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Enjoy the convenience of reading Mr. Lorayne's work on your computer or portable device! All e-books are in PDF format. Or—a typewritten T has one downstroke. The visual images you form, the associations, will not linger in your mind forever. You'll be amazed at how quickly they fade. They're needed only at first—to help you impress or register new information in your mind in the first place; I refer to this as "original awareness.
Therefore, if you visualize, say, an arm falling loose into the navel to recall "omphalos," you needn't worry that you'll come up with, say, "armphaloos" instead. Thomas De Quincey wrote: "I feel assured that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.
The problem has always been to impress or register new information in the first place. Forming an association forces you to register the information—at that time. It forces you to pay attention to—to observe—that information.
That sounds ridiculous, but it's true. And here's why: Simply making the slight effort to think up a Substitute Word for the seemingly intangible word you want to remember—and forming an association—forces initial observation, registering, and remembering. It forces attention. So, even if the techniques don't work—which they most definitely do—you're concentrating on that new "thing" as you've never done before. You're registering that information automatically by trying to apply the systems.
You'll be strengthening your memory whether or not the systems work! An English word that's new to you is as intangible as a word from a foreign language. That should lead you to believe that you can apply exactly the same idea to foreign language vocabulary. You're absolutely right! As a matter of fact, it's one of the most fascinating, and rewarding, applications of my systems. Ordinarily, if you heard the French word for watermelon—pasteque—and wanted to remember it, you'd have to go over it and over it—repetition, boredom—and hope it would work.
All you have to do now is form a silly association between "pass deck" and watermelon! Perhaps you're playing cards with a big watermelon and you ask it to pass the deck to you. Or, you're playing cards with watermelons instead of cards, and another player passes the deck a stack of watermelons. It sounds like punt. The French word for father is pere. See a gigantic pear the fruit rocking you or a baby in its arms.
The French word for cork is bouchon. See yourself mightily pushing on a gigantic cork, trying to get it into a wine bottle.
The Swedish word for trousers is bygsor pronounced beek soar. Picture a gigantic pair of trousers just the trousers, no one in 'em with a big sore. A bird's beak that's sore would also do.
The Japanese word for goodbye — sayonara — would be so easy to remember if you visualize yourself sighing on air as you say goodbye. The French word for grapefruit is pamplemousse. See large yellow pimples all over a moose; each pimple is really a grapefruit. See if it isn't so: What's the French word for watermelon? Don't worry about spelling. For bridge? For father? For cork? What's the Swedish word for trousers? The Japanese word sayonara means? What's the French word for grapefruit?
Did you remember these? Of course you did. You're already remembering better than you ever did before. You could remember, say, an Italian menu easily, if you wanted to. For example: Calamari—squid. You collar a girl named Mary collar Mary—calamari and force her to eat squid. Aglio pronounced al-yo —garlic. Many people smell of garlic. You say to them, "All you people cook with garlic. Visualize a gigantic chicken playing polo. Picture a large letter V telling a large letter O V tell O about a restaurant that serves only veal.
Dolci—sweets dessert. Associate dole she or gee or doll she or gee to sweets. Ain't she sweet?! You're smearing butter all over a burro donkey.
Carpaccio—thin raw beef. You're using thin pounded raw beef to put a patch on your car. Verdi—green as in green vegetables. Where D sounds enough like the Italian word to remind you of it. See that D being green. A girl named Ann turns yellow Ann yellow because she's eating too much lamb or too many lamb chops. Go over these; form the associations; see those pictures.
Then test yourself. You'll be pleasantly surprised. Years ago, a woman brought her twelve-year-old son to one of my courses. She was quite nervous and didn't know whether I could help him—it seems he couldn't remember any of his schoolwork. The tuition fee was a lot of money for her, and her husband was against the whole thing.
The father came to pick up the son after one session. It was the session during which I taught how to remember foreign language vocabulary. The father was impatient; he kept sticking his head inside the classroom. At one point he overheard a part of my example of pamplemousse—grapefruit—pimple-moose, and I saw a skeptical smirk come over his face.
