Super memory trick you can learn

Chapter 2 Memory

Shortening the distance from knowledge is equivalent to prolonging the length of life.

— Lacan

For humans, memory is one of the greatest gifts bestowed upon us by our Creator.Kant believed that memory is one of the most amazing abilities of human beings.Without memory, human beings cannot get rid of ignorance, life will be deprived of the most precious joy and fun, and all development and progress will become impossible.With the help of memory, we can relive past joys and sorrows, successes and failures; these remembered experiences become signposts for our future actions, or glowing warning signs.Memory thus becomes the seed of wisdom that is sprinkled along the journey of our lives.Forgetful people get nothing out of their past, and their life is like a sieve: a lot is filled in, and in the end, nothing remains in the sieve.

For those who live in wisdom and virtue, memory is a constant source of pleasure as experience increases.It reminds people of the happy exchanges in the past, the innocent joy of childhood, the warm hospitality of foreigners-these beautiful memories dress up the past time as a video gallery full of joy.

It is true that memory brings back sad memories too, but these memories have faded the taste of pain, and, in the sky of memory, there is a silver edge of happiness behind every dark cloud.Often, while there are events that can plunge us into sadness, the pleasant experiences of the past few days still shine down on us with a golden glow of joy.Think of the sunny moments--the happy days, the joys of the family; the good days--the days with loved ones;Even in the midst of setbacks, how can there not be a little comfort?

For those who violate morality and virtue, memory is destined to become a source of pain.In the course of our short life, nothing is more unforgettable than the memory of our own actions that violate our conscience and laws.There is no conscience without memory. If memory can continue to play a role in future life, it must become a source of happiness for good people, and a source of pain for wicked people.

People have a common sense that memories of good things in the past are always sweet, as people say, "If you bring happiness to others for an hour, as long as the memory of this happiness lasts, the total amount of happiness will always be increasing".Sidney Smith declared: "If you bring joy to children now, you have made children happy for at least 20 years, because children can always recall this joy."

Metaphysical philosophers have given a host of definitions to memory.In his book "The Human Mind", Dr. Reed not only reviewed the theories of the ancient Platonist and Aristotelian schools, but also mentioned the theories of Locke, Hume and other modern philosophers.After pointing out their fallacy, he came to the following conclusion: "Therefore, the philosophers put forward one conjecture after another, as if these giants piled up mountains one after another to touch the sky. Of course it is in vain The scheming, the mechanism of memory is still not clearly explained. We know very little about the memory link of what happened in the past, just as we don’t understand what is happening now—what our conscious activities are like.”

Cicero likens memory to a treasury of knowledge we have acquired, ready to be opened when we need it.Plato likened memory to a slate inscribed with the knowledge we have acquired.Locke said: "Memory is the faculty that can be used to reawaken thoughts that have appeared before, but have now disappeared or faded from our view." Addison said when referring to memory: "Memory is like an animal. The stomach is used to temporarily store food, and when there is not enough forage in front of them, they will regurgitate." Dr. Walsh said: "It is not a specific part of our brain that manages memory. Memory involves all sensory-related things. This is also the case for thinking.” Granville said: “The impressions and images of specific things left by matter collide violently with the original common sense in the mind, leaving blank brain cells. The traces of their collision, this is the process of memory." Gassendi believes that memory is like packing knowledge and truth carefully with linen or paper for future contingencies.

Memory is defined as the ability to recreate in the mind a feeling or idea once had, with an apparent awareness that this happened in the past.In the next chapter, when we examine the laws of memory, we shall see that memory is not a single function of the mind, that memory does involve several mental operations, and that a strong and acute memory requires Train and train them separately.

Plutarch called memory "the storehouse of the soul's sustenance, from which the soul draws its food and nourishment." John Locke compared memory to the "storehouse of thought," and Robert Hall called it "the baker of the soul." , and Seneca put it this way: "He who has no memory is either mad or idiot." Lord Tennyson praises memory thus in a very beautiful poem of his:

It's your stolen spark of wisdom

from ancient sources
to make the present shine with glory
oh hurry up

take pity on my lowest expectations
Make me stronger, make my mind shine
I'm in trouble

Memory is the dewy dawn

In Greek mythology, Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, is revered and worshiped by people.She is the daughter of the gods of heaven and earth, and the mother of nine muses who preside over literature, music and art.Here, people clearly know that the achievements in knowledge and art are absolutely indispensable to the credit of memory.

In his book "The Improvement of Intellect", Dr. Watts emphasized when referring to memory: "Therefore, the association of all other thoughts in the mind comes from the pursuit of beauty and perfection. Without memory, the function of the soul will be ineffective. No way. If we need to have the aid of memory to hold and use what we have learned, what are we trying to achieve in wisdom and knowledge? Intellectually and spiritually, if we are able to do it again the moment we make progress Lost, so what can be used to explain the progress we have made? Only memory can help us enrich our minds, and only memory can enable us to retain what we have worked hard for every day. Without memory, the soul becomes A barren, starving, naked shell where thoughts flash through the mind and leave an eternal void."

Like other human abilities, human memory has enormous potential.In fact, the human memory potential is unlimited.Memory can be cultivated and trained to be stronger and more useful by rational methods.On the contrary, if the memory is neglected or irrational methods are used, the memory may gradually deteriorate or even become useless.Undoubtedly, no one denies the value of a good and sharp memory, however, the reality is that the prime time for memory training is running out, and we have no systematic training to improve this important ability method.Parents and teachers pay only a little attention each day to the training of rational memory, and in return, the development of adolescents will gain immeasurable advantages.So far, due to lack of proper focus on the memory of teenagers, many schools are using wrong methods, thus causing damage to the memory of the students.What we need to point out is that cramming teaching has overwhelmed students' memory; mechanical learning methods have led to people's disregard for rational memory, which has reached an incredible level.Teachers fail to teach students the knowledge and skills they are supposed to have, and they fail to develop the ability to deal with cases systematically, which is crucial.

Most importantly, parents and teachers must have a good understanding of the general principles that memory must follow: no matter what the child memorizes, parents and teachers must pay close attention to their status; make students understand the content of each lesson thoroughly; Enable students to learn to organize knowledge strategically and review regularly.All rational memory training must abide by these principles.

Are memories eternal?Sir William Hamilton and other philosophers argued that once information is understood by our brains, it is never completely forgotten.Not all of us can recall in detail everything we once knew, nor can we recall the knowledge we once acquired at random, but—in their view—the information remains somewhere in our brains .Locke, on the other hand, said: "Thoughts disappear the moment they are separated from understanding, leaving no trace or property of things in themselves, any more than the shadow of a bird flying over a field of corn leaves nothing behind." Thackeray took a different view. He said: "The old saying says that people never forget anything. When people have a fever, they sometimes suddenly say things they said when they were children; sometimes memories surprise us, and the emotions of the past suddenly Assault us, give us the feeling that we are there. Their presence made our eyes twinkle with joy at that time."

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