Capter 8

Question 1

Which are Nelson Dellis’s five memory tips ? And the extra 5?

Answer 1

1) Focus on what you’re trying to remember.
2) Practice remembering.
3) Turn what you are trying to remember into a picture.
4) Create anchors
5) Use active recall to make the idea stick

6) Use a song.
7) Make metaphors.
8) Take good notes, preferably handwritten.
9) Imagine you are the thing you’re trying to understand and remember.
10) Share your ideas. Teach them to someone else.

Question 2

Is it possible to be able to develop a good memory even if you’ve always had a bad memory? If so, how?

Answer 2

Through practice !

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Question 3

Explain the memory palace technique.

Answer 3

Also called Method of Loci.
We visualize a place we already know, and we create stations and a pathway that runs through this stations.
So we can walk in order through them.
It’s important to maintain the order.

Question 4

Explain the differences between the two ways we store information in long-term memory.

Answer 4

We store things in 2 ways:

• facts (hard to store)
• pictures (easy to store)

Question 5

Turning a fact into a picture makes the fact easier to remember. What can you do with the picture to make it stick even better in memory? Give an example.

Answer 5

• make it bigger
• add sounds
• make it stupid
• give life to it, animate it
• speak to it