“ I know of no tricks to improve the process of transferring information from short-term to
memory"
”http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070930/LIFESTYLE/709300337
This is
response from a doctor to the query
“is there
any mental exercise that will work like physical exercise to sharpen my mind? ”
How sharp one’s mind is – is tricky to evaluate and certainly not
something I am qualified to comment on.
I definitely do not have a sharp mind. As a kid
at school, mental arithmetic was such a trial that I often felt the need to
take my socks off so that I could use the toes as well as the fingers.
Telegraph poles, baths filling with water, trains traveling at speed were all a
challenge and nowadays – Countdown and Sudoku are equally mysterious.
But I do know about ‘improving the process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory’ and it is not a trick, just a simple process of systematic review. The process is covered in full in my Ebook 'How to Remember' and I assure you it works – even for duffers like me.
So there is no such thing as a bad
memory. To some of us, accurate recall comes more easily than to others, just
as some of us can run faster than others – but we can all run.
