Want to improve your memory?
Want to pass exams?
Want to increase your brain power?
Sun, Shoe, Tree is as easy as One, Two, Three.
It is the simplest of all memory techniques and yet it demonstrates a major principle of mnemonics - take something you know and peg it to something you want to know.
Anyone - even children - can learn it in moments.Why don't you try it?
Here is a list of numbered common objects.
1. PLANT
2. TABLE
3. PHONE
4. FLOWERS
5. LAMP
6. FRUIT
7. SPOON
8. PEN
9. WATCH
10. BED
Look at this list for just a few moments then turn away from the screen and see if you can remember all the objects on the list in the correct order.
Failed miserably? Never mind! Most of us only
remember things at the beginning of a list and at the end, or what is unique or of special interest to us. But you can learn how to remember this list in less that ten minutes - just click on Pegging in the side bar.