The Shaper System Ebook
The Shaper System Ebook
Learn, Prepare & Practice “The Shaper System” and you will develop a trained
brain which will enable you to “Memorise & Remember Easily”;
Good Luck!
erol Ozvatan.
“How To Memorize”
A Crash Course On Your Journey
To A Trained Brain
Course Contents
Part Two : 12 Mnemonic Tools & Methods You Need To Master To Memorise
Everything
1. Storage & Retrieval: Memory Palace.
2. The Peg System & The Peg Method .
3. Acronyms.
4. Acrostics.
5. Chunking.
6. Grouping & Organizing.
7 . Linking Mastery: Pair Linking | Chain Linking | Top 5 Methods Of Link-
Actions!
8. Number Shapes
9. Number Rhymes
10. The Story Method
11. Visualisation & Imagination
12. Spaced Repetition
In other words, you are connecting a pair of information with what you already
know and with what you are trying to memorise as a pair-link.
Now let’s pair-link the reminder and the new information together.
Take a few seconds to Imagine yourself “driving your car to the farm, and
filling up the back seat with full of Huge Eggs“.
There you have it. The Car and the Eggs are connected by pair-linking the two
together. You have memorised a new piece of information item , the “Eggs”
with the item you already know attached which is your “Car”.
You can then do this with many items on your list to memorise whatever they
may be.
This is the very basic of memorising a piece of information using mnemonics.
We’ll get into more details about this in the following title as “The Peg
method”.
To have a better memory than you have now, you need to understand each
mnemonic tool with its uses. This will be the base towards having a trained
brain, and to memorise anything you have the need to.
What is memorising?
Memorising is storing information within our mind, with the help of mnemonic
tools.
It’s because of all the habits, regular activities, and the responsibilities that we
have in our lives that are made of of all actions & the emotions attached to
them. This is “The Working Memory“. Our working memory is always
recording everything for short or long term without making a lot of efforts.
How does our brain memorise when we purposefully want to memorise new
information other than normal day to day activities?
We also need to create a storage area within our memory, so the new
information can be placed into the storage area within our memory, our mind.
This storage then can hold all the new information we want it to hold.
The storage is known as “The Memory Palace”. We also use other elements to
store data such as “A Mini-Palace” which are the pegs of all kinds of items that
can also have a lot of locations and can be used as mini-storages.
We know that we have to have a storage to memorise all information if we
wanted to commit them to our memory. Simply because all information has to
belong to a space somewhere, and within that space, the new information can
be placed and stored.
• Organize the information you want to memorise so they would fit into
the locations of your memory palace. So if you have 10 items to
memorise, you’d need 10 locations in your palace.
A Memory Palace can be any building, as long as you can choose locations
within that building. When you have a building that you want to use as a
Memory Palace, Make sure to Memorise Your Memory Palace as all
memorisation takes place in your mind.
And once you have those locations in your memory palace, you simply add the
information you want to memorise into each location by way the
available choices of;
* Simply adding or placing the information-data item into that location. Make
it belong there.
* Using the existing item on a location, and Pair-Linking the existing item with
the information you want to memorise together, to strengthen the scene.
* Pair Linking two items together and placing them into the location.
* Chain-Linking a few items together and placing them into the location.
• Choose a place that you know very well such as your Home, or office,
school, bank etc..
• Walk all the rooms, get to know each room inside out.
• Identify 5 Locations that holds 5 different items within each room.
• Remember that each 5 item in each room will be your “Permanent
Items”.
• Commit all the rooms onto your mind. Memorise your palace!
• Walk your palace mentally over and over until it’s printed in your mind.
• Make sure to mentally see all 5 items in each location for each room.
• Count out loud the first 5 items in the first room by pointing your index
finger to each item. So when you are standing at the entry of the room,
you would count out loud and say “1-Bed” pointing your index finger,
then say 2-Table, 3- Mirror, 4-Chair, 5-Shoes. This would be in your first
room. Memorise your first room with all 5 stops, and the 5 items at
those stops.
• Go to the next room, again count out loud 6-Monitor, 7-Bookshelf, 8-
Small-Bin, 9- Glasses, 10-Bag. So your second room holds the locations
and the items from 6-10.
• Repeat this process for all the rooms in your memory palace. So If you
have 5 rooms, your last count would be 25-and-the-item-name.
• Keep a written copy of the memory palace. Draw and Or Write it down
and store it away.
• Use spaced repetition to revisit the palace from your written copy,
repeat the walk mentally.
The peg method works by pre-memorised items that are used as hooks to
attach the new information by way of pair linking an action between the two.
