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    How to Remember Anything: The Total Proven Memory Retention System
    How to Remember Anything: The Total Proven Memory Retention System
    How to Remember Anything: The Total Proven Memory Retention System
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    How to Remember Anything: The Total Proven Memory Retention System

    By Dean Vaughn

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    The Only Book of Its Kind—Build Memory Power Whether You're 8 or 80

    Dean Vaughn's How to Remember Anything is a remarkable system for harnessing your brain's capacity for memory. Vaughn's user-friendly ten-step system goes beyond the drills and repetitions many of us learned as children by tapping into the power of sight and hearing. Visualizations, sound-alike words, and odd juxtapositions of objects (the more illogical the better) are some of the elements of Vaughn's sure-fire program to remember and retain everything from the names of the presidents of the United States to birthdays and appointments. Millions of individuals have benefited from this remarkable, proven memory system. You will too!

    How to Remember Anything will help you remember:

    * names and faces
    * vocabulary and world languages
    * where you put things
    * numbers, reports and meeting agendas
    * appointments, birthdays and anniversaries
    * your schedule and things to do
    * how to speak in public without notes
    * geography, geometry
    * ANYTHING!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 17, 2007
    ISBN9781466815957
    How to Remember Anything: The Total Proven Memory Retention System
    Author

    Dean Vaughn

    Dean Vaughn is the president of Dean Vaughn Learning Systems, Inc., of Hershey, Pennsylvania. His more than 20 books, video courses and computer programs have been applied to a wide range of subjects, from elementary reading and mathematics to the field of medicine. He is the author of How to Remember Anything.

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    How to Remember Anything - Dean Vaughn

    Introduction

    YOU CAN REMEMBER ANYTHING!

    Memory is power! Without memory, no knowledge can exist. You can rapidly develop your memory to a phenomenal degree if you have a sincere desire to do so. No learned skill can be so easily or dramatically developed as the memory. You are about to discover that you can increase your memory power to a phenomenal degree in just ten easy steps. Various combinations of these ten steps will make it possible for you to rapidly learn and remember virtually anything, no matter how complex the information may be! This book includes the basic methods of my learning system, enabling you to apply it to your own specific needs. If you spend an average of only ten to fifteen minutes per day for just several weeks learning these ten simple steps, you will be amazed and excited about your newfound memory power!

    In just minutes from now, when you learn the numbered room system, you will see how this organized memory system can work for you. Although the numbered room system is just the first step, it has many applications. You will start slowly, then expand to more complex applications. However, all of the memory techniques will be just as easy as learning the numbered room system.

    With more than two and a half million individuals having completed my courses with an average of more than 95 percent retention, I can confidently assure you that you will remember incredibly more of what you need to remember because you will be seeing rather than reading or hearing. My learning system is based on your natural ability to remember exceptionally well the things that you see—even if what you see is only in your mind’s eye—and I’ll show you how to change anything you want to remember into something you can see. Then I’ll show you how to connect what you see with something you already know. That’s it! It’s never any more difficult than that! Even if the information is complex, you will always use only two objects at a time. One object or familiar physical location will represent what you already know and the other will represent what you want to remember.

    The memory skills taught in this book will help you achieve more in less time than you have ever dreamed possible. They will arm you with a competitive edge that others do not have (unless they have also discovered the secrets revealed in this book). You will be able to put these skills into practical use immediately. They will help you stay mentally alert for a lifetime.

    The purpose of this book is to teach you how to remember anything—quickly, easily, and accurately. I will guide you step-by-step to phenomenal memory power! Rather than boring you with the history of memory techniques, how the brain works, why we forget, or philosophical reasons as to why you should develop your memory skills, I will teach you how to remember. After all, that must surely be the reason you are reading this book.

    Achieving results with the well-organized, dramatically effective learning systems you will discover in this book will be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. It will also be one of the most exciting and enjoyable. Additionally, you can use the techniques for the rest of your life. Use your natural memory and common sense in every memory application. Your natural memory, working in harmony with common sense and effective memory techniques, will enable you to achieve phenomenal results. Trust the system. I promise that you will be surprised and very pleased with your results.

