Book Notes
Main Framework for Memory
- Get It - Attention and focus on thing to be remembered
- Save It - Actual strategy to keep something in memory
Attention Exercises - Get it
- Breathing Exercise pp. 6
- Guess What is Next pp. 7
- Ask yourself How to Remember this pp. 9
Remembering Exercises - Save it
Picture it pp. 12-21
- Start with information you want to remember.
- Can you picture it?
- What does it sound like?
- What does it remind you of?
pp. 17
Our minds are like detectives from a TV show. All your mind needs is a few clues, then it can solve the case,
E.S.C.A.P.E - Use Interesting Images pp. 18
- Boring = Easy to forget
- Exciting = Easy to remember
- Exaggeration, Silliness, Color, Action, People, Emotion
Connect it pp. 22-23
- Hook images together to keep things in a more compact image
pp. 23
Eventually, you will know the facts and won’t have to picture them. The tools in this book help as you learn new material. You won’t use them to remember a fact forever because your mind will eventually store the information for long-term.
Review it pp. 23
- Review images and information together. If still hard to remember add more creativity using E.S.C.A.P.E