona/Phoenix. Air zone. Fee nix. or Phoenix rising.
04. (rye) Arkansas/Little Rock. Ark and saw. Ark can saw. Ark Ann Saw. Little rock.
05. (law) California/Sacramento. Call a fawn (yeah); scarament or sack men toe.
06. (shoe) Colorado/Denver. Color a doe (or toe); den where?
07. (cow) Conneticut/Hartford. Connect a cut; hard Ford or hard fought.
08. (ivy) Delaware/Dover. Della wear, tell her where. dough for, dove.
09. (bee) Florida/Tallahassee. Flower there. Tall lass see.
10. (toes) Georgia/Atlanta. George, gorgoues. Hat lander.
11. (tide) Hawaii/Honolulu. How are ya', ha why E; honor Lulu.
12. (tin) Idaho/Boise. Ida hoe, potato;boy see, noisy.
13. (tomb) Illinois/Springfield. ill noise; spring field.
14. (tire) Indiana/Indianapolis. Indian;indian nap (pole is)
15. (tail) Iowa/Des Moines. I ower her; the mine, day mine.
16. (dish) Kansas/Topeka. Cans ass; can sass. Toe peekr, the peeker.
17. (dog) Kentucky/Frankfort. Can't talk. Ken tuck E; frankfurter.
18. (dove) Louisiana. Baton Rouge. Louise see Anna. Baton rouge (red).
19. (tub) Maine/Augusta. (horse's) mane; gust (of wind); august.
20. (nose) Maryland/Annapolis. Mary land;an apple is.
21. (net) Massachusetts/Boston. Mass chew sits; boss ton.
22. (nun) Michigan/Lansing. mix again; land sing.
23. (name) Minnesota/Saint Paul. Mini soda;t'aint Paul (or pull), Sand Paul.
24. (Nero) Mississipi/Jackson. Mrs. sip.; jack son.
25. (nail) Missouri/Jefferson City. misery, mis airy; d'ya have a son, chef a son.
26. (notch) Montana/Helena. man tan her; Helen, hell and her.
27. (neck) Nebraska/Lincoln. new brass car; Lincoln penny (or car), link on.
28. (knife) Nevada/Carson City. never there; car son (city - see tea, sit E)
29. (knob) New Hampshire/Concord. new hemp (or ham) sheer; con (prisoner) cord.
30. (mouse) New Jersey/Trenton. new jersey (cow); train ton.
31. (mat) New Mexico/Santa Fe. new sombrero, new mix a coat; Santa (fee)
32. (moon) New York/Albany. new cork; all bend knee; all ban E.
33. (mummy) North Carolina/Raleigh. I use "wind" to remind of "North"; wind carry liner; raw lea, roll E
34. (mower) North Dakota/Bismarck. (wind) decoder, the coat; bees mark
35. (mule) Ohio/Columbus. oh, hi O, high O; Christopher, call him boss.
36. (match) Oklahoma/Oklahoma City. Ok homer; OK homer, see tea.
37. (mug) Oregon/Salem. ore gone; sail M, sale ham.
38. (movie) Pennsylvania/Harrisburg. pen sill vein; hair is berg; Harry's berg.
39. (mop) Rhode Island/Providence. rode island; prove dance; provide Ns.
40. (rose) South Carolina/Columbia. sows carry liner; column bee.
41. (rod) South Dakota/Pierre. sows decoder, sow the coat; pier.
42. (rain) Tenneessee/Nashville. Ten I see, tennis E; gnash villa.
43. (ram) Texas/Austin. taxes; awes tin.
44. (rower) Utah/Salt Lake City. you tar, ewe tar; salt lake (see tea).
45. (roll) Vermont/Montpelier. vermind; mount peeler.
46. (roach) Virgina/Richmond. virgin, where gin; rich man, rich mount.
47. (rock) Washington/Olympia. washing ton; oh limp (pier)
48. (roof) West Virginia/Charleston. vest virgin; the dance, Charles ton.
49. (rope) Wisconsin/Madison. wise con sin; mad at son, medicine.
50. (lace) Wyoming/Cheynne. Y roaming; shy Ann.
Chap. 16. Important Numbers: Cultivating your "Imaginuity."
In the early 1960s telephone numbers included exchange names such as OXford, STerling, ESplanade, PEnnsylvania, BUtterfield, and RHeingold. You dailed the first two letters of the exchange, then five digits, as in BU 8-1234.
I'm sure you've seen the ads for 1-800-DIVORCE, and the like.
Mr. Walker's number, 746-9021. To see anyone walking, and you crash (746) into a peasant (9021), or perhaps poiosned came to mind. And, if you have to, if the number is told to you quickly, use your up-to-99 Peg Words.
Mr. Walker's area code, 314. Add motor or meter to your mental image.