Remember you have paired a link between your “Car” and “Eggs” before?
What you have done is Pair-Linked a Peg item which is your “Car” which is the
item that is pre-memorised, with the new item “Eggs”.
That’s basically what the peg method is. You attach new information to an
item that you already know as a Pair-Link.
The peg method is also a very powerful method for memorising a list of items
that really don’t have the need for a memory palace. Although using a memory
palace with your paired-peg-links will strengthen the scene and will be more
memorable, the peg method does not rely or depend on a memory palace so
you can memorise your list without the need of creating a memory palace.
A peg can be any tangible item. A peg can be your hands, can be your car, your
TV, it can be any item that you have as a list that can be used to attach new
information.
Using the peg list below are what you need to prepare for yourself to
memorise any short or long list of items.
Find images for each list. Practice memorising your lists. And use them
whenever you have a list of information you want to memorise, without the
need of a memory palace.
It’ll be worth it!
* Alphabet Animals: Animals that start with the alphabet letters. 26 pegs.
* Alphabet Fruits: Fruit names that starts with each letter. A: Apple B:
Banana .. 26 pegs.
* Alphabet Persons: Person names that starts with alphabet letters. 26 pegs.
* Alphabet Shapes. Items that looks like the objects. 26 pegs.
* Alphabet Sounds: A-Ape, B-Bee, C-Sea .. 26 pegs.
* Basic 0-9 Number shapes. Gives 10 items you can use as hooks or pegs.
* Number Rhymes Pegs: I have listed 30 Items you can use as pegs.
* The Shaper System Images as Pegs from 00-99. Gives you 100 Pegs!
* Major System Pegs 00-99: Items that are made of words using the phonetic
sounds. 100 Pegs.
* Colour Pegs: 10 Pegs. Choose 10 Colours and use them as pegs. Such as
“Red-Car” as a Pair-Link. You can simply use the colours to link with your list
with whatever you want to memorise.
* Musical Instruments: Choose 10 music instruments, find images you can use
which will give you another 10 pegs.
* School Items: Choose 10 items that you would take with you if you went to a
school, find images you can use which will give you 10 pegs.
* Planets: If you have memorised all 10 planets already, why not use them as
the next 10 pegs.
* Market/s: Choose 10 items that you always buy which gives you 10 more
pegs.
* Car: Choose 10 item-spots around your favorite car. Gives you 10 more pegs.
Hair | Eyes | Nose | Mouth | Chin | Neck | Chest | Stomach | Legs | Feet.
One of the examples for Familiar + Unfamiliar is learning a foreign word where
we attach an unknown word to a known word.
With the Link method, we can use pegs and apply an action involving the two,
or more. We can use pre-memorised pegs, and or unfamiliar objects with other
objects, which can then be either attached to a pre-memorised peg, or at a
spot in your memory palace.
I mostly use the memory palace method, because even if I use the peg system,
I still have to place the linked image onto a location, and he scene becomes
much more memorable.
However, the peg method is great for a short and or a long list of information
and can used at anytime and at any situation. Simply pair link your pegs with
the images that represent the information you want to memorise.
Many stage performers uses the Peg Method to memorise their speech, jokes,
stories, facts and other data as it’s still a very popular easy method.
Wait at least a day before you use the same pegs again for your next list of
items.
A to-do list, shopping list, or any daily list can be memorised using the same
pegs every day.
You can memorise a few different lists using a few different Peg-List every day.
No need to create a memory palace storage if you have a good few Peg-Lists.
The idea would be to create more Peg-Lists if you have a lot of long term
information you want to memorize.
Memory palace is always the best friend for long term memory.
As mentioned before, I still use my memory palaces to place my pegs along the
journey. It becomes an expandable palace. It becomes very memorable, it’s
almost never easy to forget!
3. ACRONYMS
Acronym is a made up word that are made of the first letter of other words.
ROY G BIV
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet (Rainbow Colours)
Many public speakers uses this simple acronym model to give speeches for an
hour or even longer. Here is an example;
SUCCESS: See your goal | Understand the obstacles | Create a positive mental
picture | Clear your mind of self doubt | Embrace the challenge | Stay on track
| Shake The World.
4. ACROSTICS
Acrostics are words that forms a sentence like phrases or quotes, or poems. It’s
almost the same as an acronym, we still use the first letter of each words,
except we create words in replacement of the original list of words.
