Fite - Remember to Remember: Improve Your Recall, Memorize Anything, and Never Forget a Name

Youve been lied to. Youve been told your entire life that your memory is fixed, that it cannot be improved. Its not true. Only about a third of our memory abilities are based on genetics. That means that we have some control over the other two thirds and we can improve our ability to remember if we want to.

Having a good memory isnt a matter of retention, but rather a matter of attention. Our minds are supercomputers, capable of much more than we realize. Our belief system, how we think, is the software that our minds run on if we believe that we have a bad memory then well have a difficult time remembering things because thats how weve programmed our minds to work. When we believe that we cant improve in any area of our lives, we often cant. When we think negatively, our bodies release catabolic stress hormones that can affect our ability to recall information. When we go around saying that we have a bad memory, it starts to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We need to change that. Its time to update your software.

We often talk about people who have great memories as if theyre born with a special ability to remember. The truth is that great memories are learned and anyone can learn how to improve their memory. This should be a skill taught in school. In the classroom, were taught what to learn but not how to learn. To make matters worse, were prepared by school for a world that doesnt exist anymore. Theres no need to remember things because you can just Google what you need to know. Weve let our guard down and deferred to technology to carry the burden of knowledge. The result is a reliance on the cloud to act like an external brain to store information and remember things for us. Weve traded wisdom for convenience.

If you can improve your memory, you can improve your life. Imagine being able to remember where you parked your car or where you left your keys when youre running late. Better yet, imagine being able to remember the name of the person you just met thirty seconds ago. Now imagine being able to remember their name when you run into them at the grocery store six months later. Could that change your life?

The problem isnt that we forget things. The problem is that we dont remember in the first place. Thats the thesis of this book that we must pay close attention to things as they happen if we want to be able to remember in the future. We remember when we pay attention. We pay attention when were engaged. Were engaged when we look at new information and we make sense of it by connecting it to other memories and knowledge that we already have and we determine why that new information were looking at should matter to us. You cant answer questions on a test if you never learned the material prior to taking the test. You cant learn by osmosis. But if you reviewed the material, connected it to previous knowledge you already have to make it meaningful and then rehearsed the information, youll do better on a test. Thats how memory works. Unless you pay attention and make a clear recording of whatever it is you want to remember in the moment, as it happens, what you playback later wont be clear either.

What Ill share with you in this book are just shortcuts. Hacks, if you will. Tricks to improve your chances of retaining information just long enough for it to transfer from short-term memory to long-term memory. What youll find is that these hacks are designed to help you pay better attention at the time you need to memorize information to increase your chances of recall later.

I first became interested in memory after getting frustrated with myself for not being able to recall things that I felt I should be able to remember. I would read books and days after I would finish them, I wasnt able to explain what the book was about other than high-level information. I would understand the gist, but I didnt have any specific wisdom or teachings that I could not only remember, but apply to my life. This upset me, because as much as I enjoyed reading, I felt that if I couldnt remember what I had read, I was essentially reading for entertainment instead of for learning.

I wrote this book after researching how I could improve my overall memory. In this book, Ill share with you everything that I learned from my research, including the foods that you can eat that help lift the mental fog that so many of us experience. Ill discuss the importance of sleep and the optimal amount you need to perform at your best. Well explore how memories are formed and when we should be aware of false memories that you tell yourself and others tell you. Ill also give you hacks that you can start using today to help remember information better. I write books that show how incorporating small habits into your daily routine can lead to an improved life. If these kinds of books help you, join my new release list where I let all of my subscribers know whenever I release a new book so they can download a copy on their Kindle for FREE. Ill also let you know whenever my back catalogue of books are FREE to download as I run promotions all throughout the year: KenFite.com/FREE .