Memory Improvement

Did you read my article The Basics of Memory Improvement yet? Although it’s not essential to understand the text below, I do recommend reading it first.

Let’s face it, most people are horrible bad at remembering numbers. You probably know the struggle of remembering phone numbers or historical dates. Fortunately you can easily improve your memory for numbers. You don’t even need any special genes to do that.

In fact, remembering numbers can be pretty easy if you know how to do it. And I’ll tell you how to do it. Ain’t that great? Yeah, but hold back. The best technique is of little use if you don’t practice using it. And you will need to practice to make this technique effective. That’s the point where most people quit. Don’t be like that.
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You can convert anything into words and most words can be imagined (i.e. be converted to a mental image) with no effort. Additionally, human beings use to communicate by using language. Well, this should be reason enough for you to learn how to memorize words efficiently. If it’s not, you might want to take into consideration rereading the first two sentences of this article.

If you read through my other article The Basics of Memory Improvement you should know a bit about the basics of memory improvement. At least I hope so. I’ll skip these basics here and just list the techniques.
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Basically, the phonetic alphabet associates every one-digit number with a consonant phonetic sound. This sounds more complicated than it actually is, so don’t be afraid of reading the rest of this article.

Range of Use

The phonetic alphabet I am talking about is used as a memory aid. Numbers are very hard to remember, so transposing them in words makes it a lot easier to remember them.

It may take a little time to get used to it but you will bypass a lot of frustration once you got comfortable using it.

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Everybody wants to remember something from time to time. However, most people don’t know how to do that efficiently, so they try to learn facts by mere repetition.

This method is very unlikely to bring about any amazing results. So let’s take another approach to memorization.

First, let’s see which things are easy to remember and which are not.

Things We Remember and Things We Forget About

Basically, we remember things that concern ourselves. If we got strong emotions during a situation, we’ll remember it afterwards. If we don’t feel anything about a certain fact, we’ll probably forget that fact.

Things that concern us only indirectly, like the exact numbers of a telephone number, are very hard to remember if you use the wrong technique. The problem is that we often want to remember such things. We don’t want to forget the birthdays of our friends for example.
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