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194 Appointments and Schedules
knife, knob, knitted or knot, and Indian or neon. As soon as
you reach a peg word that has been associated, you'll know
it! You might reach "neck," and know immediately that
you've made a picture of neck, and say, hospital. This will
remind you that you have to visit a sick friend at the hos-
pital at 7:00 o'clock on Tuesday! That's all! Again, you
need only try it to be convinced that it works.
As far as I personally am concerned, this is all I use to
remember my weekly schedule. Some of my appointments
may be arranged for the hour exactly, and others for say,
3:15, 3:30 or 3:45, but I find that it doesn't matter. If I
associate the day of the appointment at 3:00 o'clock, on
the hour, true memory tells me that the date is for fifteen,
thirty or forty-five minutes past the hour. However, there
may be some of you who must remember the exact time, to
the minute, for some appointments, such as catching trains,
etc. In order to do this, you must add only one word to
your mental picture. You would actually be remembering
a four digit instead of a two digit number.
The second pair of digits will represent minutes, while
the first two digits represent the day and the hour. For
example, if your appointment with the dentist was on Tues-
day at 9:42 o'clock—transpose the day and hour to "knob"
(29), and get "rain" into the association to represent 42.
You realize, of course, that in this case you are faced with
the same problem as you were when learning to memorize
the four trunk line digits of a telephone number.
In the above example, how will you be sure that your
dental appointment is for Tuesday at 9:42, and not for
Thursday at 2:29? This could happen if you weren't sure
as to which peg word belongs first, and which belongs last.
Well, the problem is solved in the same manner as it was
solved for telephone numbers. The best solution is to make