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What are the Brain Hacks which helps to Learn Anything Faster just before exams?

Brain Hacks are essentially Brain Training Methods which helps to Learn Anything Faster. These methods helps to memorize Historical Dates, Scientific atomic numbers, Science Equations, General Knowledge, English Vocabulary, Foreign Language, Math Formulas, Theory in points and most of the studies which usually takes a long time to learn. One can learn literally anything including long digit bank account numbers and mobile numbers.

How these Brain Hacks help in Learning Fast?

Brain Hacks are essentially Brain Training Methods which helps to Learn Anything Faster. These methods helps to memorize Historical Dates, Scientific atomic numbers, Science Equations, General Knowledge, English Vocabulary, Foreign Language, Math Formulas, Theory in points and most of the studies which usually takes a long time to learn. One can learn literally anything including long digit bank account numbers and mobile numbers.

In this article, we are going to discuss 5 basic methods of memory techniques which acts as Brain Hacks to Learn

1. Form Abbreviation to memorize points or parts of a sentence

This Memory Trick uses a single letter from every point. These letters are then used to form a single word. For example: Management comprises Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling. Now to memorize these 5 areas of management, we pick their initials which is POSDC.

So if you want to memorize a similar sentence, the initials may be combined to form a word which will give you a clue of the exact terms. Ofcourse if the order of the points is important, this method may not be too helpful if you have to shuffle around the letters to form a memorable word. Even if the points are too many, this method may not be very effective.

That is where we will have to use more advanced methods.

2. Visualize and Memorize History like a Story

We often forget what we learnt but remembering a movie we just saw once is much easier. Always approach learning with relaxed state of mind. Concentrate and try to visualize your lesson like a movie. Attempt with a small part first.

For example: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre has lots of events around it. Rowlatt Act, Protest in Jallianwala Bagh, Firing by troops led by General Dyer, O Dwyer’s Assassination are the events made easier to remember through many documentaries and Bollywood movies like Legend of Bhagat Singh and Rang De Basanti.

Clue is to watch a good documentary made on the event and feel yourself a part of it. This will make the memorization part easier to learn and remember. Before we go in depth and learn more complex things, it is important to understand Imagination and Association.

3. Imagination and Association to memorize English Vocabulary (Words and meanings)

Imagination is used to visualize any word related to what we want to learn. Words which are not part of our frequently used conversation are usually difficult to memorize. For example scientific words or English Vocabulary. Now to memorize these words, we will have to give it a meaningful picture.

Example: Aggrandize The task here is to memorize this word and its meaning. To do this, let’s try to imagine this word like a picture. We need to recite this word 2-3 times to work out something meaningful from it. Can we think of A-Grand-Ice? Can we imagine a big size block of ice? Certainly yes. So let’s move forward.

Association is used to link our recently formed picture with the meaning of the word we are discussing. The meaning of the word Aggrandize is – Enhance power, wealth or status. Now we need to imagine someone known to us. Imagine that someone standing on that Big Size of Ice. Imagine, he or she became powerful, wealthy and people have started him / her respecting more than before. All this happened because of standing on A Grand Ice.

So now whenever you will find the word Aggrandize, you will remember that person standing on Big Size Ice Block which will give you a clue of its meaning which is, enhance power, wealth or status. The best part of this method is that it can be done vice versa too. If you require to give the enhance power, wealth or status, you will remember that person standing on ice block and with practice, you will be able to remember the word as well.

Can you use the same technique to memorize “Largess”? Share your solution in the comment section. The same method may also be applied to learn Foreign Language Vocabulary.

Easy now? Share in the comment section if you liked this way of memorizing difficult words of English. You will get to learn many more words which also includes foreign language with the help of Brainywood’s Memory Training Mobile App.

4. Mental Hooks to memorize long list of things to do

Mental hooks are formed from your permanent memory. Every one of us has something stored in our brain which we hardly forget. In this Brain Hack, we will take help of something which one can see (or visualize) even when it cannot be seen! Confused? Try to imagine your living room. List down 10-15 things which you can see in your room.

Things in living room may vary but for example let us list down some objects which you might see in your case too:

Gate

Curtains

Clock

Photo Frame / Painting

Light

Fan

Air conditioner / Cooler

TV

Sofa / Chairs

Light switches

Associate your list with the mental hooks you just formed from your living room. A funny association will be more effective. Let us do the first five as an example for you.

Sharma uncle is sticking to the gate.

Curtains are dipped in wall paint.

