CICERO'S MEMORIZATION METHOD To master Cicero's method, two or three trainings are enough. This is its great advantage over many other techniques. When applying the method of Cicero, you no longer need to remember some well-learned series, as when using the "ordinary" method of connected associations, or to drag along a long chain of associations, as in the method of sequential associations. Another advantage is that this method can be applied anywhere you are.

This method is named after one of the brilliant orators, a statesman from the time of the Roman Republic. His name is Mark Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC). He also became famous for the fact that he never used notes in his speeches, reproducing from memory many facts, quotations, historical dates and names. It's amazingly simple yet extremely effective method , also called the method of places or the system of the Roman room. Its essence lies in the fact that the memorized units of information must be mentally arranged in a well-known room in a strictly defined order. Then it is enough to remember this room in order to reproduce the necessary information. This is exactly what Cicero did in preparation for his speeches - he walked around his house and mentally placed the key points of his speech in it. Before you start learning how to use this method, you need to decide for yourself what sequence you will follow around the room. In other words, you need to determine the sequence of places where you will post your information, that is, prepare a reference list of places. For many, it will be enough just to keep it in their heads. If this is difficult, then, remembering the sequence of elements using the Cicero method for the first time, you can try to walk around the room in reality, like him, while arranging the elements mentally. In other cases, walking around the house, as Cicero did, is not necessary: ​​it is enough to imagine it mentally (the room, of course, must be very familiar). Start with your room (study) as with the most familiar. Let the starting point be the door, then the near left corner or whatever is there, then the left wall, then the far left corner, etc. clockwise. As you become more experienced with the Cicero method, you will be able to use more and more items in the room, meaning you will have more places to place list items, but for now, limit yourself to the most visible items in the room. The more you remember the location of objects, the more elements you can remember. Use consistently all the items that always have the same place in your room: a castle, a sofa, a picture, a cornice, curtains, a window sill, bookshelves, a table. In addition to the sequence from left to right, follow the sequence from top to bottom (if two objects are one below the other). To memorize lists of various elements, you can use the whole apartment or house, as well as well-known homes of friends and relatives, an office, and even well-studied sections of the path on the street: from home to a bus stop, to the subway, to the nearest store, your favorite park path and etc. It is necessary to connect the elements of the memorized series with the objects of the room using associations (example below). At first, you can even make yourself a list of the elements of the room (you get a series of words) - in other words, a list of peculiar hooks for which you will attach the remembered elements. Consider an example of how you can remember a list of items in a specific order. Here are a number of words: cheese, puppy, plasticine, ruler, thermometer, letter, puddle, forest. We will place them sequentially, according to our layout of the apartment, starting from the corridor. In the example, we will try to use unusual connections in order to be able to reproduce this series even after a long time. So, we plug the gap in the lock with cheese, we put the puppy near the door in the left corner, but in order not to forget this standard connection, we imagine how he starts to gnaw on the baseboard, and we are trying to forbid him to do this. We glue the plasticine to the mirror, and we cover almost the entire surface with it so that the reflection is not visible. We attach the ruler to the cabinet doors: now it does not allow them to open. We screw the thermometer instead of a light bulb into the chandelier. Now on our way there is a door to the room. We insert the letter in the gap between the door and the jamb (we could spread it instead of a rug). To the left of the room, against the wall, is a small sofa; we imagine that he is standing in a puddle and his legs are about to get wet. It remains to connect the bookshelves and the word "forest". We imagine how a forest grows in front of the bookshelves, tree branches pass between the books, and the bookshelves themselves are almost invisible. The main thing before memorizing is to determine in advance the objects that will be included in the path scheme, so that during memorization one does not have to think whether to associate the next element with one or another object or whether it is more convenient to associate it with the next one. If you do this, you may make mistakes during playback. In general, the method of Cicero is more appropriate to use for more serious things than memorizing a series of words (these words were given only to show how to use it). He has proven himself well when memorizing texts, daily routines, the order of phone calls, etc. At the same time, when the information is somehow thematically related (and not just meaningless rows of words or numbers), then you can use the same room several times. times, rather than looking for a new "support" room each time. The memorized rows of elements will not mix, and you will reproduce the elements of the theme you need. To master the method of Cicero, two or three training sessions are enough. This is its great advantage over many other techniques. Another advantage is that this method can be applied anytime, anywhere you are. At the same time, this place itself - an auditorium, a museum, a chief's office can serve you as a "support" room. When applying the method of Cicero, you no longer need to remember some well-learned series, as when using the "ordinary" method of connected associations, or to drag along a long chain of associations, as in the method of sequential associations. It is enough to remember a familiar room or use the one in which you are. You can simply look at and memorize the room (room), arranging the key words of the material to be remembered in turn. When you need to reproduce it, remember only the atmosphere of the room (which is much easier and more familiar than, for example, recalling the contents of a report or lecture), and you yourself will be surprised at how easily the necessary information was assimilated along with the situation.

