Chapter 23 Extended method: hook your dream

When I was about four years old, a photographer came to my home one day. He first set up a tripod and lights in the living room, then put my little rattan chair in front of the paper door, and then asked me to put on leather shoes and a flowered shirt and sit down. on the chair. The lights came from both sides, so bright.I just remember that the photographer asked me to lean forward, and taught me to hold my hands together, and clicked, clicked, and took many pictures. Over the past fifty years, I have always remembered this scene. Guess why I can remember it so clearly? Because of the photo!

Probably your grandparents admired the effect of the photo shoot that day, and it didn’t take long to enlarge the photo and hang it in the living room. Although it was included in the photo album later, I still always look for it. It is also because every once in a while, I see that photo, which produces a reminder effect, which naturally reminds me of the scene of taking pictures when I was four years old, and even the details of how the photographer took my little hand and intertwined fingers. Don’t you also have this kind of experience? I remember one day last week, I asked you if you remember the first time you went to Disneyland. On the day you left, you cheated and didn’t want to go home.

You say you remember, because it was captured on the tape. Now come to the subject I want to talk about. Last time I told you, use the method of suspense, constantly recall and review, so that you can remember what you have learned.The problem is, if you think about the "whole" of the old things every time, even if you don't have many choices, it is impossible to have so much time to review the homework accumulated over the years. At this time, you have to know how to outline and focus, or you can use "suspense"; but you can only suspend a little bit, and "strike big with small", it's like picking up a hook and picking up the whole coat.

So, you may not understand, let me give two of the most common examples - Have you ever noticed that a TV commercial can be as long as one minute, and the story is very good? But advertising is expensive, and that one-minute ad is likely to be shortened to thirty seconds soon.Many scenes are shortened, but you still get the whole plot. After a while, the advertisement was "halved" again, shortened to fifteen seconds, or even ten seconds, with only some key pictures popping up.For audiences who have never watched the "full version", they don't know what to do.But it's different for you, you can still use those ten seconds to retrace the whole story.

After a while, there will be no TV commercials either.One day, you see a picture in the newspaper, it's a shot from "that TV commercial." My God! How can a single photo remind you of the entire ad. That photo was like a hook for the whole coat, the whole story, the whole event. Another example - When you wake up in the morning, you remember the dream from the night before. If you don’t write it down, you may only brush your teeth, and you have forgotten the dream. You only remember that you had a dream, and you can’t remember the content. But if you put a paper smile on the bedside, when you wake up, you will write down your dream, or even write down a few words. For example, if you dream of going back to the elementary school you went to before, just write down the word "elementary school".

I am afraid that until night, as long as you calm down, pick up that piece of paper, and see the "elementary school" written on it, you will be able to remember the dream of last night bit by bit, and the more you think about it, the more details of the whole dream will be captured. remember. What is the word "elementary school"? It's a hook that draws out your entire dream. It can be seen from this that the "suspense method" suspends the main point, and sometimes there are only two words or a picture.Just like the photo when I was a child, I always see it inadvertently, which can make me remember the whole process of taking pictures; it is also like the video tape of your childhood, which can help you recall.

This method can be trained to double the speed of your recall and association, like the Internet, extending to different places.