Then, there is another thing that is very interesting, very important, it is to learn with intention. We will talk about this subject of intention in a future podcast, in a few weeks. But the idea is to say to yourself: "There, today, I am going to read this book with an objective, with an intention. I am going to read this book to learn things that I am going to apply. I am not going to read for fun, I am not going to read to pass the time, I am going to read with the intention of learning and, therefore, of memorizing."
Very often, and I've noticed this with first names for example, the reason why we don't memorize something is simply that we haven't put... we haven't said to ourselves: "Hey, I have to remember this, I have to keep it in mind." And that's already happened to me. For example, someone tells me their first name, and I hear it without ultimately listening or without listening very carefully and without intending to remember what they're telling me. And the times when I say to myself: "Hey, he gave me his first name, I have to remember it," well I'm going to remember it. So, sometimes, just having the intention to remember something, well that simply allows us to remember it.
So that's why I tell myself, "Come on, learn with intention." When you read a book, tell yourself that you're learning it, that you're going to apply it, try to figure out why you're learning this thing. You see, it's common sense, but quite often it works.
I took Tom to the hairdresser and I talked to his hairdresser, who did a very good job, and he told me his first name. And I said to myself: "Hey, I really have to remember his first name, because he's someone I'm going to see again or maybe the next time he won't be there in the office, so I might have to ask, I want to see this person." So, his name is Mourad. And you see, it was two weeks ago and I remember, because I said to myself: "Hey, we have to remember this." So, intention is super important to remember things.
Then, there is a skill that we are all losing more and more because of the era we live in, social networks, the fact of being constantly changing, focusing on different things, watching short videos, etc. so, that is the era of real change, we are all the time changing our perspective a little, well to have a good memory, you have to concentrate. You have to concentrate and, again, it is linked to what I was saying before, having the intention to remember, but it is also korea whatsapp number data concentrating, that is to say that if I read to learn, to develop a skill, well I also have to concentrate and think only about that, not that I am reading and at the same time I am thinking about what I am going to eat tonight in fact. That, it does not work otherwise. So, that is also super important, concentration.
Try to make associations, so, associate several ideas to remember them better. This works especially for things related to time, all temporal things. For example, if you learn, I don't know, you're going to learn the era in which a writer lived, well you connect it to a historical event. You say to yourself: "well, that was... this person lived just after the French Revolution", for example. And the fact of making associations like that, there are 1,000 ways to do it, well it helps you remember better. So, that's a very important technique.
Try to visualize, that is to say what you want to remember, you put it in the form of an image, if you can. So, we could also go into detail, but I don't think that's the point today, it's to try, yes, to create an image in fact to remember well.
For example, I'm going to combine that with the technique... Then, it's about using some mnemonic devices. So, mnemonic devices are when you give a name that you're going to easily... that you're going to easily remember in fact, it's a way of remembering something, a technique for remembering something.
And for example, you know, recently I heard a quote that I thought was great and I didn't know who said it, so I tried to... yeah, have a mnemonic device or visualize a little bit to remember her name. So her name is Evelyn Underhill. And actually, for Evelyn, I remembered that she was my mom's best friend, and for Underhill, I thought of "under the hill," because I think that "hill" in English is a hill, and so, I say Underhill, under the hill. So, I thought... you know, in my head, I put an image of Evelyn, my mom's best friend, and Underhill, I thought of under a hill. That's it, that's it.