How To Improve Memory - Acrostics

Acrostics can be a great way of showing people how to improve memory.

What's an acrostic? Well, an acrostic is generally a sentence in which the first letter of each word stands for something else.

For example, many people can recite the colours of the rainbow, in order, by using a simple acrostic.

The colours are:

• Red
  
• Orange
  
• Yellow
  
• Green
  
• Blue
  
• Indigo
  
• Violet
  

Using the first letter of each word, we get R, O, Y, G, B, I, V

The simple acrostic used (by people in the UK anyway) is:

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain

Again, using the first letter of each word, we get R, O, Y, G, B, I, V

So remembering a simple sentence helps you remember the colours of the rainbow and the order they appear in.

Solar System

Here are another couple of examples:

Planets of the solar system in distance order from the sun:

• Mercury
  
• Venus
  
• Earth
  
• Mars
  
• Jupiter
  
• Saturn
  
• Uranus
  
• Neptune
  
• Pluto
  

Simple acrostic to help you remember this (should you ever need to):

My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Up Nice Pineapples

So there's another simple technique that may help with your memory. Again, it's not a strategy that will cover every angle, but it might help.

If you're looking for a complete programme on how to improve memory, this one is guaranteed to work in only five minutes a day.

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