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Welcome to Memory Month at WondR.net! Over the next 30 days I’ll be writing 30 articles on improving your memory. Feel free to read, skim, or browse in whatever order you see fit, but keep in mind that this is meant to be a chronological series in which the articles build on each other. Think of it as a 30 day memory training course.
The Problem
This will probably be the easiest section of this course to write. You might not even be reading this article if you didn’t already understand the problem. We forget things: phone numbers, birthdays, passwords, answers for the exam, the name of the guy you met just 5 minutes ago. We often chalk it up to just having a bad memory as if it’s something we were born with and cannot possibly do anything about. But there’s something odd about your memory. There are certain things that you’re quite good at remembering.
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I have a confession to make. In high school I memorized PI to about 300 decimal places. But I was horrible at remembering geography. I probably couldn’t have told you the capital of my own state. I’m not mentioning that to brag about my ability to memorize a sequence of numbers, because actually it’s not that hard and I used the same techniques that I’ll teach you in the coming days. I mention this story to prove a point: if you just looked at my horrible track record when it came to remembering geography you might think I was brain damaged. But in other areas I could remember facts and figures quite easily. The reasons why I was able to remember numbers and not oceans are also the keys to improving your memory in all areas.
The Solution
I set it up in the opening paragraph by emphasizing the word training. Chances are your memory isn’t bad so much as it is untrained. Right now your memory is like an overweight couch potato that wants to run a marathon. It’s going to take some work! In the next article I’ll talk about the 5 keys to successful memory training, and I’ll give you some tips that will be immediately practical.
Table of Contents
Day 1: Introduction
Day 2: The 5 Keys to Successful Memory Training
Day 3: Association
Day 4: The Link
Day 5: The Boy with the Incredible Brain
Day 6: The Phonetic Alphabet
Day 7: The Peg
Day 8: Learning a Language with The Link
Day 9: 100 Pegs
Day 10: Names and Faces
Day 11: Calendar Memory
Day 12: Playing Cards
Day 13: Medical Mnemonics
Day 14: Phone Numbers
Day 15: Joshua Foer on Memory
Day 16: URLs
Day 17: Frequently Misspelled Words
Day 18: Passwords
Day 19: Jon Keith on Remembering Names and Faces
Day 20: Ask the Readers
Day 21-25: Thanksgiving Break!
Day 26: Readers’ Feedback
Day 27: PI to 100 Digits
Day 28: Memory Books
Day 29: Interview with World Memory Champion
Day 30: Summary
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Hi there,
This is some pretty cool thing you got going here. Gonna check out the remaining site pages to see if there are any updates.
Cheers!
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