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BRAIN GAMES
9 = snail

doughnuts You can also use number pictures to help you with lists. Imagine you need to buy six eggs, three cartons of milk, two bananas, and eight stamps. Visualize the objects on the list with the number pictures—a rabbit eating an egg, a worm drinking milk, a swan with a banana in its beak, and a stamp with the picture of a doughnut on it, for example. The crazier the picture, the better, because it’s more British rien
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7 = giraffe Step 3 likely to stick in your mind. After just one sighting, British ri fter just one sighting, ig Dominic O’Brien memory maestro Dominic O’Brien estro ro maestr es recalled a sequence of 2,808 shuffled ed a sequence of 2,808 en eq playing cards with only eight errors. ig ei only with wi ds rds

Study the number pictures we’ve created below and try to memorize them. Or invent your own number pictures and learn them. 6 = rabbit rj After fter memory ry em recalled ec re playing card

Step 1 5 = face Now study this number for 30 seconds and try to “see” it in pictures. Then cover up the number and try to write it down. Did you find it easy to remember using associations? 8371 S

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Step 2

3 = worm I T IA A A

Numbers and pictures Associating numbers with similar-shaped pictures can make it easier to remember phone numbers, an important date, or a number used on a padlock for example. Number pictures can also help you remember lists. This is how the technique works. 2 = 1= 1 swan crocodile Making links between objects— called association—is a useful way to remember things that you might otherwise forget. The following exercises show you how to make associations

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