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Educationally
A trained memory can increase your learning ability and improve your exam performance. One of the ways it can do this is to enable you to take in considerable amounts of material and retain it for recall and consideration at more convenient times. It can also enhance your ability to absorb and retain information close to exam periods, for example, during revision, when it would otherwise be difficult to take in new facts. It hardly needs to be said that it can also greatly increase your exam performance.
Socially.
Remembering people's names is an important social skill. So, of course, is remembering things about them. Both of these things give people the impression that they are important to you. Having a trained memory will, thus, enhance your social abilities and make you more confident and impressive in company.
Professionally
A trained memory can certainly benefit you in your chosen profession. This will be the case whether you deal with people, papers or machines. Companies are bound to value people who hold large stores of relevant information in their heads. You will be justifiably seen as more competent if you remember relevant processes well. If you can remember people's names and things about them, you will gain the respect and affection of colleagues on levels above and below yourself.
Summary
Memory techniques will not replace learning.
Only things like discovery, evaluation, analysis and synthesis can provide understanding.
By training other cognitive faculties these memory techniques can increase your ability to store, retain and recall things many-fold.
Learning memory enhancement techniques can improve your life in terms of your career, your education, your social life and your personal development.

 
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