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Chapter 11. Conclusion in Hindsight
The mind frames a story. We remember people and characters with more stories than those with less. We remember people and characters with more interesting stories, and with more emotional content, than those with less.
We also need to observe what the mind is ‘seeing’, how the mind is ‘remembering’, in order to provide those conditions to aid it better, so we can conduce and condition it for a phenomenal memory performance.
1. Don’t Forget to Remember
2. Remember Not to Forget
3. Remembering to Remember
4. Forgetting to Forget
Don’t Forget to Remember
From Chapter 1, we described how the mind can perform much effectively with a known system of association, we started off with the number-shape pegging system as an illustration and used it as the system base. The objective is to guide you to discover and unlock the ability you never knew have. We show that you do indeed have the ability to remember a list of items, you are just un-schooled. But since then, you can’t unsee what you saw.
We gave a guided example in Chapter 2 to demonstrate an application of learning a system, i.e. the Morse code,using the basic method. We up the scale to guide you to apply the basic skill to learning. We emphasized that it is ok to forget, and in fact, desirable as part of the discovery on why we forget. The mistakes discovered help us to understand the `loose pegging`, and from there, countermeasures and new methods can be derived as continuous development and continuous evolution (CDCE) of our mnemonic system and ability. Learning something complex or difficult, and making observations on the learning process is part of the scheme in this book. Hence, the `why we forget` journal is as part of the learning regime. Being aware of what we forget, and returning to work on overcoming how we forget becomes part of the utilizing the Zeigarnik Effect to motivate mnemonic repairs. You will realize that every time you return to review what you forget and forge new mnemonic links on it, or recast it to strength the links, the information becomes more stable.
Zeigarnik effect…