Personal Growth

Unlimited Memory

memory

By Kevin Horsley.

A short summary of the book Unlimited Memory by Kevon Horsley. This book gives tricks to improve your memory. How to better remember names, numbers, texts, …

Unlimited Memory MindMap
Unlimited Memory MindMap

You can find the full size MindMap here.

The first rule to improve your memory: NO EXCUSES !!!

I- Never believe a lie: Pond and sea fish

  • In order to change a belief: 80% is about why – 20% is about how.
  • You must always question yourself.
  • Create a new belief and make it part of your identity.
  • Beliefs are not like tattoos but like clothes!
Never believe a lie

II- Be HERE NOW!

Sun rays only burn when focused. In order to improve your memory, you must focus on what you want to memorize.

When you are at work be 100% at work and when you are at home be 100% at home.

Conflicts decrease Concentration | Peace improve Concentration

How to focus

  • Eliminate worry:
    • Don’t tell yourself: What if I lose my job -> But what would I do if I lost my job.
  • Know what you want (Purpose/Interest/Curiosity).
  • Stop multitasking.
  • Take control of your inner voice.

III- Bring Information to LIFE

Sounds are difficult to remember (they are sequential). Our brain is not made to remember sounds or sequential things. Our brain remembers more easily images or a sequence of images. So make movies and images in your mind about what you read and want to remember.

Use:

  • Senses
  • Exaggeration
  • Energize

Example:

Some Italian words:

  • Chicken is Pollo. You can imagine playing polo with a chicken instead of a ball.
  • Cat is Gatto. Imagine saying to your friend, “You’ve got to hold my cat.”

Some French words:

  • Book is Livre. Sounds like liver, so you can imagine opening a book and finding squashed liver inside.
  • Hand is Main. My main hand is my right hand.

IV- Use CAR technique to remember

You can use a car or any other object to organize your memory. Below an example to memorize The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

  1. Be Proactive
  2. Begin with the End in Mind
  3. Put First Things First
  4. Think Win-Win
  5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
  6. Synergize
  7. Sharpen the Saw
  • Front of the car: PRIVATE victory
  • Rear of the car: PUBLIC victory

In order to accelerate your learning you must improve your organization in memorize things.

V- Use Body technique to remember

You can use the same technique explained earlier with your body.

Trick to memorize The 10 intelligences (Tony Buzan):

1. Love and warmth
2. Appreciation and gratitude 3. Curiosity
4. Excitement and passion
5. Determination
6. Flexibility
7. Confidence
8. Cheerfulness
9. Vitality
10. Contribution

VI- Pegging information

Rhyming Peg Method

  1. Sun rhymes with one
  2. Shoe
  3. Tree
  4. Door
  5. Hive
  6. Sticks
  7. Heaven
  8. Gate
  9. Wine
  10. Pen

Same method to remember the Awaken the giant / Tony Robins.

Shape Peg Method

VII- Use LOCATIONS to remember

You can use the same technique to associate what you want to remember with different places in your home.

  • Rooms
  • Washing machine
  • Etc.

Trick to memorize the 12 keys – J.Maxwell:

  1. Attitude
  2. Priorities
  3. Health
  4. Family
  5. Thinking
  6. Commitment
  7. Finances
  8. Faith
  9. Relationships
  10. Growth
  11. Generosity
  12. Values

Do the journey forwards and backwards to better memorize.

VIII- Link your thoughts

Learning is connecting new information to old ones.

Make entire stories (presidents): A guy was ashing a tin when adams came in with a chef and her son to give him a medicine…

The first twelve Presidents:

  1. Washing a tin – Washington
  2. Adams apple – Adams
  3. A chef and her son – sounds like Jefferson
  4. Medicine – sounds like Madison
  5. Marilyn Monroe – Monroe
  6. Adams apple – Adams
  7. Michael Jackson – Jackson
  8. A van with beer in – Van Buren
  9. A hairy sun – Harrison
  10. A tiler (a person who lays tiles) – Tyler
  11. Polka dots – Polk
  12. Tailor – Taylor

Review your stories Forwards and Backwards.

IX- Remembering names

Use Association to remember better the names.

Use the 4Cs :

  1. Concentrate
  2. Create
  3. Connect
  4. Continuous Use
  • Connect people by comparison (George), if you already know one person with the same name for example.
  • Face connection (chain ice).
  • Connect people to places.

X- Remember numbers

  • 0 : Z/S/C
  • 1 : T/D
  • 2 : N
  • 3: M
  • 4 : R
  • 5 : L
  • 6 : J/Sh/Ch/G
  • 7 : K/C
  • 8 : F/V
  • 9 : B/P

This technique works with the SOUNDS.

3472 9401215 721110 is as:
aMeRiCaN PReSiDeNTiaL CaNDiDaTeS

XI- Be an artist

Remember with sequential pictures:

Use Mindmaps to remember better.

XII- Using Methods

To remember a word to word text, you can picture a story with the main characters, objects, words.

Example: Story with the Tree.

Presentations (Powerpoint, Prezi, ...)

FLOOR framework:

  • First things (fact, quote, demonstration)
  • Last things
  • Outstanding information
  • Own links (to audience)
  • Repeated information

Studying

  • PIC
  • Have a break every 35/45min

XIII- SELF-DISCIPLINE

Create a VISION of what you want to remember (discipline = remember what you want).

  • Make a decision
  • Stop listening to your feelings

The more you think about something the more you remember: REVIEW.

  • CONCENTRATE: I, II
  • CREATE & CONNECT: III, IV, V, VI
  • CONTINUOUS USE: VII, VIII, …, XIII

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