Ignite the Potential of Memory: The Most Effective Memory Techniques in the World

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Features: A chapter that completely challenges the imagination—A colorful key is twisted on a parrot, and the parrot reflexively kicks the ball (a soccer ball) under its feet with force. The ball flies out like an arrow, hitting a huge gong, which falls down and lands in a pile of white coral, crushing it into green bananas. A banana leaf flaps, sending a balloon into the sky. The balloon is pecked by the beak of a white crane flying in the sky, explodes, and disappears without a trace. The crane flies to a black sofa, crosses its legs, sits down leisurely to rest, and then takes out a large and red pomegranate to eat happily.
After reading this imaginative passage, I believe readers can easily remember the underlined words in order: key, parrot, ball, gong, coral, banana, balloon, crane, sofa, pomegranate. Anyone who thinks they have poor memory can, with a little imagination, easily memorize these ten words after seeing them once or at most twice. Not only can they recite them backward, but they will also find it hard to forget them after a long time. If you have memorized these ten words, congratulations—you have actually memorized the first 20 decimal places of pi (3.14159265358979323846)!
The clever you will surely notice that by following the homophonic principle, you can immediately convert each word into the corresponding number: key—14; parrot—15; ball—92; gong—65; coral—35; banana—89; balloon—79; crane—32; sofa—38; pomegranate—46. Now, you should feel that using this method to memorize numbers is not only fast and effective but also full of imaginative fun. You are not completing a dull and frustrating memorization task, but rather playing a fun imagination game!
Through this simple number memorization game, in fact, everyone has already grasped two basic principles of the world's most effective memory methods: association and encoding. Association refers to linking these ten unrelated words together through imaginative processing, making it easy to remember them. Encoding, on the other hand, is the process of transforming 20 dull numbers into vivid and concrete words. By remembering the words through association, it is equivalent to remembering the numbers.
Building on these two basic principles, and combining them with a memory technique we call the "peg method," you can more quickly memorize larger amounts of information and help improve your memory efficiency. The memory method we want to introduce in this book can be called the world's most effective memory method—it is also the simplest and easiest-to-master rapid memory method! It only contains three very simple methods: association, encoding, and the peg method. By mastering this method, we can quickly memorize any information that needs to be remembered. The memory speed of this method is at least ten times faster than our usual "rote memorization" method, and it is also more memorable and less likely to be forgotten.