Memorizing quickly and correctly is always important, since a person with a good memory can always achieve better things than a person with a bad memory.
A person with good memorization capacity is a person capable of retaining and remembering a large number of concepts , events, or data in their head.
This quality is very useful in our society, since in places such as educational centers, the ability to memorize is highly rewarded, since we can easily retain the data and then demonstrate our knowledge in an exam.
It is also important to learn to memorize for other things, such as statistics work, sales… With a good memory, we can easily learn statistics and remember the rates of the product that we are going to sell.
Even for editors it is good to know how to memorize quickly, since this way we can have a lot of data in our heads to write articles without having to review other sources. This is even more important for those of us who write about everything a bit, since we must have our head full of knowledge to be able to write the articles correctly.
There are people who are born with a very good memory and other people who are not born with such a good memory. People with good memories are able to retain things more easily, while being able to retain them for a long time and as accurately as possible.
Luckily, there are some memorization techniques that work for both people with good memories and those who don’t. These techniques can also help you achieve a good memory, improving the memory you already have.
Instructions to memorize quickly
- Write everything: One of the first memorization techniques and one of the most popular in the world is to write everything we want. Many times when we study we only read, which on some occasions is insufficient to retain all the information we have to remember. Of course, it cannot be written in any way, since everything we write must have an order, since if it does not have an order, we are not going to retain it. An example of how we can do this is to write down ideas just as we have them in our heads, also writing down things that make us associate what we want to remember. Try to write it schematically, that is, in a summarized way that helps you remember it. When we forget, we can look at the paper and easily remember it.
- Initials technique: A very good way to be able to memorize what we want is to use memorization techniques, such as the initials technique. This technique basically consists of taking the first letter of certain words that we want to remember, forming with them a word that is easy to remember. For example, if we have to remember the autonomous communities of Andaucía, Extremadura, the Balearic Islands and Catalonia, we can use the word CABE to remember it. This word would carry the initials of the 4 provincial capitals such as C for Catalonia, A for Andalusia, B for the Balearic Islands and E for Extremadura. By remembering the word Cabe, we will remember the initials and will more easily remember the words we want to remember.
- Repeat like a parrot: A good technique is to repeat like a parrot everything that we are going to memorize. It is a very classic technique and somewhat criticized, but it does work quite well. For example, one way to remember prepositions is to repeat many times the words before, under, fits, with, against… I don’t know about you, but I learned them many years ago and I have never forgotten them. This means that it really is a thing that works, since if it works for prepositions, parroting can work for whatever you want. The way to proceed you already know what it is, repeat like a parrot without stopping what you want to memorize for a while every day. After a while, you will memorize it quickly and with a bit of luck, you will remember it for the rest of your life.
Tips to memorize quickly
- The X in the hand, the knot in the handkerchief: Since we are talking about classic tactics to remember, I will also give you a couple of useful tips that could help you. The human brain works with associations, that is, we associate a certain gesture with a memory or action. If, for example, we write an X on our hand when they send us homework, when we look at the X we will remember the homework. The way to proceed is simple, that is, when we want to remember something, we can make an X in our hand or we can tie a knot in the silk scarf. When we see the X or the knot, we will remember what we have to do.