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All knowledge is nothing but memory.
- Bacon
In our academic career and job search process, we will always encounter a variety of large and small examinations, in order to get good results every time, it is not an easy task, you need to pay more than others many times the effort and sweat.
Even if you have paid a lot of sweat and hard work, when someone arrives at the exam, they feel that their brains are blank, and the knowledge they usually remember suddenly forget, their brains are foggy, they can't remember, they scratch their ears and scratch their cheeks in the exam room, and they look at the test questions on the exam paper and sigh softly.
Also, as we get older, our memory is getting worse and worse, and it's annoying that what we just remember is forgotten in the blink of an eye.
So, how do we get our hands on complicated concepts, knowledge points, and paragraphs and phrases when we take the exam?
How to effectively speed reading, taking notes, and making a revision plan?
How do we cultivate and improve our memory?
When you encounter these problems, what does your brain think?
Do you really want to have a book that can teach you the methods and secrets of memory, so that you can achieve excellent results in each subject when you take the exam.
You are right, now, there is indeed such a book "Every Exam Must Pass", which explains the specific efficient memory process one by one for professional subject areas, such as foreign languages, mathematics, history, chemistry, geography, etc., as well as exam skills such as speed reading, note-taking, review, and so on.
Whether you want to memorize a complex speech from a Shakespeare play, chemical formulas, historical dates, or other important knowledge that you hope to remember at the time of the exam, this book provides you with ultra-practical memory skills that can be passed without rote memorization and achieve a leap in learning ability.
The author of this book is dominique O'Brien, a well-known world memory master, who created the "Dominica memory system" with association and imagination as the core, and used various memory methods and techniques to teach us to develop a personal knowledge file system.
He won the World Brain Championship eight times, was named "Brain of the Year" in 1994 and "Memory Master" by the Brain Trust of Great Britain in 1995.
He is the holder of numerous world records, including memorizing 2385 binary random numbers in 30 minutes.
Based on his years of accumulated experience, O'Brien wrote a book on how to improve memory, "Every Exam Must Pass", based on the actual learning situation of students.
In the book, he explains in detail dozens of methods and tricks of memory, including:
Speed reading, notes and mind maps, imagination and association, association methods, visualization, journey memory methods, the language of numbers, shortcuts to learning language, shortcuts to math, the abstract world of science, how to memorize historical dates, techniques about geography, and so on.
This is a "high score memory key" common to all disciplines, which not only tells us what it is, but also tells us how to operate and apply it to learning and life.
Due to the limitation of space, I will introduce three methods of memory, which I often use, and encourage you to do so!
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="55" > Imagination and association: Imagination is the most critical, it is more important than knowledge</h1>
Albert Einstein said: Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination encapsulates everything in the world and promotes social progress, without imagination there can be no creation.
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that before thinking, the human soul must first create a mental image, and all knowledge and information enter the soul, that is, the brain, through the five senses - touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. The imagination then takes the lead in deciphering the information conveyed by the five senses and transforming it into images, after which the intellect can process the information.
In other words, if you want to understand everything around you, we need to constantly create models for the world in our brains.
In fact, most of us have been creating mental models since we were very young and are quick to master them.
We can recognize a person by the sound of footsteps alone, and we can intuitively judge a person's emotions from the simplest movements alone.
There are even more striking examples: When your eyes are scanning a large amount of disorganized text, your brain recognizes words from them, and you read those words while forming images in your mind.
While our bodies may be trapped in a corner, our minds are never bound.
Our imagination is very rich, it can span any space, can span thousands of years, even across all of them, imagination is our most precious treasure of human beings.
When using our imagination, we often use the method of "association".
When we see a pipe, we think: Grandpa's pipe or Holmes's pipe, think of a small tobacco shop, or think of the smell of tobacco, and so on.
The more you experience, the more you relate to objects, and this accumulation will become a good fodder for your "imaginative" memories.
In addition, when middle and high school students memorize English words, they can also use imagination and associative memory to solve the problem of tedious and complex word memory.
Many words in English are certainly not enough to be memorized by rote, which would be too painful and too difficult.
Through summary, it is relatively easy to memorize and memorize through synonyms, associative memory of similar words, associative memorization of antonyms, associative associations of antonyms, same roots, same stems, etc., which are relatively easy, and the process of memorizing words is also interesting and easy.