I'm used to dealing with skeptics; I've done so all my life. I made sure the son learned all the words—and I taught more than usual during that session. The reason I recall it so clearly: I had the boy and his father stay for a few minutes after the rest of the class left.
It was lovely to watch the father's skeptical smirk change to a look of shock as the boy rattled off fifty French words and English meanings that he'd heard for the first time only an hour before! Let's learn two more of those pairs. A typewritten small letter m has 3 downstrokes. Or—turn an m on its side, and it looks like a 3. The last sound in the word "fouR" is R. My trained-memory systems and techniques force you to observe—without pain, automatically, better than you ever did before—and anything clearly observed is already half memorized.
Too many of us see but rarely really observe—and observing is much more important than seeing. If you don't believe that your sense of observation needs sharpening, let me try to prove that it does.
Try to answer these questions: Which traffic light is on top, red or green? What is the exact balance in your cheque account? Which two letters are not on the telephone dial? Is the number six on your watch face the Arabic figure 6, or the Roman numeral VI? What color socks are you wearing right now?
If you answered even one of those questions incorrectly, you haven't been observing properly. To look or see is easy; to observe accurately is a skill that can be acquired. In the business world, memory and observation can help yield money-making and money-saving ideas and improvements.
The effectiveness of most actions, in business and social life, depends to a large extent on your capacity for sharp, thorough, and accurate observation, along with a quick and retentive memory.
The difference between seeing with only your eyes and observing seeing with your mind is—attention. Observation implies a clear mental picture of what is seen in all its detail. Applying the memory systems is the best way to improve your listening and observing facilities. Get into the habit of asking questions. Let your mind wonder, be curious about things you see, and that seeing will turn to observing.
Ask yourself questions about anything you observe. That will arouse your curiosity, and when that's aroused, you're interested; and when you're interested you must observe better and with more accuracy. There are some specific practice methods for observation. Police cadets are trained to look for and observe certain clues. They learn that people who have calluses on their middle fingers may do a lot of writing, by hand.
Finger and palm calluses may tell them that the person is, say, a florist or a seamstress. Shoulder marks may indicate a postman; chin and finger marks, a musician. Cadets train themselves; they practice looking for and observing these things. They practice observing characteristic odors of certain professions—bartenders, butchers, medical personnel, grocers. Try this: Think of a close friend.
Now, using pen and paper, try to describe that person's face in detail. Complete detail. Describe the forehead: Is it high, wide, low, bulging, receding, narrow, lined?
Describe the eyes: Color, size, protruding, sunken, close-set, wide-set, type of glasses, any peculiarities? Describe the eyebrows: Slanting, bushy, sparse, normal, plucked, arched, horizontal, connected, thick, thin, color? Move down the face mentally: Ears, nose, lips, mouth, teeth, chin, moustache. Try to describe each feature in complete, minute detail. When you see the friend, check your description. Notice observe now what you never noticed before, or where you were incorrect. Add these things to your description.
Try the same thing with other friends, or perhaps acquaintances. The more you try it, the better your observation will become. Try describing the entire person, not just the face. When you're more proficient, try looking at a stranger's face and describing it later.
The more you look with conscious intention to observe, the more you will observe each time you try it. Your observation will improve with use and practice. Here's another way to practice observation: Leave the room you're in right now. That's right! Leave the room. Try to describe the room you just left in complete detail, including position of chairs, lamps, ashtrays, pictures.
How many are there of each? Include colors of items, size, and so on. How many windows, size and type of doors, hardware, type of curtains, drapes, shades? Location of telephone, TV set, radio, furniture? List everything you can think of without looking into the room.
