By Royane Real

When you’re trying to learn something, or studying for school exams, you probably know that you will remember better if you take notes.  Most likely you will later review the information you’ve studied as well as the original text.  In fact, it’s helpful for most of us to review the information several times if we want to have any chance of passing the exam or remembering the information when we need it.

There’s a good reason why reviewing information several times is helpful in improving our ability to remember better.

The more often you signal your brain that certain information is important, the more likely it is that the brain will make that information easy to access.  When you repeat an action or review the same information, you actually reinforce connections between the brain cells where that information is stored.

If information goes into your brain that doesn’t seem very important or interesting, chances are it will get filed in some dusty corner along with all the other information that your brain thinks is never going to be needed again.

So how can you make sure that what you are studying is going to remain accessible for your brain to pull up whenever you need it?

As I’ve mentioned before, one way is to review the information several times.

Another way is to try make that information unique, so it doesn’t get lost with all the millions of other items that are already stored in your brain.  That is why so many memory experts suggest that when you are learning a new name, or trying to remember items on a list, you try to create a funny or bizarre image in your mind that goes along with these items.  This helps the information look unique and important.

Your brain also remembers better when it is really involved in the learning process.

Depending on the way that you take notes, your note taking can improve your memory of what you are learning, or your note taking technique can make your memory retention worse.

The mind mapping technique a memory boosting technique that can help you remember what you need to know for important occasions such as exams.  It is a special technique for note taking that works in a way that is similar to the way your brain stores and recalls information.  

Mind mapping can also help you see the relationship between all the concepts you are studying and it can also help you to generate new creative insights.  Why not try the mind mapping technique as an ideal memory booster?

This article is written by Royane Real, author of “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”

Learn more about mind mapping and other ways to boost your mental powers. 

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