Lesson 3

I have used my remaining time yesterday after the completion of lesson 2 to memorize the figurative codes. It was not difficult, but little did I know that I felt so tired at 9pm that I felt asleep. I just realized that doing memory work took lots of energy from the body. Physically it is not tiring, but the mind works require sufficient energy and nutrients for the mind to work and function properly.

While travelling to the office today, I tried to revise the codes that I memorized last night. I was much easier after overnight process by the mind (sub-conscious) while I was sleeping.

This morning I started on lesson 3. At a glance, I saw there are 10 exercises. The first one was on the Chain method. I noticed this is a common feature to let our brain exercise. Therefore, I have to put away this until later when I have the time to do it in one sitting.

After lunch, I finally completed the first exercise. It seems that Chain method is used quite often in GMS. Anyway, I've got to love the method to continue. Frankly speaking Chain method is the simplest. We can just do it without thinking. Link the image pair together and move on. It is good to use for short-term memory that we need to memorize quickly.

Exercise 2 deals with the symbolization of abstract word. Again we are going to use Chain method here. It takes some time to come up with visual images for the abstracts but the exercise is interesting. Exercise 3 requires linking to familiar information, again using the Chain method. It is another interesting exercise but it requires even more abstraction to link words to similarly pronounced other words. It sounds complicated but you will have different opinion when you try out the exercise.

Exercises 4, 5 and 6 are new and unique. We played with encoding by consonant, creating a word from consonants and creating a word from syllables. I think this is a practice of improving our creativity. We were encouraged to come out with new words from the consonants and syllables. I would say the exercises were quite fun.

Exercise 7 and 8 go back to the figurative codes. As I have sped up myself to memorize more than 50 codes up to this afternoon, I have no problem in completing both exercises. It was just like another drill session to make those codes stick better in my memory.

Exercise 9 used the Cicero images to memorize the sequence of numbers using figurative code. Again, this was a simple exercise for me. Personally I loved the Cicero method so that I completed the exercise in less than 5 minutes. Wow, I could remember 40 digits of random numbers and had perfect recall of them.

The last exercise is basically using the picture card to test our mastery of the figurative codes. After completing the control questions at the end of the lesson, I clicked on Done button. And that started the 15 hours wait for the next lesson to start.

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