Warren Banks

Mind Power

Miracles

An “insider” shortcut guide to turning

your mind into a mental magnet in a

single evening!

Module 1

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Table Of Contents

Module 1

Introduction

Section 1: The History Of Memory

Section 2: How Memory Works

Section 3: The Most Important Aspect Of Memory

Section 4: What Is Memory

Section 5: How To Link

Module 2

Section 6: Peg Systems

Section 7: How To Remember Names & Faces

Section 8: How To Remember Speeches

Section 9: Remembering Advanced Numbers

Section 10: How To Remember Letters & Symbols

Section 11: How To Remember Books & Articles

Module 3

Section 12: How Anyone Can Memorize A Deck Of Cards

Section 13: How To Learn Any Foreign Language In Just 10 Days

Section 14: How To Never Forget Your Appointments

Section 15: How To Remember Facts About People

Section 16: How To Remember What You’ve Forgotten

Section 17: How To Recall Any Address

Section 18: How To Memorize A 30 + Digit Number

Module 4

Section 19: How To Organize Your Mind

Section 20: The 4 Most Potent Ways To Awaken Your Enthusiasm

Section 21: How To Conquer Fear

Section 22: How To Stop Procrastinating

Section 23: How To Overcome Rejection

Section 24: How To Make People Instantly Like You

Section 25: How To Really Listen To Someone

Introduction

This course will open up a new world for you.

Like purchasing a pair of glasses for poor eyes this course can shed new

light into your memory and how to use it.

It’s easier than you think to dramatically boost your memory to new high

levels.

Many people complain about there memory but very few choose to do

anything about it.

Since our birth no one shows us how to use our memory. You are just

expected to get on with it and if you struggle to remember then you

mustn’t be very bright.

It isn’t until you study people with exceptional memory than you see the

underline structure of how memory works.

The human brain thinks in images not words, not numbers but images.

Once we take advantage of this we can literally remember and recall at

will. With very little practice for most techniques.

No longer will you be unable to remember information that is important

to your studies or work.

All the following sections are designed to rapidly build a new way to

process information and allow you to remember at will.

If you purchased this course expecting polished writing and technical

terms you will be disappointed.

I have tried to write this course and explain the system’s as if I were

explaining to you face to face.

I have tried to get down to what works and what works best without

giving you an encyclopedia of every aspect of memory.

Please bear in mind that you’re not reading a novel here, your learning

systems that will train your memory.

It’s key you try these methods because once you try and see results. You

will then see the potential to bring your memory to an amazingly high

standard.

So take your time and work along with me.

Make sure to use the blank pages between sections to write lots of notes.

Section 1: History of Memory

The history of the art of memory begins with the Greek orator Simonides

of Ceos, (556-468 B.C.).

Simonides was characterized on ancient tablets as being the inventor of

the system of memory-aids described as Visual Imagery Mnemonics.

Many scholars view Simonides as a turning point in the history of the art

of memory.

The Greeks, being deeply interested in the relationship of the brain to the body, and the entire human being to the surrounding universe, took the art of memory and memory techniques to new horizons.

They revered memory to such an extent that they created a goddess, Mnemosyne, to honor what they considered to be such a vital part of the real universe.

The Greeks developed basic list-memory systems, and proposed the basic memory principles of Imagination, Association and Location that are so central to Memory Power.

Many senators and high ranking officials were able to recall thousands of items, everything from statistics to names, with minimal effort.

The Greeks had determined early on that the two keys to a near perfect memory are:

Imagination & Association

Using your imagination you can picture anything you wish to remember, and adding an association or a link with something already stored in your memory, you can recall any new information.

After the Greeks, the Romans continued to enhance the systems, adding the ‘Roman Room’ system that improved your memory by providing you with an imaginary room in which you ‘located’ the things you wished to remember.

For nearly 2,000 years after the decline of the Roman Empire.

