How to Sharpen Your Memory & Recall MORE!

How to Sharpen Our Memory and Recall More Information By Harold Mangum Expert Author Harold Mangum Mnemonics- the Science of memory could be a good tag line for how your mind works. The basic principles of Mnemonics are better understood this way a picture that when you see it pulls up a story, a feeling, a situation, a time in your past and maybe a time in your future. We build little mental movies all day long as we walk through life. Your ability to do so is predisposed in your brain and makes connections as you grow from 1 day old to now. Cultural narratives and childhood metaphors have been the basis for many of these little mental movies that play out in your mind everyday. Now If I told you I could help you refine those mental movies and be able to recall them with more vigor, vitality, and vividness you would want to know how wouldn't you? Of course you would so read a little bit closer as I weave the web of how your working memory works and why it is so important to learn how to use it more efficiently in all walks of your life. In fact, it may very well save you from ever getting Alzheimer's as some research and studies now suggest. First let me say I teach memory training and at one time had the worst memory in the world or so I thought. I finally found out that everyone has a perfect memory it's just that some are trained and some aren't. The exciting thing is that everything you have ever seen, heard, read, touched, smelled, or felt is still inside your brain. It's just that you didn't put it in using a formal method of encode-store-retrieve. You used what your powers of selected remembering and selected forgetting let you use. Our minds have picture vocabularies to help us along the way of life that we built based on where we were born, raised, and now live. Now our working memory is what is with us at all times in whatever state of awareness you are in. Yes awareness is a state and the problem is you don't spend enough time in conscious awareness as the primary position. You spend 95 percent of your life in the subconscious state and 5 per cent in the conscious state of awareness. Anyways the working memory is what you use to walk through your day with the help of things you have learned. Yes they now exist and are stored being used by your mind without you knowing it. So how do you train your working memory well read even closer when I say you can't. I mean you can't without learning some soft skill tools to help you correct your learning style you picked up in school. The mind and the brain are two different beasts and the whole reason your body is built is to carry those two things around for the operation of your body. The beauty is everyone can learn to train their working memory I don't care if you are 10 or 110 it is never to late to start. My oldest student was actually 87 years old in Houston Texas and still taking night classes at U of H with her daughter. So hope prevails. Your working memory is your fluid intelligence which they used to think was innate and could not be improved upon based on what your genetic pool splashed in your face when you took form. Well now we know that's only one third of you and the other two thirds you can control. So I say how you like that Mr. Genome Scientist. You see a few years ago genetic scientist and doctors were dealt a cosmic joke when the genome project didn't produce the number of genes they proposed we had. But I will leave that up to your project to research to find out how short we are! In fact one prevailing study show four things must happen to improve your working memory: 1) disregard all irrelevant information, 2) do two things at simultaneously, 3) monitor your performance and 4) connect unrelated items together in space and time. That my folks is the alpha and omega of mnemonics! Here is the fact Mnemonics, centuries old, is still the best method to improve your working memory to increase your fluid intelligence. Trust me I have read probably most of the neuroscience studies on memory learning and the so called memory bibles that have been put out yes even the popular and not so popular. Now don't get me wrong there are some great books out there and I highly recommend reading parts of them. Now let me say practice shows reality and folk's perception is reality whether you like it or not. If the reason for Mnemonics effective methods might decrease as some say or seemingly prove not to work it's because the studies of their effectiveness has never been understood, let alone broadcast out to the world. Better understanding of mnemonics will help alleviate the mystical aura that sometimes surrounds mnemonics. We have to understand that mnemonics are the results of well proven or established principles of learning and memory. The most important fact is that it will truly reduce your learning curve, improve your retention value and skyrocket your comprehension levels. I have seen it happen to 1000's of people in workshops over the past 21 years of conducting them. I firmly believe that the person that uses mnemonics who practices the art of memory will shed light on the organization and procedural operation of the mechanics involved in memory. I am so sure that I witnessed a young man learn the system after flunking out of UTA in Texas only to go on and win the Memory Olympics two years in a row in 2009 and 2010. I know this for a fact because I taught him personally and everyone can do the same thing he can with the use of Mnemonics to train the working memory. I don't say this boastfully however I am proud of the young man taking the little seed planted and building his tree. My suggestion is walk, run, drive as fast as you can staying safe that is to start your study of mnemonics. It will show you how it can produce a winning edge in your life. The life of absentmindedness and MCI mild cognitive Impairment that you now and will have until the day you learn mnemonics which will drive your working memory upward or you can choose to possibly go on to get some of the mental maladies such as Alzheimer's'. We have an epidemic now over 6 million in America and if we do nothing, they project 12-15 million in 2025 and over. Now remember those are new cases most of the ones counted today will have laid down in their final resting place wishing they had learned how to learn with the help of Mnemonics. Your working memory is all you have and your mental acuity and memory efficiency can only be improved by using mnemonics to learn, learn, and learn! I will leave you with this final truth, "We remember what we understand, "We understand what we pay attention to and learn" and "We learn only what we want, need or desire!" So don't sell yourself short exercise your brain the same way you do your body! The Memory Technologies Institute is a company specializing in experiential training. Training business professionals and students in corporate environments and personal settings on how to develop an instant recall memory. The skills that are necessary to maintain a productive position in today's competitive world and brain maintenance. 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