How to quickly remember information? How to memorize a large volume for a long time before the exam? How to learn to assimilate a lot of information? Secrets and techniques

In our life there are mem­o­rable events and events that require a good mem­o­ry from us. Pass­ing an exam, for exam­ple. Some­times it seems that it is impos­si­ble to learn a com­plex abstract, but this is not at all the case if you approach the process wise­ly.

A few sim­ple rules will help speed up and improve the mem­o­riza­tion process.

• Rule One — our brain, although mas­cu­line, is capri­cious and touchy, like a lady. If you con­stant­ly say that you have a bad head and poor mem­o­ry, he will def­i­nite­ly “remem­ber” this and, indeed, will begin to absorb less infor­ma­tion. If you reg­u­lar­ly sing prais­es to him and talk about his out­stand­ing abil­i­ties, he will answer you with mutu­al respect., and in a dif­fi­cult moment, when you need to instant­ly repro­duce here or oth­er infor­ma­tion, it will not let you down. The thing is that any speech that we say out loud is lis­tened to not only by our real inter­locu­tor, but also by our own ears, and they send what you have stat­ed to your skull as a guide to action.

• Rule Two — what you teach, it would be nice to under­stand. The thing is that there are two types of mem­o­riz­ing — arbi­trary and invol­un­tary. The first requires a “push” before start­ing to work. That is, you have to make the brain work — to learn a poem by Nekrasov or, espe­cial­ly Gorky’s prose, is unlike­ly to hap­pen invol­un­tar­i­ly. But to remem­ber how beau­ti­ful Jen­nifer Lopez looked in the last film, it will turn out effort­less­ly, and for a long time. This is called invol­un­tary mem­o­ry.

• Rule Three — choose from a large amount of infor­ma­tion the main the­ses and write them down. Our mem­o­ry is hard to part with the let­ters writ­ten to her. Up to 90% of the cre­ations of the epis­to­lary genre, she keeps care­ful­ly.

• Rule Four — do not try to imme­di­ate­ly tear off a large piece and learn a lot at once. You won’t be able to remem­ber a lot of infor­ma­tion quick­ly. Or it will work, but it will not last long in your head. Any mass of infor­ma­tion can be divid­ed into sev­er­al parts. The brain may not like shock loads. Remem­ber what hap­pened to you when, after a long break, you decid­ed to do 100 squats? Pain syn­drome is also pos­si­ble with brain over­load, it will man­i­fest itself as per­sis­tent headaches, irri­tabil­i­ty, loss of mood, fatigue.

• Rule Five — choose a spe­cif­ic time for your mem­o­ry games.

As a recharge, you can use kefir, it con­tains a large amount of lecithin, and it improves mem­o­ry.

• Rule six — all fresh­ly obtained data must be repeat­ed. Ide­al­ly, this should be done accord­ing to the fol­low­ing sched­ule: repeat N 1 — forty min­utes after receiv­ing the infor­ma­tion, then two or three more times a day, the next do it again, and prefer­ably twice, and then once a week or even once every ten days. So you can not only eas­i­ly con­sol­i­date the acquired knowl­edge, but also sup­ple­ment it with new ones, as if string­ing var­i­ous addi­tion­al ele­ments on a thick thread.

You have read the rules, now you can start solv­ing the prob­lem. But first, let’s decide what kind of mem­o­ry you have bet­ter devel­oped.

Now, based on what type you are, choose one or more of the fol­low­ing mem­o­riza­tion tech­niques.

Try not just to read the nec­es­sary lit­er­a­ture, but to do it, pay­ing atten­tion to bright details. Then, when you need to repro­duce the infor­ma­tion, the details will be eas­i­ly found in your mem­o­ry and imme­di­ate­ly “over­grown” with the rest of the nec­es­sary words or con­cepts.

Take notes in the mar­gins as you mem­o­rize. High­light your main points with dif­fer­ent col­ors of mark­ers. This will also help in the future to quick­ly extract the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion from the head.

As men­tioned ear­li­er, to make it eas­i­er to remem­ber, you need to under­stand what you are doing. Invite a grate­ful or not so grate­ful lis­ten­er to help, the cat Murzik is also suit­able. And try to explain to the inter­locu­tor the essence of what you your­self do not quite under­stand yet. Very soon you will find the “gold­en key” and under­stand what you are talk­ing about.

