MEMORY TRAINING 20 STEPS

Are you worrying – “surely not 20 steps!” before you can remember things better?  I’m glad to say that you don’t need 20 steps at all!  In fact when you read the sections below you will be quite shocked.  There is a whole lot of hype about what you need to improve your memory and much of it is wrong – or at the very least not very helpful.

Listen to this.

1.  You cannot improve your memory:


a.   By listening to memory improvement CDs or audio tapes.
b.   By attending a seminar on memory improvement.
c.   By taking memory improvement pills or medication.
In just the same way that you would build up your body you need to exercise and do some activities which will improve your mental muscle.


Mnemonics and other memorization techniques do not work!


Memory is not just little box in the brain where things happen and information gets shoved into the right filing drawer.  It’s a result of the entire brain’s work. So to dramatically develop our memory we have to dramatically develop the entire brain. For example, you can learn some dancing moves, but, if you are out of shape, you won’t be able to use them. The thing about the old tricks of rote memorisation and mnemonics  are that they take a lot of time and effort and you can’t really use them in everyday life because the things you need to remember in everyday life are more complicated..

  • What we need is to have the ability to memorize entire books, new languages, and other massive volumes of complicated types of information.
  • We need to have ability to keep information we have memorized for as long as we want, so we never experience the frustration of reading something and forgetting it in just a few days or even hours.
  • Memorization should happen as natural as breathing WITHOUT thinking about techniques or process itself. Memorisation is a natural process – there is no reason for us to make it unnatural. When we read something we don’t think about techniques; we just receive information into our head. When we memorize, we should just save information into our brain and enjoy the process.

 Obviously memorization tricks and gimmicks fundamentally cannot provide that.  Which leaves you where?  Stuck?  What will work then?  The answer is you need a good programme of activities and practice which has been designed to help you build you whole brain into a great working order.  There are many programmes out there that do that and if you are serious about improving your memory – and improving your mind – you will find suggestions and links in our site to the best ones.  And even they do not have 20 steps before you’re ‘better’!