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How to improve your memory - Techniques

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:48:31 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.mindtools.com

Memory Improvement Tools

Introduction to Memory Techniques

Remembering a Simple List - The Link Method and Story Method

Remembering Ordered Lists - The Number/Rhyme Mnemonic

Remembering Ordered Lists - The Number/Shape Mnemonic

Remembering Middle Length Lists - The Alphabet Technique

Remembering Long Lists - The Journey System

Remembering Grouped Information - The Roman Room System

Remembering Very Long Numbers - The Major System

Using Concept Maps to Remember Structured Information

Memory Games - Have fun while you improve your memory

How to... Learn a Foreign Language

How to... Remember Information for Exams

How to... Remember People's Names

How to... Remember Lists and Long Numbers

Other Memory Tools - Reviewed... - Our reviews of other important memory resources

Download this section of Mind Tools in PDF format to read and print at your leisure

Tags: memory, brain, science, health, people, life

Study Guides and Startegies FOR EVERYTHING

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:18:22 GMT

clipped by: sohil

Clip Source: www.studygs.net

Preparing

Learning to learn
Scheduling and setting goals
Exercise requires Flash
Managing time
Managing stress
Avoiding procrastination
Thinking critically
Thinking like a genius
Developing self-discipline
Motivating yourself
Adaptive decision-making
Managing by exception
Exercise requires Flash
Making decisions/solving problems

Learning

Mapping information for learning

Problem based learning

Learning as an adult

Learning as a student-athlete or student-performer

Visual learner

Thinking aloud/private speech

Learning with ADHD

Exploring your own learning style

- outside links

Studying

Effective study habits
Concentrating
Memorizing
Exercises require Flash
M.U.R.D.E.R. - a study system
Index - a study system
Studying with multiple sources
Vocabulary building exercise
"Study" print bibliography
Study skills web sites - outside links
Free digitized texts, books, services- outside links

Guided notes

Influencing teachers

Taking notes in lectures

Classroom discussions

Paying attention

Tags: genius, tips, howto, social, school, education, self improvement, thinking, strategy, motivation

77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:53:31 GMT

clipped by: karokan

Clip Source: oedb.org

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven't gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. New knowledge is the backbone of society's progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others' quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today. Your quest for knowledge doesn't have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein's, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge's sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal.

Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques. In fact, it's been said that the average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain. Imagine what we may be capable of with more advanced learning techniques. Here are 77 tips related to knowledge and learning to help you on your quest. A few are specifically for students in traditional learning institutions; the rest for self-starters, or those learning on their own. Happy learning.

Tags: learning, knowledge

39 ways to live, and not merely exist

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:53:53 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.dumblittleman.com

Too often we go through life on autopilot, going through the motions and having each day pass like the one before it.

That's fine, and comfortable, until you have gone through another year without having done anything, without having really lived life.

That's fine, until you have reached old age and look back on life with regrets.

That's fine, until you see your kids go off to college and realize that you missed their childhoods.

It's not fine. If you want to truly live life, to really experience it, to enjoy it to the fullest, instead of barely scraping by and only living a life of existence, then you need to find ways to break free from the mold and drink from life.

Love

Get outside

Savor food

Create a morning ritual

Take chances

Follow excitement

Find your passion

Get out of your cubicle

Turn off the TV

Pull away from Internet

Travel

Rediscover what's important

Eliminate everything else

Exercise

Be positive

Open your heart

Kiss in the rain

Face your fears

When you suffer, suffer

Slow down

Tags: personal development, self improvement, mlf

9 Things I Hate About Everyone

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:11:29 GMT

clipped by: tanuki

Clip Source: pepsea.stumbleupon.com

9 Things I Hate About Everyone

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.

3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it?

5. When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.

6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.

8. When people say "life is short". What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?

Tags: humor, humour, joke, sarcasm

Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:16:59 GMT

clipped by: Perkalicious11

Clip Source: www.sharpbrains.com

let's review some good lifestyle options we can follow to maintain, and improve, our vibrant brains.

Learn what is the "It" in "Use It or Lose It"

Take care of your nutrition. Did you know that the brain only weighs 2% of body mass but consumes over 20% of the oxygen and nutrients we intake?

Things that exercise your body can also help sharpen your brain: physical exercise enhances neurogenesis.

Practice positive, future-oriented thoughts until they become your default mindset

Thrive on Learning and Mental Challenges

Aim high. Once you graduate from college, keep learning

Explore, travel. Adapting to new locations forces you to pay more attention to your environment

Make your own decisions, and mistakes. And learn from them

Develop and maintain stimulating friendships. We are "social animals", and need social interaction. Which, by the way, is why 'Baby Einstein' has been shown not to be the panacea for children development.

