Simple Techniques to Strengthen Your Memory Muscles

加强记忆的简易技巧

Memory permeates¹ your whole life. You live with it from morning to night without thinking about it, just as you constantly use your arms and legs without paying attention to them. It’s only when it let’s you down that you wonder if something is wrong. The fact is that for most of us memory suffers only from lack of use. Here are five techniques to help you hold on to the information you need to live a better, less forgetful life.

记忆弥漫在你的整个生活。你从早到晚跟它生活在一起，就像你不断用你的胳膊和腿没有注意到他们一样。只有当它让你失望,你怀疑自己是否做错了。事实上,对于我们大多数人来说记忆之苦只是缺乏使用。这里有五个方法来帮助你记住你需要的能给你一个更好生活的信息,更少的健忘的生活。

1.Create mental images. When information enters your brain, you create a mental representation of it.

创建心理图像。当信息进入你的大脑,你创建一个心理表征。

2.Look for logic². Logic reasoning trains the mind to impose structure on information, to establish order and meaning according to certain rules.

寻找逻辑。逻辑推理训练大脑结构强加给信息,根据一定的规则建立秩序和意义。

3.Link your memories. For new information to be retained, it must be compared to all the other information in the memory to establish whether it has already been recorded or if it contributes something really new—much like a computer updating its files.

链接你的记忆。新信息被保留,它必须比所有其他内存中的信息建立是否已经记录或者贡献一些真正新信息更像一台电脑更新文件。

4.Repetition. Research shows we start forgetting formation soon after we have learned it.

重复。研究显示不久后我们开始忘记我们学过的信息。

5.Talk about it. Wanting to remember and communicate is an essential component³ to successful memorization.

谈论它。想要成功记忆，交流是一个重要的组成部分。