Mastering Memory by Chester Santos

Author:Chester Santos
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Puzzlewright

Go ahead and recite all the U.S. presidents in order. Next, try it backward. In completing this chapter, you’ve further developed your memory skills, and have gained some valuable knowledge at the same time. It should now be clear just how powerful and useful your 00–99 images can be. I hope that you’ll enjoy using them to learn as much as you can.

The techniques covered in this book can give students a huge advantage in their academic careers. These techniques can also benefit entrepreneurs and professionals who find themselves studying to earn new certifications, learn new technology, master corporate training materials, and more. Memory is fundamental to learning, so improving your ability to remember will help you to be more successful in whatever you do, whether you are a student or working professional. At some point in our lives, in one form or another, we all find ourselves with school back in session.

If you’re studying for a biology exam, for example, you might need to recall that the function of the mitochondria is to produce energy for cells. How can you commit this fact to memory using what you’ve learned in previous chapters? As you’ve done previously, you’ll want to turn what you are trying to remember into a simple image or a series of memorable images. You will also want to involve as many senses as possible and use your creativity and imagination to make what you are seeing and experiencing in your mind crazy and bizarre in some way.

PLACEHOLDER IMAGES

In addition to what you’ve learned in previous chapters, you’ll need something new that I like to call placeholder imagery. Placeholder imagery consists of an image or a series of images that you will visualize and use to temporarily represent the word or term you’re trying to memorize. Later, you’ll translate that placeholder imagery back into the word or term it was meant to represent. This will all become clearer as I illustrate using mitochondria as an example.

To remember the main function of mitochondria, you’ll first need to decide on some placeholder imagery to represent it. You might visualize a “mighty kite.” This kite is mighty because it’s covered in big muscles. This is absurd imagery, for sure, but it’s memorable. Your placeholder imagery need only remind you in some way of the term or word it’s meant to represent. You would have heard the word mitochondria over and over in class or would have read it multiple times in the course of studying your biology book. Thanks to that familiarity, an image of a mighty kite should be enough to trigger the word mitochondria.

With the simple visual of a mighty kite set in your mind, we can now use that placeholder imagery to commit the mitochondria’s function to memory. The mitochondria produce energy for cells, so you might simply visualize the mighty kite producing batteries and dropping them like bombs into jail cells. You now just need to translate that memorable imagery back into what it’s meant to represent.

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