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

by Kevin Horsley

Memory is the cornerstone of your existence. It determines the quality of your decisions and, therefore, your entire life! Learning and memory are the two most magical properties of the human mind. Learning is the ability to acquire new information, and memory holds that information in place over time. Memory is the foundation of all learning.

memory is just a habit, and like any other habit, it can be improved with training and practice.

the four keys (or “Cs”) to improving your memory. The first section talks about improving your Concentration. The second section is about improving your ability to Create imagery and Connect concepts, and the final key is about creating a habit with Continuous use.

The only things that keep you from getting what you want are the excuses you make to yourself.

Every excuse you accept makes you weaker. Excuses stop you from concentrating and paying attention. When you excuse yourself from learning something new, you block your focus and your energy. Always remember that where your attention goes, your energy flows.

Concentration is made up of many small choices practiced consistently.

Imagine your attention was an Olympic athlete.

eliminate conflict and create peace in your mind

Take Control of Your Inner Voice

Stop Multitasking

Know What You Want

Learn to engage and be present with information by creating a strong PIC: Purpose:

Interest:

Curiosity:

Eliminate Worry

You become more relaxed when you decide to take up residence in your own mind and your own business.

You need to make a decision today: Do you want to improve your concentration

Eliminate your excuses, clean up your beliefs, and be here now!

When you train your creativity, you automatically train your memory. When you train your memory, you automatically train your creative thinking skills! —Tony Buzan

You can learn to enhance your memory imagination system by making your mind movies exciting and “sticky.” The way to do this is with the SEE principle.

S—Senses: There are only five ways to get anything into your brain, and those are through your senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. Your senses help you mentally recreate your world. If you learn to engage your senses, you will use more of your brain and improve your memory.

E—Exaggeration

Make your mental images larger or smaller than life.

E—Energize: Give your mental pictures action.

Make your mental images as vivid and colorful as you can, not boring, flat, or black and white. Use action;

See your car in your mind. Imagine squeezing a big apple into the front grille. Take a carrot and stab it into the hood. On the windshield, see grainy bread, and think to yourself, “That grainy bread is going to damage my wipers.” Get inside your car and squash dried fruit on the dashboard—really see it mash into your speedometer. Imagine you are sitting on blueberries and strawberries—really feel them. Throw eggs at the person sitting in the passenger seat next to you—they now have egg on their face. Imagine you are pouring thousands of nuts and seeds onto your back seat. Get out of your car and imagine a massive orange on your roof. You open the trunk and it is full of fish—really smell the fish. There is broccoli in the tailpipe, and Brussels sprouts are the exhaust fumes. Finally, the tires are made out of sweet potatoes. Sweet! Go through your car, from the beginning to the end, and see if you can remember all the information. If a word didn’t stick, go back, make the connection stronger, and see it more clearly in your mind.

The secret to accelerated learning is superior organization.

Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Habit 1: Be proactive.

Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind.

Habit 3: Put first things first.

Habit 4: Think win/win.

Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Habit 6: Synergize.

Habit 7: Sharpen the saw. Foster good habits by balancing your resources, energy, and health to achieve a sustainable lifestyle.

The music of your life is far better played with all the fingers of your Multiple Intelligences performing their magic on the keyboard of your existence. —Tony Buzan

creative intelligence,

personal intelligence (self-knowledge,

Tony Robbins’s life-changing book Awaken the Giant Within lists the “10 emotions of power.”

The 10 emotions of power are: 1)Love and warmth 2)Appreciation and gratitude 3)Curiosity 4)Excitement and passion 5)Determination 6)Flexibility 7)Confidence 8)Cheerfulness 9)Vitality 10)Contribution

No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. —Louis L’Amour

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.

If you want to remember names like a memory master you have to focus on the four Cs. 1. Concentrate

2. Create Create an image for the name in your mind so you can recreate it later.

3. Connect Remember that all learning is creating relationships between the known and the unknown. When you’re introduced to someone, you see (know) their face—an image—so you need to connect their unknown name to their known face.

4. Continuous Use

4. Remembering Playing Cards Without a method, the average person will only be able to memorize about half a pack of cards in 30 minutes, if they’re lucky. The average person doesn’t have a way of trapping thoughts, so they’re never really certain of what they know. With the method that I am about to teach you, you will be able to remember a shuffled deck in a few minutes. With the same method, I have been able to remember an entire pack in 45 seconds; with a bit of practice you will be able to do the same. Remembering cards has many mental benefits. It is a great way to train your memory, it can help you in card games like blackjack and bridge, plus it has the added bonus of being a great demonstration of your memory power. Knowing what you have already learned in this book, you

now know that to remember something well you need to bring it to life. So how do you bring cards to life? 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. You can associate each card with a person you know or you can make all the diamond cards celebrities, all the heart cards your family, spade cards people you work with, and the club cards your friends. That would be one way to organize it. The system I use is based on the number code from Chapter 11. In this method, however, the name of each card will begin with the first letter of the suit. Here’s an example: The name for the 3 of diamonds will begin with D for diamonds, followed by M for 3. Add a vowel (A) and you have DAM. So all diamond cards will start with a D, all hearts will start with H, etc. Then add the converted number to the end of the card, plus vowels and fillers to make a word. Here are all the images for all the suits: Diamonds A—Date (ace is one) 2—Dan 3—Dam 4—Door 5—Deal 6—Dish 7—Duck 8—Dove 9—Deep 10—Dice (10 will be zero, s sound)

J—Diamond (jacks are the image of the suite) Q—Dean (queens use a rhyming word) K—Ding (kings we use a word with ‘ing’ in it) Hearts A—Hat 2—Hen 3—Ham 4—Hair 5—Hail 6—Hash 7—Hack 8—Hoof 9—Hoop 10—House J—Heart Q—Halloween K—Hinge Spades A—Sit 2—...