Sunday, November 25, 2007

Memory Power -Technique 4: Letter Shape

It’s all getting a bit complex now so we will now simplify it again, and look at a system that was discovered many years ago whereby whole words could be made out of letters.

We can see that numbers are the easiest way of organising the information, but unfortunately numbers in themselves are fairly abstract. So a system had to be found which would enable numbers to take on flesh and blood. This would have two advantages – the first would mean that you could create an infinite number of memory places without having to keep the images becoming more and more complex with patches and banks; the second was that you could retain dates, telephone numbers and other strings of complex digits.

The system is based around each number having a shape which relates to the shape of a letter, or rather the shape of the letter AND ANY OTHER PHONIC SOUND PRODUCED BY SIMILAR LETTERS OR COMBINATION OF LETTERS.

For example ‘ f ‘ in fish is the same sound as ‘ ph ‘ in elephant. These are the letters, and the ways of remembering them

1 t,d – the vertical stroke down starts the letter, it is the sound produced with a flick of the tongue on the teeth

2 n – the two downstrokes on the letter n in lower cae

3 – m similar to n, in that there are 3 downstrokes

4 – r The last letter of the word four

5 – L When you look at your right hand palm upwards and thumb out, it will form the letter L. It is also Roman for 50.

6 – soft g sound – it is the number 6 upside down. As in badge. Equally the sound works for a j, so 6 is also j.

7 – K, hard ch sound, hard g sound (as in girl). Take two mirror versions of a 7 and put them back to back k

8 – F, ph,v, th sounds. Similar to a hand written f and sounds are alike.

9 – P or b . 9 is a mirror image of p, lower case b is 9 rotated 180 degrees. They are both formed on the lips with a faint pop sound.

0 – S or Z, sch, sh. Z starts the word Zero, both s and z are formed with air escaping through a small hole formed by tongue and teeth.

Take some time learning these letters as they do take time, and it is worth getting right now. All other letters including vowels and such letters as w, y etc are filler letters and do not stand for any number, but help in the formation of words.

The first 10 numbers can be a bit tricky because of the words necessary, but then I will drop in a few of the higher numbers up to the number 100 as guide.

0 – Sea
1 – Day (a calendar?)
2 – Noah
3 – Ma
4 – Ra (a type of boat, also an Egyptian God)
5 – Law – imagine a court room
6 – jaw
7 – key
8 – fee (an entrance ticket perhaps?)
9 – bay
10 – Toes
32 - man
59 – Lab
73 – comb (note that the b is not sounded, so this is a legitimate word for 73. Were the b sounded it would be number 739!)
98 – Bath

You will need to come up with the other words yourself. As it is the best way of learning and making any system personal to you. With this system it is comparatively easy to come up with a list up to 9999 long! You need to break it down though.

Dominic O’Brien is a world memory champion, and he suggests using these letters in a quite remarkable way. Break the four digit number into to parts, so you have to digits followed by two digits. The first two digits are represented by the kind of list that you have above, but the second two are famous movie stars, represented by their initials. So Sean Connery is 07 (no relation to James Bond either!) If you had a number to remember, or wanted to place something at position 5907, then you would imagine that item in a Lab with the chemist as Sean Connery making some potion or other.

Of course, you don’t need to limit yourself to short 4 letter groupings. If you can manage to then any word can become a number, but it must be a touchable object or person. The word Dressing Gown for example would represent the number 1402772 … which looks suspiciously like a phone number! In which case if your friend who is called Arthur has the number 1402772, you would imagine Arthur, holding a phone (so you knew what it was about) in a dressing gown. This demonstrates how you use different systems at different times and places, which I will discuss later on when I suggest some pointers as to how to remember some of those dates that you might have to learn in history!

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