Memory-
After reading the chapter about memory, I came to the conclusion on how to improve short-term memory. Personally, my memory is pretty good, because when I was in elementary school I would have to memorize poems and say them out loud; I think that helped me a lot with my memory because I did not have to write things that I needed to remember, they just stick to my brain.
There are some tips for improving memory that I find useful: Staying mentally active, organization, daily routine, healthy food and routine, physical exercise, breathing…
I would explain each one in a few sentences because I bet it sounds funny when I say breathing.
Staying mentally active improves memory due to keeping the brain cells active all the time; there are games on the phone that can help with exercising your brain.
The organization is very helpful, especially for the students; having everything in order and organized is helpful to remember certain things. My bad habit is being unorganized; everything is all over the place all the time, and I can not keep track of some things sometimes.
Having a routine is very important, because when you skip something that will stay in your mind and it will remind you that you forgot about something. Routine is making us keep track of life.
Healthy food is important because it keeps our brains healthy. Living a “healthy life” is not just eating healthy and going to the gym, having a healthy life means being: mentally healthy, happy, around people that make you positive, around positive energy…
Physical exercise is also very important, moving your brain cells is not enough, physical exercise is important as well. All bad energy goes away by exercising and being away from your problems at the time. Negative energy goes away through sweating, and positive energy comes through our mind while doing something that makes us happy and alive.
Why is breathing on the list? Because there are several exercises with breathing that help us remember certain things.
There is one of many exercises that improve memory: Sit back or lie down in a comfortable space
Close your eyes and place your hand on your belly
Take a deep breath through the nose for 4 seconds and expand the belly
Hold your breath and count to 3
Exhale for 8 seconds while relaxing the belly
Repeat 3 to 7 times ( Green)
Thinking and Intelligence-
After reading the chapter on Thinking and Intelligence, I learned that heredity and environmental experiences play a big part in my intelligence and the intelligence of others. I come from a family with pretty high IQ scores; which means that me and my sibling have a predisposition to have an IQ above the average. In middle school, I went to a private school, and I was learning three languages at the time while playing piano and being an athlete. In my freshmen year of high school, I came to the US to get better educated and to have a brighter future. In my school, I tried to take classes that would help me get academically and philosophically advanced. My parents, in my opinion, did a very good job in giving me amazing opportunities for education. My mom has a Ph.D. in Technical Science, while my dad has a master's degree in math. Both of my parents are very educated and every time we would talk, we would have interesting discussions that would make us think deeper. Other than education, I got an opportunity to travel most of the world with them at such a young age; where I would see several different cultures and spread my view of the world. Those things played a big role in my environmental experience.
Gardner’s Theory-
After briefly reading about Gardenr’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences in Chapter 6, also I did some additional research on this topic. Online I found a test that told me what I was out of those 8 intelligences, I made a guess before doing the test and I was mostly accurate.
I am very interpersonal and intrapersonal, and also naturalistic and linguistic; those are my top 4 intelligences. Personally, I think you can not be just one, and this proves to me that. My fifth one was kinesthetic and spatial, which I agree with. One of my difficulties is musical intelligence; I used to play the piano and I was pretty good at it, only because I was practicing, I think I do not have ears for such a thing, and that I don’t have a natural ability in singing and playing different kinds of instruments. People also told me that and I do believe them. One of the problems also for me is Logical-Mathematical; I know how to do math and follow formulas, and I like algebra more than geometry, but that ability did not come to me naturally, but through hard work. I always admired people who knew math and physics super well, but I’m not that kind of a person. I would often find myself in the dark room at 4 am working on math problems, while my roommate was asleep.
Thank you guys for reading, I can not wait to see some of your responses.
Cited:
Green, Rachel. Breathing Techniques for Improved Focus and Memory. Memoryspring, 2023. memoryspring.com/articles/breathing-techniques-for-improved-focus-and-memory/#:~:text=Sit%2Dback%20or%20lay%20down,breath%20and%20count%20to%203