Page 95 - Use Your Memory

THE NUMBER-RHYME SYSTEM
10 Toothpaste
11 Glitter
12 Heater
13 Railway
14 Lighter
15 Wart
16 Star
17 Peace
18 Button
19 Pram
20 Pump
Number-Shape and Number-Rhyme
Memory Test
On page 60 are three columns of twenty numbers: the first in
standard order; the second in reverse order; the third in random
order. Complete each list, filling in, next to the number, the
appropriate item from the list you have just memorised, covering
the lists with your hand or with paper as you complete them and
start on the next. When you have finished, calculate your score out
of a possible 60 points.
You will almost certainly have made an improvement over your
performance in the original test, but you might find that you are
still having difficulty with certain associations. Check any such
'weak' associations and examine the reasons for any failure. These
reasons usually include: not enough exaggeration and imagina-
tion; not enough colour; not enough movement; weak links; not
enough sensuality; and not enough humour. Take confidence
from the fact that the more you practise, the more such weak links
will become a matter of history. Today and tomorrow test yourself
whenever possible. Ask as many of your friends and acquaintances
as possible to try to catch you out on lists that they make up for you
to remember.
On the first few attempts, you will undoubtedly make some
errors, but even so you will be performing far beyond the average.
Consider any errors and mistakes you make to be good opportuni-
ties for examining- and subsequently strengthening- any areas of
weakness in your memory systems and the way you apply them. If
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