Never Forget a Phone Number Again

When trying to remember things we all have different ways that we go about retaining the information.  When it comes to numbers we may have the hardest time when trying to memorize phone numbers.  If we are unable to write the phone number down we usually continually repeat the number to ourselves, sometimes only to forget (for those of us that don’t have a memory equivalent to an elephant) it moments later.  As a universal rule we are typically able to remember seven digits, plus or minus two, meaning anywhere between five to nine digits at a time.

So, when you are trying to remember a phone number this rule can come in handy.  A local phone number that includes the same area code as your phone number contains will be easier for you to remember because it only has seven digits.  It is also easier to remember if you think of it as two separate bits of information, the first three digits as one and the last four as the other.  When taking into account a phone number that encompasses a different area code that yours it may be slightly harder to remember, but is still only ten digits long, which is close to the nine digit maximum that is thought to be the most amount of numbers that a person can remember at a given time.  This type of phone number can also be remembered without much difficulty by using the rule of grouping the numbers together as if they were one single bit of information.