Whole brain super learning ability

Chapter 13 Magic Memory Technique (1)
All our knowledge depends on memory, and if we have a good memory, we will be very learned.

veil of memory

What is memory?
This question seems too simple and not worth asking. In your mind, there are indeed many views and experiences about memory, which are enough for you to give a detailed and correct explanation.So, what exactly is memory?Can you give a full definition of it?
More than 2000 years ago, the great sage Aristotle once believed that people's feelings, thoughts, and memory are "in one heart", and the brain only has the function of "cooling the blood".People have pursued this view for hundreds of years, but later found that the actual situation is not the case.

Using the "heart" to remember has always been the idiom of people, from which we can see the influence of Aristotle's theory on later generations.It was not until the middle of the 16th century that a scholar pointed out that the memory ability does not originate from the heart, but from the brain.It was also pointed out that only a certain part of the brain really works on memory.It has now been scientifically discovered that the "memory process" and "representation process" are the result of a unified organic activity of each part of the brain.This discovery has promoted the development of research on the structure and function of memory.However, so far we know very little about memory.

What is memory, how does it function, and how is its regularity... For these, we still lack understanding, so scientists call memory "red box" - which comes from people calling objects with unknown internal structures "red boxes" in cybernetics. It is called "black box".What kind of mystery is in this "red box"?

Memory is essentially a biochemical process.Professor Paforn of the Institute of Biology at the University of California, USA has done such an experiment. He destroyed the part of the brain nerves related to memory in a parrot. The memory of this parrot disappeared immediately, even the usual catchy tongues were forgotten. Two clean.Since memory can be destroyed by destroying nerves, it should be possible to improve memory by improving brain nerves.Therefore, people have made fascinating assumptions based on this inspiration.

For example, for thousands of years, people have always wanted to invent a drug that can be remembered after taking it, and no longer have to worry about memory loss, forgetfulness and other things.This is theoretically possible, and experiments on some animals have shown that certain substances do enhance memory.But people still fail to produce the medicine that makes people obtain the magical effect of memory.

Another genius idea is the "injection learning method", which is to extract the memory material of one person and inject it into another person, so that knowledge and information can be transferred between the two.This can be said to be an effective and quick way to remember. If so, people don't have to worry about learning the knowledge and experience of their predecessors.

But both assumptions premise that memory is purely chemical, which is far from the case.Learning and memory are extremely complex phenomena, involving a variety of psychological processes, which are by no means as easy as the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen to form water.So we must stop having the rosy fantasy that someday scientists will come up with some kind of drug or potion that will fix your memory problems once and for all.

Memory is hard to explain, but there are ways we can enhance it.A more scientific explanation is: memory is a kind of ability for people to realize the process of "receiving", "remembering", "retaining" and "reproducing" information about the surrounding world.Therefore, to really effectively enhance memory does not rely on magic drugs, but to study the laws of memory and consciously use these laws in the process of memory. This is what we really need to do.

Are these views different from what you have in mind?But in any case, this is not very important.The important thing is that memory, as a kind of ability you have, has its internal regularity and controllability. You can find out the tricks and then enhance your memory ability.

The ancient Greeks worshiped memory very much, and believed that memory was the incarnation of the goddess Nemosin.Nemosin is the most beautiful of all the goddesses, and Zeus stayed with her the longest, staying together for 9 days and 9 nights. As a result, she gave birth to 9 muses, who were respectively in charge of love poems, epic poems, Hymn, dance, comedy, tragedy, music, historiography, and astronomy.The Greeks believed that the infusion of vitality (Zeus) into memory (Nymosin) produced creativity and wisdom.They regard memory as the mother of literature, art and science. Without memory, there would be no literature, art and science.

These ancient and touching legends show that in ancient times, memory played an extremely important role in the establishment of both Eastern and Western civilizations.The development of human civilization requires memory to pass the acquired knowledge and experience down from generation to generation, in order to create newer knowledge and experience.

Without memory, human beings would have no history and past, and would not be able to have present and future; without memory, human beings would not be able to have modern civilization, and could only repeat the explorations of primitive people year after year.

It can be said that it is the wonderful ability of memory that makes human beings full of wisdom, enables human beings to evolve from generation to generation, and society continues to develop.The magical wisdom of the human mind has created an even more magical human society, and memory plays the role of the initiator of wisdom here.

This statement is not an exaggeration.There is no doubt that all intellectual activities of a person need to be based on memory, without the participation of memory, it is impossible for a person to perform any intellectual activity.You can think about things, reflect on history, recall past events, remember stories, and these are the materials that memory provides you with.You can't imagine what a person with a blank mind can think.

"Memory is the mother of wisdom," the ancient Greek poet Ascylos wisely said.People living in modern society always think that memory is a low-level mental activity that can be replaced by sound, video, text, etc.They believe that people no longer need to spend any energy on memory, and can use energy on creative labor.

This concept of belittling the role of memory has influenced many people. They all confidently believe that this era requires people to have higher creativity and not to pay attention to memory.This is a seemingly reasonable, but wrong view.

We look throughout history at many people who have achieved creative feats in their professions, and they tend to have good memories.In their minds, there are many knowledge experiences and living materials summarized by the predecessors. When their creative work needs raw materials, the memory will find them for them without any effort.