The art and science of memory fell into an inactive period as the world’s religions felt that the use of imagination was ‘not a good thing’.

Frowning on techniques of thinking that encouraged the individual to imagine and fantasize.

It was not until the 17th century that people, especially those in the arts and the theatre, began to realize that the memory techniques were based on the fundamental principles of human thinking, and that they could be extremely useful in many ways.

During the renaissances in thinking lead by Shakespeare and Goethe, the first new development in memory techniques for 1,700 years appeared: the Major System (also called the phonetic number system or phonetic mnemonic system).

This was the first system that enabled the user to transfer easily and instantaneously from numbers to letters.

Thus creating the opportunity for a system that could stretch from zero to an infinite number, and which allowed the user to translate any word into its own special number, and any number into its own special letter.

This multiplied the opportunity for developing memory techniques 100-fold.

For over 300 years, there were no other major advances until the middle of the 20th century, when Mind Maps were created.

Mind Maps are an incredibly powerful memory tool that have been compared to having a ‘Swiss army knife for the brain’.

Nowadays, many well-known actors use memory techniques whenever they have to tackle movie scripts or plays

Section 2: How Memory Works

If our brains were computers, we'd simply add a chip to upgrade our memory.

However, the human brain is much more complex than even the most advanced machine, so improving human memory requires slightly more effort.

Just like muscular strength, your ability to remember increases when you exercise your memory and nurture it with a good diet and other healthy habits.

There are a number of steps you can take to improve your memory and retrieval capacity.

First, however, it's helpful to understand how we remember.

Simply put, memory is the mental activity of recalling information that you have learned or experienced.

That simple definition, though, covers a complex process that involves many different parts of the brain and serves us in disparate ways. Memory can be short-term or long-term.

In short-term memory, your mind stores information for a few seconds or a few minutes: the time it takes you to dial a phone number you just looked up or to compare the prices of several items in a store.

such memory is fragile, and it’s meant to be; your brain would soon read “disk full” if you retained every phone number you called, every dish you ordered in a restaurant, and the subject of every ad you watched on TV.

Your brain is also meant to hold an average of seven items, which is why you can usually remember a new phone number for a few minutes but need your credit card in front of you when you’re buying something online.

Long-term memory involves the information you make an effort (conscious or unconscious) to retain.

Because this information is personally meaningful to you (for example, data about family and friends);

You need it (such as job procedures or material you’re studying for a test); or it made an emotional impression (a movie that had you riveted, the first time you ever caught a fish, the day your uncle died).

Some information that you store in long-term memory requires a conscious effort to recall: episodic memories.

Episodic memories are personal memories about experiences you’ve had at specific times; and semantic memories (factual data not bound to time or place), which can be everything from the names of the planets to the color of your child’s hair.

Another type of long-term memory is procedural memory, which involves skills and routines you perform so often that they don’t require conscious recall.

Certain areas of the brain are especially important in the formation and retention of memory:

The hippocampus, a primitive structure deep in the brain, plays the single largest role in processing information as memory.

The amygdala, an almond-shaped area near the hippocampus, processes emotion and helps imprint memories that involve emotion.

The cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain, stores most long-term memory in different zones, depending on what kind of processing the information involves: language, sensory input, problem-solving, and so forth.

In addition, memory involves communication among the brain’s network of neurons, millions of cells activated by brain chemicals called neurotransmitters.

How the Brain Retrieves Memories

The information we take in leaves traces and patterns of neuron activity in

the brain those creating pathways.

Memories can reappear spontaneously if triggered by an event that re-

stimulates a previous neuron pattern.

Most recollections we have are from searches we consciously ask the

brain to make.

When we repeat the same thought same or action, we send signals along

established pathways reinforcing certain neural patterns (highlighting the

importance of repetition and revision in memory building).

Just as important is the way we form associations between pieces of

information and group them according to their type to allow our brain to

locate them easily.

The brains ability to find the information we require largely depends on

how well the pathways have been established.

