Memory - is one of the few fills "resources" of the body. If you think that you have a bad memory, so you just did not try to improve it. Anyone can remember everything and always, if you learn a few of the original memorization techniques.
Some of them - in this article.
Association
Images - the basis of mnemonics. And they really work. You can not remember the name of a new employee? "Play" in the association. Let's say his name is Mikhail Petrovich.
The most famous Michael - Gorbachev (birthmark on his forehead, a characteristic speech, restructuring). The most famous Peter - Romanov, who was the first and great (high, mustache, Navy, St. Petersburg).
Imagine Gorbachev on horseback with a mustache and cocked hat. If the sight of Mikhail Petrovich, you will have to emerge this way, you immediately think of his name.
Similarly with in figures. I have not been able to remember the series and number of his passport until he turned figures into images. 73 - everything is simple, it is the code of my car in the region, therefore, imagine a car. 08 - eight, as a sign of infinity, moreover, is similar to the ring motorway. And now the car goes on the car "eight" ...
Crushing and grouping
5938750285753095 - try to remember this number entirely. It will not work (of course, if you're not Ben Pridmore).
And if you write it like this: 5938-7502-8575-3095. That's better, is not it? Crushing greatly simplifies storage (if only because the number, divided into parts, it is easier to pronounce and apprehend visually). It is no coincidence in the room phone numbers are written with a hyphen.
But this method works not only with numbers. For example, the wife dictate to you on the phone shopping list (and for some reason you do not use "Buy a loaf!"). So that nothing is forgotten, Sort, group and number things that need to buy.
Milk, bread and salt - a kitchen (total 3 pieces); deodorant and paper - a lavatory (2 here), etc.
Another principle: keep in mind that you need to buy 3 things in the dairy department, 2 - in the meat and 1 - in groceries. At the supermarket, you can easily play back, that the wife asked to buy yogurt, milk, cheese, sausages, bacon and a loaf of bread.
rhymes
Bisector - a rat, she goes on the corners and bisects the angle; Pythagorean pants in all directions are equal. These silly poems, each of us remember from school, and along with them and the related geometric and algebraic theorems.
Rhymes help remember the information easily and effortlessly. You simplify his task, removing the psychological setting "learn!". You just have fun, like playing Burime:
Pushkin died in the winter.
Year 1837 was the first.
cribs
"Till! Give my regards to your wife... ". Kate? Lena? Masha? Foolish situation when you can not remember the name of a loved one interlocutor or (worse yet) himself.
Stupid, but inevitable if you have a wide circle of friends.
Exit the situation is simple: save the phone number of a new acquaintance, write in the field "note" the important nuances of your communication (name of spouse / spouse, date of birth, the circumstances of love, etc.).
I have contacts in Elena (barber) with the following "characteristic": Oksana gave a business card, a birthday in December, loves dogs, her toy terrier named Jesse. You should have seen how she was pleased when at a meeting I'm interested in her pet, though calling the nickname.
Cribs involve not only verbal and logical, but also the motor memory, especially if you write them in a notebook by hand.
Routine
When Layfhaker told you about 3 Proven ways to improve memory, Point №1 means - break routine.
One manifestation of this recommendation - put on its head the usual situation to you.
For example, do not forget to call in the morning to the clinic. You can draw a cross on his arm, and a first aid kit can be put in the middle of the room. Put the keys in the boot, so as not to forget. Leave the door open closet to the morning drink a medication stored in it. In short, in any way destroy the familiar surroundings. It will sharpen attention and help to better memorize.
If you have your own life hacking, help "outwit" the memory, write about it, please, in the comments.