    Part I

    THE TEN STEPS TO HOW TO REMEMBER ANYTHING

    Step 1

    A NUMBERED ROOM SYSTEM

    As you read this chapter, place yourself in a square or rectangular room. If you are not, just visualize a very familiar room that is square or rectangular. Any room with four walls, four corners, a floor, and a ceiling will work. That’s ten locations.

    There are only ten single-digit numbers—zero through nine. I am going to permanently assign the ten single-digit numbers to the ten basic locations of any square or rectangular room.

    Visualize yourself at the center of the room, and turn so that you are facing the front wall of the room. Any wall can be chosen to represent the front wall of the room.

    As you look at the following illustration of the numbered room locations, look, also, at the corresponding room locations in the room in which you are now located or the room that you are visualizing.

    As you look at the illustration, note that the four corners are odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, and 7. They start in the back left corner, and move clockwise to the corners around the room:

    Back left corner is location 1

    Front left corner is location 3

    Front right corner is location 5

    Back right corner is location 7

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    The four walls of the room are the even numbers: 2, 4, 6, and 8. They start at the left wall, and move clockwise to the walls around the room:

    Left wall is location 2

    Front wall is location 4

    Right wall is location 6

    Back wall is location 8

    The ceiling of the room is location 0 and the floor is location 9.

    I suggest that you put this book down and look around the room. Look at all the locations, starting with 0 at the ceiling, then 1, 2, 3, and so on. Then look at them in reverse order. Last, look at each location randomly and think of the number assigned to it.

    You now have a memory bank for the numbers 0 through 9. Before continuing, please be certain you know the ten numbered room locations. For example, when you think of number 7, you should immediately think of the back right corner of the room. If you think of number 2, you should immediately think of the left wall.

    You should be able to close your eyes and see each of the ten locations forward, backward, or randomly. You should also be able to think of any number between 0 and 9 and quickly see its room location in your mind.

    I call this numbered room system a Cube, even though you will seldom be in a room that is actually a cube. This numbered Cube methodology has been used in thousands of academic and corporate applications with unprecedented success.

    Let’s suggest that you want to learn and remember information in which a numbered sequence is important. For example, let’s use the first nine presidents of the United States. The information you want to remember could be any numbered sequence. Please follow the steps very carefully, even if you are not interested in the content. The content is not what is important. What’s important is to know how the system works so you can use it in almost limitless practical applications.

    I mentioned earlier that all of my memory techniques include only two objects at a time. One object represents what you already know and the other represents what you want to remember. Both must be objects or locations you can see. In this case, you already know the nine numbered locations in the Cube. We will not use the 0 location (ceiling) for this exercise. You can actually see or visualize each of the nine locations, so these are your knowns or what you already know.

    What you want to remember is the name of the president for each of the nine numbered locations. That means the name of each president must be converted to something you can see. To do this, I’ll change the name of each president to a soundalike picture, as follows:

    Be certain that you know the soundalike picture for each of the presidents before continuing.

    The next step is to associate each soundalike picture with its numbered Cube location. This will automatically give you the numerical sequence of each president.

    Look at location 1 (the back left corner). As you look at location 1, see a gigantic washing machine filling the entire corner! Imagine that the washing machine is running, the lid is open, and water and wet clothing is pouring out all over you!

    Later, when you think of number 1—the first president—think of location 1, the back left corner. See the washing machine and remember Washington.

    Look at location 2 (the left wall). As you look at the left wall, see a gigantic ad—a newspaper ad! Later, when you think of number 2, think of location 2—the left wall. See the ad and remember Adams, the second president.

    Look at location 3 (the front left corner). See a chef standing in the corner! The chef reaches from the floor to the ceiling! If you were ever to see this in real life, how could you ever forget it? Later, when you think of number 3, think of location 3—the front left corner. See the chef and remember Jefferson.

    Look at location 4—the front wall. As you look at the front wall, see medicine pouring out of it! It is liquid medicine and it is really messy. Imagine the medicine pouring out of the front wall all over you! Later, when you think of number 4, think of location 4—the front wall. See the medicine and remember

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