Brain-Booster: Memorizing your passwords with ease – Part I

If knowledge is power,
learning is your superpower

Jim Kwik

It is rightly said: Knowledge is power. One has to apply this knowledge in day-to-day life. And one thing to do well in today’s fast world is having tough to guess but easy to remember passwords.

In today’s times; we have so many credit and debit cards; many have more than one email accounts too. We have Facebook and many other social media accounts. Many people who go for shortcuts make a common mistake: they keep the same password for almost all things. You must never keep the same password for all your email accounts, social media and financial transaction as ironically at times we forget that ONE COMMON PASSWORD and then face real trouble.

Your memory can always be trained at any age so forget the wrong thoughts that you can’t remember or that you have a bad memory. All such individuals must remember the 3 LAWS of MEMORY which are Imagination, Observation and Concentration. These laws are always beneficial.

Writing down passwords in a diary is always an option but then at most times you tend to only rely on the written stuff and tend to not memorize or learn the passwords.

Let us see a few interesting ways to memorize passwords:

1. Associate the password somewhere. Eg. if the password is apple26k; VISUALIZE you are buying an Apple smartphone, and you are paying 26 thousand (which is represented by the letter K).

2. Change your password frequently; get a totally new association and make your mind mentally attuned to learning and grasp new things pretty fast.

3. Celina’s son is 19 and loves cats; he has a lot of them. Take the first letter of each word in this sentence and we have csi19alc which becomes a real unique password. Repeat the sentence plenty of times to remember it always.

4. Take 2 or 3 words like ‘Run home Phillip’ and from these words, letters think of some funny word like ruhoPhlp

5. If you are a Math lover just as I am; involve numbers in the password but avoid something like your current age or your vehicle, house number and even your phone number. These numbers make some unique numbers.

6. Write your password down; then disguise it. It can be the first or the second letter of the password followed by a quick hint of what the rest is. It could be an acronym that can aid your memory.

7. Create your own unique code; replace a few letters with numerical; deliberately spelling the words wrong and also use abbreviations.

8. Choose some random 9-10 words; create some phrases of these words; make it look odd and weird it will help.

9. Use Scratch paper. It is a piece of paper a person uses to take quick notes or work out a problem. It is used since 1939.

10. An important precaution is never to write your password down anywhere, someone could see it.

11. One can also try to remember passwords, by choosing a favourite book and building some passwords based on that. First, open any random page, find any interesting word, then add the page number, paragraph number, etc. and a real good password is ready; easy for you but tough for others to crack.

12. Avoid making the password a very simple one like a popular name or title of a T.V. show as we know the dangers of hacking. Mentally train yourself to remember tough passwords.

13. Create your password by taking clues from songs or movies that you love; it will make it very easy to remember.

Friends, in today’s digital techno-savvy age, where we consider Facebook, Twitter, etc. a part of life; please spend some time meditating. Meditation can be a super powerful tool for memory retrieval. Take a long deep breath, and gradually release the frustration from your body; being anxious or angry isn’t getting you any closer to finding your needed password, so you should instead focus on becoming as calm and peaceful as possible always.

Safeguard your passwords in your memory.

About the writer: Minoo Jokhi is a Mathemagician cum Memory Development Trainer based in Mumbai, India. He trains people of all ages right from 4 to 80 years of age and shows them how to increase their Memory-Power and once and for all shatter the myth that memory is neither good nor bad but in reality, is trained or untrained. Readers can contact him via email on [email protected] or follow him on http://www.minoojokhi.in/

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