Fact: Memory is like a muscle – the more it is used, the better it gets; and the more it is neglected, the worse it gets.
“How to Easily Remember Names, Faces, Numbers, Events, and Almost Any Information - Using Simple yet Powerful Techniques Even a 12-Year Old Can Apply!”
Let me ask you a few questions.
q Do you find it difficult to recognize someone you’ve been acquainted to earlier?
q Do you always have to look for your friend’s phone number in your address book before dialing his number?
q Have you ever experienced forgetting the next few lines to utter in an important speech?
q Do you have a hard time passing the exams because you just can’t seem to recall the lessons you’ve studied?
If you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, then your memory needs some work. Some might say, “So I have a bad memory. No big deal.”
What they might not know is that unless affected by injury or illness…
“No One is Born with a Bad Memory. It Just Needs to be Sharpened to Improve Its Efficiency”
Contrary to the belief of many people that sharpening your memory takes a lot of time and effort, you don’t have to be a genius to quickly know, understand, and recall what you have read or learned.
Can you imagine what your life would be like if you have a sharp memory? You can achieve the following:
ü Get higher grades by studying more efficiently.
ü Build good relationships by recalling people’s names, faces, and interests.
ü Enhance your career by recalling facts and numbers effortlessly.
ü Never get lost on the road again.
ü Save lots of time by never having to find lost objects.
ü Impress your friends with your super memory and be the life of the party.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re 92 years old or just 12, anyone is capable of memorizing and recalling virtually any information possible. However, you must have the proper lifestyle, attitude, habits, and methods to possess a super memory.
Fortunately, an interesting book was written to achieve that purpose.
Powerful Ways to Sharpen Your Memory will teach you practical and creative strategies to refine and sharpen your wonderful memory.
It will reveal to you effective techniques on how to maintain your brain in tip-top condition, how to overcome forgetfulness, and how to easily retain data in your mind for immediate retrieval anytime you desire.
Best of all, many of the methods are simple, practical, and fun to learn!
If you want your mind to memorize numbers, facts, and other information like nothing you’ve ever seen before, then this book is for you.
Take a look at some of the information you’ll find inside:
ü Why being smart is not necessary to have a good memory.
ü Foods that allow your brain to operate at its peak performance.
ü What you should do to improve creativity.
ü The 3 types of memory.
ü What a group of researchers did to improve the memory of elderly people suffering from dementia.
ü 2 requirements before going to sleep in order to remember information better.
ü Helpful techniques in mood conditioning to boost your mental capacities.
ü The first thing you should do before memorizing anything.
ü Common causes of a poor memory.
ü Successful strategies to maintain your focus.
ü How to keep track of all your thoughts.
ü Terrific tips to intensify your motivation.
How your subconscious helps you to remember.
ü Popular techniques of association.
ü Valuable methods to enhance your imagination.
ü Similarities between the mind and a video camera.
ü 7 powerful tactics to overcome forgetfulness and absentmindedness.
ü How to utilize your senses to boost your memory.
ü Why you can better remember a person who owes you some money compared to someone who doesn’t.
ü 11 extraordinary strategies to help you remember names and faces.
ü How to convert numbers to words.
ü How to transform numbers to pictures.
ü Super techniques to remember long strings of numbers.
ü How to recall an item from a chronological list.
ü How to easily remember dates, time, and TV channels.
ü How to develop a keen sense of direction.
ü How to recall addresses and places with ease.
ü Special tactics to remember occurrences and events.
ü How to organize your memory for easy retrieval of information.
ü 7 principles of memory.
ü How to remember facts better.
ü What the most difficult things to remember are.
ü What things we are most likely to remember.
ü How much the capacity of the human mind is in holding information.
ü How to sucessfully memorize unrelated words.
“Be a Memory Wonder the Easy Way!”
Why settle for complicated techniques in improving your memory when you can have the practical yet powerful guide?
In this amazing book, you will discover how to hone and sharpen your memory like a saw. You will be able to accomplish amazing feats you never thought possible.
The Need for a Sharp Memory
In a way, success and a sharp memory go together like a horse and carriage or hamburger and fries.
Just imagine how inconvenient or embarrassing it would be to be absent-minded or just plainly, to have a dull memory. Think of the benefits a sharp memory will bring to you by considering the following:
· Visualize how impressed your associates, clients, co-workers, or your manager will be if you can commit to memory loads of names, figures, dates, and addresses (to mention a few), without the aid of paper or any devices that will make you recall such information. Not only will they be amazed, they will think that you are one step ahead of them when it comes to memory recall.
· In social gatherings, the sound of one’s name is music to one’s ears. And if you can accurately remember names of other people (even those you hardly know personally), you will attract interest and attention from them.
