Remember Anything

fact, one of the problems of being able to memorize things quickly is that it tricks you into thinking that you have something memorized when you really don’t.  You have it in short term memory, but if asked for it a month from now, you probably couldn’t even get the first line out.

about it, how many songs and commercials do you know verbatim?  Did you ever stop to think why you know them?  The reason is quite simple, you heard them over and over and over and over and over…. again.

are several ways you can implement consistent repetition.

Make it a family activity.  This works especially well with young families before everyone is going a thousand different directions during the week.  When we want to memorize a passage, we place the passage under our clear table cloth.  Every night right before we eat dinner, we read the passage out loud together.  Even the kids who don’t want to participate learn the passage this way because while they aren’t saying the passage, they are hearing it at least once a day.

her method you might want to consider is to place a print out of the passage somewhere you will see it at least once a day and read it every time you see it.  I have a friend who does this and places several copies in locations throughout his house.  This method works best with smaller passages that you can read through in less than a minute or so.  When they get too long, you are less likely to stop and really read the passage.

For longer passages, you might try either obtaining or making a recording of the passage.  Then instead of listening to that mindless radio on the way to work that you probably aren’t really listening to anyhow, you can play the passage back.  You might be able to do this several times on the way to work and back.  Or, you might opt for just listening to it once a day.

f course, you could always read the passage out loud once a day to yourself as well.  But, whatever method you choose, it is important that you do it every day.  It helps a lot of people to choose a specific time when they will work on the passage so that it becomes a habit that is hard to break.

In part two, we will look at the second fundamental of memorization.  Involving the senses.<

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