Sometimes I stand on the stairs,
I'm trying to guess:
I was about to get up
Or maybe go downstairs?
At the refrigerator door
I can't understand:
I put something inside
Or did you want to take it?
And at dusk, holding my cap,
I was horrified at myself:
I don't know if I'm going to sleep
Did you just wake up?
This is an excerpt from Still Here by Ram Dass. A dear old lady writes about her sclerosis. For you, things are probably not so critical. Yes, your son constantly forgets his diary, your daughter doesn’t keep up with household chores, your husband never knew the exact date of your birthday, and your wife brings juice to her husband instead of the child. We can forget everything, even our native name, but developing the capabilities of our memory is not so difficult, and even quite possible. But first, MirSovetov suggests understanding how memory works and on what basis our brain remembers this or that information.
How our memory works
We all collected puzzles and mosaics in childhood, but few people imagine that our brain knew this system for a very long time. Previously, scientists believed that specific areas of the brain stored a certain type of memory, but later an experiment was conducted. The rats were removed in turn from different parts of the brain and checked: is it possible for them to learn, what do they remember, and which organs work worse for them. It turned out that not a single part of the brain is entirely responsible for any specific type of memory, but if you collect pieces of memories from all over the brain, they can be put together into one common picture, like a mosaic. We call this picture memory. This conclusion was shocking for scientists of that time, but it allows us to omit the possibility of developing all memory in only one way and at the same time offers a solution method.Types of memory
There are three types of memory: - visual
- auditory
- motor
The third type of memory is special. This is a kind of way to learn from our mistakes: when our body does something, it automatically remembers this process. This is how we learned to walk, how to eat, this is how we write letters, without focusing on the process itself. Well, now let’s move directly to ways to develop memory.
Developing memory by training attention
We remember only what we notice, and we notice only when we are attentive. Therefore, you need to train your attention. You can do this in a playful way, for example, try playing with your interlocutor while walking: who can mark the most houses with green roofs. Pictures from the “find ten differences” series are also useful for memory development. In these cases, your brain concentrates on small things and gets used to actively working in unusual situations. Then, at work, at school or at college, you will begin to quickly grasp all the most important things and remember without difficulty. Combining different types of memory for one purpose
One day, a teacher of Russian language and literature complained about her failing students who were not learning poetry at all. She was advised to have students do push-ups and repeat the text out loud. She refused, saying that they would do both poorly, but in vain! Students would memorize the verses along with the movements and muscle effort, and even after many years of doing push-ups, they would remember these verses, maybe not in their entirety, but from the most trained place. Parents also force many children to learn the multiplication table by copying and reciting it to themselves. Then motor (we write and remember), visual (we remember what we copy from) and auditory (we learn by ear) memory works.
We remember in parts
The third method is that all the information is “laid out on shelves.” That is: the text needs to be compiled into a synopsis, words divided into groups, formulas memorized along with examples. It is also important to simultaneously deal with the issues that arise, because when we ourselves obtain what we need, we assimilate it better. Consequently, just as fish soup goes best after fishing, so a line is learned faster if it contains an unfamiliar expression that you looked up in the dictionary. Repetition - an exercise for developing memory
This option is suitable for people with developed visual memory and poor hearing. Suppose that while you were walking through the park, an acquaintance told you a phone number, but you have no way to write it down. In this case, while your friend is dictating, mentally imagine your handset and dial a number on it as you dictate. Then pretend that he was busy and try again, saying the number out loud to a friend. If everything is correct, repeat it again and even after a couple of hours you will remember everything. Practicing this exercise will each time have a positive effect on the development of your memory. Develop your memory by discovering new things
A student who actively studies and attends lectures has a good memory, but often does not even know it. When information is remembered effortlessly and directly on a subconscious level, it is stored longer. When the same student before an exam thinks he doesn’t know anything, but receives calls from classmates and answers them difficult questions, it turns out that there is only a little more to refresh the material and you can go and take it. Why is this happening? The answer is simple. All we do is write down notes during lectures, delve into the material, but don’t think at all about how to remember it. Developing in your profession, learning new information about your hobbies, listening to the news, you don’t think that you just need to remember this, but by remembering, you improve your memory, therefore, you develop! Self-organization and memory development
You will often hear the phrase: “she’s not absent-minded, she’s disorganized!” Indeed, how can our brain remember something if it simply does not understand what and when to remember. A little higher we already talked about systematizing the material, but in this section we will talk about you. Start a diary (and it’s not true that it’s for those who forget everything), create your own personal schedule, get ready for work in the evening, do everything on time, think about your relatives and friends who haven’t called for a long time. Your life will improve, and your memory will work like new. Come up with your own way to develop memory
Take a closer look at yourself, determine what is more difficult for you to remember, and what can help you personally save precious data. Not everyone likes crosses on their hands and knots on strings. How to help yourself develop bad memory? Try making little cheat sheets for yourself, stick the sheets of paper in the most visible places in your apartment, and attach them to boards above your desk in the office. The most important thing for memory development is that they should not contain full text, because then you will just read and remember. Make associative notes or drawings. Your brain will analyze the recording, find the information in your memory and remember it again, but automatically. Next time you will remember faster and won’t forget. Each of the methods is effective, but not all are for you personally. Try and practice, and MirSovetov is always happy to help!
