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But what is the upper limit of numbers that can be remembered by a group of people randomly chosen? In the 1940s, Harvard psychologist George Miller measured the capacity of people’s short-term memory for digits and found that most people could repeat strings of five to nine letters. How many were you able to come up with? According to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (Moca), the gold standard among neuropsychological screening tests, your performance was acceptable if you remembered five or more. Now turn away and write down as many as you can remember, starting from the left. The first patient was none other than Sigmund Freud. A similar method of looking inwards is used in the training of psychoanalysts. As an exercise for remembering an unfamiliar group of people, you can invent a visually vivid story around them. After encountering unfamiliar people in a social setting, the aspiring novelist is asked to incorporate them into the plot of a novel or short story. Situational exercises involving self-exploration are used in creative-writing seminars. One step beyond are situational exercises directed inward. You will remember more because at a given moment, your memory is encompassing larger swathes of your immediate surroundings. The more you practise, the greater the breadth and depth of your memory. The goal is to employ your attentional focus in the manner of a searchlight scanning the night sky. If you are like most people, you probably won’t do very well with this memory exercise the first time you try it.

To get a feel for this, the next time you are in a restaurant, close your eyes for a few seconds and mentally picture the arrangement of the people sitting around you at the nearby tables.

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On request a Seal who must be able to describe the location of the doors and windows of the room in which they are sitting, along with other details that would be helpful to remember in order to be able to make a quick escape in the event of an enemy attack. Situational awareness exercises are used by US Navy Seals, and other branches of the military. As the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson put it: “The art of memory is the art of attention”. Simply thinking about how two or more things can be associated requires you to concentrate and attend – two brain activities which on their own lead to enhanced memory. Come up with a longer list of your own loci and place a list of random items in them – the more bizarre or irreverent the images you come up with, the easier they will be to remember. Coffee shop – a giant coffee cup on a table outside contains a watermelon. Library – when I look through the floor-length window facing me, I see loaves of bread instead of books on shelves. House – imagine the house as a pint of milk turned on its side with milk pouring out of the chimney. So if I want to remember, say, three items – milk, bread, watermelon – here is how I would do it. The loci method remains one of the most popular used by mnemonists and a few of the ones I use are 1) my home, 2) a nearby library and 3) a coffee shop. It was the 16th-century architect and philosopher Giulio Camillo who suggested the memory theatre as a way of using images and loci (the position of these images) to remember.

When I returned to the garage I had no trouble converting the images back to numbers to remember where I’d parked the car.

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I pictured a tree under a blazing sun in full bloom with beehives so numerous and ponderous that they weigh down all the branches.

The number “three” rhymes with “tree,” “five” rhymes with “hive,” and “one” rhymes with “sun”.

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So how to guarantee that I will be able to find it? By using the sounds-like system based on rhymes. As an example, I parked my car yesterday in space 351 in a seven-storey garage. The easiest way to organise unrelated information is to place things you are trying to remember into a framework, like a story or a rhyme. Our brains are designed to work with meaning. The more senses that can be recruited, the more likely you will be able to form a long-lasting memory, as more areas of the brain are involved. Nouns like “chair” and “notebook” can be described and imagined in different ways (the comfort of the chair, the softness or hardness of the notebook and so on). The coffee experience is both verbal (naming and describing it), as well as sensory (tasting, smelling, etc). In your imagination you can taste it and savour it as it flows over your taste buds. Not only can you imagine yourself doing that, but you can also imagine smelling its delightful aroma.

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