Lifestyle and Memory

Learning which lifestyle you need to nurture and which to give up is crucial to your brain’s ability to retain information.

1. Sleep well: In sleep, your brain makes connections between thoughts & situations which made no sense before, enhancing your ability to solve problems and retentions.

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2. Stay social: Actively engaging in social activities and staying in touch with friends extends brain life and helps you stay young.

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3. Exercise: Aerobic activity increases oxygen flow and helps you feel more alert.

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4. Manage stress: Stress hinders memory by causing your brain to produce too much cortisol, which impedes your brain’s ability to create and access memories.

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5. Be more organized: Organization makes it easier for you to learn new things, remember appointments and tasks, and navigate through your chaotic life with order.

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6. Meditate: Take time to meditate, which improves your focus and helps your brain recall memories.

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7 Stay positive: Positivity actually helps your mind stay clear, focused and alert.

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8 Travel: Travel is a multi-sensory experience and requires your brain to take in lots of new things at once.

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9 Really listen: If you pay attention, you learn something new, your brain will be able to form a more developed memory.

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10 Write things down: Writing things down reinforces what’s going on internally in your mind and provides for reference later.

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11 Read and review: Test your reading comprehension and memory by testing yourself on what you just read.

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12 Switch hands: Do tasks with your non-dominant hand,This lets your brain learn something new and create a new memory.

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