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Improving Your Memory

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Improve your memory with these fascinating (and proven!) memorization techniques.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Improving your memory
  • What is short-term memory?
1. Memory Principles
  • Repetition
  • Exaggeration
  • Chunking
  • Association
  • Pictures
2. Memory Techniques
  • Using mnemonic devices
  • Note-taking techniques
  • Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration
  • The story method
  • The link system
  • Memory palaces and the method of loci
  • The similar sound technique
3. Using the Mnemonic Peg System
  • Linking numbers to pictures
  • Memorizing ten items
  • Memorizing more than ten items
4. Situational Methods
  • How to remember names
  • How to remember presentations
  • How to remember what you read
  • Remembering passwords
  • Remembering important dates
  • Remembering numbers
  • Remembering formulas
  • Remembering your to-do list
  • How to memorize words in foreign languages
  • Memorizing speeches or scripts word for word
Conclusion
  • Remember memory principles

Taught by

Paul Nowak

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