Harry Lorayne's page-a-minute memory book

Originally posted by murrow
how the crap do you get interested in useful but boring stuff though? gatecrasher if i was following your method would i have to have had sex with the pin number?

Ah, you've discovered the principle flaw in my method. It has to be a real interest, I'm afraid. You have to find those numbers really, really interesting. If you can't do that, tough! Your fault, not mine.

Originally posted by murrow
'A never-fail system for remembering everything" - TIME magazine.

that's big talk, huh?
has anyone tried one of these methods for improving your memory?
i've just bought lorayne's book and i'm about to start it...

I would pay a lot of money for a method to forget most of what I read . Who wants to remember most of the crap that's published these days?

Originally posted by catfoodtim
god if remember. no pun intended.

[b]the major system
copyright catfoodtim 1986

you assign a sound to the numbers 0-9

so 0=s/z
1=d/t
2=n
3=m
etc etc

then you link an image to each number using letters so:
1= tea
2=knee
3=me
...
12=tan
13=time
using vowels liberally.

then you use these images to link the items you need to rem nee etc etc

easy peasy lemon squeezy

😕

edit: nicepuffinpenguinavatar if i may say so.[/b]

ah! my book calls that something different (the 'peg system'😉 -- but yes i've just been reading about it.

that's sort of what i used to remember my friend's PIN number today (in that you can use the same idea to memorise numbers) -- i pictured a lime being squeezed onto the friends hands as she hung off my balcony ledge. (LIME LEDGE = LMLJ = 5356)
neat - i'm sure i'll remember it next week or next month come to that.
it didn't take long to learn which sounds go with which number, either (he has cool ways of remembering that stuff too).

hey i'm sold! 🙂