How to Develop Your Own Super Memory
Mark Wilkinson
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Your brain is more powerful than any computer, and can store and recall far more material than you could ever use in your entire lifetime. All you have to do to develop an almost photographic memory is to learn how to retain information in a way that makes it easy to recall. Then you'll be able to r 
emember every number, name, date or fascinating fact you have ever heard or read. Here's the inside story on key areas and techniques:
Bulk information: Learning is most effective if you study for periods of 20 to 40 minutes interspersed by regular five-minute breaks. Then spend a couple of minutes thinking over what you have just learned before going on to the next section. Reviewing is important, and should be done at increasingly long intervals. The first review should take place no more than an hour after the learning period. The second review should be carried out a day later and the third review should take place a week later. A full and proper review of any new information fixes it into your long-term memory; and makes it easier to recall at a later time.
Memory training: The four essentials are: 'association', 'visualisation', 'imagination' and 'sensation'. Association - stage performers use linking systems, which associate the things they need to remember with objects or events. Visualisation - if you visualise what you want to remember, you will remember it far more easily than if you just try to file away a word. It also helps if you visualise something that is personal to you, especially if it is something you own or want to own. For example, don't think 'car', think 'Mercedes'. Imagination - the more imaginative you are, the easier it will be to remember. Make that Mercedes a vintage model, manufactured in the year your father was born. Sensation - as with imagination, the more sensational or bizarre your picture, the easier it will be to remember. So the resultant memory image would be a 1930 Mercedes in shocking pink with big green blobs all over it.
Bulk information: Learning is most effective if you study for periods of 20 to 40 minutes interspersed by regular five-minute breaks. Then spend a couple of minutes thinking over what you have just learned before going on to the next section. Reviewing is important, and should be done at increasingly long intervals. The first review should take place no more than an hour after the learning period. The second review should be carried out a day later and the third review should take place a week later. A full and proper review of any new information fixes it into your long-term memory; and makes it easier to recall at a later time.
Memory training: The four essentials are: 'association', 'visualisation', 'imagination' and 'sensation'. Association - stage performers use linking systems, which associate the things they need to remember with objects or events. Visualisation - if you visualise what you want to remember, you will remember it far more easily than if you just try to file away a word. It also helps if you visualise something that is personal to you, especially if it is something you own or want to own. For example, don't think 'car', think 'Mercedes'. Imagination - the more imaginative you are, the easier it will be to remember. Make that Mercedes a vintage model, manufactured in the year your father was born. Sensation - as with imagination, the more sensational or bizarre your picture, the easier it will be to remember. So the resultant memory image would be a 1930 Mercedes in shocking pink with big green blobs all over it.