Memory is a process that occurs in the brain and directly depends on the general state nervous system. It has been proven that with age, a person’s memory deteriorates, attention is scattered, and the speed of information perception decreases. In order for thinking and memory to remain in good shape, they need to be developed and trained.
Under excessive mental stress and stressful situations, the brain loses the ability to record large amounts of information and separate information into important and not so important. After a busy day, small worries settle in your thoughts, and truly important matters and events are suddenly forgotten.
For proper brain function, and therefore good memory, you need:
- Dream. Calm, regular and long lasting.
- Change of activity. It is better to organize your work during the day in such a way that you do not have to sit too long on one thing, as this leads to a decrease in attention and concentration. Replace work with numbers with reading documentation, and telephone conversations with correspondence.
- Physical exercise. Sport is good for every person, and if daily activities implies mental stress, then physical activity is especially necessary. Swimming, running, gymnastics, sport games, strength exercises.
- Balanced diet. Nutritionists advise those who want to improve attention and memory to consume more often: nuts and seeds, bran, blueberries and black currant, seafood and fish, olive and vegetable oils.
- Walking on fresh air. Oxygen saturation of cells, tissues and organs – required condition normal operation human body. With a lack of oxygen, thought processes slow down, concentration, attention and performance decrease.
- Complete rest. Accumulated stress, nervous exhaustion and chronic fatigue will not go away in one day, so you should not neglect your annual leave. It is better to go to the sea, to the mountains, to nature to regain strength.
- Medications. In some cases, the attending physician prescribes medications to improve memory.
Exercises to develop visual memory
In addition to ways to improve memory, they use different methods its development. By doing simple exercises every day, you can learn to remember faster and better.
- A simple and accessible method for developing visual memory was first voiced by the Russian marine painter Aivazovsky. An object, a landscape, a group of people is examined for a few seconds (no more than 10). Then what was seen is reproduced from memory with eyes closed. The object is presented in the smallest detail, as if “looming” before the eyes. You can mentally ask yourself clarifying questions about the object, the exact location of parts and objects, colors and materials, movements. Without opening your eyes, you need to try to hold a detailed visual image and at the same time pronounce the description. At first, you can open your eyes for a couple of seconds and again try to reconstruct what you saw with your eyes closed.
Such simple exercises additionally train the ability to remember details, which ultimately form a clear picture in memory. Visualization helps to distract from your own thoughts, improve attention, and stimulate normal brain activity.
To visually remember a complex object or image, try to give part of it a bright color at the time of visualization. If, while remembering a woman’s face, you imagine bright lipstick on your lips, the brain will receive an additional stimulating impulse, and the image will be remembered better.
Initially, bright and colorful objects can be remembered in parts: for example, pay attention first to a small drawing on a bright product package, then to the font of the name, and finally note the background color or design detail. Based on these details, the item can be found from many similar ones.
