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MEMORY SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULES AND APPOINTMENTS
Your next appointment, at 1.00 p.m. (1300 hours), is for lunch.
The Key Word here is dam. Imagine your luncheon table and
luncheon guests, including yourself, sitting down for lunch at the
top of an enormous dam, looking at the limpid lake on one side and
the roaring waterfall on the other.
At 6.00 p.m. you have a board meeting. The Major System
Memory Word for 18 (1800 hours) is Dave. The association here
is not difficult: imagine the confidential matters of your board
meeting being discussed with the actual members who will be
meeting, as well as the Dave of your choice.
Finally, you have an appointment at 10.00 p.m. (2200 hours) to
see a late film. The Major System Memory Word is nan, so you
can imagine going to the film with your grandmother, or if you like
Indian food, imagine yourself eating the Indian bread {nan)
throughout the film.
You can easily 'order' these five appointments, either by using
the Link System to link the images you have just made or by simply
placing each of the five images on your basic Number-Shape or
Number-Rhyme System.
The second system for remembering schedules and appointments
may be used for an entire week. Take Sunday as day 1 of the week
and ascribe a number to each of the other days:
Sunday 1
Monday 2
Tuesday 3
Wednesday 4
Thursday 5
Friday 6
Saturday 7
Having given a number to the day, you treat the hours as they are
treated in the first system discussed above, and as they appear in
railway, shipping and airline timetables. The day is considered to
have 24 hours, from 2400 (midnight) through 1.00 a.m. (0100),
noon (1200), 1.00 p.m. (1300), and back to midnight (2400).
Thus, for any hour and day of the week a 2- or 3-digit number is
formed - day first, hour second. All that is necessary is to translate
the number into the word of a Major System list. Having arrived at
the word, you link it with the appropriate appointment. For
example, suppose you had an appointment to see a car you wanted
to buy at 9.00 a.m. on Tuesday. Tuesday is represented by the
number 3, which in the Major System translates to the letter m.
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