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practice memorizing things

>>5630714
this, back when I was in school do math and chem, I could remember things very well.

Now that I do nothing I can barely remember phone numbers

matching memory games for short term.
memorize stuff for long term. poetry is traditional. prayers even more traditional.
there are also supplements that can help memory.

>>5630703
Memorize a number( >7 digits ) or a line from a book or even a verse.
First thing in the morning when you wake up you should repeat it in your mind. Repeat by adding one number/line every 2-3 days ...depending on your intellect
Try to sleep alot.
Stop smoking weed.
Stop drinking alcoohol.
Play games like solitaire/mahjong to enhance your quickness in recieving and analysing information.
Before you go to sleep try to watch or do something relaxing before you go to bed.
While trying to fall asleep start by creating yourself a world just in your mind and try to remember it the next day and keep adding new elements to it ( for example I'm building myself a house by the sea, decorating my every room and every day I add a new painting to it/ or a piece of furniture etc.)
Also try visualising 3D spheres/cubes in your mind and than move on to more complex structures.
Finally enjoy seeing every thing sorrounding you as something mathematical. Try to formulate complex equations for determining once's chance of I dont know...missing the bus to work by taking into account as many variables as possible.
If you can do this...well you can sign up for a physics/math degree easily.

>>5630767

Sort of disagree with some of these. It's not a bad list, but not its going to work for everyone. I got my degree in physics rather easily, and I know that I didn't sleep a lot, I drank alcohol (not to excess), played fighting/puzzle games (analyzing frame data and making quick decisions), worked out before going to bed.

But definitely imagine the science behind everything is neat. Even when doing something as basic as opening a door, realize why the doorknob is where it is, think about every single thing going on with its motion, etc.

>>5630767
Also, imagining 3D objects is nice. Imagining 4D objects... now THAT gets your brain going.

>>5630778
Yes I know...I don't sleep alot either ( is a methabolism thing , think I spelled methabolism right too lazy to google it) . Biology however tells us a rested brain is a more powerful one. About alcholol...same thing methabolism bla bla and yet again biology tells us the same thing.


Opening a door? Yes it's very neat. But I've been doing this things since I was a kid so everyday activites our pretty much easy for me to imagine and understand their complexity.

However try imagining...actually visualising complex algebric structures or the gaussian field or a hillbert space ...or tensors. That stuff takes ~4 years to achieve. Algebra is the ultimate mind challenge

>>5630782
You can't imagin 4D objects fact. those things you see on youtube/wiki are just mathematical results for how a 4d shape might act in 3D

>>5630808
How do you know that he can't imagine in 4d?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_with_Einstein

Anyone heard of this guy?

memory is useless, I rather work on having a higher ability to "apply myself." applying what you know vs simply knowing.

i may not know alot, but my ability to apply what little I know makes me more valuable than someone who know alot but dont know how to apply

why work on memory when you can simply look up the internet for answers.

picture related. i have the book myself. it is very useful if terms of enhancing your memory, but my statement above sitll stands

>>5631801
This. I'm last year of highschool and I get top grades in chemistry, math and physics. I don't even practice much, I'm just good at logic and actually apply what I learn.

>>5631822
>>5631801

yep, place your brian potential and capacity to better use. great memory is just some bogus magic trick, or necessary talent, than a useful life benefiting skill

>>5631801
>>5631822

>>5631822
>>5631801

yep, place your brian potential and capacity to better use. great memory is like learning a magic trick. its more of an unnecessary talent, than a useful life benefiting skill. normal memory capacity is benefiting enough. superior application skills brings you further

>>5631822
highschool....yeeea...have you participated in a math/chemistry olympiad ? Getting straight A`s in highschool is really easy with a bit of interest and a bit of mind. I could say same goes for alot of colleges... but understanding the very core of math for example it requires years and years of practice. You can be the smartest man alive you still need to work for years to understand math. Just sayin

>>5631856
It wasn't my point to appear a genius. I was simply implying that memory doesn't mean that much if you can't do shit with it.

>>5631801
>>5631822
>>5631833

Well, not quite.
Sure the ability to "apply" as you put it is superior to just knowing facts.
Its another thing to have something in your memory and another thing to "look up" something on the internet.

If it's already on your mind you mold that knowledge into a technique.
A soft comparison would be like RAM and HD, brain stores like a ram, executable memory and HD(internet) is just static data that you can't process.

Ofc you can turn the static data into executable but that is actually the learning process, which is why memory is important.

>>5631906
Clarification:
Brain stores like a RAM(executable memory in the brain), and Hard Drives (internet) are more like static data*

Memory is topic-specific, and skills gained are non-transferable. Memorizing numbers will not help you memorize letters or anything other than numbers.

>>5631910
also this.
Welp not entirely but this is the general rule.

>>5631923

What a useless post to make

>>5631965
What a coincidence