How could we improve our memory to the point of not needing notebooks?
By yolkspock
@yolkspock (20)
Philippines
October 2, 2010 11:40pm CST
We need notebooks.
Anything to write on, to remember numbers, addresses, reminders, and notes.
But is it possible to not need any of those?
If you think of it we retain knowledge that we don't write everyday.
We remember what we did at a certain time... An almost exact replay of a movie plays at our mind when we think of it.
But how come when it comes to those things we write in our notebooks we forget them?
Does anyone have an explanation for this? Or a suggestion perhaps for others to try?
3 responses
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
8 Oct 10
There are several ways to transfer information from your temporary memory to your permanent memory and then you don't have to depend on writing things down. Fifteen years ago, when my youngest daughter was almost 5 I did an exercise with her in order to teach her how to retain information forever. The exercise involved a random object available at that time...a white van parked under a tree on the corner with a bumper sticker on the rear. Even today she can every detail if I so much as mention the van when she was 5. It takes effort to transfer information into your permanent memory...writing it down is easier and faster so it's often the first choice...but I keep important information in my head...away from prying eyes.
@paige4evr (118)
• Estonia
7 Oct 10
Because you know that you can always check on it later. So you relax and don't make an effort to think about it anymore. Hence you forget it. Which is good, because you can concentrate on the things in the present and paying attention instead of making an effort to remember something else. That's why it's good to take notes.
@RebeccaScarlett (2532)
• Canada
3 Oct 10
I remember things better when I write them down...even if I just throw the paper out after. Because, now my brain has a "movie" of me writing it down! For courses I'm interested in, I don't have to take notes in class, because when I'm interested, I remember enough to get an A in the course without notes.
