How we learn
B - Association
Association is making a mental connection between concepts, events, or mental states that usually stems from specific experiences in your life.
Did you every smell something that immediately brought up a memory?
Maybe smelling cinnamon and getting a memory of being with your grandmother and eating her cinnamon rolls.
Or maybe you had a dog snap at you when you were a child when you tried to take away its bone, and you are now afraid of dogs in general.
Those tend to be unconscious associations, meaning that our brain made with associations without us working on it, without our awareness.
We can use our brain's ability to create associations to teach ourselves.
Our long-term memory works by making connections from new things we are learning to things we already know.
When we have trouble making the associations automatically, we can use mnemonics, also called memory aids, to make the connections between neurons in our brains.
There are many memory aids available.
You are using mnemonics right now.
Think about what you are currently using and how you were taught things when you were growing up.
Talk to others to see what works for them. Check the Internet.
Figure out which things work best for you and for which topics (subjects) and use them!
Remember, the crazier they are, the easier they are to remember.