Stein - Memory: Become A Genius and Learn More About Your Brain

Welcome to the first chapter of the book. This chapter has been meticulously designed to help you grasp a rough understanding of how your brain functions and what exactly is memory.

You must have heard the word memory being used casually in daily life. The usage of the word memory is usually restricted to referencing to being able to recall something. It is generally used while making statements like I am losing my memory, my memory is fading, it escapes my memory as to where I kept my car keys. While such a usage is not incorrect, this chapter will help you gain a biological and a much more compartmental understanding of the human memory.

Before advancing further into the anatomy of your memory, let us first help you guess how your memory looks like to an imaginary astronaut who happens to travel into your brain. First off, imagine a great castle, with its portcullis drawn down and its windows shattering against a raging wind. For miles there is no other castle in sight. Now imagine walking into this castle through the portcullis that threatens to rattle down having been battered in the wind. As you enter this castle, you find to your right and left huge oak doors flanking the perimeter. You wonder what they are and are tempted to look into each of these doors before your eyesight is blinded by a flash of light that derives its source from the middle hall of the castle, which is situated half a mile from where you are standing. You tend to get drawn towards this source of light, but are unable to reach it despite it seeming like you are walking toward it in great strides. You decide to give up on the venture and walk around the hall, attempting to peep into the doors, which, to your dismay refuse to open.

The castle is your brain, the blinding light source is everything you have learned in your life and the doors are mere guardians of large rooms that contain your memories. In simple words, your experiences are stored in the middle of your brain that are so intense and vast in magnitude that you seem unable to grasp its measure. The wooden doors hide behind them the passageways to your memories, i.e. everything that you are supposed to remember. All you have to do is wrench open the doors to gain access to your memory. Illustrated above is a fantasy description of how your brain works.

Whenever you experience something, regardless of how insignificant it be, you tend to store it inside the brain, which then directs it to the middle. Imagine every tiny little thing you have seen, heard, smelled or tasted in your life. The sum total of everything is stored in the middle. It is this region of your brain that you cannot even dream about gaining access to. However, what you can definitely reach out for is what is behind the wooden doors. The castle, i.e. your brain allows you to open these doors and utilize the maximum out of what your memory potential as a human being is. All you have to do is grab the chance and open the doors. This books objective is to teach you how to open these doors the quickest, smartest and safest.

After that fantasy world tour, let us now step into the real world and see how the real brain works. No scientist or biologist has so far successfully decoded how the human brain works. The grander and magnificence of the human brain is such that even those studying the human body havent been able to decipher the secrets it holds after years of researching and attempting. Despite the task of understanding the human brain being so tedious and unachievable, a rough blueprint can definitely be laid down.