Posts Tagged ‘remembering’

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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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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