Unlimited Memory

Highlights

• You are a data collecting being, and your memory is where your life is lived. If you didn’t have a memory, you wouldn’t be able to learn, think, have intelligence, create, or even know how to tie your shoes. You wouldn’t be able to build experience in any field because experience is just a collection of memories after all! Only if you can remember information can you live it. (Location 69)
• Some people say you don’t need a good memory in the Google age. Ken Jennings said, “When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they’re at your fingertips. If they’re all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.” (Location 78)
• Memory is the corner stone of our existence. It determines the quality of our decisions and, therefore, our entire life! (Location 85)
• An increased memory also enhances basic intelligence because intelligence is based on all of the events, people, and facts that you can recall. (Location 93)
• However, if you keep on doing what you have always done, you are going to get what you have always gotten. You need to do different to get different. Thus, a word of warning: mastering your memory is going to require a different kind of thinking. (Location 130)
• The first section talks about improving your Concentration. The second section is about improving your ability to Create imagery and Connecting concepts together, and the final key is about creating a habit with Continuous use. These four Cs are the solution to any memory problem that you have or will face in the future. (Location 137)
• Wherever you are, be there.” (Location 150)
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• Every excuse you accept makes you weaker. Excuses stop you from concentrating and paying attention. When you excuse yourself from learning something new, you block your focus and your energy. Always remember that where your attention goes, your energy flows. (Location 160)
• You always have two choices with your life and experience: you can either learn from it or you can place blame. The choice is always yours. (Location 172)
• Richard Bach said, “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” (Location 180)
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• “The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it – as long as you believe 100 percent.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger (Location 193)
• “My memory has the ability to store and recall mountains of information. It is the only container with this characteristic: the more I put into it, the more it will hold.” (Location 222)
• A belief is a sense of being certain and what you believe, you become. (Location 232)
• Every single thought we have is creative: it has the power to build and the power to destroy. (Location 235)
• Most people don’t realize that when they use doubtful phrases they are setting standards for themselves. These standards become expectations and in the end will become self-fulfilling prophecies. (Location 236)
• When you change a belief you change a mental construction and, therefore, your life. (Location 241)
• First, 80% of changing anything is about why you want to change and only 20% is about how you do it. Take responsibility; it is as simple as having a reason and making a decision that you want to change your beliefs. (Location 248)
• Your beliefs are only the stories that you have accepted to be true about yourself… just decide to change the stories. (Location 257)
• Maxwell Maltz said, “Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.” (Location 262)
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• Not even all the computers in existence connected to each other can perform such a feat. (Location 272)
• Focus on your strengths and change your approach when the feedback or result is not what you want. (Location 276)
• Jim Rohn, “If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” (Location 286)
• Busyness is sometimes just procrastination in disguise. (Location 307)
• Training your concentration isn’t that hard. You just have to learn to become more peaceful and find the moment. (Location 310)
• Start to catch yourself doing more things right. (Location 321)
• Sharpen up your intellect by returning to the habit of doing one thing at a time. (Location 347)
• Exceptional work is always associated with periods of deep concentration. (Location 349)
• Learning with a purpose increases your attention, comprehension, retention, and organizes your thoughts. (Location 355)
• As David Allen said, “If you’re not sure why you’re doing something, you can never do enough of it.” (Location 358)
• The first step is to find your interests and then to find links or connections between your interests and the new information that you are learning. (Location 365)
• “If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you’re curious, nothing is a chore; it’s automatic – you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.” (Location 378)
• Life is easy when you simplify and make peace with your train of thought. (Location 386)
• Stay in your own mind and enjoy the laser like energy of having a clear mind. (Location 387)
• Create a procedure for different scenarios and make peace with your thinking. (Location 393)
• Learn to practise peace because if you have no attention you have no retention. (Location 394)
