Sublime

Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.

Five other ways to help you remember are to: Use a song. Make up metaphors. Take good notes, preferably handwritten. Imagine you are the thing you’re trying to understand and remember. Share your ideas. Teach them to someone else.

Most important is to make frequent use of testing and retrieval practice to verify what you really do know versus what you think you know.

even for the most unlikely information, an image can be created to link it with a number.

Daniel Levitin, in his new book The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, suggests that the technique works because our memory-system for images and places is older and more reliable than our memory-system for names and words.

You’ve heard the old saying that knowledge is power. But knowledge of psychology is the purest form of that power. No matter what you’re doing or how well you’re doing it, you can benefit from a deeper understanding of how the mind interprets its world using only the clues that somehow find a way into your brain through the holes in your skull.