Somebody ones told me they trained there memory by writing down a number everyday and attempting to write the same number on a blank paper the next day. He slowly increased how many numbers he needs to remember and the timeframe. I lost contact at this point, so I am not sure how his experiment ended.
So what is the best way to train your memory and be able to memorize events/numbers faster and more easily?
If you have seen all the knowledge in the world, but forgot everything than you remain ignorant !!
i came across a copy of “How to Develop a Super Power Memory” by Harry S. Lorayne (Here) when i was younger, it has some amazing & very simple ‘tricks’ that allow you to remember all sorts of things; after only a couple of hours practice i was able to memorize the order of a shuffled pack of playing cards.
I read a book about mental math that tackled this subject (“Secrets of Mental Math,” by Benjamin & Shermer). Their approach was to devise a phonetic system so that you could remember a glut of numbers by turning them into words and stringing them into a stupid story. The stupid story approach could probably be extended to remembering events, but with memonics in place of phonetics.
Most of the people who perform astonishing memory feats employ some kind of mnemonics. To summarize it, mnemonics are techniques that help you memorize abstract things better by “translating” them into things easier to memorize.
Many people are bad at memorizing numbers because they are abstract. The human brain is nonetheless capable of memorizing concrete things and sensations such as pictures or sounds in detail, so one way would be to assign every number a thing you can visualize. That’s a method recommended by nearly every mnemonics book, and with a little practice it works pretty well.
You can start like this: Define every one of the ten digits a thing you can visualize - how you design your list doesn’t matter, as long as you can memorize that list, and that will be easier if there’s some kind of intuitive approach to it. You can define the number 4 as a car, for example, because of its four wheels. 5 could be a hand (five fingers), 7 could be Snow White (seven dwarfs), and so on.
If you have a given number to memorize, you translate the single digits of your number into the things that stand for the number, and then you visualize some kind of story involving the things that stand for your numbers in the correct order. You could imagine Snow White strecthing out her hand to open the door of her car to memorize 754, for example. You’ll be surprised to see how well it works, and that you’ll still be able to recall ten-digit numbers after several days if you memorized the story once.
Those and similar methods are very old; Cicero recommended a method he used to memorize the single issues he wanted to mention and get over in his speeches. Basically, he’d take a walk around an environment he knew well, and he’d stop at various places along his route to consider the issue. When reciting his speech, all he had to do was taking the same walk in his mind again, and once he arrived at the single places the issues attached to the place sprang up to his mind again.
Leonardo da Vinci is said to have visualized a fictitious cathedral and wandered around in it in his mind to do the same thing.