Though there are a handful of legitimate obstacles to memorization, they’re easy enough to counter in pursuit of maximizing our memory’s efficiency and capacity.
Here are five of the major obstacles you might face when memorizing anything—whether it’s someone’s name or Shakespeare’s entire canon—along with practical and proven solutions.
1. Not paying attention. Without attention, memory is impossible. If you were looking over somebody’s shoulder at a TV screen as they introduced themselves at a networking event, you’d be unlikely to recall their name seconds later. Pay attention. If you read a script but cursorily glance at it instead of reading the actual words on the page, you will recall the script inaccurately, if at all.
Attention is the first essential step to memorization. Sometimes you’ll need to make a special effort to pay attention, but paying attention, in general, is a great start.
2. Having no actual technique.Memory champions all admit they had poor or average memories before becoming the successes they are today, and that the ultimate boost came down to discovering mega-memory techniques that anyone can master given interest and time.
If you were
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