It's proverbial that engineers are bad spellers. There is a street on the campus of Georgia Tech named Ferst Street. The joke is that it's first street, but misspelled. Like most engineering jokes, it's not funny, but does make a point.
There was a study recently (I can't find the link), but it asserted that part of intelligence is the ability to remember things that are important. Good memory is less important than distinguishing what to remember.
So..... since you can always look up words, or use spell check, there's not much use in remembering how to spell words.
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Remembering Things: 5 examples
When I was young my dad taught me about mnemonics, which is "associations between easy-to-remember constructs which can be related back to the data that is to be remembered." It was a trick that I used repeatedly in school. Here are a few of my favorites...
1) < is the leser than symbol and > is the greater than symbol. The symbol < looks like a tilted capital L which I associate with "Lesser than."
2) "There is a rat in separate." Separate is commonly misspelled with an e (seperate) and the key to the phrase is the letter a, "there is a rat in separate."
3) "The cemetery is a place of ease (es)." Cemetery is commonly misspelled with an a in place of either of the last 2 es. So the phrase reminds you that there are lots e's, but no a's.
4) Lincoln was the 16th president. Lincoln is a car, and you can drive when you turn 16.
5) Often they are acronyms. A commonly known one is HOMES for the great lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
I have heard when you meet someone and learn their name it helps if you can form an association between them and another person with the same name. Although, I'm still terrible at remembering people's names.
The key thing is to make your own associations for things you need to remember.
Do you know any memory tricks or mnemonics?
1) < is the leser than symbol and > is the greater than symbol. The symbol < looks like a tilted capital L which I associate with "Lesser than."
2) "There is a rat in separate." Separate is commonly misspelled with an e (seperate) and the key to the phrase is the letter a, "there is a rat in separate."
3) "The cemetery is a place of ease (es)." Cemetery is commonly misspelled with an a in place of either of the last 2 es. So the phrase reminds you that there are lots e's, but no a's.
4) Lincoln was the 16th president. Lincoln is a car, and you can drive when you turn 16.
5) Often they are acronyms. A commonly known one is HOMES for the great lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
I have heard when you meet someone and learn their name it helps if you can form an association between them and another person with the same name. Although, I'm still terrible at remembering people's names.
The key thing is to make your own associations for things you need to remember.
Do you know any memory tricks or mnemonics?
Remembering Things
I have always been deeply introverted and have trouble remembering mundane things. One thing that I have found is something I call piggybacking... For instance, I used to never remember to charge my cell phone at night, but I always remembered to set my alarm, at least on the weekdays. So I started using the alarm on my cell phone, and now it's easier to remember to charge my phone (otherwise it is likely to go dead and not wake me up).
The point is find something you are in the habit of doing and tie it to something you want to start remembering to do. For instance, I recently put my vitamins, which I always forget to take, by my toothbrush. Thankfully, I always remember to brush my teeth.
The point is find something you are in the habit of doing and tie it to something you want to start remembering to do. For instance, I recently put my vitamins, which I always forget to take, by my toothbrush. Thankfully, I always remember to brush my teeth.
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