How to have a great memory?
>>16826612Just remember stuff, it's not that hard. If you don't remember, fake little details until it seems like you remembered. Works for must use cases
>>16826612IF everything is ok with your mind.You just learn and use the knowledge you learned, and you just start remembering things.The more you remembering things, the better you get at remembering things.
>>16826612Make it personal. When you learn something new, think of a time in the past when that was relevant. If that fails, make up your own acronym or story or explanation for it. Repeat this after some time/days has passed.That's for getting things to stick to Long Term Memory, anyway. Nurture new concepts over that are in short-term memory; relate to them using with episodic and semantic memory
>>16826612Compress and distill knowledge to key/core ideas that are axiomatically true or logically true. No need for fluffs, no bloat, no 2nd or 3rd order requirements, etc
by far the most important factor for developing a great memory is getting enough quality sleep consistently. sleep is where memory consolidation takes place, every other tip is practically useless if you're not getting enough sleep, anon. secondly I'd say changing up your daily or weekly routine, for example, walking a different way home from work or starting a random creative hobby. these changes will help give your life a sense of novelty and keep your brain healthy so it can hold on to memories easier. this is one of the reasons you probably remember your childhood a lot more vividly, because there was more novelty. attaching emotion to peices of information can help them be more easily sorted into long-term memory. this is why personification of peices of information or acronyms work. explaining whatever you're trying to learn to someone else, or even record yourself explaining it and imagine you are a teacher trying to teach someone else. it's very clear that people who teach are better able to learn and hold information. my last tip is to eat a healthy diet and get some exercise, this sounds like very generic advice but I promise you it will help keep your brain healthy and working. you can also look into things like lionsmane mushroom extracts if you want, they worked for me but you should do your own research.
>>16826612People are generally terrible at remembering bullet points.People are generally less terrible at remembering a narrative.Solution: as you acquire information, think in terms of cause-and-effect. It's much less taxing on your memory to understand why a certain fact is true than to try to retain it in isolation. This is roughly why mnemonics work.
I read the book Make it Stick and am reading A Mind for Numbers now.Basically don't just passively read stuff.
>>16826612Unironically fearmaxxI noticed I struggled to memorize anything until I began studying spiders, all of a sudden everything I was reading clicked because my brain fed on retaining information on an primitive fear
It was decent until I got long covid, then I'll forget what me or someone was talking about halfway into a conversation 20% of the time. Help?