The more links and pathways to the information the more likely you

retrieving it.

Section 3: The Most Important

Aspect Of Memory

I have a question for you. Don’t look at your watch. Does your watch have Roman numerals, numbers or lines to mark out the hours? Do you know?

Are you sure?

Now look at your watch to see if you were correct. If you were, well done. Your observational skills are better than most.

Oh by the way, when you looked at your watch, what time did it say? Most people, even if they get the first question right, get the second wrong.

‘The most important aspect of memory is observation.’

Regarding memory, the above statement is one of the most accurate that you are ever likely to read.

Without observation, there can be no memory. Allow me to elaborate.

Imagine if you will that you are sitting on your favorite chair, reading a newspaper, with the TV chatting merrily away in the background.

Now there you are, reading through a mildly interesting article, when you become distracted by something that is being said on the television.

Now you continue to read through the article (that is your eyes continue to move over the text), but for just a few short moments, your minds attention is focused on the TV.

After a few seconds you realize that you have read through an entire paragraph of the article, yet you have absolutely no idea what was said in that paragraph.

Now I feel certain that if you have never experienced that exact situation, then you have most likely experienced a similar one.

That is a situation where your eyes were on one thing, whilst your attention (or observation) was on something entirely different.

Specifically, what the above analogy tells us is that one can see something, without necessarily observing it.

Without observation, there can be no memory.

To prove this point, I will offer a few specific examples.

Examples of the importance of observation

Consider a man at a party. There he is chatting away quite happily, when he thinks to himself – ‘Did I lock the front door before I left for this party?’ He cannot seem to remember whether he did or he didn’t.

Now let us assume that the man did lock his front door. The problem is that he just cannot seem to remember doing it.

The reason for this mans unfortunate predicament, is that locking the front door whenever he leaves his home, is such a natural thing for him to do, that he does it automatically (without thinking).

And if he did not think about what he was doing when he locked his front door, then he did not observe the event.

No observation = No memory.

A woman is at work, but did she remember to switch off the radio before leaving her flat?

Again switching off the radio may be such a natural thing for her to do before leaving for work in the morning, that she did it without thinking.

She therefore failed to observe the event.

Failing to observe the event results in no memory being formed to associate with the event.

So it is not at all surprising that she is so unsure.

For my final example, I would like you to imagine if you will, a man who embarks on an holiday, only to be plagued throughout the entire journey, by the thought that he had forgotten to switch off his living room light, before leaving for the airport.

He did switch it off, but again he did not observe himself doing it, and as a result he cannot recall the event.

Now that is the sort of thing that can really get in the way of enjoying a holiday!

The above examples may seem irrelevant or even silly to you.

However they do serve to make clear the point that observation is the singularly most important prerequisite of memory.

We see with our eyes but we observe with our minds. The biggest key to improving observation is paying attention.

A prerequisite I might add, that can be greatly improved upon. I will now explain how this improvement may be accomplished

How to improve your observation

The method that I shall now outline is an incredibly simple one.

Basically, all that is required is for you to make a conscious effort to use your observation.

For example in the above case of the man at the party, who was unsure as to whether or not he had locked his front door.

All that he would need to do, in order to prevent all that needless worry, would be getting into the habit of whenever he locks his door.

Take the time to pause for a couple of seconds to think to himself. ‘I have locked the door.’

Now because he has made a conscious effort to observe himself doing this, he should not forget the event.

The same technique may be applied to the second example.

All that the woman would need to do in order to remember switching off her radio, would be to pause for a moment when she does it, and to think to herself.

‘I am switching off the radio.’

Now because she has observed herself doing this, she also should have no difficulty remembering the event.

Finally in the third example, all that the man would need to do, would be to observe himself switching off the light in his living room before embarking on his holiday.

In some situations you should ask questions to yourself and others to stimulate your mind and trigger interest which in turn will allow you to observe better.