Acrostic Words:
“See My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets”
The order of algebraic equations
Original Words:
Parenthesis | Exponents | Multiplication | Division | Addition | Subtraction
5. CHUNKING
Try memorising this; 2158956970
Or this; tbghsytdpy
Not easy for most people. However, if I now separate them into two part
chunks this is what we would get instead.
Would you agree that the second ones are easier to see, read, and helps
remember easier?
That’s exactly what chunking is. We separate the data into smaller chunks
because our brain can handle it much better in bite size.
And we use those chunks to either pair link, or chain link them together to
create a memorable story, mentally placed on our memory palaces.
For example; When we memorise numbers, it’s much easier to divide them
into two or three digits chunks such as “00 15” , or “125 895”.
Make sure to always chunk your information into smaller parts each time you
want to memorise a list.
Organizing the outline of any list will help you plan your memory palace and
the amount of locations needed within your palace.
Always take your time to think of the systems and the methods you will use
first. Next, choose or create a new palace for it with enough locations.
The rest will be to simply practice attaching the information to your memory
palace.
And you would of course again make this happen on a location within your
memory palace if you want this to be in your long term memory.
Since this list starts with buying fuel for the car,
we can think of the starting location as “The local Fuel Station”.
“at the fuel station“, and you are “fueling your car“, and your “dad calls you on
your phone“.
Now Let’s Chain-Link Them Together By Adding The Time Element to the list.
First way is to use number shape images as pegs-storage, so we can also link
them into the story.
The number digit “9” is the shape of a Balloon, number “10” is a “Stick &
Drum”.
“You are at “The Local Fuel Station” + “A Balloon is tied up the fuel cap” +
“you open cap with the balloon stuck to it, and start fueling your car“.
and your “dad calls you on your camera phone” + wearing a “Huge Drum Stuck
On His Head.
You have used a single location, and placed a chain-linked mini-story for the
first Two-Items with their corresponding times.
This is exactly how we mentally pair and chain link to create a mini-story, and
store them at the mental location we have chosen, either on the spot, or at a
pre-memorised memory palace.
“Superman is at The Local Fuel Station, Fuelling The car, while talking to his
Dad on the phone who is wearing a huge drum on his head”.
It takes a lot of lines of text to explain how the whole thing works, but as you
can see it’s just a matter of practice to memorise all of this information within
a matter of a few seconds at a time.
When you practice these skills, you’ll notice yourself getting better and faster
at creating pair and chain links, and having lots of fun with it!
Now let’s move on to the rest of the list by chain-linking them together to
give you some more ideas;
When your Dad calls you, he tells you that he is waiting for you at the local
library. Now you have just linked “Library” to “Dad” which creates the first
chain-link.
You arrive at the library, go to the desk, and Pay the bill to the Librarian at the
desk. Imagine yourself walking in and start paying the bill at the reception
inside the library.
As you swim out of the library building, you notice a lot of groceries floating
around, and you simply pick them up and bag them up.
Let’s go crazy this time, and let’s wash the car with the groceries you have just
picked up!
As you can see, you simply connect two items together, and then create the
next 2 by using the previous and next by chain-linking them together.
And by doing so, you are creating a crazy story that may just take you a couple
of minutes to think and to mentally visualise, but will stay with you to
remember for the rest of the day!
As for connecting the times with your To-Do List, or any list, you would need a
number system as explained above, so that you can also connect them into
your Paired-and-Chained-Links.
There a few “Number To Image Generator” systems. I use The Shaper System
as my own number to image generation which are all pre made so it’s always
available to use as and when I have the need to.
Pair-Linking with Memory Palace Only
You can also use the same list to memorise without a chain-link. This is where
we use a memory palace for all the paired links.
Choose a memory palace. Pair-Link the first 2 items together with Fuel & Dad,
and place that scene onto the first Trigger Location in your memory palace.
Next you pair-link “Library & Bills” and place that onto the next Trigger
Location in your memory palace.
And repeat this process with as many paired-links as needed! Use pegs-storage
items where it is necessary inside your memory palace.
When we pair link two bits of information, we create actions between the first
and the second item by way our imagination.
However, it’s not always easy to find an action when we link items together
such as “Toothbrush” and “Spaceship”. They have no logical connection to
each other. It can be a struggle to find an action to link them together.
This is where the top 5 methods of linking comes in handy to learn, remember,
and to apply.
Let’s now do our example of Shrink Or Enlarge or “Mini” & Mighty” using the
two items to pair-link them.
Imagine looking out of your kitchen window, and seeing a Mighty Big Airplane
flying towards you, and it gets smaller and smaller, and fits through the
window, and lands on your table in the kitchen. And on the table you have this
Huge Pen as big as the Table. You pick up the huge pen, and push the length of
it through the airplane. It looks like a Pen with Airplane wings!
