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We’ve all encountered mnemonics as kids. Whether it was to learn the alphabet or a
number of days in each month, we were presented with acronyms, music, or rhymes to
remember and retrieve information.
Another popular mnemonic is memorable sentences that are constructed out of words
that start with an equivalent letter because of the items you’re trying to memorize.
While most mnemonics are often a touch tricky to recollect, once you are doing, it’s
getting to be preserved in your mind for an extended time.
3. Story Telling
The Storytelling Technique Stores encompasses all the qualities of information that
makes our brain love and remember it, which are vivid and colorful pictures and engaging
plot-lines.
By creating different images that include items you would like to memorize, and
connecting them during a sequence, you create a story your brain can follow. For
example, say you’re trying to recollect that you simply got to buy milk, eggs, and bread at
the grocery.
You might picture taking a bath in milk, stepping out onto the bathroom floor which is
covered in eggshells, and drying yourself off with slices of bread. Weird, yes, but that is
the key, you would like to form the things stand to call in your mind.
4. Chunking
The chunking technique is all about grouping items together so as to recollect them
easier. Most people encounter this system once they try to memorize phone numbers,
Social Security numbers, or checking account numbers; but this system is often used for
other types of information as well.
The key aspect that creates this system work is grouping things supported semantic
encoding, meaning things are put in groups consistent with context or pattern.
5. The Building Technique
This is a technique that can be built on top of the techniques, I just mentioned. And it can
actually assist you to expand much further beyond simply recalling facts, names, and
phone numbers. While recalling facts are often helpful, nothing beats deep knowledge and
a profound understanding. This, however, can’t be achieved by a mere recalling of things.
A fact or a concept that you understand has a much higher chance of sticking in your
memory compared to something you just memorized. Once you introduce a way of
understanding and aiming to the items you’re trying to recollect, you’ll both remember
things better and apply them in several contexts.