Dale Carnegie who wrote how to win friends also had developed a technique for memory recall using memory pegs.
Before we begin I Wonder how many friends Dale Carnegie would have in facebook today ?
In a program about facebook sometime back a reporter checked and found Mark Zuckerberg had about 700 friends as he was accused of not being a social person but managed to create the largest social portal on earth. Let us come back to our little world of memory and remembering 10 things.
Here is how it works
Memorize 10 rhyming words like below. Create a story around these . Picture them vividly in your mind with minute details. Descriptive details with even sometimes disgusting images. Anything works other than the mundane ordinary stuff.
"If you follow the crowd you will be lost in the crowd "
Always differ from the crowd to be remember - bad or ugly not good.
Memory Peg technique -
Memorize the following
1. One- Run
2. Two-Zoo
3. Three-Tree
4. Four-Door
5. Five-Hive
Now for the 5 more
6. Six - Sick
7. Seven - Heaven
8. Eight- Gate
9.Nine - Wine
10. Ten - Den
Let us try this with an example - a grocery list that you want to remember
1. Milk
2. Bread
3. Potato
4.Salt
5.Soda - Fanta
6.Onion
7. Ice Cream
8. Rice
9.Tomato
10.Sugar
In the next 15minutes
1. You will be able to recall not only every on of these
2. Recall them in the same order
3. Ask a friend to challenge with item number you can tell them the item
4. Ask a friend to challenge with item name and you can tell them the order
Isn't that magic?
Our mind is not a computer. Fools who created computers started comparing the same. We don't follow Moore's law
Next. You need a peg rhyme which you memorize.
Then for each peg you need a one line story.
Start with one - Run.
Imagine a white horse (ok.. if you like Black pick that one). Now imagine a race on your local road with lots of horses .. imagine your car/bus/you stuck in the traffic watching this race where the finish line is next to you. Suddenly the horse come to you and stops and you realize that there is no jockey...no one riding the horse. You look close and you are amazed to see a "put your first thing here" which is a cow with a milk can 2.5 gallon whole milk..
Proceed Two - Zoo
On to your local zoo when you visit the primates .. yes you guessed it right the chimps,apes and monkeys ( do you know the difference between these three and do you know if all monkeys are primates? If these are primates what are not primates ?) there are 2 monkeys in a cage each throwing something at each other .You look closely and find a Plastic bag with its contents rolled like a ball - squished . On close observation one of the monkey who doesn't like close observations throws the "second thing" at you which you are amazed to see is nothing but a loaf of bread.
On to Three - tree
On your backyard there is a new tree which wasn't there yesterday . This morning when you woke up there t it was 10000 ft high and it had a big tire tied to it which could be used as a swing. You are looking at this big swing when it starts to move and sprays 'third thing" - potato at you.
Four-Door
When you go to you the local airport you find that the big revolving door which always hits you ,your suitcase and cart without mercy is moving smoothly. You start using it and while you are ready to exit from this claustrophobic experience you realize that you cannot get out because something is stuck under the door and it is "the fourth thing". a big box of salt.
Five-Hive
Imagine a bee hive. a big bee hive with 1 million bees. Can you hear them buzzing . you are carrying something in your hand - the fifth thing and without you realizing it fell down into the bee hive? How come? Were you flying? did you drop down and the thing flew. We dont know but we do know now the hive has the "fifth thing" - you cover your face with your hand and go close to see feared with buzzing bee reading to sting and you find the fifth thing - "Fanta Soda Bottle" . All for a sweet fanta in a honey bee hive..orange color on a honey bee hive.. wow.
The list was
1. Milk
2. Bread
3. Potato
4.Salt
5.Soda - Fanta
Now stop reading. go walking. Think about these 5 pegs and the stories. Try recalling the 3rd thing. Three-Tree. the 1000 ft ok. there was the tree. a tire swing. something was hitting you. and it sprayed ya potato.
What was the cow doing with milk can. It was on the horse. Ok. that was milk first thing.
On the airport - got it . The door didn't open because of salt box.
Please follow along and if possible write another 5 things to experiment. Believe me - you wont need the next to -do list app in your smartphone and you can be smarter than the phone.
Ok. now you know 5 things in order and you can recollect any of them. Where was the Bread and Fanta ? Do you know?
Let's go to the next 5
6.Onion
7. Ice Cream
8. Rice
9.Tomato
10.Sugar
and the pegs
6. Six - Sick
7. Seven - Heaven
8. Eight- Gate
9.Nine - Wine
10. Ten - Den
You guessed it right.
Six -Sick
You go to your hospital . There is a patient lying on the bed. Very sick. The doctor and nurse are sad and they get a big injection syringe. It is made of glass and you can see it. It has your sixth thing. 12 Onions and looking at it the patient starts crying. Why we do cry when we peel onions ? you keep thinking about onions.
