How to Remember Lists of Words With the Roman Room Trick

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Creating Your Own Roman Room

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   Create and memorize a room in your head. Make it as big and beautiful as you wish. Smaller rooms are easier to remember, but big rooms work too. 

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   Spend time each day going through your room. Don't change anything; just memorize every detail about your room.
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   Test yourself by making a list of 10 words to remember tomorrow. For example, consider the following list:
   • shoe
   • dog
   • desk
   • the date 12/09/1990
   • cow
   • your grandpa Billy Bob
   • turkey
   • $20 you owe your landlady
   • computer
   • eggs
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   If you want to remember all these things, just change things in your room in ways that will remind you. You can add an ugly shoe pattern to the walls, have a barking dog on your couch or table, put an elaborate desk against the wall, write the date in neon pink on the frame of a famous painting on the wall, put a fat cow in the doorway, have Grandpa Billy Bob eating sloppy joes on your new white carpet, have a Thanksgiving turkey on the dining room table, have your landlady standing there yelling with a bill in her hand for $20, a broken computer on the floor, and eggs smashed into the door. These are all just ideas - you can use anything you want to memorize.
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   Try to remember your whole list the next day. If you didn't remember some of it, it could be because you didn't make the change noticeable or memorable enough. If you just wrote the date on the wall, you won't remember it, but if you wrote it in big neon pink letters on the bottom of the Mona Lisa, you'll have a better chance of remembering it.
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   Review your Roman room regularly, until you know it like the back of your hand. That way, when you make a change, it'll stand out, just like if somebody made a drastic change to your bedroom, you'd notice immediately.