<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:42 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2967069480989828044WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Correction to previous…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It occurred to me I wouldn’t have been going to Mr. Degirolama’s shop until later, about 1974.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK, 46 year old memories rather than 49 yrs ago, do pardon.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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 to make up good ones.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] jarring change<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">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</span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">…<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">BillW, you made my day with that comment.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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 so.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">…spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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