¡¡¡HYou find a telephone number in the phone book, dial it and then forget it. This is your short-term memory. It lasts less than 30 seconds. However, you don't look in the phone book for your best friend's number. You know it. This is long-term memory. Your long-term memory has everything that you remember.

¡¡¡¡Why do you forget something? What is the reason? You did not learn it ¹in the beginning. This is the major reason for forgetting. But you can remember better. Here are some ideas:

1. Move information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory. Practice using the information. Spend time on it.
2. ²Be sure that you understand the information. It is difficult to memorize something you don't understand.
3. ³Do only one thing at a time. Study in a quiet place. You can't listen to music and memorize at the same time.
4. Try to ⁴connect the new information with something you already know.
5. ⁵Divide the information into parts. Don't have more than seven parts. Learn one part and stop for a few minutes. Don't try to learn all the parts at the same time.
6. Make a picture ⁶in your mind. For example, when you learn the word SOFA, make a picture in your mind of this furniture. Remember what it looks like.
7. Try to ¹³relax when you study. ¹⁴Enjoy it. You can't remember things when you are tired or unhappy.

¡¡¡¡Some people have a ¹⁵photographic memory. They see everything like a picture. In this way, they can remember many things. Would you like to have a photographic memory?