Developing memory for sound
To develop auditory memory, develop the habit of listening to surrounding sounds, identifying individual sounds, and performing auditory attention exercises. You can listen with your eyes closed and try to remember in detail several sounds, distant and close. After some time, you need to reproduce them in detail in your thoughts, imagine how they sound louder or quieter, separately and together.
Learning poems out loud is also useful. On the first day the first line is learned, on the second day the second line is added to it. Moreover, you should first learn a new line separately, and then repeat the learned passage in full. Develops auditory memory by singing songs or playing music to oneself.
How to develop additional types of memory
It is worth paying attention to the smells, trying to remember them along with the visual image. Tactile sensations also allow you to remember better; touch is used to activate tactile memory.
Memory works effectively if you use several of its subtypes at once. An important wedding date can be said out loud in the form of an emotional sentence - “I put on the ring on the second of May!” Auditory memory records vivid expressions better. Then write the same phrase 3-4 times, in letters different sizes. Visual memory will automatically record differences in texts with identical content. It is better to add a drawing to the text that will be remembered better than words - wedding ring with date inside. The selection of associations will help to consolidate the result: the second number - two people, May - spring - love - wedding.
Assessment and training with tests
Even those with a strong memory will benefit from periodic training.
Tests are used for self-examination and assessment of attention and memory. Testing is a fun and useful activity that adults and children enjoy. Regular testing to improve results – effective method memory training.
Tests may include:
- Lists of words to memorize that need to be listened to or read, and then written down in the same order with numbering. A similar test is carried out with numbers.
- Lists of words for which associations are quickly sketched in the form of symbols or pictures. Then the original list is restored from the drawings. Another version of the test suggests writing down associations in one word.
- Cards with symbols or images arranged in in a certain order. In a short period of time, the order is remembered, then the cards are placed.
- Tables with numbers from 1 to 25 arranged in cells in a chaotic order (Schulte tables). You need to find the numbers in ascending order as quickly as possible.
- Texts that contain expressions that reflect the main idea. After reading the text, passages are read without basic expressions, which must be remembered as you read.
Games and daily activities for memory
- Some Board games develop attention and memory. For example, adult versions of the popular children's game "Memo", consisting of cards with paired images. The cards are laid out face down and opened in pairs. The goal of the game is to remember the locations of paired pictures and collect as many pairs as possible. In “Memo” for adults, the pictures are very similar to each other; the game requires high concentration and attention.
- No less popular is the game “Scrabble,” in which words are formed from a set of letters. Selecting words develops not only memory, but also thinking.
- You can practice memorization constantly throughout the day. It is useful to give up a shopping list, while you can make it, but not take it with you to the store. Over time, it is not difficult to learn the phone numbers of relatives and friends, dates of birth.
- An excellent memory workout is learning a foreign language. To memorize words and expressions, they are hung on pieces of paper in places that are at eye level.
Exercises to develop memory require regular performance over a period of time. Formed good habits will increase concentration and performance, allow you to constantly develop your own thinking and learn new things about the world around you.
Imagine being able to selectively remember anything. The girl's phone number, the birthdays of all friends and colleagues, the number of goals scored in each match of this NHL season. You amaze others with your horizons and erudition, and they don’t even suspect what your secret is.
In the popular series “Force Majeure,” one of the main characters managed to make a dizzying career thanks to his phenomenal memory. And this plot is not so far from reality. What is your memory capable of? How to develop it to phenomenal levels with the help of 2-3 exercises? More on this later.
How we remember information and why we forget it
From a scientific point of view, memory is the process of receiving, storing and reproducing information. When memorizing any information, our brain first receives it, then encodes it and sends it for storage in order to reproduce it at the moment when this data is needed. Notice the similarities with computers? After all, they record, store and reproduce information using exactly the same algorithm. Only machines are capable of reproducing data for sure (if the processor works correctly), but people are not. Why is this happening? Why do we forget what we learn and try desperately to remember?
Our brain is not a computer, and many of the processes occurring in it are still not 100% understood. There are a number of hypotheses that try to explain the phenomenon of “forgetfulness”. Here we're talking about about forgetting what we were able to “write” into our brain, that is, remember. The most popular is the extraction theory. According to her, forgetting is not always the loss of information from memory. There are simply no incentives or effects to extract the data. Accordingly, remembering depends on clues - it can be a smell, a sound, an image and much more.
