MemorizeI have done a bit of memorization over the last 10 years and one of the things I learned from my studies is this...Memorization is not so much about whether your brain can store data but whether you can figure out how to direct your brain to recover it. I have used some well known techniques along with some of my own ideas to develop my own training program to memorize a few things. Don't worry about filling your mind up with useless data (your mind won't get full) but go ahead and try my memory programs. If nothing else they will provide you with some ideas for how you can memorize information that is important to you. Experts say that if you practice memorizing something every day for a week and then revisit it once a week for 6 months that you will have it permanently. I recommend continuing to revisit it at least once every 3 to 4 months after completing the 6 month schedule. Try to create a picture in your mind to represent some key elements of each item you memorize. It helps if you can visualize something silly, crazy, smelly and noisy or associate a feeling to the item. For this reason I have provided a sentence to help you picture something about each item to remember. Read the sentence out loud and the items to remember. Hearing the sentence helps to establish an additional memory connection to the item. |
One of the key ideas that I have had that you will find demonstrated throughout my training is that having more than one way to recover the same information is not waistfull. In fact having many paths to the same information reinforces the recall process.
NATO Phonetic Alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie...)The letters A through Z can be more clearly identified to the listener over the phone or radio waves by using these words. The exercises are presented here in increasing order of difficulty.Here is the NATO Phonetic Alphabet listing. Now lets learn it with some drills. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie... Alpha, Bravo, Charlie... (2) Alpha, Bravo, Charlie... (3) The Numeric AlphabetFor an introduction see this Numeric Alphabet IntroductionWith these exercises we will not only be learning the "Numeric Alphabet" but the words we will be constructing using it will be used to link with lists of items to remember. Be sure to read the Sample sentence for each word. The exercises are presented here in increasing order of difficulty. The Numeric Alphabet 1 (in sequence) The Numeric Alphabet 2 (random) The Numeric Alphabet 3 (in sequence) The Numeric Alphabet 4 (random) The Numeric Alphabet 5 (random) Memorizing lists larger than 100You can combine the two lists of words... The NATO Phonetic Alphabet and The Numeric Alphabet for example as follows...35 = mall 1025 = JulietNail 2589 = YankeeFib 126 = AlphaWinchThe leftmost 2 digits (or hundreds) are represented by the NATO Phonetic Alphabet (1 - 26). The rightmost 2 digits (ones) are represented by our Numeric Alphabet (0-99). With this logic we could represent numbers up to 2699. Practice drills Alpha, Bravo, Charlie...Number Drill (4) Alpha, Bravo, Charlie...Number Drill (5) Phonetic Alphabet & Numeric Alphabet Practice |