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Notes from Quantum Memory Power by Dominic O'Brien

• Association
  • link method - connect the words together using a story
• Location
• Imagination
  • color, humor, sex, etcetera

REVIEWS

1. immediately
2. 24 hours later
3. 1 week later
4. 1 month later
5. 3-6 months later

FACES ("Always give a face a place.")

1. you remind me of someone
   1. face (like aunt's), place (aunt's house), key image
2. what's my line
   1. what sort of work the persons does
3. feature link
   1. person, feature, scene
4. first name places
   1. use an association with the person's first name to transport that person to a location

THE LANGUAGE OF NUMBERS Dominic system Number Shape

1. candle
2. swan
3. hand cuffs
4. sailboat
5. curtain hook
6. elephant's trunk
7. boomerang
8. snowman
9. balloon and string
10. stick and hoop

Number Rhyming

0

1. gun
2. shoe
3. tree
4. door
5. hive
6. sticks
7. heaven
8. gate
9. wine
10. pen

Dominic System character, prop, & action

0 'O'

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. S
7. G
8. H
9. N
10. to memorize a speech
    1. condense the contents into key points
    2. create symbols for each point, by using imaginitive, colorful, and meaningful key image
    3. place each key image on various stages along a familiar mental journey

Other Miscellaneous Memory Techniques

CREATING MEMORABLE MNEMONIC IMAGES

• Synesthesia / Sensuality - sound, sight, taste, touch, smell
• Movement - shaking, flying, kicking,...
• Association - associate with stable memories
• Sexuality - you can imagine anything having sex
• Humour - silly, connected with jokes
• Imagination - anything at all
• Number(s) - details like sequence and/or order
• Symbolism - associate abstract pattern with meaningful items
• Colour - use more than one color, too
• Order / Sequence - use things like PegSystems or MemoryPalaces to your advantage
• Positivity - people like to remember positive things
• Exaggeration - very big, very small, very small, extremely numerous

"NOOK AND CRANNY" METHOD

1. near left corner
2. left wall
3. far left corner
4. far wall
5. far right corner
6. right wall
7. near right corner
8. near wall
9. floor
10. ceiling

MAP POINTS North - polar bears East - Asian hat South - penguins West - covered wagon

"EJOTY" is a nonsense word coined by magician Stewart James. It is simply a mnemonic consisting of the 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th and 25th letters of the alphabet. From here, it's easy to work out the location for any given letter, or the letter for any given location.