In ancient Greece and Rome, teachers who taught students rhetoric had to first teach them how to memorize information. Because there was no paper at that time, everything had to be remembered in the mind. A missionary named Matteo Ricci in the Middle Ages came to China and taught a method of fast memory. The book he wrote is called "The Memory of the Western Kingdom", and the subsequent memory methods of the Memory Palace are based on this book.

The memory principle of the memory palace is to use human inner visual memory, that is, to imagine the illusory pictures seen in the mind. The human brain is easiest to remember connections and images. If we want to memorize abstract information efficiently, we must They are processed into images with logical relationships so that we can quickly remember them.

Mechanical memory refers to a method in which we read, listen, write, and read text repeatedly to make it a long-term memory. The advantage of mechanical memory is that it is fast to extract, but the disadvantage is that it requires too many repetitions and consumes a lot of time. If the amount is too large, it is easy to reduce concentration and enthusiasm for learning

People can better develop good mechanical memory ability in childhood. A person's mechanical memory ability greatly affects her learning ability, because the more information a person remembers as she grows up, the more associations she has with him. The greater the memory help, so parents can provide a certain degree of recitation training to their children in childhood to develop their children’s intellectual potential

Logical memory refers to memorizing information through a high degree of understanding + looking for logical rules of information + finding or compiling logical connections between things + using past life experiences to associate information with past information to memorize new memory methods. Beginners in mnemonics are at the stage of visualizing information and memorizing it quickly, while memory experts are good at using logical connections to memorize information

Image memory refers to the method of remembering the text information we want to remember into images through association processing, and then storing the transformed images in the place in memory for memory. The core of image memory is association + image + place.

In order to memorize words quickly, we must learn to use images to replace these abstract words for memory. Without image replacement, other memory methods are impossible.

The principle of fast memory is to convert abstract information into images for memory

The substitution method mainly converts abstract words and sentences into images from the three general directions of sound, shape and meaning to memorize information

Some principles for using the substitution method to encode abstract text: easy to draw, easy to restore, familiar, concise enough, and the encoding cannot contain abstract information

The chain memory method is to connect the converted images of the things you remember, like a chain, so that they are interlocking. The verb is the memory glue of the chain method

For example, memorize within 15 unrelated phrases, imagine a picture of each phrase, and connect them with verbs. The order of the images can be from left to right through space, or in other order, and try not to overlap. When remembering, you can pay attention to the functions of things and then connect them.

We encode abstract information into images and fix them on stakes, which is the fixation method. Place is the most primitive type of memory pile. The pile must meet two conditions. First, it must be a different image, and second, it must have a familiar sequence

The digital palace compilation system can compile thousands or even tens of thousands of digital codes. By corresponding some numbers to letters that are initial consonants, and then converting the numbers into initial consonants, different objects can be combined. The collection of these numbers is a digital palace.

The internal visual image or pile of memory is just a mnemonic crutch. When we can blurt out information and become long-term memory or permanent memory, we no longer rely on this mnemonic crutch, then we can transfer the new memory to The information is fixed on the pile, so that the pile can be used again, and in the eyes of memory masters, the piles are endless

Divergent training mainly involves the cultivation of two key abilities. One is the ability to find stakes. The second is the ability to transform abstract information.

Two core conditions need to be met: distinct images and a familiar sequence.

Use known image sequences to memorize unknown information. Our memory is like a spreading net, rather than being limited to a large number of locations memorized in advance.

Memory Demonstration: Smoke: Think of: matches, lighters, cigarette boxes, ashtrays, and sort them logically according to size.

Discovering connections: looking for connections in information that are logical and consistent with our past life experiences, also called natural connections, or processing information into connections that are consistent with our life experiences to achieve the effect of remembering without remembering. For example, remembering the hat and water, I found that there is hair under the connecting hat, and the hair needs to be washed with water every day.

The prerequisites for discovering connections are observation, imagination, and logical connection.

It is much more difficult to discover connections than to create connections. If you cannot discover connections, don't waste too much time directly creating connection memories.

