My Memory

The Story

MyBrainIsGettingABitRusty - that's what I though over a year ago. Now when I'm making slow progress with MyJapanese, I can actually appreciate, how big a hit my cognitive capacity has taken as a result of multi-year idleness.

My excuse is, I don't seek personal superiority, the way of material self-development is not appealing to me by its destination. On the other hand, a kind of free-will self-humiliation seems to open the doors leading to the places most coveted.

Excuse or no excuse, I am a bit apalled that my mind has been turning from a sharp (but unguided) instrument into a brick. At the moment, I think this has to slow down and stop.

The Paltry State

I thank my brain for filtering out all the information I don't need from the input streams. Unfortunately, it has been far too enthusiastic about it. If I suddenly close my eyes during casual browsing, I'm not able to reproduce the last 3 words I've just read. Even in the unlikely case that my brain sucked all their essence into my super-visionary sub-consciousness, it's still quite an unpleasant feeling. They say an average guy can arbitrarily repeat the last 5-9 words in any stream. Not me.

Training

Spaced Repetition

Other Techniques

Links

http://mnemosyne.fluentradical.com/ http://www.thememorypage.net/ http://www.mikox.de/english/memorize-words/ http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Information_Assets/Memory_Improvement/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Memory_processes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_psychology http://www.aurora-net.co.uk/memory/ http://www.memory-loss.org/ http://www.peterhowden.co.uk/kai-zen/ http://www.memorise.org/ http://www.ielanguages.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mnemonics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimsleur_language_learning_system

-- Main.AndrewPantyukhin - 16 Apr 2008