Live Fully

Be all you can be now

Try to live fresh everyday so that you keep out of the rut, the habit of existence. Drive a different route to work, take the stairs instead of the elevator, turn right instead of your usual left and smile with a stranger to acknowledge their presence. See how that feels. According to a recent scientific study having a fresh outlook, consciously keeping yourself out of routines is good for the brains; it also can prevents dementia. Have a wonderful day.

How to improve your memory

We all want to remember things. We all become a little more forgetful as we age. There might be a way for you to stave off that, enjoy a better life, feel more confident by following some of the tips and tricks of a person who has succeeded in training his mind to the olympic level.

The principle underlying most memory techniques is that our brains don’t remember every type of information equally well. Like every other one of our biological faculties, our memories evolved through a process of natural selection in an environment that was quite different from the one we live in today. And much as our taste for sugar and fat may have served us well in a world of scarce nutrition but is maladaptive in a world of ubiquitous fast-food joints, our memories aren’t perfectly suited for our contemporary information age. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn’t need to recall phone numbers or word-for-word instructions from their bosses or the Advanced Placement U.S. history curriculum or (because they lived in relatively small, stable groups) the names of dozens of strangers at a cocktail party. What they did need to remember was where to find food and resources and the route home and which plants were edible and which were poisonous. Those are the sorts of vital memory skills that they depended on, which probably helps explain why we are comparatively good at remembering visually and spatially.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/magazine/mind-secrets.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha210