Posts Tagged ‘memory’

How to Improve Your Memory

Our memory is one of the integral parts of day-to-day human life. We’re using it every moment, consciously or not, as we perceive the world and interpret it based on our memories and experiences, or as we look for the car keys, trying to recall where, exactly, was the last place they were seen?

It’s no small wonder that this part of our brain would fall prey to such… » Continue

April 21 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: diet, exercise, gtd, meditation, memory, minimalism, mnemonics | 5 comments»

Beyond Test Taking: Learning to Handle Information

I read lots of books. I follow several blogs. I take classes. I’ve learned enough new information I want to incorporate into my work that I know I haven’t got a chance of remembering it all. There have been times that all that information consumption has felt like a waste, because the human brain just isn’t built to remember so many details and act on them. Not just a… » Continue

March 18 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: information, learning, memory | 7 comments»

Writing and Remembering: Why We Remember What We Write

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on note-taking skills. One common experience many people have, and that several people mentioned in response to that post, is that when they take good notes they remember things well enough that they rarely end up having to look at their notes again.

In fact, it seems that writing anything down makes us remember it better. On the other… » Continue

September 28 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, memory, notetaking, studying, thought | 22 comments»

7 Myths Of Memory

Matthew Leitch, a psychologist from the University College London, became fed up with some myths surrounding memory and wrote these 7 myths.

You may have read a few articles about some of them, such as the 7+/-2 rule and using imagery to remember lists.

If you still think it might make sense try remembering a list of 7 things as compared with a similar list split into meaningful groups… » Continue

September 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: memory | 2 comments»

The Stacking Method for Memorizing

Dean Hunt at RetiredAt21 has written a summary of what’s known as ’stacking’ for memorizing. You may have come across a similar story, but Dean recalls one of a college student who memorized the first 7 chapters of a textbook [23,000 words] and aced his test.

Similar to the Visual Memory Stack, this method requires pieces of information to be ’stacked’ on top of previous pieces. This would work… » Continue

July 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: memory | 6 comments»

Remember Any Number with the Sound Number System

What was the last phone number you remembered off the top of your head? Like me, you may only remember certain numbers after using them over and over; and even then you can only keep a select number of those on call.

This interesting Instructable introduces the idea of substituting consonant sounds for numbers. There are ten numbers in our vocabulary and, conveniently, ten major consonants. Here’s how this works:

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June 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: memory | 4 comments»

How To Study

The brain is a tangled web of information. We don’t remember single facts, but instead we interlink everything by association. Anytime we experience a new event, our brains tie the sights, smells, sounds and our own impressions together into a new relationship.

Our brain remembers things by repetition, association, visual imagery, and all five senses. By knowing a bit about how the brain works, we can become better learners, absorbing… » Continue

May 14 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: brain, education, knowledge, learning, Lifehack, memory, mind, studying, tips | 21 comments»

How to Learn a Foreign Language

A goal for many people, learning a foreign language isn’t easy and it only gets harder the older you get, they say.

Our good friends at MindTools have another great How To, this time helping out the FL Learners out there. If you’re starting out, or an intermediate in a language, these are some great tips to help the old memory.
1. Using Mnemonics to link words - English: grumpy - French… » Continue

February 15 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: languages, memory | 1 comment»

How to Improve Your Memory

Everyone wants to have a photographic memory. Having a good memory can help you professionally or personally. You could have better memory as well, by doing extra miles physically and mentally. WikiHow introduces ways to improve your memory - one step at a time:

Keep your brain active
Exercise daily
Reduce stress
Eat well and eat right
Take better pictures
Give yourself time to form a memory
Repeat things you need to learn
Group things you need to

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July 25 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: memory | no comments»

Ask Readers: USB Storage Sticks

I’ve gone and lost my second USB stick. In the first case, the stick had some documents pertaining to my company’s business. Nothing damning, and nothing especially illegal, but annoying to lose and imagine out there in the wild. Oh, not to mention that it had a personal journal written in straight text that I’m sure gave someone a few laughs. On the plus, my resume was on there, so… » Continue

July 6 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: memory, portableapps, security, thumbdrive, u3, usb | 36 comments»

Coffee Break helps your memory

Good news that Researchers at the MIT found out regular breaks are key to help your memory. They found out that brain will replay the information that it recently gathered during break time (and the test subject is of course lab rats). Break is good, and of course sleep will be better for information consolidation. That’s why students should not study overnight:

… Previous research found a replay pattern occurring during… » Continue

June 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: memory, Productivity | 3 comments»

Remember Lots of Information

Open Loops has a great, meaty post about remembering things. This comes at a time when my memory is fueled by black coffee. Lots of it. But I think their plan is better.

Mnemonics have always fascinated me. Finding ways to remember inhuman amounts of information always attracted my attention, as I saw ways to impress friends, improve my ability to remember information at work and simply do things… » Continue

June 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: hacks, howto, Lifehack, memory, mnemonics | 2 comments»

Building your memory

Can’t remember stuff? Care to unleash your memory potential? A site called buildyourmemory.com which has pretty cool set of systems that could help you to improve your memory. It has topic and systems on remembering numbers, mastering a language, remembering quotations , dreams, names and faces:

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June 5 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: memory | 1 comment»

Remember Long Lists using The Journey System

Mind Tools has a good method on remember a very long list of items by linking the items with landmarks on a well-known journey and remembering all of them. This is a very effective system when you have clear and vivid image of the journey that you can associate to. For example, to remember the list: Coffee, salad, vegetables, bread, kitchen paper, fish, chicken breasts, pork chops, soup, fruit, bath… » Continue

February 21 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: memory | 3 comments»

Good Memorizing Techniques

In an article called Simple Memorizing Techniques, Laura Lane introduces some effective methods on memorizing different type of data, such as lists, numbers and names. She highlights that memory works like a web - ideas and memories interconnects each others. The idea on effectively memorizing information is to create a mental framework to store information - such as the memorizing names:

…A popular technique for remembering names involves creating an image… » Continue

November 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: memory, Productivity | 2 comments»

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