How do you improve your memory?

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Do you have any memorization techniques? Do you eat specific foods or drinks? Do you use Mnemonics? If yes, which ones do you use?

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anti oxidants ;)

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Repetition! repeat, repeat, repeat!

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The more you do something, the more it gets embedded in your mind/memory. Also, healthy foods make for a healthy mind, whereas the normal "study diet" of sugar and junk food can cloud memories. Deep breathing... lots of good, healthy living.

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The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas has some great tips. Also, I walk around when I'm going over (and over) my 3x5 cards, outside if weather permits.

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all my Mnemonics are against TOS. Suffice it to say if I really want remember something...the dirtier I can make it the better it sticks ;)

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Vitamins and keeping the mind occupied by doing crossword puzzles.

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Reduce your stress level. Increase your happiness and peacefulness. If you are always stressed too much and your body is in fight-or-flight or panic mode, you can't learn or retain.

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How I memorize is verbalizing aloud and writing it down as I say it. Works like a charm for me.

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My worksheet- by the end of shift not even an egyptologist could decypher what I written on that thing. Outputs, last doses and my assessment data are scattered all over it. It looks like a highlighter committed mass murder too.

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Read, teach it to my dog or the wall....say it aloud again. Take 10 minutes...repeat-so far works like a charm...I have even studied in my dreams. :sarcastic:

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Do mind mapping. It helps tremendously!

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