{"id":3886,"date":"2023-11-13T09:48:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T09:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annika-zang.com\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2024-02-21T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T11:49:02","slug":"how-to-remember-7x-more-words-with-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annika-zang.com\/en\/how-to-remember-7x-more-words-with-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remember 7x More Words With Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How To Memorize 7x More Words With Stories<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Summary: Learning with stories is becoming more and more popular. In this article, you will learn why stories are a fundamental part of human beings, how they are linked to our memories and how we can use them to remember 7x more words in language learning.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cWe know how this ends. You\u2019re going to die and so will everyone you love. All the change in the universe will cease, the stars will die, and there\u2019ll be nothing left of anything but infinite, dead, freezing void. Human life, in all its noises and hubris, will be rendered meaninglessly for eternity.<\/em><\/p>

But that\u2019s not how we live our lives. (\u2026) The cure for this horror is story. Our brains distract us from this terrible truth by filling our lives with hopeful goals and encouraging us to strive for them. What we want, the ups and downs of our struggles to get it, is the story of us all. It gives our existence the illusion of meaning and turns our gaze from the dread. There\u2019s simply no way to understand the human world without stories. (\u2026) <\/em>Stories are us<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d \u2013 Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Glad you stayed after this dramatic introduction.<\/p>

Stories<\/em>. I\u2019ve heard this word a lot lately. You don’t write text anymore, you tell a story. You\u2019re not a content creator, you\u2019re a storyteller. You don’t take decisions, you own your story.<\/p>

Somehow, the word story<\/em> taps something in us, and a sudden wave of euphoria swashes through our bodies.\u00a0<\/p>

For some very good reasons! Let’s explore what makes stories so fundamental to humans, how they can unleash superhuman potential of your memory, and how you can use them to multiply your results in language learning.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Stories Are in Our DNA.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Humans are the only species that can tell stories. Of course, other animals \u2013 and even plants \u2013 also have their own communication systems. But only humans can talk in the past and in the future and pass on information in great detail.<\/p>

Yuval Noah Harari made a lovely example in his book Sapiens<\/em>:<\/p>

A vervet monkey can tell their fellow: \u201cWatch out, a lion!\u201d \u2013 but only a human can tell to his fellows that he saw a lion watching buffalos near the river bend in the morning. With that information, his tribe can think about whether to proceed down to the river to chase the lion away or not.<\/span><\/p>

Stories enable us to take informed decisions, take into account other points of view, create legends and tales, reshape the past and reimagine the future. They help us picture abstract concepts and give us something to believe in. Without stories, there wouldn’t be states, money, laws, roles, religions or relationships. Without stories, humans wouldn’t be at the peak of evolution.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Stories And Memory<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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How Stories Can Unleash Superhuman Potential<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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There’s a guy who can memorize 100,000 digits.<\/p>

Yes, 100,000 digits. I can’t even imagine<\/em> anything that amounts to 100,000.<\/p>

But Akira Haraguchi can, and so he memorized and recited 100,000 digits of pi in 2019.<\/p>

Is he a superbrain? Maybe he is. But he’s not the only one who can remember stupid amounts of numbers like that. There are literally championships where people compete against each other in categories like: Who can memorize most numbers within an hour? (Just as reference point: German lawyer Simon Reinhard can memorize 2000.)<\/p>

All of these people have one thing in common, and it’s not DNA. It’s their memorization technique, which is always linked to \u2013surprise!<\/em> \u2013 stories.<\/p>

So, how does this look like?<\/p>

In an interview with the German magazine Zeit,\u00a0<\/em>Reinhard explained his method as follows:<\/p>