5 Technique to Increase Memory Retention | Audiobook
Channel: romel andoy
Date: 2021-12-13

When it comes to upgrading our brain power, too many of us think in terms of, wholesale improvement. We want to increase our IQ, or our attention, and generally we seek to, ‘level up’ as though we were a Pokemon or a Dragon Ball Z character.
With nootropics, and brain training, it’s certainly possible to add a couple of IQ points, for what that’s worth. And perhaps with enough brain training, we might be able to slightly increase our attention.
But that’s not the only way to increase brain power, and it’s probably not the most practical.
Instead, I invite you to think of your brain in terms of its, skill set. Skills include specific knowledge, techniques, and abilities that can enhance our ability to use our brains practically.
A skill might be the ability, to think in another language, it might be ambidexterity, it might be speed reading, it might be visualization or it might be memory techniques.
 In these scenarios, you are not ‘smarter’ as such but you have the option to utilize skills, that will help you be more productive and more creative nonetheless.
Developing a perfect memory, is something that anyone can work towards, and this has a ton of practical benefits in real- life situations. Read on to discover some of the best methods you can use, to increase your ability, to retain information.
Levelling Up, Your Memory With Brain Training.
If you’re intent on, ‘levelling up’, your memory, then you have the option to do that through a number of techniques.
One option, is to use some form of brain training. And here there is one strategy, that stands out above the rest.
steps back you are looking, and of course it becomes harder the more information you need to retain.
But here’s where you need to start, being a little discerning. The usefulness of improving your working memory, is questionable, and the amount of work you’d need to do to see results is significant.
Working memory, is the type of memory we use while carrying numbers, during mental arithmetic and it’s how we remember phone numbers briefly, while looking for a pen. There are very few scenarios, where increasing working memory, by a measly two digits would be helpful, and rather the focus should be on converted working, and short term memories to long term.
Working memory can therefore be a useful skill, to develop alongside others, and will help to support memory retrieval. But beyond a certain point dual n-back will deliver diminishing returns.