TED：一个简单的记忆方法，让你从容面对一切考

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还有一个多月就要期末考试了，你准备好了吗？这个阶段，大家最关心的就是学习，如何快速又牢固的将各类知识，通通融入大脑呢？这里就为您推荐一个超简单的记忆方法，可以让你从容面对一切考试！

你是否常常遇到这种情况，每当考试，总是无法将笔记中密密麻麻的知识点有效的提取出来，导致丢分；或者明明知道考的是哪一张哪一页的知识点，却就是想不起来是哪个关键词。

很明显，我们的记忆出现了漏洞。该如何加强我们的记忆提取能力呢？TED公开课的一位老师分享了一个独特的记忆方法：抛开从前的线型笔记，试着开始用画画的方式记忆吧！

演讲人讲述了他自己的视觉工具包：用简单的圆形、矩形、三角形、曲线构建出来的一些常见物品，非常简单，描绘起来省时省力，很有效率。

Are you having trouble with memorizing chunks of information? Perhaps even having trouble with accessing your stored information? Then let us introduce you to Graham Shaw, a communication coach from United Kingdom. Graham gave a remarkable speech at our big event about how everybody can learn to draw in order to make information easier to remember. After the talk we had the opportunity to chit-chat with him.

Graham, how did you end up doing what you do?

Graham: Originally, I was a primary teacher working with young children and I used to draw while teaching. I also worked in corporate training and sometimes if I was teaching, I would draw on a flip chart as a natural occurrence. One day I was giving a talk and somebody came and asked me if I would teach their trainers on how to draw on a flip chart and I went to do it! That is how I started as a freelance consultant coaching people on the art of communication. Besides that, a niche course that I run is cartooning for trainers and presenters, it is about how we get ideas across with pictures.

Spike.

In your TEDxVienna talk you said that everybody can draw. What makes you actually believe that everybody can draw?

Graham: In order to teach drawing, I made up a little character called Spike. I thought if I could teach people to draw Spike, I can teach them to draw variations. This could be a convincing way to show people they can draw to an extent. Once they had drawn Spike, their minds went from “I can’t possibly draw anything” to “I can draw”. I tended to get that reaction every time I did it and this is why I believe everybody can draw.

We remember about 90% if we see it, if we hear it, how we say it and how we do something with it.“

How does it work if you need to memorize a lot? Doesn’t it take too long to draw everything?

Graham: You are not always going to be able to draw everything when you got a lot of information. The key thing is to look at the information you already can remember and use the technique for the key information that you might have trouble with. My tip is to write the words and pictures down. If you have the word “communication” and you draw a cell phone next to it, it goes easier into memory. The brain likes different and unusual things because it is easier to remember. Identify information you are having trouble remembering with and use that technique for that.

Interesting! Seems to be worth drawing your thoughts! Finally, for the not so talented drawers among us, do you have some simple tips?

Graham:

5 tips on remembering by drawing:

Think in pictures.

Draw simple shapes and lines.

Colors are important.

Re-draw/ re-peat for longer term memory.

Use all your senses.

You are a communication allrounder – you teach creative and memorable ways to get messages across. What are some tips for being good at presenting?

Graham:

#1 Give people a reason to listen

It is important at the beginning of the presentation to get everybody on board. Because when people come to listen to you, they are thinking for example about dropping the children to school or doing audit the next day.

“You have to get them all together saying things that are going to be meaningful to them.“

#2 Make sure you have got a clear message

If you got a clear message at the top, below that you can have pillars supporting that clear message. For example, if you are a fitness coach and you’re giving a talk about keeping fit, you might decide to have a key message. The key message could be you can influence your health, or you are in control of your health.

#3 Tell it like a story

Metaphors are very powerful and it is important to be conversational. For example, if you talk about a project, you can say it is like a journey on a mountain and we are beginning at base camp and need to get all the equipment together.

#4 More pictures less text

The brain finds it very difficult to read something and to listen to somebody simultaneously. If you got pictures or a graph, people find it much easier to concentrate and follow what you say. People like listening whilst looking at pictures.

5 End on a high note or something big at the end

Show them their future if they implement what you are suggesting. For example, if you’re recommending exercise because you are a personal trainer, you could say, “Just imagine, that if you can start today in three months’ time. Think how fit you are going to be”.

We hope we have intrigued you a bit and if you want to learn more about how to draw, check out his talk. While waiting you can have a glance at our visual solution from visolution – a company that draws the talks live at our events.

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