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USE YOUR MEMORY
In order to remember well, you must include in your associated
and linked mental landscape the following:
1 Colour. The more colours you use, and the more vivid they are,
the better. Using colour alone can improve your memory by as
much as 50 per cent.
2 Imagination. Your imagination is the powerhouse of your
memory. The more vividly you can imagine, the more easily you
will remember. Sub-areas within imagination include the
following:
a Expansion: the more gigantic and enormous you can make
your mental images, the better.
b Contraction: if you can clearly imagine your picture as
extremely tiny, you will remember it well,
c Absurdity: the more ridiculous, zany and absurd your mental
images are, the more they will be outstanding and thus the
more they will be remembered.
3 Rhythm. The more rhythm and variation of rhythm in your
mental picture, the more that picture will weave itself into your
memory.
4 Movement. As often as possible, try to make your mental
images move. Moving objects are usually remembered better than
still ones.
5 The Senses:
tasting
touching
smelling
seeing
hearing
The more you can involve all your senses in your memory image,
the more you will remember it. For example, if you have to
remember that you have to buy bananas, you stand a far better
chance of not forgetting your task if you can actually imagine
smelling a banana as you touch it with your hands, bite into it with
your mouth and taste it, see it as it is approaching your face, and
hear yourself munching it.
6 Sex. Sex is one of our strongest drives, and if you apply this
aspect of yourself to your magnificent daydreaming ability, your
memory will improve.
7 Sequencing and Ordering. Imagination alone is not enough for
memory. In order to function well, your mind needs order and
sequence. This helps it to categorise and structure things in such a
way as to make them more easily accessible, much in the same way
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