10 Rules:
1 Make a point of increasing your original awareness by using your powers of observation and focus.
2 Concentrate on one thing at a time
3 Visualise what you want to remember.
4 Understand that the brain has unbelievable capacity to store information.
5 use the Association/Substitution process to remember intangible or abstract information.
6 Link abstract objects to form a ridicules objects or names.
7 Practice memory pegs techniques.
8 Apply the seven steps to remember names.(see notes below).
9 Try linking numbers with letters to make words so that the number can be remembered.
10 Practice all your memory techniques daily.
Notes:
Remember Names the Seven Steps:
1 Have a positive mental set.
2 be interested in remembering each persons name.
3 Listen attentively and if unsure ask them to spell their name.
4 form some association with someone you don’t know or one of your pegs.
5 Use the substitute process i.e. a funny picture etc.
6 Link the silly picture to the name.
7 Repeat the name and substitution
Les McLaughlan 