If you want to improve your memory tenfold, create novel visualizations, called “markers,” for everything you wish to remember. Yes, you read that right. The crux of the “big secret” behind tripling your memory boils down to imagining pictures in your head. Anticlimactic, I know. But that really is half the battle—or more. At first, this might be difficult. Coming up with these markers is a creative endeavor, and many of us haven’t trained our creativity muscles for years. Fortunately, we know from the research that creativity is NOT something you have or you don’t. It’s something you train,
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