How to develop a super power memory. This is by far one of the most excellent books I have read while improving myself.  Within a few hours and only half way through the book I was able to remember and recite a list of 100 words, easily! Simply through a memory peg system!

I highly recommend you to check this out, especially if you are always complaining about your memory. Since this book, the systems and will power will grant you an excellent, trained memory.  Plus, imagine the cool things you can show off with.

If you want to improve your memory READ THIS NOW!

Purpose of this programme is to educate you on how to use a memory peg system that will improve your memory greatly up as far as a super power memory. Harry Lorayne memory techniques and rules will fulfill this.

Harry Lorayne – How to Develop a Super Memory

• Most People just see and don’t observe so they don’t remember what they see.  Example, what colour is at the top of a traffic light?

• An accurate and retentive memory is the basis of all business success
• Plato – “All knowledge is but remembrance”
• There is no limit to the memory
• You can be taught to have a trained memory just like everything else.  It is much easier to train a memory than to learn a musical instrument.
• There is no such thing as a bad memory, only trained and untrained memories.
• Most things you have ever remembered have been associated sub-consciously with something else that you already know or remembered
• What is not associated strongly will be forgotten

• Look to page 20 in original book for list of tests, remember and complete these tests.

• “The true art of memory is the art of attention.” – Samuel Johnson

• You are driving a bus which contains fifty people. The bus makes one stop and ten people get off, while three people get on.  At the next stop seven people get off the bus, and two people get on. There are two more stops at which four passengers get off each time, and three fares get on at one stop, and none at the other. At this point, the bus has to stop because of mechanical trouble. Some of the passengers are in a hurry and decide to walk. So eight people get off the bus. When the mechanical trouble is taken care of, the bus goes to the last stop, and the rest of the people get off.
• If you want to improve your memory immediately then force yourself to want to remember
• If you tackle any memory problem with confidence and “I will remember” you most likely will
• Writing stuff down to aid your memory is fine but do not substitute it for your memory, or your memory will get worse
• Keep in mind that the memory likes to be trusted; more you trust it the more reliable it will be
• You have a better memory for things that interest you or what you like

• “A man’s real possession is his memory.  In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor” – Alexander Smith
• Your trained mind will consist mostly of ridiculous mental images
• Your mental picture with linking the two objects must be ridiculous and illogical as possible
• You must see the image of the item linked in your minds eye
• Each visualisation must be seen for the smallest amount of time
• Rules to help –

1. Picture your items out of proportion
2. Picture your items in action whenever possible.  We remember violent and embarrassing things better
3. Exaggerate the amount of items
4. Substitute your items.  I.e. smoking a nail instead of a cigarette

• I will give you now, a different consonant sound for each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0. These you must commit to memory. I'll make this simple for you by giving you a "memory aid" for remembering each one. Read them carefully and with your full attention.

1. The sound for #1 will always be—T or D. The letter T has one down stroke.
2. The sound for # 2 will always be—N. Typewritten n has two down strokes.
3. The sound for #3 will always be—M. Typewritten m has three down strokes.
4. The sound for #4 will always be—R. Final sound of the word, "four" is R.
5. The sound for #5 will always be—L. Roman numeral for 50 is L.
6. The sound for #6 will always be—j, ch, sh, soft g, etc. The letter g turned around is almost like the number 6.
7. The sound for #7 will always be—K, hard c, hard g. The number 7 can be used to form a K. One seven right side up, and the other upside down.
8. The sound for #8 will always be—F or V. Written f and figure 8 both have two loops, one above the other.
9. The sound for #9 will always be—P or B. The number 9 turned around is P.
10. The sound for 0 (zero) will always be—S or Z. First sound of the word, "zero."

• Letters are not important, only the sounds since it is a phonetic alphabet
• To help remember you can use “TeN MoRe LoGiC FiBS” as a reminder
• None of the vowels mean anything in the phonetic alphabet and neither does W, H or Y.  To remember these, remember “Why”

• 1 = T or D, best word = “Tie” so picture a tie
• 2 = N, best word = “Noah” so picture an old man
• 3 = M, best word = “Ma” so picture your mother
• 4 = R, best word = “Rye” so picture a loaf of rye bread
• 5 = L, so best word = “Law” so picture a policeman
• 6 = SH, best word = “Shoe” so picture a shoe
• 7 = C, best word = “Cow” sp picture a cow
• 8 = V, best word “Ivy” so picture poison ivy
• 9 = B, best word = “Bee” so picture a bee
• 10 = because it’s 2 digits it must be made of 1 and 0 so T and S, best word is “Toes”
• Complete peg words for 1 to 10:

• 1. Tie
• 2. Noah
• 3. Ma
• 4. Rye
• 5. Law
• 6. Shoe
• 7. Cow
• 8. Ivy
• 9. Bee
• 10. Toes

• Complete peg words for 11 to 25:

• 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

• You can remember as many lists as you want
• Peg system is the best way to remember such things as telephone numbers
• Complete peg words for 26 to 50:

• 26.   Notch
• 27.   Neck
• 28.   Knife
• 29.   Knob
• 30.   Mice
• 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

• “What one has not properly realised, one cannot properly be said to remember either”
• Simply practise looking and observing and recalling then look again, it will improve
• Complete peg words for 51 to 75:

• 51.   Lot
• 52.   Lion
• 53.   Loom
• 54.   Lure
• 55.   Lilly
• 56.   Leach
• 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

• Use the link method to remember speeches, read over your speech a few times then start to link keywords.  Use as keyword for every thought, maybe 1 keyword for 2 or 3 sentences.
• “If you remember the main, the incidental will fall into place”
• Can use same system to remember articles you’ve read
• “A good storyteller someone who has a good memory and hopes other people haven’t”

