So while it seems amazing to us, it was perfectly machine in ancient Greece for epic poems – thousands of lines long – to be committed to memory and accurately recited. But he was forced to do this in great haste because of the speed of the car: the Songline he knew went at walking speed. So check if you have the right senses alerted for what you want to learn. Involve as many of your senses as possible, in order to make a memory really rich a retrievable by multiple routes.

We tend to find it easier to remember using certain preferred senses. When asked by his friend to explain how to use a lathe, he found that he was quite unable to explain – or even remember how he did it. When the car journey intersected with the Songline, Limpy’s memory of the whole Songline was triggered, but where the man-made road deviated from the Songline Limpy "switched off" and only resumed the experience when the road met the line again." Visiting Australia, Chatwin learnt how the Aboriginal culture and history was encoded and passed on through songs that related to invisible paths winding across the land- the Songlines. Some things are best encoded using particular senses, which means attending in that system before attempting to encode anything.

The Aborigines sing their Songlines as a series of couplets that match the length of time it takes to walk a particular stretch of land. Last week I spoke about encoding information better so that we can access it more readily when required to do so. So let’s get on to the subject of memory retrieval. Every note of the melody was linked to a feature of the landscape, and this made remembering the Songline – and passing it to all tribe members and down generations – much easier. Do you: make pictures of the information? Tell yourself stories? Hear someone telling you? Try it on and experience? Like to get your hands dirty? -

What has to machine for you to forget something? Does your mind "Just go blank"?People who are good at physical skills will tend to store information about them kinaesthetically, and they may not be able to explain what they do in words. What do you find easy to remember? What do you tend to forget? Do your own patterns tell you anything about what is important to you and what is less so? Or what kinds of representation come most naturally and you store most easily? Or where your self-limiting beliefs are? - Find out how you go about remembering.

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