Don’t you hate it when you can’t remember where your keys are, or the material you need to know for the test? I think we all have those moments in our life where we forget things that we need to remember. A person will always forget things here and there but there are definitely ways to improve your memory. Here are some ways that I came up:
Stay away from distraction. Study in places that are free of distractions. DO NOT study in front of a television, around crying, babies or noisy roommates. If getting away from these distractions all the time is hard, then set aside some time to study away from these distractions.
Avoid cramming material before a test. Set a study schedule for yourself and pace your studying over a couple of days. This allows the information to process in your brain and it stays in your long term memory so you don’t by accident forget something during the test.
Sleep well. While you sleep your brain doesn’t rest, it is busy practicing what you learned the day before. If you are trying to learn something new or trying to remember things it is best to sleep before doing so.
Eat healthy. Eating healthy and drinking a lot of water can help your brain improve its memory. Here is some food that have a high chance of improving your memory. Oil based salad dressings, fish, dark green leafy vegetables, avocado, sunflower seeds, peanuts and peanut butter, and whole grains. To sum it all up stick with foods that are high in vitamin E and high in fiber.
Use Acronyms. Acronyms can be used to remember a variety of things. For example, if you need to remember your shopping list and you have to buy bread, apples and milk, just remember BAM and then you automatically remember what you need.
Use acrostics. Acrostics are very similar to acronyms but you are taking the first letter of each word that you need to remember and changing it to make a new sentence. For example, Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. It is used to remember the order of operations in math; Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction.
Say it out loud. Research says that if you say what you need to remember out loud then it improves the memory of the material. For example, when studying for a test it might help to teach someone else the material so it stays in your head better.
Play brain games. This might sound lame and something you don’t like doing but playing games like Sudoku and crosswords actually improve your memory. A study showed that people who played a computer game called Double Decision for six years gained such high concentration skills that they had sixty percent lower rate of car accidents
The list can go on and on because there is so many things you can do to improve your memory. I hope the things that I listed can really help you have a better memory!
