A week ago I ran into a friend who was talking to another person when I saw her. She was just finishing up a lengthy conversation with him before she turned to me. When she came to me she embarrassingly confessed that he was a person who she hadn't seen in a while, and she had no clue what the name of this person was.
She remembered precisely when she had met him first, or what did they talk about then, but name? She had not even a remote memory of that!
Well, as hilarious as this situation sounds, isnt it a bitter truth of our everyday life? We forget names more often than any other memory about a given event.
Haven't you encountered such a situation before?
I bet you have!
It is such a common thing that we often dont keep a record. And when it happens we feel bad and blame our memory saying that we have grown old and the brain no longer works as well as it used to do when we were younger. Actually that was the same expression which my friend used to describe how pathetic she was feeling about the whole incident.
We all hope and wish that the brain behaved a little better when such a thing happens.
Guess what!
Our brains have an incredible ability to reshape itself when it comes to learning. My inspiration to write this article was that friend with whom I wanted to share the little tips and tricks to increase the retention power of memory. I learnt these when I was in 9th grade in school. There was a seminar in the only five star hotel in my city, and somehow I found free passes to attend it. I, along with my friends went there to take a sneak peak of how a five star hotel looked liked. But the seminar turned out to be even more interesting.
The facilitator was teaching us, that it doesnt matter if you are growing old, you can still keep your memories intact and refreshed to be used, everytime after you reboot. Those tricks were:
1) Pay attention
2) Imagine and relate
3) Keep your brain healthy
1) Pay attention: Whatever is happening around us, brain has the tendency to register it. But the attention span that we provide to a particular instance decides whether or not we are going to have for a later use.
Have you heard of Deja vu?
It is an experience which makes one feel like they have lived the event before and are reliving it in the present moment. Deja vu occurs when the brain tries to register an event and do the memorization complete, but a thread is broken by another new memory. In such a case, when the previous event is repeated somehow, we get the notion that it has occurred before. This is Deja vu.
If we explore the concept of Deja vu, we will find out that it exhibits exact same process by which brain learns and remembers something. It is an aberration of this process which results in Deja vu.
2) Imagine and relate: Once taken into account the subject to be remembered whether is is a name or a number, now it is the time to relate. The brain does this relation making process voluntarily in most cases, but with certain ideas like a proper noun, this process needs to be conscientiuously repeated in order to retain. Say you are introduced to a person named "Sarah Walker". Work on these steps:
i) Hear the name clearly, if needed ask to repeat
ii) Relate the name to a person you already know has the same name
iii) Then for the lsat name, say Sarah is very fit, or she is unfit, so you could phrase something like "Sarah walks to keep fit" or "Sarah doesnt walks to keep fit". Thats how you attributed her name to her personality , and so you wouldnt forget to recollect the next time she comes into reference.
3) Keep it healthy: Just like our body, our brain needs a regime, which when maintained and followed religiously keeps it healthy forever. Let's check out some of the methods to do this:
i) Exercising body keeps minds also healthy
ii) Taking complete 8 hours sleep to rejuvenate mind when you wake up.
iii) Eating nutrious food (Like salad and protein)
iv) Laugh, find reasosn to laugh, and if not that then laugh at not having any reasons to laugh.
v) Mind exercises with puzzles. Engage some of your time in puzzle. It is also a very good past time in seattle weather.
vi) Avoid depression and anxiety. They create fatigue in the brain muscles.
In the end I would like to sum it up as:
Remember a name or a number
Whether it is 132 or cucumber
Sew it in a necklace of fables
And you will never have the strress to remember
She remembered precisely when she had met him first, or what did they talk about then, but name? She had not even a remote memory of that!
Well, as hilarious as this situation sounds, isnt it a bitter truth of our everyday life? We forget names more often than any other memory about a given event.
Haven't you encountered such a situation before?
I bet you have!
It is such a common thing that we often dont keep a record. And when it happens we feel bad and blame our memory saying that we have grown old and the brain no longer works as well as it used to do when we were younger. Actually that was the same expression which my friend used to describe how pathetic she was feeling about the whole incident.
We all hope and wish that the brain behaved a little better when such a thing happens.
Guess what!
Our brains have an incredible ability to reshape itself when it comes to learning. My inspiration to write this article was that friend with whom I wanted to share the little tips and tricks to increase the retention power of memory. I learnt these when I was in 9th grade in school. There was a seminar in the only five star hotel in my city, and somehow I found free passes to attend it. I, along with my friends went there to take a sneak peak of how a five star hotel looked liked. But the seminar turned out to be even more interesting.
The facilitator was teaching us, that it doesnt matter if you are growing old, you can still keep your memories intact and refreshed to be used, everytime after you reboot. Those tricks were:
1) Pay attention
2) Imagine and relate
3) Keep your brain healthy
1) Pay attention: Whatever is happening around us, brain has the tendency to register it. But the attention span that we provide to a particular instance decides whether or not we are going to have for a later use.
Have you heard of Deja vu?
It is an experience which makes one feel like they have lived the event before and are reliving it in the present moment. Deja vu occurs when the brain tries to register an event and do the memorization complete, but a thread is broken by another new memory. In such a case, when the previous event is repeated somehow, we get the notion that it has occurred before. This is Deja vu.
If we explore the concept of Deja vu, we will find out that it exhibits exact same process by which brain learns and remembers something. It is an aberration of this process which results in Deja vu.
2) Imagine and relate: Once taken into account the subject to be remembered whether is is a name or a number, now it is the time to relate. The brain does this relation making process voluntarily in most cases, but with certain ideas like a proper noun, this process needs to be conscientiuously repeated in order to retain. Say you are introduced to a person named "Sarah Walker". Work on these steps:
i) Hear the name clearly, if needed ask to repeat
ii) Relate the name to a person you already know has the same name
iii) Then for the lsat name, say Sarah is very fit, or she is unfit, so you could phrase something like "Sarah walks to keep fit" or "Sarah doesnt walks to keep fit". Thats how you attributed her name to her personality , and so you wouldnt forget to recollect the next time she comes into reference.
3) Keep it healthy: Just like our body, our brain needs a regime, which when maintained and followed religiously keeps it healthy forever. Let's check out some of the methods to do this:
i) Exercising body keeps minds also healthy
ii) Taking complete 8 hours sleep to rejuvenate mind when you wake up.
iii) Eating nutrious food (Like salad and protein)
iv) Laugh, find reasosn to laugh, and if not that then laugh at not having any reasons to laugh.
v) Mind exercises with puzzles. Engage some of your time in puzzle. It is also a very good past time in seattle weather.
vi) Avoid depression and anxiety. They create fatigue in the brain muscles.
In the end I would like to sum it up as:
Remember a name or a number
Whether it is 132 or cucumber
Sew it in a necklace of fables
And you will never have the strress to remember
Highly intellectual ... :)
ReplyDeletethnx dude.. i was hoping you would read the previous one. What the heck.. thanks anyways :D
ReplyDeleteSome useful info there.. Superb..!!!
ReplyDelete