What is human memory capable of?
- Chinese Chao Lu was able to remember all the digits of pi. This is 67,980 digits that a 24-year-old student reproduced throughout the day, without even being distracted by going to the restroom.
- Autistic artist Stephen Wiltrish was able to depict in detail on canvas the view of London, which opens from an observation deck located at an altitude of 224 meters.
And these are just two examples of the phenomenal memory of savants - this is what people are called whose memory abilities are considered fantastic. Science cannot yet explain these phenomena. Among savants there are healthy people and those who suffer from various diseases, in particular mental ones. At the same time, four-time winner of memory competitions in the United States, Nelson Dellis, speaks of the absence of any uniqueness in his personality. The man claims that he has never had a phenomenal memory and everything he has achieved is the result of regular and hard training.
Scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Research conducted a series of experiments and created computer model the work of the hippocampus - the part of the brain that is responsible for storing the information we remember. After complex calculations, they were able to establish specific values: one hippocampal neuron can store approximately 4.7 bits of information.
Our brain is capable of storing a volume of data comparable to all the information posted on the Internet. That is, in theory, we can fit the entire World Wide Web in our memory.
How to develop memory for an adult
First of all, determine the goal: you must understand why you want to develop memory. A specific goal determines the motivation that is necessary for effective memorization and at the same time serves as an incentive for its further reproduction. For example, you want to improve your memory to improve the quality of your exam answers or stop forgetting to buy everything you need at the store. These are examples of specific goals that you need.
- Exercises for memory development.
- Mobile applications.
- Complex techniques.
- Patterns of behavior.
Science does not yet provide precise answers and does not explain how to quickly develop memory. We can only be guided human experience and talk about techniques, exercises, models and programs that have helped improve memory for millions of people. However, there can be no guarantees in this case: much will depend on the individual characteristics of your memory, your lifestyle and the type of information you remember. In any case, we can talk about the effectiveness of each specific exercise only after “testing” it for 1-2 months.
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The most effective techniques
- Household. This technique involves some changes in lifestyle. It is proposed to give up shopping lists and notebooks - you need to try to remember and try to remember everything that is necessary. Shopping list, phone numbers, friends' birthdays, etc.
- Learning foreign languages. According to psychologists, learning a language simultaneously develops memory, quickly and intensively. Some experts even recommend learning 2 languages at the same time. But they are silent about the effectiveness of such training.
- Books and poems. Read more books - when reading, the brain always concentrates on details and memorization. Memorizing poems and song lyrics is no less effective. Ideally, they will be in a foreign language.
- Do not give up. Do not rush to open the phone book if you have forgotten your phone number. Try your best to remember it, and then check the exact information. Do this all the time.
- Count. Solve the most complex problems in your head arithmetic problems that you are capable of. Add up the numbers on the license plates of cars that you meet in traffic (but only if you are not a driver). Count the number of birds in a flying flock. The more you count, the better for your memory.
Exercises developing memory and attention
How to develop memory and attention in an adult with the help of exercises? Do them regularly. It is also important to choose exercises that you like and do not cause intuitive rejection. If you try to improve your memory while suffering and being stressed at the same time, the exercises will drive you crazy and nothing will come of it. We have selected for you some of the most effective exercises, according to experts.
Schulte tables
They help not only improve memory, but also master speed reading. The most widely used is the Schulte table, which represents a square with 25 cells, in which numbers from 1 to 25 are placed in a chaotic order. It is necessary to silently count to find all the numbers in order as quickly as possible. For every workout you need to use new table with a different arrangement of numbers.
Aivazovsky method
It is difficult to imagine how Aivazovsky managed to mentally stop the movement of the wave and transfer it to the picture. Your task will initially be simpler: look at the object for a few moments, then close your eyes and try to imagine it in all details. Gradually complicate the task: if first you decide to remember Electric kettle, then after several training sessions, try to reproduce in your memory the complex bas-reliefs of the building that you saw with your own eyes or in a photograph.
