Memory is as much a saviour as an enemy. We have all faced situations both good and bad because of our memory. At least comparing ourselves with our young age, we realise memory cannot always remain the same. It shrinks with age just like immunity.
While for many memory is most active in the morning time, for the reat of them it is the night time. It should also be noted that an improper or inadequate sleep can limit memory.
Here are some very cool and interesting facts that can help you imrove your memory and be more informed about it at the same time.
1. Short term memories are easily forgotten. According to studies humans can keep only about 6-8 words in memory for 20-30 seconds.
2. Making your own acronyms can actually help you remember larger information easily and reasonably. Even the most complex things can be made compact and remembered in you own funny ways.
3. Testing yourself can help you retain information for a longer time that too with a better and clear understanding. Students therefore must note that a test is a smarter way to memorise things than just reading them.
4. Our sense organs powerful agents of memory. Yes, a mental picture or smell or a sound or a taste can better trigger an old and forgotten memory which can usually not be remembered. This is the reason why babies can recognise their mothers, dogs can find their masters and other things.
5. Amnesia (loss and regain of memory) are actually wrongly depicted in movies. While losing a part of your memory or amnesia isn’t false, to lose memory by just hitting your head with a block and then regaining it by hitting the head again is absolutely rubbish. Until the injury is serious enough in the brain, memory loss doesn’t take place.
6. Foods that can help improve memory. The following food items can boost your brain power – water, almonds, fish, banana, orange, dark chocolate, coffee, tea, broccoli, avocado, blueberries, nuts, etc.
7. These are some pro tips that actually helps improve memory in practical life. Students can completely try these out.
- Saying out things loud
- Practice, practice and practice
- Making it a story
- Teaching it to someone else
- Asking why
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