Other ways to develop memory 1. Develop memory by training attention. We remember only what we notice, and we notice only when we are attentive. Therefore, you need to train your attention. You can also do this in game form, for example, try to play with your interlocutor during a walk: who will mark houses with green roofs more. For the development of memory, pictures from the series “find ten differences” are also useful. In these cases, your brain concentrates on the little things and gets used to working actively in non-standard situations. Then, at work or at school, you will begin to quickly grasp all the most important things and memorize them without difficulty. 2. Combination different types memory for one purpose. Once a teacher of Russian language and literature complained about her students who do not learn poetry. She was advised to invite the students to do push-ups and repeat the text aloud. The students would memorize the verses along with the movements and effort of the muscles. Even after many years, doing push-ups, they will remember these verses (maybe not entirely, but from the most trained place). Also, many children are forced by their parents to learn the multiplication table, rewriting and pronouncing it to themselves. Then the motor (we write and memorize), visual (we remember where we rewrite from) and auditory (we memorize by ear) memory work. 3. We remember in parts. The third method is that all the information is "sorted out". That is, the text must be compiled into a summary, words should be divided into groups, formulas should be memorized along with examples. It is also important to deal with emerging issues at the same time, because when we get what we need ourselves, we learn it better. So the line is memorized faster if it contained an unfamiliar expression, peeped in the dictionary. 4. Repetition is an exercise for developing memory. This option is suitable for people with developed visual memory and poor hearing. Suppose that at the moment when you were walking in the park, a friend told you a phone number, but you have no way to write it down. In this case, while your friend is dictating, mentally imagine your handset and dial the number on it as dictated. Then pretend that he was busy and try again, saying the number out loud to a friend. If everything is correct, repeat again, and even after a couple of hours you will remember everything. The practice of such an exercise each time will have a positive effect on the development of your memory. 5. Develop your memory by discovering new things. When information is remembered effortlessly, it is stored longer. Improving in your profession, learning new information about your hobbies, listening to the news, you may not think that it is necessary to remember, but by remembering, you improve your memory and, therefore, develop. 6. Come up with your own way of developing memory. Take a closer look at yourself, determine what is more difficult for you to remember and what can help you personally retain precious information. Try making small cheat sheets for yourself, stick the sheets in the most prominent places, attach them to the board, above your desktop or monitor. The most important rule for the development of memory is that the records should not contain full text, because then you just read and remember. Make associative notes or drawings. Your brain will analyze the record, find the information in memory and remember it again, but automatically. Next time you will remember faster and will not forget.

In a well-known room, you need to mentally arrange memorable units of information, in our case, foreign words. When imagining a room, or several rooms, say, your apartment, you need to arrange the images in a certain order. Having fixed the location of these images, you can walk around the room and remember everything that is written there.

This method with the room system is great for remembering dates, events, speech outlines, and more. However, when memorizing foreign words, certain difficulties arise. For example, you can memorize a sequence of words in your own language without memorizing those words in a foreign language. This is the first. The second is the problem of “scattering” words throughout the apartment in random order. The third snag is how to remember the spelling of words (if necessary).