If you are aller­gic to ani­mals, and all your friends and acquain­tances cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly refuse to under­stand the the­o­ry of prob­a­bil­i­ty, then start a con­ver­sa­tion on this top­ic with your­self. Voic­ing new infor­ma­tion will not only help you under­stand it bet­ter, but also just remem­ber it.

Draw what you learn. No need to make copies of mas­ter­pieces and cre­ate a paint­ing on the theme of the Pythagore­an the­o­rem. Depict what you asso­ciate this or that infor­ma­tion with.. In the case of Pythago­ras, it will prob­a­bly be pants. Because Pythagore­an pants are equal in all direc­tions. Then, if nec­es­sary, infor­ma­tion about the attire of the ancient Greek philoso­pher will sur­face faster than the the­o­rem in its clas­si­cal form.

Some­times the time before the exam is short. It is easy to remem­ber a large amount of infor­ma­tion in this case using mnemon­ics. With its help, by the way, you can not only quick­ly learn a les­son, but also devel­op mem­o­ry.

This tech­nique involves build­ing the infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary for mem­o­riza­tion in a chain. That is, one must be inter­twined with the oth­er in one way or anoth­er, cause con­sis­tent asso­ci­a­tions. One of the con­di­tions is that the links of your imag­i­nary chain should be approx­i­mate­ly equal in size.

Using this method, you must con­di­tion­al­ly decom­pose the pieces of infor­ma­tion into dolls. And start fill­ing with the largest (impor­tant), and fin­ish, respec­tive­ly, with the small­est (details).

In this case, the read infor­ma­tion should be put on sup­ports. “Fetch” the most impor­tant or mem­o­rable, fig­u­ra­tive­ly imag­ine it. When you begin to fish out what has been deferred in your mem­o­ry, you will first place the sup­ports, and then place on them all the bricks of infor­ma­tion that are miss­ing for the assess­ment of “excel­lent”.

This option is sim­i­lar to the Cicero method. But using it, you need to com­plete­ly trust your inner voice. Sup­ports will also be erect­ed by your own mem­o­ry in the form of images. How­ev­er, they should not be select­ed accord­ing to a log­i­cal prin­ci­ple, but exclu­sive­ly, as they say, intu­itive­ly. That is pic­tures should draw you your con­scious­ness or, rather, your sub­con­scious.

This option may lead you to cre­ate your own alpha­bet. Each word, con­cept, phrase must be trans­lat­ed onto paper in the form of a spe­cif­ic image, dot, dash, cir­cle, cross, stick. The method is suit­able for every­one. Thus, you will place one text in sev­er­al pic­tures or signs that will be under­stand­able only to you.

All of the above only at first seems com­pli­cat­ed. In fact, after you learn how to put into prac­tice these meth­ods and rules, they will grad­u­al­ly begin to enter into your habits and become com­mon­place. And then you will apply them auto­mat­i­cal­ly.

The method using asso­ci­a­tions is also good in every­day life.. For exam­ple, if you need to remem­ber the name of a per­son, but it does not want to stay in your head, find his famous name­sake there. And then the same Niko­lai Vasi­lye­vich, a chem­istry teacher, whose name and patronymic you always peeped on the web­site of the uni­ver­si­ty, will appear in your imag­i­na­tion in the form of Gogol, well, how long will he remain on the list of name­less souls!

There are secrets for mem­o­riz­ing long num­bers. Break them into pairs or quadru­ples. For exam­ple, you need to remem­ber 20081976. We divide this num­ber into two parts and remem­ber what you remem­ber about 2008, for exam­ple, you grad­u­at­ed from school, 1976 is the year your old­er sis­ter was born. Did she come to your grad­u­a­tion par­ty? Now you are unlike­ly to for­get this num­ber.

Agree, every­thing is sim­ple. And, despite the fact that we live in an age of high tech­nol­o­gy, and any infor­ma­tion can be found lit­er­al­ly in sec­onds on the Inter­net, you still should not rely only on the RAM of your com­put­er or smart­phone. It will not replace our own mem­o­ry, which can store not only dry infor­ma­tion, but also our incom­pa­ra­ble emo­tions and images, which help us a lot. Right now, remem­ber some­thing good from your life. Did you smile? Unless these emo­tions will be pre­sent­ed to you by the most pow­er­ful mem­o­ry of your com­put­er?