Memorizing techniques that make you memorize easily and remember quickly. PART 1

Human brain is like the hard of the computer, the space available for use at particular time is limited. The Smart people learn to prioritise information based on their importance or relevance. Sherlock Holmes couldn't name all the planets in the solar system not because he was not smart or educated, its simply he was too smart to keep information that are irrelevant to his short memory space.

The brain frequently delete information based on how relevant it perceived the information to be to avoid overload of information. Just like the computer system makes use of RAM, our brain stores all new and current information in the short term memory and only transfer them to the long term memory if we relay to it how important the information are by repeating them. What we don't use or repeat, we forget quickly.
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A German scientist Hermann Ebbinghaus researched the memory and its mechanism and came up with a forgetting curve which shows that we forget more than half of any information we learned as just an hour of learning them...we only retain less than 50% after an hour. A day later we remember only 30%. That is huge.
So how we remember everything. The important method to remembering things is using a memorisation technique called SPACE REPETITION. This helps store and keep the information safe in the your long term memory.
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Steps to memorising easily in your term memory

1. The first repetition should be done immediately after learning it, this is what most students do in school preparing for examination, which they forget almost immediately after them examination or even before.

2. Second repetition should be 15 - 20 minutes after learning the information. Repeat it once at this time and continue with you daily activities.

3. Do the repetition again after 6 - 8 after the second step.

4. Do it again 24 hours after.

Steps to memorise an information for an extended time (long term)

1st repetition : Immediately after learning

2nd repetition : 20 - 30 minutes after the first repetition.

3rd repetition : Repeat the information you are trying to memorise a day after

4th repetition : 2 - 3 weeks after

5th repetition : 2 - 3 months after

Doing these, you telling your brain how important the information are and how and where they are to be kept.

Thank you for reading.