Sinopsis
Everyone wants a better memory—and
in today’s information-filled, multitasking age, having a good memory is more
important than ever. Whether you need to keep track of your e-mail messages,
impress the boss, give a speech, organize a busy social schedule, remember whom
you met where and when, or anything else, a good memory is a necessary tool for
staying on top of things. It’s especially critical if you’re part of the
Baby Boomer generation or older, because memory loss can accompany aging. But if
you keep your mind and memory limber, you can rev up your memory power—in
fact, it’ll even get better with age!
30 Days to a More Powerful Memory is designed to help
anyone improve his or her memory. Besides drawing on the latest findings from
brain and consciousness researchers, psychologists, and others about what works
and why, I’ve included a variety of hands-on techniques and exercises, such as
memory-building games and mental-imaging techniques.
While some chapters deal with basic ways of preparing your mind
and body to remember more, such as improving your overall health and well-being,
the main focus is on the techniques you can use day to day to improve your
memory. Plus I’ve included chapters on creating systems so you have memory
triggers or you can reduce what you have to remember, so you can concentrate on
remembering what’s most important to you. For example, you might feel
over-whelmed if you have 20 tasks to keep in mind for a meeting;
but if you organize these by priority or groups of different types of tasks and
write down these categories, you might have a more manageable organization of
activities to remember.
It’s also important to personalize developing your memory, so
you work on increasing your abilities in areas that are especially meaningful
for you. By the same token, it helps to assess where you are now to figure out
what you are good at remembering and where there are gaps, so you can work on
those areas. Keeping a memory journal as you go through the learning process
will help you track your progress, and will help you notice what you forgot, so
you can work on improving your weak spots as well.
Since this is a book on improving your memory in 30 days, you
should focus on committing a 30-day period to working with these techniques. You
don’t necessarily have to read the chapters in a particular order. In fact,
you may want to spend more time on certain chapters and skip others. That’s
fine, but the way you use your memory is a kind of habit, and it generally takes
about three weeks to form a new habit or get rid of an old one, plus an extra
week thrown in for good measure. So this 30-day period will be a time when you
hone new memory skills and make them a regular part of your life. With some
practice, you will find that these techniques become an everyday part of your
life, so you don’t even have to think about them. You will just use them
automatically to help you remember more.
I’ve also included a few introductory chapters that describe
how the brain works and the different types of memory that create a memory
system. This is a little like having a memory controller in charge as you take
new information into your working or short-term memory, decide what bits of
memory you want to keep and include in your long-term memory, and later seek to
find and retrieve the memories you want. But again the focus is on using what
you have learned to better apply the techniques that incorporate those
principles. You’ll also see helpful tips from people I have interviewed on how
they remember information in different situations, and I have included examples
of how I apply these techniques myself. Some of these techniques are memory
games that I have developed to make increasing your memory fun.
While the focus is on using these memory skills for work and professional
development, you can use these skills in your personal life, too.
Back in high school and college, it was always a struggle for me
to remember details. When I took a class in acting in my junior year, I found it
especially difficult to remember my lines. Later on, I still had difficulty
remembering things. For example, if someone asked me to repeat something I had
just said—such as when I was being interviewed for a TV show or teaching a
class—I could never remember it exactly, though I could answer the question
anew. Yet, looking back, I can remember quite vividly my struggles to remember,
even imagining where I was, the appearance of the room, and the like. That’s
the way memory works. When you have images, when something is more important for
you, when you use multiple senses to encode the experience in the first
place—when you don’t just try to recall words on a page or a series of
spoken words—you will remember more.
Over the years, I learned specific ways to enable me to remember
things better. Now, since I have been working on this book, I have found even
more techniques to improve my memory. I think you’ll find the same thing as
you read through the chapters.
So get ready, get set—mark your calendar and get started on
improving your memory over the next 30 days. Of course, you’re also free to
condense the program into fewer days or extend the process if necessary. Thirty
days is optimal—but adapt the program so it’s best for you.
Content
1. How Your Memory Works
2. How Your Long-Term Memory Works
3. How Good Is Your Memory?
4. Creating a Memory Journal
5. Pay Attention!!!
6. Improving Your Health and Your
Memory
7. Decrease Stress and Anxiety to Remember
More
8. Increase Your Energy to Boost Your Memory
Power
9. It’s All About Me!
10. Remembering More by Remembering
Less
11. Using Schemas and Scripts to Help You
Remember
12. Chunk It and Categorize It
13. Rehearse … Rehearse … Rehearse …
and Review
14. Repeat It!
15. Talk About It
16. Tell Yourself a Story
17. Remembering a Story
18. Back to Basics
19. Take a Letter
20. Linked In and Linked Up
21. Find a Substitute
23. Be a Recorder
24. Record and Replay
25. Body Language
26. Let Your Intuition Do the
Walking
27. Remembering Names and Faces
28. Remembering Important Numbers
29. Walk the Talk: Speeches, Presentations,
and Meetings
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