Stupid Mnemonics That I Use to Remember Things

Or… there is nothing wrong with using mental tricks to remember information

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TL;DR¹

This is more around having my children try to look at things differently, recognise that they may struggle remembering something, and find a way that relates to them.

Mental Mnemonics

Mnemonic definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mnemonic

adjective

- assisting or intended to assist the memory.

- pertaining to mnemonics or to memory.

noun

- Something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.

- Computers. a programming code that is easy to remember, as STO for “store.”

In this sense I am focussed on “assisting or intended to assist the memory”.

Going through my schooling, I was taught that there was just one way to do something, in private, if I didn’t understand something, then I would search for a way to remember it… I felt kind-of bad for ‘cheating’ but in hindsight, I discovered that