Sublime

The act of pulling the information from your memory and articulating the main points cements knowledge much stronger than just reading it over a couple of times.

Josh Davis and colleagues from the NeuroLeadership Institute have created the AGES model to explain the four main neurological drivers of longer-term memory. “AGES” stands for Attention, Generation, Emotion and Spacing. What’s useful here for us is the G: Generation. This is “the act of creating (and sharing) your own connections to new and present

when it comes to chunking—and to our memory more broadly—what we already know determines what we’re able to learn.

The value of mnemonics to raise intellectual abilities comes after mastery of new material, as the students at Bellerbys are using them: as handy mental pockets for filing what they’ve learned, and linking the main ideas in each pocket to vivid memory cues so that they can readily bring them to mind and retrieve the associated concepts and details,

Nelson Dellis’s five memory tips are: Focus on what you’re trying to remember. Practice remembering. Turn what you are trying to remember into a picture. Store the picture by connecting it to things you already know. Use active recall to make the idea stick.

Successful learning involves encoding and retrieval—memory in and memory out.

It also multiplies the cues for retrieving the knowledge,

things. Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. Memory