It makes me wonder how many versions there are?Īnyway, the great thing about these systems is they can be used to memorize ANY stack. The interesting thing is that the Nikola 'alphabet' is actually slightly different from the Winckelman one. Winckelman is mentioned in many websites & also in memory books by Tony Buzan. This mnemonic method has actually been around for about 300 years and was invented by someone called Winckelman. There is a system for remembering the stack which uses a phonetic alphabet to represent the 10 digits 0-9.
The best book I found on this is in fairly recent modern times is by a fellow called “Earnest E Wood” by the title “Mind and memory Training” and can be googled at google books, and many other places its out of print but I think first printed in 1936 and last printed in 1974.Here's an interesting bit of trivia I discovered recently. What you have to do basically is to make the unfamiliar term “wall-e” into a familiar term and link via the intermediate idea i.e a concrete image for example if the peg four four is “Ray” then the link is Ray – wall – Elephant (Looks like an oversize E when sat on its side) in your mental view try and make the Image base image large either make the other images embed with the base or peg image or make up a silly story ,some schools of thought even say it does not have to be silly it just has to follow a logical train of thought from one idea to the next to embed the image in your mind. The ones you missed are because you are unfamiliar with the film name you are trying to link an unfamiliar item with a familiar one, which makes it very difficult.
Harry Lorrayne’s book ‘How To Develop a Super Power Memory’ describes how to memorize abstract information and Foreign languages ,so I would say yes that memorizing details of computer manuals can be done it takes only a small amount of effort to think of associations to use. So any material whether it be very abstract, or in symbolized form can be memorized. It may take a while to form as many link associations as possible but well worth the effort. Yes so any abstract words or lettering can be familiarized easily. So for example a story : ‘ E’ is energy, what can I represent energy as ‘mmh ‘that brings to mind a campfire giving off heat(a form of energy) I can feel the heat energy burning my hand ,when I look at my hand I am surprised to see a large letter ‘E’ imprinted on both hands I am scared and shocked I run through a Tunnel( i.e represents equal sign ‘=’) to a Motor Caravan ((M starts of motor, C starts of Caravan)which is double parked ( C squared ) now this is a poor quick example because it works for me, I can then inspect each element and say well motors that I have known are very heavy and Massive (mass), the caravan is glowing I can remember going to a caravan holiday park and seeing a caravan lit up brightly on its sales pitch in the dark, … etc what I am trying to do is bring forth from my mind every association I can about E=MC squared without loosing track of main idea, I can even remember a college buddy at the time wearing a shirt with this famous equation ,… The more link ideas you can pull forth from your mind about this equation the more familiar in your mind it will become ! you will know it intimately and well. Each symbol must be worked on in turn to give it meaning.
At first you will be slow at this I am still not as quick as I should be ( I do not use it all the time ).Įquations Can be treated in the same way form substitute words and images for the symbols in the equation e.g this one is for E=MC squared now every body knows this famous equation so it is already a familiar idea. You have to treat computer books in the same way abstract words have to be converted to simpler concrete ideas( i.e i think they call them substitute words) and then the meaning of the word combined with your new construct via association i.e you are linking new idea with something you already know ,You are only linking two ideas at a time but with practice it becomes quicker and quicker.
To further answer Fahim’s question above. In fact I can remember the sequence that lead me to buy the book in the first place, I first watched a educational program on British television called ‘Use your Head ‘ By Tony Buzan ,got that book then saw Harries book in a book shop. I have used them on college courses and used them to memorize pages of notes for courses ,they do work and I would say they can give you the key to the operation of your mind without going into great technical detail. I would recommend his books to anybody they explain the techniques very simply. Yes I know Harry Lorrayne’s books first one I bought was in 1993 and I still have it,next to me now as I write this comment!.