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Chapter 34 Ignite memory potential and become a memory genius (2)
A professor who studies human memory once said on this issue: "At the beginning, I was confident that I could remember what I wanted to remember. However, I soon discovered that this is not the case.

"I always try to remember all the information, but I never succeed, and even the parts that I can remember are getting less and less. At this time, I can't help but have doubts: Is my memory not good enough? Can I only remember a little bit of things instead of all? When my ability is doubted, my self-confidence will naturally be hurt, and my attitude will no longer be so positive. When I remember again, I will not remember, can remember As much as I live, I don’t know what to do. I have the attitude of remembering as much as I can. The result? I remember fewer things, and the accuracy is poor. I’m afraid when I see a little more things to memorize. The effect is naturally getting lower and lower.

"Without self-confidence, there is no energy. No interest, no fighting spirit. When remembering, you are like stragglers, making you less and less confident in yourself. If you don't believe that you can remember, it is often doomed that you will not remember. live."

So, on what basis should this confidence be built?How can it be cultivated and maintained?The key lies in how to use the power of self-confidence to accelerate memory in memory activities.

A psychological expert said: "Confidence often depends on the state of memory and how much you remember. If you can complete it with high quality every time, your self-confidence will be encouraged and enhanced, and it will play a positive role in the future. ; Conversely, self-confidence will gradually weaken, and eventually there will be no confidence at all.”

Therefore, the key to building confidence in memory is to be determined to remember it, and to remember it effectively.

Cultivating interest is the cornerstone of improving memory
The German writer Goethe said: "Where there is no interest, there is no memory." This is very reasonable.Interest makes people's cerebral cortex form an exciting dominant center, which can enter the best state of memory, mobilize all the inner potential of the two hemispheres of the brain, and give full play to their creativity and memory potential.So, "Interest is the best teacher".

Darwin wrote in his autobiography: "As far as my school character is concerned, what has influenced me later is that I have strong and diverse interests, indulge in what interests me, and understand deeply any complex problem. "Darwin's example shows that interest is the best motivation for learning and memorizing.We need to have a certain interest in doing anything. If we are not interested in doing it, it will be difficult to do it well.Memorizing is sometimes a very boring or even hard work. If there is no interest in learning, not only will it be difficult to persevere, but its effect will inevitably be greatly reduced.

Interest can make you concentrate, temporarily put aside everything around you, and forget your emotions; interest can stimulate your enthusiasm for thinking, and things that have been actively thought can leave traces of thinking in your brain, which is easy to remember; interest can also make you feel better. Your elation triggers the release of brain peptides, which physiologists believe are key to memory and learning.

British drama master Shakespeare was obsessed with drama by nature and was full of interest in acting.He was well-read and memorized, and soon mastered a wealth of drama knowledge.Once, an actor was sick, and the owner of the theater asked him to be a substitute. When Shakespeare heard it, he was overjoyed. It took him less than half a day to memorize all the lines, and he acted better than that actor. .

The great German musician Mendelssohn, when he was 17 years old, went to the first public performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.After the concert was over and he returned home, he immediately wrote the score of the whole song, which shocked the music world at that time.Although we are already familiar with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, at that time, after listening to it for the first time, it was really incredible to be able to memorize the entire score.

Why is Mendelssohn so amazing?The reason lies in his deep love for music.

Interest promotes the success of memory, and success in memory will increase interest in learning. This is a virtuous circle; on the contrary, if you are bored with a certain subject, memory will inevitably fail, and the failure of memory will aggravate the boredom of this subject, forming vicious circle.Therefore, a person who is good at learning should be a person who is good at cultivating his interest in learning.

So, how can you maintain a strong interest in memory?Here are a few suggestions that we might as well try:
(1) Ask yourself "why".

(2) Affirm every bit of progress you have made in your studies.

(3) Participate in the learning competition appropriately according to one's own ability.

(4) Self-confidence is the motivation to increase interest in learning, so you must believe in your own abilities.

(5) Do not just do what you are interested in, but do everything you should do with an attitude of interest.

Not only that, but we also need to actively discover and create fun in ordinary study and life.

If you want to know whether an apple is good or not, you should not just rely on subjective impressions, but you should taste it patiently, and the same is true when you are studying.You may find it boring to memorize English words, but keep at it, and when you can try to translate the Chinese in the textbook into English, or stammer a conversation with foreigners in English, you will be interested in it.

When arguing with your classmates, sometimes quote a poem from the ancients, sometimes quote a famous saying, the teacher's appreciation and the envy of your classmates will make you more and more interested in reading.

We can also use our imagination to create interest and make boring learning materials fun and easy to remember.

Observation is the prerequisite for strengthening memory

We all have such an experience that when we use an awl to drill a hole in a metal sheet, the harder the force is, the deeper the hole will be drilled.

