Get Your Brain in Tip-Top Shape
January 9th 2011 00:47
By Martha Weinman Lear, PARADE
Practical tips for making your memory better and whipping your mind into shape.
Martha Weinman Lear is the author of "Where Did I Leave My Glasses?" and "Heartsounds."
1. Associate Names
Link what you want to remember to what you already know. You meet a Jennifer: Picture her in your mind's eye with other Jennifers-Aniston, Lopez. Visualize them together, which is what makes it work.
2. Get Organized
Dr. Margaret Sewell, director of the Memory Enhancement Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, suggests changing the way you organize your tasks. For example, no calls and no e-mail until the current job is done. "It's amazing," she says, "the difference people see as they cut down on nonessential multi-tasking."
3. Concentrate More
Tests show that in absorbing new facts, we are no less competent than 20-year-olds, just slower. "Concentrate a little harder and practice more," says Dr. Sewell. "You want to learn Italian when you're 90? OK! It will take you a little longer but, assuming there's no pathology, you can do it!"
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