Develop Perfect Memory With the Memory Palace Technique The Memory Palace is one of the most powerful memory techniques I know. It’s not only effective, but also fun to use — and not hard to learn at all. The Memory Palace has been used since ancient Rome, and is responsible for some quite incredible memory feats. Eight-time world memory champion Dominic O’Brien, for instance, was able to memorize 54 decks of cards in sequence (that’s 2808 cards), viewing each card only once. And there are countless other similar achievements attributed to people using the Memory Palace technique or variations of it. Of course, most of us are not in Dominic’s memory championship line of business (or in Hannibal’s line of business for that matter). The Memory Palace The Memory Palace technique is based on the fact that we’re extremely good at remembering places we know. 5 Steps to Use the Memory Palace Technique 1. First and foremost, you’ll need to pick a place that you’re very familiar with. A good first choice could be your own home, for example. 2. 3. 4.
How To Remember Things I once came up with a metaphor I thought perfectly captured the sheer mass of material my classmates and I were expected to memorize in our first two years of medical school: it was like being asked to enter a grocery store and memorize the names of every product in the store, their number and location, every ingredient in every product in the order in which they appear on the food label, and then to do the same thing in every grocery store in the city. When I look back now I can't imagine how any of us were able to do it. And yet we did. Become interested in what you're learning . One of the most common complaints I hear in clinical practice is about memory loss.
8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating “Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. Mike made a shift about every thirty seconds between all of the above. Do you know a person like this? The Science Behind Concentration In the above account, Mike’s obviously stuck in a routine that many of us may have found ourselves in, yet in the moment we feel it’s almost an impossible routine to get out of. When we constantly multitask to get things done, we’re not multitasking, we’re rapidly shifting our attention. Phase 1: Blood Rush Alert When Mike decides to start writing his History essay, blood rushes to his anterior prefrontal cortex. Phase 2: Find and Execute The alert carries an electrical charge that’s composed of two parts: first, a search query (which is needed to find the correct neurons for executing the task of writing), and second, a command (which tells the appropriate neuron what to do). Phase 3: Disengagement 1. 2. 3. 4.
The Art of Loving Yourself How to improve long-term memory Memories are constantly in flux, decaying as soon as they have begun to form. Although you can't count memories, if you could, you'd soon discover that more than half of what we experience is inaccessible to memory within a single hour. For this reason, when learning, it is best to continuously and cyclically review information as you go. Optimal revision During the 19th century, Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist, spent more than 15 years learning random strings of nonsense syllables, and testing himself on their recall. Ebbinghaus found that the ideal time to review a memory is just before you are about to forget it. The "forgetting curve" helps to explain why we so often remember nothing shortly after cramming intensely for an exam. Continuous testing Another important way to keep your memories healthy is to practise retrieving them. One way of understanding this is to consider how memories are, in a sense, movements that your mind makes. The danger of getting information wrong
50 Life Secrets and Tips Memorize something everyday.Not only will this leave your brain sharp and your memory functioning, you will also have a huge library of quotes to bust out at any moment. Poetry, sayings and philosophies are your best options.Constantly try to reduce your attachment to possessions.Those who are heavy-set with material desires will have a lot of trouble when their things are taken away from them or lost. Possessions do end up owning you, not the other way around. Become a person of minimal needs and you will be much more content.Develop an endless curiosity about this world.Become an explorer and view the world as your jungle. Read “Zen and the Art of Happiness” by Chris Prentiss.This book will give you the knowledge and instruction to be happy at all times regardless of the circumstances.
10 Things you didn't know about sound Shh! Make your life sound better Julian Treasure: Sounds we hear have an important effect on our lives and healthNoise can cause physical harm and sound can heal, he saysHe says headphone abuse is creating deaf kidsMore research needed to fully understand how what we hear affects our health, he says Editor's note: TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas worth spreading," which it makes available through talks posted on its website. (CNN) -- Most of us have become so used to suppressing noise that we don't think much about what we're hearing, or about how we listen. 1.) 2.) 3.) Video: Julian Treasure: Making life sound better 4.) Women, by contrast, typically adopt an expansive listening position, enjoying the journey, going with the flow. Other listening positions include judgmental (or critical), active (or reflective), passive (or meditative) and so on. 5.) According to a 1999 U.S. TED.com: Music is medicine, music is sanity TED.com: Jose Abreu on kids transformed by music 6.)
