27 Tips to Develop a
Super Power Memory
By Kay White; Goodwill Publishing
House
Having a
good memory gives you a lot of
In her book
“27 Tips to Develop a Super Power Memory,”
Kay White introduces 27 proven strategies in improving your ability to
store facts in your brain. These
strategies are easy and proven ways to help your
remember better. White introduces the
system of association, imagination and linking of ideas to further enhance your
memory.
1. Order
Your Mind to Remember
Your mind cannot recall something which it has not noted or
registered into his mind. In order to
better remember things, you must first pay attention to it, observe that thing
or note some things relevant to it.
2. Do Good
Filing, Indexing and Recording Job
When it comes to the office work, it helps to have a good
filing and indexing system. This helps
you retrieve the needed files or information as quickly as possible. Try to group files of similar subjects under
a common head topic. Save files of same
topics into directories and sub-directories.
3. Don't
be confused
Sometimes it is not enough to file similar facts
together. Each separate fact must exist
as distinctly as possible also. To help
you not get confused in the long run, you must be able to cross-reference.
4. Take the Help of Sub-conscious Mind
The sub-conscious mind is like your bank of information. The conscious mind pushes facts into the sub-conscious mind so that theconscious mind is not unnecessarily cluttered. So try to tap the sub-conscious mind. You might be able to dig important facts when needed.
5. Give
Facts Context/Background
We do not see things in isolation. It is always in context. So when you come across important things or
read important facts, always see them within a given context. Remember, the mind forget isolated facts in
no time. To keep things in mind, you
must give it a necessary context.
6. Convert Facts into Your Own Language/Format
Mind does not remember things as you see them but converts
them to suit it. Your mind has it own
language and preferences. To remember
something, you must put your information in the format most suitable to your
mind.
7.
Understand the Whole
Your mind stores the information in holograms that is as a
whole. It is, therefore, easy to
remember something if you understand the entirety of it and can see it as a
whole your mind's eye.
8. Break the Information into its Component Parts
To understand and remember things better, try breaking a
complex whole into constituent parts.
9. Make a Mind-map
It helps you better remember things if you mentally note
your ideas in a breaching tree or river fashion. Here ideas are not arranged in a schematic
model but appear more like a web. This
helps you better absorb the whole idea, thus you can better remember it.
10. Can and Able– You Can Do It and Better Than
Others
As the simple rule of self-confidence, believe and you can
do it, applies to all other things; this also works for your memory. Believe that you can and you are able to
remember things and retain important facts effectively. Then so shall it be.
11.
I Will
Resolve to Do it and Now
Without action, whatever you believe in is useless. So resolve to improve your memory and start to do it right now.
Without action, whatever you believe in is useless. So resolve to improve your memory and start to do it right now.
12.
Get Rid of
Inferiority Complex
If you want to improve your memory, get rid of that negative thinking that your memory is inferior to anybody else.
If you want to improve your memory, get rid of that negative thinking that your memory is inferior to anybody else.
13 Be
Confident
Once you know that you
can and are able, are determined, and have got rid of the inferiority complex,
you will then be supremely confident of your memory.
14. Figure Out Your Own ProblemBefore you
decide to improve your memory, it is very important that you first figure out
your own problem. Then take actions to
solve it.
15. Order Your Mind to RememberOrder your
mind to remember what you want it to remember.
Dictate to your mind what you think is important. Then order it to remember these facts.
Command it to take your prior permission before it forgets something or stores
it somewhere else.
16. Remember the Capacity of Your Mind is Almost
Infinite
Always remember that the capacity of your mind extends
farther than what you can imagine. Your
mind has not limits. A classic example
is extraordinary professor Aitken. He
has the ability to memorize the value of pi in up to 1,000 decimal places, both
forward and backward.
17.
Link the
Items Through a Short StoryTry to create a short story out of the
list that you have. Suppose you have the
following items in your list: coat, car, football, laugh and ice cream. To remember these, you may create a story
like:
“I was to go to a party. I put on my COAT and drove
in my CAR. On the way I passed a
FOOTBALL field outside which a joker was making people LAUGH and selling
ICE-CREAM.”
