Memory

How to remember what you’ve learned

If you’ve been reading my previous articles you’ll already know how to remember what you’ve learned, and will also be familiar with the 3rd Key to Learning: Test. If this is news to you, then read on… You need to keep testing yourself on each chunk of new information you [...]

Memory

Spaced out?

When is being spaced out a good thing? When it speeds up the memorisation process, that’s when! When you study information for the first time, it’s your short-term memory doing all the work. You’ve got to spend more time with it if you want your brain to make a pattern [...]

Memory

4 easy things to improve your memory by 10%

Don’t you just love it when science comes right out and verifies what we already know! According to research (and to those of us who have already been doing it) each of the following will improve your recall by 10%. I wonder what you could achieve if you did all 4… [...]

Memory

How to remember stuff

When you’ve worked hard to get information in your head, it makes sense to do what it takes to keep it there, and know how to remember stuff. The simplest, most reliable way to do this is to test yourself. It doesn’t just let you know if you still know it, [...]

General, Memory

BLAST from the past!

Enjoy all over again, this blast from the past: Anneka Rice’s reaction to a Harrier Jump Jet just suddenly appearing in the Treasure Hunt TV series of the early 80s. I’ve never forgotten her reaction, probably because it’s pretty much how I’d have responded too. Just watch the last 6 [...]

General, Memory

Are you well-connected?

I expect you know that your brain is divided into two hemispheres: left and right. It was once thought that each hemisphere performed a different set of discrete functions. But we know now that’s not quite true, and that whatever it is you’re getting up to, you’ll be using several [...]

General, Memory

Music to my ears!

Thank you and a request… Wow! Thank you! More and more, I’m getting a lot of lovely things said to me, about this here newsletter. “I love reading Lysette’s newsletters. They’re beautifully written and funny too. A pleasure to read.” Clare McLoughlin, Marlow, Bucks I’ve decided to begin the task [...]

Memory

How do you measure up?

How can you tell if you really know your stuff for the exam? Well, you’ve got to test yourself, obviously. But how many of us do that on limited time we have, when we’d rather spend it actually getting the material into our heads in the first place? On the [...]

Memory

How to improve your working memory in less than a minute

Anyone ever informed you that you're not as daft as you think you are?And then does that little voice in your head ask, “How do you know how daft I think I am?”We all feel silly from time to time. We've all done foolish things, and questioned our brainpower or indeed, [...]

Memory

What’s sticky and won’t let go?

I had a ‘phone call  recently from someone who’d bought Pass Exams Easily – a Book and DVD set I wrote for Brand Financial Training. He wanted to know something along the lines of, “Do I really need to go to all of that palaver in order to learn something?” [...]