5 secrets of memory: how to remember easily and for a long time

1. Understand

Very often people just try to memorize unfamiliar words and phrases without even understanding their meaning. Perhaps this will be enough for a few days, say, to pass the exam. Unless, of course, the lecturer asks to explain what you mean by ablation and what are the signs of those very chromosomal aberrations from the first ticket.

The brain perfectly remembers the words associated with associative. He discards incomprehensible letter combinations like garbage, not wanting to waste time on them.

For this reason, most people have difficulty learning foreign languages. A strange sounding word does not evoke pictures that are familiar and understandable to the heart.

Therefore, for better memorization, you must first disassemble and understand all the new terms. Try to get a feel for the word and associate it in your imagination with familiar concepts.

2. Come up with an association

The presence of imagination is one of the most powerful tools for memorizing information. Mnemonics greatly facilitate the process of memorizing important reports, presentations, texts, including in foreign languages, due to artificial associations.

Let's take the word "Monday." What frames are running on your inner screen? It can be morning, terrible traffic jams, a thought throbbing in your head, a day on a calendar, a diary page from your childhood, or a humming anthill in your office. What do you see?

To make associative connections strong and durable, you can use the five-finger rule. Each finger has its own association, filled with one or another content.

Fingers	Association
Big	"Raisin". Original, absurd, absurd
Pointing	"Emotions". Use only positive
Average	"About yourself, beloved." Feel free to associate the object of memory with yourself
Nameless	"Feel". Connect your senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, tactile sensations
Little finger	"In move". Make your subject move. The brain quickly memorizes information in dynamics

Thus, the necessary information will be imprinted in your memory at once on all levels of feelings, which will allow you to use it for a long time.

3. Deceive the magic number 7 ± 2

The famous American psychologist George Miller found that short-term human memory cannot remember and repeat more than 7 ± 2 elements. The mode of constant information overload reduces this number to 5 ± 2.

Nevertheless, there is a simple way of deceiving the laws of short-term memory: the use of the method of stories, which involves the logical connection of disparate objects of memorization into one chain. You can end up with a funny, incredible and completely impossible story in real life. The main thing is that with the help of it you can memorize more than 15 elements at a time.

As the director intends in the next scene, you have to swim in a pool filled to the brim with semolina. Yes, just imagine this madness in bright colors. Feel the semolina adhering to your skin. How hard it is to swim in this warm liquid, although the porridge is not too thick. It smells like milk, butter and childhood in the air.

4. Repeat correctly

Our brains can be programmed - this is a scientific fact. To achieve the goal, it is necessary to realize it and work daily in the chosen direction. Therefore, if you firmly decided that it is extremely important for you to learn English in six months, then the brain is already tuned in to intensive memorization. But in addition to regular training, regular repetition of the material covered is also important.

Use specific time intervals for the best memorization: repeat the material immediately after learning, then after 15-20 minutes, after 6-8 hours (preferably before bedtime) and the last time after a week.

5. Tune in

Perhaps there is nothing worse when a person thinks of himself in negative tones: "I will never cope with this", "It is impossible for me to remember this", "I will not be able to learn such a difficult report." Use only positive affirmations when programming your brain for work and results.

Tune in correctly, tell yourself: “I remember!”, “I have a good memory. I will remember”,“I will remember and easily retell in my own words in two hours”. Customize yourself. The resource state of the brain is your area of responsibility.

Knowing the five secrets of memory, you can easily learn to memorize really complex and versatile materials. In addition, there are many interesting and natural for a person ways of training memory and fixing the necessary objects of memorization, which Ekaterina Dodonova also talks about in detail in her book.

Happy reading and excellent memory!