In class, I introduce students to the essence of the method and suggest memorizing a pre-prepared list of words that I think they do not know. Their apartments are selected as a polygon. They draw a rough plan of their house and remember the location of everything inside.

To solve the issue of the spread of words around the apartment, we define our own part of speech for each room or corner of the room. It turns out that in one room there are only verbs, in another only nouns, etc. This helps to immediately turn to the right room for searching the right words without going through the whole "apartment". But within the room, you should move clockwise, and therefore arrange the images in the same way.

We solve difficulties with remembering the pronunciation of a word with the help of phonetic associations. As far as possible, the association is chosen such that there is some action in it. So it's easier to remember.

We remember spelling, trying to mentally write words on objects to which images are attached, or by putting the spelling into a phonetic association. For example, a fifth grader, memorizing the English word " master ”, posted a poster of his father on the wall of the room. On the poster - the corresponding inscription. There is also a good way to link to other words with similar spellings that you already know well. This is especially true for the Chinese language, as it has many words that sound the same. Hieroglyphs, of course, need to be taught in a different way :). For example, while studying the word “pearl” (zhenzhu), a student remembered it as “throwing a pearl in front of a true pig” (truth-zhen, pig-zhu). The image was glued to the box in which the whole scene with the pig took place.

The same operations with words can be done not in a mental apartment, but in a mental city. Then you need to represent a well-known city, also highlighting its areas for the corresponding parts of speech. Moreover, its possibilities for storing images are endless, because there are many “apartments”, shops, etc. in the city. It is important to learn how to connect images and associations with each other. So it is remembered much better and remembered much easier.

At the first stage of mastering the method, we memorize only 15 words. As you get used to the method, it is planned to increase the number of memorized words to 25, 30, 35, etc. Memorizing 15 words while mastering the essence of the method takes about 15-20 minutes. Then a repetition. I will try to describe the results after the trial period.

Hello, dear readers of Valery Kharlamov's blog! Today we will talk about what the Cicero method is. It is one of the simplest and effective ways memorization. It is mastered in just a couple of workouts and, importantly, it is applied in absolutely any conditions and situations, regardless of whether you are in line or on your way to work. In general, given all the advantages over other techniques, I want to say that it was not for nothing that he was named after the famous orator from Rome - Marcus Tullius Cicero.

A little about the history of origin

Although it is called the method of Cicero, the great orator has nothing to do with the history of the emergence of this unique technique. He just actively used it in preparation for performances. Shocking the public with the fact that he did not need records at all, declaring large volume material just from memory.

There is a legend that during one large-scale feast in Ancient Greece the roof suddenly collapsed, under the rubble of which many people died. However, one poet Simonides managed to get out of there alive. Relatives of the dead asked to tell in what places their relatives were at that moment, so that, having unearthed the bodies, they could bury them with all honors.

Simonides was able to name every one, focusing on the fact that the room was well known to him. It only remained to remember who was doing what at that moment in order to accurately indicate the coordinates. Subsequently, the poet realized how valuable his discovery was, and set about improving it. These days, you can find other variations of names such as the room system or the method of places.

Advantages and essence of this method

The bottom line is that a person, presenting the image of the room where he spends the maximum amount of time, whether it is an office or a bedroom. Mentally places in it those key units that should be fixed in memory for a long time. Moreover, unlike other techniques, it is really possible to memorize a whole text, and not just a series of words. You can use the same room countless times, the information will not be confused and lost.

An amazing feature is that absolutely under any conditions you can use it, the main thing is that you are not distracted at this moment, otherwise you will not be able to concentrate. And as soon as you need to remember the learned piece of material, you will imagine the image of the selected room, and all the data will instantly pop up.

