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Remembering important dates
- Remembering important dates can be made easier by coming up with rhymes. One very popular rhyme you might already be familiar with is about the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The rhyme goes like this: In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Rhyming like this still requires a little bit of rehearsing, but they make it easier to remember dates. Here are some other examples. The date of the Boston Tea Party was 1773. You take the last part, 73, and try to rhyme it with something like "heavenly tea." So, notice how 73 and heavenly tea have a rhyming pattern. You then build an image based on this. I'm going to imagine tea falling from the heavens into the Boston Harbor. Let's take another historical example. 1861, the start of the Civil War. Let's take the 61 part, and 61 could rhyme with "sticky gun." Now imagine a Civil War soldier struggling with a gun that is covered in honey, a sticky gun. So again, 61, sticky gun. Little rhymes like this make it easier to remember dates…
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Understanding how your memory works1m 33s
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Remembering better using the multiple reading process1m 57s
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Memorizing new vocabulary using the similar sound technique4m 23s
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Using mnemonic devices3m 24s
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Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration3m 7s
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Using pictures to improve your memory3m 40s
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The link system3m 58s
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Memory palaces and the method of loci4m 6s
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Numeric peg system: Linking numbers to pictures3m 22s
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Numeric peg system: Memorizing a 10-item list9m 33s
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Numeric peg system: Memorizing more than 10 items2m 45s
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Remembering important dates4m 37s
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Memorizing formulas and equations5m 8s
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Challenge 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary53s
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Solution 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary2m 30s
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Challenge 2: Create a memory palace48s
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Solution 2: Create a memory palace1m 20s
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