How to Memorize Anything by Aditi Singhal, Sudhir Singhal

challenging you to catch him. So you made use of three of your senses: sight, touch, and hearing. That helps you feel the moment as real, as if you are a part of this event and bringing in three dimensions and movement to an image makes it more real.
E: Exaggeration— Visualize the objects in an exaggerated or out of proportion manner, especially in size or quantity. For example , visualizing so many yellow birds in the sky or one elephant-sized yellow bird makes more impact on the brain as compared to a single normal-sized bird.
I : Myself— Imagine that you are given photographs of a party that you attended some time back. Who will you look for in the photographs? Obviously yourself! Most of the time we are interested only in our self, i.e. ‘I’ or something associated with ‘I’. So the picture that you are going to imagine should include you, doing some action. That is why, while imagining the list given above, I asked you to visualize yourself holding a book— you are touching the horse’s mane, you went to sit on the horse, or you caught the laptop.
O: Outstanding —Try to visualize an image that is strange, odd, different from normal, outstanding, or silly. Our brain has a tendency to remember peculiar things.
U: Use colours and actions in your image —Would you like to see a black and white TV or a coloured one? Involvement of colours makes the picture unique and interesting. In the same way, action makes images appear more interesting compared to static images, that is why I used action while visualizing the list.
    Applying any combination of these five principles when forming your images will help make your mental associations truly outstanding and memorable. At first, you may need to consciously apply one or more of the five principles, but after a little practice, their application will become an automatic and natural process.
    Try visualizing an association between the following pairs keeping in mind the principle of AEIOU.
     
Banana and Donkey
Ice-cream and Table
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    It’s not important how long you visualize a picture,
    It’s more important how clear you visualize it.
C HAPTER AT A GLANCE
     
We can memorize any information given in the form of a list or a sequence by forming creative associations using the chain method.
In this, one object is associated with the second, second with the third and so on, like rings in a chain.
The items can be linked simply one after the other, like the rings in a chain, or we can weave a story to link all the objects given in the list.
Points to remember for making strong associations:
Link only two words at a time.
First word should be linked to the second, second to the third and so on.
Do not link one word to many different words as it might create confusion.
Use the principle of AEIOU for better visualization:
A: All senses—Make associations using all senses.
E: Exaggerate (think out of proportion) the visualization.
I: I (myself)—Try including yourself while imagining an association.
O: Outstanding—The image should be outstanding, i.e. different than usual, silly, not normal.
U: Use colours and action in your imagination.
Using these five principles will enable you to create memorable associations.

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    APPLICATION OF CHAIN METHOD
    T he ‘Chain Method’ is a quick way to connect unrelated items like the ones on a random list or any reading material. The idea is to create effective links between pairs of items in such a way that when you think of one item, the next one immediately comes to mind.
    We can create a chain of words in two ways:
It can be just pure linking where each word is just associated with the next, or
You can weave a story around the items to make the learning more interesting and permanent.
    This method has varied applications. It can be used to memorize a shopping list, grocery list, checklist, things-to-do on a particular day, points of speech or presentation, points to be discussed in a meeting,