Remembering names needs a different approach, but it is relatively simple when approached positively.Scan a person's face when you are introduced. Try to find a unique feature, whether ears, hairline, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, chin, complexion, etc. Because everyone is different in the world. Create an association in between characteristic, the face, and the name in your mind. The association may be to associate the person with someone you know with the same name, or may be to associate a rhyme the name is unique, ask how it is spelled, or where it is comes from, and if appropriate, exchange cards - the more often you hear and see the name, the more the possibility to remember.After leaving that person's company, review the name in your mind several times. If you are particularly keen you might decide to make notes. An important thing to keep in mind is practice, patience, and progressive improvement in remembering names.
Remembering Telephone numbers:
These can be remembered simply by associating numbers with the help of Imagination of a scene.
For example, I want to remember ABC's number the number is 65123421, I can imagine myself traveling to the public place or I am walking into the picnic spot.
6: There are 6 kids are playing, then I go ahead
5: A man is selling 5 ice creams in his hand, then I go ahead
1: I throw waste papers on 1 dustbin, then I go ahead
2: A couple (2) is loving each other behind the tree, then I go ahead
3: Some of them were playing in triangle (3) shaped pool, then I go ahead
4: A game developed with 4 trees, then I go ahead
2: I have seen 2 kids were fighting, then I go ahead
1: Only 1 I am was observing them.
Expanding Memory Systems
Once you have mastered simple memory systems such as the number/shape system, you can use mnemonic enhancers to expand the range of the systems. As an example, you might use the convention that encasing a mnemonic image in ice adds ten to a simple number/shape image: i.e. if you have previously linked the number 2 to the word 'wine' by using an image of a drunken swan guzzling a bottle of wine, then you can change it to link wine to 12 by imagining the swan frozen in ice.
As another example, you could link 'compact disk' to the number 38 by imagining an egg timer (8) with its middle going through the centre of a CD, engulfed in flames (30-39). Perhaps you could strengthen the image by imagining the play of the light of the flames off the grooves of the CD.
This list of images can be remembered in correct order by using a simple peg system. Expanding this approach again Once you understand this technique, you can expand it again and again. For example you could take it to the next level by associating the images produced with a strong and vivid colour. The expansion here might be red - 1, orange - 2, yellow - 3, green - 4, blue - 5, indigo - 6, violet - 7, white - 8, grey - 9, and black - 0. If you prefer to use colors in a different way, then do so!
Keep on expanding the method
You might to decide to expand this system to additional level by associating sounds to the images (e.g. a soprano singing, wind chimes, etc.); by associating smells; linking friends to images; etc.
Hints On Memory Techniques
One-Way or Two-Way links: Bear in mind that in some cases you may want the link to work both ways - for example if you are using a peg system (e.g. number/rhyme) to link 2 to Henry VIII, you may not want to always link Henry VIII with the number 2 (i.e. the opposite way across the link).
If, however, you are linking the word the French word 'chien' with the English word 'dog', you will want to ensure that the link runs in the opposite direction - i.e. that the English word 'dog' links with the French word 'chien'.
Remember to use location to separate similar mnemonics: By setting an application of a memory system in one location and clearly using that location as a background, you can easily separate it from a different application of the same memory system set in a different place.
Why mnemonics might fail: Typically you may forget things that you have coded with mnemonics if the images are not vivid enough, or if the images you are using do not have enough meaning or strength for you to feel comfortable with. Try changing the images used to more potent ones, and read the section on Using Mnemonics more Effectively.
Retrieving lost information
You may find that you need to remember information that has either been lost because part of a mnemonic was not properly coded, or that simply was not placed into a mnemonic. To try to recall the information, try the following approaches: In your mind run through the period when you coded the information, carried out the action, or viewed the thing to be remembered.
Reconstructing events like this might trigger associations that help you to retrieve the information. If the lost information was part of a list, review the other items in the list. These may be linked in some way to the forgotten item, or even if unlinked their positions in the list may offer a different cue to retrieve the information. If you have any information such as general shape or purpose, try to reconstruct the information from this. If all the above have failed, take your mind off the subject and concentrate on something else completely. Often the answer will just 'pop into your mind', as your subconscious has worked away on retrieving the information, or something you have been working on sparks an association.
Give it a try!
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Teacher Xana
