Today my memory tip is: formulate rhythmic sentences to remember information which is important to you. In fact, I could say that you should make short poems that would be based on sentences that rhyme and this rhyme will help you to absorb material you want to memorize. This idea might sound stupid for you, but I do not mean that you have to become a poet. It is just one of mnemonic techniques that help you to train your memory. If you looked back to school years you would probably remember some poem that you learned by heart and you could still say some of the verses from it. Why? Because of the rhyme, that helped to push those lines to your long term memory.
Don’t worry if the sentences or small stanzas you create are funny. You are not obliged to show them to anyone if you don’t want to. They are for you to train your ‘memory muscle’. Let me give you a few examples that I made a few seconds ago.
“When I come to see you, we will stay together: Peter me and you.
If John wants to join he will have to consult it with Ron.
And if Kate decides to leave we are going to have a nice eve.”
I hope you can see now what I mean by formulating rhythmic sentences to memorize things. Repeat the sentences you create and they will quickly sink into your long term memory. Again, this does not mean that the method has to become the main one how you memorize things. It is just one additional exercise to your arsenal of mnemonic techniques and I recommend practicing it for a few times, because various exercises help you to develop various parts of your brain and enable you to develop a ‘universal’ memory, which is not based on one or two mnemonic techniques.
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