How To Resist Procrastination 101: Effective Ways To Memorise & Master That Tough Subject

If at times you seem to be stuck over a topic or on a particular subject and have difficulty memorising the information, you are not alone.

In fact, it happens to the best of us - whether it be due to the difficulty level of the subject or simply because of procrastination.

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Thankfully, there are mental tools you can use which will help resist procrastination and retain information better, and thereby master that tough subject:

Chunking

Chunking refers to grouping individual pieces of information into larger, more manageable and easily remembered groups.

It basically works on making the brain retain more information by organising the information into meaningful 'chunks'.

In essence, chunking leverages the natural organisational tendencies of the human mind to make information easier to remember.

Mnemonics

Mnemonics is a memory technique that is essentially encoding to help you memorise better.

For instance, if it is hard for you to memorise the sequence of planets in the solar system, you can use a mnemonic such as 'My Very Excellent Mom Just Served Us Noodles.' This is a unique line which is funny, and easy to remember.

With this mnemonic device in hand, you can easily then place the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Storytelling

Finding it extremely difficult to remember which events happened first in India's freedom struggle. Simply make a story out of it!

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Imagine you are directing Mahatma Gandhi in movie of your own, and you then decide what will happen when. This entertaining trick will do wonders for your memory.

Mind map

If you have watched the Sherlock Holmes series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, you would be aware of his complex mind maps that he went into when there is a ton of information and he is trying to solve a puzzle.

All he was doing is attempting to visualise the information in his mind so that it becomes more coherent and easy to remember.

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To help memorise, you can also note down a mind up using charts, connections, links etc to understand any topic.

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