Don Lemon had trouble with it
By the way remembering a lust of five things in order is not that easy. The brain can carry four or five things at a time. Doing over time is a big deal
“By the way remembering a list of five things in order is not that easy. The brain can carry four or five things at a time. Doing over time is a big deal”
Some commentator on TV a night ago suggested trying to do the alphabet backwards. So of course I had to try to do it. I actually succeeded in the endeavor, and here’s how.
Remember how as children most of us learned to sing the alphabet song. So silently I sang it to myself:
abcd (pause); efg (pause); hijk (pause) lmnop (pause); qrst (pause); uv (pause); wx (pause) yz (final pause.
Now I know my abc’s; next time won’t you sing with me?
I sang it (silently) until I got to “wxyz” and then spoke it backwards. The I sang silently again until I got to “uv” and spoke it backwards. Then I went to “qrst”, etc. and spoke it out loud backwards. Tedious, but made it doable by breaking the alphabet into it’s component song parts, making it manageable. Took a while to spit it all out because I kept having to mentally backtrack through the song.
Heaven knows why I did this, but I have to admit to a minor sense of accomplishment when finished. What to do when you are VERY bored.