Seven-Heaven
There is a ladder on your living room which appeared suddenly . All things appear suddenly unless you pay attention to the minute things about how things change on an everyday basis. So the ladder against your living room wall actually leads you to - you keep walking and walking and start seeing smoke,clouds,demi-gods,st.peter,(include all religious stuff here) and finally when you see if there is god ( i know you never believed you can every meet god in human form) you find the throne empty(isn't god considered an emperor like humans. have you ever imagined another animal - say elephant being a god?)
you see the seventh thing in the throne and since this is heaven there is no limit to eating what is on the throne in nice containers. an ice cream . You scream at the ice cream! we all do!
Eight- Gate
You want to go an important place and you guessed it right. You are late. You need to go ..go ..go and as you are going on your brand new bicycle (so what happened to your car/bike?) you find yourself stopped by a train.. going super fast and there it is a huge gate and what is hanging on that Gate? Funny. Rice has grown on the gate . Rice. white rice .. you are impressed about new agriculture methods as more and more land is now used for non agriculture. There you have it the eighth thing - rice.
Move along to Nine- Wine
You are an adult. More than 18+ or 21+ and legally allowed to look and buy wine. So you go to your friends place and find a wine bottle waiting there to celebrate your birthday. You wonder how grapes turned to white instead of grape juice. All your friends join and you cut the cake. Every one eligible and interested can drink. Open the wine.. no wine opener. Yes they got it now. Open and no. nothing comes out as there is a big tomato. Nine -Wine- Tomato is in the wine bottle
Ten-Den
You open your closet. Yes. you have surprises in your house. you want to get something from the closet. What happened - a lion?
A huge lion in your closet ( in my closet there could be even a zoo and I still find my stuff)
The lion is roaring and has something in its mouth. A big sugar packet. You are thinking since when did a lion become addicted to sugar.
Sugar- with a lion in your closet which is like a den!
Done. now what was the 8th thing. Eight - Gate - Gate - bicycle late..stop something growing white..rice.
Where was sugar. Sugar..lion.den...
You got the idea. Try the 6th one. Six-sick -cry- ok. Onion.
I paid a lot of money to be Dale Carnegie training to learn how to win friends and influence people.
I don't know how you will feel if you are the 'Won' friend or the 'influenced ' person. we will talk about that later in another post . The fact is this is this is something Dale Carnegie developed - memory peg and there are rhyming stuff all the way to hundred. You can try to find them online..
What was the 4th thing?
Happy Learning
Sivakumar Manikanteswaran
7. Seven - Heaven
8. Eight- Gate
9.Nine - Wine
10. Ten - Den
You guessed it right.
Six -Sick
You go to your hospital . There is a patient lying on the bed. Very sick. The doctor and nurse are sad and they get a big injection syringe. It is made of glass and you can see it. It has your sixth thing. 12 Onions and looking at it the patient starts crying. Why we do cry when we peel onions ? you keep thinking about onions.
Seven-Heaven
There is a ladder on your living room which appeared suddenly . All things appear suddenly unless you pay attention to the minute things about how things change on an everyday basis. So the ladder against your living room wall actually leads you to - you keep walking and walking and start seeing smoke,clouds,demi-gods,st.peter,(include all religious stuff here) and finally when you see if there is god ( i know you never believed you can every meet god in human form) you find the throne empty(isn't god considered an emperor like humans. have you ever imagined another animal - say elephant being a god?)
you see the seventh thing in the throne and since this is heaven there is no limit to eating what is on the throne in nice containers. an ice cream . You scream at the ice cream! we all do!
Eight- Gate
You want to go an important place and you guessed it right. You are late. You need to go ..go ..go and as you are going on your brand new bicycle (so what happened to your car/bike?) you find yourself stopped by a train.. going super fast and there it is a huge gate and what is hanging on that Gate? Funny. Rice has grown on the gate . Rice. white rice .. you are impressed about new agriculture methods as more and more land is now used for non agriculture. There you have it the eighth thing - rice.
Move along to Nine- Wine
You are an adult. More than 18+ or 21+ and legally allowed to look and buy wine. So you go to your friends place and find a wine bottle waiting there to celebrate your birthday. You wonder how grapes turned to white instead of grape juice. All your friends join and you cut the cake. Every one eligible and interested can drink. Open the wine.. no wine opener. Yes they got it now. Open and no. nothing comes out as there is a big tomato. Nine -Wine- Tomato is in the wine bottle
Ten-Den
You open your closet. Yes. you have surprises in your house. you want to get something from the closet. What happened - a lion?
A huge lion in your closet ( in my closet there could be even a zoo and I still find my stuff)
The lion is roaring and has something in its mouth. A big sugar packet. You are thinking since when did a lion become addicted to sugar.
Sugar- with a lion in your closet which is like a den!
Done. now what was the 8th thing. Eight - Gate - Gate - bicycle late..stop something growing white..rice.
Where was sugar. Sugar..lion.den...
You got the idea. Try the 6th one. Six-sick -cry- ok. Onion.
I paid a lot of money to be Dale Carnegie training to learn how to win friends and influence people.
I don't know how you will feel if you are the 'Won' friend or the 'influenced ' person. we will talk about that later in another post . The fact is this is this is something Dale Carnegie developed - memory peg and there are rhyming stuff all the way to hundred. You can try to find them online..
What was the 4th thing?
Happy Learning
Sivakumar Manikanteswaran
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