What About The Rest Of The Items In The List?
We started with names because usually names are high on the list of 10 that people prepare. For me is item number one. Here are a few reasons why it should be item 1 on your list too:
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Generally, names tend to be the worst culprit in forgetfulness.
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Since names are related with many other entities (faces, places, events, commitments), remembering names stimulates the brain to form connections with these events if the name is firmly in mind.
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Of everything that we might wish to remember, such as book summaries, names tend to be the easiest in the lot.
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About two weeks into this, it would be time for you to pick up the rest of the items in your list.
A Peep Into Memory
Before you pick up the rest of the items, it will be useful to look at a few factors related to memory.
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Researches have shown that human memory and the way the human brain creates them is excessively complex.
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Thousands of factors are involved in the process.
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However, one has to understand only a few of them so as to improve memory.
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These are short term and long term memories.
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Short term memory is essential but is dispensable after its use is over.
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For example, if you make a one-time trip to a place, the directions to that place go into short term memory and are discarded after that trip is over.
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When you add two large numbers, you have to “carry” numbers to the next column. These are kept in your short-term memory and are discarded as soon as it’s use is over.
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It is actually the long-term memory that memory training improves.
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Everything to be discarded goes to the short-term memory.
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Memory training teaches the brain to selectively send information to the long-term memory (such as names) which it had been sending to the short term memory so far.
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The more you work upon it, the more the brain will move networked information from short term to long term memory.
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The Rest Of The Items In Your List
After the second week, you can start picking up the rest of the items and start working on them.
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Assuming you picked up the first item correctly, let it remain there.
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Reorganize the rest of the items if needed in the order of revised priority.
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As you work through the list, you will realize that except for maybe the first two or three items, your priorities keep changing.
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You will also realize that one you cross the hurdle of memory with the first item, the second one becomes a bit more easy, and so on up to the tenth item.
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Many report that once they manage the first five items, they no longer need the list as now they can easily organize it all in their mind, with the help of the diary.
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This is the dynamics of training your mind not to forget essential information.
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Many have discovered that memory training works like a jigsaw puzzle. As you keep working identifying the next piece becomes easier.
