7 memory skills that will make you smarter

 

 

Learning ability is probably the most i important skill you can have. We need to keep learning and remembering all our live. If you're good at learning, you have an advantage in life." Unfortunately, lots of the techniques for learning that we pick up in school don't help with long-term recall — like cramming or highlighting. 

To get over these bad habits, we scoured "Make It Stick" for learning tips. 
Here are the takeaways: 

 1. Retrieval: Bring it back from memory

2. Elaboration: Connect new ideas to what you already know

3. Interleaving: Varying your subjects

4. Generation: Answer before you have an answer

5. Reflection: Evaluate what happened

6. Mnemonics: Use hacks to recall

7. Calibration: Know what you don't know