“In the future, the competition between people and between nations will not be physical competition, but brain competition, and the improvement of the brain must first Start with memory.” This article is from WeChat official account:Gezhilundao Forum (ID: SELFtalks), original text title: “As long as With this magic, everyone can become” the strongest brain “| Guochuan Wei”, author: Guo Zhuanwei (two consecutive “Chinese memory Championships’ championship), head Figure from: vision China < /p>
For 15 years, I have been focusing on the research and teaching of memory.
The object of my research is familiar to all of you and you can see it every day. It is the area between the ears above your neck, our brain.
In 2004, I enrolled in the Sun Yat-sen University School of Medicine. As a medical student, I think we have a lot more understanding of brain structure and function than ordinary people.
However, an experience in 2005 subverted my cognition. I discovered that I didn’t know much about the brain.
In 2005, I was trained in a professional system and I worked up the courage to participate in the first China Memory Championship.
In this competition, I won the national championship. What is the content?
For example, I can remember the order and suit of a shuffled playing card in two minutes.
Able to remember the faces and names of 70 strange characters in 15 minutes.
Able to accurately remember the sequence of 1,800 irregular Arabic numerals in one hour, with an average of 2 seconds.
When you hear this data, it feels as if it is a fantasy, half-trusted, even if some people believe it, he will say that it should be the patent of a very small number of people, and we ordinary people cannot do it.
It’s normal to have this kind of thought, but it’s not wise, because at this moment, you have this kind of thought, you have pushed your brain into an iron prison.
Today I will bringthree keys to unlock the memory potential of your brain and release your brain potential.
You will find that after you understand and master these three keys, you will remember faster than others, remember better than others, and remember more than others, and you will find that your brain is beyond your imagination.
remember through association
First share the first key, which is the first sentence to everyone: If you want to remember something quickly, connect the things you want to remember with the things you are familiar with.
What do you mean?
You all have this experience. When you go to a new occasion, you meet a group of strange friends, and after you introduce yourself to each other, you turn your head and forget it, which is very embarrassing.
I’ll use names and avatars as examples to see howHow to quickly remember the names and looks of strangers.
This is the test question for our competition that year. For example, let’s introduce a new friend, his name is Zhao Jili, how to quickly and firmly remember it?
The first key is that “Zhao Jili” can remind you of something familiar.
First of all, Geely, I was thinking of Geely cars, how do you remember his last name?
Zhao, you can think of the lighting of light, and I think of the homonym “find”, so the whole name was translated by me to find a Geely car.
The next thing I have to do is to associate this sentence with the characteristics of this character.
I saw him look very anxious, because the anxiety made his hair gray.
So when I saw this character for the second time, seeing his gray hair and his anxious expression, I thought about what he was doing, looking for Geely, his name was Zhao Jili.
You may think that this time is very long, but in the course of the game, the idea of 10 seconds was completed in my mind.
Can everyone remember my name? What familiar things can “Guo Chuanwei” make you think of together?
Such as pot. What about prestige? We can be homophonic as “authority”.
I believe that through these two familiar things, you should know my name-Guo Chuanwei.
Steps of deep processing
Share the second key, If you want to record firmly, then you must deepen the memory.
Speaking of deep memory, we must understand a very important structure in the brain-the hippocampus, which looks like two hippocampus, so it is called the hippocampus.
Today we are going to try to challenge the spelling of the word hippocampus. This word has 11 letters, which is quite long.
The first step of deep processing is to modularize it, which is to divide it into several groups. It can be divided into two words: hippo in the front means hippo, and campus in the back means campus.
Some friends may say that I haven’t seen the “campus” behind, and it can be further divided into three parts, namely us(us), and camp(camp).
This completes the first step of deep processing of information, called grouping.
Why grouping?
Because the famous psychologist John Miller mentioned a discovery in his thesis “The Seventh Magic”.
He discovered that human memory has a characteristic, In a short time, the brain can only remember about 7 information modules, people with good memory can remember 9 and people with poor memory can remember 5. It feels very difficult.
It’s not difficult to understand. For example, our mobile phone number is also 11 digits. You usually write 189 and 185 in the front, and then split the 8 digits in the back.
Also, when you remember your ID number, it will be divided into several modules. At this time, you have used this technique, which is called modularization.
The second deep technique is called meaning.
For example, the word hippo has 5 letters in front. These letters don’t have any real meaning, but what we have to do is to make it meaningful, hi, hello, pp as fart, and O as round.
You will find that the whole word becomes meaningful, and our brains are all excited at this time.
The third step of deep processing is to visualize it.
In order to improve your concentration, please close your eyes for a short time and nowImagine seeing a fat hippo in your head. Then you slowly walk around behind it and see the shape of its ass.
Now please open your eyes, this hippopotamus’ ass is really round.
Visualization is extremely important to our memory. For example, once, a person picked me up at the airport. After getting off the plane, he took me to the parking lot.
Then he took me around for a long time, at least 15 minutes, and I said what happened to you? He said Mr. Guo, I’m sorry, I forgot where the car was parked, whether it was the negative first floor or the second floor, I can’t remember.
Because numbers are abstract to many people, he can’t remember whether it is layer A or layer B.
But I found an interesting phenomenon in some domestic airports, that is, some airport staff posted different fruits on each floor, such as a large apple on the negative layer and a large apple on the negative second floor. A lot of bananas.
Why do you do this?
Because this can help people with poor memory, at least let him know that my car is probably parked on the banana floor.
The fourth step is storytelling. The story is very interesting and has a plot, so it can evoke a lot of our memories.
