How to Memorize Anything by Aditi Singhal, Sudhir Singhal Page B
Authors: Aditi Singhal, Sudhir Singhal
Tags: Self-Help, Meditations
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sense to note down your to-do list and then spend a few more minutes to memorize it using AIR .
For example, let’s take a list of tasks that you have to do (in sequence) on a particular Saturday.
Playing lawn tennis at your club in the morning
Washing the car
Going to the bank for depositing a cheque
Getting a hair cut
Buying medicines
Visiting your dentist
Visiting a stationery shop to buy a few things, like a hand-made sheet, markers, crayons, and stapler
Picking up a stitched dress from the boutique
Helping your son in completing his school project
Preparing for your presentation which is due next week
Baking a cake
The bold words can be taken as the keywords to be remembered which will further remind you of the complete task to be done. For example, just a mention of the car is enough to remind you that it has to be washed.
Now make associations between the tasks using the chain method. Just to help you out, an idea for the visualization is given below.
VISUALIZATION:
Saturday is the only day when you get to meet your friends in the club . Visualize that in the club you are playing lawn tennis with your friends. After playing, you and your friends start washing your car which is completely covered in mud. You get into your shining, freshly washed car and straight away drive into the bank . The people in the bank attack you and start giving you a haircut . You fight with them and in the process, you get a cut on your neck. You rush to buy medicines from a nearby store. There you see that your dentist is selling medicines. He starts examining your teeth using stationary items as his tools. He covers your body with hand-made paper , colours your teeth with crayons and red marker and after that he staples your mouth. To remove all these, you rush to your boutique where the tailor helps you in removing that paper and gives you your newly stitched dress. You use that dress for your son’s project . Your son gets an award for his presentation . You celebrate the success by baking a chocolate cake .
After you have associated all your things-to-do for the day, all you have to do is complete one task and that will remind you of the next, and so on.
You will learn how to remember this list with time details as well when we learn to remember appointments using the number pegging system in chapter 12 ‘ Peg System ’.
MEMORIZING A CHECKLIST
On the second day of my 3-day long Mind and Memory Workshop for students organized in a college, a participant shared his experience of using the chain method in his personal life. I had taught them the chain method on the first day of the workshop. He told me that his apartment was on the sixth floor and most of the time while leaving for college he would feel as if he was forgetting to pick up something. Because of this, he would check again to make sure he had taken everything he needed so that he didn’t have to come up again. But by the time he would reach the ground floor, he would find that he had actually forgotten something important at home. Sometimes it was his mobile phone or bike keys or sometimes his important notes. This would lead to a lot of wastage of time and energy.
But after learning the chain technique of memorizing, he learnt to apply it successfully to memorize all the things without missing anything.
Here is the list that he shared with the other participants at the workshop:
Wallet
Identity card
Watch
Mobile
Sunglasses
Water bottle
Books
Handkerchief
Keys
Now let’s try to make a chain for the above list.
Just imagine it’s your birthday and your mother gives you a brown leather wallet as gift. You put some cash in it and try to insert your I-card. But the card is too big. So you tie this card to your watch with a string and wear the watch. Your watch turns into a mobile that starts ringing loudly. It’s your sister who calls to wish you and tells you that she has bought big, black sunglasses as your birthday gift…
Now complete this chain
For example, let’s take a list of tasks that you have to do (in sequence) on a particular Saturday.
Playing lawn tennis at your club in the morning
Washing the car
Going to the bank for depositing a cheque
Getting a hair cut
Buying medicines
Visiting your dentist
Visiting a stationery shop to buy a few things, like a hand-made sheet, markers, crayons, and stapler
Picking up a stitched dress from the boutique
Helping your son in completing his school project
Preparing for your presentation which is due next week
Baking a cake
The bold words can be taken as the keywords to be remembered which will further remind you of the complete task to be done. For example, just a mention of the car is enough to remind you that it has to be washed.
Now make associations between the tasks using the chain method. Just to help you out, an idea for the visualization is given below.
VISUALIZATION:
Saturday is the only day when you get to meet your friends in the club . Visualize that in the club you are playing lawn tennis with your friends. After playing, you and your friends start washing your car which is completely covered in mud. You get into your shining, freshly washed car and straight away drive into the bank . The people in the bank attack you and start giving you a haircut . You fight with them and in the process, you get a cut on your neck. You rush to buy medicines from a nearby store. There you see that your dentist is selling medicines. He starts examining your teeth using stationary items as his tools. He covers your body with hand-made paper , colours your teeth with crayons and red marker and after that he staples your mouth. To remove all these, you rush to your boutique where the tailor helps you in removing that paper and gives you your newly stitched dress. You use that dress for your son’s project . Your son gets an award for his presentation . You celebrate the success by baking a chocolate cake .
After you have associated all your things-to-do for the day, all you have to do is complete one task and that will remind you of the next, and so on.
You will learn how to remember this list with time details as well when we learn to remember appointments using the number pegging system in chapter 12 ‘ Peg System ’.
MEMORIZING A CHECKLIST
On the second day of my 3-day long Mind and Memory Workshop for students organized in a college, a participant shared his experience of using the chain method in his personal life. I had taught them the chain method on the first day of the workshop. He told me that his apartment was on the sixth floor and most of the time while leaving for college he would feel as if he was forgetting to pick up something. Because of this, he would check again to make sure he had taken everything he needed so that he didn’t have to come up again. But by the time he would reach the ground floor, he would find that he had actually forgotten something important at home. Sometimes it was his mobile phone or bike keys or sometimes his important notes. This would lead to a lot of wastage of time and energy.
But after learning the chain technique of memorizing, he learnt to apply it successfully to memorize all the things without missing anything.
Here is the list that he shared with the other participants at the workshop:
Wallet
Identity card
Watch
Mobile
Sunglasses
Water bottle
Books
Handkerchief
Keys
Now let’s try to make a chain for the above list.
Just imagine it’s your birthday and your mother gives you a brown leather wallet as gift. You put some cash in it and try to insert your I-card. But the card is too big. So you tie this card to your watch with a string and wear the watch. Your watch turns into a mobile that starts ringing loudly. It’s your sister who calls to wish you and tells you that she has bought big, black sunglasses as your birthday gift…
Now complete this chain
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