Notice observe all the things you didn't list, the items that never registered in your mind, that were never really observed. Now, do it all over again. Your list will be much longer each time. Do the same with other rooms. Keep this up, stay with it, and you'll get into the habit of looking with conscious intention to observe—your sense of observation has to improve. Another practice method: Think of a familiar street, one you've walked on many times.
Try to list all the stores and businesses on that street street level. Try listing them in proper sequence. Then check your list. You'll be looking at that street with conscious intention to observe. Try it again—your list will grow longer and more accurate each time you try it.
Look into a store-window display for a short time. Then try to list everything displayed. Try identifying year, make, and model of passing cars at a glance as policemen do.
Any, or all, of these practice suggestions must sharpen your observation, if you try them, if you stick with it. The more you test your observation, the better and harder it will work for you.
The more you look and listen with conscious intention to observe—with attention and awareness—the sharper, more accurate, and more efficient your observation will be. It is important to work on your observation as I've explained, but as soon as you apply the actual memory systems I'm teaching you, you'll automatically be using and sharpening your observation.
In order to apply the systems you have no choice but to be interested, no choice but to look at things with conscious intention to observe. Apply the memory systems and you will be practicing to observe—automatically, and without pain. I'm introduced to someone, and a few minutes later— no, seconds later— I've forgotten his or her name!
What you did was—you didn't remember it in the first place. You probably didn't even hear it in the first place! You've got to get something before you can forget it. The other cliche is: "Oh, I know your face, but I can't remember your name.
Names are the problem because we only hear them if we listen. We remember what we see better than what we hear. I'll teach you a way to force yourself to "get" the name in the first place. Say the name when you say "hello.
Ask for it again, if you haven't heard it. Try to spell the name. It doesn't matter if you spell it incorrectly. The person will correct you and be flattered that you care. Make a remark about the name. Anything—you never heard a name like it, or it's the same as a friend's name, or it's a lovely name, and so forth. Use the name during your initial conversation. Don't overdo it. Just use it a few times where and when it fits.
Use the name when you leave. Always say "Goodbye, Mr. You should know the answer. Apply my Substitute Word phrase, or thought System. Think of something that sounds enough like the name to remind you of it. Then, you'll have a meaningful "thing" to reminder-connect to that person's face. But there's more to it. Remember I said that even if the systems don't work, they must work. This is a good example of just that.
There's no way you can apply the Substitute Word System without hearing the name first. That's half the battle—you're forced to hear that name when you try to apply the system! So, even if the system itself didn't work which it does , you'd still remember more names than you ever did before. Antesiewicz was one of my first students. I call difficult-seeming names like this "zip" names.
They go in one ear and zip right out the other! Most people simply won't bother trying to properly hear a name like this. They think, "What's the point? I'll never remember it anyway! Suddenly it's meaningful; at the moment, more meaningful than Jones, and therefore easier to remember than Jones. Cameron—camera on Bentavagnia—a bent weather vane can be visualized. Bentavagnia cannot. And "bent vane" is all the reminder you'd need. Ponchatrane—punch a train Tropeano—throw piano Carruthers—car udders Smith—a blacksmith, or his hammer Gardner— gardener Sitron—sit run Rafferty—rap for tea Cohen—ice cream cone Swanson—swan and son Harrison—hairy son 38 Pukczyva seems like one of those "zip" names until you listen and realize that it's pronounced "puck-shiva.
There is no name, no matter how long, foreign sounding, or strange sounding, to which the Substitute Word System cannot be applied. I could list a thousand of the most commonly used surnames plus my Substitute Word for each.
But it's unnecessary—you're better off thinking up your own Substitute Words or phrases. Doing it yourself helps to pinpoint your concentration even more. Papadopouhs—Papa father topple us. Dimitriades—the meat tree ate E's. The same is true for familiar suffixes or prefixes to names.
