Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery, #1)

by Kevin Horsley

Mind Mapping a “Swiss Army Knife for the brain.” It is not only a method for expanding your memory, but a way to improve your thinking skills.

Mind Maps are a wonderful way to structure information so that you can see both the big picture and the details. Linear notes can never provide the flexibility that you have with Mind Maps.

Each main branch will have its own color;

Success is a natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

Remembering Written Information Word for Word

Remembering and reciting poems is also a great way to train your mind and improve your presentation ability.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Actors have successfully used this method to remember their lines. When you really know the information, you can feel it and act it out more comfortably as well.

Presenting from Memory

You can eliminate the fear of forgetting by using memory methods like the journey, body, car, peg list, drawing your own pictures, or making Mind Maps.

Great presenters know that audiences tend to remember: F—First things L—Last things O—Outstanding information O—Own links R—Repeated information

Absent Minds

Yes, normal! These things happen because familiarity breeds forgetfulness.

So what is the solution? When you put items down, like your car keys, bring yourself back to the present moment. Ask yourself questions like, When am I going to use this next? or say to yourself, I am putting the keys on the table.

Clear the clutter. Get organized. Think on paper.

Creating systems and putting your items in the same place every day will save you massive amounts of time.

Remembering Playing Cards

First, you must create a picture for each card. Each card must have its own identity, so that you can distinguish it from the others.

To remember the whole shuffled pack you then create a journey of 52 places and store each character along the route, or you can link the cards together.

Studying Anything

Learning new information isn’t helpful unless it can be recalled later.

So break your learning down and master the material over time.

strong PIC (purpose, interest, and curiosity)

Take a break every 35 to 40 minutes; take

Make sure you learn to distinguish between what you’re capable of right now and what you’ll be capable of with practice.

We all love to win but how many people love to train? —Mark Spitz

People don’t do it because they think that the future will be a better place than the present without doing anything to make it better.

If your daily actions are not moving you in the direction of what you want, then you will never get what you want.

Common sense but still a struggle

Create a Vision

wake up and imagine exciting possibilities and focus on all the great things that you get to do, your energy level will lift.

Where your attention goes, your energy flows.

A true decision means you will not allow for any other possibility.

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

When you have to exercise, you don’t have to listen to your feelings, you just do it.

Only by consistently practicing your discipline can you turn it into a skill.

21 days to develop a new habit.

takes a lot ...

The only way we can build on a memory is if we can remember it.

The more that you connect to that information, the stronger it becomes.

May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten. —Irish blessing