Almost any series can serve as a set of hooks as long as you can remember it easily. The number of hooks you choose is up to you, but most people start with ten. With just a little practice in this method, memorizing lists becomes very simple. Numbers Remembering numbers is one of the hardest things to do and yet it seems we are called on to learn more numbers all the time. We are constantly being given new personal identification numbers, for example, and we are admonished not to write them down.
Mnemonics can help here too.
There is a system for memorizing numbers based on the fact that we can remember words more easily than numbers. How it works is that each digit, from 0 to 9, is given a consonant, preferably one that looks a little like the number. Once this list has been learned by heart, the rest is easy. To memorize a number, you take the letters that correspond to the numbers and make up a sentence where each word begins with the appropriate letter. Let's say you want to remember the number 3687.