The same is true for other disciplines, such as geography and history, which require a large number of memorized knowledge points, and it is easy to remember through the method of imagination and association, and to string together many knowledge points.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="166" > Journey Memory: A Sightseeing Route to Perfect Memory</h1>
Journey memory refers to the ability to memorize words and sequences by imagining routes to familiar sights or locations.
This method of memory works like this:
1) You need to imagine a mental route with 12 stops in advance, such as a typical route from home to school, university, or a friend's house.
2) Select landmarks that will be of great significance or memorable to sit at stations along the route, such as churches, bus stations, or post offices.
3) Make sure the direction of the route is logical, as this reflects the order in which the entries are on the list;
4) If you are satisfied with the route you have conceived, memorize it before reading the list.
In fact, the journey memory method is very simple, the main point of memory is to place the key words that need to be memorized in the mind on the opposite side of each station, do not try to memorize these words, but inject life into them, you can visualize them as characters and various actions and expressions of the characters.
After such short exercises, you can try to put the knowledge of a certain subject in a neighborhood for a comprehensive memory, you just need to recall these lists, review the journey, revisit the film in your mind that records the journey, and recall the unusual scenes. That way, it's easy to remember what you want to remember.
Journey memorization is easier to remember, but only if the route you're conceiving is clear.
This method is worth trying.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" data-track="167" > Note and mind map memory:</h1>
Whether it's taking a class, reviewing before an exam, preparing a speech, or conceiving an essay, notes play a crucial role. But how can you make note-taking more efficient? There is still a way to take notes to make it easier to understand and remember key information.
Be clear about the importance of taking notes:
1) Help you focus and focus on key content;
2) Notes can be used as quick reference materials for pre-exam review, which is convenient for you to review and consult;
3) Notes are your interpretation of information, easy to understand and remember;
4) Notes help to summarize the topic and help improve your imagination and logic.
Mind map memory method: It has many beneficial characteristics of learning methods, compared to linear notes, mind map can meet everything the brain desires, fully mobilize imagination, sense of space, word expression ability, logic and other skills of the cerebral cortex.
With linear notes, you can only focus on one point.
But our thinking is multidimensional, and using mind maps allows you to diverge your thinking, get rid of the shackles of a single thought, and let the ideas flow out continuously.
Mind maps will build your knowledge structure and build a mental model.
So, how do you make a mind map? What are its characteristics?
Mind maps have these characteristics:
1) Main object: located in the center of the mind map;
2) Various themes: radiating from the central image in branching form;
3) Each branch has a unique shape and is quickly labeled;
4) Each branch is further derived from sub-branches, and some sub-branches are modified with key images;
5) There is a certain range of associations in sub-branches.
Therefore, the mind map can display the content to be expressed at a glance, and fully mobilize people's imagination, sense of space, written expression ability and many other aspects of the ability.
No matter how complex the content, under the construction of the mind map, it will become intuitive, concise and clear, so that we can remember it in a short time.
For example, the following mind map, depicting the life of Swiss artist Angelica Kaufmann, intuitively reproduces the brilliant achievements of the artist's life, which is easy to remember in the mind.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" data-track="168" > Conclusion: Memory is the mother of all wisdom</h1>
The ancient Greek tragic poet Eschyurus once said: Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
When we watched the variety show "The Strongest Brain", we were amazed at the memory of the contestants beyond ordinary people.
In fact, these players also have a super memory after a lot of brain training.
As author Dominique O'Brien said in "Every Test Must Pass: The Ultimate Memory Method of the World Memory Champion", in fact, memory is a movement, a mental exercise method, and a tuning fork that regulates the cerebral cortex.
After mental exercise, we ordinary people can also have a strong memory.
Although our brain is an organ, we can treat it like a muscle, and the more we exercise, the stronger it becomes.
Memory training can have the following broad and far-reaching effects:
More focused attention; longer memory; clearer thinking; increased self-confidence; wider observation, and so on.
If we can train our brains regularly, we can slowly grasp the keys to how to learn, and eventually learn how to pass the exam.
No matter what stage of study you are in, whether it is the middle school entrance examination, the college entrance examination, the undergraduate examination, or the completion of other courses or the degree, as long as your course includes examinations, then your success begins with this "Every Exam Must Pass".
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