Test Your Powers of Observation

The more we notice details about people, places and things the more they stick in our memory.

You can test & improve your own observational skills with this little test.

Pick an everyday item such as a bowl. Clear your mind and gaze at the bowl for 5 minutes.

Notice everything you can about its color, its shape, and its patterns.

What kind of decoration does it have? Is its surface shiny or dull? Etc.

When your 5 minutes are up look away from the bowl and begin to draw it on a piece of paper.

Then look again at the cup and compare it to your drawing.

How well did you recall your drawing?

Practicing this exercise regularly with different items will greatly improve your observational powers.

Spot The Difference Puzzles At first glance, the two images appear to be identical. But looks can be deceiving. There are actually twelve differences between the images. Can you spot them all?

Spot The Difference #2 At first glance, the two images appear to be identical. But looks can be deceiving. There are actually twelve differences between the images. Can you spot them all?

Section 4: What Is Memory

Humans have a "robust" capacity to learn and retain new information

unconsciously, retaining so-called habit memory even when conscious

learning is absent.

If you lost your memory completely you would not be able to read, write,

dress, and drive a car.

These are all practices you picked up over the years through habit and

should be attributed to memory.

Habit is memory

Habit learning occurs when information is stored unconsciously, through repetition and trial-and-error learning.

These memories are believed to be retained in a different region of the brain, called the basal ganglia.

In monkeys with lesions in the hippocampus, it had been shown that in contrast to humans with similar hippocampal lesions due to injury or disease who have difficulty learning certain tasks over a certain time period.

The monkeys can learn the tasks at a normal rate, apparently as habits.

In the a study reported in Nature Magazine, two human volunteers with amnesia, called EP and GP, participated in a series of simple object discrimination tasks.

Both individuals have severe memory impairment, due to temporal lobe damage caused by herpes simplex encephalitis.

The volunteers were presented with the same series of 8 pairs of miscellaneous objects and asked to select the correct one of each pair, in several sessions conducted over several weeks.

The word "correct" was on the bottom of the correct object, and could be read after the object was picked up and turned over.

At the beginning of each session, the volunteers had no recollection of having performed the task previously, and even after several sessions they could not explain what they were being asked to do or why.

But, after several sessions of repeating the exercise with the same pairs of objects, the volunteers unconsciously selected the correct item in each pair with increasing accuracy.

The ability to select the correct object appeared to be automatic.

In fact, during the course of the study as they were able to select the correct object, the subjects wondered aloud, "How am I doing this?"

When asked how he knew which object to select, one of the subjects pointed to his head and replied "It here, and somehow or another the hand goes for it."

By the end of the study they were scoring 95% and 100% in their selection of the correct item.

"These findings help explain how patients with profound memory loss can still do what they do, for example, why the amnesia patient EP can take a walk around his neighborhood without getting lost," said the study.

"Humans clearly can acquire and retain knowledge through repetition.

This also reminds us that we have this habit learning system that's working all the time behind the scenes, independently shaping who we are and how we behave, in addition to our conscious learning system."

Mnemonics which is a large part of memory training is nothing new and was developed by the ancient Greeks.

But these trained memory systems are not used by that many people through out the world.

Most people who take the time to learn these techniques are amazed at

there ability to remember.

It can be a major benefit when you’re the only one in the office who can

remember every order number and every price, setting you apart from

your other work colleagues.

The memory is a lot like a muscle the more you train it the better it gets at

remembering.

You can be taught to have a trained memory just as you can be taught to

ride a bike.

As well as a trained memory you will no doubt see greater concentration

and observation.

Anything you wish to remember must be in some way associated to

something already in your mind (something you already know).

Most of the things you already remember have been subconsciously

associated with something else that you already knew.

What your subconscious associated strongly will be remembered and

what your subconscious associated weakly will not be remembered.

You pretty much have no control over your subconscious and what takes

place without your knowledge you can not control anyway.

