How to Memorize Anything - Aditi Singhal and Sudhir Singhal

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Now close your eyes and try to repeat it mentally…
Now, without looking back at the story, try to answer the following questions:
1. What was the ant holding?________
2. Whom is it calling?________
3. What is the elephant holding?________
4. What is the elephant painting with the paintbrush?________
5. The poster is pasted on what?________
6. What is there on the tree?________
7. What is coming out of his hands?________
8. The rainbow is falling into what?________
9. What is coming out of the mug?________
10. Where are the biscuits falling?________
11. What is in the lake?________
12. What is coming out of the dragon’s mouth?________
13. What is coming out from the cloud?________
14. What is there on the top of the umbrella?________
Are you able to answer every question correctly? Awesome! Isn’t it?
And the most amazing part is, if you try to recall the words written in bold, you can
do it in the same sequence, without actually rote memorizing them!
You must be amazed that what you were unable to do in 10 minutes, you could now
could do in just 2 minutes.
How and why you were able to do that?
Irrespective of our academic background, we all have a scientific brain, which is
curious to know the ‘WHY and HOW’ of everything. Knowing something is different
and knowledge of ‘how this is useful in my life?’ increases the chances of using it