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Mnemonic techniques
- 1. MNEMONIC TECHNIQUES Input data in the way your brain prefers for quicker, deeper storage
- 2. Your ape brain is designed to remember where the food is, not that random equation needed for your chemistry exam. 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 3. If we input data into the brain in a format that it is good at working with – images, emotions and stories we can remember more stuff, more easily. 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 4. We’re going to look at 3 forms of mnemonics - 1. IMAGES 2. STORIES 3. ACRONYMS 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 5. Images – If we can turn a fact into a visual image, our brain will be able to tie emotions and physical feels to it. This makes it much more sticky. 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 6. Example – What is a Numismatic? Answer: It’s the study or collection of currency including coins and paper notes. Image: Imagine a photograph of ‘The Count’ from Sesame street counting his coins. 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 7. Stories – Stories are a more powerful form of the image mnemonic technique as they have more things tied to them. 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 8. Example – What is Graphophobia? Answer: It is the fear of writing. Story: Your walking down a dark alley (preferably a dark alley you’ve actually walked down before), it’s raining slightly, then out of nowhere a handwritten graph showing ‘fear vs stress level’ jumps out at you and starts stomping forward. You’re scared and so you run all the way home. 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 9. Acronyms – We’ve all used acronyms before - LOL, OMG, ASAP. 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 10. You’ve likely used them to remember data too – BODMAS (when learning to do equations in school. Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction) 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 11. However by using vivid images and stories we can improve on this. For example – My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com
- 12. As you can now start to see, rapidly learning a topic is about breaking it down and rebuilding it into packages our brain can understand. 7 Steps to Rapid Learning - UpgradedApe.com