You might say, "Yes, I often forget. I have gained something after reading the book, but it will be over in a few days. I think of one thing and forget it in an instant, so I am forgetful ... "
Maybe this is the voice of many people, but is it really like this?
Let me say a point that goes against your common sense: in fact, as long as the information enters your brain, you have not forgotten it. It's just hidden by your brain.
What do you mean?
Think back, have you ever had this experience in your life ~
When you meet someone, you can't remember who he is, but you just think he looks familiar.
I saw a question during the exam. Although I didn't know how to solve it, I just felt that the teacher said it or I saw it there.
You have learned something for so long that you have completely forgotten how to do it, but if you learn it again, you will soon pick it up again. ......
I can cite countless cases, one thing, one thing, the first contact you have had and the one you have never had at all, and your feelings about them are completely different.
In fact, this series of reasons are all because our brains remember, but in order to save energy, the brain will press a lot of information that is not conducive to current survival into the low-energy subconscious to achieve the purpose of saving energy.
You may be confused to see them here. Since our brains remember them, why can't I remember them when I use them? Why is my brain blank?
Why can't you remember when you use it?
In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, because you have not established information clues that can be extracted.
What do you mean?
Let's take the first case as an example: you meet someone, but you just think this person is familiar and completely forget who he is, but what if he gives you a reminder ~
For example, if he says, "Dude, do you remember the last time you were in KTV …", you will immediately realize that it was you.
This is a clue that can be extracted.
Because of the energy-saving mechanism of the brain, even things that are deeply remembered will not be remembered for no reason ~
The reason why your knowledge and information can't be called out is the lack of such a series of reminder clues. Once you have this reminding index clue, your brain will catch it all.
Such a scene has been described in the French literary masterpiece "Remembering the Past" ~
The hero of the novel ate a snack called Madeleine cake in a cold winter. When the cake residue touched his chin in afternoon tea, he suddenly thought of eating it at Menstrual Home when he was young, so he recalled the buildings and streets of Menstrual Home, and everything was vivid. .....
Have you ever had such an experience?
Inadvertently in life, something suddenly touches you. It may be something, someone, a song, a sentence, a scene and so on. Reminds you of people and things you have forgotten ~
He may be your first love or your childhood memories. .....
Similarly, so is our inspiration. You find that sometimes your inspiration comes out of nowhere. In fact, a great part of this mysterious mechanism is that some inexplicable point touches a clue in your brain and makes you suddenly realize. .....
Seeing this, you should understand that your knowledge and what you have memorized can't be taken out when you use it, because you haven't established a clue with the current situation. Facing the current situation, your brain can't match it, so even if you have this information in your mind, you still have to stop eating. ......
In other words: as long as the clues you build for the current knowledge points are strong enough, your ability to call them will go up N steps directly.
I've blown it out. It is impossible to "forget" the information that has been input into our brains. As long as you create an index, you can grab it at will.
However, why do we meet these conditions and then "forget"?
Why do we "forget"?
In fact, this question is also very simple. The reason why you "forget" is not because you completely disappeared from your mind, but because you didn't repeat enough, which led to the broken clues of the index.
What do you mean?
As we said before, the brain has a set of energy-saving and protection mechanisms, which will press information that is not conducive to our survival into the subconscious mind and give special care to the most frequently used and active information at present.
This process is a vivid example ~
He said: "It's like opening a road. At first, it is a short-term memory of a path, but if it is built frequently, the road will become thicker and wider, and finally it will become an indestructible long-term memory.
On the contrary, if you open it and leave it alone and walk it, it will get narrower and narrower, and eventually it will be in disrepair and completely broken. Break a clue, forget
The knowledge point of the "completely broken" clue becomes an island in your brain universe. Nobody knows where it is and how to get there. This is what most of us call "complete forgetting".
So, the second thing you will never forget is repetition, repetition.
To put it more strictly, it is "increasing the number of extractions". Repeated extraction is hooliganism if you want to really reach the level of handy or even subconscious reaction.
Well, as you know above, the ability to remember Chinese characters is composed of clue power and extraction power. So how can you never forget them?
How to make it unforgettable?
First of all, from the two aspects of clue strength and extraction strength, these two aspects constitute a "mnemonic formula." Like the mnemonic formula above, I'll give you three axes.
First of all, how to increase the first two axes of extracting clues:
establish ties (with)
What do you mean?