The same is true of memory, the deeper the impression, the stronger the memory.Profound events and profound lessons usually bear indelible marks.For example, if you saw a plane crash, it is of course a deep memory; and if you were deceived by someone because you were careless and credulous, it is easy to remember it deeply.

Many things in life are not like this. There are no moving scenes and ups and downs in themselves. If we want to get a strong impression subjectively, we must rely on careful observation.

Observation ability is a basic ability of various intellectual activities of the brain. It is the basis of memory and thinking, and has a decisive significance for memory.Because the first stage of memory requires perceptual knowledge, and only strong impressions can deepen this perceptual knowledge.When the eyes receive information, it must be imprinted in the mind.For the same scene, the baby's eyes and the adult's eyes look the same; the objects seen by the eyes of an ordinary person and an expert are also the same, but the sensations aroused are quite different.Therefore, when observing, you must imprint an imprint in your mind. This imprint contains the understanding and imagination of things, rather than a geometry with only light and shape.

Darwin once commented on himself: "I have neither outstanding understanding nor extraordinary wit. It is only in the ability to perceive those fleeting things and make fine observations of them. above."

We should learn like Darwin. No matter what effect the memory will eventually produce, the premise is that we must observe carefully. Only by doing so can we form a deep impression in our minds.The prerequisite for serious observation is that there must be a strong purpose.

When we observe a certain thing, it is often because each person has a different way of thinking, and each person has a different attitude, method, and focus of observation, and the observation results are naturally different, which in turn makes the final memory result different.

In daily life, you can often do some small exercises to train your observation ability, for example, after reading an article, try to record the plot you read, and describe the scene in your own words.In this way, you can test whether you can accurately record the most important part, so as to exercise your observation ability to a certain extent. This kind of training can be called "descriptive" training.In order to achieve a better training effect, we should pay attention to everything in normal times. For example, we will meet various people every day. When you meet a very special person, you may wish to describe the characteristics of that person in your heart.

Or, if we look at the plate carefully during lunch, then close our eyes and relax for a while, we can use the ability of memory to reproduce and see the plate in our mind.Once we see it in our minds, we open our eyes and compare the "mental" plate with the actual plate, then we close our eyes again to correct this image, imagine it for a few seconds, and settle down, then You can immediately correct any inaccuracies in your imagination.

As you train your powers of observation, keep the following points in mind:
(1) Don't just react to some factors that you can just realize, because the composition of things is complicated, and sometimes it is precisely those weak components that are not easy to be noticed that play a leading role.If a person is too constrained by some obvious external factors of things, the observation will be confused by the appearance and cannot go deep.

(2) Don't just react to some irrelevant clues, which will lead observation and thinking astray.

(3) Don't be dominated by emotional factors such as your likes or dislikes.

If it is consistent with your own hobbies and interests, try to observe it, and you must find out the truth; otherwise, put it aside.This makes people's observations very one-sided.

(4) Don't be influenced by some authoritative and ready-made conclusions, so that we dare not go too far, or even follow what others say.This observation is useless.

Imagination is the magic that detonates the potential of memory

Why is imagination the magic that detonates the potential of memory?This is because, in the world, objective things are inextricably linked.If we connect the connection between reflected things with people's existing knowledge and experience through imagination, it will strengthen memory.Therefore, it can be said that there is a great correlation between a person's imagination and memory, and even sometimes, memory is imagination, or imagination is memory.If a person has a very active imagination, it is difficult for him not to have a strong memory, and a good memory is often associated with a strong imagination.

Imagination is usually associated with concrete images.For example, the symbol of love is a heart, the symbol of peace is a dove, etc.In memory, we often encounter such a situation: because something to remember does not have much practical significance for us, so we have no interest in understanding it. At this time, we can only rely on rote memorization, such as phone numbers, A transliteration of an unpronounceable place name.The effect of rote memorization is limited, and you may wish to use your imagination at this time.Plato said: "The secret of a good memory is to use various imaginations based on the various materials we want to remember..."

Imagination does not need to be reasonable and logical, even if it is far-fetched, as long as it has an effect on your memory, you can use it.For example, if you want to remember the name of someone you met, you can also use this method.

Edison's friend told him the phone number was 24361 on the phone, and Edison immediately remembered it.It turned out that he found that it was composed of two dozen plus 19 squares, so he remembered it all at once.Of course, this kind of association must have extensive knowledge as the basis.

Don't worry about your bold or even stupid imagination, let alone some irony caused by it, the important thing is that these images should be clear in your mind, try your best to connect moving images with different things.Imagination can not only fully mobilize the knowledge we have memorized, synthesize it, and generate new thinking activities, but as long as you use your imagination frequently, your memory will be greatly improved, and your knowledge will be remembered more firmly than before.

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