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Numeric peg system: Memorizing more than 10 items

Numeric peg system: Memorizing more than 10 items

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Numeric peg system: Memorizing more than 10 items

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- Earlier we learned how to memorize a ten item list using the numeric peg system. But what if your list has 14 items or what if you had to remember 37 different things in a specific order? You can actually use the numeric peg system to remember more than 10 items. Here's how it works. You need to come up with a theme or a rule for numbers 11 through 20, 21 through 30, and 31 through 40, and so on and so forth. For example, my theme for anything between 11 through 20 is olive oil. So, let's go over an example of how that might work. Let's say our list was more than 10 items in length and instead of number one being bread, let's say number 11 was bread. The picture you imagine in your mind obviously has to include bread, but it also has to include a pencil because it's the first digit on the right of the number 11. Your picture also has to include olive oil. Why? Because we decided that that would be our rule for numbers 11 through 20. Again, keep in mind that you can create any kind…

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