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Capableben: How to Improve Your
Memory
There is no such thing as a "bad
memory", and everyone can improve their
memory, as long as you are not suffering
from memory loss as a medical condition.
If you want to improve your memory,
there are a number of things you can do,
from eating blueberries to using a variety
of mnemonic devices. As long as you're
optimistic and dedicated, you'll be able to
improve your memory, whether you want
to win the World Memory Championships,
ace your history test, or simply remember
where you put your keys. If you want to
improve your memory, just follow these
steps.
1) Use association to remember
facts :. To use association
effectively, you can create an
image in your mind to help you
remember a word or an image.
For example, if you have a hard
time remembering that JFK was
the president involved in the Bay
of Pigs invasion, just picture the
handsome president swimming
in an ocean surrounded by
happy, oinking pigs. This is
absolutely silly, but this concrete
image in your mind will forever
help you link the president with
this event.
2) Use association to remember
numbers . Let's say you keep
forgetting your student ID every
time you need to use it again.
Just break down the number into
smaller chunks and create
images associated with those
chunks. Let's say the number is
12-7575-23. Find a way to make
these numbers meaningful. Let's
say "12" happens to be your
house number, "75" happens to
be your grandmother's age, and
the number "23" is Michael
Jordan's jersey number. Here's
what you can visualize to
remember the number:
Picture your house with two
copies of your grandmother
standing to the right, showing
that the house comes first.
Then imagine Michael Jordan
standing to the right of your
grandmothers. There you
have it -- 12 (your house),
7575 (double-dose of
Grandma) and 23, the
basketball star.
3) Use chunking . Chunking is a way
of grouping things together to
help you memorize them.
Random lists of things (a
shopping list, for example) can
be especially difficult to
remember. To make it easier, try
categorizing the individual things
from the list. For example, list
all of the fruits together, the
dairy products together, and the
bread products together. This
will not only help you memorize
the list, but it'll make your
shopping experience much
faster. [2]
If you can remember that,
among other things, you
wanted to buy four different
kinds of vegetables, you’ll
find it easier to remember all
four.
Chunking is what we do when
we list a phone number with
dashes. Which looks easier to
memorize, 8564359820, or
856-435-9820?
You probably won't remember
17761812184818651898, but
try putting a space after every
fourth number. Now you can
see that those numbers are
years, and you can pick key
events from each year to help
you remember the string of
numbers (such as the
Revolutionary War, War of
1812, Mexican-American War,
Civil War, and Spanish-
American War).
4) Use rhymes. Using a variety of
common and silly rhymes can
help you recall basic information.
For example, if you're trying to
figure out if April has 30 or 31
days, just say the old rhyme
aloud: "Thirty days has
September, April, June, and
November." Then you'll
remember that April does indeed
have 30 days. Here are some
other rhymes to use as memory
tools:
"In fourteen-hundred ninety-
two, Columbus sailed the
ocean blue."
A child can learn the alphabet
by singing it to the tune of
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,"
which makes the letters
rhyme.
5)
Use acronyms . Acronyms are
another wonderful tool for
remembering a variety of things,
from the names of the five Great
Lakes to the words used as
conjunctions. You can use a
popular acronym, or create on
for yourself. For example, if
you're going to the store and
know you only need Butter,
Lettuce, Bread, and Unagi, then
just create a word out of the first
letter of each term: "BULB" --
Butter, Unagi, Lettuce, and
Bread. Here are some popular
acronyms to use: [4]
HOMES. This one is used for
remembering the Great Lakes:
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie,
and Superior.
ROY G. BIV. This man's name
can help you remember the
colors of the rainbow: Red,
Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue,
Indigo, Violet.
FOIL. This will help you
remember how to multiply
two binomial terms: First,
Outer, Inner, Last.
FANBOYS. This acronym can
help you remember simple
coordinating conjunctions:
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet,
So.
6) Use acrostics. Acrostics are
similar to acronyms, except
instead of just remembering the
acronym, you can remember a
new sentence made out of the
first letters of a set of words that
you have to memorize in a
certain order. For example, you
can say, "My very educated
mother just sent us nine pizzas"
to learn the order of the planets:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
and Pluto. You can also make
up acrostics of your own. Here
are a few more popular
acrostics: [5]
Every Good Boy Does Fine.
This is used for memorizing
the lines on the tremble
music staff: EGBDF.
Never Eat Sour Watermelons.
This is used for remembering
the points of a compass in
clockwise order: North, East,
South, and West. Another
good example is Never Eat
Shredded Wheat which also
rhymes too.
King Philip Can Only Find His
Green Slippers. Use this to
memorize the order of the
classification system:
Kingdom, Phylum, Class,
Order, Family, Genus, Species.
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt
Sally. Use this to remember
the order of operations in
mathematics: Parenthesis,
Exponents, Multiplication,
Division, Addition,
Subtraction.
7) Use the method of Loci. This
method has been used since the
time of Ancient Greece. To use
this method, simply imagine
placing the items you want to
remember along a route you're
very familiar with, or in specific
locations in a familiar room or
building. First, pick a familiar
path; then, picture the things you
want to do or memorize along
that path. [6]
If you needed to memorize
the acronyms HOMES,
FANBOYS, and FOIL, you can
picture a miniature home, on
your front porch, a loud group
of fan boys cheering on your
stairs, and some foil wrapped
arouND you
thank you

demelza: Not Again!

demelza: Not Again!

demelza: Not Again!

Capableben: ladies and gentlemen; with reference to the posted pix, the youngman wants to know how he looks-handsome, ugly, bad, good, etc.
he needs facts because many people have really given different views about him. tanx as u contribute

Youngzedd: Good morning and happy Sunday to all.

I have been wondering going to church with my tablet instead of physical bible. Although I haven't tried it for once.

Now, I wanted to ask if Physical bible and bible in tablet equals the same, as in powers and miracles?


Your contribution pls.

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ASUU members themselves are irresponsible. How do you explain a bunch of educationists going on strike all the time, abandoning the poor students?

I would have cried foul if I hadn't passed through the Nigerian university system. The bitter truth is that these ASUU guys are all politicians, Lecturers, HODs, Rectors, VCs. . . all of them are politicians belonging to a political party.

So the fact is that when ASUU strikes, its a case of POLITICIANS vs POLITICIANS, the students are the ones bearing the brunt, shikena!

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