Posts Tagged ‘basics’

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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You probably know about the placebo effect. It shows that people can recover from disease if they believe that they will recover. Placebos make their subconsciousness believe that they should become healthy again. And so they do.

It’s as if the placebo made a suggestion like: “I will operate like an ordinary pill. That means you will recover after swallowing me.” And the subconsciousness believes it and causes the body to recover.

But such suggestions don’t even require any pills to be effective. You can make them yourself. Without the need of any hocus-pocus. And that’s what autosuggestion is all about. Making your subconsciousness believe something you want it to believe.

But how to do that in an efficient way?
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