How to Boost Memory

Use association methods to remember facts. To use association effectively, you can come up with an image to remember a word or a picture. For example, if you have trouble remembering JFK was the president involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion, picture this handsome president swimming around cheerful pigs in the sea. It’s silly, but with a specific image in mind, you can easily relate the president to the event that took place. ^[1]

• By creating an image, the brain will target a single and easily identifiable piece of information. When you recall that individual symbol, you can recall a larger sequence of information that has been shaped. For example, when you keep your car keys in your bag, imagine your bag suddenly appearing on wheels and moving. This is a strange image, so it is very likely that you will recall it later, and also help you remember where to keep your car keys.
• The more unique or different the image is, the easier it will be for you to remember. ^[2]

Use association techniques to memorize numbers. Suppose you often forget your student code every time you need it. You just need to divide this number into sub-clusters and build an image associated with the clusters of numbers above. For example, your student ID is 12-7575-23. Let’s make these numbers meaningful. For example, “12” is your house number, “75” is your grandmother’s age, and “23” is the jersey number of basketball player Michael Jordan. You can visualize these to memorize the numbers:

• Visualize the house with “two” copies of the grandmother standing on the right, showing the house as the first object to appear. Then imagine Michael Jordan standing to the right of “two” grandmothers. You get the sequence of numbers: 12 (your house), 7575 (two copies of grandma) and 23 (the basketball star).

Use chunking method. Chunking is a method of combining multiple units together to make them easier to remember. Random lists (like a shopping list) can be difficult to remember. To make it easier to remember, try grouping the individual units on the list together. For example, you can put together fruits, dairy products, and breads. Alternatively, you can split the list by the first letter of each item; For example, when you need to buy coffee, bread, butter, bacon, and eggs from the grocery store, you only need to remember one C, two B, and two Ts. As long as you remember the correct order, you’ll memorize each one. products in each group of letters. This method not only helps you memorize the list, but also saves time shopping. ^[3]

• If you can remember that you want to buy four different vegetables and a few other items, you will easily remember all four vegetables.
• The chunking method is applied when we list a phone number with dashes. Would the sequence 8564359820 or 856-435-9820 be easier to remember?
• You may not remember the sequence 17761812184818651898, but try to put a space after every four numbers. Now these numbers all become years, and you can pick out important events in each year to remember the sequence of numbers above (e.g. the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the War of United States-Mexico, American Civil War, and Spanish-American War).

Use rhyme. Using popular and playful rhymes can help you recall basic information. For example, if you’re trying to figure out what crops to plant in April, just read aloud: “December is the month for potatoes/January for beans, February for eggplants/March for plowing the fields/January. private investment to make rain-seeded rice fields…” Thus, you will remember that rice should be planted in April. Here are some other rhymes that can be used as memory aids:

• “The night of May is already dark, the day of October is not smiling yet.”
• A child can learn to count through the song: “One plus one equals two, two plus two equals four. Four plus one is five. Five fingers are clean.”

Use abbreviations. This is a great tool for memorizing many things, like the name of an organization or scientific explanations. You can use a popular acronym, or create your own. For example, you need to buy something in the store like: Avocado, Guava, Plum, take the first letter of each word to make a word that means: “BOM”. Here are some common acronyms you can use:

• SMILE. Assuming you need to memorize the sentence “Special magic in learning everyday”, combine the first letters, the word “SMILE” will definitely be much easier to remember.
• DRT stands for Da Nang Radio and Television Station: Da Nang Radio Television.
• WHO stands for “World Health Organization”.
• VTM. This acronym stands for the phrase Fine Arts Culture.

Use initials. The method of using initials is similar to abbreviating characters, except that instead of just remembering the acronym, you can remember a new sentence formed by the first letters of a group of words memorized in sequence. certain. For example, you can create a sentence: “Kant Termites Thich Hoa Thom” to remember the order of the five elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth. You can also create your own abbreviations. Check out some of the abbreviations below: ^[4]

• Boy Loves The Old Man. Put the initials together to form the name of a once famous American group NSYNC.
• “Road to Ninh Binh” is used to sign for directions: East, West, South, North
• To remember the sequence of discrete English words: “Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species”, you can remember a simple sentence like: “King Philip Can Only Find His Green Slippers.”
• A saying often used in math class is: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. This mnemonic stands for the order of operations in algebra and stands for Parenthesis (parentheses), Exponents (exponents), Multiplication (multiplication), Division (division), Addition (addition) and Subtraction (subtraction).

Use the Loci method. This method has been used since ancient Greece. This technique will help you remember all the information by associating the content to remember with the specific place or place. To use the Loci method, place items to remember along a familiar route or in places you know well in a familiar room or building. First, choose a familiar path; then, visualize things to do or to remember along the way. ^[5]

• If you want to memorize a grocery shopping list that includes: eggs, milk, and bread, imagine you’re in a toilet with the walls and floor covered in eggshells, the faucet will flow. Fresh milk and daily towels are now slices of soft bread.
• When sorting a list of information by saying “in the first place”, “in the second place”, etc., you are using the basic version of the loci method.