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August 6 - August 8, 2020
Memory is the foundation of all learning.
factual knowledge always precedes skill.
Use Your Head, Use Your Memory, and The Speed Reading Book.
It doesn’t matter where you come from; all that matters is where you are going.
You cannot fly with the eagles if you continue to scratch with the turkeys. —Zig Ziglar
You can have success or excuses, but you can’t have them both.
Every excuse you accept makes you weaker.
It is impossible to have a negative emotion without blaming someone or something.
If you believe your limits, your life will be very limited.
Every single thought we have is creative: Each one has the power to build and the power to destroy.
“Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb,” said Pythagoras.
Conflict pulls your mind in many directions; it is the opposite of concentration.
Peace and concentration are the same thing.
the average person looks at their cell phone about 110 times a day.
“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Sharpen your intellect by making it a habit to do one thing at a time.
Exceptional work is always associated with periods of deep concentration.
Learning with a purpose increases your attention, comprehension, and retention; it also helps organize your thoughts.
The more specific your purpose, the more information you will get.
Your level of interest sets the direction of your attention and, therefore, your level of focus.
Attention deficits are mostly interest deficits.
Your mind never wanders; it moves toward more interesting things.
“If you want to cure boredom, be curious.
Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.”
Byron Katie says, “I could only find three kinds of business in the world—mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?”
Life is easy when you simplify and make peace with your train of thought.
Most people swing from one emotional extreme to the other. Concentration is about learning how to stay centered. When you concentrate your power, you can achieve anything.
photographic memory is a myth. All perfect memory takes conscious effort.
Perfect memory is a skill and not a special gift.
People that learn quickly or have a so-called photographic memory apply creativity to everything they learn.
“Hear a piece of information and three days later you’ll remember 10 percent of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65 percent.”
aphantasia, which is the inability to make pictures in your mind.
Your senses help you mentally recreate your world.
Make your mental images as vivid and colorful as you can, not boring, flat, or black and white.
“When the imagination and the will are in conflict, the imagination always wins.”
Memory is not a thing that happens to you; you create your memories.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. —Charles Mingus
Whatever you think about, that’s what you remember. Memory is the residue of thought.
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
We learn only by association. Learning connects new information to old information;
Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
My answer is that nothing in life works if you don’t practice it.
you hear the name, repeat it back to the person; this will improve your recall.
We are normally so worried about being interesting that we forget to be interested.
It doesn’t make sense to try to associate a sound to an image—it won’t stick.
auditory memories are never as solid as visual memories.
when you remember others, they make a point of remembering you.
Interest level is measured by how much you remember.
Memory power is presentation power.
If you design your presentation with the FLOOR principle in mind, your audience will remember more—and
