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Chapter 35 Find the breakthrough and achieve 100% memory

The magical effect of using left and right brain to create memory
The left-brain division theory tells us that using the left brain is too rational; using the right brain is easy to be emotional.From IQ (learning intelligence index) to EQ (heart intelligence index), it is the result of the evolution of left-brain education; and the so-called supernatural phenomenon of "superpersonality" is shifted from the psychological level to the academic research. It also represents people's determination to explore the ability of the whole brain again.If the right brain training can be carried out continuously, and then the left brain and the right brain can be well and balancedly developed, the memory will have the possibility of a two-pronged approach: the right brain undertakes the task of image thinking, and the left brain undertakes the heavy responsibility of logical thinking. The left and right brains are coordinated, and the memory process is controlled by the whole brain, which will naturally achieve unexpectedly high efficiency.

Give full play to the function of the right hemisphere of the brain in memory and storage of image materials, so that the left and right hemispheres of the brain can work together in memory, so that the brain can actively use its own unique "right brain memory image material" effect is far better than that of the left The effect of abstract material on brain memory".The effect of this kind of practice will naturally make people's memory efficiency twice the result with half the effort, and achieve the purpose of improving memory.

According to the research of physiologists, in addition to the huge difference in the functions of the left and right hemispheres, the cerebral cortex also has a fine division of labor in terms of functions.

For a long time, people's one-sided use of intelligence and bad brain habits have not only caused the overload of some brain functions, decreased learning and memory abilities, but also affected the development of thinking.

In order to reverse this situation, it is necessary to use the whole brain to activate, and use both left and right brains.

1. Make the left and right hemispheres cross activity

Cross-memory refers to the conscious cross-transformation of memory content during the memory process, especially cross-memory of different learning materials that focus on image thinking and abstract logical thinking, so that the brain can play a more comprehensive role.In memory, some complementary means can also be used to make the two hemispheres of the brain carry out activities at the same time.

2. Get a whole-brain workout
Whole brain exercise means that in memory, we should pay attention to make the brain get a comprehensive exercise.There is a fine division of labor in the function of the cerebral cortex, but the exertion and improvement of its function depends on acquired stimulation and exercise.Since there are many functional centers on the cerebral cortex, in order to develop the functions of these centers to a higher level, we should pay attention to the comprehensive exercise of the brain when using the brain.

For example, when memorizing language, since the cerebral cortex has four language-related centers—speech center, writing center, listening center, and reading center, in order to exercise the functions of these centers, speaking, writing, Combine listening and reading, or memorize these methods at the same time.

Let's take language learning as an example to illustrate how to use both left and right brains.In order to learn a language, on the one hand, one must have a sufficient vocabulary, and on the other hand, one must be able to automatically form words into sentences.Words and sentences must be memorized mechanically, and if your memory becomes inferential or logical, you lose the fluency necessary to speak a foreign language, and when you read, you translate word for word.This kind of translation-style analytical reading is the function of the left brain. As a result, the slower the reading, the more difficult it is to understand. It all relies on rote memorization to remember what the Chinese word corresponding to a certain foreign language word is for analysis.

The way to use both left and right brain functions to learn language is to use language thinking. For example, when learning the English word "bed", the image of "bed" should emerge in the mind instead of memorizing the word "bed".Why is it easy to learn a native language?Because you started from the physical image when you were a child. When it comes to "thermos bottle", everyone will immediately think of the image of the thermos bottle instead of the three characters "thermos bottle". When it comes to actions, you will emerge with corresponding actions. So easy to learn.When we learn a foreign language, if we can turn words into pictures and images emerge in front of your eyes-this will make the right brain work.Each sentence gives you an overall image. Based on this image, you can judge through the context, and your understanding will be more thorough.

Many research results in the fields of pedagogy and psychology also show that it is most effective for learning to make full use of left and right brains to process various information.

Regarding the combined use of left and right brains, the memory method called "Super Memory Method" created by the Bulgarian educator Lozanov is the most representative.One of the most fascinating steps in the manifestation of this method is to play beautiful music that has nothing to do with the memorized content while memorizing the foreign language.Lozanov explained that listening to music requires the use of the right brain, which is in charge of image thinking, while learning a language uses the left brain, which is in charge of logical thinking.He believes that it is better to use both hemispheres of the brain than to use only one half.

Mind is the guide to memory
Thinking is a thinking process and the basis of all intellectual activities. It is a process of brainstorming and deep understanding.Positive thinking is the premise of memory, and deep understanding is the best means of memory.

When memorizing, thinking will help the memorized information to be quickly settled in the corresponding position in the "memory warehouse", and organically combined with the original knowledge structure.When recalling, thinking will help us search from the "memory warehouse" to recall it as soon as possible.The guiding role of thinking on memory is mainly manifested in the following points:
1. Concept and memory

Concept is the reflection of the general or essential attributes of objective things. It is the main form of human thinking and the result of thinking activities.Concepts are marked with words.People's memory of words is a memory based on concepts, and learning requires mastering scientific concepts.Concepts are representative, so that people's memory can be systematic.For example, the concept of "flower" includes all kinds of flowers. When we memorize materials such as chrysanthemums, camellias, and peonies, we can include them in the essentials of flowers and remember them together.From this point of view, concepts can make people draw inferences and remember flexibly.