Remember, all you want or need is a reminder. Try these yourself—then check your Substitute Words or phrases against mine on the next page. Halperin Latimore Cherofski Kusak Streicher Costello Smolenski Fleming Morales Jeffries 40 Halperin—help her in Latimore—ladder more Cherofski—sheriff ski Kusak—cue sack Streicher—strike her Costello—cost hello Smolenski—small lens ski Fleming—flaming; lemming Morales—more or less Jeffries—Jeff frees; Jeff freeze; chef frees, or freeze There are always other ways to go—for Streicher, you may have thought of strike car or striped car.
For Kusak— cue sick; Fleming—flame ink; Morales—more alleys; Smolenski—smile and ski; and they'd work just fine.
I've been asked only by those who have not as yet tried this technique , "Why won't I think that the name is Smolskilens rather than Smolenski if I form the above association? All your true memory needs to do its work is a little reminder. The Roman numeral for 50 is L. Or, hold up your left hand, palm facing out, 4 fingers together, thumb straight to the right, as if signalling "Stop. Don't let the many letters throw you. They all make the same consonant sound.
Not exactly perhaps, but your lips, tongue, teeth are in the same positions when forming those sounds. Here's your memory-aid, which you need only at first: With a slight stretch of the imagination, a capital J is almost the mirror image of a 6. You'll know why you're learning them later on in the book. That one feature will serve as the second "thing" in this important entity of two—name and face. You've just been introduced to Mr.
You've listened to the name because you want to think of a Substitute Word or phrase, like bent vane. And then you notice his large nose. I'll be teaching you to select one outstanding feature on a new person's face. If you simply try to do that one-second mental calisthenic, you'll be forcing yourself to see the entire face.
In truth, which feature you select—nose, ears, lips, chin, hairline, bald head, cheeks, eyes, cleft, wart, pimple, dimple, forehead, eyebrows, wrinkles, creases—is immaterial. You're forced to look at the face in order to select it! Okay; you've "locked in"—decided on—Mr.
Bentavagnia's nose. You've done the two things that the myriad people who complain, "I'm introduced to someone, and seconds later I've forgotten his or her name," do not do. You've listened to the name—you had to in order to come up with bent vane and looked at the face—you had to in order to select an outstanding feature.
Most of us are mentally lazy. It's easier for some to dig ditches than to think. As has been said, "If you make someone think he's thinking, he'll love you. If you really make him think, he'll hate you. The Substitute Word System forces you to listen to the name, and the outstanding-feature idea forces you to look at the face. But—you can do something more! You can lock in the two "things" with a reminder-connection, an association, so that one will remind you of the other.
Look at Mr. Bentavagnia's face, as you shake hands, and visualize a bent vane on his face where his large nose should be! Pictures from newspapers and magazines are fine. Make up names, christen the face-pictures with them, and apply the system. You'll remember the names of the face-pictures. However, you'll get the same practice when applying the system to real faces. You'll be practicing and accomplishing at the same time! One elderly woman told me she'd learned this system because she had quite a few grandchildren and had started to forget their names.
But she also practiced on others— neighborhood service people, cashiers, waiters and waitresses, plumber, baker, and so on—until she became a local celebrity, almost a legend, in her suburban neighborhood. Everyone knew her by name because she knew everyone by name! Form a Substitute Word, phrase, or thought that will remind you of the name. The same applies for a first name. Find one outstanding feature on the face.
Associate the two things. What a simple program for solving the universal memory problem! And it sure does solve it. I'm probably the best proof of that. Have you ever seen Dale Carnegie win friends and influence people? Have you ever seen Evelyn Wood read fast—or at all?
I don't know anyone who has! But millions have seen me remember the names and faces of up to people after quickly meeting them once, on just about every American television show and at corporate speaking engagements.
You also may have seen my students demonstrate their ability to remember names and faces on television. More important, people all over the world apply, use, and benefit from the systems. A year before I first went on the Ed Sullivan show, a friend was telling Ed what I do: I have everyone in the audience stand, and then when I call a person's name, he or she sits down—until I've seated all people.