Here are some tips in doing this:
Ÿ Make
images involving yourself.Ÿ Make predominantly visual image but
try to involve all senses. Ÿ Make solid images of abstract ideas. Ÿ
Make simple and logical sequences but exaggerate the sizes and distort the
features to a point of absurdity of the objects involved to make it easier to
remember.
Ÿ Use
humorous, colorful imagery.
18.
Link the
Items with Familiar PlacesLinking the items with familiar places to
remember them better is called the Place or Peg System. Simply try to link the items to a set series
of objects or places familiar to you.
19.
Link the
Items with Number-SoundThis system is based on words which rhyme
with the numbers 1-10: sun, shoe, tree, door, hive sticks, heaven, gate, wine,
hen. To remember 10 items in a list, you
must incorporate those items to the previously listed words. Then simply create a story line.
20.
Link the
Items with Number-ShapeThis system is similar to the number-sound
system. But instead of using the sound
of numbers 1-10, you use the shape of numbers as pegging things. For example: one to flagpole, 2 to snake, 3
to bow.
21.
Link the
Items with Alphabet-SoundIn this system, you link the letters of the
alphabet to a word of similar initial sounds.
For example, A- ace, B- bee, C- sea, and so on.
22. Link
the Items with Phonetics or Number Letter
This system links the numbers 1
to 10 with the letters of the alphabet.
The linkage can be based on shape, sound or combination of the two. For example:
1 L, l (shape)
2, N, n (two upward/downward
strokes)
3, M, m (three upward/downward
strokes)
4, R, r (sound)
23. Link
the Items with NumberAssociations
This system of association is based on the
association people have been used to, like 13 to bad luck. Some associations in this system that will
help you remember things better are as follows:
2 parents
5 fingers
7 lucky number
12
a dozen
14valentine's day 20
perfect vision
24. Names and Faces
Here are some tips in helping you remember better names ad
faces:
a)
Engrave the name in the memory:Ÿ
When introduced to someone, make sure to hear the name distinctly. If necessary, have it repeated or spelled.
Ÿ Repeat
the name during the conversation and make sure to make a mental note.
b)
Associate/link the name:
Ÿ Try
to associate the name with persons of identical names.
Ÿ Try
to associate Christian names with some word or familiar sounds. Ÿ
Try to link the name with some peculiar facial feature and exaggerate it. Ÿ
Try to associate the face with the face of known person of same or similar
name.
Ÿ If
the name is long or unfamiliar repeat it time and again so that some
associations come to mind or are broken down into its constituent parts which
are more familiar.
25.
Numbers and Telephone Numbers
Naturally, people have difficulty remembering
numbers. So in remembering numbers you
must search some meaning in different combinations of them. This is done through mnemonics.
26. Make Mnemonics
Here are some points in using mnemonics to easily remember
things:
Ÿ Try
to associate the meaning of the word with the shape or sound of some individual
letter in it.
Ÿ Associate
the meaning with the word in some imaginative way.
Ÿ Associate
the word with some similar word in your mother tongue, if the word is from some
other language.
Ÿ Break
the word into smaller words. Associate
the meaning of the smaller words in some imaginative way with the meaning of
the longer word.
Ÿ See
the derivative of the word in the dictionary which will make the meaning
clearer.
27. Talks
and Speeches
It is given that due to the length of speeches they
become really difficult to memorize. To
help you fluidly deliver speeches, here are some helpful tips:
a)
Be confident
Ÿ If
thousands of others less qualified than you and some of them even uneducated
can do it, you can do also.
Ÿ You
are probably giving out a speech simply because you are the authority on that
subject or you are the superior in the group.
Thinking that your audience is inferior to you, be it in hierarchy or
knowledge, will help you better build your confidence and remember your speech
better.
Ÿ Don't
lead yourself towards a climax of nervous state. In between speeches, do not even think of
what you are doing and don't look into the eyes of your audience.
b)
Play for Time and Confidence:Ÿ
Unless it is some occasion where you have to directly go to the heart of the
matter or score points, try to start with a good comment or anecdote.
c)
Link and Hang Over Page
Ÿ Sometimes, memorizing a whole
speech is not always the
best solution. So, try to make some
points and link them up through the method of Phonetic System.
