On 20 November 2010 10:15, Wim Woittiez <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 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. > I found Harry Lorayne's books to be superior to Buzan's work, or at least written in a way that was more accessible to me when I was in secondary school. IIRC he made a very interesting point that conscious mnemonics were only a means to an end - to anchor things in memory to be easily retrieved in future - and that the line between "normal" memory and memory stored via mnemonics gets thinner and thinner as you retrieve the item so that very soon, you won't need the mnemonic to retrieve the information anymore and it will drop away like a bandage or cast that has served its purpose. I've rarely used mnemonics when learning in Mnemosyne though, because I worried that it might circumvent the process of getting things into my long-term memory (i.e. when I have to use a mnemonic to recall an item, is it cheating? Or does it reinforce the "correct" pathway to the item?). I suppose some experiments are in order! best of luck, Oisín -- 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.