The follow chapters will show your now to associate consciously so that

when you’ve learned to do that you will yourself have a trained memory.

After following the systems set out with a little practice they become

second nature.

Section 5: How To Link

It is a fact that we all retain far more of the information that we are exposed to than we are able to easily access.

This has been proven time and again through the use of such techniques as hypnosis, which has on many occasions been used to bring forth memories that the subject cannot access when conscious.

For example, as you are no doubt aware the police have on occasion used hypnosis to enable a witness to a crime to recall the registration number of a car that they did see, but cannot ‘consciously’ remember.

The reason for this lack of recall is that our memories are not always stored in an ordered manner.

This means that when we attempt to retrieve them, we don’t always know where to look.

The purpose of this section of the site is to improve the reader’s ability to memorize - in the correct order - any given list that you put your mind to, by up to 1000% by using the core techniques of mnemonics.

This may sound to you like a pretty bold claim for me to be making.

But I assure you that after reading through the rest of this section, and after mastering the mnemonic system of ‘Linking’ that I shall shortly explain; you will soon find that you have accomplished this seemingly amazing feat.

This will be done with an ease that you will no doubt find pleasantly surprising.

All of this is facilitated by using the mnemonic system known as Linking.

The Linking system is the most basic of all the memory systems and will give you a base to with which to learn other more advanced systems.

This basic system is best used for such things as shopping lists and lists of items where each item is associated with the next.

I will now proceed to explain the details of this memory improvement system.

How Linking memories using mnemonics works

Human memory operates by associating, or linking, one piece of information with another.

The great Greek philosophers first understood this linking of one memory to another, many centuries before the dawn of the modern age.

In fact they used various mnemonics for centuries before the discipline eventually fell into disuse.

Such knowledge has been put to great use by a large number of researchers in the field of memory improvement for many centuries.

Not to mention by a great many magicians!

For example, when an individual hears a familiar tune, they may link and recall the face of someone that they were with when they first heard it.

Or alternatively, the song may bring back the memory of an important event that took place in their life.

Perhaps whilst that piece of music was playing high in the charts. It may even simply take the person back to a general period of their life.

This phenomenon of memory association (or linking) is very important indeed, and when it is performed ‘consciously by using mnemonics,’ it can greatly improve an individual’s capacity for recollection.

I will now prove the truth of these words, with the aid of a little test.

A test that should help to prove to you, the vast difference in capacity between a trained memory (one using mnemonics) and an untrained one.

List number one

1) Cat 8) Swan 15)Umbrella

2) Apple 9) Pipe 16) Bird

3) Shoe 10) Sword 17) Comb

4) Tie 11) Horse 18) Sea

5) Book 12) Pan 19) Sun

6) Fish 13) Bread 20) Camera

7)Television 14) Trousers

Now if you would like to indulge me for a little while.

What I would like you to do is to read through the above list of words - just once, concentrating on each word as you do so.

Only when you have completed this task, continue reading.

Then I would like you to cover it up with a piece of paper and then try to reproduce the entire list in the correct order, in the space provided below.

Go on. Humor me. It will pass a bit of time!

Test Number One

1) 8) 15)

2) 9) 16)

3) 10) 17)

4) 11) 18)

5) 12) 19)

6) 13) 20)

7) 14)

How did you do? Not to good heh! Well try not to let it get you down to much.

Because the truth of the matter is that most people who are in possession of an untrained memory, would be hard pressed to recall more than half of such a list, after only one reading.

Also the words that they would succeed in recalling would probably be in the wrong order.

That’s just one of the drawbacks of having an untrained memory.

I will now explain to you how you can use the mnemonic system of linking to memorize a list such as the one shown above, totally and in the correct order, after reading through it only once.

How to us mnemonics to link consciously

Imagine that for some reason you wanted to use linking to memorize the first five words of the above list.

These words are – cat, apple, shoe, tie and book.

