Suppose you need to shop for groceries and you need the following food items:EggsBreadBaconCheeseMilk
How can you remember this list without writing it down on a piece of paper? For short lists of different objects, the most effective method of recalling objects is to associate the words and combine them to create a chain such as:
Eggs-Bread-Bacon-Cheese-Milk
Then, visualize some funny story in your mind so that the items on the list will be linked together.
As an example, picture yourself entering the grocery with a bag in your hand.
Start with the bag, because it is a list for grocery. It will be hard to think immediately of eggs. Someone appears from thin air, gave you an egg and disappeared again.
Awed, you took the egg and put it in the bag. It cracked and made a horrible mess. This mess is a striking image in your mind that will emphasize the idea of eggs.
Then the next person came and handed you some bread, because of the egg mess it is not wise to put the bread in the bag so y…