TONY BUZAN on Memory

Sign up for this 1 Day course to improve my fading memory. Lao Liao. :)

I originally thought that it will be delievered by one of the certified trainers. I am really excited to know when arrived at SIM that the course is personally delivered by the MIND MAPS guru - TONY BUZAN!!

Yes it is a powerpact 1 day course. Before the course starts, we did a memory test and i score only 9/29...fail. After that...my score is 29/29...ha!!! what is best..that I now understand how info get retain in our mind and also learnt the systematic ways to memorise up to 20 items...in sequence too!!! You can test me in middle...reverse...skip...it doesn't matter...I will recall!! :)

This is the MEMORY graph...Tony says this is the graph that will change your life. I guess we are all suconciously using this graph without knowing it...patially. Now that I know in full...it will of course works better for me to learn / teach.

Then of course there is the reverse...the forgetting curve!!

Now I an seriuosly considering to use my 1st hour 2nd year RS lecture time to go through these curves with the students. It will be so beneficial for those who want to learn / study properly and retain info fast n long but not knowing the proper techniques. Waiting for them to reach 3rd yr maybe be abit too late. (well it will never be too late as long as they willinh too learn actually).

Summarise below are some of the very very important pointers that goes along with the delivery:

When taking notes -

1. use C O L O U R !!! (BIG BRIGHT COLOURS!!!)

2. add sketches / symbols / codes.

3. Vary your font size to emphasize too.

4. use lines / arrows to link / connect ideas/ concepts

5. highlight the critical info

All these are vital to sink in the ideas into our memory. Once done...it is actually a MIND MAP!!

Making things BIG / Different / outstanding / so that it can be easily reembered is call the Van Restroff effect.

To enhace the retention : MUST use Association + Imagination

PPl remember the starting part : Primacy effect (1st) and also remember the last things - Recency effect. so intro / summary are extremly important.

Take B . R . E . A . K . S during study!!! (it actually creat more recency / primacy).

If train properly, memory actually gets better when you are older. (world best memroy champion is actually 46 yr old)

When leave people...always leave on a HIGH!!!...so that u have a good memory and looking foreward to meet again.

Make your life Memorable!!! Make your like exciting!!! make your life Colourful!!! Learn new things!!! in that way your mind is always under Van restroff's effect state!!

DO NOT TRY TO REMEMBER - Instead : RE-VIEW / RE-VISION (Try to see the picture / visualise instead!!)

STM into LTM = 5 x R (To transfer short term memory to long term memory - need to repeatedly visualise 5 time)

Healthy body - healthy memory!!

Worse case scenario : Dis-interested. Why? Because that means U dun visualise / remember...next time u see and u get frustrated...anti new info...disconnected...then u say because U are old...no use...then U feel down and every things spirial downwards!!!!

Instead Revise / review (time spent actually getting v short!!). U can imagine the mind map even it's not there and U can even connect new things as U gain more knowledge and U feel good!! Spirial UPWARDS instead!!

Anyone interested in momorizing 20 items withoput fails?...just a try if the stsyem works on u...

Tony 2008 visits to SIM has been fixed, i have mark down in my calender the courses i would like to join next Sept break. :) care to join me? It's definitely worth my time and my life!!!