5 Proven Memorization Techniques to Make the Most of Your Memory
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The snowy hill represents the brain, the people sledding are like the memories, and the trails left behind are the synapses in the brain.
Think of the brain as a hill covered in snow, and thoughts as sleds gliding down that hill. As one sled after another goes down the hill a small number of main trails will appear in the snow. And every time a new sled goes down, it will be drawn into preexisting trails, almost like a magnet. In time it becomes more and more difficulty to glide down the hill on any other path or in a different direction.
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A method to enhance memory using visualizations with the use of spatial memory.
- Choose a place that you know really well.
- Plan the route and pick specific locations in your route.
- Decide what you want to memorize
- Place an object or two, with a mental image, and place them in your memory palace. Exaggerate your images. For example, use nudity or crazy images forcing it to stick in your mind.
- Make the image into a mnemonic
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A memory device that helps you retain and retrieve information simply with the use of retrieval cues to encode information in the brain.
- List the words you want to remember.
- Write the initials of each word vertically.
- Create a sentence/phrase using the initials.
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... is a technique in memorizing lists by memorizing the words that rhyme with a number easy to associate with the word you want to remember.
- Assign an easy word that rhymes with every number.
For example: 0 = hero, 1 = bun, 2 = shoe, 3 = tree, ... - Associate the words you want to remember with the number system you created.
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... is a way to remember large bits of information by chunking them into smaller pieces of information.
- Write down the numbers or content you want to remember.
- Cut the numbers to segments or divide the content to phrases through chunking.
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... is a way to learn something in one area and apply it to another.
- Vertical Transfer/Far Transfer: Learning of something in the early years and applying it later in life.
- Horizontal Transfer/Near Transfer: Learning a concept from a certain subject and applying it to another.
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