Thank you, Alex. I am impressed with all the help you have given on this forum.
>>>Second if you use the ABC list to remember aspects of a book for example. You have a way of knowing which information is missing. With the missing you can apply memory gap management.
I still need to get my head around this. I understand that I'm supposed to write down what I do know and remember, and the associations that I make from that information. Detecting gaps is the part that is puzzling...though I do understand that being puzzled is a sign that information is missing about memory gap management itself. I'll just try it and see if I notice a pattern regarding filling in the gaps.
>>When too many start with the same letter the anchorman list is a better option.
Thanks, I was wondering about that. What I have found so far is that through creative license and having multiple lists I can organize a lot of information where it's not critical that lists be exhaustive, without running into alphabetization problems. If lists of things to memorize do need to be ordered especially if it needs to be exhaustive, then I'll probably usually need to use a separate peg list.
I figured out that the anchorman list was useful for translating letter order to numeric order. I don't have the list memorized yet (I should in a day or two) but oddly enough some of the most counter-intuitive memory pegs are the ones that stuck! Probably due to sheer novelty. I remember k -> kilo -> 11 "because 11 places of decimal accuracy are enough to measure the distance from the earth to the center of the galaxy to within inches". How we got from kilos to inches and what that has to do with precisely 11 decimal places accuracy and why my brain picked that one it is just one of those mysteries.
I've also figured out that getting information in is the easy part, its accessing the information the first time or two that's the hard part. Hence the relationship between the memory optimizer and photoreading.
If this system works out for me I will likely teach it to my toddler daughter when she's a little older. Instead of feeding random unrelated information to her the way my older kids were instructed, give her matrices of keywords related to the major themes for the week.
I'd also like to start developing it for monologuing. The idea is to talk intelligibly for 10 minutes without notes in front of a video camera, using lots of anecdotes, jokes, or other devices to keep interest level high, post it on youtube, and use the video to attract attention to various projects.