Mentally shrink the item into a “Mini-Object”, and where necessary, make the
item “Mighty Big Object”.
This will immediately give you the size to work with your actions.
Remember the pen was pushed through the airplane? And it looked like a Pen
with Airplane Wings?
We already have applied a part of the transform method to the airplane.
To fully apply this method, you would first start with the Airplane on your
table, and then mentally turn into the Pen. So you end up with the Pen as the
last object.
But the story would always stick as the transforming method is also a powerful
Pair-Linking Tool.
Let’s take the number digits for “46” which is the “Seahorse” in the shaper
system.
Now a Seahorse doesn’t really give us much to work with as its natural move is
very basic. So now here we can give him a Superhero Power to have either a
set action, or to simply give it a quick action for a quick memorisation.
Now imagine A Seahorse that has the power of Superman with Laser-Eyes! It
Laser Burns everything in front of it!
How many Superheroes with their individual powers do you know? Make a list
of all of those powers, and memorise them. Use them when you pair-link your
objects, or persons.
In the starter version of the shaper system, I have demonstrated the Clue-
Shape Method with the images and its animations with a 1 Digit Number Shape
System.
8. NUMBER SHAPES
Number shapes are images that looks like number digits. As an example;
Number digit “0” looks like an “Egg”, or a “Ball”, “Hula Hoop”. It can be any
object you like as long as it’s a lookalike shaped object.
We use number shapes as “pegs”, which are the objects that we use as a
storage which is an alternative way of using a memory palace, and as part of a
Number To Image Generating System.
You can in fact use a memory palace with pegs which would in fact make the
Paired-Links much easier to memorise for long term.
To memorise a quick list of items, number shapes are the perfect and probably
the faster way of memorising almost any short list you like, and remembering
for the rest of the day with ease.
Here are first the Number Shapes from 0-10 which would allow you to
memorise a list of 11 items.
Or more than 11 items if a story method is used as explained in Chain-Linking.
0 Egg
1 Wand
2 Swan
3 Butterfly
4 Chair
5 Unicycle
6 Golf-Club
7 Boomerang
8 Snowman
9 Balloon
10 Stick & Drum
Remember we had a “To-Do List”? Let’s use the same list but this time using
the Number Shapes as the storage for the list.
We have;
Let’s start with the digit “0” as the first number shape item which is an Egg.
You have now Paired the Link with The Egg and Fuel together. As you can see
here there is not a need for a memory palace because we are simply using
number shape items as a storage for what we wanted to memorise.
You can of course also use a memory palace to place your Paired-Links into the
Trigger Locations which would also make it much more memorable.
However, the idea of using pegs such as Number Shapes is so that you can
quickly memorise a list without needing a memory palace.
Now let’s connect the next item in the list which is to “Call Dad”.
The next number shape we’ll use is digit “1” which is the “Magic Wand” object.
Imagine that you have a “Magic Wand” in your hand this time, and waving it
and tapping the air, and making a your Dad appear in front of you, and at the
same time hearing the phone.
Next is the Swan, the number shape for “2”. The item we need to memorise in
order is Library next.
Imagine a Huge Swan running around the Library and pecking into all the
shelves and the books!
Got the idea? Great! I’ll let you practice with the rest of the items using the
rest of the number shapes.
9. NUMBER RHYMES
Number Rhymes are images that sounds and rhymes like number digits which
are also used as pegs, which means they are also a storage mnemonic tool to
memorise a list of items.
The use of the Number Rhymes works the same way as the number shapes
when we want to memorise a quick list of items.
It’s also a very popular method used by a lot of public speakers, actors and
stage performers alike.
Here is the basic 0-10 Number Rhymes that you can use to memorise a quick
list for your needs.
0 Hero
1 Bun
2 Shoe
3 Tree
4 Door
5 Hive
6 Sticks
7 Heaven
8 Gate
9 Wine
10 Hen
And here are the next 20 I have created a while ago which may be handy for a
long list memorisation.
11 Elephant
12 Elves
13 Typing
14 Fountain
15 Fighting
16 Sardines
17 Surfing
18 A Tin
19 Noting
20 Twin
21 Chihuahua
22 Twitter
23 Trophy
24 Tofu
25 Trifle
26 Twix
27 Tweezers
28 Terminate
29 Tasty Wine
30 Thirsty
Can you think of the rest of the Number Rhymes from 30 onwards? And would
like me to share and update it on this page to help others? Send me an email
with your list and I’ll update your list here with your name as the
“Contributor”.
