How does the spy of MI-6 British intelligence agency train memory?

Besides secret weapons (such as Hollywood's Mission Impossible series often described), intelligence and talent, spies also have a very special weapon: It's memory!

Remembering all the information without writing to a paper or using a photograph or tape is a challenge for all agents of the world's intelligence agencies.

Memorization is also one of the spy's special weapons.

Spy cannot expect to take notes

Warren Reed - a former agent of the British Foreign Intelligence Agency (MI-6) is currently working for the Australian Intelligence Agency ASIS - has a simple technique to train memory . One of the first things that spies need to learn is to find ways for their memory to remember more than usual, not only for success but also for survival.

'If a spy surrenders, the situation may get worse in a moment. Spy is still human, sometimes scared, ' Reed said.

'If they betray themselves, they will not survive. They will be abolished in a car accident or fake traffic accident or may be dragged out to the street, tortured and killed. Worse, while on duty, a spy could not say, "What is the trajectory of a rocket, how much are you transporting?" Sorry, wait a minute for me to get pen and paper ' , Reed explains.

Childhood memories in a loving home you live from will contribute greatly to memory training, according to former MI-6 agent Warren Reed.

Techniques of 'my family's home'

Reed calls his memorization technique the 'my family's home' - a visual association technique that he develops and practices.

There are two things you need to keep in mind.The first is the 'known' and then the 'unknown' - that is, the information you need to remember.

'The known' is the 'home of my family'

Imagine the house of your childhood, Reed explained. If you are living in an apartment for a while, it is fine. But better yet, it should be that in the house you have lived for many years or have grown up there as much as possible because of the big house, the space, the dark corners or corners you used to hide there.

And now imagine a circuit that you will enter the house you know well. Start from the entrance, go through the main entrance, into the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Walk around the house and go back to the main door. On the way, keep in mind the nooks and crannies, tables and chairs and other things.

Remember that circuit in your head.

The second thing is that you need to specify the image of the 'unknown' in your mind. This is the information you need to remember and remember!

Observe the surrounding situation, what do you need to remember? What is someone saying or are they telling stories? It's an image that you need to remember exactly the color and shape of something, or how to measure a room where you need to remember the location of each item? Is that a long number? Is that the sequence of events?

One of the first things that spies need to learn is to find ways for their memory to remember more than usual.

Try to 'break' that massive information block into information elements.

Now, arrange the important elements of the situation, conversations, stories, decorators or images you need to remember and place them in the space of the house in the circuit you have outlined. For example, put it on a shelf or on the top of the cabinet .

You can also draw cartoons about objects, which make them look funny.

The more pictures and the more strange, the more elements carved into your mind. If it is a long number, or a series of events, turn it into something unusual or make it human-like, paint, color, or create a special element.

Only more than 20% of information elements are sufficient to remember the whole situation

Once you have completed placing elements into the circuit, return to the first element. Now, you run that circuit in your head and review the elements you have placed on the circuit.

By placing the elements you need to remember somewhere on the circuit that you know well, you've arranged the 'unknown' to 'the known'. 'That will inculcate your mind , ' Reed explained.

Reed said during training as a spy, he often had to remember 100 elements, but in everyday life situations, you don't need to remember more than 20 information elements to remember the whole situation. You need to remember.