[ExI] jarring change

[William Flynn Wallace]

One trick was to make a list of things associated with other, odd, things.
So say you have a grocery list:  bread, eggs, and milk.  You look around
the room, imagine the milk sitting on the piano, the bread overhead on a
fan blade, and the eggs rolling around on the floor.  Then when you get to
the store, you imagine your living room.  (I chose those three things
because it happened to me.  I got to the store, recalled eggs, and called
home. Later, thinking that I had a defective memory, stopped by the local
health dept.  A counselor gave me part of an IQ test, told me that I had
the vocabulary of a superior adult, and said that while I was being told by
Mama I was thinking of what baseball cards I was going to get at the store,
and never did put those things into memory.  BTW - many 'forgotten' things
were never put into memory in the first place, but we think they were
because we can remember other things from that time.  Most things we
experience don't get into long term memory.

Harry Lorraine was on Johnny Carson.  He went into the audience before the
show.  Everyone stood up, pronounced their name and sat down.  When the
show went live, he came on, went into the audience, had everyone stand and
he pronounced their names, whereupon they sat down.  He sat down everyone
but one person, which I think was just for show, and finally came up with
the name.   bill w

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:42 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> It occurred to me I wouldn’t have been going to Mr. Degirolama’s shop
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> OK, 46 year old memories rather than 49 yrs ago, do pardon.
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> Another comment about Lorraine and Lucas’ techniques: mnemonics work for
> some people.  They don’t work for others.  I don’t know why, but they
> really work well for me: you hafta really be able to think outside the box
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> *From:* spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] jarring change
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> For a long time the pro basketballer Jerry Lucas had a book on
> memorization.  If I were 50 years younger I would have every class buy it…
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> BillW, you made my day with that comment.
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> Someone gave me the book you referenced, and without even looking it up, I
> can tell you some cool things about that book.  It was given to me almost
> 50 years ago because I was in seventh grade at the time, so about 1971 or
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