Film reel
The essence of this exercise is to try every day to remember everything that happened to you during the day. Ensure silence, divide the day into time periods (at first by hours, then every 10-15 minutes). Don't skip sections at once - make every effort to remember every phone call and every tea party.
Game of differences
Remember children's educational games, during which the child is asked to find the differences in two pictures? It turns out that they are most effective for the development of memory and attention. Moreover, a lot of such exercises are aimed at adults - it is incredibly difficult to find differences here. You can easily find them online on specialized resources and even in mobile applications.
Memorizing blocks of information
Not only an exercise, but also a frequent necessity. These are cases when we need to remember a block of information, for example, while preparing for an exam. It is important to use mechanical memory here. Accordingly, it is recommended to depict words and phrases and show them with gestures. In this case, the information must be spoken or rewritten. It is important that during memorization you change the environment - for example, move from room to room, from one classroom to another, and so on.
How to develop your brain and memory by changing your lifestyle
Scientists are convinced: our ability to remember, store and reproduce information largely depends on our physical and mental state.
Your brain must be on alert and have all the necessary resources to efficient work. And in order to develop phenomenal memory, it is often necessary to change your lifestyle. Here's what you need to do first:
- Eat properly. Get enough proteins and complex carbohydrates - include cereals, nuts, vegetables and fruits in your diet.
- Get enough sleep. Don't limit your sleep to hours - sleep as much as your body needs. If you want to sleep an hour after you get up, you haven't gotten enough sleep.
- Get rid of stress. It’s often worth changing a job you don’t like, stopping communicating with people who irritate you, and getting out of conflicts. In short, do everything possible to avoid exposing yourself to stress.
How to develop the memory of a person who is constantly under stress, on a coffee diet, restricts himself in carbohydrates and chronically does not get enough sleep? No way. Your brain needs to rest and find resources to work. These resources are nutrients and vitamins. Eat right, don’t deplete your body with diets taken from the Internet, and get enough sleep regularly. Only then will the exercises be as effective as possible.
Exercise regularly
Practice shows that only systematic training brings results. This is evidenced not only by research, but also by the experience of championship winners different countries by memorization. All of them noted the average quality of their memory until they began to train regularly.
Do what you like
If an exercise annoys you, don't do it. Find techniques that won't stress you out. There are hundreds of options online, and dozens of applications have been developed for smartphones. Find exercises that you enjoy. It is important that you enjoy doing it.
Develop attention and logical thinking
This is as important as reading and learning poetry. Logical thinking built on step-by-step perception. Open a textbook on logic - it will greatly help you not only direct your thinking in the right direction, but also improve your memory, attention, and concentration.
Exercise and walk more often
For good memory, the quality of cerebral circulation is extremely important. It, in turn, directly depends on oxygen. Therefore, it is recommended to do as much aerobic exercise as possible (running, squats) and walk more often.
Set goals
It is important to understand why exactly you are training your memory. Set clear goals, identify problems that you can solve. Motivation is very important not only for the regularity of training, but also for its effectiveness.
Summary
Not every person can develop a phenomenal memory - only a few can remember all the digits of pi, even with regular training. But until the processes of memorizing, storing and reproducing information are studied in detail by science, it is impossible to determine the prospects. You can only learn about prospects through experience.
Revolutionary discoveries of how our memory works and how to remember! For many people this will be a real discovery.
People don't have bad memory, we just weren’t taught how to use it correctly. Our memory works great. In this article you will find the most effective and interesting exercises and video training to train memory and attention.
Based on the storage time of information, the following are distinguished:
Long-term memory
Short term memory
Instant or iconic
In long-term memory, information is stored for years and decades. The last thing a person will forget is the sounds of it own name. Long-term memory only stores what we use regularly and what we constantly think about.
In short-term memory, information is retained for several minutes, hours, days, sometimes weeks. Then, as it is no longer needed, it “evaporates.” The brain does not like to store what the owner does not use. He wastes too much energy and valuable substances. One of the ways to quickly become dumb is to strain your memory as little as possible. Don’t learn anything, don’t read new books, speak in short, primitive phrases.