Our brain has the ability to see animated images that forms the story. Just like
a movie.
This method is also used for memorising words, quotes, and text-books.
A story can be a short story like a “Mini-Story“, or as long as you can make it
like a “Long-Story“.
A mini story is created by a “Paired-Link“, and longer stories are created by
“Chained-Links“.
Now let’s create a longer story by Chain-Linking the rest of the items or words.
Next is the Car. So we will link “Shoes” which was the previous item, with the
next item “Car”.
Imagine “you are taking off your Shoes, and start hitting your Car with it”.
Next in the chain is the “Book”. So we’ll now link the previous item which is the
“Car”, with the next item which is the “Book”.
And there you have it. Pair and Chain Linking is how you create a story with the
information you have in your hand.
With this method you can literally memorise almost anything you like!
Memory Palace: The other method would be to use a Memory Palace. Simply
place Paired-Links or Chain-Links into each location in your memory palace.
It’s a skill that can be learned with the knowledge available, and the practice
you put into it.
You get better and better with it as you practice more and more at it. I had one
of the worst ever memory when I first started my journey in the art of
memorising.
With the knowledge and practice, you will develop to be at least 500% or more
better than ever before.
As for myself I am 1000% better as I have now been practicing for many years
and it has now become a second nature to me.
It will be with you as well as long as you put some practice into it.
First, you need to decide that you want to remember, and that you have a
desire to memorise that piece of information. This will activate and force your
brain to think, focused more and take action.
But if you don’t decide to remember it in the first place, then you will simply
forget it because the brain did not care enough to remember it therefore it
sees it as a low value information.
Exercising your brain is like exercising your body, what happens if you lift
weights 50 times a day for a month?
You will notice that your muscles are getting bigger and stronger, and this is
the same with your brain.
By applying memory techniques, you’ll notice that your brain will get also get
better, faster, stronger and more able to solve issues.
Observation: Eyes
Our eyes are tools to seeing everything. The reality is that we see everything
with our mind’s eyes.
Follow this exercise: Look at what’s in front of you. Wave your hands over
what’s in front of you. Notice at least 3 everyday items that is in front of you.
Now close your eyes, and try to see with your mind’s eye what you just did. Did
you recall what you just did?
Were you able to see what you did with your eyes closed?
Great. You have a wonderful memory! A memory that can be trained to
memorise anything you like.
• Colour: Now do the same action again, but this time, have a look at the
colours of what’s in front of you. May be there are some items there
that are red, blue, yellow, or some of them are a mixture of colours?
Notice what they are.
• Shape: Next, have a look at the shapes of those in front of you. Notice
their outline shape, and how they look like?
• Size: Next, notice the size of those items in front of you, how big are
they? how would you describe it?
Sound: Ears
Are any of the items in front you has any sounds by default?
Do you have to cause an action to hear the sound of an item in front of you?
How do they sound like?
Aromas: Smell
How do those items smell? Can you recognise the smell of any of those items.
How do they smell like?
Feel the weight: If you were to lift it, how heave is it? What’s its weight?
Flavours: Taste
Are any of these items eatable? If you were to take a bite into each item, what
would they taste like?
Can you compare it with any type of food, or drink or any other tastes?
Remember the list for the Peg method? Those pegs-images are ready made
images that you should memorise before hand, so that you can memorise
other information by pair-linking the two together.
Words: To memorise words we associate each word with related images. For
example; Bulgaria: Bull | France: Eiffel-Tower | Iceland: Ice-Cubes | ..
We use a word system to memorise words either by; Word by word with or
without a memory palace, Pair-Link two words together, Chain-Link them all.
When you want to memorise 10 different pictures, and you want to memorise
those pictures in the correct order;
Simply add the number shapes from 1-10 into each picture by Pair-Linking with
an action. Mentally walk back and you’ll remember them all.
Names & Faces: To memorise names we associate the names with images. We
use a names system to memorise names.
When you have a Face & name to memorise; Think of an image that sounds
like the name, and mentally attach that image to the face.
If & when you can’t find one, use the Shaper System Alphabet Pegs with a
mixture of Vowels & Consonants”, attach them to the face to remind you of
the name.
Cards: To memorise cards we associate all cards into images . We use a card
system to memorise cards.
Most people who likes to memorise cards uses a Person Or Objects Image for
each card in the deck. This is what’s knowns as “1 Card System” which is a
single image for a single card.
A 1 Card System simply places each card-image into a memory palace mentally.
