Black Jack Without Black Out (eBook)

A zoo in the skyscraper

The list of 1 to 10 consists exclusively of animals, since animals are usually seen as a very clear image and there is no great effort to mentally produce the corresponding images (think of the hippopotamus).

The order of the animals is arranged alphabetically by their first letters; this cannot be confused with the position number of the animals.

Now your imagination is in demand again.

I would like to ask you to imagine an unusual zoo.

Unusually, because this zoo was not created in a park-like landscape, but because it is in a ten-storey skyscraper.

Each of these floors has been developed and created for a specific species.

To help you remember the position number better, imagine that the monkeys (Apes, A = 1.) are performing a dart game using metal pins or nails instead of arrows, shaped like ones. So you do not only know from the alphabetical order that the Ape is the first position out of a total of 100 positions.

Of course, even without darts, it is clear to you that the letter "A" is the first letter in the alphabet! If, however, I ask you what the eighth letter in the alphabet is, then after a certain time (after you have counted all the previous letters) you can answer that question to me, but you would have spent a relatively large amount of time on it.

Not only are crystal clear images produced in your head important to the smooth operation of our technology, but it is equally important that you can assign these images to their positions with the associated numbers safely and, above all, quickly.

However, if you have to mentally count up and down all the previous positions, you can quickly end up with fast.

In addition, you now know that impossible, funny and crazy images with much "action" can be remembered much better than pictures that occur in everyday situations. Why not the monkeys playing with darts looking like “ones”?

Please try to experience these and subsequent descriptions and pictures as imaginatively as possible in your mind's eye.

If you look into the bear cage, you can see how the bear, with its unbridled strength, bends a straight iron bar about 2 cm thick into a “2”!

This monster chameleon does not eat any flies or other insects because of its enormous size, but is fed with its smaller mates, who are thrown into its cage.

As you watch the chameleon eating, you can see that it quickly blasts out of its mouth instead of the long sticky tongue a trident with barbs – as it is also used in fishing. It impales its fellows before it kills them.

You get a great dolphin show, in which an animal trainer holds a rectangular jump frame at a height of about 4 meters instead of a tire, so that not only one dolphin, but always four dolphins can jump synchronously next to each other.

Among these elephants also appears to be a deformed one, because one of the animals does not have two ears, but no less than "5".

One ear each on the right and left of the head, one like a shark on the back and one on the right and one on the left side of the butt.

Therefore, the elephant has also maliciously been given the name "a ... face" by the animal caretakers.

The poor animal looks more like an oversized coelacanth with a trunk.

Here you would rather not bother longer, because Mr. and Mrs. Hippo (Flusspferd, F = 6.) together provide for offspring and thus have sex (6).

Looking at the giraffe's long neck and relatively small, angled head as a unit from the side, the appearance is reminiscent of the shape of a 7.

However, it is not normal dogs, but greyhounds racing among each other. For this purpose, there is also a dog track on the 8th floor, which is shaped like an 8 and reminiscent of an oversized slot car racing track.

Poor hedgehogs (Igel, I. = 9.) because they are misused by their keepers as a conical ball, because on the 9th floor there is also a bowling alley by accident. The zookeepers always frighten the hedgehogs for their purposes until they curl up into a ball. With the "Hedgehog Ball" the orderlies try to hit all nine (9 cones).

Due to the enormous rarity of jetis, the zoo was lent only one creature by the Buthan government, which is why the jeti is always boring because of its loneliness. So he crouches unmotivated in his corner and alternately sucks his ten toes (10) instead of his thumb.

The floors in the overview

As with your card images, think of replacement pictures again. Please practice the list until you know exactly – without thinking too much – which animal is in the same floor and what it is busy with at the moment.

Basically, it is easy to remember this list in its order. Everything important has already been stored in your memory. So you know from an early age how the animals you want to remember look like (apart from the jeti), so you do not have to produce images for these animals – in contrast to our card images.

Furthermore, the names of the animals are not unknown to you, and so you know with which initial letter or in which alphabetical order the animals are to be classified on the list.

All the facts taken together mean that you do not have to learn this

»animal« list first, but only have to think imaginatively about their composition.

Nevertheless, in this case too – as with the card images – you should be slow and careful.

Try to bring the individual images and situations to life with all your imagination. And please repeat your card images a few times before returning to the book.

Hand on heart (brain)!

Did you really do all the previous exercises and practice sections exactly as they were described by me?

Do you know all card images with the corresponding card values from the bottom up, so that when you uncover a playing card, you can think of the card image faster than you can pronounce the card value?

Can you now say, without much thought at which position the letter H is placed within the alphabet?

To what extent you have understood everything so far and how disciplined you have done your exercises, you can test after the next break by daring your first attempt to memorise 30 playing cards.

I will explain later why we only use 30 playing cards at the beginning. Only this much in advance: If you follow this self-study only halfway seriously and with not too big interruptions, you can memorise 300 cards and more in their order by this technique!

Of course, due to lack of practice, you can not automatically recall the zoo list of your subconscious, but with a little thought, you should at least access that list out of your memory.

The same certainly applies to some of your card images. So you will need a lot of time in the beginning to memorise all 30 game cards in their order.

But your first attempts are not about speed or perfection, but about the fact that you will find that this technique really works!

If you have only 15 or 20 of the 30 cards right in your first try, please do not fret, just...