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12 Tricks to Boost Your Memory
encarta.msn.com — Indisputably, we moderns can't match the memory feats of bygone times, those days when people could do things like memorize the "Iliad" in Greek without even knowing Greek. And maybe it's true, as some have speculated (me, for instance), that we've lost this capacity because we now tend to outsource our memory tasks to an exo-brain of technology.
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- jggube, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4Excellent tips! I do "Link learning to environment", which I learned from one of those cheesy, 12-casette tape self-learning products that you get late at night from an infomercial -- though it was cheesy, I still use a lot of the techiques discussed (and some are covered here on this story). It's easy and quick, if you need to remember something, imagine something really funny, creative, and unique and associate that with it. i.e. if you need to buy milk, imagine that you're swimming in a pool filled with milk. This is how I aced all my memory-based exams (history classes, biology/ecology classes, etc.)
- orias6891, on 04/27/2008, -1/+10An other one of these hack your brain articles, I'm starting to think people are forgetting the previous ones they read.
- i4ybrid, on 04/27/2008, -1/+20Dugg for not calling it hack your brain or hack your memory. Thank you.
- triskele, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1I'd actually be quite shocked if "Hack your ____" ever appeared as a title to an Encarta article.
- jetboyterp, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7Argh...
I forgot what I was going to say...- bhavinp, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1OGC
- AppleGeorge, on 04/27/2008, -7/+1I just use iFreeMem, it works great if you use OS X. I can't remember what I used when I used Windows, but there is a good app for Windows as well. A lot of people don't realize that some programs stay cached and hog up memory even when they're no longer running. I usually run iFreeMem every hour or so and it clears up a good chunk of memory each time.
- D14BL0, on 04/27/2008, -2/+3Try actually reading the article.
Or even the description.- AppleGeorge, on 04/27/2008, -3/+1Oh, nice one. I guess it would help if Digg didn't beat the ***** out of servers, eh?
- D14BL0, on 04/27/2008, -2/+3Try actually reading the article.
- Maver1c, on 04/27/2008, -3/+1This article would've been helpful if I could remember what it said.
- D14BL0, on 04/27/2008, -1/+5And here comes the flood of cheesy "I forgot" comments...
- oblique63, on 04/27/2008, -2/+1Great! now I when I grow old, I can finally look forward to upgrading my brain to a 64-bit Operating System.
- Ikulus, on 04/27/2008, -3/+2Buried for "The 'mites go up, the 'tites come down".
- Blandyman, on 04/27/2008, -2/+1Yeah. I learned it as "Stalagmites MIGHT touch the ceiling, and Stalactites hold TIGHT so dont fall to the floor"!
- eigenweasel, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Easiest way:
Stalagmite contains 'G' for ground. Stalactite contains 'C' for ceiling.
- eigenweasel, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Easiest way:
- Blandyman, on 04/27/2008, -2/+1Yeah. I learned it as "Stalagmites MIGHT touch the ceiling, and Stalactites hold TIGHT so dont fall to the floor"!
- thesavagemonk, on 04/27/2008, -1/+0ddr3?
- Barnolde, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3You could also quit smoking weed, but that's no fun, just buy Brain Age instead.
- rxbudian, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3accidentally buried it, so I'm making comment to save it on my profile so I don't have to memorize the title to search for it...
- Angelle, on 04/27/2008, -1/+0Bookmarked the page , found it interesting, lets see if it works, on my next test,I will be making up rhymes and chants and hums like a damn fool for the sake of the experiment. Joy!
- benthose, on 04/27/2008, -1/+0Could someone help me remember the 12 points??
- Nephrastar, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1I think I tried most of these this school year and it helped immensely. This is really an awesome way to remember things. ='D
- mistergoomba, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1no way i'm remembering these
- deltron, on 04/27/2008, -0/+113. Stop drinking
- TheHeat, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Abbreviate EVERYTHING. 10 moves to know for stability ball training class. kneel, knee tuck, knee tuck with rotation, body roll, bridge to hamstring curl, shoulder roll, standing roll out, wall squat, one leg balance, leg lifts. It was all out of order, I turned it into an alphabetical pattern I could remember. KKK - BB - S - SWOL. Organize > maybe alphabetize > abbreviate.
- JGib, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Dugg for thumbnail pic
- anonymousleaf, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1MICROSOFT WELL THEN NOT READING THAT
- muaazab, on 05/07/2008, -0/+0Okay...not new points but people often forget them. Thanks for remembering me these good points.
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