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    DK Essential Managers: Improving Your Memory
    DK Essential Managers: Improving Your Memory
    DK Essential Managers: Improving Your Memory
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    DK Essential Managers: Improving Your Memory

    By David Thomas

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    Learn how to train your memory, enhance your mental abilities, and keep your mind agile and alert. This book’s expert tips, clear text, and informative illustrations will show you how to improve your concentration, organize your thoughts, and retain and recall information quickly and accurately to make your memory work for you both in personal and professional situations.

    The Essential Manager guides have sold more than two million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDK
    Release dateDec 24, 2007
    ISBN9780756667047
    DK Essential Managers: Improving Your Memory
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    David Thomas

    David Thomas, LMSW, is the counseling director for men and boys at Daystar. A popular speaker and the coauthor of five books, he is a frequent guest on national television and radio, and a regular contributor to ParentLife magazine. David and his wife, Connie, have a daughter and twin sons

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      DK Essential Managers - David Thomas

      Introduction

      DKDK

      Mental performance is fast becoming the key not only to personal and professional success but also to the quality of life. An active, powerful memory is the bedrock of our whole mental performance. Improving Your Memory takes you on a journey of self-discovery, showing how your memory works, how to develop its full potential, and how to use it effectively in daily life. The memory-training techniques reveal the level to which you can take your performance, and the applications give you an insight into how you can use memory skills in all areas of life. Self-assessment exercises enable you to evaluate your performance. Enhancing your memory’s capabilities will boost your confidence, expand your creativity, and improve your performance in day-to-day life, at work, study, and play.

      Understanding Memory

      What is Memory? | How Memory Works | Why Improve your Memory?

      Memory is a human faculty that is shrouded in mystery. Understanding how it works will both inspire you and enhance your ability to use it to its full potential.

      What is Memory?

      Memory defines us as individuals. Each of us has unique and irreplaceable memories from a very early age. Memory also enables us to manage our daily lives. Only when memory starts to fail us do we realize how central it is to our identity.

      Memory and individuality

      Your memory, to a large extent, makes you who you are. It is not simply a database of information: your memories influence your outlook on life and consequently your response to events. New experiences are shaped by your memory. Your reaction to an event is based on previous experiences of something the same or similar.

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      Anticipating the future

      When you look forward to something with pleasure—for example, a vacation at the beach—you may do so because you have happy memories of similar occasions in the past.

      Focus point

      Make good use of your memory to get more out of life. Our basic quality of life is rooted in memory.

      Why memories differ

      One person’s recollection of an event is likely to differ widely from another person’s memory of the same event. This is because, unlike a photographic image, a memory is not imprinted precisely on the mind. A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each individual. Your recollection of an event will always be in the context supplied by the other memories and information that are already stored in your brain.

      Focus points

      Realize your memory’s true potential by training it to perform quickly and efficiently.

      Make positive memories for babies by ensuring their environment is rich and stimulating.

      A great and beautiful invention is memory, always useful both for learning and for life.

      Dialexeis, 400 BC

      Remembering as a child

      Exactly when memory starts is a matter of conjecture, but babies are known to recognize voices they heard while they were in the womb, and are said to recognize pieces of music that were played repeatedly before they were born. In their first months, babies begin to recognize the people most often with them, and their surroundings. From the age of one, they develop language skills: while much of this learning is by repetition, toddlers quickly learn to devise their own words or to change existing ones. For example, he or she may say breaked instead of broken, applying a rule memorized subconsciously.

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      Learning language skills

      Memory plays a crucial role in language development. Infants learn by imitation and practice, storing words in their memory long before they begin to use them in speech.

      Memory and aging

      Memory performance does not deteriorate with age. The blood flow to and oxygen consumption in the brain—two factors that determine its performance—are exactly the same in a healthy 70-year-old and a healthy 20-year-old. Their memories perform equally well. The only area in which overall performance differs is speed of learning. When the older person is given a piece of new information to learn, he or she takes longer than the younger person to absorb it.

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      Learning at any age

      While speed of learning may decline with age, retention and recall of information remain as good as ever.

      Focus point

      Stay mentally active, and even in old age you will be capable of performing astonishing mental feats.

      Why memory fails

      Memory can fail temporarily because of stress or tiredness, both of which affect concentration. Amnesia—partial or complete failure on a long-term basis—may be caused by psychological trauma or by damage to the brain resulting from a blow to the head or conditions such as a tumor, stroke, or swelling of the brain. Amnesia may manifest itself as a difficulty remembering ongoing events, events prior to an incident, or events from childhood. Usually the memory slowly or suddenly comes back, although the memory of the trauma may remain incomplete.

      Fact file

      As they get older, many people put the worsening performance of their memory down to losing brain cells. However, while we do lose brain cells as we age, it is not at the rate that

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