Memory: How To Remember Anything, Learn Faster, and Boost Your Brain

51 Pages·2016·0.33 MB·English

by  Gregory Davidson

Memory:
How To Remember Anything, Learn
Faster, and Boost Your Brain
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1
Why Do People Forget?
Chapter 2
All You Need To Know About the Basics of Memory
Chapter 3
Adopt Lifestyle-Based Memory Boosters
Chapter 4
Improve Your Memory with Mind Exercises, Tricks and Devices
Chapter 5
Boosting Your Memory With a Superfood Diet
Conclusion
Introduction

Does it bother you that you have been forgetting things lately? Is remembering
names, faces, events, and dates becoming a burden for you because you cannot
recall them? Well then, here is the perfect book for you!

This book assures you that you are not alone. Forgetting can be absolutely
normal. It can be the brain’s way of sorting out what is important and what isn’t.
It is one of the most irrevocable processes in this world that humans have
already unveiled. This contains proven tips, steps, and techniques on how to
improve your memory. It will provide you in-depth yet understandable
explanations of how your memory and the art of forgetfulness work. It will
provide you easy tips of what should you do and not do to boost your memory.
What makes this book commendable is that, its contents can be practically done
anywhere anytime at your convenience, hence will easily lead you closer to
having a sharp memory.

I want to congratulate you for downloading the book, “Memory: How to
Remember Anything, Learn Faster and Boost Your Brain”. Thanks again for
downloading this book, I hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 1

Why Do People Forget?

Have you ever wondered why we forget? Imagine that your brain is a big
memory bank wherein you store all the things that you can possibly retrieve.
However, it can be quite alarming to realize that you cannot remember names,
dates, faces, and events that you wanted to carefully retain. Your brain is so
complex that even the tiniest nerve can affect your pool of memories.

To give you an in-depth understanding of our brain function, here are the two
main reasons psychologists claim why people forget:
Information is inaccessible

Some memories are stored in your brain but unfortunately, they just cannot come
in handy when you need them because you cannot remember them! However,
the good news is, there is no need to worry because forgetting things does not
mean they are forever gone. The trick is, they’ll just pop out again on a much
later date when you try to remember them.
Information is unavailable

Sadly, there are memories which will be permanently wiped out from your brain,
forever. You simply forget everything, and they are all irretrievable. No traces,
no clues, just empty memory bank space.

But nevertheless, people forget things depending on how long the memory has
been retained.
Short-term Memories

The last food you ate, the recent three numbers you have heard, and the name of
a particular street you just passed by fall under the short-term categories. These
are like a working notepad, where you can temporarily recall things for a certain
period of time. Short term memory is always readily-available and in an active
state to process small pieces of information it encounters for a short period of
time, approximately 10-15seconds to a full minute.
There are three ways why people forget their short-term
memories:

Retrieval Failure

Have you ever had that experience when you were trying to recall something
that you know that you have always remembered but ended up frustrated
because you cannot recall? You know that it is there but it seems like it’s gone no
matter how hard you try to remember. It just seems so frustrating, doesn’t it? The
most common reason why you forget things is the difficulty or inability to
retrieve information. This can be further explained through the Decay Theory. It
states that when a memory is not rehearsed or utilized over time, it fades and
gradually vanishes into thin air, and poof memory gone.

Displacement

This is a matter of replacing old memories with new ones. As you go on with
your life daily, you tend to endlessly learn, experience, or encounter new things
that can make you forget those that you initially stored. Just like the food that
you ate. You may remember what you ate a day or two ago, but as time passes
by, you will forget them because they will eventually be replaced by the food
that you recently ate.

Interference

As the name implies, this theory suggests that some memories tend to interfere
or compete with their other co-memories. There is a higher chance for you to not
recall the information which appear quite similar from the ones that you have
stored from the past.
This may be broken down into two subtypes:

Proactive

This occurs when you hold on too much to an old memory which makes the new
memory to be difficult to be stored.

Retroactive

On the other hand, new memories interfere to your ability to recall the
information you initially learned before.