The Power of Mnemonics. At the start of this piece, we employed two mnemonic strategies to remember the seven digits of a phone number. The first, called the “Major System,” was developed in ...

For example, if you follow the mnemonic major system and are trying to remember 1234, using your home as a mind palace, you might picture a dinosaur sitting on a couch, and then a mirror suspended ...

But there’s more to mnemonics like this than just remembering colors. From royal wives to birthstones, here are some memory-building sentences to give your general knowledge a boost. 1.