3 goals for my blogs

1. My goal for my individual blog is to begin giving various tips to remember things about the world, and actually explain how that works with the brain so it looks more official. I want maybe one tip per week starting after break and see how that works out.

2. With the Board Game, a realistic goal for the group is that we start to play more board games in the quarter and begin brainstorming the rules. We need to have a concrete basis for how its all going to work.

3. With our school improvement project, we need to finalize the ideas based on our survey results. A final idea needs to form and become less general.

Memory Diagram

This graph is essential to understanding memory and it sums up all my confusing posts into one amazing diagram!

Memory Tips

I know half of you won't do the first one, but it is proven to help.

1. Exercise, the extra oxygen given to your brain improves memory

2. Sleep, when you are deprived of sleep, your brain can't function fully.

3. Socialize, become part of a club or activity

4. Laughter, being happy is good for the brain.

5. Don't stress, it kills happiness.

6. Do something new! New experiences are the best!

7. Eat a healthy diet! That goes for anything really.

8. Always pay attention

Names Experiment.

I asked my friend Jasmine, who always gets Ryan and Kyle confused to particiapate in my experiment. I asked her to distinguish differences between them. She did and I am awaiting for tomorrow to see if she remembers. I might add the variable of having them change clothes!

Next, I actually polled my teachers becasue they never know the difference. They say that one way is that they have to look at both of them at the same time and they don't want to have to do that. Mrs. Sheehan said something very clever and saw that Ryan had a much flatter RIGHT ear than his left. She put the R's together.

Names!

I hate it when I see somebody and I know I've learned their name, but I just forget if it's right or not! People constantly mix up my friends Ryan and Kyle Jannak-Huang who are twins! I don't see any way you can mix them up because from the first day I met them it was easy to distinguish them. The book reads:
1. Make sure you get the name.
2. Make the name meaningful.
3. Focus on a distinctive feature of the person's appearance.
4. Associate the name with the distinctive feature.
5. Review the association.

I feel like 3 and 4 make the most sense. With my friends Ryan and Kyle, Kyle has a wider face and Ryan's haircut is different. I associate this with their names and it is so easy to remember them! (Search them on google images, they are actually pretty famous!) If only people took the time to review their distinctive features...

Memory Tips: What was that again?

Ever wonder why you constantly practice something until you "memorize" it but then 10 minutes later you can't even remember! Well if you've never had this experience, then you are probably an alien. The whole point is that you need to repeat, with lots of focus.

Having a kid write "I am going to" instead of I ain't goin' to really isn't going to help because they usually don't care. Repetition does matter though. The more times you do something with complete forcus, the more it is fine-tuned into you brain. Overlearning with complete focus is the only way!