Page 93 - Use Your Memory

USE YOUR MEMORY
After you have finished reading this paragraph, test yourself with
your chosen Key Rhyming Image. Close your eyes, and run
through the numbers 1 to 10, projecting onto your inner screen a
clear and brilliant picture of the Key Rhyming Image you have for
each number. First, run through the system from 1 to 10 in the
normal order; next, run through the system in reverse order; next,
run through the system in random order; finally, pick the images
'out of the air', and connect the numbers to them. As you do each
exercise, repeat it, making each repetition faster than the previous
one, until you acquire such skill that your mind will
instantaneously produce the image as soon as you think of the
number. Spend at least five minutes on this exercise, starting now.
Now that you have mastered the Number-Rhyme System, you
will see that it can be used in exactly the same way as the Number-
Shape System.
Having learned both these systems, you have not only two separate
1 to 10 systems but also the makings of a system that allows you to
remember twenty objects in standard sequence, reverse sequence and
random sequence. All you have to do is to establish one of these two
systems as the numbers from 1 to 10, letting the other system
represent the numbers from 11 to 20. Decide which system you want
to be which, and immediately put it to the test!
You will remember that chapter 2 contained two tests in which
you were asked to memorise twenty items. The first of these tests
could have been completed adequately by using the Link System,
but the second was more difficult and required some form of basic
Peg Memory System.
Now apply your knowledge of the Number-Shape and
Number-Rhyme Systems to the more difficult of these two tests.
Give yourself approximately five minutes to memorise the list,
which is repeated at the end of this paragraph. When your time is
up, read the instructions on page 59 and then fill in the answers.
1 Atom
2 Tree
3 Stethoscope
4 Sofa
5 Alley
6 Tile
7 Windscreen
8 Honey
9 Brush
58