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Mnemonics to remember numbers - The number/rhyme system

Mnemonics to remember your dreams

Advanced number mnemonics - Pegging

Mnemonics for quotations

Mnemonics to remember abstract symbols and letters

The Roman Room or journey system

Mnemonics to remember names and faces

Mnemonics for rememberring appointments - The Mental Diary

How to combine the systems - The Mental Database

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Pegging - The Major System

The system of pegging that I will be outlining over the course of the next few pages, is one of the most important techniques that has so far been developed in the field of Mnemonics, since the discipline was first practised during the time of the ancient Greeks. Second only to the system of linking in its overall usefulness.

A version of pegging was first put forward by a man named Stanislaus Mink von Wennsshein, around the year 1648. Since then the technique has been modified extensively by a number of researchers in the field. Notably by the Englishman Dr Richard Gray, in the year 1730. In more recent times the memory experts Harry Lorayne and Tony Buzan, amongst others, have modified the system further.

Basically what pegging does is to turn a number (any number), into a set of phonetic sounds or letters. These sounds are then joined together to form words, and these words may then be linked together to form a series of images. Finally these images may then be committed to memory. This enables an individual to recall numbers of up to (and above) 100 digits, with relative ease.

By combining the peg system with the system of linking (outlined ...

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