Seven Ways To Improve Memory

1. By Repetition: You can learn and remember almost anything if you have the patience to repeat it often enough.
2. By Understanding: Gain understanding. If you do not understand a subject or situation, you cannot be expected to remember it. You must know the logical relations between all the given facts.
3. By Association: Association is one of the shortest and surest ways of remembering.
4. By Curiosity: If you are deeply and genuinely interested, your attention focuses more or less as a matter of course.
5. By Attention: Cultivate the power of attention. Men of fruitful intellects and first-rate memories invariably have excellent powers of attention, observation and concentration. Attention means sidetracking everything except the thought or experience you want to remember.
6. Bringing your senses closer to bear on what you want to remember: All cells of nervous system are connected, so that the more impressions you get of a thing the more stings you have with which to pull it out of the subconscious mind at will. This principle is very important in remembering names and faces.
7. By thinking deeply on the point you want to remember: Make a careful and thoughtful selection of the things that it is necessary for you to remember and turn your mental search lights on these alone.

No-one can remember everything. Many people try to remember telephone numbers, when it would be much wiser to save their precious mental machinery for more important work. Many things belong in your notebook rather than in your mind.