Improve your life with better learning and memory skills#

Discover how Memletics is helping thousands of people improve their lives by changing the way they learn and remember.

Have you ever stopped and thought about how your ability to learn influences your life and prosperity? Take a moment and consider:

  • Your ability to learn during school heavily influences your grades, the quality of your education, and the choices you have for a career.
  • Your ability to learn ‘on the job’ has a significant impact on your employment, promotion prospects and overall income or business success.
  • While your employment may provide formal training, how much do you remember 2 weeks, 6 months or a year after the course? The value you get from such training often depends on your personal learning skills.
  • As the retirement age increases, you’ll need a well-functioning brain for longer. Staying curious and continuing to learn through life is one of the genuinely worthwhile things you can do for yourself - I won’t promise it wards off dementia (the evidence for “brain training” is thinner than the marketing suggests), but a learning habit is good living at any age.

While learning is a fundamental skill, it’s surprising that it’s so hard to find accurate and up-to-date information on how to learn well. You may be like many others who believe the Internet should make it easier to find such information. Instead, it’s helped many organizations make a lot of money selling inaccurate and out-of-date products and information. Let’s look at some examples:

  • Subliminal Learning and Sleep Learning. Millions of tapes & CDs sold - however much reliable research shows it doesn’t work.
  • Superlearning, or ‘music for learning.’ There are dozens of products available - from CDs of ‘accelerated learning music’ to books and courses. Research shows that while music helps relaxation, it doesn’t directly help the learning process.
  • Dietary Supplements for ‘Memory.’ Part of the multi-billion-dollar natural supplements market. Few products have a significant impact on memory when tested in controlled trials, and some are dangerous!

Other products, systems and authors only provide part of the answer. For example, systems like NLP and authors like Tony Buzan, Kevin Trudeau (Mega Memory) and Colin Rose provide good information but only in particular areas .

Why is there such a large interest in memory improvement products? When you consider how much we forget, and how fast, when we learn without the right methods - a page reread until it feels familiar is mostly gone within days - you can start to understand why people are seeking ways to help ’lock in’ information. Unfortunately though, many people are looking for the ‘silver bullet’ to memory improvement. There is no silver bullet.

There is no silver bullet. We can, however, tell you what does work.

After reading this page you will have a much better way to think about learning. You’ll immediately be able to start using this knowledge to work out for yourself the value of various learning improvement products. You’ll also be on your way to better learning and improved memory - just by understanding the simple principle described next.

The core principle - a few proven methods, plus a mind in good condition#

Better memory and learning don’t come from unlocking some hidden, unused part of your brain - that’s a myth, and a stubborn one. They come from two ordinary things: using a handful of methods that genuinely work, and keeping your mind in good condition to do the work. That’s it. No secret capacity to switch on, no percentage of your brain sitting idle waiting to be claimed.

The encouraging part is that the methods that work are few, and they’re learnable. Decades of research keep landing on the same short list - retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving and elaboration - and on the conditions that let your brain do its job: sleep, attention, the right environment. Master those and you’re most of the way there.

There’s still a useful analogy with physical fitness - not because your brain is literally a muscle, but because the effort works the same way:

  • You don’t get fitter by reading about exercise, and you don’t learn by rereading until a page feels familiar. In both, the comfortable option is the ineffective one. Real gains come from the effortful work - recalling, practising, being tested - not from passively going over the material.
  • You can’t run a marathon the day after your first jog in five years, and you can’t learn one memory technique and suddenly have a great memory. Progress is gradual - but you start to see results early, and that spurs you on. Your brain rewards you for positive learning experiences.
  • The payoff shows up across your life - employment, relationships, confidence, leisure. In today’s economy, self-directed learners have a real advantage over those who wait for the next organized course to come along.

This is also why so many memory products disappoint. If something promises big memory gains without much mental effort on your part, be suspicious. That’s like promising fitness without moving, or weight loss from a pill. You’d be wary of those claims - why would memory be any different?

Introducing Memletics - Memory Athletics#

Now is a good time to introduce Memletics. The Memletics Accelerated Learning System helps you learn faster and keep what you’ve learned for longer. It’s grounded in research from cognitive science, education and medicine, refined through the author’s own years of putting it to the test.

The name Memletics comes from two words - Memory and Athletics - a nod to the idea that, like fitness, good learning is trained rather than gifted. Memletics brings together a few things that genuinely move the needle:

  • It gives you an integrated learning system - a clear structure and specific steps built around the methods that actually work, so you’re not guessing.
  • It puts the proven methods first - retrieval, spacing, interleaving and elaboration - and treats the memory techniques as the toolbox that serves them, rather than as magic in their own right.
  • It helps your brain perform well, physically and mentally. Knowing what helps and what hurts your concentration, sleep and state lets you set yourself up to learn.
  • It helps you use new technology, including AI, to enhance your learning - the tools that multiply your practice and feedback, used in a way that makes you think rather than think for you.

Memletics is unique because it pulls together research from several areas of human performance and is honest about what each can and can’t do. Using it, you can rediscover (or for some people, discover for the first time) the satisfaction of learning well.

New to Memletics or accelerated learning?#

To start learning faster and improving your memory, read the Memletics Accelerated Learning Manual . The best place to begin is how learning works and the proven learning methods - the few moves that do most of the work - then learning with AI . From there you’ll find detailed information on the memory techniques that serve those methods, concentration , adult education , learning styles , and comparing other resources .

The Memletic State section is now fully online, covering Cell State , Physical State and Mental State .

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