This method affects spatial imagination, developing it and improving it, so over time you will be completely unconscious, without making any effort to remember everything that is needed. Plus, it develops thinking, the ability to concentrate and analyze the situation of various places that a person visits. Using it on a regular basis, you will be able to capture a lot of details that you did not notice before, which will only improve the quality of your life.

The method relies on connections created “automatically” in the brain due to the frequent perception of the same visual stimuli. For example, when you come home, you turn on the light unconsciously, as the reflex has already developed. You know well not only which side of the room the switch is on, but you can easily find it by touch.

And so, daily observing the same objects in the room where you spend a lot of time - you form these connections, using which you can gain control over your memory.

1. The first step is to decide what the sequence of zones of your apartment or office will be. It is recommended to start from the corridor, eventually moving to neighboring rooms, depending on the layout of the dwelling. Usually this is a toilet, bathroom, kitchen, and then a hall, bedrooms and balconies.
2. If you are a beginner, then it is better to focus on one room, and over time, having honed your skills, you will move to a new level, like in a game, opening up a new space. Now you must close your eyes and imagine that you are in this moment are in the hallway. Look around, only very carefully, and select for yourself 10 static objects, that is, those that you usually do not move or rearrange.
3. Now you need to consolidate the material, think about the sequence of finding these items. By the way, instead of premises, you can use well-known routes. Let's say that on a daily commute to work, what shops, cafes or stops do you encounter?
4. Now that the preparation is complete, it's time to move on to the material to be learned. And to be more precise, you need to place it depending on which method you have chosen - route or office, home. Let's take for example an office in the office and the need to remember the list of products for dinner. You arrived at work, and as soon as you entered the office, you immediately noticed a hanger on the right. Arrange lemons on it, decorating it like a Christmas tree. Then, after walking a couple of steps, you stumble upon a closet, open the doors and neatly put lettuce leaves on the shelves ... I think that's enough, the principle is clear, right?
5. When the time comes to get the learned material from the depths of memory, mentally walk along the route, carefully looking around, and all the information instantly “pops up” in front of you.
6. In the future, add new items, you can even go “for a walk” around the house, especially if there is a need to remember too much information that does not fit in one room.

• Training should be on an ongoing basis so as not to lose the skill, but only move forward, and the performance will increase.
• To simplify the process, bring some details to the point of absurdity, then they will surely be remembered. For example, you are preparing for the presentation of the project, and at the bus stop you meet the President of the United States, he is reading a newspaper, the first column of which contains a large piece of text from your notes. Sitting on the bus, on the back of the seat you see the continuation of your speech, written in clumsy handwriting with a marker, etc. etc.
• Play with the dimensions of the images, imagining that the closet is the size of a cat, and the chair is up to the ceiling.
• Also focus on the dynamics and brightness of objects. If you imagine the usual mezzanine painted bright orange and swaying from side to side, then remembering this piece of furniture will be much easier.
• It will help you if, before proceeding with the actions from step by step instructions, you will actually walk along the usual path or room.
• Connect sensations and feelings, that is, in addition to what you see, you must also hear, smell and even taste.
• Also a good help in the development of memory, online games can serve to develop brain strength. I have already recommended this service to you several times, here is the link.

Conclusion

And that’s all for today, dear readers! Develop, improve, and then you will become a harmonious conscious person, the main thing is to persevere and not retreat in the face of difficulties. Try Cicero's method in practice, and to make it easier to master it, see the article

V modern world every day a person is faced with various amounts of information, plans, tasks. Many people perform in front of other people, during which they must express their thoughts beautifully and correctly, guide or lead people, engage in training and at the same time arouse interest. Alas, not each of us is able to instantly and efficiently enter the necessary data into memory. But fortunately, there are techniques for memorizing any amount and complexity of information. These methods are called mnemonics, which in ancient Greek means the art of remembering.

So, as a result of the development of memory, we have the opportunity not only to present information smoothly and in detail, i.e. have the skills of oratory, but also have the art of memorizing it professionally, while the volume and complexity of the data can be any.

