Elon Musk shared a simple trick for remembering things. Your brain is constantly trying to forget stuff because storing memories is hard. To remember something, assign meaning, ask “why is this relevant?” Or use strong emotion or absurdity. Want to remember a room? Imagine a dancing elephant in a... tutu. Your brain remembers what’s different. A practical tip from someone who knows a lot. What’s one memory trick you use that actually works?show more

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Names and faces I associate a name with something I never forget. Example your name is Max, you become Mad Max. I will never forget your name or face. If I meet a different Max they become the Blue Max or Maximus Aurelius. This gives me near instaneous recall.

This is how they teach actors to apply those same methods for memorizing scripts

When you meet someone, say their name back to them. Nice to meet you John Doe.

I used to have a really excellent memory technique, but I forget what it was…

Write it down. You can throw away the paper, but writing it down once helps it stick.

If I can't remember something, I repeat "It will come to me, it will come to me.." I learned this from some positive energy chipper pain in the ass guy I worked with years ago. I wish I knew where to thank him now.

Since I was a small child I had an internal dialogue that seemed instinctual. I was obsessed with messages in rocks. I collected them, attached memories to them. Learning of heritage and reading encyclopedias it felt like it was due to the Viking use of rune-stones. Rocks carried symbolism for me, secret stories. To hear or understand them you had to know me. A collection of rocks was an epic of my childhood. Everyone else just saw a pile of rocks. I would later learn of a concept called Touchstone. And I realized while I used rocks people used other sorts of objects to remember special memories by. I began to understand why people like flowers and chocolates. My Grandpa would express his love for his Mother and Sisters by bringing them boxes of Fannie Mae Chocolates and bringing them up to the farm to them. They couldn't get them up there, and they savored them. It made him smile like a child bringing his mom a boquet of Dandelions. I understood this. My Great Grandma would let each of us kids have one piece out of the assortment. I loved the Dark Chocolate covered coconut ones, but found out they were her favorite. I asked her "Great Grandma, what is your least favorite, I'll have that one." It was White chocolate, and I discovered she and I shared that too. As a relief after the first time my youngest brother did actually favor that one. Grandpa expressed his love for his brother and brother in laws by helping them construct things, both functional and aesthetically pleasing. He surprised my Grandmother with a deck where he cut Heart Shaped pieces in the side boards, perfectly spaced. My Grandmother wore her plain wedding band her whole life, and only wore her engagement ring with it at weddings. When I got into my teens and other girls were talking about the value of clear stones in rings, I found myself unable to find the meaning, or the touchstone / runestone nature in their desire for them. Touchstones are meant to come to you, just like the thoughts etched into stories on runestones. You needed to understand the individual who wrote it, and most wouldn't take the time. I still store memories via physical objects, but being a writer by nature you will view the most beautiful runes in my words, in the subtext of them. You would have had to received a small token of acknowledgement from me as a child or a teen to understand you meant something to me. That was my instinctual acknowledgement of you, and my memory of you. When you see my work you feel a connection like you belong in it, because you are, and I invited you long before I etched that runestone. It's up to you to read the subtext to know what I thought of you, and still do. If you are special even the temporary gifts have stuck with you. They planted me in your memory, and I was willing to be there. For those who took rather than receive from willingly giving me... you don't remember me as I am, you remember me as your treatment of me, but you remember why you're worthy of staring at my back for the rest of time. So everyone has their touchstones. It depends on how much thought and meaning we put into them. On both giving and receiving ends. Sometimes I only intend to make you smile for the day... a stranger passing by to brighten your day. Others my intent is to be unforgettable. Both are instinctual. So the 'trick' depends on the effort to send a message. Potency. And Elon handed us the ultimate touchstone when he purchased Twitter and ETCHED a new name for it, X.

Matt Goeke has a great memory training program called the Memory Switch. It teaches you these exact concepts. You’ll be able to memorize 30 people’s names in a room if you use these techniques.

"MY BEER IS ON THE BUMPER" "MY BEER IS ON THE BUMPER" "MY BEER IS ON THE BUMPER" ....Now I can pee works 💯of the time 4 out of 10 times....

I really don't understand what has happened to me over the past 5 years. For some reason my memory recall has exploded. I'm 68 years old and I would not only say intuitively I seem to understand and recognise falsehoods, but any questions asked, I'm pulling out the right answers.

Great information! He’s so right! It’s hard to store memory.

Writing g stuff down or reading It instead of hearing helps me

I just repeat what I need to know a few times. Always works for me.

Mnemonic devices. For example, Streets run North & South (I think about the "S" in Streets and South). Roads that are Place, Terrace, Avenue (PTA - like the parent's school association) run East and West. Easy to remember because because Avenue ends in an "e."

I blow stuff up in my head to remember, don’t want to forget my keys are on the counter? Imagine the keys exploding or Turing into goo where you left them,

Average bruhs imagine being in a room with the genius.

Tony Robbins teaches this!

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Last names are the hardest things for me to remember.

I'm badly traumatised. My mind digged everything up in subconcious parts. I meditated and I rembered places I have been at in childhood. This memory and the memory of ways I have been brought along let free what happened at the places I remembered. It was terror BUT I remember!

Incredible that people can see this coming from Musk This trick is at least as old as I am, from what I can remember

Представляю доску и пишу на ней, что нужно запомнить.

A diary , a scrapbook , a photograph can all become memory aids.

If you’re a woman, you’ll remember with no tricks. We are good detectives 😂

This is why soem people travel a lot, they remember what's new and that constitutes life. This is expensive methods to memorise.

😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 a dancing elephant dressed in a tuttu But good point!

🇮🇹🇺🇸THANK YOU 😍Elon for this advice I use a sample method … place a picture on your mine that related to that name … anything you think will retrive that info …

It’s the opposite of merging of oneness. Finding discrepancy division and contrast.

I can remember 200 dog breeds in two weeks. Some people I know can do it in a little over a week.

Physical pain and emotional pain and some of the memories of that time are crisp ….. or is it the repetition of the memory engraved it in your mind. Interestingly enough, your brain will reach moments and a threshold and may not remember at all, until you can tolerate more.