Joshua Foer Memory

In this tedTalk with Joshua Foer, he was going over the importance of memory and how it makes you who you are. He was telling us about the memory experts and how much they can memorize in a short amount of time, comparing it to Ep who has possible the worst memory. I like how he started the speech because it just sounded silly and made no sense. The way he ended it actually helped me a lot, the way he brought it together to put crazy images in your mind that you will remember, to remember things is going to be very helpful for me. Associate things with each other, make it almost extreme so you really won't forget. He was speaking about how the memory experts went through tests for scientists to see if their brains were different. They were
the same. These people make their own memory techniques and have already trained their memory how to take in information. It’s amazing how much they remember, they are like computers when you put in data. We have computers and cell phone now though to memorize for us. We are losing our memory techniques and are forgetting how to memories all together. We can just look things up on our phone and the information we need is right there ready for us. It is just simple things we should know but don’t even bother to exercise our memories because we know the answers are in our phones wherever we go. You have to exercise your brain and memory as much as you should be physically exercising your body. Things don't work the same if you don't use them. You don't work out, you can gain weight so your heart isn't working as good, your knees will have problems because you aren't up and moving on them. Just like your body, your brain needs puzzles and exercises to keep it active. Try and remember 3 things in the morning, afternoon and night everyday is a good example of a memory exercise. Your brain will get used to having to memorize things and you will find a way to keep it memorized.