MENTOR: Make the most of spatial memory.

from BUSINESS LINE, October 27, 2008 By far the most powerful and adaptable way of developing your memory through using association is the method of loci, says Tony Buzan in Age-proof Your Brain: Sharpen your memory in 7 days (www.thorsonselement.com ). "This makes powerful links between and organises each of the items to be remembered, so that the order is remembered too." The author traces the loci method to Simonides, the ancient Greek poet, who needed powerful memory techniques to enable him to remember huge chunks of epic poetry for recital. "The story goes that he got the idea for it when he was invited to a banquet at the house of the nobleman Scopias to recite a poem in …