improve my memory

I’ve been wanting to try Supermemo ever since seeing an interview in wired with the inventor of the method. But I am not confident in the publicly available software. So I made a template in Google docs that mimics the paper method. I want to try it out but I think there are a few more tools I could add (like calendar notifications of repetitions).

This was one of my favorite poems from childhood and I’m in the process of memorizing it in its entirety. It’s very lyrical and has a good rhythm to it with fairly short phrases, all of which makes it easier to recall; however, it’s also rather long. It covers several pages of the little book that I have. I’ve memorized parts of it in the past but this time I’m challenging myself to memorize the whole thing from beginning to end. I’d also like to speed up the process by which I can remember things like poetry and music. So hopefully this will help stretch both my short- and long-term abilities.

It starts out like this: All I could see from where I stood- Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another way, and saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line- Of the horizon, thin and fine- Straight around till I was come- Back to where I’d started from; And all I saw from where I stood- Was three long mountains and a wood.

And it goes on from there. It gets quite dramatic as it continues, and gives me lots to work with visually as well.

Yellow Stars and Ice by Susan Stewart
I am as far as the deepest sky between clouds
and you are as far as the deepest root and wound,
and I am as far as a train in evening,
as far as a whistle you can’t hear or remember.
You are as far as an unimagined animal
who, frightened by everything, never appears.
I am as far as cicadas and locusts
and you are as far as the cleanest arrow
that has sewn the wind to the light on
the birch trees. I am as far as the sleep of rivers
that stains the deepest sky between the clouds,
You are as far as invention, and I am as far as memory.

One of the ways of doing this for me is by memorizing passages of poetry. For some reason, I find it really soothing to recall those lines, for instance when things get stressful or boring. Since it’s in my head, it’s always available.

I’m near to taking this one off. My memory has improved by leaps and bounds since the divorce was final, guess a lot of the problem was STRESS. Stress from the ex, then from the legal stuff. Whew! Glad again to be out of that.

Played a memory game today, and a couple games of mahjong.

Played a memory game today, and a couple games of mahjong.

I bought a book about memory – and I am reading it after work. I try to use the advices from the book.

i need to do this. i will set about this by firstly number crunching every single day. although to be quite frank dear, the entire point of this goal is so that i will remember my number crunching later?
bahhh, humbug.
point is, will first start number crunching everyday. supposedly it helps, should help me? inshallah :)

I feel like an 80 year old in my 20 year old body. Some times i instantly forget what i needed to do.