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.

Does photographic memory exist?

Are there really people with photographic memory literally "taking pictures" of information or is photographic memory a myth?

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a photographic memory? All it would require to memorize something would be just taking a glance at it. Memory like that would surely be a real advantage.

Today and in the past people have showed extraordinary memory performance. If you’ve ever looked at the Guinness Book of World Records, you know that some people are capable of what seem to be astounding feats of memory.

What can be done with memory?

There are chess masters, for example, who are able to glance quickly at pieces on a chess board and then flawlessly reconstruct the positions on a new board. Some can also typically play blindfolded chess against several opponents at the same time, easily memorizing many chessboard configurations.

Others are able to read through a page in a book and then recite the page from memory, or memorize hundreds of names and numbers from a telephone directory.

Impressive as these feats are, scientists attribute them to specialized ways of thinking about the information, not to any kind of enhanced visual memory.

Is photographic memory a myth?

Early experiments on photographic memory were intriguing, but could not be replicated. Scientists who study memory phenomena generally believe that photographic memory does not exist and is only a myth.

While one cannot completely discount the possibility of a photographic memory, since there have been some very rare individuals with truly extraordinary powers of memory. Those examples of outstanding memory that have been studied have all turned out to be due to the use of powerful memory techniques.

The memory stunts are performed using truly effective memory techniques, and anyone who wants to put in the requisite time and energy can develop a powerful memory.

What can you do to develop powerful memory?

It is possible to develop a powerful memory and you can do it by using memory techniques. Since they are very simple everyone can learn them. The memory technique that helps you memorize any length list of words in sequence takes less than 10 minutes to learn.

With memory techniques it is possible to memorize things that would seem impossible to memorize without them. Almost every memory stunt is performed by using them. Harry Lorayne memorized phone book of New York and performed every other memory stunt in his career solely by using memory techniques.

Memory techniques can be applied to any memory task. They can be applied to memorizing numbers, words, names and faces of people, foreign languages, speeches and any other information. They let your mind memorize information much better and faster by doing it in a more structured and systematic way.

Have not been away from home much and now you are heading off to college. You know you have heard of others quitting school, coming back home and just getting a job to ease their minds. Do you want to be the next coming home? The following are some ideas, tricks, and tips just in case you are feeling home sick and ways to cure your self.

Use the email – fast, effective means of communicating with anyone back home. You can write letters everyday to some one different and have email coming to you everyday – keeping you up to date on all the happenings. If you do not have a computer in your dorm, or in your dorm room – check out the library, use a free email account, easy to set up and use.

Call home – calling and talking to whom ever you miss the most will make you feel good inside. Hearing actual words and realizing that you are missed as well, does make you feel wanted and more confident about your self while you have to be away from home.

Sending post cards – allowing yourself to express your need to let someone know you care releases stress with in you alleviating some stress about being away from home.

Have your local newspaper delivered to your dorm room / mailbox at the college. You will be able to read about all the happenings in your hometown, and keep up on current events.

Go home once a month for the first five or six months – just over night on the weekend. You will slowly notice that nothing much will change while you are away at school, and you may even notice that you feel more at home ‘away’ at your dorm as you make friends and new acquaintances. 

Write your feelings down in a journal, expressing every emotion that you are going through at the time. Go back once every two weeks or so and reread what you have written since you have been at college. You will notice that even on the continued ‘homesick’ days, you will not be as sad or depressed as you once were. You will notice your life getting better and you will feel better deep inside.

Visit your hometown page on the web, looking through pictures and reading local news stories will keep you in touch will your feelings for home.

Hang out with new friends that you have made at school – swapping stories of back home, talking about things you did, plan on doing or things going on there will strengthen your bond with your new friend while helping your keep in touch with your feelings for home.

Students that get homesick will generally feel better as time goes on, and as your schedule gets more hectic, you will with for home as a stress relief!

Head colds, headaches, and the flu are common ailments among college students. You should be prepared with any kind(s) of insurance information that your parents have for your medical treatments if ever needed. If you do not have insurance, the doctor’s office will either charge you or ask you to pay with cash. 

Being prepared to go to the doctors’ office is also another subject that needs to be discussed. There are always the questions of your family medical history. You should know about the major illnesses in your immediate family if nothing else, for example your parents, brothers, and sisters. This will give a doctor a better insight in to your medical composure or symptoms to watch for as well.

Over the counter medicine will most likely be available at your campus bookstore, or at many local stores surrounding the campus. Try not to buy only a one time consumption amount – like two head ache pills in a package will cost you almost a dollar and when you buy a bottle of aspirin it will most likely cost you around three dollars for somewhere about fifty pills. You know you will need more in sometime during your stay at the college so it is good to have on hand.

If you have been sick more than three days, and unable to attend classes you should get in touch with classmate or professor, he or she will be able to advise you as how to get caught up in your classes and what steps you should take next. If your symptoms are continuing beyond three days and you have not gone to the doctors, you may want to seek medical advice to ensure you do not have a more serious condition besides those listed above.

Living in the dorms and in a variety of housing for college students – you will be in close contact with a variety of people, with a variety of germs. Never drink after anyone, no matter how well you know them. If you are visiting some one, do not eat anything that you cannot identify or if you do not know where it came from just to be on the safe side. 

Always use your own toothbrushes, returning your items to your room especially if you are sharing a bathroom with a variety of other students. It is a fact that the majority of the germs in a bathroom come from when the toilet is flushed, as gross as that may be.

Just in review, have you insurance cards or at least numbers with you while you are away at school if available – keep your self healthy, and if you do get sick more than three days get in contact with you advisor and a local doctor. It is always better to be safe that to end up missing weeks of school for minor health’s issues that have run wild in your body.