· Being alert as a result of having a sharp memory earns respect from others. It is infectious in a way, because being alert makes other people alert too.
· When you have a good memory, people will look at you as somebody whom they can rely on. If you’re branded as somebody who is forgetful, they will treat you as if you didn’t exist.
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· When you have a sharp memory, you are a time saver. If you spend most of your time cramming on things you can’t find because you forget where you put them, the day would just end without actually getting anything done.
· With a sharp memory, you can comprehend things more easily and quickly. You don’t need to spend more time consuming repetition of instructions or what has just been said.
You may ask, “Just how is it possible to have a sharp memory?” Although the subject of our discussion is mainly on the benefits that can be obtained as a result of having a sharp memory, a brief discussion on how to attain this follows.
Just like the physical body, the brain’s memory cells also require periodic exercises. You need to think positive, be creative, imaginative, and active at all times. Even not so important things can help to keep your memory in prime condition, just like physical exercise. Processing information in the brain keeps the memory sharp.
A proper diet is another important factor. What is food for the body is also food for the brain, in turn enhancing or sharpening the memory. It means intake of nutritious foods and avoiding junk foods. The Food Pyramid Guide for proper selection of food groups is a good source of information.
Read books, lots of them. Read to comprehend and discover new vocabularies. This stimulates the mind to store new information. Keep your interest to learn in a high level. This is possible if your mind is preoccupied with working and thinking about something you like to do. Not only do you get to have an improved memory, you also get to be a wiser individual.
Help Yourself to a Sharper Memory
By nature, the brain has the ability to retain facial images of people casually met years ago. But remembering names can be a problem. We often hear “It’s at the tip of my tongue.” Even recalling where, when, and how you met a person in the past can be frustrating. If you’re lucky, a slight clue might help to trigger what was temporarily lost in memory.
But how can you improve this predicament to a more acceptable level to avoid social embarrassment? The succeeding tips can help:
The first time you meet someone, repeat and keep repeating mentally the name of the person until it is committed to memory. If you keep the person in high esteem, you will keep repeating the name each passing day until you feel comfortable that it has found a place in your memory bank. Periodically recalling the name will strengthen its retention. This is exercise for the brain; much like physical exercise is for the body.
If you have an inclination to link a name to an object that could easily make you recall it, use this to your advantage. Look for distinctive facial features that would remind you of the person’s name and visually associate that individual to the object you have in mind. To reinforce your memory further, some exaggeration on the person’s occupation or profession would be a great help. For example, you met a cashier working for a bank, visualize him as a cash register like the ones used in supermarkets. If you can inject humor into your imagination of the person's name and features to an object (sort of an over exaggeration), you will be much better off remembering the person’s name the next time you meet him.
Try to be more observant. Researchers believe that the more observant a person is, the keener the memory skills of the person becomes. This is actually honing or fine tuning the memory brain cells to bring them to peak performance. If you practice this exercise, you are in effect activating and strengthening your memory reserves. What used to be dormant or perhaps inactive memory brain cells are called to do what they’re supposed to do. Go out into the woods and observe the wonders of nature. You can also do it indoors by observing your pets like a rabbit, hamster, or fishes in an aquarium.
Getting enough sleep and going to bed early can help improve memory. According to researchers, while you sleep, the brain sorts out information collected during the day and organize them to usable form; so that the next time they are needed, they can be recalled with ease. The same thing goes true with taking short naps in midday. The brain is made to rest and recover from the load of work it had done earlier.
How about difficult names? If you’ve been introduced to someone with a difficult name to pronounce, chances are the name is also difficult to spell. And most likely, the person being introduced to you will admit to this difficulty. Such person would undoubtedly understand a remark like “I’ve never come across such a name before; how do you spell it?” Without hesitation, the person will gladly spell out the letters of his name. While this is being done, you can echo in a soft tone the letters of the name. Commit them to memory. Keep on replaying these letters to memory. In effect, this commits the name of the person into your memory bank. Associate the name with an object if you must to strengthen memory retention. Add some humor (the more ridiculous and outrageous, the better) into the association.
Cutting down or totally eliminating tobacco and caffeine-containing beverages can drastically improve and restore the mental capacity to retain memory. Smoking creates a cloud of smoke in the brain’s ability to process data or information. On the other hand, caffeine makes a person feel agitated or irritable, especially when taken excessively. The brain functions at its peak when relaxed. A healthy body results to a healthy mind, and in turn results to a healthy memory.
When a large group of people is being introduced to you, it is extremely difficult to retain to memory the names of many people at such a short time. The best way to remember each of them is to break them into smaller groups. It’s much like chewing food before swallowing it, rather than swallowing a big whole piece all at once.