Logical association is a technique that uses our life experience to connect information and remember it. Logical association usually uses correlation and causality as the starting point to connect, supplemented by memorizing the life experience of the parties to memorize the new, so the logical association must be logical , and the stronger the logical connection between information, the more outstanding the memory effect will be. When memorizing application materials, logical association accounts for the largest proportion.

By discovering the logical connections within the information that needs to be memorized, you can logically reason and memorize it layer by layer.

The story method is to string together key words that need to be remembered as abstract information into a story, and imagine the story scenes and the background scenes in which the story takes place.

The story method should be a story that transforms declarative information into descriptive pictures, which is equivalent to combining the chain method and logical association.

The key points of the story method: reduce unnecessary descriptive content and use image descriptions as much as possible to replace abstract information that needs to be memorized.

The story method focuses on using the logic and pictures of the story to combine the memorized information, and do not connect too long words in one go.

Pick 5 to 10 words from the book every day for memory connection training. Comprehensive use of chain method, story method and logical association method

According to the logical attributes (original meaning) of this abstract word, we can associate and draw pictures in series, rather than homophony.

Finding key information and summarizing similar information together can save the workload of memory, simplify and compress familiar information, and then transcode it into memory. This method of induction and compression is called inductive simplification.

When we are familiar with the information and the information contains repeated information, extracting keywords and encoding them into formulas can help us remember them quickly.

Tips for organizing formulas: When organizing formulas, try to rhyme as much as possible. Rhyming is good for memory.

Memory drawing is a method of drawing an image or using an image to memorize information.

The principle of memory is to use simplicity to remember complex information, and turn complex information into ordinary things in our lives, or things that are commonplace in our lives, and it will be much easier to remember.

Metaphors are the transformation of abstract words into similar things.

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Exaggeration (note single choice or short content)

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Some macro principles for processing images: interaction, vividness, weirdness, replacement, big is better than small, more is better than less

Example: Management----Momentum Normal picture: The official kicks the stone. Profound picture: The official is crushed to the ground by a flying boulder.

There are two types of memory palaces. One is the piles memorized in the brain in advance, such as location piles, number piles, letter piles, body piles, etc. One is randomly made piles, such as idioms, idioms, titles (short answer questions can use questions as piles), etc.

Use the known to remember unknown information. All the images of known order that we can see in life are just piles. You can work hard to discover them and help yourself memorize massive amounts of information.

There are only two types of questions in the world, one is one-to-one question type, and the other is one-to-many question type.

For one-to-one questions, you only need to connect the questions and answers one-to-one, and you can solve them all.

The Memory Palace is mainly used to solve one-to-many questions, short-answer questions and other types of questions with a large amount of information, or to memorize an entire book. Do not blindly fix the questions.

Memorize the elementary universal formula SJ=J B L D H Z

When setting stakes, try not to jump back too much. For example, after memorizing the information on the first stake, when setting stakes on the next stake, you will jump to the previous stake to review the above picture because you are too worried that you will forget it. On the contrary, it leads to lower memory efficiency. After memorizing a certain length of information, you can start looking for forgotten points one by one.

The speed of converting images determines your memory speed, the quality of association determines the retention time of your memory, and the number of memory piles determines your capacity to quickly memorize information.

Logical memory is to find the rules through logical association and achieve the effect of remembering without remembering.

Homophone memory is a method of memorizing information by turning it into images through homophony.

Mnemonic researchers divide information into key information and rendering information. Key information is more conducive to our recall and is also called keywords. Rendering information is the secondary information that makes a sentence easier for us to understand.

Finding keywords does not necessarily require finding words in the subject-predicate-object relationship. My macroscopic experience in finding keywords is that one is the vocabulary that is most suitable for you to restore the sentence. Second, quickly find the central idea of ​​the information. The keywords found through the central idea also have a certain logical chain.

How to find keywords? 1. The main part of the sentence. Find out the core meaning of the sentence, which is the key word. Most of them are located in the subject-predicate-object relationship of the sentence. Two, causality, and three, intuitive search. Fourth, logical chain. 5. In general modern texts, keywords are included in time, place, person, quantity, event, process, and result.

First of all, you have to induce interest in things, and it is best to get rewards.

