Remember when you were in middle school? How boring it was?
Wouldn't it have been great if you had not only the ability to make it the most exciting time of your life, but also memorize everything you learned?
Here's The VERY Good News About Helping Middle School Students Remember More
Even if it's too late for you, it doesn't have to be for your kids or any young person for whom you buy books in your family or social circles. US Memory Bronze Medal Champion Brad Zupp has an exciting training book just for youth.
The book is called Unlock Your Amazing Memory: The Fun Guide That Shows Grades 5 To 8 How To Remember Better And Make School Easier.
Unlock Your Amazing Memory is a great book and in this post, I'm going to try and sell you on buying and reading it. Heck, even if school is far behind you and your hair has gone gray, you're going to learn a lot from Zupp's book.
Not Being Able To Remember Does Not Make You Dumb
Unfortunately, schools tend to set things up so that we think intelligence is linked to performance on tests and exams. But this couldn't be further from the truth and Zupp shows how any student can break the pattern of institutionally-forced failure.
Zupp's book is easy to read for the advertised grade level, as well as anyone. This aspect of Unlock Your Amazing Memory really makes it shine because all too often, books on technical skills like mnemonics can also make you feel stupid. Zupp's clear writing style and progressive organization of the basics makes it impossible to misunderstand the techniques.
The More You Practice Your Memory, The Better It will Be
Learning memory techniques can take time, but the payoff later is incredible speed that MORE than pays off the initial investment. The best part is that it pays off for life.
To motivate readers, Zupp recommends visualizing yourself impressing friends. This is okay, but I would add visualizing just taking the first steps. For example, research has shown that people who visualize themselves putting on their running shoes get more fit in a six-month period than those who see themselves with an excellent physique.
When it comes to memory techniques, you can start by visualizing yourself creating a Memory Palace. To make that even simpler, picture yourself getting a memory journal and picking out a special pen or pencil that you will use exclusively for that journal.
Taking this small step is more likely to lead to actually creating a Memory Palace than visualizing yourself as a memory hero in front of your friends. Heck, just picturing yourself reading the book from beginning to end and then actually reading it will already make you a modern Hercules amongst your Internet-addled friends.
Remembering Involves 3 Steps So Simple You'll Wonder Why Schools Don't Save The Alphabet For Later
Zupp breaks his approach to memory techniques into three distinct movements.
The first seems obvious, but how many people actually do it? For Zupp, it's called remembering to "get" the info, or what Harry Lorayne often calls "paying attention to it in the first place."
You Can't Remember What You Haven't Learned
So if "paying attention" to the target information is the first key to "getting" it into memory, how do you accomplish this feat?
First up, Zupp says you've got to sit up straight. I remember this principle well from learning music. Slumping not only breaks the flow of oxygen. It a
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