But my friend was a bit "off sync" in his explanation and told Ed that people would stand up when I pointed and called out names. Said Mr. You've thought of puck-shiver and, as you shake hands, you notice the obvious cleft in his chin. Lock it in. See one or many ice hockey pucks flying out of that cleft; they're all shivering. Brodsky: You think "broad ski. See broad skis skiing on those lines. Miss Ponchatrane: She has large ears. See trains coming out of those ears; you're punching a train.
Papadopoulos: He has a very wide mouth. See a donkey ass coming out of that mouth. Your father Papa pushes over—topples—the ass. Papa topple ass. Robrum: He has bushy eyebrows. See a bottle of rum over each eye instead of eyebrows and you're robbing the rum. Smith: She has deep lines from nostrils to the corners of her mouth. Carruthers: He has a very high forehead.
See cars driving across that forehead; the cars have udders like a cow —you're milking the cars. Kusak: He has wide bulging eyes.
See cue sticks flying out of those eyes—into a sack. Do these associations seem silly? I want them to be silly. I'm result-oriented; I care only whether an idea works or not. Will this idea help you remember names and faces better than you thought possible? Yes—it will! Apply it when meeting one new person, or when you're introduced to a few people in a group. What can you lose? The worst that can happen is that it won't work and you'll forget names. So what? You've been doing that all your life!
Are you wondering whether you can use, say, the nose over and over with different people? Yes, you can; it won't matter. You can also use the same Substitute Word for different people—if it fits. What if you can't find an outstanding feature? This will rarely happen; there are few perfect faces. But, in order to decide that there's no outstanding feature, you had to look and that's what's most important.
Then, use any feature. My guarantee: After you try to apply the system three separate times, you'll be remembering percent more names and faces than you ever did.
There's method to my madness. The only way you can prove me wrong is by trying to apply the system at least three times! By that time, I guarantee you'll be a convert. Most often, when we say we "forget" something, we really haven't forgotten it. What we did is not remember it in the first place. Association, forming silly mental pictures, forces us to register information in the first place. You've applied the ideas to help you remember new English and foreign words and their meanings, and to remember unfamiliar names and faces.
You've learned how to make an intangible group of sounds meaningful by applying the Substitute Word System. You will be able to do that—and more—after you read and study this section. First, I want you to remember these eight items in sequence! Pen, shoe, book, airplane, eyeglasses, fish, Benadryl, typewriter.
Don't panic! Go to the next page. At the moment, what they represent is immaterial. I just made them up. What is material is that, now, with what you've already learned, you can remember them in sequence, easily. Because each of the "things" already has meaning one is a bit "iffy" , each can be visualized and associated. Start by picturing a pen.
That's all. Perhaps a familiar pen, or an expensive pen you own, or any pen. Now, simply make the assumption that you already know pen. The problem is the "new" thing—the shoe. But in order to remember any new thing, it must be associated in a ridiculous way to something you already know. Since you already know pen and the new thing is shoe, you can apply that rule. Form a silly or impossible picture, association, or reminder-connection between pen and shoe.
Although there are many choices, all you need is one picture. You can see yourself wearing gigantic pens instead of shoes, or writing with a shoe instead of a pen, or you can see millions of pens flying out of a shoe, and so on. Select one, and see that picture in your mind's eye. You'll see how well this works only if you try it! Go to the next association, which is shoe to book. At this moment, the assumption is that you already know shoe, so that can be made to remind you of the new thing—book.
Select one of the following pictures, or one you think of yourself, and see it in your mind's eye for a second or so. You're wearing large books instead of shoes; a large shoe is reading a book; a book is wearing shoes and walking; you open a book and millions of shoes fly out and kick you in the face.
Any one of these is fine. An "instead of" picture is usually easiest to come up with—at least it is for me. Seeing one of the items larger than life gigantic or seeing millions of the same item helps to make the picture silly or illogical.
So does action—walking, or being hit in the face, and so forth. If you've visualized the action between shoe and book, stop thinking about it now.
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