Effective

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Memory Skills

Instructor Shabeerali, A.V.

Dr.K. Sreenivasan shab-pg5@iiitmk.ac.in
 “The average man does not use above ten percent
of his actual inherited capacity for memory. He
wastes the ninety percent by violating the Natural
Laws of Remembering”.
-Carl Seashore

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 Natural Laws of
Remembering
Impression
Association
Repetition

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 Impression
Get a deep, vivid impression of the
thing you wish to remember.

 Concentrate
 Observe
 Deep Observe

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 Look
Deep
Observe
Observe
Look
Observe

Deep Observe

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 ?

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 "The average person's brain does not
observe a thousandth part of what the
eye observes."
--Edison

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 Association

Link System
Peg System

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 1. The Link System

Associate or Link the first item to the

second item; then second item to
the third item and so on.
See the associations as pictures in
your mind.

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 …association must be..

• Illogical
• Ridiculous
• Out of Proportion

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 E.g..
Rat,Cheese,Trap

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 E.g.. Bicycle ,
Chain

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 Problems with Linking..
It can not be used for…
 Numbers
 Large Lists
 To index an item in the list

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 2. The Peg System

The PEG system will show you

how to count with objects,
instead of numbers.

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 Mnemonics
1.------ T, D 6 --------J, sh,G
2------- N 7 --------K, c
3 -------M 8 --------F,v
4 -------R 9 --------P,b
5 -------L 0 --------Z ,s
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
TeN MoRe LoGiK FiB Z

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 Peg words..
1-9-----TuB
7-1-----CoT
2-7-----NeCK
and so on…

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 Remembering Big
Numbers

ChiCKeN – Shoe-RuN
6 7 2 6 4 2 --- 672642
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 Using Link + Peg
What else You can do…?.
large size-Lists
important points
figures,numbers,dates
names,faces,events,facts
and more…

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 Repetition
Repeating at intervals,will enable
you to memorize anything you
want.
want.
you to memorize anything you
Repeating at intervals,will enable

Repetition

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 20’ not enough…
Overview about the NLR(memory
systems).
 Who can memorize?.
 How to train your memory ?.

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 What you have to do?.
Prepare
Practice Practice Practice...
Present

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 What You will get..?.

Confidence
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 “My mind is like a piece of steel,
very hard to scratch anything on it.
But almost impossible, after you
get it there,to rub it out”. -Lincoln

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