Instantaneous memory is so named because it stores information in the literal sense of the word instant - seconds, fractions of a second. This memory works when the brain assesses the situation at a road intersection, follows a fast-moving object, and reads a text. While we look at the page, our brain remembers the outlines of a large number of letters, words and phrases, but as soon as we take our eyes off the page, most of the pictures disappear from instant memory.
The more developed a person’s instant and short-term memory, the greater the chance of replenishing long-term memory. Short-term memory - entrance gate long-term, and long-term memory is the entrance gate of intelligence. To have a beautiful, slender, muscular body, you need to exercise and regularly exercise your muscles. Same with memory. Memory training is nothing more than its use, application, constant practice of memorization. The best option- learn poetry. This expands vocabulary and increases the area of contact between nerve cells brain.
Memory training exercises:
Exercise “House of Memory”Try to name from memory the names of all the poets or writers that you can remember. If you were able to recall at least 12-15 authors without much difficulty or inhibition, then this is not bad at all. In addition to the names of poets, you can name concepts from any sphere (feminine and male names, pieces of furniture, houseplants, all concepts related to mathematics, fine arts and so on.)
Exercise “Concentration on the task”
A simple exercise that will help you develop the habit of concentrating on a task is to say words backwards.
Love - Wobuhl
Piano – Oninaip
Skyscraper - Börksoben
Painting – Anitrak
Ceiling – Kolotop
Nos-Son
Dar Rad, etc. Let's move on to two-syllable words:
Horns - Agora
Nebo - Aubin
Mountain - Arog
It would seem like a primitive children's exercise! But it trains visual memory. It’s not so easy to retain the word “metropolis” or “chess” in your imagination without the skill. As soon as you try to pronounce these words backwards without looking at the recording, you will have difficulties. What to do about it? Break the mental task into blocks.
Chess = checkmate
First you need to make sure that your brain sees three separate parts of the word: chess. You can break the word differently, by syllables: chess. In any case, you need to hold three fragments in your imagination. Memory and attention are trained tremendously! If three syllables are already fixed in your mind’s eye, it won’t be difficult to read them backwards: there's hash there.
Exercise “Cellular Toking”
What I now advise you to do will look strange. However, “it’s the same” will help.
a) Increase the speed of thinking and improve attention
b) reduce the time on the image-word path (and therefore increase reading speed)
c) Experience how your memory strains (some will frankly “slow down” while performing this simple task).
As fast as possible call it out loud all the objects that you see in front of you. Here I see, for example:
Monitor, mirror, wrist watch with a leather belt, a cell phone, a measuring tape, a floor lamp, a webcam, three pencil holders, books, planners, a cactus, etc.
You can list items with or without descriptive characteristics: speakers, pillow, sofa, wall, frame, medal, photograph, comb, etc.
This exercise is fun to do when there is at least one spectator. Observe yourself: after what time you “deflate”, the pauses between words will increase and you will begin to hum and help yourself with gestures. You can and should “milk” your brain cells regularly.
In this case, the rate of synthesis of substances necessary for cells increases, and neurons get used to working not at half capacity, but at full capacity. Give them intense cross country more often and they will thank you. You will quickly select arguments in a dispute and think better, and you will stop suffering from absent-mindedness and forgetfulness. Your brain's reaction in stressful situations, such as an impending traffic accident, can become lightning fast.
Exercise “training the second hemisphere.”
This is for those who like to train their memory in a non-standard way, namely: develop the right hemisphere of the brain. It is responsible for the work of the left hand. It is not always possible to find time to train your left hand. But if you tie the training to everyday activities that you still have to do every day, then your brain will begin to develop rapidly. For example: washing dishes, cleaning the bathtub or sink, you can rebuild the computer mouse to left hand, try to write with your left hand, etc.
Exercise “Roman Room”
This is a technique for remembering anything. Product list,
Tony Buzan writes about the “Roman Room” in books on improving memory. Like, the ancient Romans used it for memorization important events, replacement diary. According to Busien, a Roman room can be your office, bedroom or childhood room, or your car. You can learn how to perform this exercise correctly by watching this video.