Smarts: It's not how much you learn that matters. It's how much you remember. Forgetting follows a pattern. There are steep drop offs in retention after 60 minutes and after 24 hours. Immediately after learning something, you will be able to retrieve a great deal of information. Working on what you want to remember is one of the ways you beat the forgetting curves. "Darn," I said to myself, "I am lousy with names." The best way to make information memorable is to use the keyword method, because it links our verbal memory with our spatial memory. If you seem never to be able to remember your doctor's phone number when you need it most, consider using the phone number as part of a password on your computer, for example, Dr5551212Jones. The average short-term memory capacity is 7 plus or minus 2 pieces of information. Short term memory is only what you hold in your mind at the moment. In addition to the 7 plus or minus 2 limit, short-term memory last for only about 20 seconds. The reverse of this principle works too.
How to Make More Money In the post Making Money with a Purpose, I wrote that having the ability to make money is more important than having money. Now I’d like to discuss how to increase your ability to make money and therefore make more money. Let’s start from the beginning by answering a basic question: what is money? Steve Pavlina in his book Personal Development for Smart People has a good answer: The money you earn is society’s way of saying: “In exchange for your valued contribution, you are hereby granted the right to extract equivalent value from society at a time of your choosing So the amount of money you earn is proportional to the amount of value you contribute to the society. There’s a catch though: the one who determines the value of your contribution is the society, not you. Your income depends on the social value of your work, not the personal value. So here is a key principle: To make more money, contribute more social value. 1. First of all, you should identify your personal strengths. 2. 3. 4.
The Pathology of Love The Pathology of Love By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Click HERE to view the video Malignant Self Love - Buy the Book - Click HERE!!! Relationships with Abusive Narcissists - Buy the e-Books - Click HERE!!! READ THIS: Scroll down to review a complete list of the articles - Click on the blue-coloured text! The unpalatable truth is that falling in love is, in some ways, indistinguishable from a severe pathology. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University College in London showed that the same areas of the brain are active when abusing drugs and when in love. Other MRI studies, conducted in 2006-7 by Dr. On August 14, 2007, the New Scientist News Service gave the details of a study originally published in the Journal of Adolescent Health earlier that year. The conclusion? "'We were able to demonstrate that adolescents in early-stage intense romantic love did not differ from patients during a hypomanic stage,' say the researchers. Moreover: Q. 1. A. Q. A.
Robert Bjork: Remembering, Forgetting, and Desirable Difficulties At this week’s Biology Leadership Conference (#BLC8), we were fortunate to hear a talk given by Dr. Robert Bjork, a cognitive psychologist (UCLA) who conducts research on remembering, forgetting, and desirable difficulties. This is going to be a loooong post, so I’ll allow those of you less interested to skip past this one. For those interested in remembering…forgetting…and desirable difficulties, please click to continue reading… Dr. - A remarkable capacity for storing information (might as well assume it’s unlimited)- It doesn’t work like a tape or a CD where the more you store, the less room you have. Dr. Dr. Dr. To illustrate, Dr. Dr. Of those options, which do you predict will perform best? Hooboy. So how do we make practice tests that constitute good pedagogy? Dr. This is completely counterintuitive to our experience in life. You would think that there might be some situations where blocking would be the best approach. So why is this? - Aptitude is over appreciated Dr. Like this:
The Classic Literature Library Tips for Living an Extraordinary Life by Henrik Edberg Is truth stranger than fiction? Perhaps. In this great article written by Henrik Edberg, we find that Mark Twain had expressed in his writings over the years an entire philosophy for living. If he were around today, it seems he would be on the lecture circuit with the likes of Eckhart Tolle or Wayne Dyer. “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.” You may know Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain is known for his many – and often funny – quotes. 1. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” If you don’t approve of yourself, of your behaviour and actions then you’ll probably walk around most of the day with a sort of uncomfortable feeling. This can, in a related way, be a big obstacle in personal growth. 2. “Age is an issue of mind over matter.