Clock has jumped into your bedroom and made it dirty.

Photo frame is made of Math formulas

Chocolates are hanging on tubelight.

Ofcourse your mental hooks may be more than what we described here and you may get confused with what is used where. You may also miss the order of your tasks. Good thing is that our advanced methods will help you in creating more hooks and let you memorize more complex things. You may learn about them in detail on Brainywood’s Memory Training Mobile App.

5. Convert numbers to pictures to memorize a Date

Here is a very useful Brain Hack to memorize dates. A date is comprised of Day of the month, name of month and the year. While learning History, memorizing and remembering historical dates is one of the most challenging part.

The Brain Hack to Learn Any Date is a bit lengthy part of the entire Memory Training Course. However, in this example, we will attempt to memorize only the Day and month. The process for memorizing complete date will be discussed in forthcoming articles.

Remembering important dates like Birthday, Marriage Anniversaries in day to day life is important part of social life. While we do have technology for it but to recall it without any assistance reflects your social bonding with someone.

The days of the month will always be between 1 and 31. In this Memory Training Method, we are discussing 1 to 10. You may follow Brainywood’s Memory Training Mobile App to learn all of them in detail. We have used pictures to represent these numbers. For easy remembrance, our pictures are rhyming with their respective numbers. • 1 is Sun • 2 is Shoe • 3 is Tree • 4 is Door • 5 is Knife • 6 is Kicks • 7 is Heaven • 8 in Slate • 9 is mine (Coal mine) • 10 is Hen

Now for months, we are using different set of pictures. For easy remembrance here as well, the number of the month has a value with it. • 1 is January – 1 is King • 2 is February – 2 is Eye (We have 2 eyes) • 3 is March – 3 is Monkey (imagine 3 monkeys of Gandhiji) • 4 is April – 4 is Car (imagine 4 wheels in car) • 5 is May – 5 is Fist (5 fingers) • 6 is June – 6 is Sixer (Cricket) • 7 is July – 7 is Rainbow (7 colors) • 8 is August – 8 is Octopus (8 limbs) • 9 is September – 9 is Solar System (9 popular planets although we now recognize only 8 of them) • 10 is October – 10 is Ravana (10 heads) • 11 is November – 11 is Team (Cricket team with 11 players) • 12 is December – 12 is Bunch of Banana (A dozen banana)

Remaining task is easy once we are prepared with our number pictures. We need to associate Day, Month, Event and Person together to form an easy to remember action.

For example: We need to memorize Sundar’s Birthday which is on December 9. Let’s represent Birthday Event as Birthday Cap. Here we have Coal Mine, Banana Bunch, Birthday Cap and Sundar. Imagine Sundar coming out of coal mine, clothes blackened due to coal, with Banana bunch hanging on his neck and wearing a colorful triangular birthday cap. So now whenever you will recall December as Banana, the whole picture will be mentally visible to you and you will be able to recollect the remaining part which tells you that Sundar’s Birthday will be on 9th of this month.

To memorize date with year, you will have to use advanced methods. Brainywood Memory Training Mobile App has video lessons with interesting animation and lots of examples to remember any kind of date with year.

How to improve learning speed and accuracy with these Brain Hacks?

These 5 Brain Hacks form the basis to Learning Anything Faster. Brainywood’s advanced Brain Training will further improve your learning with important tips, dos and don’ts of these methods.

The task will become easier with more applications and practice. Our advanced methods on Brainywood’s Memory Training Mobile App will improve your recollection speed and accuracy.

PART 2 | THE FEYNMAN TECHNIQUE

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Learning sometimes can be challenging. Sometime we struggle to learn new knowledge, new skills or remember the lessons we had taken. Maybe because we forgot to use the fundamentals of learning that's why we struggle or we learn slowly.

According to Jim Kwik, CEO of Kwik Learning, we can learn faster by just remembering the word "FAST".

What was the word FAST mean? It is an acronym for FORGET, ACTIVE, STATE, AND TEACH.

Forget - temporary forget what you already know, forget about anything that's not urgent and important, forget your limitations(self limiting beliefs).

Active - learn by creating information and being active in the process(taking notes,asking questions).

State - state is the mood of your mind and body. Information combined with emotion becomes a long-term memory. (Joy, Fascination, Curiosity)

Teach - learn with the intention of teaching it to somebody.

When you teach something, you get to learn it twice(when you learn to teach, you double your effort to learn).

We used FAST when we are learning something we desire without noticing it. 

Do you believe it? Let me first ask you a question.

