Comments on: Improve Your Memory by Speaking Your Mind’s Language

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:53:32 +0000

I always felt that making hilarious mental pictures is the core of the technique… If you have fun doing it, any peg system will do, right?!
Thanks for sharing!

By: viv

viv — Sun, 15 May 2011 02:10:35 +0000

I have just revisited a system my Mum showed me as a child.Its called The Alacrity Memory Method. It uses pegs 1-meatball 2- twins 3 brass balls 4- box 5 fingers 6 sticks 7 river 7 eight handcuffs 9 pill 10 tent 11 heaven 12 ruler 13 ladder 14 schoolboy 15 buttons 16 frypan(sizzling) 17 sweet 17 18 a tin 19ninepins 20 scoreboard 21 key 22 footymatch 23 Christmas tree 24 matador 25 policeman 26 sheep 27 glorious devon 28 calendar 29 coalmine 30 dirty 31 convict 32 goldfish(thirsty too)33 early tea 34 wedding ring(forevermore) 35 certified 36 backyard 37 squirting lemon 38 empty plate 39 clergyman 40 fat lady 41 sporting gun 42 knight in armour 43 Nelson (fought at sea) 44 see-saw 45 a trench 46 hod of bricks 47 megaphone
48 4 bob bit 49 faulty line 50 L 51 scotsman (thrifty one) 52 birthday cake. The idea is to make the most hilarious mental picture to remember your shopping list. Bacon dripping off a meatball twins covered with raw eggs,wine pouring from 3 brass balls at pawnbrokers shop.a huge box of batteries, hand covered with bubblegum spinach hit with sticks river turned to milk,handcuffs around envelopes swallowing a pill with a huge cup of coffee and a tent full of ripe tomatoes. Viv

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:40:33 +0000

I'd suggest a memory palace. But bear in mind that, as in every memory technique, you'll need practice to use it effectively with large amounts of information. Good luck!

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:29:38 +0000

does anyone know what memory technique would work well for a constitutional law exam?

any suggestion would help!

By: Kaman

Kaman — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:38:53 +0000

What if i have to memorize things in chemistry?

By: Jenik

Jenik — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:23:14 +0000

i don mind using the trick for a one time shopping list. However memory pegging becomes difficult when i have to remember multiple things which are to be reproduced at a particular time. if someone finds a way or an anchor at the start of the peg to remember multiple list.. then this is good.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:37:49 +0000

I know! It’s truly amazing indeed! As I said in this comment on the Memory Palace post:

“Memory champions like Dominic do have some additional secrets, of course. To be completely fair, guys like him don’t use the Memory Palace technique alone, but usually combine it with other techniques (such as phonetic systems).”

Other than that, I’d say it’s practice, practice, practice…

By: Frik van Eeden

Frik van Eeden — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:41:11 +0000

I,ve read somewhere that some guy can memorise all playing cards in one or more packs of 52 each, by looking at the cards only once. He used the palace method, they say. How does he do it? I find the palace method almost like magic for shopping lists and diary-type lists. Using it however for such large lists as packs of playing cards, sounds formidable to me!

By: Marissa Turnbow

Marissa Turnbow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:44:13 +0000

Annie,

I liked your pegs and vivid descriptions. Would you mind listing more than the first five?

Thank you.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:41:15 +0000

This doesn’t make you strange at all! The list of items in the article is presented as a quick learning example. Pegging can be extended to hundreds of items, and it also serves as a basic framework for many other memory techniques.

For our short list, try remembering it, say, next week — without using the pegging. Then, take another list and try it again, this time using pegging. Its power will probably become evident then.