A 1 Card System is also used as “PAO: Person Action Object” which is a method
to memorise 3 cards at a time.
A Two Card System would mean that you would assign a combination of two
cards into a single image.
This is known as “2 Card-System”.
Everything Else: Each time you want to memorise some new information;
It’s a good idea to have number digits as a pair from 00-99. This means that
you can memorise two digits at a time by generating images that you can use
as your pre-memorised pegs.
For example;
The images from the Shaper-System gives us 100 pegs. We can use these items
as pegs storage to pair link information.
Or we simply use them as items that represent all 100 to digit combinations to
memorise numbers to however long we like using a memory palace!
You don’t need to prepare any images for any of the shapes and pictures for
any of the disciplines you would use to memorise information.
Another good thing with the shaper system is that you will have the ability to
edit any of the materials you like to convert it your own system!
The Dominic System uses the numbers from 0-9 as the base and assigns a
letter to each number as follows;
0–O|1–A|2–B|3–C|4–D|5–E|6–S |7–G|8–H|9–N
As an example;
Once you have 100 Persons, you then think of their Actions, and then their
prop, such as clothing or an item that carries or uses most of the time.
Here is an example;
00: Olive Oyl is Cooking Spinach.
02: OBama is Giving A Speech.
If you happen to get these four digits to memorise, this is how it would look
like when you see;
PA: 00 02: Olive Oyl is Giving A Speech.
The Major System uses the numbers from 0-9 as the base and assigns a
Consonant-Letter to each number as follows;
This also provides 100 images. Since The Major System is a Number To Image
Generator, we use each digit with the matching consonant sounds to make a
word, and then convert that word into an image.
As an example;
00: ss – Sauce
01: st – Suit
02: sn – Sun
03: sm: Sumo
…
99: pp: Pipe
Once you have 100 images, you then think of their Actions, You then pair link
the digits as OAO: Object Action Object.
Here is an example;
00: Sauce (Ketchup)
02: Sun
If you happen to get these four digits to memorise, this is how it would look
like, you would imagine something like;
Or you would add a person into the scene such as yourself or another person
you would use POAO; Person Object Action (Linked with) Object;
Or if it was the other way round, you would imagine something like;
OAO: 00 02: Sun is Burning The Ketchup Sauce.
PO AO: 00 02: You/Him/Her Holding The Sun and Burning A Bottle Of
Ketchup Sauce with it.
You can create a list of the persons yourself, or check out this website “People
By Initials” for ideas to create your 100 persons.
They will be memorable by all means. However, using exaggerated actions will
strengthen the story and therefore make it even further memorable.
As an example;
Let’s use an example person as “Superman” for the number digits “00”, His
Action as “Flying Into The Object
So we have;
PA: 00: “Superman is Flying”
We are made of our emotions, and it’s one of the main reasons why we are by
default able to remember more than we think. We use our emotions to make
decisions with everything we do through the day. And by the end of the day
our brain can remember most of the day’s activities.
We are emotional beings. We can be very Sad, Angry, Stressed, Violent. But at
the same time we can be a loving person, full of joy, enthusiasm, laughter,
ambitious. Adding emotions to your stories will double the strength of the
paired link mini-story and therefore becomes much more memorable.
As an example;
Let’s go back to Superman and Batman but this time notice their emotions to
it.
In fact you may sometimes have difficulty forgetting it for a good while, unless
otherwise you practice spaced repetition which is the last subject I will cover.
5. Remember To Practice
Visualisation is a skill you can learn by simply practicing it over and over.
Using you 5 senses to learn every image you generate, along with adding
exaggerated actions & emotions will double and triple your imagination.
Learning is the key to applying the methods successfully. Practice is the key to
memorising successfully.
12. SPACED REPETITION
Spaced repetition is where you would have to review your system’s images,
pegs lists, memory palaces, and the subjects you have memorised over a
period of timed intervals.
• Review your memory palaces each with room by room, and all the items
at its belonging locations.
• Review your subjects you have memorised such as The Presidents,
History Facts, Dates, Speeches, and everything else you want to keep in
your long term memory.
After you have memorised your subject’s list, you will have to mentally review
your steps again a few times over a period of time if you want to keep it
memorised for long term or permanently.
The recommended time interval for reviewing your subjects again is as follows;
If you follow the timed intervals to review all the long term memory materials,
you’ll have them programmed into your mind forever!
And you will have the ability to memorise almost anything you like, at any time
you like.
* Your PC or Laptop is your best friend for your reviews! Most of the images
and notes has to be saved on your PC or Laptop’s hard-drive
* Anki can help you setup your materials in a flash-card format. Click Here To
Download from Anki’s website.
