Efficient Tricks to Improve Your Memory

Beware of stress, haste, and other small details that promote forgetfulness and impair concentration and learning. Try these tricks to have a better memory.

Learn

Not only do students learn, but we can also do the same! To stimulate your brain, it would be best to try to memorize something every day: phone numbers, lyrics of a song, the pin code of the alarm at work. Anything!

Have enough sleep

Sleep is essential for concentration and memory. While you sleep, the brain classifies all the information stored during the day. So if you don't get enough sleep, this process is disrupted.

Balanced diet

A healthy and varied diet plays an important role in the functioning of the brain. However, the preconceived notion that fish is the key to a good memory is not true.

Fish is rich in phosphorus, but there are other foods (especially meat) that are just as good for the brain. Not for the body, unfortunately … A food that is beneficial for both the mind and the body, is blueberries, so it is advisable to include them in the diet.

Play!

Scrabble, integrate, chess, checkers and other strategy games are activities that keep your brain and memory active.

Joint

Just as we managed to remember which months have only 30 days by associating them with each other, you can apply such associations in everyday life as well.

Take care of your health

Beware of stress, haste, and other small details that promote forgetfulness and impair concentration and learning. Try to practice yoga or go to massage sessions to be as relaxed as possible!

Avoid certain substances

It limits the consumption of alcohol and cigarettes, which alters the activity of brain receptors and products such as tea and coffee, which impair concentration.

Be organized!

Organize your ideas and prioritize. And most importantly, write them down! For example, when you read, take notes, because it helps you remember and improve your memory.

Pay attention to details

A better memory comes down to three things: motivation, observation, and mechanisms. For example, most of us forget people's names because we don't pay attention or we don't consider they are important.

To start remembering names, find a trick that works for you and keep using it. And as for the practice part, here's a simple tip: a few minutes a night, review and remember the details and the name of the day, to improve your memory.

Use the "palace of memory" technique

This is another technique used by people: build a palace of memory, where you can associate the things you want to remember with a place you know very well.

If the home is your mental palace, for example, you can remember the order of your shopping list by imagining a huge cup of milk greeting you at the front door, slices of bread lining the hallway, and soon, you will "walk" through the shopping list, remembering each ingredient.

Use the power of music

We easily forget people's names and numbers, but the lyrics of our favorite songs or the rhymes of childhood lullabies aren't that easy to overlook.

Music helps us to memorize things, with the help of rhymes and rhythm. If you want to learn a foreign language, try to "train" yourself with the help of music videos with subtitles in that language or with the help of karaoke evenings. Singing, in general, helps to stimulate your brain.

Try video games

Add video or computer games to your list of memory benefits: they help you build better memories as you get older, writes lifehacker.com. This seems to apply to 3D video games rather, and less to 2D games.

For example, if you play certain games for 30 minutes a day, this activity has the power to significantly increase the gray matter of the brain.

Visualize what you want to get out of a room before you go after that object

It has happened to you that you enter a room or walk through a door, and this resets your short-term memory and makes you forget what you were looking for.

But if you visualize your purpose before leaving your current room, you will increase your chances of remembering what you are looking for. This also applies to the online environment. Before opening a new browser tab and forgetting why you open it, try to imagine, to see practically what your goal is, what exactly you want to search on the internet.