Notes:

+ Linking a sequence by association to ridiculous or exaggerated mental pictures that connect the words or ideas


+ Substitute words for making the abstract concrete


+ Numbers to words
1. t or d (a typewritten t has one downstroke)
2. n (a typewritten n has two downstrokes)
3. m (a typewritten m has three downstrokes)
4. r (the word four ends with an r)
5. l (the five fingers of the left hand, thumb out, form an l)
6. j, sh, ch, soft g (a 6 and a capital J are almost mirror images)
7. k, hard c, hard g (you can make a capital K with two 7’s)
8. f, v, ph (an 8 and a handwritten cursive f look similar)
9. p or b (a 9 and a p are mirror images)
0. z, s, soft c (the first sound of the word zero is z)


+ Number to word pegs
1. Tie
2. Noah
3. Ma
4. Rye
5. Law
6. Shoe
7. Cow
8. Ivy
9. bee
10. toes
11. tot
12. tin
13. tomb
14. tire
15. towel
16. dish
17. tack
18. dove
19. tub
20. nose
21. net
22. nun
23. name
24. Nero
25. nail
26. notch
27. neck
28. knife
29. knob
30. mouse
31. mat
32. moon
33. mummy
34. mower
35. mule
36. match
37. mug
38. movie
39. mop
40. rose
41. rod
42. rain
43. ram
44. rower
45. roll
46. roach
47. rock
48. roof
49. rope
50. lace
51. lot
52. lion
53. loom
54. lure
55. lily
56. leech
57. log
58. lava
59. lip
60. cheese
61. sheet
62. chain
63. chum
64. cherry
65. jail
66. choo choo
67. chalk
68. chef
69. ship
70. case
71. cot
72. coin
73. comb
74. car
75. coal
76. cage
77. coke
78. cave
79. cob
80. fuzz
81. fit
82. phone
83. foam
84. fur
85. file
86. fish
87. fog
88. fife
89. fob
90. bus
91. bat
92. bone
93. bum
94. bear
95. bell
96. beach
97. book
98. puff
99. pipe
100. disease

An absolute classic in memory training

I liked the memory tricks recommended kn this book, but I think the real value in this book was its push to be more creative. I felt like reading the example creative tricks helped me feel creative for the first time in a while.

Focus on what you want to remember--if you want to remember. The best example is learning someone's name. Forget it right away? You're not being aware enough. When meeting new people, rhetorically repeat, "What is their name? What is their name?" Have that be your main nagging thought.

Substitute words for similar words. Page 73 is list for last names.

Put things in the same place every time. To remember to do or get something put something in your path or awkwardly out of place to spur original thought. "anything that looks out of place [...] wearing your watch on the wrong wrist"

(I haven't practically used that which is below--enough--to be useful.)
Learn the phonetic alphabet backwards and forwards to remember...not learning so shallow. Start with license plates around your home, then work; simply add acrostics for the three end letters. This is not to impress people that you remembered their license plate. No, it's merely support struts to more quickly create phone number memories--the real goal. With that, the license plate letters don't even need to be remembered.

Birthdates of family & friends are the next (practical) exercise. After these, phone numbers will be quickly translated to sounds. Why not start with your frequent contacts? (Eventually, the number will replace your mnemonic aid.)

Memorize peg number -> word. I broke every five pegs into a picture. E.g., for 6-10, I see my running shoe with a cow, suspended inside it by ropes of ivy, with bees around its right back hoof, which has some abnormal toes jutting out at weird angles from it.
6 = shoe
7 = cow
8 = ivy
9 = bee
10 = toes

A tot is in a tin shaped tomb, rolling down a hill inside a mono(tire)wheel rolling on a tile path. (11-15)

A spinning dish on a tack (like a wheel for clay), has a dove nested inside. All of which is surrounded by tub sculpted as a nose. (16-20)

A net caught a nun, with name Nero, hanging by a nail. (21-25)

A notch in your neck by a knife, now a knob for a nose, and a mouse next to your house. (26-30)

Matt went to the moon, while mommy used the mower instead of a mule. (31-35)

Match the mug to the movie, then (DNA) map a rose. (36-40)

A road with rain, cut scene, ram & rower rule. (41-45)

A roach under a rock on a reef near a rope lasso. (46-50)

A lady lion eats a lamb after using lure of lily. (51-55)

A leech on a log in lava spilling from the lip of cheese. (56-60)

A cheetah in chain from stealing a gem, eats a cherry in her hanging jail. (61-65)

A judge saw chalk (as the murder weapon), a chef on a ship (as the prime suspect) with a case (as the motive). (66-70)

A cat bought a gun to play a game in a car with coal. (71-75)

A cage with a gage in a cave guarded by a cop all for a vase/fuzz. (76-80)

A fit/foot tries to get a phone but foam (like plastic) from a fire keeps it in file(ing cabinet). (81-85)

A fish swimming in fog named Fife tries to fob open a bus. (86-90)

A bat of bone is held by a bum while a bear fights a bull. (91-95)

On a beach/bush a book lies next to bad beef, but a babe still gets daisies/disease. (96-100)
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To practice remembering them, I set each 'story' or at least the first peg picture inside a memory palace. Actually, it's my backyard:

Corner number one, the first picture (not described above); going clockwise, corner two near garden, a giant soiled shoe (6); corner three, a tot...(11); spinning dish over birdhouse (16). Going to side lawn, clothes line has a net hanging from it (21); corner, clockwise, where an angry neighbor is making making a notch (26); big tree splits in half while a rocket comes out with Matt at the controls (31); (36).

Front door, (41); main front door, (46); closest corner of driveway, (51); Preis corner of driveway, (56); small gate, (61); other side of small gate,(66).

Up, top of fence to roof corner, (71); counterclockwise next roof corner, (76); farthest roof corner, (81); next corner, (86); next corner, (91); last corner above back door from beginning, (96).

Simply put: It works well, but requires putting much additional energy into creating memory sequences that I feel are not practical for the person looking for general memorization tricks

Law/law stars
Great book, after 5 days I still remember the list of words from the first chapter. I think everyone should learn the techniques mentioned in this book.

I only got one tip out of this book. Wish it had more with learning text books. School. I will keep trying to see if I can apply what I read into college!

A very effective book. It completes the task it sets out to complete - teach you strategies to remember sequences of words, numbers, or various other subsets of information. The methods work!

Pretty interesting methods in here. I know that some of it will stick. And some of it...not so much.

It's clear from reading a book by an author who developed systems of mnemonics for memory aids that there is no process that will improve memory. The books methods consists of procedures for transforming one notation into a common word notation which can be "linked"/chained together to remember one or more items (even abstractions like numbers and cards). But the limitation is, one still needs to remember the how ever ridiculous/contrived imagery based on the common words. This could not be used effectively as a common memory enhancement device without a lot of practice And a really great memory! I've heard the more we use route memorization the bigger and more capable our hippocampus grows and memory capacity increases with use. So, want a better memory use you mind to memorize more often. There's no magic bullet.

It's not the regular book to read. It's a book to keep in your memory ... or at least at your desk. Going over exercises and techniques provided in this book will really improve your memory skills. In addition to that it was fun to read it.

It's good and has some really useful tips that may sound ridiculous at first, but it worked well enough for me when I tried. However, it describes and applies the same techniques to various things, to the point that it gets repetitive and boring with too much handholding, and it had no reason to be 200+ pages; a novella would have sufficed. So yeah, nothing much to say. It took me long enough to finish this, and if you just want the tips, you might be better off just reading one of the top reviews.