• Concentration is about learning how to stay centered. When you concentrate your power, you can achieve anything. (Location 395)
• “When you train your creativity, you automatically train your memory. When you train your memory, you automatically train your creative thinking skills!” ~ Tony Buzan (Location 401)
• “Your mind is the greatest home entertainment centre ever created.” (Location 404)
• People that learn quickly or have a so-called photographic memory apply their creativity to everything they learn. (Location 417)
• Arthur Gordon said, “Isn’t it amazing how we take them for granted? Those little black marks on paper. Twenty-six different shapes known as letters, arranged in endless combinations, known as words, lifeless, until someone’s eye falls on them.” (Location 427)
• “Hear a piece of information and three days later you’ll remember 10% of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65%.” (Location 431)
• Learn to use your imagination; it is a learned skill and not a natural talent. (Location 433)
• The more we turn information into images or mind movies, the more we will remember and comprehend. (Location 437)
• The way to do this is with the ‘SEE’ principle. (Location 440)
• The process of imagination is a fun creative process. The more enjoyment you can put into it the better. (Location 455)
• “When the imagination and the will are in conflict, the imagination always wins.” (Location 458)
• The greatest secret of a powerful memory is to bring information to life with your endless imagination. (Location 514)
• “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” (Location 519)
• The secret to accelerated learning is superior organization. (Location 557)
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• Remember the more you know, the easier it is to get to know more. (Location 564)
• “The music of your life is far better played with all the fingers of your Multiple Intelligences performing their magic on the keyboard of your existence.” ~ Tony Buzan (Location 587)
• Tony’s book called Head First. (Location 589)
• The first is called The Rhyming Peg Method and the other The Shape Peg Method. (Location 649)
• In Anthony Robbin’s life changing book, Awaken the Giant Within, he has a list of The Ten Emotions of Power. (Location 663)
• personal development only happens when you can remember what you need to act on. (Location 665)
• John C. Maxwell’s books. (Location 721)
• In his book Today Matters he shares twelve keys that you can focus on daily to get more success and fulfillment in your life. (Location 726)
• “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” (Location 727)
• The more you can encode information into your memory, the more effective the learning. (Location 735)
• find the fun in FrUstratioN (Location 736)
• The only effort is trying to improve your ability to make images and placing it on a familiar mental journey. (Location 782)
• Anyone can store an unlimited amount if they choose to spend the time. (Location 787)
• If you look for it, you will find thousands and thousands of places just waiting to be used in your mind. There are no limits to this system, only limits in your own thinking. (Location 789)
• The important thing is that you practise. The more you practice, the better you will get. (Location 790)
• the more you know, the easier it is to connect more information and get to know more. (Location 798)
• make the process of remembering numbers a breeze. (Location 954)
• Mind Mapping (Registered trademark by Tony Buzan) “Your memory system operates so quickly and effortlessly that you seldom notice it working.” ~ Daniel T. Willingham One of the best ways to watch your mind and memory at work is through Mind (Location 1146)
• Mind Mapping can be used for: memorizing, learning, presenting, communicating, organizing, planning, meetings, negotiating, and all types of thinking. (Location 1154)
• iMindMap software. (Location 1181)
• “Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is a natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.” ~ Jim Rohn (Location 1184)
• Presentation power is memory power. (Location 1235)
• You can design your presentation with this FLOOR principle in mind. (Location 1242)
• If you choose to believe in limits you will live a limited life. Imagine what could happen if you let go of your limits and give it a try. (Location 1357)
• “Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.” ~ Denis Waitley (Location 1360)
• There has never-ever been an undisciplined world champion. (Location 1364)
• Self-discipline is not self-deprivation. It is about raising your standards and going for and being more. (Location 1367)
• “The more we struggle and debate, the more we reconsider and delay, the less likely we are to act.” (Location 1400)
• You have to review your new skill to renew it. (Location 1404)
• Your mind is the only computer in the world with this characteristic: the more you put into it, the more it will hold. (Location 1443)
• “If you’re hoping to harvest a life of great deeds, remember you first have to plant some great seeds.” ~ Denis Waitley (Location 1459)
• “The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.” (Location 1465)
• “May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten.” ~ Irish Blessing (Location 1470)