You're standing in the Kitchen with the refrigerator door open. You know you're not hungry, but for some reason you're staring inside. You think to yourself, "What was the reason again I'm here?"
But nothing comes. You're mind is blank. You can't remember why you went into the kitchen at. "Curse this short term memory of mine!" you say. "If only I had a better memory…"
Do You Make This Epic Mistake About Your Memory?Many people give up on trying to learn a foreign language because they have this notion that they don't have the memory for all of the vocabulary words involved. We're here to dispel that myth.
Many believe a strong memory is something you are either born with, or are lacking and are doomed for all of eternity. People watch the World Memory Championships and think "Man … I could never be like that". The truth is, improving your memory is a coachable skill that like any coachable skill, can be improved upon by proper training. We're not talking about training through rote memory, which is simply the process of memorizing through repetition. We're talking about the use of Mnemonics.
How To Understand UnderstandWhy You Remember And Why You ForgetBefore we explain what Mnemonics are, let's try and understand why we remember certain things, and forget others. The mind takes in information through any of our five senses during the day. It has the chance to accept or reject thousands of stimuli at any given point. Right now, while you are sitting and reading this article, pay attention to all of the external stimuli to which your mind can pay attention.
Where are you? What are you staring at? How do you feel? Are your shoes too tight? Do you smell anything? Are your taste buds still active from the last meal you had?
In order retain that which is important, the mind needs to filter out that which is not.
This brings us back to our earlier question:
Why do we pay attention to some items while discarding others? The answer lies in the significance that we place on the external stimuli.
The Blazingly Obvious Truth About Organizing Information In Your MindWhat did the 13th person you saw today look like?
Can't remember?
What if you saw a clown walk by you today holding 6 puppies while crossing the street. Would you remember that?
I bet you'd remember that not only today, but for many years to come. The reason for that is because it was a unique experience in which you attached significance to.
Training your mind to remember anything at any given time is a simple task once you are prepared to attached significance to the item you are trying to remember.
Here's a quick question:
What is easier to navigate?
A large filing cabinet with forty index cards containing one word on each of them, randomly dispersed in the cabinet; or a small filing cabinet with 1,000 index cards containing one word on each of them, each set up alphabetically?
The key to training your mind to memorize any content is to attach significance to each item and organize the information in your brain effectively. While there are many ways to train your mind to do so, we are going to focus on association.
Big yellow balloon. What are the first thoughts that come to your head? Birthday party? Children? Celebration? The mind is constantly associating new information with information we are already familiar with. The key to organizing information in your brain effectively is to use association to link items together.
Rubber band, keychain, eraser, river, drum, jelly, magic wand, mud, dart, ice cube.
How To Take Charge Of Information Using Linking And StoriesHow can we apply what we
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