1. Learning, Life and entrepreneurial skills
“Helping children reach their full potential”

2. (pictures and gestures)
Associations
(pictures and gestures)
One makes associations if you
associate a key word with
something else or
link it to something else.
We have already
done it when we associated Leonardo with Leonardo di Caprio.
Here one does it more directly.

3. Let’s use “KFC” as an example:
If you VISUALISE the word, you see fried chicken or
the red and white colour logo.
If you see the word “Kentucky”,
you think of nothing else but chicken!

4. Associations can take place in one of
FOUR ways:
By drawing pictures to associate the word with: e.g. “Love” – draw
By using gestures: e.g. Excited – show how excited you are.
To associate key words with well known places: e.g. “Spur” see a
Write the word in syllables, create a new word (concept) and draw it:
e.g. “Stability” – Sta / bi/ li/ ty – Stay Billy T!

5. Door handle Sweetie Table cloth Washing Clock Dance Cellphone
Do something different with your body language or gestures
for each of the key words and memorise the words in
this manner.
Door handle
Sweetie
Table cloth
Washing
Clock
Dance
Cellphone
Hairbrush

6. art of improving your memory
MNEMO HANGER-TECHNIQUE
(“MNEMONICS”)
The Greek god of memory was
Mnemosyne.
This word refers to the
art of improving your memory

7. It is VERY important to ensure you understand the work
before trying to memorise it.
1. Always work from a fixed point, clockwise (in sequence) in the room.
2. Only use fixed items or items that are always on the same place.
Do not use the same object twice,
e.g. can’t use 2 windows that are the same.
START HERE 2 3 1 4 5
1. Door
2. Desk
3. Fish
4. Bed
5. Bedside table

8. Do the exercise in this room:
Connect the item to various objects in
your room or any other area in the house.
Move clockwise and try to memorise the items.
Exercise 1
Piano
Concert
Ornaments
Bear
Snow
Haircut
Mouse
Dog
Painting

9. My OWN “MNEMO” Hangers VISUALISE DRAW IMAGES
You can also use your body or anything else with which you are familiar.
Now we will use your body and memorise a shopping list
(bread, milk, sugar, coffee and eggs)
VISUALISE
AND
DRAW IMAGES

10. Head Bread Stomach Milk Hips Sugar Legs Coffee Feet Eggs
HANGER
KEY WORD
DRAWING
Head
Bread
You balancing bread on your head 
Stomach
Milk
 Running over your head on to your stomach.
Hips
Sugar
 Carrying a bag of Sugar on your hips
Legs
Coffee
 Coffee coming out of your legs
Feet
Eggs
 Your feet smashing the eggs

11. How can I develop my senses ?
HINTS
How can I develop my senses ?
PRACTICE
IN USING IT!
All your SENSES contribute to being able to study more effectively.
Let us look at some exercises for your senses.

12. EYES EARS AVOID Smoke, bad light, sharp sunlight and exhaustion.
REMEMBER
It is one of your most valuable organs – PROTECT THEM.
PRACTICE
See colours, forms and textures around you; Evaluate differences and similarities between the things you see; READ!; See things quicker; Practice moving your eyes quicker; Practice and develop a wider eye span. Visit an optometrist if you suspect any defects.
EARS
Continuous loud music – it can damage your hearing.
Avoid listening to negative things (language, swearing, gossip, etc.)
Words from songs are established in your brain – are these words are either positive or negative? If you listen to junk, junk will come from your mouth.
Listen to music that stimulates your brain (classical music)
Listen to positive things.

13. NOSE “TOUCH / FEEL” AVOID REMEMBER PRACTICE Fiddling with your nose.
Other people can smell you, thus keep yourself clean and neat.
PRACTICE
Smell things around you, your room, dog, nature, food, try to associate study with a smell; try to differentiate between different smells; link smells to things around you or that happen to you.
 “TOUCH / FEEL”
Items and objects that will damage your skin.
Your skin is the largest organ of your body.
Touch people, things; imagine the “feel” of the things you have to study.

14. USE YOUR IMAGINATION TASTE sweet, sour, bitter, salty AVOID
Dirty objects
REMEMBER
Even your taste buds send messages to your brain.
PRACTICE
Differentiate between different various tastes
sweet, sour, bitter, salty
delicious; compare different tastes with each other;
try to taste something without eating it.
USE YOUR IMAGINATION

15. All of the best with your studies.
Always practice these
skills it helps to improve your ability to remember
various things….
All of the best with your studies.
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