Be In the Moment

• focus on learning.
• You need to pay attention to your environment
• To learn how to stay in the moment,
• Don’t multitask
• Create a Learning Environment
• You may be accustomed to background noise (like traffic), or you may need complete silence,
• understand your learning style.

Use All Your Senses

• If you’re learning something, involve as many senses as possible to help retain the experience.
• Drawing and writing includes the use of motor skills that help you to remember information as you stimulate motor pathways.
• If you utilize these motor skills in a task, don’t try something new for a few days.
• For instance, if you lack charts and diagrams for your reading materials, create them yourself s
• Take notes on index cards or in a notebook as you listen to a lecture
• Sound includes talking to yourself
• Talk with another person about the information you’ve gathered.
• If you’re studying information that includes models (like a car engine) touch various parts
• Attach your ideas to an inert object for your learning process.
• Along the same lines, you can attach steps within a learning process to actual stairways or to stairs that you draw.
• Although taste and smell both evoke strong memories, they aren’t very convenient for organizing or holding information in your mind.

Use Mnemonic Devices

• Mnemonic devices can provide clues to help you remember things.
• Use positive or amusing images
• Make the images colorful and three-dimensional, they’ll be easier to remember.
• Use alliteration to help memorize certain data.
• Rhymes also are useful for memorization.
• “Chunk” information, or arrange a long list into smaller units or categories that will be easier to remember.
• Connect new data to information you already know.

Organize

• Disorganized people report more memory problems than those individuals who are accustomed to organization.
• Write things down, but write them down in appropriate places.
• Lists are great for handling stress – even if the list is a long one, it will be rewarding to cross items off as you complete them.
• Learn how to prioritize.
• Use online or paper calendars to remember important dates.
• Use both words and pictures to help retain information
• Break detailed ideas down into simple thoughts that you can convey to someone else (or to yourself).
• Similarly, if you understand basic concepts, this memory will help you to retrieve isolated details about that concept.
• When you can’t write something down, visualize those ideas as being compartmentalized in your brain, much like you would file information away into a filing cabinet.
• Keep a pad, pencil and small flashlight by your bed to write down ideas that you have at night.

Overlearn

• Spend some time with new material a few hours after you’ve been introduced to it. Review notes and try to consolidate the notes into a broad concept or idea.
• Review notes and other information at intervals throughout the next few days.
• Review material until it becomes second nature.
• Retain a Positive Attitude
• If you don’t want to learn something, chances are you won’t learn it.
• Tell yourself that you want to learn and that you can learn and remember the information at hand.
• If you constantly tell yourself and others that you have a bad memory, this action actually hampers the ability of your brain to remember.
• A positive outlook and positive mental feedback sets up an expectation for success.

Exercise Regularly

• Exercise increases oxygen to the brain, and oxygen is important for brain function.
• Physical exercise reduces the risk for disorders that lead to memory loss, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
• A mix of programs that involve both aerobic exercise and strength training are of greatest benefit, with exercise sessions lasting at least 30 minutes.
• Exercise may enhance the effects of helpful brain chemicals and protect brain cells.
• Exercise helps to control blood sugar levels.
• Exercise may increase self-confidence, and may reduce anxiety and depression and help you to retain a more positive attitude about life.

Manage stress

• Stress can make it difficult to remember and to concentrate.
• Physical exercise can help to relieve stress. Even a simple walk can help to clear the mind.
• Jokes, soothing music, and even a short nap can help to break the stress.
• On the other hand, arousing, exciting, momentous occasions, including stressful ones, get filed away very readily.

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Try to remember all that, K?