Improved memory is a very important thing to have, for everyone including students, doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs and everyone else. People having powerful memory can achieve success in almost every aspect of life. "The average humans," said the noted physiologist, Professor Carl Seashore, "does not use above ten percent of their actual inherited capacity for memory. People wastes the ninety percent by violating the natural laws of remembering."
These "natural laws of remembering" are three : Impression, Repetition & Association.
Impression
Get a deep vivid impression of the things you wish to remember. To do that you must -
a) Concentrate
Improve your focus ability by concentrating on any object or job you are doing. Whether it is studying, football, cooking or even just watching at any object. I mean to say that if you are doing any job, fully focusing on it, without thinking about anything else will improve your focus ability. Remember, Five minutes of vivid, energetic concentration will produce greater results than days of mooning about in a mental haze. At start you may not be able to focus or meditate for hours, but if you fully focus for even five minutes, you have achieved your goal. Time will increase slowly with practice.
b) Observe Closely
Get an accurate impression. A camera wont take pictures in a fog: neither will your mind retain foggy impressions. Almost anything can be remembered if you give a deep &; vivid impression to it. Such as if you want to remember someone's name, give it a deep impression by visualizing the face with name, by asking the person how it spells, noting the colors of eyes and ears & looking closely to the persons features etc. Get a clear, clean, vivid impression of its looks & personality , and associate it with the persons name. The next time these sharp impressions return to your mind, they will help bring the name with them.
c) Use Multi Senses
Get your impressions through as many of the senses as possible. In general there are five sense i.e Visual, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting & Touching. Abraham Lincoln use to read aloud whatever he wished to remember so that he would get both a visual and a hearing impression.
d) Use Visual Sense
Above all else, be sure to get eye impressions. They stick. The nerves leading from the eye to the brain are twenty-five times as large as those leading from the ear to the brain. Think your eyes as a camera & take pictures by blinking. Mark Twain could not remember the outline of his speech when he used notes; but when he threw away his notes and used pictures to recall his various headings, all his troubles vanished.
Repetition
We can memorize anything within reason if we repeat it often enough. But bear this in mind, do not sit down and repeat a thing over and over until you have it engraved on your memory. Go over it once or twice, then drop it : comeback later and go over it again. Repeating at intervals, in that manner, will enable you to memorize a thing in about one-half the time required to do it at one sitting.
Association
The third law of memory is association. The only way anything can possibly be remembered at all is by associating it with some other fact. "Whatever appears in the mind," said professor James, "must be introduced; and , when introduced, it is as associate of something already there. The one who think over his experiences most, & weaves them into the most synthetic relation with each other, will be the one with good memory."
When you wish to associate one fact with others already in the mind, think over the new fact from all angles. Ask about it such questions as these : 'Why is this so? How is this so? When it is so? Where is it so? Who said it is so?
To remember dates, associate them with prominent dates already in the mind. For example, the three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare birth occurred during the civil war. To remember the points of your address arrange them in such logical order that one leads naturally to the next.
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