How to Remember Anything: The Proven Total Memory Retention System

I dedicate this book to the millions of individuals throughout the world who have completed my applied memory courses. Because of their unprecedented successes, surely organized memory techniques will soon become as much a part of formal education as reading, writing, and arithmetic. They have added the “fourth R”—remembering!

Table of Contents

Title Page
Introduction
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YOU CAN REMEMBER ANYTHING!
Part I - THE TEN STEPS TO HOW TO REMEMBER ANYTHING

Step 1
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A NUMBERED ROOM SYSTEM

HOW TO SET UP YOUR OWN PERMANENT ROOMS
MULTIPLE PROJECTS IN THE SAME ROOMS

Step 2
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HOW TO CHANGE WORDS TO PICTURES

THE AUDIONYM
HOW TO CREATE AUDIONYMS
GUIDELINES FOR CREATING AUDIONYMS

Step 3
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HOW TO REMEMBER BY ASSOCIATION

HOW TO CREATE POWERFUL ASSOCIATIONS
GUIDELINES FOR CREATING ASSOCIATIONS
MORE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS USING ASSOCIATION
PROJECT INFORMATION VS. RANDOM INFORMATION
ASSOCIATION APPLIED TO MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
ASSOCIATIONS
LATIN AND GREEK FOR ENGLISH VOCABULARY
REVIEW
ASSOCIATION APPLIED TO ENGLISH VOCABULARY
REVIEW
WORLD LANGUAGE VOCABULARY: LEARN ONE NEW SPANISH WORD PER MINUTE!
REVIEW

Step 4
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THE LINK SYSTEM

How to Recall the Linked Audionyms

Step 5
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HOW TO REMEMBER NUMBERS

THE NUMBER CODE
REVIEW
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE NUMBER CODE: TELEPHONE AREA CODES
REVIEW
HOW TO REMEMBER TELEPHONE NUMBERS
A VERY PRACTICAL EXERCISE FOR REMEMBERING TELEPHONE NUMBERS
REMEMBERING DATES (YEARS)
THE PRESIDENTS AND THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE

Step 6
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THE KEY WORD SYSTEM (00–99)

NUMBER CODE
A GREAT PRACTICAL APPLICATION FOR THE KEY WORD SYSTEM
DEMONSTRATE YOUR MEMORY POWER: A LONG-DIGIT NUMBER

Step 7
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THE TOPOGRAPH SYSTEM

GEOGRAPHY
COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL AMERICA
HOW TO REMEMBER THE NAMES AND LOCATIONS OF THE COUNTRIES
WITHOUT
A MAP

Step 8
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THE GRID SYSTEM

USE YOUR MEMORY TO DEVELOP CONCENTRATION
THE TOUR OF THE KNIGHT

Step 9
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HOW TO REMEMBER NAMES

GENERAL RULES
AUDIONYM CARDS
HOW TO DEVELOP AUDIONYMS FOR NAMES

Step 10
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HOW TO SPEAK WITHOUT NOTES

Part II - MORE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

REMEMBER THE TEN STEPS TO MEMORY POWER IN THIS BOOK
DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT
THE BILL OF RIGHTS

AMENDMENT I
AMENDMENT II
AMENDMENT III
AMENDMENT IV
AMENDMENT V
AMENDMENT VI
AMENDMENT VII
AMENDMENT VIII
AMENDMENT IX
AMENDMENT X
REVIEW

HOW TO REMEMBER THE SIGNS AND DATES OF THE ZODIAC
HOW TO REMEMBER WHERE YOU PUT THINGS

PRACTICE

HOW TO REMEMBER
YOUR SCHEDULE AND THINGS TO DO
STATES AND THE DATES THEY ENTERED THE UNION
HOW TO REMEMBER PLAYING CARDS
HOW TO REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ
HOW TO REMEMBER THE CHAPTER OUTLINE OF ANY BOOK
HOW TO GET HIGHER GRADES WITH LESS STUDY TIME

TERMINOLOGY, NOMENCLATURE, TECHNICAL TERMS, AND VOCABULARY
HISTORY

HOW TO MENTALLY CONVERT KILOMETERS TO MILES
HOW TO LEARN VERBATIM INFORMATION
MENTAL EXERCISES FOR MENTAL ALERTNESS

TEACH YOUR CHILD HOW TO REMEMBER

TEN MORE EVERYDAY APPLICATIONS AND EXERCISES

Other DEAN VAUGHN Memory Products
Key Word Dictionary: 1,000 Key Words
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright Page

Introduction

YOU CAN REMEMBER ANYTHING!