Anything that makes us irritable is the enemy of attention, and sadly, rote memory is the main memory method currently used by humans. This kind of memory method is boring and boring, and it will seriously interfere with people's attention. Using association to memorize information will make it easier to concentrate.

Concentrating our attention is a prerequisite for observing things. We understand the nature of the world by observing the details of things and discovering the connections between things. Focusing our attention can make us grow faster.

If you want to memorize information quickly, you only need to have some salient features of the image in your mind to help you recognize it.

We can regard many sentences as a logical meaning group, and then convert them into an ordinary event in reality according to the meaning group to memorize them.

1. Read and understand the information thoroughly. Second, treat information as a group of ideas and find keyword information in a group. Third, image the keywords and connect the before and after images. Fourth, depending on the situation, whether it is a one-to-one question type or a one-to-many question type, decide whether to deny the pile, recall the image, decode the image into text, check for omissions and fill in the missing information, and correct errors. 5. Organize your review notes, cards or recordings. 6. Time arrangement for review

When recalling images and decoding text, if it is easy to make mistakes, we can try to change to a better association or process the original image to make it clearer, exaggerated, vivid, interesting, logical, and then remember it.

Steps to study books: Browse briefly, ask questions, and read.

Word memory masters must have a text encoding library. The larger the encoding library, the faster you can memorize text.

Commonly used techniques for transcoding abstract words: homophony, meaning, pictograms, inverted characters, feelings, and word splitting.

You can choose a professional knowledge book, look for 30 abstract words in the book every day, and transcode them into images. If you persist for three months, you can naturally form a text encoding library.

Examples: conquer = the whole painting, generosity = big money, investment = basketball, occupy = war tool = axe, abnormality = a ham sausage

Principles of finding location piles in the real memory palace

The quality of the place determines how strong the memory is, so you shouldn't look for places randomly. Try not to look for similar objects in the same room. If the objects in different rooms are too similar, use imagination skills to process them into objects with significant differences in characteristics.

The Reality Palace is a location we have visited in reality.

The places in the memory palace are divided into: first, real places, second, virtual places, and third, half-real and half-virtual places.

Image source for making a virtual palace: 1. Virtual architectural panorama. Second, the scenes in the 3D game. Three, 3D interior design drawings. Four, cartoon animation scenes. You can also find a picture online

Random palaces are anywhere we go in real life.

You can use characters' movements, expressions, and logical storylines to memorize large amounts of text information more quickly and firmly. This is difficult to do with object coding because they are dead images, without emotions, feelings, or reactions.

It is recommended that readers create their own set of digital codes and then fix them so that they can be used for a lifetime.

When memorizing a long series of numbers, we remember them through the story method, the chain method, and the fixed pile method.

There are two main methods used to memorize historical eras, the homophonic story method and the coding concatenation method.

Equations are made up of two parts, one is a number and one is a compound. Split it into digital memory and compounds, and memory will be easier.

If you are not good at recognizing people's names and avatars, you can use the following process: Make sure you know the precise name. We may use homophonic encoding to remember the other person's name, but homophony is not a complete learning. We must ensure that we do not write the other person's name incorrectly in the end. Encoding their names, giving them meaning. Pay attention to the person's unique features, such as scars, moles, big and small eyes, full lips, black and white beard, etc. Review the names of people you have memorized at regular intervals to make sure they are foolproof. After we remember a person's name, review it as quickly as possible within one minute.

At present, root affixes are a mainstream method for memorizing English words. We can use encoding to remember the root affixes first, and then insert them into the word. When there is no root, we choose other encodings to remember.

Five ways to memorize words.

Attitude is always more important than ability. After mastering word memory skills, I personally recommend memorizing some English articles with new concepts to improve your overall English speaking and grammatical abilities.

Beginners are prone to frustration when learning to memorize words. There are many reasons, such as poor connection quality and easy forgetting, slow connection speed, and the psychological gap of not being able to instantly become a word memorizer. However, if you code and memorize 50 words every day, after three After a few months of training, your memory speed will improve by leaps and bounds.

Words are one-to-one short connections, which are just a connection between the spelling or pronunciation of the word and the meaning of the word. There is no need for a memory palace, but using the memory palace can help you remember the order of massive words, such as the entire Oxford dictionary.

