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Quick memorization is an essential skill. Whether it's going to school, working, or simply improving yourself, memory training enhances your abilities and keeps your brain healthy. The art of memory has been around since ancient times, and calendars also note many clever ways to help people remember. By applying modern psychology, memory improvement can be divided into five main methods.

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Method 1 of 5: Memorize by memorizing

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   Let's say you are trying to remember a few states and their capitals from the East Coast to the West Coast of America. The steps in this method will guide you to remember the above information:
   • To memorize by memorizing, we only need to repeat what we need to remember many times until the information is embedded in our memory. Repetition causes the brain to form new connections and patterns that help you remember information - as neuroscientists say, “which neurons that communicate with each other combine and strengthen each other ".

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   Note that memorization by rote learning is only effective for certain types of information. Recalling by repeating information encourages the brain to form the connections it needs to say or do what you remember.
   • This mnemonic method is suitable for remembering manual steps and short lists of information such as a shopping list, how to start a car or how to be a shirt.
   • However, the rote learning method is ineffective with remembering many individual information or complex concepts such as the periodic table of elements from left to right, dialectical materialism concepts, or parts of engines. car.

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   Make a list of things to remember. Make sure your list is complete and in the order that you need it.

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   Read what you need to remember. For memorizing states, you just need to reread the names of each state over and over.

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   Recalling information without having to look at the list. Try covering part or all of the list with a piece of paper and reread the hidden information. Try scrolling down the page to hide the information of the photo above - remember what the last two lines are?
   • You will remember it wrong many times at first - but don't be discouraged! This is just a way to get the brain used to remembering. Go ahead and after a few minutes you will remember everything you need to remember.
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Method 2 of 5: Memorize by grouping information

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   Imagine you are having to remember the names of countries on the UN Security Council. This list contains 10 countries and you can divide them into groups.

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   Find out what is appropriate for grouping the information. This method is suitable when you want to remember information merged from small details in logical order. In the above example, you could divide countries by continent; elements in the periodic table can be grouped; or if you have to remember the parts of a motor, you will divide the information by sub-sections (such as pipes, motors, exhaust pipes, circuits).
   • If you have to remember a phone number, look at how we write numbers - this writing was designed to help us remember information in groups. For example, the leader of Ho Chi Minh City's hotline number (028) 88 247 247 is easier to remember in groups of three numbers - 028 88 247 and 247 - instead of in random order 0, 288, 824, 7247.
   • The information grouping is not suitable for large and complex data and ideas that cannot be easily broken down. For example, it would be difficult to group information to remember the concept of human rights, the concept of a nation's nature, or a list of nearly identical numbers.

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   Divide groups of information to remember into smaller, easier-to-remember groups. Since you have to group information from a large source, this method is suitable for sources of information that can be divided into logical groups.

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   Memorize small pieces in the information to remember. For the United Nations Security Council examples of countries, you would try to remember the countries by continent listed as in the photo above.

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   Practice linking small pieces of information. Remembering each piece of information is only the beginning to remember all the information using this method - you will still have to assemble pieces of information. Try scrolling down the page so that the information in the photo above is masked. How much information do you remember from that list? advertisement

Method 3 of 5: Memorize by making the chain of linking information into sentences or ideas

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   Put where you have to remember shopping list. Your list contains many unrelated items.

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   Find out what information creating a link chain is right for. If you have to remember many items, this method is not feasible; for that reason, the link chain method is only suitable for short lists containing hard to remember information.
   • Linking is only suitable for short lists of unrelated information (such as a list of "plants, keyboards, plastic bottles, chicks). With this list, it would be difficult to use other methods such as information breakdown because there aren't any relevant categories to group information.

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   Make a sentence or create an image that contains all the information you need to remember. Here's the coolest part of this approach: the more quirky and weird the sentence or picture, the easier it will be to remember the information. For example:
   • Peanut butter and espresso bean sandwiches are wrapped with a string of web cables and pierced through a screwdriver.

