How much easier would your college life be if you had an incredibly memory? The ability to take a list of fifty things you needed to know for a test and memorize it within a matter of minutes. 

And not only that, you could recite this list forwards or backwards several days after you have studied it.

It's easier then you might think. You just need to know the secret of how to do it.

I will be completely honest with you, I used to have the worst memory imaginable. You could have read a list of five things to me and I wouldn't have been able to tell you that list a few minutes later.

In college, I would have to go over the material I needed to study several times. And even then I would forget most of it by the time the test came around.

And then one day I learned this technique on how to memorize things. Within a few minutes after learning it, I decided to try and memorize all of the presidents of the United States.

Believe it or not, twenty minutes later I could recite every President to you forwards or backwards!

My friend who I was with couldn't believe it. And he made the comment, "I bet you won't remember them tomorrow." And I of course replied, "Oh, I bet I can."

And the thing is, I really knew I could. Because this technique allows you to retain the information much longer. In fact, a year later I could still memorize all of the Presidents in order. And that was after only one brief study session.

So what is this amazing technique? And how do you do it? 

It Starts With Pictures 

Have you ever bumped into someone that you haven't seen in awhile? You know you know them but you can't remember their name!

This happens to me all of the time! But how's come we can picture their face so easily, but can't remember their name?

It's because we can memorize pictures very easily. But when it comes to someone's name, we can't visualize it and it makes it very difficult to remember.

We are all born with this quality. Because when we are a baby, the first way we learn is through what we are seeing and observing. So it is only natural that this is the easiest way to learn and memorize things as we get older.

Any time you forget something, you probably close your eyes and try to picture a previous time that will spark your memory. And if you can picture a specific thing from the past, you will remember it! Otherwise, you are out of luck.

But this still doesn't help us memorize a large list of items in a short amount of time. After all, we can't simply picture fifty items and remember it on the spot!

We have to have a way to store this information.