The question arises, “Won’t the memory become cluttered with all these objects?” But memory mechanisms are more perfect than they might seem. As soon as we complete the task, the memory immediately gets rid of the unnecessary image without any effort on our part. If we do not use some information, our brain, like a zealous owner, immediately gets rid of it. That is why, after retirement, people rapidly lose their professionalism. If you remain silent for a year, you will forget how to speak.
Memory training at home:
1) Read new information every day.
2) After watching films and programs, mentally “replay” them in your head from beginning to end.
Do you remember the name exactly? Did you pay attention to the names of the director and actors? Were you not interested or was it all due to banal inattention and laziness?
3) Keep the list of what you need to buy in your head, not in your pocket.
5) Try to remember the names of: mutual acquaintances, including casual ones, family members of your superiors. This saves nerves and improves blood supply to the cerebral cortex.
6) Remember all the necessary phone numbers.
7) At the end of the day (you can in bed) recall the events of the day from the very morning.
This is valuable not only for memory training, but also for analysis - did I structure my day in the best way? Remember in great detail the events of the last hour, if you are unable to read and time is running out through no fault of yours.
8) Remember birthdays, daily and weekly schedule.
This doesn't mean you should give up planning on paper, but it's better to have a copy in your head.
9) Speak without a cheat sheet
10) Keep a notebook for interesting facts, ideas, links, quotes, so that you can use them on occasion."Speed Memory".
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Memory is a skill that is vital for every person. Without it, we would never be ourselves, would not be able to speak and would not be able to think at all. But memory is not only an indispensable skill, but also important element our education and intelligence. The development of memory, attention and thinking often represents related tasks. Many of our mental characteristics directly depend on how our memory is developed. For example, the process of mastering the skills of speed reading, public speaking and mental arithmetic is essential without memory. This self-teaching course presents online lessons aimed at developing memory and the ability to specifically memorize material. Among additional materials in this section of the site you can find educational games and exercises, download free books and textbooks, find suitable activities, schools, courses and trainings - everything that will help improve your technique of memorizing information.
What is memory and memorization
Memory- this is one of the mental functions and types of mental activity designed to preserve, accumulate and reproduce information (Wikipedia). Thus, memory is understood as a system consisting of several elements:
Memorization is the process of memory through which new information is perceived and this information is recorded in common system thinking and associative connections. Key function memorization is the creation of semantic connections, as a result of the work of our thinking and intellect on the content of the memorized material. Memorization is a very important memory process, the development of which will be given key attention in this training. However, this process is not the only one.
Storage- this is the process of systemic accumulation of information in memory, including the processing and assimilation of this information. Without storing information in memory, human learning is impossible; in addition, such important abilities as thinking and speech directly depend on this process.
Playback is the process of representing and recognizing information stored in memory, also called memories. Reproduction can be involuntary or voluntary. Our course will focus on Special attention arbitrary (special, conscious) reproduction.
Forgetting is also a process of memory, or rather a problem of its development. The loss of the ability to reproduce learned information can be partial (reproduction incomplete or with distortion) or complete (impossibility of reproduction and recognition). You will learn more about solving the problem of forgetting in the fourth lesson of this training.
Features of human memory
We all have different abilities to remember. For some it is easier, for others it is more difficult. In addition, we remember different things in different ways. For example, one person may be good at remembering people's names and facial features, but have trouble remembering where they put something in the house. And the other, on the contrary, remembers perfectly where everything is, but does not remember the name of his neighbor. Some prefer to use auditory and musical memory, others - visual, and some remember tactile sensations better.
Memory is an ability that has individual characteristics for each person. But there are patterns of memory that are universal for all people. And it is these patterns of memory and methods of its development, as well as techniques and methods of memorization that will be discussed in this online training.
One of the first specialists who paid attention to the problems of human memory development was psychologist Karl Emil Seashore. He argued that the average person uses no more than 10% of his memory. One proof of this is hypermnesia. Hypermnesia is a human pathology associated with an increased ability to remember. People with this pathology can remember many things verbatim and in great detail. But the peculiarity is that memorization occurs regardless of a person’s desire.
Test how well you remember information in our Hostess game: meet people and place them in your favorite seats to get the maximum score. You can use it for training too.