Butter or batter for 914. Mats, moats, or meta for 310. No tune, not me, or need him for 213. Church or George/Georgia for 646. Buttock or paddock for 917. Indian, antenna, or nothing for 212. Latch for 516 . Nest for 201. Pest for 901. Bottoms for 913. Mask for 307. Miser for 304. Retire, rotor or reader 414. rotten for 412.
Dr. Ame's number, 715-410-2009. To see yourself aiming (Ames) a stethoscope (doctor) at cattle (715; or you could use cuddle). Connect that to rats and noses up (all the rats put their noses up), or to nice sip or news soap.
An electrician's number, 862-9421. To see an electric plug fishing (862) and drinking brandy (9421) or to visualise fashion brand.
Miss Ross's extension, 116. Associte either to touch, to attach, dotage, or tot itch to roars or rose.
Mr. Leventhal's extension, 101. Connect test or toast to eleven tall, leaving tall, or vent tall.
Mr. Byrne's intercome 121. Associate burns to tent.
The shipping department's extension, 712. Visualise lots of cotton being shipped.
Most Manhattan, NYC zip codes start w/ 100.
Mr. Knapp's address is 946 West 95th Str., NYC 10025. You're napping (Knapp; if you want to remember his first name, Bill, a gigantic bill is napping) on a porch (946) wearing a 10-gallon hat (my standard picture for 'west'; you can use vest or best. I use yeast or beast to represent east). The hat is made of new cork (New York, or use the Empire State Building). The cork is ringing a large bell (95th Str.) as that bell tosses a nail (10025;or use disease nail). You can visualise this in a second, certainly in less time than it took me to write it all out.
30264, mason chair, mouse nature.
07450, score lass, scare less, squirrels.
90715, basket low, pass castle.
10014, tosses tire, dozen there, ties stare.
11978, tote up coffee, tot pick off.
10016, teases dish.
90402, pass raisin, buys raisin.
10128, taste knife.
95742, black rain, plaque run.
30374, mouse maker.
89014, ivy paster (or poster, pastor).
Toaster, $49.15. Connect toaster to reptile (perhaps you're toasing reptiles, or a toaster is slithering around like a snake). Obviously, you know that the toaster you're interested in doesn't cost 4,915.00. So reptile can only mean 49.15. But, in circumstances where you do want to "break it down",, use a different word or phrase to tell you the dollars in front of the demical point and another word for the amount, the cents, after the decimal point. For $49.15, rope tail ro rob towel would do it. Be sure to see the picture of toaster to reptile.
Camera, $315.95. You're entering a gigantic camera, it's a motel(315), or you're taking many pictures of metal as a bell (95) rings. Use whatever you think of, but see the picture.
Chair, $147.10. Chair to targets or to trick toes, truck toes. Select one, and see it clearly.
Car, $18,995.00. A dove is driving a car and teaching a pupil (to drive). You could use dive pupil, tough pupil, dove babble.
Lamp, $71.50. Lamp to cute lass or cutlass. Form your mental image and really see it.
Cell phone, $59.50. Cell phone to lapels, labels, lip lass, lap lace. Select one and make your association.
Pen, $21.75. Pen to nautical or neat coal.
Computer, $1,750,00. Computer to tickles, tackles, talk less, tie calls.
To make up a word to represent the dollars, a word whose last consonant sound tells you the eights. Simply change all fractions to eights: ¼ is two eights, ½ is four eights, ¾ is six eights. Then connect your word/picture to the names of the stock.
For a stock selling at 49 ½, you might use roper. The last consonant sound tlles you "four eights", the rp of rope tells you the dollars, 49. Now, if you're wondering why roper won't remind you of 494 (no fraction) for the associated stock, you really shouldn't be buying and selling stocks. You certainly shouldn't be buying and selling stocks. You certainly should know if you paid in the $49 range or the $494 range for a stock. And if a stock is 494 ½, you could use repairer. Do you see why?
So, racket will represent, remind you, 471/8; friar 84 ½ (four eights). To associate the price word or phrase to your representative picture of the stock; telephone for AT&T. Mack rorar E for McCrory Corporation. Polar herd for Polaroid. A mini soda for Minnestoa Mining. A car saluting a general for General Motors.
A single mental image of a Mack truck roaring at an E (or an eel) that's squatting on a melon would remind you that McCrory is selling at 35 ¼ (melon = 35 and two eights).
To use a word that sound like the letter.
A, ape, hay
B, bean, beet
C, sea
D, dean, deal
E, eel, eek (scream)
F, effort, half
G, gee, jeans
H, age, itch, ache
I, eye, i
J, jay walking, jake, jail
K, cake, cane, key
L, elf, el(elevated) train, hell
M, hem, ham, emperor
N, hen, enema
O, old, eau(water), owe
P, pea, peek
Q, cue (stick), queue
R, hour, art, argue, aardvark
S, S curve, ass, escape
T, tea, tee, T-square
U, ewe, you, eunuch
V, veal, V for victory
W, waterloo, trouble you
X, eggs, X-ray
Y, wine, wild
Z, zebra
Chap. 17. Send Me a Telegram: Memorise the Morse code easily--it's fun!