It is hard to imagine what kind of creative thinking a person with a poor memory can acquire!Memory can be said to be the root of thinking. Without memory, all intellectual activities will become water without a source and a tree without roots.

Your work, study, and social interaction can all be said to be inseparable from memory.Work needs to constantly sum up experience, deal with a lot of knowledge and technology, and have no good memory, okay?Learning needs to constantly review the past and learn the new, review and consolidate, without good memory, you can only learn in front and forget later, with half the effort.In your friendship, if you can always call out your friend's name at once without the embarrassment of being familiar but not being able to call out the name, of course you will establish a friendly image; otherwise, the situation will naturally be bad.

Memory is not mysterious, nor is it far from life.We often use it, but the means of application are high or low.Memory is a means, it serves for people to acquire knowledge, its task is to teach you how to better use memory as a tool, so as to work, study and live better.

You may have experienced the importance of memory in real life, which will make you more eager to find ways to improve memory.

trigger your memory
We have seen and heard a lot of things, but only a small part of them remain in our minds. It seems that our brain capacity is limited and cannot accommodate too much information; but on the other hand, we are still constantly memorizing new things. There are many things, and the brain capacity seems to be endless.This is how it happened?
Many experts who study memory believe that the capacity of the human brain is unlimited, and it can store all the information.One expert calculated that even if the brain memorizes 10 pieces of information every second, continuously throughout a lifetime, the human brain still has room to remember other things.

Many people worry unnecessarily that remembering too many things will exceed the capacity of the brain, causing information to overflow like excess water from an already full glass.Similar to the human stomach, the situation of eating too much and no longer being able to eat any food does not exist in the memory of the human brain.So, you can keep memorizing useful information as much as possible.

The brain can store information indefinitely, but that doesn't mean you can cram everything you've ever seen into it, and it's useless.

Human brain capacity is unlimited, but human energy is limited. If information cannot be effectively selected when remembering, the efficiency of memory will be greatly reduced.This is because although the memory capacity is more than sufficient, there is only one consciousness as the entrance to receive information.If you don't distinguish necessary information from unnecessary information, when you try to remember something necessary, other redundant things will interfere with you and make memory difficult.

Similarly, if there are a lot of useless information in your brain, once you want to extract useful information, it will be like looking for something you need in a messy grocery warehouse, it will be an extremely complicated job.Therefore, memory is like buying goods into the brain. You have to choose useful things and move them into it instead of accepting them indiscriminately. This will turn the brain into a warehouse of groceries instead of a treasure house.

If you have a novel next to you when you are reciting words, and you read two pages occasionally, a large amount of unnecessary information in the novel will flood into your brain, making your memory of the necessary information——English words more efficient. Lower, this is because the plot in the novel draws your attention, and it will be difficult for your consciousness to focus on the words.

Unnecessary memory is harmful.To give a simple example, when you think about the main content of a meeting, if you pay too much attention to the speaker's clothing, facial expressions, conference room layout, or the teacup in front of you, all you can think of is this useless information, while the main information is involved in fragments, it is difficult to concentrate.

In the final analysis, if you want to keep a certain thing in mind and make it appear clearly, you must maintain a strong focus on it, make effective choices about a large amount of information, keep what is necessary, and discard what is unnecessary.Only in this way can we maintain peace of mind and effectively store the necessary information in the brain for retrieval at any time.

When we define memory, we think of it as an active, purposeful process.In order for this process to be effective, it should also be properly organized.

Memory is the basis of intellectual activity and a kind of labor of human thinking.There is an essential difference between the memory of human beings and other creatures, that is, there is initiative and purpose in human memory activities.

I once heard such a vivid discussion: "The worst architect is better than the most dexterous bee from the beginning, because he has already completed it in his own mind before starting the work. The result of the labor process, It already exists in the representation of the laborer at the beginning of this process." That is to say: labor, for animals, is just a spontaneous instinctive activity, it cannot pre-design the labor process, and cannot determine the labor process. The results that will be produced; but people are different.

The brilliance of human beings lies in their advanced thinking ability.Whenever he wants to accomplish something, he always considers what preparations, steps, and effects he needs to achieve.This pre-design makes human labor more purposeful and effective.

But this kind of forward thinking in humans is not fully functioning when it comes to memory.As for memory, human beings are only accustomed to doing it spontaneously, and do not make any scientific organization of the problems to be remembered in advance.

Please recall your own memory activities and examine whether you have thought about these questions before remembering:

What information must be remembered, and which information should be stored where?
What information must be kept and what must be forgotten?
Do forgotten things need to be recalled in the future, and if so, how should they be recalled?

Questions like these are often overlooked.Memories that lack prior thinking tend to be spontaneous, so our memory activities are closer to bees, and we can only follow the natural development process of things, but cannot effectively organize and control the entire process. As a result, the memory efficiency is much lower than it should be. the extent achieved.

In this case, it is difficult to say whether the memory guides and controls us, or we guide and control the memory.To borrow the famous saying mentioned earlier, it can be said that in terms of memory, human beings are not so much at the level of the worst architects, as they are at the level of the most dexterous bees.

Only when we can understand the various components of the memory process and use some methods on this basis to pre-design the memory process like an architect can we say that we have achieved conscious control and scientific organization of memory.

The combination of the architect's pre-design and the dexterous bee's approach will take your memory efficiency to the next level.

(End of this chapter)