How to Remember Anything: The Proven Total Memory Retention System (10 page)

Study the Code until you can look at any number and know its corresponding sound(s) or any sound and know its corresponding number. You will use this Number Code many times in this book. More important, once you have mastered it, you are likely to use it every day for the rest of your life.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE NUMBER CODE: TELEPHONE AREA CODES

There are thousands of applications of the Number Code. One very practical and timesaving use of this technique is for remembering telephone numbers. In fact, with the Number Code, it is much faster and easier to remember telephone numbers than to look them up!

Here is an example of how the Number Code can be applied to the area codes for cities, while recognizing that some cities have multiple codes:

How to remember area codes for each of the follovving cities (there are multiple codes in most major cities):

See a
chick (Chicago)
wearing a
mitten (312)
(chick-mitten).

See an
atlas (Atlanta
) with a
razor (404
) stuck through it (atlas-razor).

See an
Indian (Indianapolis
) as a
medic (317)
(Indian-medic).

See a
baton (Baton Rouge)
with a
laser (504
) shining out of it (baton-laser).

See
dollars (Dallas)
with a
hunter (214)
on them (dollars-hunter).

See a
mill (Milwaukee)
with a
radar (414
) screen on it (mill-radar).

See Abe
Lincoln (Lincoln)
with a huge
raisin (402
) in his hat (Lincoln-raisin).

See an
ear (Erie)
with a
feather (814
) stuck in it (ear-feather).

See a
domino (Des Moines)
with a
ladle (515)
stuck through it (domino-ladle).

See a
column (Columbus)
made of
cheddar (614)
cheese (column-cheddar).

Later, when you want to remember the area code for these or other cities:

1.
Think of the audionym for the city.

2.
See the object (Code Word) you associated with it.

3.
Change the Code Word to its three-digit area code.

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