When memorizing words, we must first have reasonable motivation and clear understanding. Using mnemonics to quickly memorize words is just a way to help us improve efficiency. Using these words to communicate is our purpose. And using words itself is also one of the review strategies.

The human brain has the characteristic of forgetting quickly first and then slowly, so every time we memorize a word, we go back and review it at a certain interval.

In daily review, try to cover the English to review the Chinese meaning, cover the English to read the Chinese to review the English spelling, and review in both directions. 50 words should be used to control the number of forgotten words within two. Take more time to read in the morning to improve your speaking ability.

The process of memorizing ancient poetry.

When memorizing ancient poetry, we generally use two methods: recalling the original scene and distorted homophonic images. However, after the homophonic coding is distorted, we should try to make the images logical, so that the memory effect will be better.

The organization of mind maps allows us to have an understanding of the general framework of the book, while the memory palace is used to specifically memorize various knowledge points in the book. Mind maps and memory palaces are at different stages of memory, and there is no conflict between them. Only when mind maps and memory palaces combine to memorize information can they play their greatest role.

How to draw a mind map?

The principle of drawing a mind map: Draw a mind map through your own understanding and analysis. The mind map you draw may not be perfect, but it must be suitable for you to memorize information.

The illustrations next to the mind map are random memory piles for memorizing words.

Whether you are attending class, taking an exam, preparing for a presentation, reviewing knowledge points, etc., taking notes is crucial.

There are three types of notes: input notes, output notes, and review notes.

Common limitations

Human short-term memory is carried out in groups of thoughts. Usually the information within the group is related to each other.

The number of meaning groups that short-term memory can hold satisfies the Seventh Principle of the Magic Number: 7 -2.

Distributed learning can avoid the loss of concentration caused by long-term learning and avoid the interference of knowledge materials learned before and after. An average person's attention span is usually only 25 minutes.

Alpha brain waves, beta brain waves, theta brain waves, delta brain waves

Human memory is divided into intentional memory and unintentional memory. Intentional memory is divided into mechanical memory and meaningful memory. A more efficient form of memory is image memory, and a more advanced form than images is a memory form that mixes logic and images.

Associative memory is just a tool. After memorizing information, you must retain your ability to think.

What about maintaining a higher retention rate while reading? The best way is to deeply understand the content of the article first, and then memorize it based on your understanding. It is also best to be able to draw inferences from one instance and think of some similar things and examples in reality to help you diversify your thinking. And remember more of the core information of the article.

Taking notes: Taking notes can improve your concentration and prevent your mind from wandering. However, you must think when taking notes, rather than copying blindly, otherwise it will be useless. When taking notes, you should think actively and express more of your thoughts and opinions. .

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Ask yourself questions and answer them

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1. When memorizing something, try to reduce the surrounding interference sources as much as possible, such as the environment you are in, and try not to have too much noise.

2. Negative emotions can also affect memory effects, as well as negative self-psychological suggestions.

3. Lack of sleep, physical illness and other factors will affect the memory effect. You can listen to some music or take deep breaths to adjust your emotions before memorizing the text.

4. Carry out a certain amount of exercise training every week to make your body healthier.

5. The brain likes colors. Usually using colored pens or colored paper can help memory.

6. Foods that improve memory include foods containing fat, protein, choline, lecithin, calcium, magnesium or some fruits and vegetables, such as oranges, corn, peanuts, pineapple, spinach, etc., as well as some foods rich in protein and zinc, such as oysters. , walnuts, egg yolks, sesame seeds.

7. The brain is afraid of lack of water. Drink more water before making a decision or when doing work that requires a lot of brain work.

8. The brain likes to communicate with the body. If you lie down or lean on something and your body is lazy, your brain will think that what you are doing is not important at all. Taking a walk or pacing indoors is a good way to think about things.

9. The brain loves exercise.

10. The brain loves to listen to self-talk.

11. The brain needs oxygen. You can usually go to places with high oxygen content and do some leisure exercises.

12. The brain likes a spacious environment.

13. The brain needs to rest. Every 20 to 30 minutes of work, you should take a ten-minute break.