Memory techniques - can you improve your memory and remember more with them?

Do you sometimes wish you had a better memory? With memory techniques you can completely change your ability to remember information and improve your memory greatly. Memory techniques are especially useful for students and people who need to remember lots of things every day.

Today memory techniques are very important because there is so much information to remember. By using memory techniques you can remember long numbers, names of people, foreign words, passwords, tasks, meetings, speeches and anything you can think of much better, faster and easier

Using memory techniques to remember information eliminates the need to take notes. They help you make your life organized, to have less confusion and more free time. They aren’t complicated and you can apply them easily to be more effective at remembering information. The best part is that applying them is easier than you think.

Memorize states of America in 20 minutes?

Here you will learn about memory techniques and how to apply them to improve your memory. Memory techniques are really simple and some of them can be learned in less than 10 minutes although it takes some time to practice them. But the more you practice memory techniques, the better your memory will be.

Think of them as a more structured way how you try to remember and arrange information in your mind. You’ll learn that it’s really no rocket science.

I once thought that I will never be able to remember all states of America in alphabetic sequence. I didn’t considered my memory that good. Boy I was wrong! Using one of the memory techniques that I learned from Memory Success course I was able to memorize all states of America in 20 minutes and it was easier that I thought possible.

Are memory techniques brand new?

It’s an interesting fact that ancient Romans used memory techniques. Since they didn’t have any note taking devices they had to rely completely on their memories. Roman orators often delivered lengthy speeches that went for hours and were well prepared. How do you think they could remember them? They used memory techniques to do that.

Memory techniques were also used in middle ages by monks and other saint. In this time memory techniques were considered very mysterious and people that used them were considered sacred.

Then came the late middle ages and everybody that used memory techniques were considered magicians and often burned. All the books about memory techniques were destroyed. Then came the time when memory techniques were forgotten but in the eighteenth century they were again brought back to life by some wise men.

Who is using memory techniques today?

Not everyone uses memory techniques today but they aren’t unknown either. They are used by memory experts to perform memory stunts that seem impossible to people with "ordinary memory". Memory experts rely completely on memory techniques since it is the only way how to remember massive amounts of information instantly.

It’s an interesting fact that the memory expert Harry Lorayne admitted that he once thought he had the worst memory in the world. Things changed when he memorized the New York phone book solely by using memory techniques.

It’s actually a quite sad fact that a rather small percentage of people use memory techniques even though it is so easy to use them to improve their memory many times. An average memory technique can be learned in less than 5 - 10 minutes. It only takes some time to practice it a bit.

Situation when memory techniques can be used

When you go shopping there are list of items that you need to buy. When you have 20 items in your buying list then it is really hard to remember them without taking notes. With memory techniques it is actually quite simple. What you do is associate each item in the list to the previous one.

There is one rule though. These associations you form in your mind should be unrealistic, ridiculous or out of shape. That is because your mind is much better at remembering unusual things than meaningless and vague things that happen every day.

Here’s how you remember a list of items

Let’s pretend that the first 3 items that you need to buy are orange, milk and bread.

You already know that orange is the first item. To remember that you also need to buy milk you form a ridiculous association in your mind where you are peeling an orange and there’s a container of milk (or a cow) inside it. To remember bread you form an association where you are milking a cow and slices of bread instead of milk come out.

Now when you think about orange you instantly remember the ridiculous association you made with it in your mind and that reminds you of milk. When you think about milk you instantly remember the ridiculous association you made with it and it reminds you of bread.

This way you can remember a list of any length. Even when you think about that list a week after you memorized it, you will still remember it because the associations you made in your mind were very strong and you made your mind to actively think about things you tried to remember.

When can you use memory techniques?

What you learned was memory technique for remembering a list of items. There are memory techniques for remembering literally everything. Below are some of the things that you can memorize much faster using memory techniques:

Long and unknown words, appointments, errands, shopping lists, speeches, foreign and english vocabulary, names and faces, long digit numbers, style numbers, prices, telephone numbers, weekly appointments, anniversaries, the Zodiac, historical dates.

You can also remember advanced information like symbols of stock market, music that you have to play, shapes of countries on the map and shapes of any other objects, whether you have done certain things like locked the door, and so much more. Memory techniques can be applied to every memory task.

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.