Now I look down at the word and now I look out the window up into the white chiffon clouds. Ok, I got that one, now I just repeat this identical process over and over again. I glance down and look up into the clouds over and over. Hi Joe, I can’t talk with you right now. See you in the class. Finally, finished and I have a few minutes until class time. Put things in the same place every time. To remember to do or get something put something in your path or awkwardly out of place to spur original thought. "anything that looks out of place [...] wearing your watch on the wrong wrist" I don't have much to say about this book. I do like the idea behind the book, and I think the method can be quite powerful for memorizing things. However, I found most of the book to be examples, most of which I thought were quite redundant. In fact, I thought the book would, for the most part, be more effective as a simple pamphlet with two key points: first to associate ideas to be remembered with very bizarre imagery (bizarre imagery so that it is difficult to forget), and second to link ideas together using chains of bizarre imagery (or at least, these are the two tips I recall at the moment that truly defined the book). From these two points, all the examples from the book can be drawn.

Focus on what you want to remember--if you want to remember. The best example is learning someone's name. Forget it right away? You're not being aware enough. When meeting new people, rhetorically repeat, "What is their name? What is their name?" Have that be your main nagging thought. Oh, there’s Professor Hamlin he’s way across the room. He’s looking at me. He’s coming this way. I think he’s going to talk with me. I have never had a Professor walk up to me like this. I wonder what he wants. He is standing right next to me smiling a big chaser cat smile. Wonder what he is going to say. 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) I felt a little guilty when the professors walked up to me daily and bowed to me in front of all the other students. It really didn’t seem fair when the other three Greek scholars had to study five hours each night and me only five minutes.

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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. 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 have discovered something with this book, Harry Lorayne only ever wrote one book on memory techniques. He has published it many times under many names and at various times but has never promised that it was updated because it is the standard program and remains the standard program since its first publication in 1957. It's still great, and it still works and it still is valuable. If you would like to train your memory this book offers the tools to do just that. Because it was published in 1974 the material relating to the dating of months is out of date itself but it can easily be recreated with an online calendar and some attention to detail. Once written out you could memorize the dates for fifteen years in the future including the present year. That is the only dated material I can think of that would need to be amended. The rest is simple enough to defy dating if you have a simple dictionary and a little knowledge of history. (Rye is a liquor and not just a bread)

Substitute system tells you to replace the words you don't know with a word sounding the same. Works for foreign languages, new words and new names etc. I am fine, how is your day going? (At least 60 students staring at me, this is very nice but embarrassing) 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. You can memorize any information, so long as that information is associated with other information that you already know. You want a free almost half million dollar education; get, read, and use the secrets in the memory book, I did.

I re-discovered the book in the basement and couldn't remember a thing about it. Not a good sign for a book about improving your memory but it's never to late. There are some people out there with great memories and excellent interpersonal skills. We've all probably met someone like this.... They seem to remember your name, your face, and little details about your life and past conversations way more than the average person. And we all LOVE being around these people. They make us feel important and valued, because it could be a year since you've seen them (and you only met them once), and they will recall specific details about your life and ask about them ("How is your grandmother doing? Last time we talked, she had just fallen and broken her hip. I hope she is doing ok."). Peg system is little complex that it matches all the ten numbers to ten different sounds. And then you can also visualize intangible numbers with tangible concepts. I am a certified college professor and it is not the same in today’s institutions of higher learning. Also, the very expensive private colleges and universities had a tradition of respect and honor that seldom is seen in the much less expensive institutions of higher learning that the large majority of students attend. I never attended the less expensive state schools a few decades old. My schools were the hundreds of year old with the very best professors.

It will take you a minimum of five hours per night to memorize these words for the daily tests. Until this time you have not known what true scholarship is. Look at the person to your left and the person to your right they will not be here tomorrow. 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. I had several professors who “every time” they saw me, would walk out of their way to come over to where I was standing or sitting. Then they would stop, look me in the eyes and say to me, hello scholar young. The Major System: Memorizing numbers seems really hard, but if you memorize a short list of phonetic associations you'll be able to convert numbers to words that can link easily. Good for telephone numbers or digits of pi, I suppose.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? New to me was the so-called memory graph, a system with coordinates that you could use to remember locations or anatomy easier. Very interesting was also the remark that your helper images will disappear after a while and just the fact will pop up in your mind. This allows you to re-use the pictures without getting confused, e.g. having 100s associations with rose might make it difficult what exactly was meant.

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. My three fellow Greek scholars all told me they knew I was a genius because they were each studying five hours per night in their little green Greek textbooks.

Next, they would slowly bow their head and stand quietly for a few seconds with their head down. Then they would raise their head slowly look into my eyes with a big smile and ask how my day was going. After a short conversation, they would then move on to where they were going. They never walked within my line of sight without doing this ritual honoring, even when I was sitting with other students. While they were doing this, all the students around me watched in awe. The professors never passed me without doing this physical and verbal sign of high honor because I was one of the four Greek scholars in the University. They treated all four of us the same way. We were the only students treated this way by any of the professors.