"Unlimited Memory" Reading Notes / 分类：人文科普

[Excalibur]

"Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive":

It introduces how to remember things that are random, abstract or just to many. I used to wonder how those "memory champions" can memorize tens or hundreds of random cards/numbers/objects in a few minutes. This books has a partial answer. Here are some basic techniques.

1. Bring information to life:

SEE principle:

• S – Senses: that is through sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. When you utilize your senses you experience more of life and you remember more.
  
• E – Exaggeration: what is easier to remember: a strawberry that is normal size or one the size of a house? Make your images larger or smaller than life. What is more memorable: an elephant or an elephant wearing a pink bikini?
  
• E – Energize: give your pictures action. What creates more feeling in your imagination: a horse standing still or a horse that is running and moving?  Use action; it brings life to your memories. Make your images act in illogical ways: you can weave, crash, stick, or wrap things together. We can make things talk, sing, and dance. Think about the great genius Walt Disney.
  

2. Use location to remember:

Use your long-term memory (LTM) like your car, or your body as a base to host things to remember.

 

LTM offers you a place to store the information. The locations in the car become storage compartments for the short-term memories (STM). LTM + STM = MTM  (middle-term).

The more order you put into a subject the easier it will be to remember. The secret to accelerated learning is superior organization.

3. Pegging Information, make your encoding sheet:

e.g. use the following visualizations as your encoding:

One-Bun, Two–Shoe, Three– Tree, Four– Door, Five– Hive, Six– Sticks, Seven– Heaven, Eight– Gate, Nine– Vine, Ten– Hen

Put things you want to remember into them:

e.g.

1. Love and warmth 2. Appreciation and gratitude 3. Curiosity 4. Excitement and passion 5. Determination 6. Flexibility 7. Confidence 8. Cheerfulness 9. Vitality 10. Contribution

These methods are not hard. The key is to keep practicing.

From other sources: how do people memorize 54 poker cards' order in a few minutes. One possible way:

1. Practice visualizing each card, like, Q of heart is a women in red dress.
   
2. Choose a location to place them, like, your apartment, from living room to bedroom.
   
3. Put them in your "apartment" in order.
   
4. Recall what you see in your room.

 

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有一种叫“右脑照相记忆法”，以前读过一些日本 七田真 写的这方面的书，一直很向往，但一直没有花时间和精力去训练。。。

它的大致意思是通过超高频率的训练，（比如背100个单词，每个单词一次只花2秒记忆，然后马上换下一个单词，这样反复很多遍。）激活右脑，从而让你获得照相机般的记忆力。由于时间久远，我也就记得这些内容了。

从我个人经验来说实现照相机般的记忆力是有可能的，比如中学时默写古文时，很多时候我都是看着脑子里的课本照片在默写。当然那是在事先背了无数遍的情况下才达成的。而按照七田真的说法，当你练成他的神功时，基本上看一遍就能把图片完全印在脑子里。

[Excalibur]

看过一些关于记忆方法的讲解，他们的共同点是不是一劳永逸的，你需要不断的练习，否则必然会退化。

当然，即使退化了也应该比没练过强，就好像不懂球的刘胖子现在一样能吊打我辈一样。。。