8. Snowman (1 ball on top of another)
9. Microbe (ball is the body with a curved tail)
10. Moon (round ball). Use the Moon rather than a ball because it will probably suggest more ways to link to the item from the list which you want to remember.
Because the pictures of these items are an essential part of the Word Peg system, it is worth spending a little extra time to get your mental pictures of them as sharp as possible.
You can use this as a substitute for the link system with things like the shopping list from the previous section.
I won’t take you through that whole process in full detail again.
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When you are comfortable with your recall of the Word Pegs themselves, test yourself with a list like the one provided for the link system practice: Bread, Fish, Newspaper, Apples, Toothpaste, Milk, Candy bars, Sausages, Lettuce, Lottery ticket.
If you already have done the exercise for the Link System, then it would be better to use a different list of 10 items this time. You might include a couple from the old list, but at different positions, to see how well the new list replaces the earlier one in your mind. But you shouldn’t make these first sessions any harder than you are comfortable with.
If the repeat items show up at the right positions in your new list, then you’re going very well in improving your memory usage.
Just take each item in turn from your shopping list and make a vivid mental picture containing that item and your next Word Peg. Make the pictures as silly as you like.
It should not take long or a lot of effort – don’t spend as much time on the pictures for each of the items in the lists you make as you did when you were setting the Word Pegs in place in your memory. The lists are each only needed for a relatively short time.
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