* Mnemosyne is another platform you can use to save your materials for
reviews. Click Here To Visit The Site.
General Background
The Shaper System was developed by a Mnemonist Erol Ozvatan with the
initial thought of converting 2 digit numbers and The Alphabet letters from its
outline shapes into images that has the impression of a lookalike shape &
reflection.
This is because the number digits are seen with its outline shape, and reflects
the impression of an Elephant with its “Back Tail”, “The Big Ear” and “The
Trunk” of an Elephant that looks like “19”.
Another example is “20” which is “Snail”. Again the number digit are seen by
its outline shape, and reflects the impression of a “Snail” that looks like “20”.
With the addition of the basic Number Shapes, a total of 110 images can be
used.
• 0 - Egg
• 1 - Magic Wand | Lighter
• 2 - Duck | Coat Hanger | Pigeon
• 3 - Butterfly | Lips
• 4 - Chair | Knife
• 5 - Unicycle
• 6 - Golf-Club
• 7 - Boomerang
• 8 - Snowman
• 9 - Balloon
• 00 = Eggs
• 01 = Shield & Spear
• 02 = Dinosaur
• 03 = Fork
• 04 = Chopping board & Knife | Knife
• 05 = Hand
• 06 = Frying Pan
• 07 = Paint Roller
• 08 = Pool Ball - Black Ball with 8 on it.
• 09 = Boxer's Glove | Hook Punch
• 20 = Snail
• 21 = Dollar sign
• 22 = Pair of High Heels Shoes
• 23 = Swan - Neck-body-tail
• 24 = Alarm Clock (Associated)
• 25 = Christmas Tree | Santa’s sleigh (Associated)
• 26 = Kettle
• 27 = Trowel
• 28 = Crocodile
• 29 = Gondola and man
• 30 = Heart | Lips
• 31 = Lips smoking cigarette
• 32 = Teeth | Shark |
• 33 = Seagull
• 34 = Goat |Goat Milk
• 35 = Crane Hook
• 36 = Lips smoking pipe
• 37 = Rocket
• 38 = Beetle Car
• 39 = Lollipop | Lips Licking Lollipop
• 80 = Baby Dummy
• 81 = Violin and bow | Guitar
• 82 = Woman & Long Hair | Hair
• 83 = Mask (Tilt to the right)
• 84 = Bride and Groom (arm) - Flowers & Bride holding arm with the
broom and walking.
• 85 = Girl on a Unicycle | Unicycle
• 86 = Girl blowing a Whistle
• 87 = Frog Eyes & Mouth
• 88 = Weights
• 89 = Snorkel
However, with the number shapes I could see the images more easily and
much faster. I also didn’t have to translate it from Dominic letters into persons,
or translate it from the major into words, and then to create images, and apply
the actions. The process seemed to be a lot of work.
They are just shapes that look like the digits, or the digits that look like the
shapes.
The images I have for the shapes also has their own natural actions, or can be
created very easily with paired-linking.
So each shape-image does the action to the next, or leaves a clue which
reminds me of the first 2 digits. So it’s a kind of a system in a box. The Shaper-
System-Spreadsheet is available to download. Ready to use..
To start practising the method, Say the Image and its action Out Loud soon as
you see the two digit number, and visualise the image and the action at the
same time as you practice.
so when you see 00 for example, you’d say “Eggs, Breaking, Yolk running” out
loud and see the eggs in your mind.
A lot of the images has their own clue when the action is applied, this means
that you wouldn’t necessarily have to see the action or the object, because the
clue on the object provides the first 2 digits.
It is also used with existing systems such as the Dominic or Major System, or
any other independent system.
00 – Superman
04 – Cutting (with a Knife)
02 – Dinosaur
00 – Superman
02 – Dinosaur (Blowing Burning Fire)
04 – Knife
You’d of course add “Emotions” to it also wherever you can to make it more
memorable.
So superman after blowing fire on a knife, also burning his hands on fire, which
is not a great feeling.
The above sample is PAO, but you could simply use PA if you are using Dominic
PA system. “Superman Blowing Fire”.
Three Main Benefits Of The Shaper System;
3* It can be used with any existing person or object based system variations,
as explained above.
1. Number System: Use it for your Number System to memorise any number
digits to any length.
3. Mark The Path: Use a shape for each 5th location in a memory palace to
remember the order and the position of the path.
5. Expandable Memory Palaces: Use each image to expand the shaper palace
to 500 locations.
