HOW TO MEMORISE

 Is it necessary or sufficient to simply understand a principle without having to memorize it. 

Does the memorization of a content necessarily require understanding? What are the techniques and tricks that facilitate and allow to memorize without psychological suffering?

These are the questions that this subject wants to answer:

Without denigrating the role of physical factors without which there would be a dysfunction totally, if not at least partially, preventing any attempt at memorization, the focus is on the more significant and more constraining psychological factors.

First of all, we must look for the reason for any memorization, then, it will be necessary to link it to a strong emotion which strongly permeates us such as the will to succeed, it will also be necessary to link it to the feeling of the general need to emancipate oneself, to distinguish oneself. It will also have to be linked to its final objective in life in general.

It is necessary to start from the feeling that the content to be memorized represents a brick in the wall of our knowledge without which the latter would not exist.

Let's now turn to the tips:

1- Associate: link one piece of information to another that has already been assimilated and that can be easily solicited by putting them under the same badge. Let's recall the steps taken by car manufacturers: you can recognize the brand thanks to the emblematic signs: horse, lion, jaguar etc.

2- Categorize: classify under the same theme, the same root, the same material or the same color... we could also sub-categorize an important set of content, since the brain finds the need to classify when it has to memorize more than nine words at a time. Mind-mapping is very useful and efficient in this sense.

3- Record using one of the five senses, attach the content to a scent smelled at the same time, to a musical tune, to the rough touch of an object to create a link for easy recollection. This happened to me personally when after thirty years I remembered a big cup that I had lost simply when my feet touched the broken shell sand where we had camped with our family.

4- Train his memory by getting him used to doing a skechnote. Back home, you can take a moment of meditation of no more than ten minutes to go over all the events of the day, making sure to remember everything: voice, timbre of the voice, images, colors, touch sensations, smells ....

So the understanding alone, despite its relevance, is not enough to memorize a content. Finally, let us not forget that motivation is the most important key to achieving one's goals.