5) Link Information To Expand Your Memory

When we are learning new information that we do not want it to interfere with what we have previously learned. If this happens it is called retroactive interference. When this happens the memory that you have stored previously for some reasons cannot be retrieved. This is more likely to occur when learning similar materials.

So when learning new information, try to make sure you are learning it in fundamentally different way on how you learned similar materials. Use new cues and try to keep the information separate. Consider connecting the dots.