Memory Power! Tips to Improve Your Memory Skills

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Memory Power! Tips to Improve Your Memory
SkillsIts on the tip of my tongue

• With Jean Sutcliffe

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Well cover

• The 3 key principles for remembering information
• How to remember names and faces as well as facts
  and figures
• Top tips for emergency bluffing when all else
  fails

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True or False?

• We remember less and less as we get older.
• Vitamins and certain types of food can boost your
  memory.
• Actually, our brain remembers EVERYTHING. Its
  just a question of being able to access these
  memories.
• Womens memory diminishes during pregnancy and
  never fully recovers.
• A decent nights sleep improves your memory.
• You can permanently improve your memory with
  memory techniques.
• Typically people can store only 5 9 items in
  their short term memory.

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Memory and Age
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Diet and Fitness
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Memory Test

• Tree Time Face Pipe
• Clock Mouse Engine Planet
• Thunder Necklace Wardrobe Caterpillar
• Garden Treacle Picture Harness
• Sleep Apple Ocean Book

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Memory Process

1. Making something memorable
2. Storing that item in the mind
3. Recall it accurately at some future time

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Absorbing the Information

• Whats your learning preference?
• Finding the technique for you.

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Remembering Information

• Mnemonics
• My very eager mother just served us nine pizzas
• Acronyms
• JPEG
• NATO
• TFMD

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Remembering Information
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Remembering Information

• Journey Method

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Remembering Information

1. Call vet
2. Mend sunglasses
3. Bake cup cakes
4. Visit Bank Manager
5. Buy birthday present
6. Buy stamps
7. Collect dry cleaning
8. Check oil in car
9. Pay water bill
10. Change light bulb

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Remembering Information
Stop Job
Stairway Buy Postage Stamps
Master Bedroom Collect Dry Cleaning
Bathroom Check oil in car
Spare Bedroom Pay water bill
Attic Change light bulb
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Remembering Names and Faces
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Memory Games
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Memory Test

• Girl Rope Cake Leaf
• Horse Beard Sugar Scarf
• Leather Hammer Dragon Feather
• Banana Arrow Clock Salmon
• Brick Book Stool Radio

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Use it or lose itThank you and goodbye!
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