Life in modern society dictates everythinggreater and greater demands on our minds. We must be able to hold billions of terabytes of information in our heads and perceive something new every day. And if earlier this task was beyond the power of the average person, now even a child (especially a child!) can cope with it. But in order to succeed at least in something, your memory must work quickly and well. Let's try to improve it?

Some useful facts about memory

Today, almost every schoolchild knows,that memory has many subtypes: auditory, visual, verbal-logical and even emotional, if we talk about the quality of the memorized material. If we rely on the storage periods of information, then memory can be divided into short-term, operational and long-term. In the first, the material is stored for one second, after which it goes into operational (if it is, of course, significant for a person) and then into long-term. Everything unnecessary is quickly discarded and erased from these storages. In addition, memory is also a process consisting of several stages. These are memorization, storage and reproduction. All together they make up what we call good memory. And if, as a rule, storage and reproduction can be improved only with some effects on the brain, then you can improve memorization with the help of special exercises.

Exercises to improve memory

The most important secret of how to quicklyimprove your memory - it is constant training. The cognitive functions of the brain are somewhat similar to muscles: if they are not loaded, they atrophy, and vice versa. Therefore, we offer you a number of simple exercises that will help you quickly and easily improve your memory:

Several times a day, look at the clock andremember what you did yesterday at the same time, and where you were, what you were wearing, etc. ... This exercise can be performed anywhere and in any conditions, and it trains the memory pretty well.

Practice associative thinking.Our brain is designed in such a way that memory in its pure form is almost never found in nature - it is always connected with something: perception, attention, thinking or imagination. Therefore, you can train yourself to use all hidden resources in order to improve your memory. For example, ask someone to slowly read aloud for you pairs of words that are associatively related. Listen carefully and remember. Then ask the same person to read only the first words, and try to remember the second ones yourself. You can use pairs like “cow - calf”, “snow - winter”, “rooster - crow”, “airplane - fly”, etc. ...

Avoid using auxiliary devicesmeans - all sorts of lists, "reminders" and notes. Instead, read what you need to remember several times each time (for example, a list of products that need to be purchased), and boldly go to the store without a piece of paper. This simple activity will help you improve your memory simply by going shopping, without making any additional efforts.

Let someone read for you out loudrandom words: house, tree, computer, river, winter, lamp, bundle, daughter. Listen carefully to it, and then try to repeat them in the same order. Also, to complicate the task, you can play the words in reverse order. But if no one is around you, then you can simply take the book and read aloud the first word from each line.

Take a photo that showsa lot of things, and better a whole room. For fifteen seconds, carefully consider it in order to remember all the details. Then close the photo and write on the sheet of paper the name of those things that you managed to remember.

Take ten dice of the samesize. Start doing the exercise using three of them: shake them in your hand and, without looking, put them on the table. Look at them for a few moments and describe out loud the numbers and the approximate arrangement of the bones. By regularly doing the exercise, you can gradually increase the number of cubes used, bringing them to ten. But if you want to continue to improve your memory quickly, you can add a changing size and color of bones as a factor complicating the process of memorization.

Include memory wherever you can. For example, try to remember as much as possible the names, faces and special signs of new acquaintances. Or solve crosswords or sudoku, because the more in your head turns different numbers and words, the better it works.

If you need something to remember quickly: a little mnemonics

However, regular performance of these exercisesthere is not always time, and cases are different. The need to remember a large amount of material may suddenly enter your life, and then mnemonics comes to the rescue. This is a set of tools and techniques that structure the material to be remembered and allow you to keep it in your head unchanged for a long time. So, what can improve your memorization? The first is concentration. If you want to remember something, it is pointless to do it when your thoughts are somewhere in the clouds. You just need to distract yourself from everything that worries your mind and direct it to the object that you intend to imprint in your memory. Of course, you will need to take breaks and switch to something else, but they should be regular and short-term - only for the brain to rest. The most effective method that has been known to mankind since ancient times is associations. They help to connect anything with anything - you just need to think of a word, image, sound or smell that remind you of the necessary information. Interesting fact: using happy, positive, colorful and pleasant pictures significantly increases the efficiency of memory. Another classic method is to break the material to be remembered into parts. Remember how you learned poems at school? They were simply broken down into separate quatrains, which were much easier to learn than the entire poem. Or phone numbers, which are recommended to be divided into blocks. By the way, you can combine this and the previous methods, and then the information will sit very deeply in your mind. Naturally, the vast majority of people fail to remember something necessary the first time, so repetitions are necessary - you can’t get rid of them completely. Just reduce their number to the necessary minimum - for example, several times - then it will not tire the brain, and your work will be at the peak of its effectiveness. And finally, the accents method. You need to imagine the material to be remembered as elements that are located along a route that is well known to you. For example, when you memorize a shopping list, you can place apples in the left pocket of your jacket, sour cream in the right, sausage in the inner left, and eggs in the inner right - and you will easily remember them. Or you can use a map of your apartment as a basis. But it is worth remembering that this method is good when working with something that is well imagined and specific, in particular, with images of things. Each of us knows that you can improve your physical fitness with constant training. Well, this also works with the cognitive-psychological side! We hope that you will successfully complete all of the above exercises, and you can always rely on your memory. We recommend reading:

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