• To remember all 52 cards you need to know at least 52 peg words
• You will need to remember a word for each card.  First letter of that word will be the suit, H = Hearts, D = Diamonds etc. Last letter will be the number so DASH = 6 of diamonds because of SH = 6
• All card words –

• Clubs:

• Hearts:

• Spades:

• Diamonds:

• The system of [suit] [number] = DASH only works Ace to 10.  Picture cards are different.  Jack will simply be the suit of the card so Jack of spades will be SPADE
• King of clubs will be KING and queen of hearts will be QUEEN
• King of spades = Sing and Queen of diamonds = Dream
• To do the memory feat of correctly saying which cards are missing you associate cards you hear with their word and in some way break/damage that image, then when you go through the list mentally you know what cards are missing because you can see them as not broken
• Best to go mentally through the suits in the same order.  Best order is clubs, hearts, spades and then diamonds.  To remember the order remember CHaSeD.

• “The memory is a treasure to whom we must give funds, if we are to draw the assistance we need”
• Separate the number into pairs like 52 | 26 | 41 | 63 | 75 | 27  then you assign the peg word for each double digit number which will be  LION | NOTCH | ROD | CHUM | COAL | NECK then you can use the link method to link them
• Average adult is said to be able to remember a 6 digit number after one look, a superior adult remembers 8
• You can also using the peg system increase the groups of numbers to 3 or 4.  Just make up new words, example 9483 = Perfume

• Create pictures for each letter of the alphabet that is similar and begins with that letter, A = Apple, B = Bear etc

• To remember a day of the year remember this number = 633752741631.  With this you can remember the day of the week for any day in 1957.  They list every Sunday for 12 months.
• Method –
  • If you want to know the day of March 27th, 1913.  Assuming the “year key” for 1913 is 2 and the month key for March is 4.  You would then add these together to get 6.  Then you’ll add 6 to the day, which is 27 so the answer is 33. Last step is to remove all the 7’s, 7 goes into 33 4 times giving you 28, so remove 28 from 33 and you have 5.  With 5 you simply get the day, which is a Thursday.  Using this it means Sunday is day 1.

• The month keys –
  • January – 1
  • February – 4
  • March – 4
  • April – 0
  • May – 2
  • June – 5
  • July – 0
  • August – 3
  • September – 6
  • October – 1
  • November – 4
  • December – 6

• January is the first month of the year so it is easy to remember that it is 1.  February is normally cold, cold has 4 letters so =4.  In March the wind blow, both have 4 letters so =4.  April has showers; all 7’s must be removed so 7-7 = 0. May Day, may pole = 2 words so Mat =2.  June Bride is a common phrase, bride has 5 letters so June = 5.  July is normally considered to be associated with fire crackers.  Cracker = 7 letters, so 7-7=0.  August is a hot month, hot = 3 letters, so August = 3.  September is the month that leaves start to turn brown.  Leaves = 6 letters so =6. Octo means 8, so October =(8-7) = 1.  November is the election month, vote, vote = 4 letters, November = 4.  December celebrates Christ, Christ = 6 letters, so December = 6.

• Use word substitutes
• Simply use words that sound alike that hold meaning to you.  Father in French is Pere, associate father and pear = pere.

• Most people are classed as “eye minded” meaning they register things they see rather than things they hear etc in a much moiré focused way
• Main reason people forget a name is because they never remembered it in the first place
• Be sure to hear and remember the name
• Spelling a person’s name correctly will impress them greatly
• When talking to a person, repeat his name as often as possible in the conversation, don’t overdo it though

• 3 types of names –

1. Names that have meaning to you
2. Names that have no meaning in themselves but you can suggest a picture
3. Names that have no meaning and you can suggest nothing

• To remember the 3rd type you will use substitute words or thoughts

• Best way to associate the name to the face is to link it to their face in a ridiculous way
• When you meet someone, look at their face and try to find one outstanding feature
• When you look at their face, you must observe closely and etch it into your memory
• If Mr Sacks has a huge forehead you could see millions of sacks falling on his forehead
• Best way to practise remembering names and faces is to just start doing it

• To remember facts about people just add them into the link relationship with their name
• Can also add to the link their title, DR, MR etc

• Using the phonetic alphabet

• It is important to remember only want you want to remember
• Writing stuff down doesn’t help your memory
• You strengthen your memory every time you use it

• People with great memories can be absent memory prone too
• Preoccupied is a common reason of absent-mindedness because putting something down is simply not important enough to give any conscious attention.  So avoid by thinking about what you’re doing
• To remember, think of the last things you see when you leave your home for example, then associate it to what you want to remember
• Same for small things like putting down a pencil, just associate pencil with desk etc

• People are generally amazed by any memory stunt
• Using the phonetic alphabet again you can remember strings of numbers
• Re-read page 179 for how to

• Name the days of the week with a number, mon = 1 etc
• Now transpose the hours of the day to your peg words
• If you wanted to remember Wednesday at 4:00 you would know that Wed = 3 and 4:00 = 4 so 34 = Mower
• Only times that cannot be used with pegs are 11 and 12
• 2 ways to handle 11 and 12 –

1. Add 11 or 12 to the day number, Monday at 12 = 112 etc now you would need to make up a peg word like Tootin for example (list on page 188)
2. Instead of using them as 2 numbers only use, 1 so Friday at 11:00 will be 51.  You will need to think of a new peg words that fit for the new numbers such as “Lad” from the normal “lot” not to get confused with the original peg words

• If you have an appointment with the dentist for example, associate your keyword to the dentist
• If your appointment isn’t on the hour simply add a new peg word for the minutes

• Use the peg system, link to person to month etc

• These are on page 201 if you are interested

• Use them to improve your life!

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