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Motivate yourself. Choose to remember. Be
interested. Pay attention. Want to learn and
know. What you want is an important part of
learning.
②
Set learning goals before you begin to read
or study. Link your study goals to your
long-term personal, business and educational
goals.
③
Visualize or picture in your mind what you
wish to remember. A mental picture or
visualization is clearer and easier to remember
than words. For each major concept that you want
to remember, create a clear mental picture and
then look at it carefully for a few seconds.
④
Create associations. Relate the ideas and
information you wish to remember to each other
and to ideas and information you already know.
This would help you create a chain of memories
which lead to one another and makes it easy to
locate and remember the information.
⑤
Repeat what you wish to learn and say it in
your own words. Even though you may think you've
already learned something, go over it one more
time. Ask a friend or relative to test you. To
remember information for a long time, review
many times on different days. Practice until
it's easy to recall. You can also make up
special memory devices or create a rhyme to help
you remember some specific information.