Laugh. Often. Especially to cognitively complex humor

Tags: prepare, technique, tip, brain, organization, improvement, highly effective, habits

Be a better Person.....

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:04:45 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: Link is dead... new link is:
http://acomplaintfreeworld.org/

Live a complaint free life. Or at least try. I suppose you could do this with a rubber band or any other kind of wrist wear. I am going to try this in my goals to improve my life as well as contribute positively to the world at large (or small). That means I have to be careful about what I clip and say at clipmarks then!

Clip Source: ccunitykc.org

"How Does it Work?"

Scientists believe it takes 21 days to form a new habit and complaining is habitual for most of us. As Twain said, we must coax our old behavior down the stairs. The bracelet(s) you receive are a powerful tool(s) to remind you of how well you are creating your life with positive intention. Here are the suggested rules:

1. Begin to wear the bracelet, on either wrist

2. When you catch yourself complaining, gossiping or criticizing (it’s ok, everyone does) move the bracelet to the other arm and begin again.

3. If you hear someone else who is wearing a bracelet complain, you may point out their need to switch the bracelet to the other arm; BUT if you’re going to do this, you must move your bracelet first!

4. Stay with it. It may take many months but when you reach 21 days you will find that your entire life is happier, more loving, more positive and more abundant.

Tags: improvement, self-improvement, positive, happiness

15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:17:14 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Bertrand Russell:

“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”

Clip Source: www.dvorak.org

15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

9. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

15. It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. — Gloria Steinem

5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

8. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway

11. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud

2. I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

4. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, life, religion, society

How to be better at almost anything

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:21:49 GMT

clipped by: ghiberti

Clip Source: headrush.typepad.com

Earlier we talked about why the fast-talking guy sounds smarter than the guy who understands more than he can say. We talked about how wrong that is, and how if the glib always win, we all lose. But the more important battle is not between articulate vs. less-articulate people... it's between the articulate vs. non-articulate parts of your own head. Your brain has both a quick-talker and a quick-thinker, but the good-talker "know-it-all" gets the glory. In other words, there's a smart part and a dumb part of your brain, and the problem is...the dumb part talks.

While your brain is chatting away evaluating, judging, instructing, criticizing, directing, etc... the smarter parts sit in the corner, ignored. Alan Kay--often called the father of object-oriented programming and one of the greatest thinkers/researchers/designers/teachers/engineers of our time-- talks about the implications of this for education... something we talked about earlier.

But Alan Kay was inspired by the work of Tim Gallwey, whose work arose from one simple question, "... is all this inner dialogue really necessary? Is it helping...or is it getting in the way?" Until I heard Alan Kay talk about it (and explain some of the cognitive science behind it), I had always thought Gallwey's "inner game" thing was just one more bit of 60's self-help new-age nonsense. I was dead wrong.

Gallwey showed that the parts of our brain that learn from experience are far more capable than the parts that learn from talking through it. We think we need to tell ourselves things like, "keep your weight over your front don't press so hard on the violin bow..." when we're trying to learn something new or improve our performance, when that's exactly the thing that inhibits learning and improvement.

Tags: analysis, analytical, experience, brain, mind, thinking, doing, talking

10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do it

Fri, 25 May 2007 22:51:33 GMT

clipped by: sohil

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” - Ben Franklin, famously

“Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin …” - Mark Twain

Now, let me first say that if you are a night owl, and that works for you, I think that’s great. There’s no reason to change, especially if you’re happy with it. But for me, switching from being a night owl to an early riser (and yes, it is possible) has been a godsend. It has helped me in so many ways that I’d never go back. Here are just a few:

Greet the day

Amazing start

Quietude

Sunrise

Breakfast

Exercise

Productivity

Goal time

Commute

Appointments

How to Become an Early Riser

Don’t make drastic changes

Allow yourself to sleep earlier

I suggest going to bed earlier, even if you don’t think you’ll sleep, and read while in bed

Put your alarm clock far from you bed

Go out of the bedroom as soon as you shut off the alarm.

Do not rationalize

Have a good reason

Make waking up early a reward

Tags: early, sleep, habit, good, productivity, self improvement, howto, work, exercise, amazing

Your life is Perfect.

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:26:10 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: We often don't know if we want something until we get it, and then find it wasn't what we wanted. Through that discovery, we can start to believe we really wanted something else, and the chase continues, turning goals into hurdles. Often confusing improvement with change. Perhaps another angle could be learning what we need to, but also trying to improve what we can already do well, without neglecting the opportunities to learn from what we can consider to be failures. We can change situations, but changing who we are may not be possible, and if it is we don't have the foresight to make it a likely improvement.

