Given below the names of 20 objects found in most homes.Think of the ones in your own home and imagine them in the following order:
In your kitchen In your bathroom
1. Sink 11. Bath-tub
2. Stove 12. Lavatory
3. Utensils 13. Shelf
4. Table 14. Mirror
5. Refrigerator 15. Towel
In your living room In your bedroom 6. Telephone 16. Bed
7. Easy chair 17. Book Rack
8. Lamp 18. Waste-bin
9. TV set 19. Curtain
10. Poster 20. Alarm clock
Read this list over and mentally see each one of these familiar objects in your own home. Next, associate them in a sequence.
For example, in your kitchen, there are 5 items. In your living room also there are five items, numbered from 6 to 10. In your bathroom, the bath-tub stands for number 11, the shelf stand for number 13, and the towel stands for number 15. In your bedroom, the bed stands for number 16, the curtain stands for number 19, and the alarm clock stands for number 20.
Now ,I am going to show you ;how to use your imagination to associate images of things on a shopping list with the pictures of those things in your home which are so familiar to you. When you follow these instructions, you will prove to yourself that CHAPTER- 108
1. Pen 11. Juice
8. Potato 18. Washing Powder
9. Belt 19. Playing Cards
10. Bag 20. Match Box
Please follow my instruction carefully. I want you to see each of these picture in your imagination. It may sound bizarre, but do this exercise. It is of tremendous importance in developing your memory.
1. You are storing a pen in your kitchen sink. See it now!
2. You are washing the dirty stove with soap. Visualize it.
3. See yourself using pencil instead of fork kept among the utensil while eating food.
4. Visualize a table and see yourself engaged in its decoration with colourful flowers. Have a look at it.
5. See the deep fridge of the refrigerator full of cassettes.
6. See you are painting your old black telephone instrument into glittering red. See it now!
7. Visualize, see that you are replacing one of the broken legs of the chair with a yellow coloured big torch.
8. Mentally, see that you are placing a potato instead of a bulb in the bulb-holder of the lamp.
9. Visualize that you are buckling with a belt the expensive TV set of your house and a bed so that it may not be taken away by thieves.
10.Visualize your school bag. When you open the bag in the school, you find the bag full of posters instead of books.
you do have an imagination and that you do have the ability to remember.
Here is a shopping list. I will now explain how to remember it by associating each item on this list with the object in your home.
14. See yourself cutting the mirror into different designs with a big and sharp knife. See the handle of the knife in your right hand.
15.See your towel covered with cream, shelf dripping with Cream! See it now!
16.You are scared of the road. So you are learning cycling on the bed. Visualize it!
17.Picture that you are placing shirts of different colours in the book rack since there is no space in the cupboard.
18.Your waste-bin is filled with washing powder. See it now!
19.To prevent others from knowing that you have a passion for playing cards, you are covering the room all over with curtains before beginning the game.
20.Visualize your alarm clock. Now see a match-stick instead of the hour and the minute-hands of the alarm clock.
Now write down what you saw with each of these items:
1. Sink ___________ 11. Bath-tub ____________
2. Stove __________ 12. Lavatory ____________
3. Utensil _________ 13. Shelf ______________
4. Table __________ 14. Mirror ______________
5. Refrigerator _____ 15. Towel ______________
6. Telephone ______ 16. Bed ________________
7. Easy chair ______ 17. Book Rack__________
8. Lamp __________ 18. Waste-bin___________
9. TV_____________ 19. Curtain _____________
10. Poster _________ 20. Alarm Clock _________
Look at it now!
11.See yourself bathing in the bath-tub with lemon juice. Try to feel the taste of it!
12.Your lavatory is filled with onions. You’re peeling them there and your tears fill the bowl. Look at it now!
13. Lock your shelf mentally with a gigantic lock. See it colourfully.
Never speak of yourself to others, make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of
pleasing. Everyone knows it and everyone forgets it.
- Edmond and Jules de Gondcourt Keyword: Permanent storage place
Stop now and think for a few minutes about what you have just done. At first this probably seemed strange to you.
However, you have succeeded in associating a picture representing an object on your shopping list with a picture of something you could not forget because of your familiarity with it.
This method of associati ng pictures representing items of shopping list with items in your household may also be applied to memorising the points in a sales talk or a speech. Think of how much more confidence you will have when you know you can not possibly forget what you want to say on any occasion!
Incredibly simple, isn’t it?
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying
to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
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