Pretty much everyone who knows me will tell you I am a tad forgetful. However I would also assert that they also will tell you I know a lot of things. Random prices of information I mean and so I thought I could teach how I do that.
1. Figure out what works for you. I mean as in for me reading and hearing are extremely effective as far as remembering what i learned. However for others writing down things (taking notes) or doing something (expirementing) are more effective. This is really the most important thing to do because if you can't learn the right way you never get good at knowing stuff.
2. Find something you are interested in. I mean I am kind of epicurean and like to know useless stuff so that comes easy. But not everyone want to know things that don't matter to normal life, like the hierarchy of objects in the universe (as in filaments, superclusters, clusters, galaxies, etc.) so finding something you like will help.
3. Try a method of loci. I do this when I read something very detail oriented and it helps a lot. What you do is you think of a subject like a room full of filing cabinets. Each cabinet is a different color so you can remember them easier. In each filing cabinet you have a specific facet of the topic like if me subject was Abe Lincoln one topic would be general info (birth and death dates, ect.) while another might be the Gettysburg address. This helps keep stuff straight in your head and I find it useful on detailed stuff (biology for example).
4. Brute force. The last thing to do is just keep forcing things into your head like read something quiz yourself and if you aren't satisfied with the results do it again.
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