Memory Techniques

Scores of Books, videos, websites and seminars are devoted to memory enhancement. The following steps summarise the main points of most techniques:-

• Make sure you are alert and attentive before trying to memorize anything.
• Instead of memorising, try to understand the material, if it requires deeper comprehension.
• Look for larger patterns or ideas, and organize pieces of information into meaningful groups.
• Links the new bit of knowledge with what you already know. Place what you learn into context with the rest of your knowledge, looking for relationships with ideas.
• Engage your visual and auditory senses by using drawings, charts or music to aid memory. Creating a memorable mental picture will help you to memorise.
• Use devices such as formulas or rhymes that serve as memory aids.
• Repeat and review what you have learned as may times as you can.
• Apply it or use it in conversation, as continual practice is the key to remembering things in the long term.

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