Writers’ Paradise

The best way to improve your memory is to exercise your brain. Try doing a few puzzles every day-newspapers usually have a daily puzzle page, or you can buy different kinds of puzzle books, like sudoku.
Learning skills is a great way to train your brain and keep it in shape. Try mastering something new, like learning how to play a musical intrument or learning how to knit.
Brush up on your observational skills. Ask someone to collect together 15 small objects from around the house and place them in front of you on the tray. Study them for thirty seconds, then go away and try to write down all the objects you remember. Alternatively, get your friend to remove one object while you cover your eyes. Guess which object is missing from the tray.
One of the easiest ways to remember things is by repetition. The more you practise this, the faster you will memorize things. Try learning a new poem every week. Read it out loud to yourself a few times until you can recite it by heart.


Mnemonics, which are memory tools, are handy as well. The trick is to associate the information you need to remember with simple sentences. For example, you could use the sentence|”Richard OF York Gave Battle In Vain” to recall the colors that appear in the rainbow, and their order ( Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet).
Rhymes are useful for remembering too. Here is one to help you remember how many days there are in each month:
Thirty days hath September,

April, June and November;

All the rest have thirty-one,

Excepting February alone,

And that has twenty-eight days clear,

And twenty-nine each leap year

Shuffle a deck of cards. Peek at the bottom card and remember it. Ask your friend to pick any card, memorise it, but not show you.

Cut the deck. Hold out the top half of the deck and ask your friend to put their card on top of it. Place the bottom half of th deck on the top of the top half. Tap the deck mysteriously. then turn over the cards,one by one. When you come to the card you saw at the bottom of the pack, you will know your friend’s card is th next.

Ask your friends to try this simple sum. Read it out just as it appears below. Don’t let your friends use a pencil and paper or a calculator-they must figure it out in their heads.

Take 1000 and add 40 to it.

Now add another 1000.

Now add 30.

Now add another 1000.

Now add 20.

Add another 1000.

Finally add 10.

What’s the total?

Your friends will probably say the answer is 5000. Congratulations, you are a maths magician, because this is the wrong answer. The right answer is 4100.

If your friends don’t believe you, make them do the sum again using a calculator as you rad the instructions aloud.

Ask a friend to count the number of Fs in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE

RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC

STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

There are six Fs in the sentence, but most people only count three. This is because many people’s brains don’t register that the word OF contains an F.
Anyone who counts all six Fs on the first go, is a genius.