2016—Ten steps to improve your memory, and seven steps to remembering names.


10 Rules:

 1 Make a point of increasing your original awareness by using your powers of observation and focus.

2 Concentrate on one thing at a time

3 Visualise what you want to remember.

4 Understand that the brain has unbelievable capacity to store information.

5 use the Association/Substitution process to remember intangible or abstract information.

6 Link abstract objects to form a ridicules objects or names.

7 Practice memory pegs techniques.

8 Apply the seven steps to remember names.(see notes below).

9 Try linking numbers with letters to make words so that the number can be remembered.

10 Practice all your memory techniques daily.

Notes:

Remember Names the Seven Steps:

1 Have a positive mental set.

2 be interested in remembering each persons name.

3 Listen attentively and if unsure ask them to spell their name.

4 form some association with someone you don’t know or one of your pegs.

5 Use the substitute process i.e. a funny picture etc.

6 Link the silly picture to the name.

7 Repeat the name and substitution