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Well, you’ve got to get to know your images better… Starting tonight, take a suit at a time and really spend meditative time with each character. Ask yourself what they look, feel, smell, taste, and sound like; how they walk; the cut of their clothes; their social attitude; their sexual preferences; their propensity to gratuitous violence…
Advice from the Grandmaster of Memory, Ed Cooke, on getting to know your mnemonic images. [As profiled in Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer.]