How can a person who is not keen on astronomy can recall in a couple of seconds the exact location of the planets of our solar system relative to the sun? Or how does a student manage to learn about three hundred dates overnight and never make a mistake on the exam? All this is mnemonics, a technique that allows you to memorize large amounts of information by creating various associations.
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You may not have known this, but mnemonics at school helped you learn the sequence of cases of the Russian language. Remember the phrase "Ivan gave birth to a girl, ordered to drag the diaper"? This is one of the mnemonic tricks: by the first letters of each word you can determine the sequence of cases: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Creative and Prepositional, respectively.
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The same technique will help you even if you suddenly want to quickly and effortlessly remember the location of the planets of our solar system. For this, there are about twenty mnemonic rules, and here is one of them: "Between the Wolves, the Bunny Rushed, Crouched, Stumbled, Fell - Didn’t Rise". So, starting with the planet closest to the Sun, the following is obtained: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus Neptune.
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In mathematics, mnemonic rules will play a particularly important role for you, especially when using one of them you can remember the "ill-fated" Pi number. The very short phrase “What I know about circles” will help you remember the first four decimal places (3.1416) - you just need to replace the words with numbers that mean the number of letters in them to get the full number.
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To memorize some geometric elements, there are also a number of mnemonic rules that you will probably find useful if studying this subject is not easy for you. For example, "The bisector is a rat that climbs in the corners and divides them in half, " or "The median, like a monkey, climbs in the sides, dividing them in half."
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Mnemonic rules will help in physics. With their help, you can learn the essence of Newton’s three laws in half a minute, on which all physical science literally rests: "1. If you don’t kick a stone, it will not fly; 2. Like a stone you kick, so it will fly; 3. As you kick a stone, so and get it."
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Mnemonics is based not only on rhymes and phrases, because the main thing is to conduct an association. Therefore, you yourself can create various mnemonic rules, with the help of which you can easily learn this or that information quickly and for a long time.
Useful advice
In mnemonics, not only audio associations are used (based on catchy phrases or rhymes), but also visual ones. If you want to remember a compound word, imagine something that could be associated with it. For example, the word "consensus" (reaching an agreement on mutually beneficial conditions) can be represented as two men sitting in a cart on a haystack who conclude a truce, and next to them is a gopher.