In Homeschooling Today magazine, there was a very interesting article that discussed how people store learned information. A great quote, which I have always believed was this; “The ability to remember depends less on how much you have stored in your memory than on how you have stored it.” He discussed how to teach memorizing and why you should do it. I’ve always had the impression that to remember something you have to think about it exponentially and if there are any doubts about your memory, review it. For example, in my unprofessional opinion, you should read or study something and then remember or think about it.
After studying you should think about it in 30 minutes, then in one hour, then in two hours, then in four hours, then in eight hours, then in sixteen hours, then in 32 hours, then in 64 hours, then in 5 days, then in ten days, then in 20 days, then in 40 days, then in 80 days, then in 5 months, then in ten months. While this may seem like a difficult thing to do, it really isn’t. Just let your mind review the day many times during the day, when you go to sleep, then the next night, when you go to sleep, think about today’s and yesterday’s learning, then once a week, review things from the previous two weeks. Have articles, books, and things around to remind you to remember these things. Another good way to do this is to write major events in a daily planner and review them in sequence, keeping four months’ worth of pages in the daily planner. When you take out the first month and replace it with the current month’s pages, rewrite those important things on the current month’s pages. Forcing you to write them down and think about them again. Also try to discuss various things with different kinds of people and practice your memory.
In fact, I can remember many entire passages of Shakespeare from high school, events and silly facts and figures, which are still useful at times. When I refer to the old data, I find that my recall is almost perfect, but if not, you can correct yourself and start over, find out why you made the mistake and what else you crossed the information into in your memory. If a fact is of medium importance, then you should read the fact or the article or the data and then read it again the next day, write it in two days, think about it in four days. In this way, you skip the phase before going to sleep and use the time before falling asleep for important matters. You’ll discover that much of the information you thought was important isn’t important at all, and you won’t bother worrying about the data. Other techniques are now discussed in the article, such as Mnemonics, but even this article was careful to state that these do not replace basic learning principles. I agree. Stories, videos, and beta statuses can also help. rhythm, song Discuss multisensory learning techniques; audio tapes, video documentaries, and typing or writing.
Rob Eastaway wrote a mentioned book called “The Real Good Memory Book”. Another set of audio tapes I reviewed called “Memoria Mega” a few years ago also helped me a bit. Finding patterns in the data is the most important thing. I think the article correctly points this out along with some other interesting theories, such as an emphasis on organization, creating associations (especially good with names and dates I’ve come across), and relating the latest information to a current event or in a discussion. particular as soon as possible. It contained information on the use of acronyms, alliteration, rhymes. I believe the advice to remember by using multiple senses is most valuable when teaching children or even adults to remember.
The brain is thought to store different senses and experiences with those senses in different parts of the brain. If we’re going to keep getting people to remember things, we’ve got to do it right. This was a good attempt in a few pages at explaining how to recall, recall, and use knowledge in advanced thinking or high-stakes problem solving under extreme stress. The greater the stress, the more difficult to remember and therefore it is important that you can store the information in such a way that it is impossible to forget, because if it is so important to know that you spend time learning it, then you must spend the time in such a way that you never forget it. I find that an excellent memory allows people to never fool you very easily, because you are always ready to remember a conversation, a fact or a piece of information that was revealed to you, read, heard, seen, felt, smelled or tasted. Learn to use your brain, it is much stronger than you think.