Perhaps this is hard to believe. But we know one main secret for a successful one, it is changing any data into pictures (images), and then reproducing it in memory.

There are many techniques, but in this article we will look at the memorization technique from Cicero, and also give a few simple, but effective methods memory from mnemonics.

Causes of bad memory

Before moving on to the practical side, it is necessary to understand what lies at the root of a poorly developed memory.

Note that the memory of each person is different, and it is selective, i.e. for someone it will be easy to remember the multiplication table by reading it once, but at the same time the same person forgets the name of a friend almost immediately. Other people use visual memory effectively, but simple rules the Russian language is remembered with a creak. Why is this happening?

There are 5 causes of memory impairment:

1. Reduced or absent interest. This is the most popular reason. It is difficult to remember something that is not interesting and does not cause a desire to develop in this area. In order to remember some information, you need to spend time and effort. If a person does not like poetry, then the exercise of memorizing poetry will be tantamount to a feat.
2. Low concentration, inattention, lack of attention management skills. Today, a huge flow of information is pouring every day on a person. In view of this, we delve into the data superficially, without understanding the essence and, at times, without trying to put the information received into practice. And it becomes a habit. By the way, the simultaneous execution of several tasks also affects our productivity.
3. Lack of memorization skills. A good memory is not given to us from birth, it is a skill that needs to be developed. Below are the techniques that will allow you to develop this ability.
4. Low oxygen levels, beriberi, malnutrition. The conclusion suggests itself - to take only healthy food, systematically engage in physical activity and walks in the fresh air.
5. Depressive state. It has become the scourge of modern man. And with such a state of health, it is unlikely that it will be possible not only to remember new information, but also to reproduce the old one. Therefore, we recommend that you join an active life position and be able to experience such states.

Now you can go directly to the exercises for better memorization of information. Of course, we will present only some of the techniques that have gained popularity due to their effectiveness. However, we emphasize once again that each person is individual, so you need to consciously and carefully answer the questions of the tests and select a set of exercises. Only with this approach the result will be effective.

A walk through the "Roman room", or the technique of Cicero

Cicero's fame spread throughout ancient Rome and the world at the speed of light. His talent for oratory is still held up as an example to his contemporaries. He had a unique talent - he spoke to a huge audience without using half a fairy tale, recordings and other materials. However, was it a gift or painstaking work on the development of memorization skills?

It is his methodology that we will consider in the following sections, because. it is the most ancient method to remember any information. If you master it, you can easily hold dates, numbers, words, phrases, and other information. However, it is worth remembering that the main condition for achieving results is systematic work, i.e. need to practice every day.

The meaning of the technique

Memorization methods from Cicero have a specific meaning, which consists in creating a matrix of images that help to remember large amounts of data, and not just one fragment. The first thing to do is to form a system in which images will be built.

Presentation on the topic: "Fundamentals of the method of associations"

This system can be anything:

• room;
• plot;
• path;
• familiar surroundings, etc.

If work is happening with the room, then you should mentally remember all the objects that are in it. Preferably in an orderly manner. For example, clockwise or from one wall to another. Do not complicate the task when creating a system for associations, choose the room that you have studied well, then the next levels will not cause difficulties.

Some authors propose the creation of a radically new premises, i.e. a person mentally creates a new home, makes a layout and arranges furniture. This will be the fruit of your imagination, which means it will be easier for you to cope with the task.

Working with the "path" system of images, you can create many images, because this path has no end. In this case, as you move through the system, you need to sort through the objects that will be encountered: huts, stones, people, flowers, shops, animals, etc.

As a system, you can choose absolutely any convenient place, important condition– correctly split into separate images.

Before starting the practice, you need to clearly define the scheme by which you will bypass the selected system. Movements should not be chaotic - you should streamline your walk around the rooms so as not to spoil everything that has been “collecting” for so long.

An important point: select a certain sequence of movement and assign to those objects that are in the system the key fragments of the speech of the speech or presentation.

