25 life hacking to memorize dates, names, and not only
Tips / / December 19, 2019
How to remember names
1. When meeting with someone, try several times to repeat his name. So not only do you remember new information, but also the position of the interlocutor to himself.
2. Visualize the name. For example, imagine written on paper.
3. Use association. It is better to associate the name with the type of activity, human passions. Since he was from an ordinary Washi turn into Vasya, who three years of playing chess, and it will be easier to remember the name because of the additional information.
4. Tie a new friend with you for a long time well-known person. So, Basil, whom you met at a party, may look like a sports commentator Vasily Utkin or love origami, as your old one with the same name. Using this method, most importantly, do not fall into the trap: a man may be similar to your friend with a completely different name, and there is a risk to call it wrong.
How to remember about upcoming events
5. Imagine in the details of what will happen during this event, you will get to the venue that it will be discussed. A lot of information will strengthen the event in the memory.
6. Keep a countdown. Imagine how much time is left until the day of X, make a rough plan of preparation for it. This update will allow the event to make it real now, and forget about it will not be so easy.
7. Set the reminder. Not necessarily keep small details in mind, let smartphone will report on the event in a few days, for a day and a few hours before. Regular reminders firmly settled in the brain information about the upcoming event.
How to remember the date
8. When it comes to the chain of dates that you want to learn for an exam or a work project, it is necessary to determine the main event. Remember, when it occurred, and the remaining dates memorize in conjunction with the principal. For example, the first flight of a man into space took place in 1961, the world's first artificial satellite launched four years earlier - in 1957.
9. Drawing historical parallels. It happens that you just can not remember what year was the Prague Spring, but I do know that 1968 - year of the formation of Deep Purple. Just remember that these events occurred at the same time.
10. Use the cards. This method is suitable not only for the study of a foreign language, so you can remember anything. Not necessarily make cards out of paper, you can use special applications for smartphones, for example, Anki.
11. Invent Association. For example, birthday mother in law may coincide with the number of your machine.
How to memorize telephone numbers
12. Dial the number manually. The more often you call the person, the faster remember his touch.
13. Divide the room into convenient groups. Traditionally, the phone number is recorded in a form (code) 3-2-2. Try segmenting it in another way, try to find in the figures some internal logic.
14. Think of the number rhythm or rhyme try its individual segments.
15. Imagine that you are dialing a number on your mobile phone. Imaginary movement of the fingers will help at the right time to restore the sequence of digits.
16. Find association. In a set of numbers may be hiding your home number, date of birth and other information that you remember well.
How to memorize the texts of
17. Re-read the text aloud. So you add to the main thesis of a number of associations. During the presentation you will see before your eyes, keep in mind that at the time of reading the first paragraph of lying on the couch, and in the third - stood at the window sill. These additional details will help to recall the content of speech.
18. Sing or read the text of it in a non-standard style - as an actor of the old school, a sports commentator. The more violent will be your imagination, the easier it is to remember the basic theses of performances.
19. Copy the text from the hands as you reread it more carefully. If you want thrills, copy records broken hand.
20. Make a cheat sheet: write down the main ideas, dates, names. Based on the record, the text aloud to retell.
21. Delivered a speech in front of a friend or family member. If no one will agree to listen to you, give the audience some inanimate object. The main thing - to see how you will say, where most stammer and how you can quickly get out of an awkward situation. Such a test would remove the clamp and psychological help to feel more at ease, thus facilitating the process of memorizing.
How to remember passwords
22. Use the same password for all sites is not safe, but you can come up with a single system for generating passwords. For example, create passwords of fragments that you are already well remember. Of course, this should not be the year of birth and surname. However, if you come up with and remember a couple of complex digital keyboard and a few non-standard letter segments, they can be combined in different ways. Even if you do not remember which specific password used for portal, you will enumeration method.
23. Think of encryption and use familiar data for password. You can, for example, invent characters and make the replacement system is quite stable to cracking a line from a popular poem.
24. Split the password into segments and attach to each group of characters on the principle of association "who, what, what makes" which should develop into a whole, although not necessarily a coherent sentence. So, aqus74 can be memorized by the phrase "Aquaman sings" Seven Forty "» (Aquaman sings 7:40).
25. Do not ask the impossible from yourself, use service to store passwords.
If in spite of all the tricks still forget important data, the scientists have for you comforting news. Research has shownThe Persistence and Transience of MemoryThat such a memory feature reduces the effect of outdated information to make decisions. This knowledge will not save when you sit down the phone in a problem situation, and you do not remember a single number to call for help, but perhaps a little comfort.
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