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

by Kevin Horsley

It is impossible to have a negative emotion without blaming someone or something. Free your mind. You always have two choices with any experience in your life: You can either learn from it or you can place blame. The choice is always yours.

Just because you can’t do something well now doesn’t mean it’s impossible to improve. Identify your self-limiting beliefs and then ask, “What if they were not true?”

First, remember that 80% of changing anything is about why you want to change and only 20% 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.

Don’t focus on where your memory messed up, think about all the ways your memory worked perfect for you all day, everyday

“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.”

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, then change the way you think about it

Peace and concentration are the same thing.

Learning with a purpose increases your attention, comprehension, and retention; it also helps organize your thoughts.

first step is to find your interests and then find links or connections between

your interests and the new information.

Find your interest in whatever you are trying to learn, if it’s instructions you’re reading them to build something, if it’s a book about pharmacology think of how many people you can help by having this information at your finger tips, try to be more specific about your interest in the topic

all “boring” information can be made more interesting with the right mindset.

By asking yourself “what if” questions, you set your mind up to worry. If you consistently ask, “What if I lose my job?” “What if I crash my car?” “What if criminals attack me?” then you will create “movies” in your mind that constantly loop those scenarios and cultivate a state of worry. Rather, say to yourself, “What would I do if I lost my job?” or “What would I do if I crashed my car?” The movies created by these questions don’t loop you into worry. They give you action steps that direct your mind. Create a procedure for different scenarios and make peace with your thinking.

People that learn quickly or have a so-called photographic memory apply creativity to everything they learn.

Senses:

Use your senses, smell touch taste sight and sound to create movies in your mind. You use more of your brain and make more powerful memories

exaggerated, sometimes silly, and sometimes nonsensical mind pictures.

The more you exaggerate the image you’re using to help you remember a concept, the easier it will be to recall later on.

Energize: Give your mental pictures action.

Make things talk, sing, and dance.

Find a word or phrase that sounds the same as or similar to the abstract word, or break up the word up into its individual sounds.

You can transform all complex information into something meaningful and memorable by turning it into images. In the beginning, investing your attention in this task will take a bit of effort, but then it will become a habit.

Imagine a silly picture—really SEE it—and you will remember

The greatest secret to having a powerful memory is bringing information to life with your endless imagination.