Dear all, I recently took a course on memory techniques with a colleague, in order to start teaching that course myself. On Thursday, I did so for the third time, and it finally all came together.
It made me realise my work with Mnemosyne was pretty pointless... not because of Mnemosyne, don't get me wrong, but because of the way I dealt with the information. I found that I needed lots of repetition before something would stick, and even then it didn't stick as well as I wanted it to. Using my imagination to memorise, suddenly allowed me to progress with items I just kept forgetting, and now, these things still immediately come to mind, whereas remembering all the rest is still a struggle. I haven't used Mnemosyne for a while now... I needed all my mental capacity for getting up to speed in my new job. To be honest, I can't wait to use both Mnemosyne AND memory techniques based on imagination. The result can hardly be anything but phenomenal. By the way, every time I teach this course, I recommend Mnemosyne to people. I felt I needed to tell you guys this, because it is so crucial to memorising. If you want to know how it works, I'll be posting articles about it on www.wimwoittiez.be (in English) and www.slimmerwerken.be (in Dutch), but the best resources are 2 books: "Maximise your memory" by Jonathan Hancock, and "Use your memory" by Tony Buzan. A third book comes to mind, which focused a lot on a healthy diet and exercise. I'm in pretty good shape in that respect, so it was less useful to me, but to some, this could be the first priority. It's so essential to know this before starting to do extensive work with Mnemosyne, that I wonder if we could find a way to make it practically impossible for people to ignore. I'm curious to hear how many of you are really using these techniques, and how you feel about the subject! Kind regards, Wim -- Wim Woittiez 0486 69 87 31 [email protected] Creator of Communicatie en Tango <http://www.communicatieentango.be/> Trainer at Veeckman & De Veirman <http://www.vedv.be/> http://be.linkedin.com/in/wimwoittiez See who we know in common on LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/17626342/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