2. Comprehension and memory

Understanding belongs to the scope of thinking activities, it is not only the process of thinking activities, the method of thinking activities, but also the result of thinking activities.At the same time, comprehension is also the method of effective memory.Things that are understood will be solidly recorded in the brain.

3. Thinking method and memory

There are many ways of thinking, all of which are related to memory, and some of them are ways of memory.Logical methods of thinking include scientific abstraction, comparison and classification, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, and mathematical methods; non-logical methods of thinking include subconsciousness, intuition, inspiration, imagination, and image thinking.The use of multiple thinking methods makes it easy for us to remember a large amount of information and obtain systematic knowledge.

In addition, the process of thinking is also related to memory.The process of thinking is manifested as discovering questions, trying to answer, proposing hypotheses and testing.

So, how should we actively carry out thinking activities?
First, think a lot.

Thinking refers to the frequency of thinking.Complicated things cannot be done at one time.The ancients said "Think twice before acting", we can completely say this for learning and memory: "Think twice before acting, think twice before recording." Don't be satisfied with the short-term success, penetrate the knowledge through repeated thinking, understand the truth, and remember everything.

Second, think hard.

Hard thinking refers to the mental state of thinking.Thinking is often a kind of arduous mental work, and you must have a persistent and tenacious spirit. "The Doctrine of the Mean" says that you should think carefully when you study, and you can't stop because you can't get the result of thinking.This shows that the ancients had the will and determination to achieve the desired goal through thorough thinking.It is said that Hegel had this spirit of contemplation.Once, he stood in the rain all day and night in order to think about a problem.The requirement of thinking hard is not to be a lazy person in thinking, to constantly operate one's own thinking machine, and to be able to overcome the difficulties encountered in the thinking process.

Third, think carefully.

Jingsi refers to the quality of thinking.When thinking, it is not enough to only think about it roughly, or think about it roughly.Zhu Xi pays great attention to "refined thinking", he said: "...refined thinking, so that all meanings seem to come from my heart." That is to say, reticent thinking is to integrate, so that the truth of the book is the same as the truth I said. generally.What if you can't think well?Zhu Xi said: "Righteousness is not refined, but careful thinking can be refined." Thinking carefully means thinking carefully, comprehensively, and overcoming the problems of unexpected, not thinking carefully, and not thinking deeply, so as to produce more fine things in thinking.

Fourth, ingenuity.

Ingenuity refers to the scientific attitude of thinking.The thinking we advocate is neither rambling or delusional thinking. It is a kind of thinking based on thinking science and thinking logic as a guide, and it is scientific thinking.We must not only be willing to think, be diligent in thinking, but also be good at thinking, that is to say, when thinking, we must properly use thinking methods such as analysis and synthesis, abstraction and generalization, comparison and classification, so that our thinking does not take a long way and achieve excellence. And effective.

To develop your memory ability and increase your memory speed, you must develop your thinking ability accordingly. Only by actively thinking about things can you remember things quickly and turn knowledge into something that is really useful to you.The process of mastering knowledge and consolidating knowledge is also the process of positive thinking. We must work hard to improve our thinking ability, which is undoubtedly developing our memory and speeding up our memory.

Alternative Thinking Creates Memory Genius

What is "zero" is a very interesting training activity for the development of creative thinking. "Zero" or "0" is the simplest word symbol that everyone knows.Here, in addition to the number ideographic function, please use your creative imagination and think hard to see what "0" is. How many kinds can you think of? The more you think, the better. 30 kinds.

In order to enable you to enter the role as soon as possible, here are the following tips: some say it is zero, some say it is the head, some say it is the earth, some say it is the universe.The geometry teacher said "it is a circle", the English teacher said "it is the English letter O", the chemistry teacher said "it is the symbol of oxygen", and the art teacher said "it is an egg".Kindergarten children think it is "bagel", "iron ring", "necklace", "golden hoop on Monkey King's head", "cup", "little pockmark on uncle's face"...

Alternative thinking is the ability to make a variety of interpretations of things.

The reason why it is said that alternative thinking creates memory geniuses is because the so-called "genius" way of thinking is different from the traditional way of thinking of ordinary people.The thinking of a general memory genius mainly has the following aspects:
1. Multiple angles of thinking
Memory geniuses often discover a new angle that no one else has taken.This cultivates his observation and imagination, and at the same time develops his thinking ability.Through the observation of things from multiple angles, in the continuous deepening of the understanding of the problem, the content to be remembered is remembered.

The great painter Leonardo da Vinci believed that in order to gain knowledge about the composition of a problem, one must first learn how to reconstruct the problem from many different angles.He feels that his first way of looking at a problem is too skewed toward his usual way of seeing things, and he keeps going from one angle to another, reframing the problem.His understanding and memory of the problem gradually deepened with each change of perspective.

