Like so many people, this amazing and infuriating thing called brain had mystified me as a child. It worked so well in casual and comfortable circumstances that I seldom noticed it; in exams it only performed well on occasion, to my surprise, but was more frequently associated with' bad memory, ' the terrifying region of forgetting. Since I spent much of my infancy with animals in the country, I started to realize that the misnamed' stupid' creatures might have exceptional memories, sometimes superior to mine own. How, therefore, was human memory inherently so flawed? I began to study in detail, enthusiastically devouring details about how the ancient Greeks had developed complex memory mechanisms for different tasks; and how the Romans later applied these strategies to help them to remember entire books of myth and to please their listeners during senatorial presentations and discussions. My attention became more concentrated when I was in college, when the insight gradually dawned on me that these simple systems could not only be used for 'red' or parrot-like memory, but might be used for the mind as gigantic filing systems, allowing incredibly quick and efficient access, and greatly increasing general understanding. I used learning techniques, playing games with my intellect to develop my memory, and supporting other students, ostensibly on the path to academic failure, obtain first-class success.
Over the past decade, the boom of brain research has reinforced what memory researchers, gamesters, heuristic technicians, and illusionists have always known: that our brain's holding power and the ability to remember what's held there are far and delightfully beyond normal bounds. Use Your Brain, a major new advancement from the Use Your Head brain sections, is an initial tour of what should have been mentioned as the first among the world's seven wonders: the' hanging gardens' of boundless memory and inspiration. There are ten billion nerve cells within the three-pound box of the human brain, and about one hundred billion smaller assisting cells. That is more power than a system, in a tiny package. If you added all of the world's telephone communications and multiplied that amount by 1,349, you'd get the overall number of brain associations that your brain is capable of. As each decade passes, specialists and researchers are constantly learning about the brain -its functions, what threats it faces and ways to protect it. They also experiment with ways of making the brain more fastidious and thus smarter. If they make a "smart pill" or not, there are avenues you can train the brain to be more successful right now. You should shield your brain from outside stimuli which are harmful. You should learn to feed and activate your brain so that not only do you survive to a reasonable old age, but all your mental capacities are preserved.
You can grow your brain capacity and we'll show you how in the subsequent article. Wait for that "smart pill." You can start to clear up confusion in your thoughts right now, and try thinking better and clearer, no matter what your age. What might your life be like if you could easily, quickly and effectively learn and remember the information? Just think about it. I'll give you a collection of powerful memory-enhancing mindsets and skills in this short, easy-to-read book, which will allow you to take control of your learning and your life. In the areas of fast thinking and memory development, you can discover many innovative methods, both old and new, that were learned by the best minds in the world. "The memory is a monstrous, glorious mess, The memory & its functions."
