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How to Have a Photographic Memory When It Didn't Come Naturally

By Kyle Richey
Sep 20, 2008
If you think you have to have a photographic memory from birth, think again. You don't. How can you have a photographic memory if you weren't born with one?

You'll need some patience and quite a lot of practice to develop it, but you can develop a photographic memory. You'll need some basic instruction that can come from audio or video tapes, books, DVDs or even from personal instruction if you know someone who can teach you how to have a photographic memory. Your brain is a lot like a computer, and it can store a lot of information. Just as with the computer, you file information away and then can retrieve the whenever you need it. If you know how to store this information properly, retrieval is easy; if you don't how to store properly, it can be hard.

Can you imagine trying to retrieve information that's all bundled together with no order? When learning how to have a photographic memory, you learn to file information away in an orderly fashion so that it's instantly retrievable whenever you need it.

Method 1 - Association

Association is one of the first things that you will learn when it comes to obtaining a photographic memory. This comes in useful for things like first encounters. You never have to worry about remembering a persons name because you will know how to associate their name with something that will allow you to remember who they are.

For example, if you meet someone named Jonah and they are a large person, you can always think of their name as a reference to Jonah and the whale, a story from the bible. While that may be cruel, it's a great way to remember and that's what association is all about.

Method 2- Image Association

Image association is another way to help remember people, places, and numbers. Basically, it is the use of images to invoke recall. So using the same example of a tall man named Ben. Instead of thinking of the words Big Ben for association, you would picture the Big Ben tower. This is one of the ways to enjoy the benefits of a photographic memory without having to be born with it. It makes remembering things easier.

These are just two examples of how you can train your own memory to take on the benefits of a photographic memory. There are a number of places that you can pick up more information on how you can train your memory. There are books, video and audio series to assist you and it is important to remember that practice is essential to being able to train your memory.
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