1. Remember a short list: Everything you have experienced from birth until now is in your memory.  And everything is remembered in pictures.  You recall experiences as they are triggered.  So in order to recall something at will, it must be pictured into memory and hooked to something that will trigger it.  The Billy Burden Memory Master Method makes use of mental hooks to which to hook something for easy recall.  But if you don't know the Memory System you can still devise a way to hook an item to something that is already in your memory such as the rooms of your house.  So if there are 10 rooms in your house, and you wanted to remember 10 items, picture each item in a prominent place in each room.  Then take a mental journey through your house recalling each item along the way.  This would work very well for remembering the notes of a speech, a grocery list, or any other short list.

2. Lock a term to a definition: When you are trying to remember terms and definitions for a test, try this: picture the term and the definition together.  For example: Semantic Noise - anything about a speaker that is distracting to the audience.  First turn Semantic Noise into a picture- see man tick.  Now see a man (speaker) with a tick on his upper lip, howling at the pain of the bite; and that's keeping the audience from hearing his speech.  Note that semantic noise can't usually be heard.  Just seeing the tick on his upper lip will distract the audience from getting his message.   Example two: Plagiarism - That's when you use someone's quote as if it were your own.  First turn Plagiarism into a picture- play jar prison.  I'm going to lock you up in this play jar prison because you stole my joke.

3. The Displacement Theory: What if you think of something in the night and don't want to get up and write it down?  You can use the displacement theory to recall it easily in the morning.  First knock something out of place that you will see immediately upon awakening.  Knock the lamp off of the night stand (I mean carefully lay it down).  Turn the alarm clock upside down.  Put your shoes on your wife's pillow. (she'll make sure you see them in the morning).  Second associate whatever it is that you want to remember with the item that is knocked out of place.  You just have to turn whatever it is you want to remember into a picture if it doesn't make one already.  If it's a sentence or quote just use reminder words.  Then when you get up in the morning, you will see the item out of place.  You may wonder for only a moment what happened, then you will instantly recall the picture you associated with that item.

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