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May 31 - June 6, 2019
Understanding doesn’t create use: Only when you can instantly recall what you have understood, and practice using your remembered understanding, do you achieve mastery.
The more you remember, the more you can do, because factual knowledge always precedes skill.
Excuses don’t matter—they are “thought viruses.”
Decide now to stop using excuses to give away your power.
We always defend what we believe. If you believe you have a bad memory, you will always act and think in accordance with that belief. Where your attention goes, your energy flows.
A belief is a sense of being certain; what you believe, you become.
Most people don’t realize that when they use doubtful phrases, they are setting standards for themselves. These standards become expectations and eventually self-fulfilling prophecies.
When you change a belief, you change a mental construction and, therefore, your life.
First, remember that 80 percent of changing anything is about why you want to change and only 20 percent is about how you do it.
Your beliefs are the stories about yourself that you have accepted to be true … so you can decide to change the stories.
Maxwell Maltz said, “Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of inborn talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.”
“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.”
Most of us pay half-hearted attention to almost everything we do. We live in an activity illusion and think that “busyness” is equal to good business, but it’s often just procrastination in disguise.
Peace and concentration are the same thing.
We destroy both peace and concentration by multitasking. Multitasking is a myth!
“Multitasking is known to slow people down by 50 percent and add 50 percent more mistakes.” Multitasking is like putting your brain on drugs.
Blaise Pascal said, “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Learning with a purpose increases your attention, comprehension, and retention; it also helps organize your thoughts.
“If you’re not sure why you’re doing something, you can never do enough of it.”
If you are not interested, remembering what you read will be almost impossible. When something is high on your interest list your mind is alert, disciplined, and focused.
Your mind never wanders; it moves toward more interesting things.
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” So get interested!
“If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you’re curious, nothing is a chore; it’s automatic—you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.”
You become more relaxed when you decide to take up residence in your own mind and your own business. Life is easy when you simplify and make peace with your train of thought. You suffer when you believe your “bad” thinking.
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.
Nothing outside of you is going to fix your concentration; it is an inside job.
People that learn quickly or have a so-called photographic memory apply creativity to everything they learn.
When you see information as an image in your mind, however, you can jump in and out of it; this improves your understanding, too.
The more we turn information into images or mind movies, the more we will remember and comprehend.
The SEE Principle S—Senses:
E—Exaggeration:
The more you exaggerate the image you’re using to help you remember a concept, the easier it will be to recall later on.
E—Energize:
Make your mental images as vivid and colorful as you can, not boring, flat, or black and white. Use action; it brings life to even the dullest information.
The process of imagination is a fun and creative process. The more enjoyment you can put into it, the better.
Your imagination is the key to unlocking your unlimited memory power.
The greatest secret to having a powerful memory is bringing information to life with your endless imagination.
LTM + STM = MTM
The secret to accelerated learning is superior organization.
Remember: The more you know, the easier it is to get to know more.
You always need your long-term memory to assist your short-term memory.
“You are the source of all your emotions; you are the one who creates them. Plant these emotions daily, and watch your whole life grow with vitality that you’ve never dreamed of before.”
You can use any list that is already in your long-term memory to create all kinds of new peg lists.
Make sure to choose places you know well, that have significance for you, and that have lots of variety. You can make routes as long as you want; you can have a place or route for every subject you are learning.
We learn only by association. Learning connects new information to old information; it doesn’t happen any other way. It creates a relationship between the known and the unknown. The more you know, the easier it is to connect more information, and to know even more.
First, condense everything into a list of key words, and then convert those lists into meaningful link stories.
Comparison Connection With this method, you connect the person to a name that you already know.
Face Connection With this method, you make a link between the name and an outstanding feature in the person’s appearance.
Let’s begin with the vowels a, e, i, o, and u. These letters have no number value. They act as fillers or blanks. The letters w, h, and y are also fillers or blanks.
Zero is the s, z, or soft c (as in “dice”) sound.
