Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

In this brave new world, we have information at our fingertips like never before in history.

Wikipedia, Google, blogs, and other exceptionally convenient sources of misinformation,

propaganda and unfact-checked opinion

stated as fact. Some people have speculated that we're in a new age where we never need

to remember anything again. The internet, they say, helps us increase our memory since we can

access it at any time. They say we just need to remember how to find the facts we need.

Those people know nothing about how the human brain works, and they're just wrong.

Learning how to memorize is extremely important, because what you know and remember

forms the building blocks for your future creativity, your innovative thinking, and your

problem solving.

Yes, if you need to know who

Edgar Allan Poe is, you can look him up. But if his poems are in your memory, you can be

working on an unrelated problem and your unconscious mind will suddenly make a connection and find

the answer in one of Poe's poems. How cool is that? The only question about how to memorize is how you get stuff

into your memory efficiently so that you still have time to play plants versus zombies before

you go to bed. Hmm. Wait. I recall a stanza of Poe's The Raven that discusses memory. Ah,

distinctly, I remember it was in the bleak December,

and each separate, dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow,

vainly I had sought to borrow from my book's surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore.

Now, you might think the raven is about what to do when a bird gets trapped in your

house and won't leave. Or about Lost Lenore, who ended up at Target instead of Home Depot when her

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