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- ^Tutorial 4 - Picturing Names\
-
- Some names can be easily pictured, because they have %meanings\. For
- example, the surnames |Wood, Bell, Fox, Bush\ and |Green\ immediately create
- an image in your mind.
-
- But what about names which have <no\ meaning, such as Forbes, Harrison, or
- Pensford ? Using the Substitute Word system which you learned in section C,
- >any\ name can be pictured.
-
- For |Forbes\, you might picture |four bees\. To visualise the name
- $Harrison\ you could picture a $hairy sun\, and for ^Pensford\ - someone
- writing with a gigantic ^pen\ all over a ^Ford\ car.
-
- The Substitute Word System works beautifully for remembering names. Just
- applying the system will <force\ you to concentrate on the name - to be
- $Initially Aware\ of it. And, no matter how long or strange - sounding a
- name is, there is %always\ a Substitute Word or Phrase you can use to help
- you picture the name.#
-
- For |Rubenstein\ you could picture someone vigorously |rubbing\ a |stein\
- (of beer). For >Polanski\ you could use >pole and ski\, and picture someone
- holding a huge, striped barber's pole in his teeth while trying to ski. For
- $Poppadopalis\ you might use $poppadum and police\ and a picture a policeman
- wrestling with a gigantic poppadum.
-
- The Substitute words and phrases you create can be %anything\, as long as
- they remind ^you\ of the name you want to remember. For >MacDonald\, you
- could picture >Donald Duck\ wearing a kilt. Other people might prefer to
- picture >Mac don old\ - an old don (professor) wearing a mac (macintosh).
- Remember that the ^first\ Substitute Word you think of is usually best for
- you to use.
-
- For short names, you can often use a Substitute Word which rhymes, or is
- similar - sounding. For the name >West\, you might use >Whist\, or >Vest\,
- or >Waist\, or >Waste\. Any word (or phrase) which can be pictured will do
- the job.~