you must remember this - karen dolby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you must remember this

easy tricks & proven tips to never forget anything, aver again

karen dolby

 

 

 

 

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

Leonardo Da Vinci

 

 

 

The Link and Story Method

Tepee

Fountain

Fish

Marathon

Grapes

Broom

Clock

Chocolate

Shower

Boat

 

 

Language

"Memory Feeds imagination"

- Amy Tan

 

 

Literature

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory.

There seems something more speakingly incomprehensibel in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so abedient; at other, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyound control!

We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."

- Jane Auster, Mansfield Park

 

 

How to Learn a Foreign Language

"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."

- Cato The Elder

 

 

General Knowledge

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people.

Let your memory be your travel bag."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

 

The Loci, or Journey, System

Basket

Towel

Shampoo

Pineapple

DVD

Deodorant

Cell phone

Newspaper

Pens

Bar of chocolate

 

 

History

"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.

For waht is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

 

The Peg and Major Systems

- The Number/Rhyme Mnemonic

 

 

Time and Calendars

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

- Tom Stoppard

 

 

The Alphabet Technique

A    Ace of spades

B    Bee

C    Sea

D    Diesel engine

E    Eagle

F    effluent

G    Jeans

H    H-bomb

I     Eye

J    Jade

K    Cake

L    Elephant

M    Empty

N    eNTRANCE

O    Oboe

P    Pea

Q    Queue

R    Ark

S    Eskimo

T    Teapot

U    Unicycle

V    Vehicle

W    WC

X    X-ray

Y    Wire

Z    Zulu

 

 

 

The Bible/Sunday School

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

- Albert Einstein

 

 

Using Your Senses

"The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls bearing resiliently on thiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory."

- Marcel Proust

 

 

Math and Numbers

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

- Albert Einstein

 

 

Sleep and Memory

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Biology

"I've a grand memory for forgetting."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

Chemistry

"We are able to find everything in our memory which is like a despensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

- Marcel Proust

 

Physics

"Science may set limits to knowledge but should not set limits to imaginaiton."

- Bertrand Russell

 

 

Astronomy

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

- Plato

 

 

Remembering Names and Faces

"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."

- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

 

 

Geography

"Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment."

- Benjamin Franklin

 

 

How Do Actors Learn Lines?

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence."

- Abigail Adams

 

 

Weather

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating;

there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

- John Ruskin

 

 

Music

"After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

- Aldous Huxley

 

 

Sports

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

- Heywood Broun

 

 

Classics and Mythology

"[Memory is] a man's real possession....

In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."

- Alexander Smith

 

 

Memory Games

"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious.

But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised;

as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten."

- Arthur Schopenhauser

 

 

 

Final Thoughts

"Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person.

And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen."

- Marcel Proust

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quick! Name the planets in the solar system! Not so easy, is it? All the facts and scraps of knowledge we’ve learned throughout our education can be forgotten over time, and are often impossible to recall when we need them most (i.e., an intense game of Trivial Pursuit!). But with You Must Remember This , all those facts and trivia will come flooding back, for good. From the beloved master of the color spectrum “Roy G. Biv”, to easy tips to help learn the basics of any language, You Must Remember This is the perfect addition to anyone’s book shelf. It includes hundreds of handy mnemonics to help you remember a wealth of information:

The four oceans of the world:
I Am A Person

The presidential heads carved on Mount Rushmore:
We Just Like Rushmore

And of course, those planets (sans Pluto):
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles

Whether you want to remember fact, poems, or speeches, or just learn how to remember daily errands without being so dependent on lists, this book is for you. Discover techniques used by memory experts, how actors learn their lines, and how your brain works to store memories. Both an invaluable collection of memory tricks and a fascinating look at the workings of our memory , You Must Remember This is the perfect resource to ensure that you'll never be short of memory again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depens upon our interest in it.

We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds."

Tryon Edwards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publishers Weekly

While they may not help us find our keys, Dobly believes that the mnemonic techniques and other "memory systems" are key to recalling information. Rhymes, diagrams, acronyms, and onomatopoeia are often used by actors and public speakers to learn and remember lines, and Dolby provides a wealth of such tools to help readers with everything from remembering a name to learning a foreign language to memorizing Shakespeare, which is much more involved than spending hours pouring over the play; "Increasingly evidence suggests that memory is not just a mental process but something that involves the whole body," she finds. Though she believes wholeheartedly in the power of mnemonics, Dolby also includes a survey of other "memory systems," such as Peg, Major, and Loci, "used by memory masters" and explains how readers should pursue these systems if interested. Though her focus is ultimately narrow – mnemonics and mnemonics alone – Dolby's guide will appeal most to those already interested in the subject; the casual forgetter may leave more frustrated than stimulated. (Aug.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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