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Summary
We naturally use association to store things in long-term memory.
We can increase the effectiveness of this process by taking conscious control of the association process.
Combine association with chunking for maximum efficacy.
Peg to images.
Learn and use an image code.
The method of loci and the Roman room system are useful where retention of order is important.
Number rhyme and number shape methods are useful for remembering numbers and require relatively little mental preparation.
Discussion Points
1. Do you make associations to commit things to memory?
2. What is the nature of the images you think work best? Why?
3. Which of the association strategies described in this book would seem to be the best to you and why? Do you think some are best for some things and others for others?
4. Why should exploiting the absurd be useful?
5. Consider what you think the advantages and disadvantages might be of the association methods described in this book.
6. Are you better at visio-spatial images, or sequential (story or poem-like) images? Why do you think this is so?

 
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