Improve Your Memory
Basic Tips to Improve Your Memory
Intelligence without memory is like a draftsman without apparatus. What could he construct?
Memory exercises boost brain power because in your cognizant brain you can merely work with what you can
memorize. If you just learned a person's name, imagine regarding how that individual will be crucial to you
in the future, where you are probable to see them subsequently, and anything you perceive about them. Other good
reminiscence training involves telling yourself why you yearn for remember something, and how you will
remember it. Obviously seeing the significance of remembering will stimulate the brain to hold the name, and
the extra links in the brain (where you expect to see the person next, for example) stick the name even more firmly
in your memory. The simplest memory work out is to begin telling yourself to memorize. If you just erudite a
person's name, for example, inform yourself, "remember that". This indicates the unconscious mind to grade
this effort higher in importance.
Mnemonic Techniques - Memory exercises and techniques concerning "peg words" and other mnemonic devices work
well if you master them. They actually do! Several books are written on this topic. Do you want to be the
master of mnemonic techniques? Majority of us don’t have the time to indulge in this effort. This is an
excellent news that most of the memory techniques are simple and fast to use. A memory technique we can use here
begins by starting walking around the house. Select ten locations in your office or home. Remember them in
your mind in some relative/logical order. Now when you want to remember a list of things, relate them to any
of the locations/objects of your home or office. Do this with mental imagery and even sounds, always in a
ridiculous way. Now, when you want to remember your list of things, you will just have to walk through your
home and everything will be clear in your mind. This technique was used two thousand years ago by roman
orators, they place their parts of speech in the garden and when delivering the speech, they walk through the
garden and pick the speech from different spots in the garden. All depends on imagery, the more brilliant images
you remember, the less chances of forgetting. This is my personal experience and this technique works well
for me.
Improve your memory - Remembering Numbers - Now we are going to discuss another
technique for remembering numbers ranging from one to hundred. There is a shortcut that we have learned after
years of experience, and it works well. It’s a trick that is used by me from several years. If I need to remember
phone numbers or any sequence of numbers, its easy for me to do because I pair them with the numbers I am familiar
with. For example, I may associate them with numbers of football players, baseball players, or basketball
players when I was in my childhood. If I needed to remember the number sixty four seventy three, I co-relate the
two players Jerry Kramer's and Ralph Neely's. Kramer’s number was sixty four and Neely’s number was seventy three
so I just associated them with each other. It helped me a lot. These are probably the old players, but you may
associate new player’s numbers of your own choice. There is another option for using the familiar numbers. You can
also use the numbers of highways or numbers you associate something lasting with.
How to Remember Names and Faces - This is a very basic part of improve your memory, we see someone before
getting introduced to them. Before the introduction, look at their face and identify one unique thing about them.
Ask from yourself that what is the most prominent thing you have noticed on their face? Lets assume that you are at
an exhibition and you have seen a guy (Allen). What is the most unique factor about his face? Maybe it’s a mole at
his chin. After that you are introduced to him and he tell you that his name is Allen Richard. You apparently think
of a guy you named Allen and co-relate him with the mole on his chin. How to Remember Historical Dates - My mother
told me that when she used to memorize the history, she thinks of a time line from the beginning of history to
1930. She didn’t actually knew that why she is memorizing like that, but this is the technique that works well for
her. When I became interested in history, my mother’s curious memory technique came into my mind. I think that her
time line bent in 1930 so she use this year to easily keep track of the things and the happenings of the year 1930.
For example, the stock market crashed in the early 1930 and the depression followed the bend.
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