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The Alphabet Technique
Remembering Ordered Lists
Many of us have trouble memorizing lists.
Whether they're lists of names, dates, or product features, it's hard to remember everything that you need to know.
This is where a tool like the Alphabet Technique is useful.
The Alphabet Technique is a memory technique that's useful for remembering long lists of items – in a specific order, so that you know when items are missing. As such, it's similar to the number/rhyme and number/shape systems.
With the Alphabet Technique, you associate colorful mental images representing letters of the alphabet with ...
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