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Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Colin Lowther.
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And I’m Liz Waid.
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Spotlight uses a special  English method of broadcasting.
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It is easier for people to understand,  no matter where in the world they live.
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Think of an event in your life  that you remember very well.
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You can think of any memory,  as long as it is clear.
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Think back. Where were you?
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Who were you with? What time was it?
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Can you smell anything? Taste anything?
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Why do you think you remember this event so well?
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Click here to follow along  with this program on YouTube.
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Memory is strange.
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Sometimes, a person might remember something  that is extremely important to them.
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At other times, she may remember a  fact that does not matter at all.
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It may be difficult to learn something she wants  to remember, like an English vocabulary word!
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But this does not always have to be the case.
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There are actually special methods that  you can use to improve your memory.
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Today’s Spotlight is on how to use  your memory to remember anything.
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No one’s memory is perfect.
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What a person remembers can be unreliable.
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Even the most intelligent people forget things.
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This does not mean a person has a bad memory.
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It means he is not using  his mind to his advantage.
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The brain has two kinds of memory.
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The first is short term, or working, memory.
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This kind of memory is  useful for a very short time.
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Experts say you can store four sets of information  in your short-term memory at the same time.
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Information in short term memory will  last about 20 to 30 seconds or less.
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Then it disappears.
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The second kind of memory is long-term memory.
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Long-term memory is what people usually think  of when they say they have memorized something.
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Memories in the long-term memory stay.
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A person can remember them again and again.
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These are memories like the  names of people you know, how to do a task, or memories from a  special event from a long time ago.
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The trick of remembering is moving information  from short-term to long-term memory.
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No one knows exactly how this happens.
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But scientists do have theories.
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Richard Mohs is a writer at howstuffworks.com.
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He writes that going from one kind of  memory to the other is all about attention.
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You must focus on particular things.
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“To properly create a memory, you  must first be paying attention.
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You cannot pay attention  to everything all the time.
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So, most of what you see  every day is filtered out.
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Only some information passes  into your conscious awareness.
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How you pay attention to information may be  the most important part of how much of it you actually remember.” People also remember things that are  similar to what they already know.
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This is because of the structure of the brain.
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Most of the brain is made of cells called neurons.
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When we learn something, different  neurons connect to each other.
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When these neurons stay  connected, it forms a memory.
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The more connections a memory  has, the stronger it will be.
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For example, think of a person you know.
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When you think of that person, the same neurons  become active in your brain – every time!
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Memories can also link to other  memories, making them stronger still.
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This is why memories with  multiple senses last longer.
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For example, a memory where you experienced  something by hearing, tasting, and smelling, may be very strong because you  used more senses in the experience.
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These memories connect  different parts of the brain.
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Think of the person you just remembered.
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Do you remember what their laugh sounds like?
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Do you remember the sound of their voice?
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Finally, we make memories when  we have repeated experiences.
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Each time we do the same thing,  our brains make new connections.
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Scientists say our neurons activate, or fire.
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Richard Mohs uses practicing music as an example.
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“If you play a piece of music over and over, certain cells in your brain fire  repeatedly in a certain order.
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This makes it easier to  repeat this firing later on.
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The result: You get better at playing music.
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You can play it faster, with fewer mistakes.
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Practice it long enough, and  you will play it perfectly.” Practicing, or repeating information, is one  of the most popular methods of remembering.
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If a person has vocabulary cards,  they are using this method.
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But this is not always the best way to memorize.
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There are many methods which use the  other ways we remember - or combine them.
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Another memorization method  is called a mnemonic device.
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One well known mnemonic  device is called an acronym.
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Acronyms are helpful in memorizing words.
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To create an acronym, find a list  of words you would like to memorize.
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It is usually helpful if there  is something similar about them.
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Then, take the first letter from each word.
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Organize those letters into a word or phrase.
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You have now made an acronym.
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Each letter in the final word  stands in for another word.
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So, to memorize many words,  you only have to remember one.
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One famous acronym for learning  English conjunctions is FANBOYS.
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The F stands in for the word “for”.
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A stands for “and”.
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The rest stand for nor, but, or, yet, and so.
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Acronyms work because they  make the information simple.
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Another memorization method is visualization.
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In visualization, you think of an image or picture that represents the thing  you are trying to remember.
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For example, imagine a person is  trying to remember the name Melanie.
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He might think of a picture.
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In the picture, a woman is holding a melon fruit.
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She is crushing the melon with her knee.
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The sound of the two images will  remind him of the name Melanie.
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The image is also very strange.
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It is easier for the mind  to remember unusual things.
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Visualization works because it makes the  foreign information into something familiar.
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One of the most interesting mnemonic  devices is called the method of loci.
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It is also called a memory palace.
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To create a memory palace, a person must think  of a familiar area, like a house, or a street.
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Then, she must imagine a  journey through that space.
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In the journey, she stops at  different, familiar areas.
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In each of these areas, she places an item.
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The item must have something to do with  the thing she is trying to remember.
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Melanie Pinola is a writer and mental athlete.
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She competes with others to remember  long lists of numbers or words.
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She wrote about the memory palace  technique for Lifehacker.com.
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“For everyday use, the memory palace is  helpful for remembering a list of things.
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Start a journey beginning at a place  you know very well, like your home.
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Begin at your door.
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If you want to remember a grocery  list, imagine the items you need.
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Imagine a container of milk  overflowing on your doorstep.
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When you get inside, perhaps two giant  steaks attack you in your doorway.
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Continue to your living room to  find pretzels dancing on the rug.
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Again, the more movement, strange experiences,  and senses you put into your memory palace, the better for your memorization.” This may seem like a lot of work, creating more  information than the person needs to memorize.
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But the method of loci is actually  a way of “hacking” the brain.
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To remember something, the brain  needs a network of information.
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Without this network, the  memory will fade quickly.
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The method of loci creates a new network.
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It uses multiple senses.
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And then, it attaches the  network to something familiar.
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This way, what you are trying to  remember enters the long-term memory.
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There are many more mnemonic devices.
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But most memory methods involve one  of these three steps: Make it simple.
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Visualize it - that is, imagine  you can see it in your mind.
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Connect the information to  something you already know.
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If you can master these simple tips, you will  be able to remember huge amounts of information.
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What will you memorize now?
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Do you have any special ways you remember things?
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What are they? Will you try a new method?
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You can leave a comment on our  website at www.spotlightenglish.com.
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You can also find us on YouTube,  Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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The writer of this program was Dan Christmann.
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The producer was Michio Ozaki.
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The voices you heard were from the  United Kingdom and the United States.
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All quotes were adapted for this  program and voiced by Spotlight.
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This program is called: How to Memorize Anything.
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Visit our website to download our free  official app for Android and Apple devices.
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We hope you can join us again for  the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.

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