After you have created the system, filled it with objects and set the keys, you should go around the system several times (room, road ...) and reproduce the specified criteria. The same must be done immediately before the presentation. Cicero, before each performance, also went around the rooms and reproduced the images.

After a certain time, everyone who used this technique will be able to activate their memory in right moment, resorting to a convenient image matrix.

Usage example

Let's look at an illustrative example of how to use the Cicero technique for memorizing information.

1. Let's take ten words necessary for memorization (numbers, events, speech abstracts, foreign words). For example, these will be the following words: curtain, postcard, bird, sour cream, packaging, mouth, hairdryer, tambourine, book, speaker. You need to ask them for specific items of the selected system (for example, a room). Now, let's move on to the next level.
2. Take a sheet, a pencil and write down all the objects in the room. It doesn't matter how many there are. The main thing is that they create "niches" for our matrix. In addition, you should remember their location and in what order they are. An approximate list of items in the room: a window, a sofa, a wardrobe, a TV, a pouffe, a floor lamp, an armchair, a bookcase, a shelf, a piano, an oven, a carpet, and more.
3. The third of this is the combination of words from paragraph 2 with places with a list of theses for memorization.

Mnemonics for quick memorization

Memorization methods according to Cicero are good, but there are other methods of mnemonics:

1. Rhyme data. Creating a poetic form makes it easier to perceive information and, accordingly, reproduce it.
2. Create phrases from the initial letters of the information.
3. Bundle. This technique involves establishing a connection between the received data and an effective image. For example, you need to remember the names of those present at the meeting - imagine that each of them is the hero of a fairy tale. For a more detailed connection, give the characters some kind of adjective. For example, "puss in boots" is a huge cat in sneakers.
4. Leads. The essence of the method is to replace digital values ​​with objects. Let's say 0 is a pen, 2 is a cat, 3 is a ram, and so on.

Which method is right for you, you won't know until you try it. Select best option and exercise every day.

Regardless of the technique you choose, it is important to get to the bottom of the technique and apply it as often as possible. Professionals in the field of mnemonics shared the secrets of working according to the method of Cicero:

• It is necessary to use only interesting connections, saturated with emotions. Remember that the ordinary and uninteresting are quickly forgotten. Use paradoxes, satire and humor to create your own matrix.
• Use erotic images. It is no secret that it is precisely such images that enter our brain in the form of signals especially brightly. By the way, marketers assure that advertising posters with a beautiful sexy girl are perceived and remembered better.
• Change the characteristics of objects on the path/indoor/terrain. For example, let the window be airy, and the chair be prickly.
• Paradox the characteristics of objects. Don't put your pajamas in the closet, put the closet in your pajamas.
• All guidelines for yourself: carry a notebook in your pocket, tie the TV to your hand.
• Change the shape and size of objects. As in the example with the closet and pajamas.

As a result, you should get the following mental path (story), as an example:

Opening the window, I noticed a CURTAIN stuck in the window sash. Further, I noticed scattered POSTCARDS on the sofa, they were wet. There was an apricot SOUR CREAM on the cabinet, a BIRD was sitting in it. There was a PACKAGING on the TV, and a puppy was sitting in it, which was opening its MOUTH. A FEN was tied to his paw, standing on a tambourine. On the pouffe was a small BOOK depicting a half-naked erotic brunette with a DYNAMIC at her feet.

For successful reproduction by the method of Cicero, one should once again bypass the selected system and remove the above-mentioned objects. Just? Certainly. However, this requires a thoughtful study of those words that you have already memorized. Then, do it yourself without using hints. We believe that you will succeed!

Benefits of working with memory

The main advantages of the above methods are the simplicity and efficiency of the acquired information.

After a few practices, a person will be able to fully use the chosen scheme and improve his memory. Among other things, these techniques allow you to memorize information of any type in preparation for a presentation, lecture, training, seminar, and even during an international speech.