For example, the word just now, we divide it into two parts, the first part is hippo hippocampus, and the second part is campus. Then we have to remember its meaning, hippocampus, how do we remember it?
We are going to make up a story.
For example, one day, a hippo broke into our campus and smashed my hippocampus. It’s such a story. These stories can be real or fictitious. Your brain likes it is a good story.
Put the things you want to remember into the scene
Next, I will give you a third key. The third key is very meaningful and powerful. During this process, please be fully prepared and relax your body.
Next, I will tell a story. During this process, please use your imagination. In order to make your picture clearer, please close your eyes now.
Imagine that one day, you invite me to your house as a guest, and we came to your door together. You took out the key, opened the door, and suddenly a group of parrots flew out.
Next we walked to your shoe cabinet, opened the shoe cabinet, and suddenly rolled out a lot of iron balls, which hit the floor heavily and knocked over a urinal, which made us very embarrassed.
Then you took me to the bathroom immediately, but when we entered the bathroom, we were shocked because there was a tiger sitting on your toilet and it was eating plantains.
We were so scared that we ran to the restaurant and found that your table was full of colorful balloons, and in the middle of the table was an ancient Chinese folding fan.
Suddenly we noticed movement in the living room. We ran to the living room and found a middle-aged woman sitting on the sofa. She was eating a bag of fish feed with relish.
Okay, keep closing your eyes, and we will review it again.
First of all, you invited me to your house as a guest. What do you use to open the door? key. Open the door and fly out a bunch of what? parrot.
Then I arrived at the shoe cabinet. When I opened the shoe cabinet, many iron balls were rolled out. What happened when the iron ball hit the ground? Urinals.
Then ran to the bathroom and saw what was sitting on the toilet? tiger. What is the tiger eating? banana.
Then we were scared and ran to the table, and what was the table full of? Colorful balloons. What’s in the middle? Folded paper fan.
Then what is sitting on the sofa in the living room? Middle-aged women. What is she eating? fish food.
Okay, please open your eyes.
When I came to your house, I was really impressed, as if I had entered a magical castle.
But when we were doing this exercise, in fact, you have already done an amazing thing. You have almost memorized the 20 decimal places of Pi.
This is 100 digits of Pi.
20 people, the first two are 14, which is the key in our hand just now, and then there are many parrots flying out of the door, which is 15, and the ball rolled out of the shoe cabinet is 92.
Then knocked over a urinal. The homonym is 65. There is a tiger sitting on the toilet. It is a tiger from the mountain, which is 35. It is eating plantains, which is the number 89.
There are colorful balloons on the table, 79, and a fan in the middle, 32.
There is a woman sitting on the sofa, her code is 38, because March 8 is Women’s Day, she is eating fish food, homophonic 46.
Have you remembered? If you want to remember more numbers, you can find more scenes.
In the eyes of the memory master, numbers are no longer numbers, numbers have become many vivid things.
This method is the most powerful method in mnemonics. It is a magic weapon for all players participating in Jiangsu Satellite TV’s “Most Powerful Brain”. It is also an artifact of all memory masters. It is called the Memory Palace Method.
Who invented such a powerful method?
As early as in ancient Greece, the ancients at that time found it easy for us to remember things in some scenes, so he invented this “palace law”.
In the Middle Ages, many missionaries also used the “palace method” to memorize some chapters in the Bible.
So the third key is what you want to remember a lot, you have to put your imagination and things you want to remember into a series of scenes.
Let’s do another exercise. Can you remember the order of the 12 zodiac signs? The first is Aries, and the last is Pisces. Many people in the middle can’t remember.
If you use the scene, you will find that this is very simple, you can remember it in less than a minute.
For example, imagine that there is an Aries in front of your house, and imagine that there is a golden bull on the dining table of your house.
Imagine that there is a picture of twins playing on your TV, which corresponds to Gemini. Imagine a giant crab crawling in your living room, it is Cancer.
You will find that our brain is easy to remember the image, and it is also easy to remember the location of the image.
The great thinker Aristotle is very proficient in the art of memory. He lived in the world more than 2,300 years ago, which is very remarkable.
In his memory treatise “On Ji”Reminiscence and Recollection” said this sentence: “Like a person who has been trained in memory, as long as you mention the location of something, you can immediately recall the thing itself.”
So when you want to recite Pi, you know where in your brain Pi is stored.
Everyone can be a memory genius
Modern brain science and medicine have developed rapidly, and many mysteries of memory are slowly being demonstrated by science.
This is a test conducted by a group of scientists at a Dutch university in 2017. The test subjects are two groups of people, one group is the top 23 masters of the World Memory Contest, and the other group is ordinary people without any training.
In the process of this test, it was confirmed that after professional and systematic training, mnemonics can indeed make ordinary people remember faster than others, remember more than others, and remember better than others in a short time.
The red histograms are those who have undergone memory training, and the white ones are those who have started to learn mnemonics. If you haven’t learned it, you are the loser in this test.
Finally, I will share with you a photo that I like very much. This is 2011. I took my team members to participate in the memory contest.
Whether it’s elementary school students, middle school students, adults or the elderly, we use our actions to prove to you that as long as you master these three keys and professionally trained, everyone can become a memory genius, everyone can have it One of the most powerful brains.
I hope more people will participate in this”Fortune” in the Games.
We know that in the future, the competition between people. The competition between countries is not physical competition, but brain competition. To improve the brain, we must first start with memory.
I wish you all a perfect memory.
This article is from WeChat official account:Gezhilundao Forum (ID: SELFtalks) , author: Guo Zhuanwei