16. Outsource More Memory Research and jot down a few new facts about your topic. It’s a bit like outsourcing unfamiliar facts and figures. This frees up your working memory to focus on integrating these new facts in ways that solve real-life problems in your writing. Working memory holds new facts a very short time, [...]
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No Brain Left Behind
Have you experienced mental power that bubbles over in circles where no brain is left behind? Interactive sessions where creativity trumps criticism, and diversity’s the handmaiden of dignity and innovative virtue? The jury is still out on why some people are smarter. Most agree though, that brilliant solutions tend to flow from pools just outside [...]
Mix Music and Movement
Does the thought of running, hiking or twisting to aerobics motivate you? People high in bodily kinesthetic intelligence tend to shake n’ rattle daily, yet there’s no need to slip into coach potato style if you’re less athletic. Could a musical ditty get you up and going? What if you heard that music makes it [...]
Expect More Memory by Outsourcing Key Facts
In spite of great books about memory and the brain’s amazing ability to remember, we still search frantically for keys as we fly out the door. It doesn’t have to be that way. Books such as, How to Develop a Perfect Memory, by Dominic O’Brien, work well for those interested in remembering things like an entire deck [...]
Novelty Stokes Memory
A stranger calls when you expect it least, and that’s what you emphasize at the dinner table. You try a new Thai or Portuguese restaurant and its unique flavors linger long after dinner. A cat jumps out of nowhere onto your lap as you prepare notes for a meeting, and you share stunned reactions with [...]