Memory is power! Without memory, no knowledge can exist. You can rapidly
develop your memory to a phenomenal degree if you have a sincere desire to do so. No learned skill can be so easily or dramatically developed as the memory. You are about to discover that you can increase your memory power to a phenomenal degree in just ten easy steps. Various combinations of these ten steps will make it possible for you to rapidly learn and remember virtually anything, no matter how complex the information may be! This book includes the basic methods of my learning system, enabling you to apply it to your own specific needs. If you spend an average of only ten to fifteen minutes per day for just several weeks learning these ten simple steps, you will be amazed and excited about your newfound memory power!

In just minutes from now, when you learn the numbered room system, you will see how this organized memory system can work for you. Although the numbered room system is just the first step, it has many applications. You will start slowly, then expand to more complex applications. However, all of the memory techniques will be just as easy as learning the numbered room system.

With more than two and a half million individuals having completed my courses with an average of more than 95 percent retention, I can confidently assure you that you will remember incredibly more of what you need to remember because you will be seeing rather than reading or hearing. My learning system is based on your natural ability to remember exceptionally well the things that you see—even if what you see is only in your mind’s eye—and I’ll show you how to change anything you want to remember into something you can see. Then I’ll show you how to connect what you see with something you already know. That’s it! It’s never any more difficult than that! Even if the information is complex, you will always use only two objects at a time. One object or familiar physical location will represent what you already know and the other will represent what you want to remember.

The memory skills taught in this book will help you achieve more in less time than you have ever dreamed possible. They will arm you with a competitive edge that others do not have (unless they have also discovered the secrets revealed in this book). You will be able to put these skills into practical use immediately. They will help you stay mentally alert for a lifetime.

The purpose of this book is to teach you how to remember anything—quickly, easily, and accurately. I will guide you step-by-step to phenomenal memory power! Rather than boring you with the history of memory techniques, how the brain works, why we forget, or philosophical reasons as to why you should develop your memory skills, I will teach you how to remember. After all, that must surely be the reason you are reading this book.

Achieving results with the well-organized, dramatically effective learning systems you will discover in this book will be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. It will also be one of the most exciting and enjoyable. Additionally, you can use the techniques for the rest of your life. Use your natural memory and common sense in every memory application. Your natural memory, working in harmony with common sense and effective memory techniques, will enable you to achieve phenomenal results. Trust the system. I promise that you will be surprised and very pleased with your results.

Part I

THE TEN STEPS TO HOW TO REMEMBER ANYTHING

Step 1

A NUMBERED ROOM SYSTEM

As you read this chapter, place yourself in a square or rectangular room
. If you are not, just visualize a very familiar room that is square or rectangular. Any room with four walls, four corners, a floor, and a ceiling will work. That’s ten locations.

There are only ten single-digit numbers—zero through nine. I am going to permanently assign the ten single-digit numbers to the ten basic locations of any square or rectangular room.

Visualize yourself at the center of the room, and turn so that you are facing the front wall of the room. Any wall can be chosen to represent the front wall of the room.

As you look at the following illustration of the numbered room locations, look, also, at the corresponding room locations in the room in which you are now located or the room that you are visualizing.

As you look at the illustration, note that the four corners are odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, and 7. They start in the back left corner, and move clockwise to the corners around the room:

Back left corner is location 1

Front left corner is location 3

Front right corner is location 5

Back right corner is location 7

The four walls of the room are the even numbers: 2, 4, 6, and 8. They start at the left wall, and move clockwise to the walls around the room:

Left wall is location 2

Front wall is location 4