First Exercise - Enjoy yourself!

The following is the video regarding the first practice, please enjoy yourself =]

After recognizing the magic of memory, let's do an exercise to test your brain capacity! Since it is much easier to understand and apply the memory technique in using our mother language, the following exercise will be demonstrated in Chinese. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

The First Exercise:
甘蔗 -> 香水 -> 外套 -> 牙刷 -> 雞蛋 -> 樹 -> 貼紙 -> 電視 -> 杯子 -> 掃把
Within 1 minutes, try to remember these words as much as you can.

Remark: Don't use a pen/pencil to jot down the words or even draw the pictures.

Time yourself and start the exercise now!

Tips: Remember to activate your brain before doing this exercise!! ^^ It can help you to enhance the brain capacity =]

Improving Our Brains Now! Enjoy~

Things that will affect our memory:
- Fatigue / Exhaustion/ Not enough resting
- Anxiety
- Pressure
- Poor ventilation system
- Too much information/ Not enough time for absorbing the knowledge
- Sitting for too long
- Without breakfast

Ways that can improve our memory:
- Activate the brain (Please watch the following video)

- Read aloud when reviewing the information
- Before sleeping, review the information than is acquired on that day
- Doing exercise
- Listening to the relaxed and soft music

Food that can enhance our memory:
- Candy, chocolate
- Peanut
- Walnut
- Banana
- Blueberry
- Seaweed
- Carrot
- Soya bean
- Fish
- Egg

Competitive Advantage of Having Strong Memory

Benefits

~Better manage in daily business operation, because you can easily recall the:
- Product knowledge, features and benefits
- Advertising cost
- Storage place for file and documents
- Telephone number
- Name card
- Name
- Face
- Method of typing (e.g.倉頡)

~Effective communication
- Show respect to the customers as you can easily their names

~Enhance confidence
- Confident in presentation

Welcome

Welcome !!!

We are Steven, Cicely and Fion. We are the associate students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong Community College (HKCC). We are doing a group project related to Organizational Learning in Business Enterprises.

For the next few months, we will suggest methods to protect our brain, foods that may help to boost our memory, and several brainstorm methods to enhance remembrance.

Here are some definitions of Memory

(Pic: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/31379877_660ca31ee2.jpg)

Memory: (Revised on 3 March, 2009)

1. The ability to recover information about past events or knowledge.

2. The process of recovering information about past events or knowledge.

3. Cognitive reconstruction. The brain engages in a remarkable reshuffling process in an attempt to extract what is general and what is particular about each passing moment.

(copied from: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11642, last visited 3 March, 2009)


In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information.
(copied from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory, last visited 10 Feb, 2009)

Three Stages of Memory:

1. Sensory (Visual, Auditory, Action)

2. Short term (E.g. Dictation, Test)

3. Long term

Three Key Processes in Memory:

1. Encoding

2. Storage

3. Retrieval

The purpose of this blog is to present a step-by-step guide to train our staffs how to make use of most of your memory. You will find a lot of exercises in it. If you have time, we encourage you to do all of the exercises. They are beneficial to you. Practice makes things prefect!! ^^