You can do this simply by mentally adding each image into each corresponding
Background image, and you’ll have a 5 stop Mini-Palace with each room,
expanding the palace to 500 locations!
There you have it. Hope you enjoyed this course on your journey to a trained
brain.
Read, Learn, Prepare, and Practice as much as you can. It’ll be worth it!
DOWNLOAD BOTH VERSIONS – FREE!
The full version of The Shaper System consist of the following files;
The app will load the images of the shaper palace by one by for you to
memorise your palace in the correct order.
* Ability to change every single image with your own to have the final system
of your own!
* Loads the Shaper images for each two digit combination.
* Ability to change every single image with your own to have the final system
of your own!
* Loads the Shaper images for each binary combination.
Once you master this spreadsheet, apply all the principles with at least 1 hour
practice a day, and you'll be on your way to memorise 100s of digits easily, that
will help you in many ways during your life as numbers are in almost every part
of our everyday life. Have Fun!
ps: You will require to download a copy of "Flash Player for desktops" from
Adobe website. Else your apps may not work.
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
When the app opens, you'll then see a menu with the levels you can practice.
Any Questions
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Erol Ozvatan
https://paolist.com
erolozvatan@gmail.com
About the Author
& Why The Shaper System Is For Free.
Hello. My name is “Erol Özvatan”. I was born in 1969 in Turkey in a city
called Izmir. Since I was 18 years old, most of my life has been spent in
England and also in many other countries of the world as visits, business
& commerce, research and education. For the past twelve years, I have
done very high research on brain, logic and memory development. I
received trainings from the world’s most recognized memory experts. As
the most famous, I learned the systems of all experts from Dominic
O’Brien, Tony Buzan, Ed Cooke, Kevin Trudeau, Ron White, Harry
Lorayne, from the oldest to the newest. I have read 20 books of 20
different authors. After that, I have studied 11 different courses and got
my certificates of achievements for Memory and its usage areas via
Udemy. I learned many different systems and methods, and I practiced
with experiments.
To get a deeper understanding of how memory works with further training, I have completed the
“Memory and Psychology” course from the Wesleyan University Department of Psychology to raise
my knowledge about memory, brain, and psychological relationships.
I wanted to innovate and improve, and further develop an existing system taught in memory
development trainings. My aim was to make it simple understand, simple to prepare, and fairly
simply to apply. And by further developing this system, I have established an improved version of
the number shape system in January 2018. “The Shaper System ©”, which is a type of an association
system used as a Number To Image Generator.
I presented this system in the world’s most visited Memory Forum The Art Of Memory Forum. And
to my surprise It attracted a lot of attention than I thought it would. It’s received 8800 impressions, a
huge amount of comments with 1000s of lines of texts.
There was a lot of talk about how useful it would be as a new system and how it can be used with an
existing system. I started to get a lot of questions about the subject and Emails of people from
various countries of the world. There were also those who contacted me on Facebook and wanted
to study the system. And I still receive a huge amount of emails, messages in pm on the forum, and
through Facebook.
In order to better understand the impact rate of this system, I participated in Online Memory
competitions to test and reinforce myself. In the third season contest, I finished third in a 10-person
cluster. In the fourth season, I went up a division, and Won my division . I managed to take part in
the Third League in the next season, and I managed to finish second after very tough matches. My
current place is the 2nd league in the online Memory league. And I still participate in competitions
whenever I have time. My main goal here was to better learn how useful this system was, and I saw
that even a 50-year-old person as myself was effective enough to get some decent results in
competitions.
You’ll also find me on “The Art Of Memory Forum“, and my name “Erol Ozvatan” on “The Memory
Techniques Wiki” with the system and methods I developed.
I am proud to see my name in the “Famous mnemonist” page. I am very proud to be in The Memory
Techniques Wiki where I share all my methods and useful information related to memory. It’s a
great honour to see my name next to the Memory Masters I have learned a lot from!
The full shaper system from the start to its final stage took around 2 years of preparation, trial and
error, and corrections, and finally it's ready to use out of the box.
All I want in return is that you say "Thank you". That would be my good prayer from you that I have
helped another person towards achieving their goal.
However, the cost of running the website is also financed by me. I would appreciate very much and
accept any amount of donations towards the running cost of this website.
So that we can keep helping each other and enable safe file-download delivery for all the people
who takes great interest in improving their memory and their life.
Or click on the PayPal Button Below Which Will Take You To My Website
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I appreciate any amount of donation to help each other and to keep paolist.com alive.
Thank you.
Erol Ozvatan
https://paolist.com
erolozvatan@gmail.com