6 tips for effective memorization from the owner of a phenomenal memory

1. Convince yourself

The most important is the first principle: "You must mentally tune in to remember certain information." Have a positive attitude towards memorizing the names of the people you meet or the phone number dictated to you. This dramatically increases your chances.

2. Tune your brain

The second principle is concentration of attention. Get together and listen actively. Feel like your brain is 100% focused on what is happening and what you see or hear. Moreover, you need to save information without hindrance and without missing anything. […]

3. Learn to link information

The third principle is to try to relate new information to familiar information. If someone named Anna meets you, you can “connect” her with a friend who bears the same name.

When you match new information with old information, you can use anything you know well. It is much easier for the brain to find some data if it is combined with known facts. This is how we add fresh knowledge to our brain.

4. Associate freely

The fourth principle is bonding. This means that you find associations to the information you are trying to remember. If, for example, a person named Kirill meets you at a party, you can imagine that he is throwing a ball, and remember "KIDat - Kirill" every time you see him again.

Associations may be far-fetched, but that doesn't matter.

When Anastasia introduces herself, I (author - ed.) Usually use the image of a pineapple. Associations may be far-fetched, but that doesn't matter. Your brain needs to find the answer, the rest is not important.

5. Put the information in the right place

The fifth principle is placing new data where it can be easily retrieved from memory.

One of the most common problems with forgetting is that we don't know how to look for information in memory.

If you apply the first four principles, you will remember the findings for much longer than you think. And if you can't find them, you really just don't know where to look.

For example, you could mentally place a woman named Anna in your friend Anna's house. Or imagine that your friend Anna is in the same room where you met a new acquaintance. Then later, when you are looking for her name, you will think of something related to a girl you know well - and who was that? - Anna! […]

6. Repeat to consolidate and remember

Repetition is memory's best friend, and no one I know can remember information without repetition. If you used the above principles, and five people met you somewhere, then you should immediately repeat their names to yourself several times.

Repetition is memory's best friend.

Then it is good to say these names every time one of them speaks to you. You don't have to do it out loud if it sounds strange. And quietly, to myself - just fine. Repeat the images with which you associated these names as well, if you did so.

Then you will greatly increase the likelihood of remembering them all evening. It may happen that you bump into them in the city in a week and call them by name. They will be very impressed. Repetition is the last but perhaps the most important principle.

And something else …

There is one more thing that I (the author - editor's note) usually mention: you have to give all this some time. Find a few extra seconds and stop to actively memorize information.

Then, as a rule, the person begins to use the methods described above unconsciously. Anyone who asks himself, “How can I remember this?” Automatically fires up their brain to function correctly.

You have just read an excerpt from Idriz Zogai's book "Minne, or Memory in Swedish". If you want to easily memorize the necessary information, as well as learn how to manage your memory, we recommend that you read it in its entirety.