How To Learn By Association
| Education : Exams And Revision I've already written about using mnemonics to help you learn something. The other big tip is my association. To learn information, associate it with something mundane - literally as ordinary as possible, say your daily journey to school. You get up, you have a shower, have breakfast, get dressed, get your books together, leave the house, walk to the end of the road, turn left, arrive at school, talk to your friends, go into school for lessons.... Build a common ten step journey you perform regularly and also a twenty step journey. Then, to remember a piece of information, simply associate it with the story by imagining the information you want to remember as part of the story. For instance, if you have to remember ten non-connected pieces of information: a wallet, a bag of sweets, a tennis racquet... then build them into your story: You get up, and there is a massive wallet full of notes lying on top of you making it hard to get up. Visualise this scene and add comedy or sound to make it more vivid. Then you got for a shower, and are surprised when instead of water, sweets start coming raining out of the shower head. You then eat your breakfast which is rather unusual - edible, sweet candy tennis racquets. And so on. By telling a sequential story and relating the non-connected facts to a connected story greatly increases your chances of remembering. Without looking up, can you now remember the three items listed together? If you have read and visualised then you should be able to. In a week's time, see if you can still remember. You will see that if you took time to take mental photographs of the three scenes, you will remember this sequence forever. Now all you need to do is construct your own journey(s), and apply to the actual information you need to learn, whatever it may be.
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