How best to remember information?

We live in an era of information boom. Every day - yes, there, every minute! - Cascades, waterfalls of information collapsed on people. Naturally, most of it is useless. The human brain has adapted to survive in an environment of information aggression - it simply closes from it. A person hears something - and a minute later does not remember what was going on? This is not an early sclerosis, this brain did not take information as meaningful and did not remember.

This is good, because otherwise people would go insane from such, mostly meaningless, information flow. But it's bad because from time to time you still need to perceive and remember information. How to be here?

How best to remember the information that is really needed?

So, the top 10 tips on how easy it is to remember information:

1. Mark the information. I want to remember what the interlocutor says? I need to tell myself that this is important. So the brain will adjust to the perception of information. We need to concentrate.
2. Speaking of how best to read to remember, the first rule is a feeling. Better remembered emotionally significant information. Do you need to remember the text? So you need to try to take it to heart, feel it. Find in it what you like, focus on it.
3. It is necessary to learn a long and intricate phrase (for example, a definition). You can write it on paper and cut it with scissors into pieces of 4-5 letters. Fold the mosaic. Repeat several times.

The same - with a long word (in a foreign language or a term).

4. If you can not remember the phone number, try playing with the numbers. Maybe the neighboring figures are similar in shape? Or one of them - another square?
5. If you need to accurately remember a long and intricate phrase, you should try to hum it with some suitable motif. By the way, many people learn poetry like that.
6. Find out which memory is leading, how best to remember.

Visual - read.

Auditory - listen.

Motor - to write down.

7. It's not bad and to say clearly and thoughtfully out loud what you need to remember.
8. After reading, you can mentally draw up a plan: what was it about at the beginning, what then ... It is obligatory to retell, better out loud. How to read quickly and remember? It is better not to do this, because the read quickly - will be forgotten.
9. If the text is memorized, but you can not remember it, you do not need to spy, it's worth taking a break on other things, and then try to remember again.
10. Important: emotions can not only help (paragraph 2), but also interfere. If there is indignation from what was forced to teach, and you can not get rid of hatred of the information offered, you can not remember anything, no matter how hard you try. You need to tune in to a more positive wave, think about how it will be good to know all this, how nice it will be.

These simple tips will help to minimize the problem of memorization.