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There are times when you simply must memorize information. Try this approach:
- Make the information you need to memorize important. If it's important to you, you'll
find it easier to remember.
- Make sure you have the information right and that you understand it thoroughly.
- Associate the new material with related facts that you already know.
- Organize the material so you can put it in its proper place in your memory. Try to see
where it fits into a larger whole.
- Use more than one technique for remembering (experiment to see the ones which work best
for you):
- Use the information - write it down, doodle with it, use it in conversations.
- Repetition - repeat or write it down multiple times.
- Recitation - say it out loud (multiple times).
- Teaching another - explain it to another person.
- Visualizing - picture the information (several times a day, whenever you remember that
you should be studying it).
- Music and rhyme - make up a song or poem with the information in it. Sing the song or
recite the poem several times.
- Association - connect the information with a "key" - a word, phrase or image
that reminds you of something about the material you are trying to memorize. For example,
if you need to memorize the scientific name of a fruit bat, try associating it with
"Halloween".
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