With our increased dependence on technology, the human race is slowly losing touch with our finer skills at memory. We have become more forgetful and many of us do not even bother to train our minds to recall names, birthdays and numbers.
There are a few memory tricks that you can learn, that will teach you ways of storing information so that you don’t have to write things down in order to remember them.
Memorization methods tend to use visualization, repetition and imagination to make up songs or stories incorporating the information.
1. Repetition – This is the most common way for most people to remember information. But don’t forget, this technique can be used for more than just remembering phone numbers. It’s also useful for remembering things like names. Use it when meeting someone for the first time, repeatedly say their name in your head until it becomes stored in your memory. This technique can help you recall almost anything, from names to birthdays. To ensure the detail/s are stored in your memory, just repeat them over and over until you’re sure that they’re ingrained in your mind.
2. Thinking In Pictures – This technique helps you to remember details, and it is the way that most people with photographic memories recall details. People might think of a candle to represent the number one, or when trying to remember the number five, they might think of a hand because a hand has five fingers. Visualization is a useful way to help you recall finer points.
3. Create A Story – Creating a story is a great technique to increase memory that can help you to recall difficult information. For this technique, you might imagine yourself heading to the local store to pick up some groceries, along the way you step into a deep puddle of milk, then have to wait to cross the road for a procession of chickens with bra’ on to go by but they hurl eggs at you as your waiting for the procession to go past. And then when you’re walking into the grocery store you walk smack into a huge loaf of spongey bread. By telling yourself this story, by the time you get to the grocery store it’s easy for you to remember that you are there to pick up milk, chicken breasts, eggs and bread. And the ridiculous images in your story helped you to remember the list by making it stand out in your mind.
As you practice these techniques, they will become a lot easier and faster to use, and your memory will have a marked improvement.
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