| Improving your memory is a skill and involves a | | | | Memory Improvement Technique: |
| process. Before you initiate this process, it is | | | | Names and Faces |
| important to get some facts right about your brain. | | | | 1. Always look at a person when you hear their |
| Nothing is stupid than not being able to take action | | | | name; it increases the connection and helps you |
| by believing in certain myths about memory. How do | | | | trigger your visual memory. |
| you come out if this? | | | | 2. Slow down the name game. When someone is |
| MYTH: | | | | introducing you to ten people in a row, slow it down |
| Taking memory pills, vitamins and tonics is the best | | | | and make sure to hear the names one at a time. |
| and easiest way to improve your memory. | | | | 3. Do not try repeating a person name back to them; |
| FACT: | | | | it sounds fake and does not work for memory as |
| Well, we are not going to spend a lot of time on this, | | | | well as you think. |
| for the reason being it is so stupid. There is no drug | | | | 4. Ask yourself in your minds ear "what was your |
| on the market today that can significantly improve | | | | name again?" Just before or after hearing a name. |
| your memory, and we suspect that we will not see | | | | When your mind answers automatically, it starts to |
| one in the future either. Why? | | | | make a connection - after all when you forget a |
| The plain reason being that using your memory is a | | | | name, that question is the first thing you ask |
| combination of the right knowledge & a practical | | | | yourself. So, when you ask this question right after |
| skill (the skill being by far the most important), like | | | | you hear the name, it makes a little Pavlov-like |
| learning how to read and write or playing the guitar. | | | | response in your mind and should improve your |
| You have the capacity to learn how to speak | | | | memory for names as much as double. |
| Spanish in your brain. Millions have learned it. You have | | | | 5. Try to visualize the name. This is the basis of |
| the capacity to have an amazing memory in your | | | | many memory techniques. For example if a person |
| brain. Unfortunately only a few people have | | | | name is Kathy, think of a Cat. If a person name is |
| discovered how. To bring out your memory you | | | | Michael, think of a microphone. Then imagine the |
| need to have the right knowledge, then practice as | | | | person with the item. This may seem like an extra |
| little so it becomes automatic. It is as simple as that. | | | | step but the results will speak for themselves. I |
| Seriously. Would you be duped into buying a "Learn | | | | realize that not every name in the world is as easy |
| how to speak Spanish" pill? | | | | to visualize as Kathy and Mike. |
| Keeping this in mind here is my | | | | |