How do you remember things?

Oh my God. That is a serious problem. You are in deep trouble when you don't remember your anniversary. It sounds like you are quite busy person. You have to focus on other things that you consider more important in your life. If in any way you can associate those numbers with names and face and whatever characteristics that signifies the particular person, you will find it easier to remember them. Suppose there is a phonetic use which may seem very queer and funny at first, but with deep consideration you will understand how effective it is. A seven matches another word, heaven, and the word heaven can be related to another word Christopher. Take care God bless you

Hello, When I first started learning english and that was a few years ago, I didn't know the meaning of words like "profile", "fragile", "ambivalence" etc. I've come a long way. As you are now a member of myLot, you will get lots of chances to improve your writing skills, vocabulary etc. Here you will learn from discussions, you will have conversations with other people and learn to deal with arguments, facts etc. This is the right place to exercise your writing skills and to demonstrate some positive opinion. I would like to say one thing, please don't give up. If you are serious about writing effective english you should start by building your vocabulary and reading lots of subject matters written in standard english. Take a look at this website www.wordhacker.com You may find some good literature for free over here www.gutenberg.org Thanks so much for the response Take care God bless you

Hello, What you are saying is definitely true. Actually when you are taking quick notes of something, you are recreating the original thing. This serves as a strong visual input to your mind. As the involvement with the matter is much more in taking notes, it becomes far more effective than just reading. Also if you review the visual map when you are relaxing or not doing anything important, that keeps the memory alive. Thanks so much for such an interesting comment God bless you

Hello, Yes, interesting thing are easy to remember. Things get complicated when it comes to stuffs we don't like at all. The key to remember academic stuffs is to learn it beyond mastery. That means if you learn much beyond your syllabus, you will go beyond the limit of detest and will start to like it and may even get satisfaction out of it. Once you take this reading to the level of independent research, as if you are doing your PhD thesis, it gets deeply rooted inside your memory. Like, once you learn swimming, its hard to get drowned. Take care God bless you

Hi, As I've suggested to on of my friends earlier, when you make a note and read it, what you actually do is, you convert the data into an image. As images are comparatively easier, your data saved as an image file becomes a handy tool. We often hang the data in a form of table or map or diagrams on the wall so that we may take a look every now and then. This serves as a stimulus, a constant reminder of the details. Thanks for such a nice response God bless you

Hi, Yes. This is all about setting up a relationship. I mean, the thing you want to remember should have strong logical or other kind of relationship with another thing which is quite familiar. Generally we don't forget the things we like most. So its quite natural that we will have much ease in remember anything related to them. By creating this tiny relations we create a huge cobweb like structure inside our mind. Thanks for such an interesting response. Take care

Hi, I believe, we remember only those things that we are very serious about. I mean to say of course you are serious about your contacts. But one can never forget the names of his son, daughter. He may even remember the name of the cousin of one of your neighbor even if you might not have seen her. Sometimes, we really need to forget a name. But it seems impossible even if we try real hard. This is because, when we are trying hard to forget it, what we are actually doing is that, we are reminding ourselves about the name again and again. Thanks for the response dear God bless you

Hi, Dear friend, there is a fixed amount of IQ that a human being is gifted with at the time he is born. This level of IQ hardly grows or reduces. We just learn techniques to do things quickly and accurately. Different people will take different amount of time to do the same calculation depending upon their individual IQ and the technique he is applying. But when it comes to memory, it becomes quite unpredictable. Of course there is a fixed capacity. But no quotient can limit that. Here you can always push the limit. Thanks for such a sincere response God bless you

Hi, Yes a very strong relation with things that already exist in your memory helps remembering things. The normal process of remembering a particular thing happens like this, 1 We take our first input. After it the memory is being faded away slowly. Lets suppose it takes a very specific amount of time T1 to completely fade away. 2 We take our second attempt of remembering things. This is actually a revision phase. This time the memory is kept intact for T2 duration. Now T2T1, which means the memory is kept for a longer period of time. 3 You have to initiate the 3rd phase somewhere between your second revision and the time limit T2. Then it is remembered for another duration T3. Here T3T2. This means T3 is considerably much greater than other time slots namely,T1 and T2. One may repeat these phases as many times as one wishes. A little difficult material may take more than 3 phases. A strategic choice of your revision time and constant observation of the capacity and behavior of your mind is really necessary to make this method more effective. Thanks so much for the response Take care God bless you

Hello, Yes, we all have trouble remembering text books, but we are on the contrary remember a story quite easily. So why not convert the text book into a story. I think, every one of us has at least for once in their life has adapted this method. When we try to remember a whole piece of useful information that have high coherence, we produce in our mind some kind of series of events, a linked list, where each element bears some reference to the element immediately followed by it. Thank you so much for this response Take care

Hi karen, I think there are couple of methods you can try out and then stick to whichever most suits you. One method is the visual map, where we don't actually relate or associate things. We just visualize the combination as an entire image, ignoring the fact that they have distinct number images in themselves. So here, we just have to remember a picture, the details of an image, nothing more than that. There is another method that is adapted by many people I know. Here we take each number seperately and then find some similar looking letter from English alphabet. For example, 3 looks similar to a B and you can consider 1 as either an L or an I. In this method you follow a certain table where you have fixed some values for numbers previously and then maintain it all along without changing it. Now that you have an equivalent letter for each of the number, you just make a sentence with them. You may also associate this sentence with the person whose phone number you are remembering, or just leave it as it is. It is easier to remember a sentence than to remember a series of numbers. Right? Take care God bless you

Yes, I do agree with you on that. A comparatively relaxed atmosphere boosts the capacity of your memory and it is very easy to make those association when you are in a very peaceful surroundings. This process of association is little bit difficult, though you have to go through it only for once. The more strongly connected and coherent your data are, the longer you will remember it. Thanks for the response Take care God bless you

Hello, yes I completely agree with you. Practice do help to improve your memory power. There is no definite limit specified for the capacity of human memory. Some methods are just more effective than some others. With whatever method suits you the most, you can increase your memory power tenfold with it. Thanks so much for the response Take care

Hello, Our mind remembers thing according to relationships of things. I mean, how a thing we want to remember will be remembered is entirely dependent on how we are relating this thing with items already in our memory. Sometimes they actually have very well defined relationships, sometimes we make our own relations in order to remember those things. It is nice to hear that you don't have any trouble remembering numbers. That means you've adapted a very effective mechanism and your brain has also been used to it. Thanks for the response God bless you