If you read the last article: The Obvious Memorization Techniques you probably learned what type of learner you are and this will come in use when picking the best technique from this article. And not to over simplify anything, and although the things I wrote in that article are important, you probably already heard all of this dozens of times so I'll just cut to the chase and tell you some real memorization techniques! These will be some of the most well established and generally amazing ways to put memorization techniques to use.
Making up a Story-
If you need to memorize something really long such as a set of numbers or a set of objects in a specific order you can simply make it into a story. Here is what I mean: If you want to memorize all the numbers in a set of 52 cards in a specific order, simply make up a story and include those numbers throughout (for example I went to the store for 5 minutes, and bought 2 snickers on a sale of buy-one-get-1 one(1)-free, which cost me 3 dollars). See! By doing this you already have 4 numbers in an order memorized. You can do this with just about anything; you can even memorize a set of pictures using this exact method of creating a story using many places.
This comes useful in certain circumstances where it might not be as easy as making up a story. This is best to use when you need to remember something such as what a set of words mean, so you link them together. In other words, you need to create associations. A good example can be if you need to remember something like the three type of longboards; Cruising, Freeriding, and Downhill. So you would do something like this:
On the beach I was riding on a cruising longboard strait home until I ran into a hill.
This was when I wished I could have a downhill longboard or maybe I could just slide down?
This way I'd still need to have a freeriding longboard but I didn't, so I changed my route.
| Riding->Cruising | Hill->Downhill | Slide->Freeriding |
In this example you linked all the terms together to understand what each of them mean.
This is a memorization technique that is used by most professionals and might be a great way to learn something, especially if you are very creative. The goal is to associate what you are trying to learn with familiar places in the most absurd and comical way you can. Let's say you are challenged to learn 10 random objects. Five of them might be: Tree, Peanut, Ukulele, Play-Dough, and Tomato's. Now maybe if you have a garden you can imagine going outside to it and seeing a tree growing into a Ukulele and Giant Tomato's made out of Play-Dough. Then you look on the floor and back at the sky to suddenly see peanuts raining down on you. If you really visualized this happening in your own backyard those 5 objects should be easily remember for maybe even a few hours!
The memorization technique here is very similar to that of the linking method but is more of a variation. You take the letters of something you are trying to learn and use them in a sentence. An age old example of this is in elementary school you need to learn the four directions; north, east, south, west. You take a letter from every single word (N, E, S, W) and make it into another saying such as, "Never Eat Soggy Waffles". This can be much easier memorized and you can always refer to it when you need to know the four directions of North, East, South, West. What's really important here is to know what they mean which can be accomplished as long as you know the meaning of one of the words. Well in this case, you might know where north is so now you automatically know what the rest is.
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