Reiterate, Recall and Remember!

Human beings err in remembering and tend to forget things more often than not. Man's fugitive memory has been a ubiquitous phenomenon since the advent of human life on the earth, while one's inability to remember things as they take place often becomes the cause of one's acute desperation and uneasiness. On most occasions, the incapacity of the human mind is blamed for the lapse of memory. However, biologists believe that all human beings are gifted with the same mind capacity, and the way they tend to memorise different things and facts can be rectified and corrected.

If truth be told, several different ways, as mentioned below, can easily be employed to enhance human memory performance. Given the fact that practice makes a man perfect, a consistent practice on a regular basis may help us to memorise things. As rightly said by Carol Susan, a notable psychologist, abilities and skills grow with persistence practice and efforts. Other than regular practice, reiteration also helps to learn by heart.

For instance, Al-Azhar University is one of the oldest high education institutions in the world. At Al-Azhar, it is a prerequisite for students to learn and remember all verses of the Holy Quran. To achieve the objective, they devote themselves to rote learning and keep reiterating the verses in order to learn them by heart. Furthermore, it also helps to remember things by associating them with already existing information stored in our mind.

According to William James, an American philosopher, historian and psychologist, whatever appears in one's mind, must be introduced, and when it is introduced, it must be associated with something already stashed in the brain.

Finally yet importantly, the impression is the last-ditch method to memorise, remember and recall anything. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, used to read out loud everything in order to memorise. When asked for the reason behind reading out loud, Lincoln replied, “When I read aloud, two senses catch ideas: the first, I see what I read; the second, I hear it.” Be it historical dates, names, and figures, it attests to the fact that we can remember and memorise things for a long time by following a well-thought-of strategy and proven methods. Earlier the better!