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- ^Tutorial 12 - Applying the Peg System\
-
- Having learned the first twenty peg words, you are now ready to start
- putting them to practical use.
-
- Assume that you wish to memorise the following twenty items, both in and out
- of order :
-
- 1. telephone 11. trumpet
- 2. table 12. spectacles
- 3. axe 13. carrot
- 4. porridge 14. moon
- 5. ladder 15. peach
- 6. sparrow 16. hat
- 7. piano 17. boat
- 8. cigar 18. daffodil
- 9. grapefruit 19. radio
- 10. camera 20. envelope
-
- As you can see, these items have been chosen completely at random, and have
- no logical connection.#
- To memorise the list of items |in order\, you could simply apply the Link
- System, and associate telephone to table, table to axe, and so on until you
- reach the twentieth item.
-
- But, as mentioned in the introduction to this section, applying the Link
- method would not allow you to instantly recall, say, the fourteenth item.
- To recall that the fourteenth item was ^moon\, you would have to work from
- the start of the list and count through the items mentally, until you
- reached number 14.
-
- In other words, although the Link System is excellent for remembering lists
- of items >in sequence\, it doesn't provide an easy method for remembering
- any item on a list >out of sequence\.
-
- To memorise the twenty items on the previous page >out of sequence\, you
- simply associate each item to the Peg Word for the corresponding number.
-
- Begin with item 1, %telephone\. Associate %telephone\ to Peg Word 1, which
- is ^tie\. See a ludicrous picture in your mind's eye which will associate
- the two items. Perhaps you are wearing a %telephone\ around your neck
- instead of a ^tie\. See that zany image, or any crazy image which associates
- the two items, right now, in your mind's eye.#
-
- Next, associate item 2, $table\, to the Peg Word for 2, which is ^Noah\.
- You might picture ^Noah\ calling pairs of tables into his ark, instead of
- pairs of animals. Make a ridiculous association between $table\ and ^Noah\
- in your mind, right now.
-
- Item 3 on the list is <axe\, so associate it to Peg Word 3, ^ma\. Perhaps
- you can picture yourself chopping off a little old lady's head with an
- ^axe\. This is an image which may well make you shudder, but you certainly
- won't forget it ! Make the association now.
-
- Item 4 is |porridge\. Associate it Peg Word 4, which is ^ray\. You might
- picture yourself sunbathing in your bathing costume, when the sun's ^rays\
- suddenly turn to streams of |porridge\, and you are covered in a horrible,
- sticky mess.
-
- The fifth item is >ladder\, and you need to associate it to ^law\, the Peg
- Word for the number 5. You could perhaps picture yourself being arrested by
- a >ladder\ wearing a policeman's helmet, or see yourself trying to climb a
- ladder made out of policemen.#
-
- Get the idea ? For each of the numbered items on the list, make a ridiculous
- association between that item and the Peg Word for that number. Try making
- your own associations for the remaining fifteen items, right now. Remember
- that creating your own images always increases your Initial Awareness.
-
- Associate item 6 - >sparrow\ to ^shoe\ (Peg Word 6)
- Associate item 7 - >piano\ to ^key\ (Peg Word 7)
- Associate item 8 - >cigar\ to ^ivy\ (Peg Word 8)
- Associate item 9 - >grapefruit\ to ^bee\ (Peg Word 9)
- Associate item 10 - >camera\ to ^toes\ (Peg Word 10)
- Associate item 11 - >trumpet\ to ^tin\ (Peg Word 11)
- Associate item 12 - >spectacles\ to ^toad\ (Peg Word 12)
- Associate item 13 - >carrot\ to ^dam\ (Peg Word 13)
- Associate item 14 - >moon\ to ^tyre\ (Peg Word 14)
- Associate item 15 - >peach\ to ^doll\ (Peg Word 15)
- Associate item 16 - >hat\ to ^dish\ (Peg Word 16)
- Associate item 17 - >boat\ to ^dog\ (Peg Word 17)
- Associate item 18 - >daffodil\ to ^dove\ (Peg Word 18)
- Associate item 19 - >radio\ to ^tap\ (Peg Word 19)
- Associate item 20 - >envelope\ to ^nose\ (Peg Word 20)#
-
- If you have really made the associations for all twenty items and visualised
- them clearly, you will know all the items in ^and out\ of order. Think of
- the Peg Word for number 1 - ^tie\ - what does it remind you of ? A
- >telephone\, which you pictured around your neck instead of a ^tie\.
-
- Think of the Peg Word for 5 - ^law\ - it will instantly remind you of
- >ladder\, the fifth item. Think of Peg Word 18 - ^dove\ - it should
- immediately make you think of >daffodil\, the eighteenth item.
-
- Also, if you think of any item on the list, you will immediately know its
- numerical position. For example, where was the >trumpet\ ? Well, >trumpet\
- makes you think of ^toad\, which is the Peg Word for 11, so trumpet just
- |has\ to be number 11.
-
- If you haven't yet made associations in your mind for all twenty items, go
- back and do it, right now. When you are ready, press Page Down to test
- yourself on how well you have memorised the items, in and out of sequence.~
-
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