How to improve memory power ? How can I increase my remembering power?

MEMORY MAGIC

Dave Farrow is a canadian who appears in the guinness book of world records, for having the greatest memory. As a student Dave had a learning disorder called dyslexia. Despite his struggels with subjects like reading and writing. Dave found ways to enhance his memory so as to try to to well in class . In 2008, he set a world record by memorising 5 decks of playing cards in two days. How did his brain store all of this information? According to Dave, anybody's brain can roll in the hay ,but it helps to know how memory works.

Your brain is constantly taking in information through your senses. The information enters your sensory memory, which has the capacity to store lots of information, but only for afew seconds. If you ignore the information, your brain will discard it. However , if you pay atention to it , the information goes in to your short term memory. This is why learning to pay attention is an important first step to improve your ability to recall what you learn.

To help the brain focus, Dave recommends breaking big tasks into smaller ones. He sets a timer and works asa hard as he can for short periods of time until the timer alarm sounds. Then he takes a small break.This keeps his focus strong.

Your short term memorycan only hold information for 15 seconds to a few minutes. In addition short term memory can only remember 7 things at a time. Memory champions like Dave have to hold long lists of information in their short term memory at one time . To do this they rely on differnt tricks.

One trick is to look at the first letter of every word you want to memorise . Then create your own word, phrase or sentence using all these letters . Thiis is called an acronym. For example , if you want to remember all the colours in the rainbow, try remembring the name Roy. G. Biv. Each letter in this fictional word matches the first letter of colour : red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. When you want to remember the colours of a rainbow, just think ROY. G.BIV and you will have an easier time.

An other trick is to organize information into chunks. For example, when you remember a telephone number, your brain remembers it in chunks. You remember area code in one chunk, the next three numbers as a chunk and the last four numbers as a chunk. This way your brain only has to  remember three things instead of ten. This works for words as well as for numbers. Imagine that you wish to improve your vocabulary. Whenever you learn a new word, study words that are similar in meaning. This way you learn several new words at the same time and you only need to memorize one defination. Such words are called synonyms. For example, synonyms for the word big are huge, enormous, gigantic, large and massive

A third memory trick is to use visualization. Visualization works because the brain remembers the images well, and wackier the image is, the easier it is to remember.

If you don't keep using the information, your brain throws it away. If you keep reviewing the information it will go into your long term memory. The more you practice rcalling the information, the better you will be at remembering it. Try thes tips the next time you need tpo remember anything.