Do you remember the first time you learn something you desire?

The first time to play your favorite sport or to play an instrument? 

You didn't know anything about it. 

But you are eager to learn as much as you can. 

It felt like you need to learn everything.

You are so curious on how to do it.

As a result, you have learned so many things about it and started doing it.

You practiced so much almost every day. You also practiced with your friends and taught each other.

You get well to it so fast. 

But in some point, your progress slowed down. 

It felt like you already know what you need to know. 

So you didn't study and learn the way you used to. Because you think that there is nothing to know more.

You are now just doing what you learned, study a little bit and let it develop through experience.

The point is. . .

If you don’t have eagerness and curiosity, you tend to learn slowly.

If you become complacent on what you already know, it stops your growth process. 

If you don’t want what you study and not curious about it, you will not learn so much.

When you are learning what you want, you are being active. You are talking to yourself, asking and answering questions to yourself or to your coach and friends. 

You are also in a positive state because you are curious, you enjoy what you are learning and you are fascinated by it. 

If you are learning with your friends, you start teaching each other. 

In that way, you will learn so fast and you can never forget it. Because teaching help to retain what have learned.

And if you learn with the intention of teaching to others, you will increase your effort to learn it.

So if you want to learn fast, if you want to develop you skills, or if you want to be GREAT, just always remember the word FAST.

It will help to achieve your study goals, learning new skill goals, or ‘be the best’ goals.

I am using the word FAST when I am learning something. That's why I created this blog. 

There are a number of ways to train your brain to memorize things faster and optimize learning.

1. Exercise to clear your head

Working out is good for our bodies, but our brain reaps many benefits as well. Exercise can improve learning and memory, so if you’re having writer’s block or just can’t seem to get through that tough math problem, try walking it off or squeezing in a quick gym session.

A 2013 study found that exercise has immediate benefits on cognition in both younger and older adults — after a simple 15-minute exercise session, study participants showed an improvement in memory and cognitive processing.

2. Write down what needs to be memorized over and over

It can seem like a lot more work to continuously jot down the same thing over and over, but this simple activity can work wonders for your memory recall. Research has shown that listing out facts or problems improves the ability to memorize them instead of trying to passively learn them by re-reading.

Further, another study found that taking lecture notes by hand instead of typing them out on a computer helped students better recall the lesson content.

3. Do exercise

Taking exercise is an easy way to improve your brain’s grey matter, which is involved in muscle control and sensory perceptions like speech, memory, decision-making, and seeing.

Research has shown that people who practice take exercise show fewer cognitive failures. Amazingly, another 2012 study found that just 20 minutes of exercise boosted study participants’ brain functions, leading them to perform better on brain functioning tests both speed-wise and accuracy-wise.

4. Study or practice in the afternoon

Even if you consider yourself a “morning” or “nighttime” person, at least one study has shown that buckling down and focusing on a task in the afternoon can have a greater effect on long-term memory training than other times of the day.

5. Relate new things to what you already know

According to the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, a great brain-based technique for memory retention is to relate new information to what you already know.

“For example, if you are learning about Romeo and Juliet, you might associate what you learn about the play with prior knowledge you have about Shakespeare, the historical period in which the author lived and other relevant information,” the university writes.

6. Stay away from multitasking

In our technology-driven world, we often mindlessly pick up our smartphones to answer a text or check a social media feed while we’re in the middle of another task. In some situations, the ability to multitask can prove handy, but when it comes to learning a new skill or memorizing information, it’s best to focus on that one thing.

A study suggests that multitasking undermines our efficiency — particularly for complicated or unfamiliar tasks — since it takes extra time to shift mental gears each time an individual shifts between multiple tasks.

7. Teach other people what you’ve learned

Sharing your newly learned skills or knowledge is an efficient way to further solidify the new information in your brain, according to Loma Linda University. The process of translating the information into your own words helps your brain better understand it, and there are a number of innovative ways to break something down to teach it to others. It’s a win-win for everyone.

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AsapSCIENCE is a great YouTube channel I recommend to find information on anything you’re curious about, but also, if you’re going to be wasting your time on youtube at least you can learn some interesting things. Rather than listneing to music all the time, have some informational stuff playing in the background

But more importantly, they have great videos on study tips! You can also find videos on motivation, laziness, night owls and early birds, and other subjects related to your studies.

Here’s a few of their videos I recommend, just click the titles to open in a new tab!

The 9 BEST Scientific Study Tips

How to Learn Faster

The Science of Productivity