Clip Source: www.mindpowernews.com

By Enoch Tan
Author of Reality Creation Secrets

People think that their life will only be perfect when they have achieved everything they want, when everything is completely going the way they want it to go.

They are looking at the perfect state of life as something that is in the future, that they don’t have it now but they need to move towards it.

The truth is even when they have reached that state, there will still be new desires that will arise to be achieved. It is an illusion to think that the perfect life is something in the future instead of being present with us.

If you think that the perfect state of your life can only be experienced when everything you desire is manifested, then you are separating yourself in time. Thinking in terms of linear time is what creates resistance towards our desires manifesting as perfectly as possible

There is really no separation between past, present and future because spirit contains it all as one reality

your perfect life

you can step into instantly

Tags: life, perfect, past, present, future

Blindness to be curable in 5 years.

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:50:24 GMT

clipped by: BitDrifter
clipper's remarks: with stem cell treatment.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

A revolutionary technique being developed by British scientists could cure blindness in millions of people around the world.

The first 45-minute operations could take place within five years and could be as commonplace as cataract surgery in a decade.

The improvement is likely to be great enough to transform lives, allowing the blind to regain the ability to carry out everyday tasks such as reading or driving.

The pioneering stem cell surgery tackles age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in the elderly. There are about 300,000 sufferers in this country and the number is expected to treble in the next 25 years to around one million as the population ages.

Tags: stem cells, science, biology, blind, eyes, medical, health, technology

11 ways to become Charming

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:13:19 GMT

clipped by: Brimstone
clipper's remarks: practicing rule 6: all of you are so great....i really mean it.

Clip Source: www.wikihow.com

Relax the muscles in your face

Improve your posture.

Make a connection.

Remember people's names

Orient topics toward the audience.

Praise others instead of gossiping.

Don't Lie.

ssue compliments generously,

Be gracious in accepting compliments.

Control your tone of voice.

Be interested in people.

Tags: charming, self, improvement

Do you REALLY know what will make you happy?

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:08:22 GMT

clipped by: deusdiabolus

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

The truth about happiness may surprise you

By David Martin
CNN

(CNN) -- The next time you are deciding between ice cream and cake, buying a car or taking a trip to Europe, accepting a new job or keeping your old one, you should remember two things: First, your decision is rooted in the desire to become happy -- or at least happier than you are now. Second, there's a good chance the decision you make will be wrong.

Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert summed up our failings this way: "People have a lot of bad theories about happiness."

Our culture implores us to buy bigger, newer, better things, but research shows "stuff" does not buy happiness. By and large, money buys happiness only for those who lack the basic needs. Once you pass an income of $50,000, more money doesn't buy much more happiness, Gilbert said.

So what makes us happy? In general, the older you get the happier you get -- until you reach very old age.

According to a Pew Research Center survey, the happiest age group is men 65 and older; the least happy: men 18 to 29.

The survey also found:

Married people are happier than singles.

College grads are happier than those without a college degree.

People who were religious are happier than those who aren't.

Sunbelt residents are happier than other U.S. residents.

Republicans are happier than Democrats -- but both are happier than independents.

Tags: happiness, self-improvement, philosophy, ideology, psychology, lifestyle

Watermelon May Have Viagra-effect

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:11:55 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: In watermelons, these include lycopene, beta carotene and the rising star among its phyto-nutrients – citrulline – whose beneficial functions are now being unraveled. Among them is the ability to relax blood vessels, much like Viagra does.
Scientists know that when watermelon is consumed, citrulline is converted to arginine through certain enzymes. Arginine is an amino acid that works wonders on the heart and circulation system and maintains a good immune system, Patil said.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

A cold slice of watermelon has long been a Fourth of July holiday staple. But according to recent studies, the juicy fruit may be better suited for Valentine’s Day. That’s because scientists say watermelon has ingredients that deliver Viagra-like effects to the body’s blood vessels and may even increase libido.

“The more we study watermelons, the more we realize just how amazing a fruit it is in providing natural enhancers to the human body,” said Dr. Bhimu Patil, director of Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center in College Station.

“We’ve always known that watermelon is good for you, but the list of its very important healthful benefits grows longer with each study.”

Beneficial ingredients in watermelon and other fruits and vegetables are known as phyto-nutrients, naturally occurring compounds that are bioactive, or able to react with the human body to trigger healthy reactions, Patil said.

Tags: watermelon, fruit, health, viagra