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well for one person may not work as well for someone else.
Some people have chosen to simply memorize their stack by rote, by just applying brute
memory and learning a few more cards each day. When you think about it, 52 items isn t really that
much; most of us probably know far more than 50 telephone numbers of our friends, relatives and
business associates and phone numbers are far more abstract and complex than playing cards.
Many other people (myself included) prefer to memorize the stack by using a more formal,
organized system, that s actually structured to help your memory. I prefer the universally recognized
and accepted method for memorizing things, based on the mnemonic/phonetic alphabet and the
ability to link images by making visual images or associations. If you ve never heard of it, Harry
Lorayne will be extremely disappointed, but it is a tried and proven system that really works.
Descriptions can be found in many general books on memory (Bruno Furst, The Practical Way to a
Better Memory, Grosset & Dunlop, (1946); Harry Lorayne, How to Develop a Super Power Memory,
Fell, 1957). I m not going to describe it here (it would take too long, and I ve already described the
entire system in great detail, A Stack To Remember, pp. 16-29, and also Bound to Please, pp. 129-
139). That general mnemonic system provides an underlying structure that accomplishes several
important things. First, it translates uninteresting, undifferentiated, abstract numbers and playing
cards into vivid, memorable, unique visual images all based on a simple list comprising just ten
basic phonetic units. That basic list of ten components is really the only thing that has to be
actually memorized; and this can easily be accomplished in less than 15 minutes. Everything else
relies on, is connected to, gets built upon, those ten basic phonetic units, so once you get the ten
units fixed in your mind, you ll be amazed at how quickly you can combine them to form an entire
mental superstructure.
Second, the system paves the way for your mind to quickly and easily create mental pictures
which can link together, or associate, two separate visual images. It is this combined mental picture
or association that stays memorable in your mind s eye, your imagination, and yes, in your memory.
Sometimes people initially get intimidated when they first hear about such memory
systems but only before they try them. I ve never known anyone who, after reading the necessary
ten pages (that s all there is, that s the complete explanation) didn t actually smile, as he found out
how simple, how neat, how elegant, and how easy the system was to use. It s almost too easy like
16 " Simon Aronson s
there must be a trick but really, I kid you not: this system, when applied, will connect the cards
and positions in your memory.
Third, and this is the most important encouragement I can offer, regardless of how
extensively you rely on a mnemonic system to first learn a memorized deck, once you become
proficient, the entire mental sub-structure of phonetics, words, images and associations soon entirely
drops out of the picture. After a month you ll find that, when you see a playing card, you ll instantly
and automatically know its stack number, and vice versa. The system eventually will establish the
memorized deck as a direct, conscious and un-assisted memory link. Trust me.
I m a strong proponent of this mnemonic system, at least as it applies to the specific task of
memorizing once and for all, a deck of cards. I immodestly recommend my description (referenced
above) as perhaps the best material written on the subject. (Practically everything else was written
by professional memory experts trying to train the general public to remember everything from
shopping lists to faces to dates, etc., while my single and only limited goal in writing A Stack to
Remember was to focus on the best way for magicians to memorize 52 playing cards). But you
don t need to buy my book to get this mnemonic system; many of you probably already have it in
your library for example, there s a brief description in Greater Magic, pp. 902-906, under H. Adrian
Smith s Mnemonics with Cards. (That s where I first learned it, as a teenager).
Finally, let me emphasize that the entire mnemonic system touted above is not limited to, or
designed for, just the Aronson stack (or any other particular stack). That mnemonic system will help
you learn any stack order you apply it to.
Here s one more tip. Some users have suggested that it helped them not to learn the stack
in sequence. Thus, instead of first learning stack number 1, then stack number 2, and proceeding [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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well for one person may not work as well for someone else.
Some people have chosen to simply memorize their stack by rote, by just applying brute
memory and learning a few more cards each day. When you think about it, 52 items isn t really that
much; most of us probably know far more than 50 telephone numbers of our friends, relatives and
business associates and phone numbers are far more abstract and complex than playing cards.
Many other people (myself included) prefer to memorize the stack by using a more formal,
organized system, that s actually structured to help your memory. I prefer the universally recognized
and accepted method for memorizing things, based on the mnemonic/phonetic alphabet and the
ability to link images by making visual images or associations. If you ve never heard of it, Harry
Lorayne will be extremely disappointed, but it is a tried and proven system that really works.
Descriptions can be found in many general books on memory (Bruno Furst, The Practical Way to a
Better Memory, Grosset & Dunlop, (1946); Harry Lorayne, How to Develop a Super Power Memory,
Fell, 1957). I m not going to describe it here (it would take too long, and I ve already described the
entire system in great detail, A Stack To Remember, pp. 16-29, and also Bound to Please, pp. 129-
139). That general mnemonic system provides an underlying structure that accomplishes several
important things. First, it translates uninteresting, undifferentiated, abstract numbers and playing
cards into vivid, memorable, unique visual images all based on a simple list comprising just ten
basic phonetic units. That basic list of ten components is really the only thing that has to be
actually memorized; and this can easily be accomplished in less than 15 minutes. Everything else
relies on, is connected to, gets built upon, those ten basic phonetic units, so once you get the ten
units fixed in your mind, you ll be amazed at how quickly you can combine them to form an entire
mental superstructure.
Second, the system paves the way for your mind to quickly and easily create mental pictures
which can link together, or associate, two separate visual images. It is this combined mental picture
or association that stays memorable in your mind s eye, your imagination, and yes, in your memory.
Sometimes people initially get intimidated when they first hear about such memory
systems but only before they try them. I ve never known anyone who, after reading the necessary
ten pages (that s all there is, that s the complete explanation) didn t actually smile, as he found out
how simple, how neat, how elegant, and how easy the system was to use. It s almost too easy like
16 " Simon Aronson s
there must be a trick but really, I kid you not: this system, when applied, will connect the cards
and positions in your memory.
Third, and this is the most important encouragement I can offer, regardless of how
extensively you rely on a mnemonic system to first learn a memorized deck, once you become
proficient, the entire mental sub-structure of phonetics, words, images and associations soon entirely
drops out of the picture. After a month you ll find that, when you see a playing card, you ll instantly
and automatically know its stack number, and vice versa. The system eventually will establish the
memorized deck as a direct, conscious and un-assisted memory link. Trust me.
I m a strong proponent of this mnemonic system, at least as it applies to the specific task of
memorizing once and for all, a deck of cards. I immodestly recommend my description (referenced
above) as perhaps the best material written on the subject. (Practically everything else was written
by professional memory experts trying to train the general public to remember everything from
shopping lists to faces to dates, etc., while my single and only limited goal in writing A Stack to
Remember was to focus on the best way for magicians to memorize 52 playing cards). But you
don t need to buy my book to get this mnemonic system; many of you probably already have it in
your library for example, there s a brief description in Greater Magic, pp. 902-906, under H. Adrian
Smith s Mnemonics with Cards. (That s where I first learned it, as a teenager).
Finally, let me emphasize that the entire mnemonic system touted above is not limited to, or
designed for, just the Aronson stack (or any other particular stack). That mnemonic system will help
you learn any stack order you apply it to.
Here s one more tip. Some users have suggested that it helped them not to learn the stack
in sequence. Thus, instead of first learning stack number 1, then stack number 2, and proceeding [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]