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Don’t remember your appointment? Don’t know where the documents are? Leaving the house, do you remember for a long time whether the iron was turned off? In the modern rhythm of life, our memory often “fails”. The reason for this is overwork and monotony.
Every day we drive the same routes, visit the same places, communicate with the same people. And the brain does not receive any new information.
And memory … does it need to work if everything is the same again? Naturally, without training, she weakens. But there is a way to bring it back to tone. And for this it is not at all necessary to solve crossword puzzles and read encyclopedias for hours.
Business coach Alexander Belanovsky, author of the book “A Million on the Couch”, believes that in order to strengthen memory, it is necessary to wean the brain from being a “guard dog”. Surprise yourself with something unexpected and unusual. It is not difficult to do this: any deviation from the usual routine is a good “shake-up” for the body. So let’s start with new routes.
Step one: visit a new place, but only for 10-20 minutes
How to do it? Very simple: when returning from work, choose an unusual road. When you go shopping, go to a different store, and not to the one where everything is already known. The brain will definitely notice that something has changed.
Step two: go to an unfamiliar place for 2-3 hours
You can go to visit a friend who has moved to the other side of the city or go to a cinema where you have never been before. Or test a new cafe. You can go to those places where you have not been for a very long time: the well-forgotten old becomes new for our brain.
Step three: spend the whole day in a place you haven’t been before
Подойдет конференция или тренинг, из-за которых вы будете отсутствовать в течение дня на рабочем месте. Еще варианты: поездка с друзьями за город, экскурсия в небольшой старинный городок… Как часто «вытаскивать себя» в незнакомые (или хорошо забытые) места? Каждое из трех упражнений нужно выполнять раз в месяц. Этого достаточно, чтобы мозг не заскучал.
Существуют и другие тренировки памяти: новые знакомства и новые знания. Принцип тот же: 15 минут, 2-3 часа и целый день. И все это раз в месяц.
Move more!
Movement relieves tension and helps to find balance and calmness. And in this state, we are much less likely to forget about something important. A few recommendations from business consultant Pavel Lisovsky.
1. Write down what you don’t need to remember.
2. Try not to be scattered and always do one thing.
3. Замедляйтесь, обращайте внимание на «мелочи».
4. If you want to really relax, get off the Web.
5. To unload the left hemisphere, which is in charge of logic and reason, and engage the right – creative, try writing with your left hand once every couple of days.