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Anyone can store an unlimited amount of information if they choose to spend the time doing it.
The important thing is that you practice. The more you practice, the better you will become.
If you have any problems recalling the list, just make it more detailed and make the links clearer.
This method is powerful because we use more of our creativity and imagination to make the information stand out. This stimulates our interest and curiosity, keeping our attention at a peak. Each word reminds you of the next, since you are making your own links.
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You can also use this method to memorize paragraphs of information. First, condense everything into a list of key words, and then convert those lists into meaningful link stories. A whole syllabus or textbook can be condensed into a ridiculous story. When you do this, it is easy to remember the information. It gives you a great mental workout and it is fun!
Use this to remember quotes.
Yes, because you are interested in that name, you always hear it, and your attention is at a peak. The name has meaning to you since you also connect it to yourself. If you follow this basic strategy with every person you meet, you will remember their name.
Interesting make memory stronger
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If you hear the name, repeat it back to the person; this will improve your recall. If you don’t hear the name, ask the person to say it again. If it is a difficult name, ask them to spell it, too.
Repeat the names after introducing
By comparing as many features as possible, you will focus your attention and create a long-term impression for perfect recall.
I like this method because it’s so simple. By taking a long-term name and using it to remember the new, short-term name, it will only take a few seconds to cement the new person’s name in your memory forever.
Searching for the outstanding feature helps you focus on the face as you may never have done before. Most people never really look at the person when they are meeting them. So the feature is more about directing your focus on the face and making a connection. I have done a demonstration where I have learned over a hundred names in half an hour using this method. When you meet a hundred people, you use many of the same features, but amazingly, there is never any confusion. Go to Facebook to practice this method, there are millions of faces to choose from.
journey peg to hold on to the name.
Talk about their name. If it is a foreign name ask the person what it means. How do they spell it? Also, use their name in conversation. The more you talk about the name the less you will rely on working memory and the more you will begin to store it.
Ask yourself, “What is that person’s name again?” Get the answer and then ask yourself, “Does that feel right?” Try to strengthen the association during the course of the day or evening.
Invite people you want to remember to one of your social networking sites, so that you can see their names. Review them often to keep them in your long-term memory.
You will never be caught off guard for a name again.
They are all designed to improve your focus of attention, because when you remember others, they make a point of remembering you.
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If you have a trained memory, however, there are no limits to what you can recall. I can remember a 50-digit random number in less than 20 seconds and 100 digits in 45 seconds. I have taken my number memory far beyond average, and you can too.
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If you practice the methods and take pride in improving your memory, you can also develop these “superhuman” powers.
We could use the number shape method to hold on to smaller numbers, but the method I am about to show you has many more possibilities and applications.
It has meaning and makes a visual image in your mind. The number string has no meaning, so it is not very memorable. To remember numbers you need to give them more meaning.
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. They also have no value.
Zero is the s, z, or soft c (as in “dice”) sound. It sounds like the hissing of a wheel (which looks like a zero): One represents the t or d sound: Two is the n sound: Three is the m sound: What number would the word “TOMATOES” be?
T: 1, O: no value, M: 3, A: no value, T: one, O: no value, E: no value, and S: zero. The number would be 1310. What word could you make for 321? 3: M, 2: N and 1: D or T: MNT or MND. If we add the vowel i we have the word MINT; if we replace the t with a d and add the vowel e we have MEND. You could also change the vowel to a and add a y to make the name MANDY. It’s like learning a new number language. Four is the r sound: Five is the l sound: Six is the j, sh, soft ch, or soft g sound: What word can you make with 654? JAILER. Seven is the k and hard c sound: Eight is the f or v sound: Nine is
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No, it is like learning how to read. In the beginning you have to work hard to encode the information, but then it becomes easy. We remember concrete information, so you are not remembering more; you are just making the information more memorable.
To make this more digestible, try memorizing just 10 pegs a day. Attach images to the words in the list above, or make up your own words and attach images to those.
Once you have learned these values, you can remember numbers without limit. When each number represents an image, you can hold it in your mind and place it in a system such as the car, body, or journey systems to remember as many numbers as you choose.
I have used this method to remember athletic and sports statistics, stock prices, and other key information relating to numbers.
This method also works well to remember important dates in history. I enjoy remembering dates because they link historical events to a time line. Once this information is in your memory it is easy to correlate to other events. With this method, I am able to remember up to 100 dates in five minutes. When I learn most dates I use only the last three digits, because mo...
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Take 926 and use the code to make the word PUNCH. Now using our memory principles, we can imagine that you punch the television and it starts to work.
Imagine a BISHOP (969) on the moon. See the bishop walking on the moon and playing with moon dust.
And when you use more of your creativity you use more of your memory.
Use the power of Google images to create memory diagrams. Place all the images in a Word or PowerPoint document and view it often, so that when you look at the picture it creates instant learning.
Turn key information that you need for your life into a picture so that you will be able to see it easily in your mind’s eye. Use art to remember—and have fun!
Pictures memory works.
At first it may take a bit of practice, but then your brain will remember how to have fun, and your life and learning will never be the same again.
As we now know, images are memorable and stimulate more creativity.
Images work.
Remember to use only one word per branch—this helps your associating mind to bloom freely—and to add lots of images. You can always expand your Mind Map because your associating mind can always find another memory.
If you stick with them, you will take your mind to a new level; you will improve your creativity, elevate your planning power, develop more of your brain, and increase your powers of memory and observation.
Notice that each main branch shows a concept that we used in our car list. This Mind Map summarizes the key content from the whole book.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is a natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Apply the fundamentals.
Being creative with information helps increase your involvement with the content, makes it part of your reality, and improves your memory.
Memory ... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Memory is a diary
You can use it to remember quotes, poems, definitions, or verses from religious text.
Remember Quotes.
You can use it to hold on to information so you can call upon it when you need a bit of inspiration.
Once you have found your keywords, the next step is to create images out of them and place them in one of the systems that you have learned in this book. Remember that your imagination is like the pen and the system is the paper. You can use a journey, your body, a car, or anything that is already in your long-term memory. You can even link all the concepts together as you did with the presidents.
The method of remembering quotes.
Memory power is presentation power.
Great presenters know that audiences tend to remember: F—First things L—Last things O—Outstanding information O—Own links R—Repeated information
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.
Once you have created images for each of the cards, you will have to get to know them. It will take practice to automatically turn each card into an image, but with time it will become second nature.
This is like a gym for your memory: The more you work with it, the more your overall memory will improve. It is a way to practice your memory skills. I know many people are not going to put in the effort to remember cards, but at least now you know how. This is just another example of how these methods can be applied to solve any memory problem.
