Improve your Memory
What are the limits to Memory - what should I be aiming for?
You cannot fill up or overfill your memory.
Memory feats that have been achieved include:
Memorising a deck of 52 cards in less than 35 seconds.
Learning more than 70 digits in a row, when presented them digit by
random digit at one second intervals.
Learning exactly entire religious texts (especially prior to written
records, this was the method for retaining them and has since been proven
to be accurate).
... and there are many more relatively unbelievable feats, which prove
again and again that we generally underestimate what we are able to do
if trained to use our memories correctly.
How do I improve my memory?
This is a question that many courses and books are devoted to but the
key points are covered easily.
One such resource is the Memletics website and their manual for better learning.
Please don't just read this material. Just reading it is like paying for
a gym membership and then not using it.
Successful people take the first steps to doing it immediately!
Please check out
the FREE memory toolbox
that comes with RecallPlus.
Principles involved in Remembering More:-
Look
after your body.
Have a reason to learn and get
motivated
about it.
Get your concentration
as you start - get into the right state to learn - interested, and relaxed.
Use the principles that improve retention of material...
--Work out the overview of the information first. If you do not have a feel
for where this information fits into the overall subject STOP, get
it, THEN fill in the gaps.
--
Use the Power of Visual Memory
--
Use Imagination and Visualisation using multiple
senses.
--Use of Associations including use of
Pegging,
Chaining,
Acronym and
Loci
techniques.
--
Mind Map and Concept Map style notetaking.
--Use
Flashcard style revision techniques -
NB the
Forgetting Curve and the
Spacing
Effect.
--Take breaks to take advantage of
Primacy and
Recency Effects and the
Zeigarnik Effect
.
There is EVIDENCE for most of the above techniques in scientific literature.
Click on the appropriate link above to check it out.
For more tips on
Remembering...
see this article from Virginia Tech.
Don't forget to practice regularly.
Link to a series of mnemonic tests that illustrate the principles
Click
here
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that comes with RecallPlus.
