I made it through medical school relying on "brute force" memory techniques that worked but were a lot of work! Since then a lot of research has been done on how memory works, how to improve it, and how even to prevent its decline. Here's an article that summarizes a lot of the research and offers tips to improve your memory based on scientific evidence but I'm wondering what techniques people use that they find really work?
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