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The genius of Albert Einstein has been attributed to intelligence increasing techniques he famously used. These were developed over 15-20 years in his life, so his progress was both slow and tedious. The basic things he did to increase his intelligence are detailed below
1. He would engage all his senses when it came to thinking.
In [...]

Hi all,
Kevin here. I have been putting together a list of items that i would like to write about and bring to you on a daily and weekly basis. From Memory improvement articles to Maths articles and from body language to self improvement articles.
So below is a short list I have compiled that you have [...]

Some more techniques for remembering stalagtites and stalagmites.
Women’s tights (tites) come down, so we know that stalagtites hang down! We don’t need to remember stalagmites.
When hearing stalagmites, you might think of those little insects, “mites” and they crawl around on the ground. On the ground so they grow up.

This is a useful method for when travelling between imperial and metric countries and
need to know what kilometres to miles are.
The formula to convert kilometres to miles is number of (kilometres / 8 ) X 5
So lets try 80 kilometres into miles
80/8 = 10
multiplied by 5 is 50 miles!
Another example
40 kilometres
40 / 8 = 5
5 [...]

Let’s start off with looking at converting Kilos to pounds. 86 kilos into pounds:
Step one, multiply the kilos by TWO.
To do this, just double the kilos.
86 x 2 = 172
Step two, divide the answer by ten.
To do this, just put a decimal point one place in from the right.
172 / 10 = 17.2
Step three, add [...]

When I was in geography class my teacher taught me how to remember which one forms from the ceiling and from the floor.
Stalagmites and stalactites form from travertine; water that has a high calcium carbonate content and other minerals in it.
Stalactites form from the ceiling and hang down. To remember this, I think about the [...]

We can all use log tables to look up these rules, but I am going to show you one method that will hopefully speed up your trigonometry.
Sin, Opposite, Hypotenuse, Tan, Adjacent, Cos.
There are several methods to remember this, when I was in school my maths teacher said it like this:
So, tow a car!
SOH (So) [...]

Virgins Are Rare

Volts = Amps X Resistance

This is a meumonic to remember the 12 pairs of cranial nerves :
On Old Olympus Towering Top, A French And German Viewed A Hop =
Olfactory, Optic, Occulomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facil, Auditory, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory and Hypoglossal…
Now out of these how do you remember how many are sensory, how many are mixed and how many [...]

Certainly, you can use the memory techniques from here to memorize the phone book, but why? How many times can you really show that?
This trick will imply that you’ve memorized the phone book.
Imagine this: You hand out 9 cards or slips of paper, each with a different digit from 1 to 9, and ask your [...]