Usually, you wouldn't want to backtrack because it would slow you down when learning and memorizing. But at specific times, backtracking can be really useful to help you use memory techniques more effectively! Speed reading says to never backtrack but that is far from true!

If someone were to give you directions, would you know where those streets are? I still don't know the streets in my city and I lived here my whole life haha Get ready to be a walking map! You don’t have to be embarrassed about not knowing streets anymore haha

A competition is a time for you to shine and show off your memory skill. So the worse thing to do is test anything new at a competition! Unless crashing and burning is your plan haha You need enough time to figure out all the kinks you run into.

I studied chemical engineering which was a ton of fun! haha I had to learn some pretty difficult concepts but there was one concept that haunts me till this day. It is the most difficult thing I ever had to learn in my life! What is the hardest material you had to learn?

Memorizing words is the best thing you can do because most information is in word form. You need to master coming up with images for all sorts of words. This word generator is great for helping you practice this skill: https://wordcounter.net/random-word-generator

You might think memory competitions would be a fun and cool experience to see! But... you would totally be wrong haha Not even I would want to watch a memory competition (Hey I still like going!) haha But why is that?

People always say to focus on your strengths but if you want to improve when it comes to memory techniques, you need to focus on your weaknesses! You will learn things you wouldn't have other wised learned.

I want to show how you can start applying memory techniques to languages. Learn how to count to 10 in Japanese by following along! You will be using your number system to use as a peg for remembering how to count to 10 in Japanese.

When you memory train, you probably do the same training over and over which is fine but you need to change up your training. Being creative when training allows you to learn new ways to improve! It doesn’t take much to change up your training so try it the next time you train.

How cool would it be to remember what happened every day? You would always be right when you are arguing about what happened in the past! But is this even possible to do? But more importantly is it even worth memorizing?

It is so easy to jump right into the material you are learning, but this leads to problems if you are planning to use memory techniques. Previewing the material makes all the difference and so many mistakes can be avoid by taking a moment to preview!