1. The document provides techniques for memorization and speed reading, including optimal conditions, forgetting information, developing personal techniques, and benefits/downsides of speed reading. 2. It describes multiple memorization techniques like association, visualization, active observation, elaboration, written reminders, chunking, and alphabetical searching. 3. Optimal conditions for memorization include undivided attention, positive expectations, being relaxed, organization, good physical condition, sustained activity, and confidence. Forgetting can occur due to lack of encoding, too much similar information, few associations, or infrequent retrieval.

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Workshop
TMemorisation &
Speed reading
R.J. Claessens & Partners Sàrl
www.rogerclaessens.be
1.1. Levels of memorisationLevels of memorisation
2.2. Optimal conditionsOptimal conditions
3.3. Forgetting & searchingForgetting & searching
4.4. TechniquesTechniques
5.5. Speed readingSpeed reading

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What to expect

3. What can I do for me? 3

4. A A+
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In an interview: “just all talent, no work ”

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1The three stages of
memorisation

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How does memorisation work?

8. Long term
memory 8
How does memorisation work?

9. A brief recognition by the
mind of what the senses
take in
Very small amount of
facts that you can hold in
the mind at any one time
Practically
limitless capacity
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10. Very small amount of facts that
you can hold in mind at any one
time
PRACTICALLY
LIMITLESS
CAPACITY
1. ENCODING
2.RETRIEVING
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11. UNE
POSSIBILITE
PRACTICALLY
LIMITLESS
CAPACITY
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12. 1°1° Encode with attention
2° Classify and structure the information
3° Establish a link with an association
4° Establish a code of retrieval
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1° An undivided attention
2° A conscious effort of repetition
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Encoding

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Encoding

14. It is important to remember that the
amount of information that can be held in
your short-term memory is very limited!
Anything that distracts you can displace
what currently is in your short term
memory.
« What am I doing here? »
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Encoding

15. Our long term memory refers to any
information that is no longer conscious
thought but is solidly stored for potential
recollection.
It holds multiple information such as:
•What happened last Christmas
•The information you need to drive a car
•The situation of your portfolio
•Unusual circumstances
Encoding

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Unusual circumstancesUnusual circumstances
EncodingEncoding

17. Ask yourself, « When is it really important
for me to pay attention? »
At these times, resolve to focus your
awareness on the task or information at
hand.
Encoding

18. Can I do many things at the same time
and will I be productive?
No! Often one cannot avoid doing many
things at the same time but focusing on
one thing is still the requirement to reach
one’s goal.
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Encoding

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2Optimal conditions

21. 1. Association
2. Visualisation
3. Active Observation
4. Elaboration
5. Written reminders
6. Auditory reminders
7. Environmental
change
8. Self-instructions
9. Story method
10. Chunking
11. First letter clues
12. Create a word
13. Categorisation
14. Search your memory
15. Alphabetical search
16. Review
Techniques of memorisation

22. • Association, with
something you know
or remember
• I have two cars that
have gas caps on
opposite sites and can
never remember
which is which
Techniques of memorisation

23. How to remember their name?
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24. • Visualise, the process
of consciously creating
an image in your mind
• A picture is worth a
thousand words
• I stand up to get
something and forget
what I went to get
Techniques of memorisation

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Visualisation

26. • Observation • Active observation is
the process of
consciously paying
attention to the
details of what you
see, hear or read
• I leave a car in the car
park and forget where
it is!
Techniques of memorisation

27. Do you have to
remember everything in
your head?
• I can be selective
• I can use reminders:
written, auditory,
environnemental
change
• Writing is a powerful
tool
• All the written
reminders need to be in
the same place!
Techniques of memorisation

28. The instructions
Writing things down is
one of the most useful
memory tools
• Give yourself
instructions of what
needs to be
remembered
• I have to do this before
a certain time
• Write it down and
follow the instruction
Techniques of memorisation

29. Devise a story that will
connect things you
want to remember
• A fact, a person has his
story
• Keep the story in mind
and you will recall the
fact, the name or any
other item you want to
remember
Techniques of memorisation

30. Chunk individual items
into a group, the first
letters serve as a
memory cue.
• 66.36.69 = 663.669
• 34.349 = 34. 34. 9
• Goals are SMART=
specific, measurable,
acceptable, realistic,
tangible
Techniques of memorisation

31. Retrieve information in a
systematic way
• A memory is like a piece
of furniture with many
drawers
• Look data up in a
systematic way, i.e. per
alphabetical order, per
association, per time of
storage
Techniques of memorisation

32. Retrieve information in a
systematic way
• If you do not recall it,
relax and be patient,
the information will
often come to you
• Give time to your
memory to find the
information!
Techniques of memorisation

