How would be your life if you could remember everything easily, quickly & for long period? You wish to remember topics quickly but what happens in reality? You take too much of time to memorize it & forget easily but we wish to memorize quickly & not to forget. Am I right?
This blog will provide you the information that must have been provided by school/ college but unfortunately it was not covered by school.
Imagine who would you be if you were with no memory? Your existence will be question mark without memory. Whatever you are, who you are, because of your great memory. Without memory you would not be able to learn anything, even you wouldn’t be able to read this blog as without memory you couldn’t have learned English language in which this blog is written. Why does everyone give importance to experience everywhere? An experience in any field is a collection of memories only. Without memory you can’t even develop an experience.
But memory has been associated with rote learning (memorizing anything by repetition) and cramming the topic. You might have read that understanding is the key to learning but can you really understand some topic if you are not able to remember or memorize it. You know many jokes & must have heard many jokes & understood many jokes/poem. But when you are asked to share the jokes or poem in some party then you find yourself in difficult position to recall only few jokes or poem. There is huge difference in understanding & recalling the jokes on time. Simply understanding is not going to be useful if you are not able to recall timely what you have understood.
You can say that why do you need good memory in age of internet when everything is easily available on Google or other search engines?
Just ask yourself that will you prefer to consult a doctor who refer to Google or some instructions manual or will you prefer to consult to a doctor who has everything at his fingertips. Definitely you will choose the one who has everything on fingertips. Will you hire someone who has the ability to find everything on Google or someone who has required knowledge on fingertips; again you will hire a person with knowledge on fingertips. Not having information on fingertips may be time consuming and delay the process of decision making which will be yielding to low productivity.
You can’t expect learning to be fruitful without memory. As learning without memory is like you keep on gathering items in your house but when do you need that item, you can’t find that item on time & again you have to purchase that item from market. Thus after few days your house will be a kind of dumping ground of expired items that nobody will like. If you are not able to recall what you learn then you are trapped in cycle of learning and forgetting and learning and forgetting and again learning and forgetting…
When you improve memory, you improve everything like your school /college grades, your performance in whatever you do. The quality of your social interactions will be improved as you will keep remembering the names of the people with whom you interact & fact associated with them.
Topper of a School or college and you or your kid, both have same memory:
If you are a student or parent of kid or in any profession, you must have surely witnessed topper in a school or college. What is the difference between topper of school & your kid? Is it difference in their memory power, concentration & interest in study?
Your answer will be in Yes, that topper has good memory power, better interest in study & better concentration. Many times you have thought in your mind why can’t be you or your kid a topper?
Let me clear your perception. Let’s suppose that you or your kid and topper go to watch a movie. Once movie is over, you or your kid and toppers are asked to tell the story of that movie, both of them are able to tell the story very well without any difference. Both of them will be able to tell story of movie even after 2 months or longer period.
Now ask yourself, is there any difference in their memory power & grasping ability as both of them are able to reproduce the story. Now seeing at result, you will say that there is no difference in memory of both kids. Now you can understand that there is not the issue with memory i.e the potential. Potential is the same in both the topper and you or your kid. There is some issue with the process.
Let’s understand the process
As per learning cycle there are following steps:
Reading- is an input & you are trained by school how to read
Writing- is an input & you are trained by school how to write
Understanding- is an input & understanding of a topic can be done with the help of teacher or other resources
Memorization- is an input but you are not trained how to memorize. You are being told to memorize well but not told how. It was told to memorize by rote learning or even writing too but can you really memorize well by these techniques? If it happens so, you would have remembered a topic for linger period. It’s the most important part which must have been taught school but unfortunately it was not covered.
Recollection- is an output and your performance in any field is mainly because of recollection of information at required time. In school examination performance is mainly dependent on recollection. If you are able to recollect property, you will secure good grades. You are not trained on recollection too.
The most important steps of learning cycle memorization & recollection were not covered in your education system & now how can you get yourself or your kid get trained on these memorization and recollection.
It doesn’t matter where are right now, what matters is where you have to go. If you keep on doing what you have always done, you are going to get what you have always got. If you keep on learning the way you have learned yet, nothing is going to change; you have to get yourself trained on memorization, recollection and different kind of thinking
Good Memory can be developed by improving your concentration, learning how to do visualization- how to create picture out of text and numbers, linking concepts together & developing a habit of continuous use.
If you believe you have a bad memory, you will always think and act as per your belief. If you wish to improve your memory, you will have to develop a belief system that supports the fact that your memory could be a good memory. Your beliefs are only the stories you have accepted to be true about yourself. Just decide to change the stories.
“Beliefs are not tattoos, they are just like clothes-you can put them on and take them off at will-Spenser Lord
You have to develop core beliefs:
1.You were born with amazing memory
2.Memory improvement is important
3.There is no failure, only feedback
With the support of positive belief system you could be a master of good memory. Have a purpose of not only developing a good memory but have a specif purpose of learning key memory techniques to improve your memory.