To wonder how you remember stuff...

[Jadefeather7]

Ok so I’m not talking about everyday mundane stuff because I’m good at remembering that, I mean interesting stuff that you read or hear about for conversation later. I feel like I don’t retain stuff well and it seems to be getting worse. Is there anything that can be done about this?

i put things in the notes app in my phone

@chipsandpeas do you then keep going back over it and if so for how long before you delete it?

I use the notes section in my planner or if I have empty days where I have nothing I put them in there.
I also have some notebooks that I kept cuttings from newspapers and magazines that I also scribbled in.

I text myself. Everything.

Memory is something that can be worked on and improved - absolutely! It's like working out a muscle to stretch it, you can work on certain "brain skills" to enhance parts of it (for memory it's predominantly the hippocampus and pre frontal cortex)

so Google some memory challenges, buy a logic quiz book, use some techniques such as consciously associating something you've seen or read with a location (linking aspects promotes memory as you can walk back to that place in your mind and it triggers memory related to it) challenge yourself to remember a new fact each week, then two etc and see how far back you can remember.

Slowly you should start to see you're remembering more.

@Jadefeather7 usually delete them when they arent needed

I write things on a post it and then put that in the transparent case in the back of my £700 phone. My husband thinks is ludacris that I don't use the notes app and tbh it's very funny lol