A good memory will come in handy in all areas of our life, and its regular training will help prevent the occurrence of "senile marasmus" or Alzheimer's disease.
If you have forgotten a word or phone number, do not rush to go into a dictionary or notebook. Try to remember yourself first. When you use your memory, it works better.
Read books, take notes, and from time to time try to reproduce the content from your notes. Learn good poems and tell them to friends and like-minded people when the opportunity arises. You can once a month arrange a competition for the number of learned quatrains.
Memorize a few new foreign words a day. Learn languages. This advice is very useful for older people, as learning a foreign language helps to maintain memory and clarity of thoughts even in old age. Be sure to use your knowledge. Make foreign friends, talk on vacation abroad.
It is important to set yourself the task of remembering for a long time. To do this, you need to find some usefulness and practical meaning in the information, which may be useful to you even in 5-10 years. When you get motivated, remembering becomes easier.
Algebra and geometry classes are very good at developing the brain. Even if you graduated from high school and university a long time ago, it is useful to open textbooks and "click puzzles" instead of the usual crosswords and puzzles.
Use a mnemonic exercise called Chain. Connect the words you need to remember with each other sequentially. For example, the words "mole-compote-teapot-plane" can be represented by a sentence. "The mole drank all the compote from the teapot while he was on the plane."
Exercise "Cicero". Let's say you need to memorize 15 unrelated words. Imagine your room and "tie" each word to the object in it. You can also use your bookshelf and lay out new information across its departments. Whenever you need to retrieve names or terms, “collect” them from items in your room or “grab” them from the shelf.
Download games and applications to improve memory on your phone. These games can be fun and useful to spend time standing in a traffic jam or in a queue.
When studying new material, make up a short description, tables and diagrams for it. This will help you better "digest" and assimilate the information.
Don't forget about a healthy lifestyle. Sleep, good nutrition and regular exercise in the fresh air are beneficial for health and intellectual abilities. Focus on three foods: grapefruit, walnuts, and dark chocolate. They are great for the brain and improve the retention of information.
