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is stored in binary language.
    Similarly, the brain also takes input through the five senses—hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste. Since we don’t know what processing is required and in which language it should be stored in, we try to register it as it is and that is why registration of information is not done properly.
    WHAT IS THAT PROCESSING?
    Let’s understand it by reading the following passage. While reading, try to visualize it clearly in your mind.
    An ant is holding a mobile. With the mobile, it makes a call to an elephant . The elephant is holding a paintbrush . With the brush, he is painting a poster. This poster is pasted on a tree. On top of the tree is a Spiderman from whose hands a rainbow is coming out instead of web. Rainbow is going into a mug , from which a lot of biscuits are coming out and falling into a lake . In the lake there is a dragon , from whose mouth clouds are coming out. On the cloud there is an umbrella on which a shoe is placed.

    Now close your eyes and try to repeat it mentally…
    Now, without looking back at the story, try to answer the following questions:
     
What was the ant holding?________
Whom is it calling?________
What is the elephant holding?________
What is the elephant painting with the paintbrush?________
The poster is pasted on what?________
What is there on the tree?________
What is coming out of his hands?________
The rainbow is falling into what?________
What is coming out of the mug?________
Where are the biscuits falling?________
What is in the lake?________
What is coming out of the dragon’s mouth?________
What is coming out from the cloud?________
What is there on the top of the umbrella?________
    Are you able to answer every question correctly? Awesome! Isn’t it?
    And the most amazing part is, if you try to recall the words written in bold, you can do it in the same sequence, without actually rote memorizing them!
    You must be amazed that what you were unable to do in 10 minutes, you could now could do in just 2 minutes.
    How and why you were able to do that?
    Irrespective of our academic background, we all have a scientific brain, which is curious to know the ‘WHY and HOW’ of everything. Knowing something is different and knowledge of ‘ how this is useful in my life? ’ increases the chances of using it practically.
    Let’s try to understand the basic principles or laws of memory that will enable you to memorize this list or any such kind of list or sequence.
    The three basic laws can be summarized in a single word: AIR
    LAWS OF MEMORY
    As mentioned above, the basic laws or ‘principles of memory’ can be summarized in a small word i.e., AIR.

    A: ASSOCIATION
    Associate the new information with the old information already stored in the mind.
    I: IMAGINATION
    Imagine that association in the mind and make a clear mental picture of what you want to remember.
    R: RIDICULOUS THINKING
    Visualize the association in a funny way.
    1. LAW OF ASSOCIATION
    According to this law, any information can get registered in our brain only if it can be associated or linked with any of the prior information already present in our memory. In fact, all learning till date can be attributed to this law of association. Most of the things you remember have been associated subconsciously with something else that you already knew.
    For example , we all know what a line is. If we put four lines of equal length together, end to end, to form a closed figure, we make a square. If we put six squares together, the result will be a cube. Quite simple, but nobody can understand the meaning of a cube without knowing what a line or a square is.
    What is true in Geometry is true in every phase of life. We learn and remember a thing that is new to us only by connecting it with something that we already know. There is no other way of acquiring knowledge and we have been doing this throughout our life. We may not always be aware of this process, but we make associations