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4 ways to hack your memory, with Lisa Genova

Self-testing is one good way to better remember information. Think of memory as a two-way street. If we only put information in, it is like traveling in only one direction. Recalling information requires us to go the other way.

Spacing out studying is better than cramming.If you need seven hours to prepare for an exam that is one week from today, study one hour per day rather than all seven hours the night before.

Context matters for memory recall. If you study while eating Sour Patch candy, do the same thing while taking the test.

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About Lisa Genova:
Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O’Briens, and Every Note Played. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. She travels worldwide speaking about the neurological diseases she writes about and has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Today, PBS NewsHour, CNN, and NPR. Her TED talk, “What You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s,” has been viewed more than five million times. The New York Times bestseller REMEMBER is her first work of nonfiction.

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I have an acronym to help me remember study techniques: MESSRIG
M - mnemonics (memory devices)
E - elaboration (explain what you’ve learned)
S - spacing (space out study sessions, as outline in the video)
S - self observation (observe how you are thinking and the mistakes you make while studying)
R - retrieval (test yourself and practice pulling the info out of long term memory)
I - interleaving (mix newer material with already learned material)
G - generation (force yourself to generate the answer without looking at it… very similar to retrieval, but emphasizes the act of coming up with an answer even if you feel like you don’t know).

Hope this can be useful to anybody! (I have a few videos on these on my channel if you’re interested. Also the book “Make it Stick” is amazing for these kinds of learning strategies).

senseofmindshow

One of the best teachers I ever had would always give us quizzes right after our lessons on the material we just learned. I remembered nearly everything he taught in that class and got a 101 as my final grade. It is such an excellent strategy to test yourself right after learning material to better absorb it.

trinodot

She forgot to mention the most important thing: sleep well, to remember well

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*“As we waste time, time is wasting us - Ryan Holiday*

DemetriPanici

Our memory helps make us who we are. From fondly recollecting childhood events to remembering where we left our keys, memory plays a vital role in every aspect of our lives. It provides us with a sense of self and makes up our continual experience of life👍

dailydoseofmedicinee

Another useful thing that helped me through university was, after throughly studying a topic, i would draft this mini sheets as if im going to cheat from them in the exam. The papers would be extremely small, like 1/4 of my palm and i would have to fit the entire topic on that ridiculously small paper, it would force me to tightly pack the information as much as i possibly can.

Whats even better is that, because the paper would be so small, it was better to just sort of "photograph" it into your mind, instead of having to memorize everything on it. Saved brain space and my ass a couple times too.

I called it the "clean sheet method" myself, half the campus picked it up as well. I hope it helps you too.

bronzejourney

This is how teaching made me a better musician. I would teach students information that I had just learned. It also made me sit and think about the best way to explain what I just learned to someone else would be. This really helped a lot with memorizing a lot of techniques.

sethmeyer

State dependent learning has always worked for my brain for more than 5 plus decades. I tested the theory once in college by going to a final without my usual fortification. My anxiety level was so intense that I sweat profusely for the entire two hours of the exam. I was so slowed down by not being in the right head space that I couldn't even make it all of the way through all of the questions because the anxiety was so overwhelmingly palpable. Further, I only received an (A-) on that A&P exam(I was a straight A student used to making it all of the way to the end of an exam and doing the extra credit questions every time). Stress kills. Stress less and live far better and potentially longer, too !!!!

AdamShaiken

I'm nursing school it was always:
Learn it
Do it
Teach it

The best way to keep a skill is to teach someone else that skill after you learn it

slyzombie

A few things to add: pormodo technique, spaced repetition and mind maps. Also, focus on ONE aspect of a field or subject at once (i.e. calculs, python coding, TIG welding, etc). I see poeple claming to "read 500 book a plausible, but REMEMBERING the content of so many books questionable. I am now restructuring my book collection to reflect what I need to be better at (mainly maths) and apply said techniques.

bizling

This is very difficult to do, but ill empliment it into my studies and ill be back in February 1st for an update.

thomasmusk

What helps with my shit memory, whatever on school was teaching. When I learned something I would visualize myself teaching it to someone else or actually taught it to someone else.

jaysun

I made it a point to be eating banana walnut muffins whenever I read George Berkeley. I managed to sneak a banana walnut muffin into the philosophy exam.

marcoklaue

It might sound crazy but I've realised that time itself plays a big part on memory consolidation, and it probably doesn't have anything to do with REM sleep.

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