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August 3 - August 5, 2024
These systems require you to think differently than you’re used to. Many people want to improve their memory and concentration, but they continue to use outdated methods they already know, so they don’t get results.
experience is just a collection of memories!
Too often, we recognize and understand information when we hear it or read it, but can’t recall that information when we need it.
Mastering your memory will require a different kind of thinking.
Wherever you are, be there.
Every excuse you accept makes you weaker.
Many people never get a taste of their true potential because they have decided to entertain only a limited view of what they can do.
“My memory is getting better and better every day.”
Your beliefs are the stories about yourself that you have accepted to be true
“How does my memory serve me—how did it serve me today?” Generally, people only focus on where their memory went wrong;
You just have to learn to become more peaceful and find the moment. You have to learn to be here, now. When you are at work, be at work. When you are at home, be at home.
Conflict pulls your mind in many directions; it is the opposite of concentration.
Take Control of Your Inner Voice
Stop Multitasking
When you multitask, you actually switch between tasks, semi-attending to each one. It’s not very effective.
We are training our brains to have an attention deficit. Many
average person looks at their cell phone about 110 times a day.
Driving with a cell phone makes you hit the brakes 0.5 seconds slower.
“Multitasking is known to slow people down by 50 percent and add 50 percent more mistakes.”
Sharpen your intellect by making it a habit to do one thing at a time.
Purpose: A clear purpose is important because clarity dissolves resistance.
Interest: Your level of interest sets the direction of your attention
Attention deficits are mostly interest deficits. Your mind never wanders; it moves toward more interesting things.
Curiosity: Questions are the answer to improving curiosity. Before you start reading or learning anything, ask yourself motivational questions.
Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.”
Eliminate Worry
“I could only find three kinds of business in the world—mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?”
But sound is very limited because it doesn’t attach easily to other memories. A sound is also sequential; to remember information by sound, you have to start at the beginning and work your way through it.
Your brain creates miracles every day by converting lifeless information into pictures and ideas.
Your brain likes pictures and is really good at remembering them.
Add a picture and you’ll remember 65 percent.”
The more you exaggerate the image you’re using to help you remember a concept, the easier it will be to recall later on.
Make your mental images as vivid and colorful as you can,
Your imagination is the key to unlocking your unlimited memory power.
Turning Abstract Information into Images
You can transform all complex information into something meaningful and memorable by turning it into images.
You can use the SEE principle to remember hundreds of foreign words by connecting just two concepts at a time. If you imagine each concept for a few seconds, it will stick in your memory and be easy to recall if you need it.
Please visit unlimitedfocus.info/free for more examples.
The greatest secret to having a powerful memory is bringing information to life with your endless imagination.
Memory is not a thing that happens to you; you create your memories.
See your car in your mind.
Go through your car, from the beginning to the end, and see if you can remember all the information.
You have just learned 14 superfoods:
Your long-term memory (things that are in your memory forever, like your name and what your house looks like) is like the plastic bag that can be used to trap short-term memories (new pieces of information coming in, like a new telephone number).
LTM offers you a place to store the new information; that is, the locations in the car become “storage compartments” for short-term memories (STMs).
The secret to accelerated learning is superior organization.
By remembering all seven images, you’ve created points of reference within your mind for each habit. When you have them in your memory, it will be easier to gauge if you are living the Seven Habits.
The first three habits are categorized as private victories:
Habits 4, 5 and 6 are public victories: You allow others to get into your car, which is why it is public.
Habit 7 doesn’t fit into either category, so it is outside
