How to Quickly Improve Your Memory

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Do you find that you have difficulty remembering small things? Are you often misplacing your belongings, only to find them a few minutes later? Your short-term memory may be at fault. With a few simple exercises, you can increase your brain's ability to remember the little things.

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Challenge your brain to remember things. If your brain needs to remember things, it will develop more to do so. The many memory aids we use may affect how well our memory works without these tools. If you use an agenda book or planner for school or work, try to remember things instead of writing them down. Only reference it if there are really important things to do (taxes, bills, etc.) For regular things, try to go without it.

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   Read. Reading works your short term and long term memory (you have to remember what happened on the last page and in the last chapter). Not only is reading good for your memory, it has been proven to overall boost your intelligence.
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   Sing a song. Mnemonics (memory tools) such as singing make remembering anything much easier. The sillier the song/rhyme/abbreviation is, the better. To remember numbers (such as a locker code), make a mathematical equation out of the three numbers, or remember that they add up to, for example, 53.
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   Have fun with it; memory games will help you associate memory with fun. For example, try to remember a certain license plate number at different times of day. This can also be used as a quick check to see how much you are improving.