Memory Tricks
Memorize things instantly with memory tricks
Would you like to learn the memory tricks that memory experts use? The same same memory tricks that they use to astonish public on TV shows. If you do then you have come to the right place because right here some of the their closely guarded memory secrets are revealed.
By applying memory tricks you can memorize information that seems impossible to memorize the old traditional way. It could be a list of 40 completely unrelated words in sequence, a number with 30 digits. Or even names and faces of 100 people you have seen only once.
Memory tricks can come to good use when you are studying and learning new information that is complicated and hard to remember. It could be foreign language, definition of terms, historical dates or a hard subject which you have to learn. Using memory tricks you can learn this information many times faster and better that you would with the traditional methods.
You can also use memory tricks to impress your friends with your memory, be very organized by remembering all the things you have to do and when you have to do them and also you can use tricks of memory for entertainment like performing stunts with cards or stunts similar to what memory experts perform on stage.
Secrets of memory experts exposed
Can you really master these memory tricks or you should better leave them to experts? Yes you can and it’s easier than you think. This page will give short analysis of what a memory expert does to perform various memory tricks.
It may surprise you but memory expert Harry Lorayne once admitted that he though had the worst memory in the world. Things changed when he memorized the phone book of New York entirely by using memory tricks.
There is one truth about your mind that memory experts understand but other people don’t. They understand that:
"It’s very hard for your mind to memorize complicated and meaningless information like a page of a phone book. What you need to do is "convert" this information to something that your mind would remember naturally."
When your mind has remembered something that can be remembered naturally, you can translate this information back to the complicated information that your mind couldn’t remember.
How to memorize a list of words
With traditional methods remembering a list of 30 unrelated words in sequence would be quite difficult to say the least. There is actually no method how you could do that. You could try to repeat this list countless of times. You could write it down on paper and watch at it for a really long time, trying to remember the sequence of items.
But why would you do that when with memory tricks memorizing such list is a child’s play. What you would do is associate every word with the previous word in the list. Thinking of the first word in the list would make you think of the second word. Thinking of the second word would make you think of the third word and so on.
This is how a memory experts remember long lists of unrelated words. A rule that you must follow when associating these words to one another is to make these associations unnatural, spectacular or ridiculous. You need to do it because your mind is much better at remembering unusual things than vague, meaningless everyday things.
How to remember numbers
For example, it would also be very hard to remember a 16 digit number. By using traditional methods you could repeat this number countless of times. You could write it on a paper and stick it in front of you to help your memory to remember it. You could use it for a long time until you finally remember it.
Forget about it! With memory tricks you can memorize this number in less than 2 minutes and remember it for a year without repeating it even once. What you would do is convert this number to words and link these words in a list.
Converting numbers to words may sound a little strange to you but it is actually very simple. There is a special phonetic alphabet, consisting of just ten pairs of digits and sounds. 3 digits usually form 1 word with this alphabet. When you have a number with 16 digits, you form many words from it and then associate these words in a list like you learned before.
This is the method how memory experts remember long digit numbers. They know that mind can much better remember natural things like words not numbers that are meaningless. That is why they convert long digit numbers to words. When they have associated these words in a list, they remember them very good. Each time they need the number they simply convert these words back to a long digit numbers.
When you practice this memory trick you can even remember a 16 digit number in less than a minute. You can learn this memory trick and the phonetic alphabet consisting of 10 pairs of digits and sounds from the Memory Success course. You’ll learn about his course at the bottom of this page.
How to remember names of people
When you get introduced to a person with a really long and complicated name like Antesiewicz Kolodny how on earth would you remember it? With traditional methods you would repeat this name many times in the conversation with this person, you would write it down as soon as possible, you would constantly repeat it until you remember it.
Why punish yourself by trying remember this name with traditional methods when you can remember it instantly by using a memory trick? What you would do is substitute the name to simple words that you already know and then link these words in a list.
When you hear the word "Antesiewicz" you could think of words "anti-savage" and when you hear word "Kolodny" you could picture a "colored knee". Now you would picture a person who is the opposite of savage "Antesiewicz" with a colored knee "Kolodny" in your mind.
Now when you will think about the ridiculous association that you made in your mind you will instantly remember the name Antesiewicz Kolodny.
