Feel overwhelmed by so many small facts to pack into your brain ... 
just to make it through another fast-paced-day ... with technology nipping your heels at every step?
If that describes your situation, you'll be glad to know that your brain can help out more than most realize....
Your brain looks for connections... and then uses these links in your favor.... Create a few links and try this out... to see how ordinary associations increase your brain's ability to retrieve and apply just that one key piece of knowledge you need ... to jog your memory when you need facts…. Does that make sense?
1). New facts to what you know already and also to what you will use these for, and they’ll be there when you need them. For instance, I have so many passwords and usernames I sometimes feel cloned dozens of times… So I try to link these back to use meaningful terms when I can… and I link them forward by jotting them down in a small notebook near my desk so they are nearby when needed.
2). Smaller details to familiar uses of these you have observed and to the bigger picture these facts will help you to create. The brain works best in step-by-step measures… and you avoid that overwhelmed feeling when you connect details to something you have observed in past and to the bigger picture they will create.
3. Longer chains of knowledge to what people did earlier, and how it will help them to accomplish more in the future… I often write books or curriculum and when I start a new section or chapter, I start with the words… “In the last chapter you…” In the next chapter you will..”
Learning new skills ... is rarely easy ... but memory is most effective whenever you link facts backward... and forward ... to create a meaningful context. When you can see the whole, spot familiar patterns, and visualize links to your past and your future... you remember more…
Can you think of other ways to link forward and backward so things you'd like to remember... stick more to your brain?
» Interpret and Apply Brain Facts from BrainBasedBusiness
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