If you already know the audience you need to speak to, then it can be a great matrix for creating images. At the same time, the ease is due to the fact that there is no need to remember a large amount of associations, which can collapse due to the absence of some detail. For example, if you need to remember a specific phrase, a person can easily reproduce it, remembering what he tied the hair dryer to, and, therefore, finish the thought.

Of course, there are other methods of memorizing verse, numbers and dates, but we will talk about them in other sections of our cognitive and developing portal.

It bears the name of one of the great Roman politicians, who became famous for the fact that in the process of his bright speeches he never used records. At the same time, the speaker operated with a lot of figures, names, facts, and also quite often used quotes.

According to some sources, Cicero's method was used with great success long before its official author. In particular, the famous ancient Greek poet Simonides actively and successfully practiced it.

This method is simple and effective at the same time. Another name for it is the Roman room system. It is based on the fact that the key units that need to be remembered must be placed in thoughts in a certain order, imagining a familiar room in the head. After such a procedure, it is enough just to restore this room in memory in order to restore everything that you recorded in memory. Cicero, when he was busy preparing for a public speech, walked around the house and placed in his head the main key points of his speech in various places.

Before you start practicing Cicero's memorization, decide how you plan to go around the room. Choose a sequence of places where you plan to mentally place key units. For some, the idea of ​​a room in the head will suffice. However, for the first time, it will not be superfluous to walk around the house, as the great speaker did. At the same time, it is worth choosing a familiar room, for example, your personal office. You can choose to move clockwise.

With experience, you will be able to use an increasing number of objects and places, thereby expanding your ability to capture information. You can use absolutely any items. Let it be a sofa, TV, shelf, desktop, computer and so on. You can mentally move from left to right, and up and down. You don't have to limit yourself to just your room. Familiar routes and the like can be used to more efficiently commit to memory.

You need to associate key points of the information you are trying to remember with certain items through associations. Starting to practice this method, it will not be superfluous to have a set of room elements in your head. Thus, you will always have a “handy” set of so-called mental hooks for which you can hook on the necessary key points.

As an example, consider how easy it is to remember a list of the following items: bicycle, backpack, bottle, plasticine. These elements will be placed sequentially in accordance with the scheme of the house. Let's start with the corridor. It is necessary to use non-standard connections so that its reproduction is not difficult even after a long time.

We place the bike on a hanger near the door, and it is in an upside down position. Such an association will easily be deposited in our head. Next comes a backpack that hangs on the door, and a cat peeps out of it. We put a sunflower flower in the bottle and place it on the bedside table. We completely seal the mirror located in the hallway with plasticine, thereby creating a non-standard association and fixing the last key element on our list. Thus, we have a rather unusual associative array, which we can easily restore in our heads.

It is very important to preliminarily determine those objects that will meet us on the way. Otherwise, there is a risk that you yourself will look for details that will be easier to associate with a particular keyword. As a result, memorization will be inefficient.

Of course, Cicero's method should be used for much more difficult problems. The above example is just to help you understand what happens. remembering information. This method is productive in the process of fixing in memory the text, the plan for the day, the order of the necessary phone calls, and so on. Moreover, when the information is logically related data, and not just a collection of words, you will be able to use the same room repeatedly. At the same time, the rows of key elements will not be mixed up, and you will be able to easily restore data on a specific topic.

To learn how to use this method, a few trainings are enough. This is its main advantage, if we compare this technique with others. Moreover, this technique can be used anywhere. And the room where you are can be an excellent starting point for remembering information. You do not need to use the linked association method or take a long time to restore the chain, as is necessary when using the sequential association method. You just need to recall a familiar room or use where you are at a particular moment. It is quite enough to look at the room, while placing key words and tying them to some objects. Restoring information is also easy. It is enough to remember the situation. Using this method, you will be amazed at how easily and quickly even very complex material can be mastered.

Cicero's method is unique mnemonic device which everyone can learn. Even if you do not consider yourself to be a person with a good memory, using this technique, you can easily surpass each of them.

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