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Your mind is not a sieve – it is a brilliant computer with a vast capacity for storage.

There is considerable evidence to support the suggestion that our brains do retain far more information than is generally thought perhaps even all of it.

Tony Buzan

So you must already have a mountain of information which you can usefully draw on – all you need to do is improve your ability to recall it. This can be done by a regular programme of exercises or making sure that you give yourself plenty of opportunity to practise your recall skills. Your memory was probably functioning much better when you were at school, mainly because it had so much exercise!

Here are just a few simple ideas:

Keep a daily diary.

Learn a language.

Learn some poems or quotes off by heart.

Psychologists have also shown that we can also improve our ability to retain information by:

– keeping our study periods short

– constantly reviewing what we have learned

– repeating information, such as a name, several times as soon as we hear it

– using mnemonic techniques which help us make links

– using highlighting colours

– using symbols and drawings to reinforce ideas

– asking others to test us.