(1) Hit the door with your head. Hard enough to hurt, not hard enough to crack your skull.
(2) Make up an association with something around, the more ridiculous the better. E.g. “That sofa over there is so fragile it will break into a pile of sticks if someone tries to sit on it”.
(3) Buy safety-orange or neon-pink tape and cover the fridge handles with it.
(4) Remember the first steps, do them, ask another local.
(5) Well, the traditional advice is to imagine a house and associate points of your speech with rooms in the house. However I would just write the key points on a sheet of paper—less stress.
(6) The simplest solution is just to memorize it through brute force. If you’re unwilling or unable, use a check digit—sum up all the digits of the number, remember the single last digit, and when you fill out a form sum up the digits of what you wrote and see if it matches.
(7) No good ideas—since you’re trying to fall asleep it’s likely you won’t remember them in the morning. Maybe switch the phone to voice recording and mumble the ideas into it?
(8) That’s a general problem—you want to remember associations between names and several facts per each name. The rooms-in-a-house technique may work, or the ridiculous-associations method (as long as there aren’t too many facts per person).
(9) Have a good panic, then look up statistics on how many people pass the exam each year and ask yourself whether you’re dumber than each and every one of them.
A fun set of problems. Lessee...
(1) Hit the door with your head. Hard enough to hurt, not hard enough to crack your skull.
(2) Make up an association with something around, the more ridiculous the better. E.g. “That sofa over there is so fragile it will break into a pile of sticks if someone tries to sit on it”.
(3) Buy safety-orange or neon-pink tape and cover the fridge handles with it.
(4) Remember the first steps, do them, ask another local.
(5) Well, the traditional advice is to imagine a house and associate points of your speech with rooms in the house. However I would just write the key points on a sheet of paper—less stress.
(6) The simplest solution is just to memorize it through brute force. If you’re unwilling or unable, use a check digit—sum up all the digits of the number, remember the single last digit, and when you fill out a form sum up the digits of what you wrote and see if it matches.
(7) No good ideas—since you’re trying to fall asleep it’s likely you won’t remember them in the morning. Maybe switch the phone to voice recording and mumble the ideas into it?
(8) That’s a general problem—you want to remember associations between names and several facts per each name. The rooms-in-a-house technique may work, or the ridiculous-associations method (as long as there aren’t too many facts per person).
(9) Have a good panic, then look up statistics on how many people pass the exam each year and ask yourself whether you’re dumber than each and every one of them.
I’m liking this for “hit the door with your head”. Just the kind of thing I was looking for.
Will it still work if you start using it often?
Well I don’t actually recommend it. :-p It’s just something along the right lines that I wouldn’t have thought of.