In case you want to refer to a numerical listing of the letters, I’ve incorporated it into the table above. Incidentally, if you take the time to memorise the numerical position of the letters of the alphabet, you’ll also know what was the fourteenth item, or the twelfth, or whatever. You’ll not only be able to create almost instant action scenes, you’ll be able to see them vividly and in great detail. And once you’ve done this a few times and got used to it, you’ll be able to come up with these images almost instantly. The more effectively you created the images, the more readily they’ll come to mind. In effect, they have been hung on memory ‘hooks’. When you come to recite the list of items, all you have to do is go through the alphabet and you will see the items you’ve placed along the way. In other words, you should try to make the scene come alive! There should, ideally, be movement, action, things getting shoved around, things getting broken, things making noise, exploding, etc, etc. Or make it frustrating (like the ape with the photocopier … you should almost be able to feel the ape’s frustration). What you want to do is firmly associate the peg word with the item, but do it vividly, and do it using every trick in the book. If that’s all you’re going to do, good luck with using this method, because you’re going to need it.
Don’t just think “Er … ‘A’ … that’s ‘ape’ … and there’s, er, a photo-copier … okay, next …”. You get the idea?īe creative! Play with it! It only takes seconds. The next item is a delivery of paving slabs … imagine a cat, wearing a yellow hard hat and holding a clip-board, and he’s taking delivery of the slabs and keeping a sharp eye on the delivery men … he’s a suspicious cat, look at the way he’s watching them … he won’t let them get away with making a short delivery, that’s for sure. The next item is a brand new shirt, still in its packaging … imagine someone selling you the shirt and when the sale is rung up, a big bell on the cash register rings (remember to make the bell BIG, much bigger than a bell on a cash register has any right to be, and really hear it ringing … but also remember to focus on the shirt … very important to remember to focus on the item itself, not just the memory peg you’re associating with it). The hard-hat cat is a tough boss to work for!
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