Language Talk

S1#9 The Power of Mnemonics and Repetition


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Do  you have trouble remembering things? Do you often find yourself forgetting important details or facts? You are not alone and it happens  to the best of us unfortunately. Our minds can only hold so much  information. However, there is a way to combat that and that is through  the power of mnemonics and repetition. If I might steal from the words of Michael Shermer, an American science  writer, "“Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are  quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or  not.” Let us explore that a little bit.

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Language TalkBy Christopher M. Chandler, Kris Schauer