Expand Your Memory

Ellen Philips

• 25 mei 1995
• 9780705416214

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Expand your Memory

MOST PEOPLE CAN EASILY cite instances when heir memory has let them down—when a friend's birthday or a colleague's name has been forgotten. Indeed, surveys have shown that about 25 percent of us feel we have a bad memory.

But even a bad memory manages to hold an astonishing amount of information, including the meanings of many thousands of words, ways to perform many different physical tasks, and innumerable details about people and events. American neurologist Richard M. Restak says that just to tick! off the number of items your mind is able to hold you would need to write a zero a second for 90 vears. The information your brain contains would fill an encyclopedia 10 billion pages long. With its astounding capacity, your memory acts as a link between the past, present, and future, allowing you to maintain your identity as you update your ideas, skills, and plans in a constantly changing world.