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Hello,
I'm Borgesio, and I'll be introducing you to magician and mentalist Derren Brown's own version of the Major System.

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What is the Major System? It's a trick to memorizing numbers, dates, more Things than simply 1 and 2...

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What is the Major System? It's a trick to memorizing numbers, dates, more Things than simply 1 and 2...

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and at least one list of fish.

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That's a lot to take in, and I'm sure you're still wondering just what it is you're going to be learning.

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After all, you may probably end up spending about three or four hours of your life mastering this so-called system.

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In actuality.... learning it should only take you about 15 minutes. Seriously.

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Ok, let's not get ahead of ourselves here! Some fame may last 15 minutes, but real learning is a lifetime. So you'll have to put a little more effort than that in.

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Besides you want to be a master at this, right?

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There's a BIG difference between knowing how a magician does a trick and being able to do it yourself.

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So let's take a look at some real world dilemmas, some solvable problems just short of ending hunger, disease and war.

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Like...

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Have you ever forgotten where you parked you car ?

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Or what you friend's address was?

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Or what page you were supposed to continue reading on for that homework assignment?

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Maybe you're just really bad with dates.

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Especially history.

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Sure, you could write it all down. But you don't always do that, do you? More often that not, you forget.

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And for those of you studying, you can't bet on every test being open book can you? (If you can, maybe you should consider a better school)

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What page was that answer on again?

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But this is a way for you to remember not only numbers:

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But by association, names, faces, places and a host of other things your newly expanded mind will be capable of holding.

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So what's the secret? Well, as far as the Major system goes, it's simply a matter of replacing numbers* with letters.



The word numbers itself is 23640.

More accurately... you are replacing them with consonant SOUNDS.

Like these ----------> 0 = s/z 1 = l 2 = n 3 = m4 = r