Memory

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Chapter 3

• Memory

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In this chapter

• Memory techniques
• Strategies for remembering names
• Tapping your secret brain
• Loving your problems

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Quote for discussion

• Memory is the mother of imagination, reason and
  skill . . . This is the companion, this is the
  tutor, the poet, the library with which you
  travel.
• MARK VANDOREN

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Visualization 1 A well-worn path
The memory jungle . . .
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Visualization 2 A herd of thoughts
The memory jungle . . .
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The memory jungle . . . Visualization 3 Turning
your back
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Visualization 4 You aredirecting the animal
traffic
The memory jungle . . .
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Four categories of memory techniques

• Organize it
• Use your body
• Use your brain
• Recall it

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Organize it

• Learn from the general to the
• specific
• Make it meaningful
• Create associations

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Use your body

• Learn it once, actively
• Relax
• Create pictures
• Recite and repeat
• Write it down

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Use your brain

• Reduce interference
• Use daylight
• Overlearn
• Escape the short-term memory trap

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Use your brain (cont.)

• Distribute learning
• Be aware of attitudes
• Choose what not to store in memory
• Combine memory techniques

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Recall it

• Remember something else
• Notice when you do remember
• Use it before you lose it
• Remember, you never forget!

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Set a trap for your memory

• Link to something else

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Memory trapsLink to something else

• A ritual

Looking at your watch
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Memory trapsUse images and visual clues
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Memory traps (cont.)Use imaginary clues
Telephone hanging
on door
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Make an intention
At any time I choose, I will remember . . .
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Remembering names

• Recite and repeat in conversation
• Ask other person to recite and repeat
• Visualize
• Admit you dont know
• Introduce yourself again

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Remembering names (cont.)

• Use associations
• Limit number of new names you learn at one time
• Ask for photos or lists
• Go early
• Make it a game

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Mnemonic devices
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Mnemonic devices (cont.)

• New words
• Acronyms
• NASA

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Mnemonic devices (cont.)

• Creative sentences
• Acrostics
• Every good boy does fine

musical notes on treble clef staff (E, G, B, D,
and F)
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Mnemonic devices (cont.)

• Rhymes and songs

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Mnemonic devices (cont.)

• Systems
• Loci
• visual associations with familiar locations
• Peg
• key words represented by numbers

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Notable failures (part 1)

• Albert Einstein
• Thomas Edison
• F.W. Woolworth
• Walt Disney
• Louisa May Alcott
• Abraham Lincoln
• Winston Churchill

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Notable Failures (part 2)

• Charles Darwin
• Henry Ford
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Pablo Picasso
• R. Buckminster Fuller

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Power processLove your problems . . .
. . . and experience your barriers
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Power process

• Three ways to handle a barrier
• Ignore it
• Fight it
• Love it

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Review

• Memory techniques
• Strategies for remembering names
• Tapping your secret brain
• Loving your problems

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Final memory tip
Remember, you never forget!