How to improve memory: 11 ways

In addition to specific exercises that help memorize more efficiently, there are "secrets" and "chips" that will improve memory without learning special techniques, living a normal everyday life. It is about them that we will talk today.

You don't need to set aside time to do these recommended exercises – just do your usual activities and train at the same time:

  1. Read at least a little every day and try to remember the most interesting, repeating it to yourself from time to time.
  2. If you have read a book, do not forget about it, and sometimes retell the main essence to friends or family members. So you will train your auditory memory and motivate listeners to read good books.
  3. If time permits, every day; memorize foreign words, proverbs and established expressions. You can even learn songs by knowing their translation in advance.
  4. Remember phone numbers, car numbers of friends and acquaintances, dates of their births.
  5. When you go to the store, write a shopping list on paper, but try not to use it – better check when you think that everything you need is already in the basket. And going home from the store, you can remember what you bought and the cost of goods. At the same time, it is useful to calculate the total amount of purchases – you will train the ability of mental counting and develop the flexibility of thinking.
  6. Before going to bed, do not rush to go to the kingdom of Morpheus, but remember in all details the details of your day.
  7. When you have a minute, write down the name of your favorite movie on a piece of paper, list all the characters and the actors playing them, and then check how many mistakes you made.
  8. While cooking, memorize recipes in detail so that later you don’t use tips, but create culinary masterpieces from memory.
  9. Walk more often and develop visual memory by paying attention to buildings, signs, cars, and the features of your routes.
  10. Do the usual things (brush your teeth, write, comb, etc.) with different hands. By the way, this favorably affects the overall development of the working capacity of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
  11. When communicating with someone, listen carefully to your counterpart, trying to remember everything that he says as much as possible.

 

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And in conclusion, we note that you should not immediately overload your brain with “tons” of information – give it time to rest and recover. In addition, do not memorize everything in a row, otherwise, among the necessary information, all sorts of garbage will pop up every now and then.