How to remember what you read

How to remember what you read or studied?

Reading a book

Do you want to remember what you read or studied? Has this ever happened to you that you have tried to remember what you have read and after great efforts you have remembered it, but you only remember it for 5 minutes or 1 hour or after 1 day if your memory is good, but you anyways forget it. Well this a simple fact of your brain. In this article I'm going to tell you simple tricks to remember anything forever. Read the full article so you will learn simple tricks to remember what you read or studied forever.

Highlighting a book

Highlighting the text you read or study?

Highlighting the text is a really effective way to remember the important points whenever you read or study. Highlighting the text means making the text what you read attractive to your eyes. You can simply underline the line you read with a pencil or make the text colorful. Our brain remembers the thing which is highlighted for long time. Your brain likes the things which is different from other common things. So whenever you highlight the text the brain finds the text more attractive then other texts. Due to this the brain remembers the highlighted text for long time.

2. How to remember what you read or study?

Studying

Suppose if u want to learn a paragraph and write it in exam don't memorize it without understanding the meaning of it. This is a thing which most of the students do. Whatever information you read gets stored in 2 places: 1) Short-term memory & 2) Long-term memory.

Whatever gets stored in short-term memory you will remember that only for some time or some hours, but when you will forget it you won't remember 1 glimpse of it. Most of the people use this memory that's why they forget the answers while writing in exams. Whatever gets stored in long-term memory you will remember that for long period of time or forever.

How to get to know whatever you read gets stored in short-term memory or long-term memory.

Whenever you just memorize everything without understanding it, it gets stored in short-term memory and you won't remember it forever. That's why I don't advice you to just keep on mugging up everything. If you are studying something for your exams try remembering it by understanding it. Don't keep on mugging up without understanding anything. Whatever you have remembered you will always remember it & whatever you mug up you won't remember it for long time. Whenever you memorize something you will feel like you have remembered it and you won't forget it, but in exams you forget it.

How to not mug up and store the information in our long-term memory

Our brain stores something in long-term memory which is important for us. You don't feel like studying but you still keep on mugging up, mugging up & mugging up what will be the use of it. There's a simple trick, if you want to remember a paragraph but you don't feel like learning it, start thinking negative. You will say, ''what! start thinking negative''? Well you should always think positive but you can even take benefit of thinking negative. Try threatening your brain that what worst things can happen to you if you don't remember it, Example: If I don't remember the paragraph my teacher will shout at me and in the front of the entire class I will get insulted, my parents will shout at me. etc try threatening your mind with this threats and your brain will become alert. This would seem little weird to you but understand how it works. You don't feel like remembering or even if you try remembering the brain doesn't store the information in long-term memory simply because your brain is not alert. When you threaten your brain it will start getting serious, when your brain becomes serious it works with more power. When you will study anything after threatening your mind it will get stored in long-term memory, you won’t need to mug up anything because now your brain is in a serious state and it will work in full power. There is motivation in the brain when it wishes to do something, when your brain is not alert it doesn’t care even if how much you are struggling and how much marks you want to get. Example: Suppose if you have $ 100 billion will you study? Well, you won’t study simple because you already have so much money and you are easily going with your life, but if your financial condition is not going well, you will find 1 way or another today or tomorrow or after 1 year but anyways your brain will find motivation. In the same way if you sit for studying but you don’t feel like studying and you start thinking negative things your brain gets dazed and at that time your focus and concentration power increases. It is a fact in life that thinking negative won’t work in any other situation, so don’t think negative in any other situation but in studies you need to think negative simply because you want motivation. This negative thing only works in studies so I don’t recommend you to do this in any other situation. I said you to think negative, but whatever you think will be fake, in reality your parents won’t be shouting at you, you are just imagining it and taking the benefit of thinking negative, in reality nothing is happening you are just taking the benefit of your brain. A fake, a self-made negative thought, due to this negative thought there is a bustle in your brain, this bustle in your brain increases due to negative thinking. Due to this, your brain works with more power. What would be a better way other than this to take benefit of your brain? You will need to mug up if you just casually mug up. But when you threaten your brain it won’t mug up and send it to your short term memory instead at that time you study properly and at that time your brain sends the information to your long-term memory. Do try this technique and see, after threatening your brain and making your brain alert and making it work with full power whatever you will try to memorize, you will easily remember it and after remembering it, it will get stored in your long term memory and you will remember it forever.

Top Student

I want to see you become a top student and with least hard work with these tricks you can score great marks. Will you try this technique, do tell us in the comment section and if you like the article do give us a like and share it with your friends and follow us with email to get notified whenever I post a new article because I post interesting articles like this weekly. Don’t forget to follow us in Pinterest and other social media.

-By Aneesh

How to remember what you read