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The link system

The link system

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The link system

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- The link system for memory is given its name because it requires you to link one item to another, creating links in a memory chain. Each item should link you to the next if you're associating it properly. The link system is most useful for remembering things in a sequence. There are many things that need to be remembered in sequence. A speech, for example, or maybe an eight step process you need to remember for a test, or maybe nine things you need to do in a specific order. Let's try out an example. Here's a list of items we're going to memorize using the link system. We start by creating our first link. As you can see the first two words on our list are pen and shoe. We have to link pen and shoe together in a visual manner. Most importantly, the image we create in our mind must be exaggerated. We already discussed why exaggeration is important in earlier lessons, so we need to make sure we implement it here. For the purpose of this exercise imagine that you're wearing gigantic…

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