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   Repeat the sentence or recreate a picture and then repeat the information you were trying to remember through sentence making or visual associations. You will use sentences or pictures as key to remember the necessary information.
   • Peanut butter and espresso bean sandwiches are wrapped with a string of web cables and pierced through a screwdriver.
     =
     peanut butter, espresso beans, sandwiches, network cables, screwdriver
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Method 4 of 5: Memorize using mnemonics

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   Imagine you need to remember the basic trigonometry formulas. For example, with this requirement, you will have to find a way to remember the sine, cos, and tan of an angle in a right triangle.

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   Learn the art of memory.Memory art simply a specialized word for a process that you have come across from your school days. If you have used OSACOMP memory trick to remember the order of adjectives in an English phrase (Opinion - point of view, Size - size, Age - age, Color - color, Origin - origin, Material - material, Purpose - or "She Brings Her Clothes To The Street" to remember some of the elements in the periodic table (Na Mg Al Si PS Cl Ar), you already know how to use memory.

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   Find out what information the mnemonic matches with. If you have to remember a lot of information and cannot make short sentences or phrases, it will be difficult to apply this method; for that reason, the mnemonic method, similar to chain formation, is only suitable for a small amount of information that can be ordered in groups. Mnemonics are better for memorizing lists of words, but not very effective when remembering long lists with no obvious connection, like lists of numbers or pi.

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   Create a memory tip. A memory trick is simply a "key" sentence or phrase that helps you remember information. With the initial example, you can make a word that is meaningless, but simple and easy to remember.

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   Remember your mnemonic tip and the information you need to remember from it. Try scrolling down the page to hide the content in the picture above to see if you remember information from the tip or not? advertisement

Method 5 of 5: Remembering by association

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   For example, you have to remember the parts in the 1911 pistol slide. The front-to-back list of gun parts you need to remember includes:
   • Scroll bar
   • Gun tip
   • Gun barrel
   • Explosive latch
   • Shell pull hook
   • Hammer knock

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   Learn how to associate. The human mind is very good at associating everything. This ability is so ingrained that we can apply it to remember information. For this mnemonic method, you will create a visual itinerary or tour related to the information to be remembered. Visualizing the itinerary or tour will help you remember the information.

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   Explore the possibility of applying the association method. The association method is very helpful, especially when you have a rich imagination. Throughout history, people have been able to apply several variations of the association method (such as imagining walking around mind houses, looking around an imaginary room or turning a virtual book. ) to organize memory.
   • Information can be easily broken down and organized in a space that is well suited to an association - such as stanza, parts of an engine, or the method of cooking a dish.
   • Information that cannot be broken down is often difficult to fit this approach - such as the abstract Impressionist concepts, the history of the War of the Roses, or steps for dating someone.

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   Visualize a series of complementary memories and associate them with your memorabilia. You will use additional memory as "key" to remember information.
   • For this reason, if you have a discrete list of information that cannot be linked together, it can be difficult to form a "key". For the example in the first part, we just need to imagine ourselves becoming a tiny person who can go inside a 1911 pistol.

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   Practice gliding through the images in your brain and remembering essential information. This can be fun or simple and easy to remember, depending on your ability. For our example, a tiny person entering a 1911 gun would say:
   • "First, I met the gun heater head and inside there I could see a gun barrel. Behind the gun heater and barrel, I saw a small hole that gave me a clear view of the trigger and to the left of the unit. This is the shell pull hook placed close to the side of the slider; when I reached the end of the road, I encountered the hammer unit of the gun.’

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   Practice walking and explore images in your brain. Several times a day, you should concentrate and recreate the image of the trip. The more you practice, the quicker you will remember the information.

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   Practice repeating memorized information from a mental image. When doing the visual association exercise, your brain will be better at forming the visualization that is the "key", but that's not enough - you need to remember the details. your fantasy image. Try "going backwards" - starting with a list of information, trying to see if you can accurately reproduce the original brain journey or "key key". advertisement