Now the first thing that I would like you to do, is to try to form a picture in your minds eye, that links the first word ‘cat’ to the second word ‘apple,’ in an imaginative and thus memorable way.

For example you might try picturing a large cat, sinking its teeth into a big, green, juicy apple.

Now if you close your eyes, and for one moment really endeavor to visualize this image, being sure to make it as vivid as you possibly can.

Also trying to see with your minds eye, the colors’ of the cat and of the apple, then you should find that it is next to impossible for you to forget that the first two words of the above list are cat and apple.

These images are now linked together in your memory.

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 visualize an enormous book, with a striped tie for a bookmark.

Having done this, you should now be able to remember all of the before 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 etc…

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.

I’ll give you another example:

A silver serving spoon

Six drinking glasses

Bananas

Pure soap

Eggs

Biological washing powder dental floss

Whole-wheat bread

Tomatoes

Roses.

Imagine walking down the road balancing the most enormous silver colored serving spoon, the handle end you are holding between your teeth, as you taste and feel the metal in your metal in your mouth.

Carefully balanced on the spoon are six beautiful crystal drinking glasses, through which the sunlight reflects brightly into your eyes.

As you look at these beautiful glasses you hear them tinkle on the silver spoon.

As you walk down the street you step onto the most gigantic banana, which skids with a swish under you.

You somehow manage to stay on your feet and keep moving down the road only to find that you’ve just stepped onto a shimmering white bar of pure soap. You slip and fall back onto a mound of eggs.

As you sink onto them you hear the cracking of the eggs shells, and you see the yellow of the yolk and the white of the albumen, and you feel the dampness soaking through your trousers.

You pick yourself up and head home.

On returning you strip off your egg covered clothes and begin to wash them in biological washing powder.

The biological washing powder leaves your clothes looking as good as new.

You head out up the road feeling tired after your previous accident, you are now pulling yourself towards the shops on a gigantic rope made of dental floss, and this dental floss connects your front door to the chemists shop.

Just as you start to pull yourself closer to the chemist you notice a strong smell of freshly baked whole wheat bread wafting over from the bakery.

You dart over to the bakery to get your hands on this fresh whole wheat bread when you notice that every loaf is filled with a tomato of all things.

It’s the new whole wheat tomato loaf; you pick your tomato and whole wheat loaf and walk out of the bakery, noisily munching on your tomato.

As you walk out of the bakery you relies its Valentines Day and you must get you significant other red roses.

You make your way into the flower shop and notice the fragrance from the roses; you walk and grab a rose feeling its thorns and green leaves admiring the redness of the flower.

When you have finished reading this fantasy, close your eyes and run back through the image-story you have just completed.

If you think you can remember all the items on the list then fill in the answers below.

If not read over it again visualize the whole story step by step in your mind’s eye.

List the ten items

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Why not try it with the next 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:

Illuminate your link images. That is make them as bright and as colorful as you possibly can. In fact you don’t even have to use the correct colors’. A pink elephant, or an orange mountain, are both very memorable images indeed.

Exaggerate the proportions of your link images. That is try to make them as large as you can. The bigger the better!

Sensation must be included. Attempt to incorporate as many of your senses as you can into your links – sight, sound, smell, touch, and even taste if at all possible. Remember that the more senses that your link images incorporate, the greater an imprint will be left on your memory.

Strangeness is memorable. Try to make your link images as amusing as you are able. The more strange or absurd an image is, the more easily it is recalled.

Numbers leave an impression. One Gorilla running down the High street leaves an impression in the memory. An army of Gorillas filling every available space leaves a much greater impression.

Movement must be incorporated wherever possible. A car parked unobtrusively by the roadside is not particularly memorable. A fleet of cars screeching around the corner does cannot fail to leave a long lasting impression.

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!

Practice making up your own lists

Apply what you’ve learned to the following:

Earring

Salami

Sponge

Chicken

Bucket

Hair

Balloon

Star

Coin

Cur