Thread by @yevgenydevine

1/ It's extremely difficult to memorize disjointed, disassembled information.
You have to reassemble it to memorize it.
And the only to reassemble it is to put it in a context of a concept you're familiar with.

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2/ To put new information in an already familiar concept you use analogies.
That's the efficient way of memorizing new information.
The inefficient way is to learn new concepts from scratch.

Here's a video on analogy as a core of cognition:

@zaoyang

3/ Our brain assembles complex concepts from sets of simple concepts. It puts the concepts you're familiar with next to each other so you can comprehend them.
For example, our brain processes alphabets this way, using morphology.

Or, look at Chinese writing system, @zaoyang:

4/ Memory capacity is determined by your health & physiology: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24785593
The reason why kids are taught how to speak/read at a very young age is that they have to duplicate+interconnect the visual/audial concepts as a brand new concept: Language.

@zaoyang

5/ To improve your memory and memorizing abilities:
a) Improve your health (medical therapy/run/sprint/exercise)
b) Discover new information in your most familiar area of knowledge
c) Connect this area to other, new areas of knowledge
@zaoyang

6/ This is a very brief overview of the concept of memory and cognition, which is extremely difficult to make digestible in a form of tweets.
If people are interested I'll write a more profound article.

Thank you and your audience for your time, @zaoyang
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