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USE YOUR MEMORY
m l r-ch m l s. Imagine your restaurant offering excellent cuisine at
reasonable prices: My Lovely Restaurant - CHarges Moderate;
Luscious Selections.
The examples given above are, of course, very particular, and it
will now be up to you to apply the system outlined to the telephone
numbers that are important for you to remember. In some cases,
the combination of numbers may present a greater than usual
difficulty, and appropriate phrases or words maybe almost impos-
sible to devise. In such cases, the solutions are still fairly simple. In
the first case, you may make up inappropriate words out of the
numbers you have to deal with, and then use the basic system,
making absurd and exaggerated images to link with the person
whose telephone number you are trying to remember. For
example, if the telephone number of one of your friends whose
hobby is golf is 491-4276, you would take the Major System
Memory Words for 49 {rape), 142 {drain) and 76 {cage). Your
image for remembering this number would be of your friend
preventing a rape by attacking the rapist with his golf club, which in
the ensuing confusion falls down a drain, the iron grille of which is
similar to the bars of a cage.
Now that you have mastered the basics of the Telephone
Number Memory System, it is essential that you associate and link
it to your own life. Therefore, in the space provided, make a note
of the names and telephone numbers of at least ten people or
places you need to remember, and before reading the next chapter
make sure you have your own ten numbers firmly pictured in your
memory. As you form the images, remember the Basic Memory
Principles, realising that the more enjoyable, humorous and ima-
ginative you make the exercise, the better your memory for those
important numbers will be.

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