Chap. 18. Stock Market Symbols: Triumph over the ticker.
The symbol for Boeing is BA. SEe someone bowing (either bending at the waist or using a bow and arrow!) as beans (B) are being thrown at him by an ape (A). There are always choices, you can visualise someone bowing as he receives his BA degrees, or bowing as someone says, "Bah.". If you were really trying to remember these things, you'd automatically lock in the first image that comes to mind.
The symbol for Marion Labs is MKC. I'd see a dres (hem, M) marryin' in a laboratory. It holds a wedding cake (K) and throws it into the sea ©. If you can visualise a girl named Marion, that will do, too, as will dogs (Labradors) for Labs.
Shaw Industries is SHX. You might imagine millions eggs (X) coming up on a shore and you "Sh" them (sh eggs) for SHX. An ass (S) scratching an itch (H) w/ an exit (X) sign would also do, as would "shucks,' if that came to mind.
Polaroid is PRD. Prod a camera, or prod a polar bear; or you can associate pea, hour, dean to camera or polar bear. (A million peas fly out of a clock and hit a dean; you take a picture of ti w/ your Polaroid camera.)
Philip Morris, Inc. is MO. Your ma (or Moe, the diminutive for Morris) is throwing a dress (hem/M) into water (eau/O). If you think it's necessary, get full lip or fill lip (Philip) into your silly picture.
Polymer Corporation is PLM. To see a polly (parrot) being a ma (polly ma = Polymer) to a plum (PLM) would do it, as would a silly picture of polly ma to pea hell hem.
Borden, Inc. is BN. You bought a den full of beans and hens (BN), or connect bought den to bin. Just a ban on milk (reminds me of Borden) would do it for me.
Newmont Mining is NEM. Visaulise a hen (N) and an eel (E) eating a ham (M) on a new mountain, and you've got it.
Chap. 19. One-Upmanship: Remember facts and show off your culture quotient.
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Chap. 20. Computer Tutor: Master that ma hine at any age.
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Chap. 21. It's About Time: Never forget those pills and appointments.
Start your mental countdown w/ ivy (8), and then let each Peg Word represent it shour. You can mentally go over the words, ivy, bee, toes, tide, tin to bring you to noon. For the afternoon, continue through tie (for 1 PM), Noah, ma, rye, law, shoe, and cow, which brings you to 7 PM. (Since there is no zero o'clock, the s sound in toes represents 10:00).
Chap. 22. Speak to Me!: Speak effectively without using notes.
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Chap. 23. Most Important: Reading/Learning: Includes the magazine memory feat.
Part of one of the lines in the script Annie talks about here ws, whether the soldiers cross the bridge. She kept saying, If the soldiers cross the bridge, which means the same, but the director wouldn't allow it. Annie sked me how she could remember to say "whether". I said, "Tell me, Annie, what's the first thing that comes to mind when I say 'whether'?" she immediately said, "Snow"! She thought "weather" instead of "whether." I said, "Good, visualise soldiers crossing that bridge in a snowstorm." She did. Problem solved. When she thought of "soldiers crossing the bridge," she also thought of "weather,' and automatically said, "whether the soldiers cross the bridge".
At one point, John said, "The cannons are roaring on Beacon Hill," and Abigail's (Annie's) next line was, "The children have the measles." How was Annie to remember that line? … I told her to visualise the cannons roaring, many tiny cannonballs flying out of the cannon's mouth, and those tiny cannonballs were hitting the faces of the children, causing measle sports or rashes. Again, problem solved; when Annie heard about the "cannons roaring," she immediately knew her next line was about the children having the measles.
Reading to remember (later)
Seeing poetry (later)
The Magazine Memory Feat (later)
Chap. 24. Deal Me In: It pay$ to remember cards--plus the missing card stunt.
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Chap. 25. Spelling Bee: No more spelling mistakes!
capitol & capital. Only when it refers to the building in Washington, D.C., or any capitOl dOme. In all other instances, it is spelled w/ an A, as in capitAl of a state, or capitAl/cAsh.
navEl & bElly button. navAl, nAvy (or wAter).
All lines or parALLel. (This is completely false. Mnemotechnic that is consistent w/ truth is required).
occasion. On oCCasion, I have an aCCident.
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Chap. 26. Bible Study: Become verse-atile.
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Chap. 27. The 400-Digit Memory Feat: You've never remembered numbers like this before.
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Chap. 28. Instant, Alternate, Peg Lists: More strategies for remembering lists of any kind.
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Chap. 29. Memory Potpourri: Remember calories, where you parked your car, directions, trivia, dates, and more.
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