Let’s say you’re in a cab, you don’t have your cell phone with you, and you need to memorize a phone number the cab driver gives you.
How to do it?
In Romania, we have some major telecommunication providers, so, for example, 0743- would belong to Orange, while 0724- would belong to Vodafone.
The lines of separation got very blurry once a person can move the phone number to another provider with ease, but, still, there are some general rules (at least in my mind).
So, the first step – associate the phone number with the provider.
Then, for each provider, remember just the final digit – So 0743, the last digit is 3 (it can differ from the same provider, they might have 0741, 0742, and so on).
For the remaining 6 digits, try and form some associations. “1 less than the birthday of”. “Double of a bad luck number”. “The first two and last two digits are similar due to”.
In my opinion, it’s much easier to remember a rule between digits, rather than try and memorize 6 unique digits.
