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Tips You Can Use To Improve Your Memory

By Exforsys | on July 25, 2006 |
Memory Skills

Tips You Can Use To Improve Your Memory

When it comes to our general memory, we tend to receive the data before we analyze and store it into our brains. Much of this information is stored in a form that is called short term memory. To improve your memory, you will want to take the desirable parts of this short term memory and store it into your long term memory.

Placing information in your long term memory will allow you to remember it much longer than just a few minutes. Studies have shown that much of the information we absorb can be lost in just a few minutes.

After a single hour has passed, two thirds of this information will be lost. After 24 hours has passed, 90% of the information we received the day before can be lost. As you can see, this can make remembering things difficult, especially when you consider the fact that most of us are presented with numerous facts and figures on a daily basis. There are a number of strategies you can use to reverse this. The first thing you will want to start doing is organizing the information you take in. To do this, you will need to figure out how you want to absorb information. You could use rote memorization, or you could use a outline form.

When you receive useful information, it is important to pay attention to it. You may also find it helpful to use multiple senses. You can write it down, say it out loud, or look at it. When you use multiple senses to memorize something, this will send a message to your brain saying that it is important, and your brain will place it in your long term memory. Another thing that can help you improve your memory is recall. If you recall something multiple times, this will allow your brain to take the information and place it in your long term memory instead of just the short term memory.

As you can see, I have listed a number of useful steps which can help you remember facts and figures. You will first want to absorb the information you receive. Pay attention to it. After five minutes has passed, go over the information that you want to commit to memory. This process should only take less than a minute or two. After another hour has passed, go over the information again. Like before, it should only take you a minute or two to recall the information. After this you will want to wait three more hours. Now you will want to go over the information again. After this, you will want to wait six hours. Once six hours has passed, repeat the same process, and do it one more time before you go to bed.

Following the steps above will allow you to commit any information you want into the long term memory of your brain. It is excellent for college students who have to take multiple exams. You will also want to do the same thing for about three more days. If you find this to be tedious, it is easier than you think. It is important to remember that your brain will get rid of information that it assumes isn’t important. If you don’t go over the information enough times, your brain will place it in your short term memory. Once you’ve repeated the same process 20 times in a span of three days, this will send a message to your brain that this information must not be forgotten.



The method used above is an example of what is called rote memorizing. In a nutshell, you are using a wider approach to memorize excessive amounts of information. Another thing that you will probably be required to remember is items. For this situation, a list will be helpful. A popular list which is used to help you remember things is called a top ten list. When you use this list, you will take important items and combine them with information you’ve already stored in your long term memory. This information can be anything. It could be a peron or a feeling. The purpose of combining these things with items on a list is that it will help you remember them through association.

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