Remember your school years, your class. Certainly, among your schoolmates, there were diligent pupils who were spending nights behind books, and there were those who by some miracle managed to easily write a test, almost without preparation. Maybe you belong to one of them?
Why someone needs long hours in order to understand the topic and absorb information, while another can just scan it? Usually, such discrepancy is connected with what we used to call a natural predisposition or innate abilities. "He is just lucky with genes" - complain to those who have never been given studying easily. In fact, the thing is not that these people magically absorb information better but that they memorize it differently.
What to keep in mind? Of course, it is undeniable that everyone has a natural predisposition or talent for the study of certain subjects, and everyone has a different one. What does it mean? Most of the students do not usually need help writing papers for college, and as we can see, many students are hiring professionals to save their time. Nevertheless, in our opinion, absolutely anyone can learn to "grab" information and, in particular, learn a foreign language or learn any subject faster and more effectively, and the only secret is to find the right strategy.
Here are a few quick learning methods based on linking ideas. These methods can be used both in the development of vocabulary and grammar of a foreign language. You will understand which methods will help you quickly understand and fix in memory the complex grammatical rule, and which are more suitable for the assimilation of words and expressions. These methods also work with most subjects in a College or University. Your goal is to learn how to use them competently.
· Charts and tables
Transferring thoughts to paper, turning abstract into concrete two-dimensional images is one of the easiest ways to quickly memorize and assimilate information. By creating any type of charts, tables, diagrams you will learn how to link ideas on paper. Why is it helpful? This will help in the future to quickly build hierarchies and connections in the mind, without referring to paper.
Has become quite popular technique of Mind-mapping – relationship diagram, when does some Central concept or issue, and then it will "snap" all sorts of related topics, questions... and answers.
· Intuitive visualization
By intuitive visualization, we mean more than just a representation of an image associated with the information. The main goal is to put the abstract idea into something more tangible, tangible. It is not easy to see a picture, but to integrate sounds, textures, and sensations into it.
We'll make you happy – you're already doing it, every time you look at something or chart, you use a visualization, thus, you already have experience. We need to go further.
· Method of five-year-old child
Imagine that you need to explain to a five-year-old child what you want to learn. Of course, it is very difficult to explain to the kid what thermodynamics or Newton's law is. However, trying to explain complex things in simple words, you Willy-nilly begin to associate complex concepts with simple, accessible things, and it is better to learn and memorize.
· Inventing history to remember data
Those who need to memorize a large number of digits, dates, facts, use this method. You connect the sequence that you want to remember with a fairy tale that you come up with yourself. This method works for the very reason that you again use a mental connection, association.
· Multisensory perception
Each person reacts differently to stimuli, it is thanks to them that we can learn to perceive different information. So, irritating sensors on the skin, we feel cold and heat, damaging the receptors of the tongue, we can feel the taste. Accordingly, the more feelings we engage in perception, the better the material is remembered. For example, if you need to remember the names of exotic birds, it is best not only to read their name, but also to look at the picture, and ideally – to find singing on the Internet or watch a video. Moreover, if you happen to touch it, that would be hard to forget them.
· Linking with works of art
Because the subconscious mind is perfectly stimulated by a variety of works of art, you can learn and memorize the necessary. This will happen when the fact/date will be associated with a musical work, or sculpture, or any other masterpiece. The subconscious mind will open a special gateway to memorize this information. This is very easy to learn.
Last, but not least-Delve into the read
If there is a difficulty in memorizing the material, then often the reason for this is a misunderstanding of what was read. Many people need to understand the data in order to memorize it. Here it is necessary to use logic and associations that will remain in memory.
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