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"I hear and I
forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
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Confucius
Understanding is the best way of
remembering. But you will also need to
memorize. Here are some tips to help you memorize what you've
studied.
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Motivate yourself. Choose to remember. Be interested. Pay
attention. Want to learn and know. What you want is an important
part of learning.
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Set
learning
goals
before you begin to read or study. Link your study goals to your
long-term
personal, business and educational
goals.
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Visualize or picture in your mind what you wish to remember.
A mental picture or
visualization is clearer and easier to remember than words.
For each major concept that you want to remember, create a clear
mental picture and then look at it carefully for a few seconds.
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Create associations. Relate the ideas and information
you wish to remember to each other and to ideas and information
you already know. This would help you create a chain of memories
which lead to one another and makes it easy to locate and
remember the information.
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Repeat what you wish to learn and say it in your own words.
Even though you may think you've already learned something, go
over it one more time. Ask a friend or relative to test you. To
remember information for a long time, review many times on
different days. Practice until it's easy to recall. You can also
make up special memory devices or create a rhyme to help you
remember some specific information.
"We remember
what we understand;
we understand only what we pay attention to;
we pay attention to what we want."
- Edward Bolles |