#effective memory technique

It's Strange Being Able To Remember Most Things

I have a good memory, in fact it’s really good.  I am lucky in that I'm able to recall just about anything and so long as I am not tired, there’s rarely anything I forget.  That's not always a good thing, I can assure you, my dad hitting the swimming pool is not a pretty sight, nor something that could be erased easily without some form of brain surgery.

But I digress.

  Why Does My Memory Do What Other's Doesn't

I tried to pin point areas of my upbringing that created my ability to memorize things with pretty good detail, but no one thing seemed to be the definitive memory shaping facilitation.

When you read a lot and you write, not to mention loving puzzles, it's hard to narrow it down, maybe they all work in harmony.

One of the most useless gifts I had because of my memory was that I always knew every lyric to every song, but was it because I had a good memory, or was it the cause?

Here we have the chicken and the egg scenario fighting it out.

  The Memory Basics, Also Good For Reality Show Contestants

One thing I know about memory retention that I found interesting is the idea of Primacy and Regency.

We remember things that happen first and last.  Things create a bigger impact in our mind if they happen first or last, but not as much in the middle. It’s like a memory and mental biohack that seems to have an evolutionary advantage.

Good to know if you're an American Idol contestant.

For the last two years, my memory is not as sharp as I am used to, I wonder if it is because I never play music anymore, I’m just too busy.

There's no time to put on an album when I have so much work to do, I just can't focus with music like I can in silence.

Effective Memory Technique

Something that works well for me, to help me hold onto old memories, child hod ones that I never want to lose, is to simply reminisce.

The act of cogently wading through the memories you have reinforces them.  So in a way, don’t forget the past, you may lose it.

Vividly reminiscing your past memories helps to store them and cross wire them to new neural pathway structuring.

This falls in the category of repetition, by learning something until it etches, but in this case it also brings old information to the fore, remember regency?