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Journey System
The journey method is based around the idea of remembering landmarks on a well-known
journey. You use the Journey Method by associating information with landmarks on
a journey that you know well. This could, for example, be your journey to work in
the morning; the route you use to get to the front door when you get up; the route
to visit your parents; or a tour around a holiday destination. Once you are familiar
with the technique you may be able to create imaginary journeys that fix in your
mind, and apply these.
To use this technique most effectively, it is often best to prepare the journey
beforehand. In this way the landmarks are clear in your mind before you try to commit
information to them. One of the ways of doing this is to write down all the landmarks
that you can recall in order on a piece of paper.
To remember a list of items, whether these are people, experiments, events or
objects, all you need do is associate these things with the landmarks or stops on
your journey.
This is an extremely effective method of remembering long lists of information.
With a sufficiently long journey you could, for example, remember elements on the
periodic table, lists of Kings and Presidents, geographical information, or the
order of cards in a shuffled pack.
The system is extremely flexible: all you need do to remember many items is to
remember a longer journey with more landmarks. To remember a short list, only use
part of the route!
One advantage of this technique is that you can use it to work both backwards
and forwards, and start anywhere within the route to retrieve information.
Example:
You may, as a simple example, want to remember something mundane like this shopping
list:
Coffee, salad, vegetables, bread, kitchen paper, fish, chicken breasts, pork
chops, soup, fruit, bath tub cleaner.
You could associate this list with a journey to a supermarket. Mnemonic images
could be:
Front door: spilt coffee grains on the doormat
Rose bush in front garden: growing lettuce leaves and tomatoes around
the roses
Car: with potatoes, onions and cauliflower on the driver`s seat
End of the road: an arch of French bread over the road
Past garage: with its sign wrapped in kitchen roll
Under railway bridge: from which haddock and cod are dangling by their
tails
Traffic lights : chickens squawking and flapping on top of lights
Past church: in front of which a pig is doing karate, breaking boards
Under office block: with a soup slick underneath: my car tires send
up jets of tomato soup as I drive through it
Past car park: with apples and oranges tumbling from the top level
Supermarket car park: a filthy bath tub is parked in the space next
to my car!
As the journeys used are distinct in location and form, one list remembered using
this technique is easy to distinguish from other lists.
Taking shortcuts mnemonic
Although the visual mnemonic route (the Link system) can potentially carry much more
than just one image, the lack of time you have could make identifying an image impractical
in some situations.
Visual mnemonics take much more time for you to develop than do peg, link, story, or
phonetic mnemonics. When you don't have a lot of time and need to develop a quick way to
remember something important, using a peg may be wiser.
For example, if you're listening to a lecture and don't have a notepad, then you'll end
up in the dust when the lecturer moves on to another subject while you're trying to
conjure up a visual image.
One of the advantages the Peg system has over the story mnemonic system, phonetic, or link systems is
that you can select individual items from a list. In contrast, the link system relies on a
sequence. Like the Loci system, which depends on pre memorized location-connected links,
the Peg system use pre memorized word or number links. With the Peg system, that
information connects to nouns.
The more complex or abstract the noun, the more vulnerable it may be to association
with other words or ideas. The nouns are most useful if they are concrete nouns.
Whatever mnemonic system you use, make sure that it's flexible and meets the demands of
what you're trying to remember. Practice using mnemonics so that you'll be versatile in
their use.
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