2. Make good use of image thinking
Galileo made a revolutionary breakthrough in science by using diagrams to visualize his ideas.Once geniuses have acquired some rudimentary verbal ability, they seem to develop a certain visual and spatial skill that allows them to flexibly display knowledge in different ways.When Einstein had thought about a problem comprehensively, he often found that it was necessary to express the object of thinking in as many ways as possible (including diagrams).His thinking is very intuitive, he thinks in an intuitive and spatial way, instead of thinking along the lines of pure mathematics and literal reasoning.Einstein believed that words and numbers played an unimportant role in his thought process.

3. Geniuses manage to make connections between things

If there is one particular style of thought that stands out in genius, it is the ability to bring disparate objects together for comparison.This ability to make connections between unconnected things allows them to quickly remember things that others can't.German chemist Friedrich Kekule dreamed of a snake biting its own tail, which reminded him of the ring structure of the benzene molecule.

4. Geniuses are metaphorical
Aristotle saw metaphor as a sign of genius.He believes that those who can find similarities between two different kinds of things and connect them have a special talent.If dissimilar things do look alike from one angle, they may look alike from other angles as well.This thinking ability speeds up the memory.

5. Think creatively
Our way of thinking is often replicative, that is, based on similar problems we have encountered in the past.

The mind of a genius, by contrast, is creative.When encountering a problem, they will ask: "How many ways to look at this problem?" "How to reflect on these methods?" "How many ways to solve the problem?" Some methods are unconventional and maybe even exotic.

Use creative thinking, and you'll find as many alternative ways of remembering as possible.

Nobel laureate Richard Feynman always germinates new ways of thinking when he encounters difficult problems.The secret to his genius, he felt, was to ignore how past thinkers thought about problems and create new ways of thinking.If you ignore how people in the past remember and create new ways of remembering, then you too will become a memory genius someday.

Activate creativity and create extraordinary memory

Everyone has enormous creativity, the key is whether you know it.Success master Napoleon Hill said so.

In today's countries, creativity is highly valued and considered to be one of the essential qualities for talents across the century.Chairman Jiang Zemin once pointed out: "Creation is the soul of a nation's progress." What is creativity?Creativity is the ability of an individual to process and transform existing knowledge and experience to find new ways to solve problems and solve problems in novel, unique and efficient ways.Everyone has creativity, and the strength of creativity restricts and affects the strength of memory. The stronger the creativity, the higher the efficiency of memory, and vice versa.

This is because in order to memorize effectively, we must imagine boldly, and vivid and exaggerated imagination requires us to have flexible creativity. If creativity is also greatly exercised, memory will naturally improve.

Creativity has the following 3 characteristics:
1. Flexibility

Thinking can adapt to changing situations, draw inferences from one example, and is not easily disturbed by mental stereotypes such as functional fixation, so it can produce extraordinary ideas and put forward new ideas.

2. Fluency

Responses are fast and numerous, and more ideas can be expressed in a shorter period of time.

3. Uniqueness

Have an unusual and unique perspective on things.

Here are a few ways we can stimulate creativity and thus enhance memory:

(1) Question Motivation Principle

Adolescents are constantly exposed to large amounts of information, but do not store it all in their brains because they do not have preconceived problems to figure out or to solve.If there are problems in the mind, the brain is in a very sensitive state. Once exposed to information, it will hold on to the information that may be useful for solving the problem, thereby increasing the input of effective information. This is problem stimulation.

(2) Activate information
Information activation means that the more this information can be connected with other more information, the stronger the activity of this information.The more active the information stored in the brain, the easier it is to reconnect and combine it during thought.The main measures to make information active are:
① Break the correlation between the original information.

② Fully explore the various properties that information may exhibit.

③Try to establish various connections between certain information and other information.

(3) Information trigger

The human brain is a very large and complex neural network. Every time information is stored, recalled, processed, connected, and combined, it causes this nerve to change to a certain extent.As a result of the change, the nerve channels that were originally not smooth became smoother, and the nerve cell synapses that were not connected before were connected.In this way, the neural network becomes more complex, the connections between neurons are wider, and the brain is better.At the same time, when some neurons are stimulated by information, it will be transmitted to the surroundings in the form of electrical impulse, causing the excitement and impulse of the connected neurons. This chain reaction forms a large area of ​​neurons in the cerebral cortex. area of ​​activity.

It can be seen that "people can only form, develop and exploit their own intelligence in a large number of high-end information transmission fields."Constantly use all kinds of information to stimulate the brain and promote the development and improvement of creative thinking. This is the principle of information triggering.

In short, creativity is different from intelligence, and creativity includes many intellectual factors.A creative person must be a person who is good at breaking the rules of memory, and a person with rich imagination, keen observation ability, and deep thinking ability.All of these qualities are necessary to improve memory.There is no doubt that creativity has become the origin and foundation of creating extraordinary memories.

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