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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
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