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The next thing that you need to do is to create an image that links the word apple to the word shoe. You could try imagining a huge shoe, brimming over with bright, green, juicy apples. Or maybe you could imagine an apple wearing a pair of shoes. See the image in your minds eye, and attempt to make it as vivid as you possibly can. The more vivid an image is – the easier it is to recollect.
Now try to link the word shoe to the word tie. To do this, you could imagine a shoe wearing a tie, or a pair of shoes with ties instead of laces (cartoon-like images are the easiest to recall).
Finally in order to link together the words tie and book, you could simply visualise an enormous book, with a striped tie for a bookmark.
Having done this, you should now be able to remember all of the afore mentioned words. To do this simply close your eyes and journey through the mental links that you have just created. This is a relatively simple procedure, because (as you can see), one image is joined (or linked) to the next.
Thus thinking of the first image forces you to think of the second image, which forces you to think of the third image ect…
So what? I hear you ask. I could have remembered those five words easily, without having to form those ridiculous images. Well this may well be true for the first five words, but I bet that you couldn’t have remembered all twenty. You can with this method.
Why not try it for yourself with the below list of words. Remember to link the first word to the second, in an imaginative and creative way. Then the second word to the third, the third to the fourth – all the way up to number twenty.
List number two
| 1) Teddy-bear | 8) Couch | 15) Lamp |
| 2) Bus | 9) Curtains | 16) Tank |
| 3) Kettle | 10) Clock | 17) Globe |
| 4) Mirror | 11) Field | 18) Tiger |
| 5) Pram | 12) Football | 19) Stairs |
| 6) Jester | 13) Picture | 20) Table |
| 7) Scales | 14) Swing |
Now I would like you to cover the above list of words and then try to reproduce it in the space provided below. Beginning with the word teddy bear and working your way through your mental links, to finish at the word table. I think that you will be pleasantly surprised at just how much better you will do this time.
Test Number Two
| 1) | 8) | 15) |
| 2) | 9) | 16) |
| 3) | 10) | 17) |
| 4) | 11) | 18) |
| 5) | 12) | 19) |
| 6) | 13) | 20) |
| 7) | 14) |
Incredible heh!
Who would have believed that your capacity for recall could improve so dramatically and in so short a period of time? Well that was just the tip of the iceberg, and I can honestly predict that after reading through the rest of this section, you will have difficulty believing just how much more your memory will have improved.
I would now like to conclude this section by listing a few general pointers, which should help to make your linking that much more effective. These are:
If you use the above techniques, then you should find that the links that you create, will be next to impossible to break.
Linking is a very useful tool to have in your possession. One that has a large number of applications. For example it may be used to recall shopping lists, lists of things-to-do, appointments – the list of lists is practically endless. So my advice to you is to start using it. You won’t regret it!