33. The memory palace
technique (Matteo
Ricci)
• Remember the house of
your parents? Walking
through and place in
each room what you
want to remember
Techniques of memorisation

34. Four helpful techniques 1. Search your memory by
means of related facts or
data that may serve as a
cue
2. Alphabet search
3. Review in advance what
you may be called upon to
remember
4. Refresh your memory,
use it often to recall things
you retained in your
memory.
Techniques of memorisation

35. • Some additional comments:
– It is easier to remember things in a familiar
field
– Learning a language is, above all, a matter of
sensitivity to vocal flexibility
– One remembers better when « emotion » is
involved.
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Techniques of memorisation

36. – Remember that the brain requires a lot of
energy, think about how you eat
– Motivation is essential, we remember much
better what motivates us
– Forgetting is a necessary process of the good
functioning of our memory.
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Techniques of memorisation

37. 1° Undivided attention
2° Positive expectations
3° Relaxed
4° Organised (Time Management)
5° Good physical condition
6° Sustained activity
7° Confidence
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MOTIVATION – CONCENTRATION - PERCEPTION
Techniques of memorisation

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Forgetting & searching
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39. 1° Some information never got into the
memory
2° Too much subsequent similar information
3° Few associations
4° No proper trigger that retrieves the
information
5° No recent retrieval
6° Memory changes over time
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Why do we forget?

41. Letting your brain search
for information
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42. PourquoiPourquoi
oublionsoublions
nous?nous?
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4Developping your
personal technique

45. Some personal examples
Based on :
1.Choosing something specific that I want to
remember
2.Selecting a technique
3.Repetition, repetition and repetition!

46. Some personal examples
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How to memorise an economic
issue? « Dessine-moi l’économie »

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48. Products
& Services
GDP
Consumers
Salaries,
interest,
rentals
Employment
Entrepreneurs
Offer
Quoi?
Comment?
Pour qui?
Dem
and
Dem
and
Offer
Governement Central bank
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49. Five major markets:
1. The money market
2. The capital market
3. The foreign exchange market
4. The stock market
5. The futures market.
The financial markets

50. What are those markets again?What are those markets again?
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51. What are the principalWhat are the principal
functions of a bank?functions of a bank? 51

52. The mental picture
W H A T IS A B A N K ?

53. • 3 short term
• 8 bonds
• 12 shares
Remembering low to high volatility

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The effects of training or
learning on performance

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The pleasure of memorisationThe pleasure of memorisation

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5Speed reading

58. 1. Read without pronouncing the
words, just look at them
2. Use your finger to guide and
support your eyes in going
faster
3. Increase your finger speed
gradually
4. Learn to look at three words
simultaneously
5. Learn to look at group of
words (requires a lot of
exercise!)
Summary

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Speed reading technique
• You do not need to pronounce (vocalize)
• Disconnect reading from speaking
• Think about extracting information
• Visual regression (do not go back to what you
have read fast)
• Use a song anchor loop (same song while
reading)
• Use peripheral vision

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• Skim before reading; it will improve your
comprehension (pre-rading)
• Read what you underlined in a book at least
two to three times (remember repetition is
the key to memorisation)
• If you had to give a summary of what you just
read, what would you write
Speed reading technique

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The benefits of speed reading
• You can read more
• It will take less time
• It is a good exercise for your memory
• It will allow you to retrieve the
information faster
• It will force you to concentrate
• It will allow to read at least a second time

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The down side of speed reading
• Inadequate for legal documents
• Not appropriate if you want to enjoy
literature
• Not wanted for important personal
messages
• Also not appropriate for instructions for
use

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“Cash is king” is often quoted. Any company should monitor and
manage carefully its cash position, understand and anticipate how
cash is generated. The balance sheet would record any change in
cash over a given period of time; and the change is cash is
between two dates could provide the net cash generated over
that period.

64. Financial Times
• 80 % of the information
is in the first paragraph
and in the last
paragraph + a figure, if
any
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The benefits of speed reading

65. Data management
• Choose the sources which take you the least
time and provide you the required information.
•Leave blanks in your agenda to read
information you consider important,
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66.  Do you find the information you are
looking for quite quickly?
 How is your office organised?
 How do you organise the incoming
information?
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Data management

67. You can only be good when
pasionate about it

68. 1. Believe in yourself
2. Make choices about
what you want to
remember
3. Focus your attention
on what is essential
4. Cut out distractions
5. Give yourself time
6. Use all your senses
7. Be organised
8. Recognise what might
prevent you from
retrieving the
information
9. Be relaxed
10. Enjoy past memories
Final tips

69. • Intelligence is a gift
• Good thinking and
remembering is an
art
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70. Leave from here
thinking that
YOU are
AWESOME

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