If you prefer, you can use Linking Pegs to keep track of the important parts of your speech.
Tying visual images which you associate with the important points to locations in a mental tour of your home (See the “Locate Your Memories” section) works well too.
That method also helps to keep you on track – your mental tour past the various points in your home is done in a pre-set order, which helps you to keep the parts of your speech in the right order as well.
This is the exact method which one of the great ancient orators used, with a small variation. The story that I was told, is that he had trained himself to associate the points in his speech with the most noticeable features of the venue where he was presenting it!
He would have to have been a very disciplined person with great mental speed. It’s much easier to set up your mental tour around your own home, because the mental images which you use can be sub-consciously re-enforced every day without any extra effort on your part!
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“Maximum Memory Power” by John Williams
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