Are you confused by the amount of advice related to deliberate practice? I don’t blame you. After all, there are lots of different kinds of skills that require different kinds of practice. For example, I’ve had to follow the deliberate practice steps you’ll discover below during my PhD, especially for language learning. I’ve also been a touring mus…

You’d like a bunch of mnemonic strategies that help you learn faster, right? Whereas nearly every article on the Internet is going to give you a bunch of weak techniques like “keywords,” here’s the thing you need to understand: Using the keyword method as a mnemonic device is not a strategy. It’s a tool that you use strategically. And one of those …

Do you have a system for remembering cards? Whether it’s for bridge, poker, memory competition or just your own personal memory training, it’s fun and rewarding to commit all 52 cards to memory. I know, because when I competed against Guinness World Record Holder Dave Farrow in Toronto, my mnemonic system for memorizing cards was barely strong enou…

If you want to know how to read faster, you’ve probably tried to stop “subvocalizing” and reduce “backskipping.” What if I told you such “speed reading” techniques are probably a waste of time? Especially if you’re a serious learner who wants to retain what you read. And comprehend it so you can achieve the big goals you have for your life? If you’…

People often ask me about how to use the Memory Palace for programming languages, especially since there’s so much abstract syntax to learn. Would-be and even established coders worry that ancient memory techniques won’t help, often because they think of mnemonics themselves as inherently abstract. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, …

Picture this: Exams loom on the horizon and you’re staring at a stack of unread textbooks so large it would make any sane student shake in their boots. Maybe you got behind in your reading over the course of the semester… Or maybe your professor assigned additional reading you haven’t gotten around to yet… Whatever the case, you have a ton of infor…

Want to know why you keep forgetting things? You’re in the right place. I’ve been studying memory and teaching people how to improve it for over a decade. And the answers couldn’t be clearer. You do face the mystery of why it’s so hard to change, however. That’s why in addition to explaining why forgetfulness in your 30s and 40s starts happening wi…