IQ people in the world whose name may have registered in Guinness or Limca book as well, you will find that there is one thing common in all and that is the amazing and outstanding memory. Memory is crucial to everyone. In high technological world today every day we tend to remember huge amount of information like names, account details, contact details, passwords, and many more. In such a scenario if you are equipped with the advanced, smart and brilliant memory, life would be qualitatively much easier, much more different and absolutely much better.
We constantly updated with the new information and yet our brain captures a small portion of it. Most of the information in one ear and out through other. In the series of how of memorize everything you will see the true potential of your memory. I will teach you how to control your brain and how to form astounding memory in your own way.
How would you like to remember the name and faces of people and for how long you want to store this in your memory a day, a week or a year or as long as you want. You would be able to remember a detail article with all the exact details in no time and impress your family and friends. In seconds you can tell the day of the week from last century, past and future.
Let’s first understand “What is memory?”
In our kinder garden we were taught about lion, its shape, colour, wildness. Many of us might have seen it in zoo or in wild life century as well. Our teachers and parents helped us to understand and memorize the information about lion through books reference and pictures or videos. So eventually the information about lion stored in our long term memory. Since that time whenever we heard that name “Lion”, immediately Lion’s image bring into our mind.
That’s the exact process of memory formation.
The process of collecting information about lion through our senses (seeing and hear) was first step of memory formation. The second step was storing and maintaining of lion’s information in memory and final step was retrieval of Lion Image whenever we heard or read its name.
So, memory is the processes that are used to gather, store, retain and retrieve information and past experiences in the human brain. The memory process involves three main stages: encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Let’s understand this with one more example. All of us are very well aware about how computer memory works. For example if you need to prepare a document on a topic say “environment”, you would open a new document in your computer, gather information about the topic and write it down in document. That is the first stage of memory formation as you are taking input called “Encoding or registration”.
In next stage you save the document at its relevant location in Hard disk. That’s the second step of memory formation “Storage”.
In the final stage called retrieval, when you need this information, you would refer the document stored in hard disk.
Surprisingly, the brain has more than enough space to store vast amount of information. Every day, you come into contact with various objects and get information through the five senses touch, vision, hearing, smell and taste. On everyday basis all the information stores, a significant part of that information is going beyond temporary memory and storing into permanent human brain memory.
Although it is difficult to calculate the exact storage capacity for memories in brain, however Paul Reber, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University performed a rough calculation and suggested that the human brain has the capacity to store about 2.5 PETABYTES of data – that’s equal to 2,500,000 Gigabytes, or 300 years worth of TV.
Our mind is a hugely complex organ, with an approximate 100 billion neurons. Each of the neuron has multiple connections passing signals to each other and making about 1,000 trillion connections. These connections continuously receive and analyze sensory information and control our bodies’ actions and functions. Our behavior and actions are the result of information stored in our memory through these connections and gives us the power to think, plan, speak, imagine, dream etc.