If I need it, I will memorize it

If I need it, I will memorize it anyway, without any GMS^®. No, you will not! Even if you are offered a million of dollars! Here are some stories:

The thought “If I will need it, I will memorize it” – is, in reality, an illusion. Unfortunately, it is a very widespread illusion. There is a type of information that the human brain cannot memorize on the basis of memory background capacities alone. There is information that requires the use of special techniques if one is to memorize it.

Many people realize that they are not capable of subsequent memorization of information; they cannot remember dozens of terms, telephone numbers, and formulas. Principally, they would not mind learning how to do all of that. But, what really prevents them from doing it?

The GMS^® system is similar to healthy nutrition, healthy lifestyle, regular exercise, learning a foreign language, or learning how to type quickly on a computer without looking at the keyboard. People understand that these are all useful even beneficial – and that they should know how to do them themselves. Yet, many people are too lazy to learn. They don’t have enough desire to make their dreams come true.

They realize in the age of total computerization that every human being should know how to type on a computer. Meanwhile, this is not taught at school, and many students are too lazy to spend three hours per day for a month to learn to do so. They realize that the right nutrition is good for your health, but still consume the same fast-food and junk food.

Nevertheless, laziness is not the only factor; one’s capacity for memorization is involved. When people are learning something and do not succeed fairly quickly, it makes them unhappy, frustrated, and discourages them from further learning. Many undertake studying a foreign language, but when they reach the fifth lesson and an increase in the amount of study material, their wish to study the language diminishes.

An advantage of GMS^® is that when the memorization process is under control, when you feel you are able to comprehend the study matter, you then have an INTEREST in continuing to study the subject. It becomes exciting to learn Japanese hieroglyphs, a chemistry textbook, or legislation. It is interesting to memorize friends’ and acquaintances’ telephone numbers. Not all at once, but gradually by 5 per day, for instance. It is wondrous to realize that you can sequentially reproduce an image of dozens and hundreds of telephone numbers, various codes, and passwords. It’s even more amazing to realize that the majority of people are not capable of doing this, that they depend on notebooks and notes; sadly, most don’t even have a desire to maximize this wonderful capacity of their brain – memory.

Many are so sure that “If I will need it, I will memorize it” that people can earn money on it. For example, if you have mastered the digits memorization technique and are sure that you can memorize without mistakes, you can try to bet money with the most opinionated, pompous baboon. 

Offer an acquaintance $100 dollars for successive memorization of 100 digits in 10 minutes. ONE DOLLAR PER ONE DIGIT! This way you will create MOTIVATION.  Your acquaintance needs $100 dollars and, consequently, (if he needs it) he should be able to memorize 100 digits, right? Agree that, in case the task is not performed or is performed with mistakes, he would give you $50. Make bets and place money on the table; start a stopwatch and let him memorize 100 digits, just then written down by you in a random order.

You should not worry about your $100. If your acquaintance hasn’t studied the memorization technique, he won’t be able to memorize 10 digits without breaking the sequence – as you can read in any psychology textbook.

After losing his $50, your acquaintance will want to recover his losses. He will challenge you to memorize a hundred digits, feeling completely sure that you won’t be able to do it.

Arrange with him that, if you don’t memorize 100 digits in 10 minutes, you will return his $50 dollars and your $100 to him, BUT if you perform the task without any mistakes, then he will give you $50 more.

Greediness usually blinds the human mind, so it is likely that your acquaintance will agree. It’s recommended to arrange such disputes in drunken company. People are sure that, even if you master memorization technique, alcohol consumption won’t allow you to use it. However, they are not aware that the technique works even in a drunk condition.

So, in one night you can earn at least $100 and, also, prove to your acquaintance that he cannot memorize something even if he “really needs it.”  Digits are the easiest to memorize. It is more difficult and (slower) to memorize names, notions, foreign words, phrases, texts, and other study information.

What is the principal difference between two students, one who studies a pharmacology textbook for a year and another who studies the same textbook in a week?  Memory? No, it isn’t the memory. They differ in their capacity to memorize and their memorization skills. They have similar memory. They are only different in how their minds’ different thinking programs are “installed.” Memorization is carried out by thinking and, for effective memorization, an effective thinking system is needed - GMS^®.

Sometimes in psychology books, one can find a statement that “he remembers everything but cannot understand anything.” Well, I’m curious – what is better: to remember everything and not understand it or to understand everything but not remember anything? Is understanding without memorization possible or is memorization without understanding possible? That’s a good subject for conversation. We started a thread about it on our forum about education.

Let me know what you think about it!

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