How to Improve Studying in 1 Easy Step
It’s possible to “trick” our mind into remembering things, by simply making the mind feel that new information is important.
Have you ever noticed how some people can seemingly remember new words with ease, while for you and me the words just don’t stick?
This is actually by design of the human mind. The human mind has adapted over time to have what is needed for survival ready at our fingertips, with as little alternative as possible. This leads to rapid decisions, easy conversations and quick actions. It’s a good thing. The human mind has been designed so that important information is stored in ready-access areas, while unimportant information is completely forgotten.
However, it is possible to remember vast amounts of information. In fact, there’s been no proven limit to how much information the mind can store. It does seem to be possible to remember life almost photographically, if the right mental conditions are in place.
What this means is that if you aren’t remembering your studied vocabulary, then your brain isn’t believing the information is important enough for survival. This is a problem. In fact, this is dangerous. All that time you have put into anything may actually be a waste, unless you get it fixed.
Luckily, the solution is simple. The human mind may be extremely capable, but its design is remarkably simple. It’s possible to “trick” our mind into remembering things, by simply making the mind feel that new information is important. And how is importance measured in the human mind? Well, us repeating to ourselves “this is important, this is important” doesn’t quite seem to work. But there is a way, a single way.
Emotion
Have you ever noticed how there are some insignificant memories that you can remember from decades ago, even though the information itself is unimportant? And yet it seems that no matter how long it’s been, the memory doesn’t fade? If you dig deep, and I hope that you do, then you’ll probably find that the memories that never fade all have one thing in common: They have a strong emotion attached to them.
The human brain determines importance based on the perceived value of that information, be it positive or negative. And this value is read by how much emotion there is at the time of the information. It doesn’t even matter what the emotion is specifically - although one caveat I should mention to you is that it does help to link the emotion with the emotion you’ll be able to use when you want to recall it. If you remember everything with sad emotions, and you’re in a happy mood when you want to recall the information, your mind isn’t going to be as good at recalling it. This is because human memory is based on emotional activation.
How to Create Emotion With Learning Vocabulary?
There are facts in your subconscious that you’ve never forgotten, because they were linked with a reasonably strong emotion.
I hope you’re curious at this point. The information here is invaluable. It is the fundamental key to all learning. And the key is…(drumroll please)
Stories.
Creating stories. Vivid, imaginative stories automatically have a range of emotion embedded in them. When you’re thinking of a red frog hopping across a warm firey lake, you are generating emotions. You are linking emotions with an imagine in your mind, where you can embed new information. And if your emotion is reasonably strong enough, you will remember that information permanently. There are facts in your subconscious that you’ve never forgotten, because they were linked with a reasonably strong emotion. This is the magic “soup” that the mind uses to store information. And it’s also how those with photographic memories are always remembering everything: they are always feeling an emotional tone in the background of their day-to-day life.
Stories are the key to high memory, and are essential for easy-recall of every word you would ever need to know. Using this change facilitates massive growth in your learning capability. Really.
Where To From Here?
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