Location Method
Location Method
The Location Method uses familiar locations to help you memorize important information. Each location is a peg image that helps you form an association.
The Location Method is a fantastic way to lock-in important information because of the many locations you have at your disposal.
You may not believe it but you know a lot of locations already that you can use to make the Story Method work for you. Here are just a few places that you may be able to use:
| � Rooms in home or a previous home |
� Areas of local library |
| � Rooms in friend�s or relative�s homes |
� Frequently visited local businesses |
| � Room in your church |
� Workplace |
| � Areas of the local park |
� Favorites stores in the local mall |
| � Areas in your school |
� Areas in local fitness center |
| � Businesses along the main street |
� Friends home in your neighborhood |
| � States in your region of the country |
� Areas inside and around your car |
Let�s take a couple of examples from the list to demonstrate how to you can come up with easy-to-remember peg images.
Location: Areas inside and around your car
| � Glove compartment |
� Dashboard |
| � Drivers seat |
� Hood of car |
| � Front passenger�s seat |
� Trunk space |
| � Back seat |
� Top of car |
| � Bottom of car |
� Ash tray |
| � Cup holder |
� Storage compartment |
Using you car you have automatically come up with at least twelve peg images that you can easily remember. Just think of all the places you could use if you had a mini-van!
If you�re not convinced how easy this is let�s take another example. Let�s try to come up with peg images from the areas of your local park.
Location: Areas of local park
| � Bathrooms |
� Swing set |
| � Volleyball court |
� Monkey bars |
| � Basketball court |
� Picnic tables |
| � Barbeque pit |
� Parking lot |
| � Softball field |
� Pavilion |
Of course the areas of a park will vary depending on the design of your local park and the areas that you can easily remember.
The trick with using the Location Method is to pick a defined route in your mind that passes by or enters into the locations that are using as peg images. This is important because it will prevent you from leaving a location out of the list.
O.K., let�s look a great example of using the Location Method. We will use the rooms of a home for our peg image list and let�s assume that we are trying to memorize multiple parts of a computer and a couple of peripherals.
The following are the computer parts and peripherals that we need to memorize and recall:
| � Compact Disc |
� Mouse |
| � Floppy disk |
� Monitor |
| � Hard drive |
� Laser printer |
| � Keyboard |
� Serial port |
| � Hand scanner |
� Video circuit card |
The route you should take through the house depends on your house.
This is the route we are going to take through my house. I�ll first walk up to the house and stand in the yard for a moment. Then I�ll knock on the front door and after which we�ll enter in and pass by the study on my left and the dining room on my right. Then we�ll enter the living room and walk straight into my bedroom. From my bedroom I�ll go into my bathroom. I�ll leave the bathroom and step into my closet. I�ll then leave my closet and my bedroom and go to the kitchen. Lastly, I�ll walk through the kitchen and then open the door and step into the garage.
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