By enhancing your memory, you'll be able to improve your abilityto learn and store new information. That means you'll be able toadd to your skill set, bulk up your resume, and gain new abilitiesthat could help you to land the job of your dreams.You'll remember names at parties, quote movies, and more. ALLof this can be learned, and in this book you will find out preciselyhow to learn it and what to do with all that knowledge.Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your brain?Spaced learning is a very interesting approach to learning thathas been shown in studies to be more effective than otherapproaches.Our brains are designed in such a way that we retain bits ofinformation that might be useful to our survival. We've seen howthis works in regards to neurotransmitters. When somethinghappens that is extremely stressful, exciting, or pleasurable, weproduce large amounts of hormones and these help us formstronger connections in the brain.How can a teacher make any lesson lessboring and control a noisy class? Simple: put a video on. Itdoesn't matter that the video is the same topic as whatever theywere struggling to teach the simple fact is that video is much morestimulating and much better at holding our attention than justreading or just looking at something at something on ablackboard. If you are trying to learn something and finding itboring then, why not see if there's a YouTube video on the topic?The reason this works is the emotion. When we see peopletalking, hear music, and get to watch things happening, it triggersa more emotional response, helping us to form more concretememories.The problem with learning maths is oftenthat it doesn't seem to apply to your everyday life and it's commonto hear people moaning about how they never use the math skillsthey learned in school.In reality though, Maths applies to countless careers and interests- whether it's architecture where you'll benefit from being able tocalculate angles and areas, whether it's physics and space, orwhether it's programming. Love computer games? Well with Maths you can make your own.The same goes for History, for English and for every other topic -it will relate to the things you love in at least some respect.Even if you can't find that angle naturally you can always force it.So say you are trying to get your kid to learn about history andwon't engage with it. Find a TV program or game that they loveand then explain to them how it was based on history - or howliving in that time would have been just like living in an actionmovie. Trying to teach a kid who loves Sonic the Hedgehog aboutphysics? Then try discussing with them the physics of runningthat fast, whether it would be possible and what would happen toyour body if you did.Mind maps are diagrams that link multiple ideas on a single pagein the structure of a 'web'. Here you will have a main topic, whichwill then be broken down into multiple smaller topics allinterconnected by lines that show the relationships between theseideas. What do you do with the method of loci or memorypalace? How does this make you a smarter, more successfulindividual?One option is to use it to memorize passages of text. Need todeliver a speech from memory? Wish you could reel off longquotes from books? Using the method of loci, you can achievethese feats and more.You don't have a great memory right now because you don't use it. If you start using it, then you will find that you can increase your memory hugely.Because here's the real secret to memory: the more you use it, the better it become
