It's just that memorization is almost entirely the result of a slow, almost mechanical process of patient repetition. If rubbing your brain (ieIt is above all memorisation, which implies an almost complete retreat in your mind, which gives rise to this healthy and noble fatigue. What does every student feel in the evening after a day's study!  

Turn around!

How many students have we met who spent most of their hours circling their subject. Going back and forth, annotating, reflecting and engaging in other activities that are certainly respectable, but which always postpone the moment of crystallisation. In other words, memorising in the strict sense. 

If, on the evening of the first day, your thirty pages - according to the work plan - are not known, when will you study them? Over the next few days, at the same time as you study the next thirty pages? So these are the first thirty pages you need to know, the relevant information is selected. How do you go about it? On the first page, you read what you've just selected, then reproduce it from memory. Let's repeat this sentence, perhaps the most important in our method. You read what you've just selected, then play it back from memory (iewithout looking!). Loudly or softly, or even without speaking, it's up to you, but by expressing yourself, even if it's in the silence of your mind. Can't you do it? Yes, you can! You think you can't. 

Memory, like a muscle

No being endowed with consciousness is incapable of reproducing, from memory, what has just been read. What evolves, albeit in stratospheric proportions, is the quantity of material that you will be able to restore each time and 'at once'. Because, like a muscle, memory improves with use. "I can't do it" is not a statement of incapacity, but a lack of willpower. Start with what you have, which is never equal to nothing. Do this for 5, 10 or 15 pages, depending on the density of the material and the training of your memory. Once you've read them the first time, do it a second time. Then a third and, if possible, a fourth and then a fifth time! No doubt the last two times will seem repetitive, even pointless. That's because you know your stuff! Cqfd. Go ahead nevertheless, because with these 4th and 5th repetitions, even very quickly, you are establishing your knowledge over time.

Go ahead and try it out straight away, for example with a text you like, don't confine yourself to theory 😉 

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