Best method to memorize a textbook?

Hi, i was looking for info about brain manegement and i fount zox pro, but i dont know if it works, and it seems like you hace a lot of experience, do you know some book about how to improve the sunconscius memory , or bring it to the conscious so that way achieve eidetic memory???

If you’re looking for photographic memory, it probably doesn’t exist in the way that people think about it in popular culture. You might want to check out these pages:

Here are some articles about photographic/eidetic memory.

http://sciencenordic.com/does-photographic-memory-exist

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-such-a-thing-as/

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Hello

Of course, if you have a manic idea to remember everything word for word, then it will take a lot of time. But this is not necessary in any discipline; jurisprudence is no exception. To memorize new data, it is enough to simply visualize these situations and put them in your memory palace. It will be enough for you to recall the key image to restore the whole scene. If you want to remember the collection of laws or the whole constitution, then there is also a reasonable way out. Your task is to select a key image for the foundation of the law, then you highlight the details in it. On these details you attach an image of a figure and images of data from it. Related data is stored in a simple bundle. For example, if it comes to cars, then it’s enough to imagine a car in a parking lot, highlight the hood, wheel, cab, trunk and roof in it. And then mentally enlarge these details and attach to them images of the details of the law. This method requires a lot of experience, but it is the only really effective method to memorize whole texts concisely. If you want to remember each law word for word, you just need to choose the images for the service parts of speech. But I still strongly do not recommend this, because it will not improve your exams performance in any way, but it will significantly increase the memorization time.

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Hi Yan, does this mean that after a month of recall, the information would be consolidatedto long term..
I’ve actually used this technique for learning medical biochemistry (vitamins) where I created an image for each vitamin and made some tweaks on it to recall things like (functions, deficiency etc)..
The issue I usually have is that after a while, some images fade off..

So please how long am I to hold on to recall before letting go to be sure of consolidation to ltm?

If you’re taking exams, look for lists of questions. Solve them - do short answers to the questions - memorise them.
Don’t get hung up on textbooks 1-2 times, read it, understand the basic definitions and system of the branch of law - go on.

In jurisprudence we have a lot of theoretical enumerations that you may need to memorise 90-100% if you are a student and you are interested in surprising your teachers.

Read my old article: How to create 1000+ places to memorize any information in an hour or less?

a 300-page textbook on a branch of law I can read in a day. And another hour or so can be spent on a short, concise outline for memorisation.

It is worth to memorise in an orderly way the name of terms (you will process the definition yourself, without mnemonics, and compress the information into words), enumerations.
In practice, in law, you need to understand the basics, a number of terms and patterns. Then read legal acts and go into your specialisation. The institute does it inefficiently and stretches it out.

On your own + with a mnemonic it is done faster. For example, in August to memorise all 7-14 disciplines before the beginning of the academic year (in my case).

I am a former bachelor of civil law major. I managed to have fun with mnemonics for 2 semesters of my 3rd and 4th years. The lecturer was looking for a phone or earpiece, haha.

If you want to memorize textbooks, you have to practice lot’s of visualization and mind palace, and get used to it. Or you can just use flashcards, with spaced reptition like apps with anki. These techniques are highly effective.