--- kindle-sync: bookId: '61613' title: >- Memory Improvement – The Secrets of Memory Manipulation Revealed: Retrain Your Brain to Improve Your Memory and Discover Your Unlimited Memory Potential: ... Remember More (Accelerated Learning Book 1) author: Kyle Faber asin: B07L38J95R lastAnnotatedDate: '2025-02-09' bookImageUrl: 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81IodLBtK+L._SY160.jpg' highlightsCount: 35 --- # Memory Improvement – The Secrets of Memory Manipulation Revealed: Retrain Your Brain to Improve Your Memory and Discover Your Unlimited Memory Potential ## Metadata * Author: [Kyle Faber](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B07L38J95R * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L38J95R * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R) ## Highlights hard sciences of neuroscience, biology, and genetics. On the other side are the softer sciences of psychology and philosophy. This book balances both. — location: [86](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=86) ^ref-59974 --- sensory memories, short-term memories, or long-term memories — location: [89](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=89) ^ref-51183 --- Also, there would be no process to filter the important from the unimportant, so we would be overwhelmed with a massive amount of unnecessary memories. Both would result in a very incoherent mental experience. — location: [95](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=95) ^ref-50211 --- non-declarative memory). — location: [104](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=104) ^ref-59925 --- episodic memory — location: [113](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=113) ^ref-12047 --- semantic memory. — location: [118](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=118) ^ref-39233 --- The brain’s evolution has been largely responsible for humans rising from being third rate scavengers (after the lions and hyenas) in the wild to claiming the pinnacle of the food chain as the dominant species. — location: [128](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=128) ^ref-23794 --- Present day man has a slightly smaller cranial capacity of 1,350 cubic centimeters. The decreased size is the result of the increased efficiency of the modern human brain. — location: [140](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=140) ^ref-27645 --- the basis for any mental improvement or memory enhancement is actively pursuing a need or desire that requires it. — location: [154](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=154) ^ref-57539 --- The memory with the strongest bias or emotion is the one that gets more connections during the encoding process and thus has a better chance of being remembered. — location: [163](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=163) ^ref-13723 --- We tend to remember mistakes more than achievements, and bad events more than good, because that helps to keep us from repeating those. We remember conflict and uncomfortable events because — location: [173](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=173) ^ref-33295 --- Understanding that the brain evolved to remember things based on how much they affect you gives you your first tool for expanding your capacity to remember. — location: [179](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=179) ^ref-61067 --- the first tool to improve your memory is to understand your emotional and mental state, and your motivation for remembering something. — location: [182](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=182) ^ref-41169 --- Are you motivated enough to remember it? — location: [183](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=183) ^ref-36101 --- Goal memory is a powerful tool that the human mind uses to imagine a future and then work toward it. It — location: [188](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=188) ^ref-45466 --- air-gapped — location: [212](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=212) ^ref-59357 --- when you want to remember something, try to put it into a context – give each fragment of information “meaning” by anchoring it to something that you already know. — location: [230](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=230) ^ref-48681 --- Sensory neurons account for less than one percent of the total neurons available, — location: [236](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=236) ^ref-59285 --- motor neurons account for close to ten percent of brain mass. — location: [237](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=237) ^ref-441 --- Neurogenesis and neuroapoptosis are about the birth and death of neurons. Neuroplasticity is about the way neurons change over a lifetime. — location: [247](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=247) ^ref-43773 --- The hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for consolidating and transferring memory into long-term storage, is also where neurogenesis is found to occur. This generation of new neuronal cells is a lifelong process. — location: [261](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=261) ^ref-14663 --- Learn a new language. Do puzzles. Try something completely new. Your memory will be better for it. — location: [264](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=264) ^ref-35347 --- Maintaining a good memory is about creating new neurons and new connections, whether that’s for new memories or simply keeping old memories alive. — location: [276](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=276) ^ref-62295 --- Strategies to accomplish this include everything from paying attention to staying in good health. — location: [292](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=292) ^ref-35838 --- The benefit of having cells that never die is that memories can last a lifetime. — location: [302](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=302) ^ref-28181 --- The only way to generate new neurons is to do new things, travel to new places, experience new sensations. — location: [303](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=303) ^ref-47384 --- So, this means that while the neuron housing the memory may still be alive, the pathways to retrieve the memory may be disappearing. — location: [309](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=309) ^ref-61886 --- "A man never steps in the same river twice, the river is never the same, and neither is the man.” — location: [316](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=316) ^ref-10463 --- re-learning the information that was contained in those neurons. — location: [320](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=320) ^ref-3382 --- triggers the birth of new neurons to replace the dead or damaged ones. — location: [320](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=320) ^ref-43416 --- In the event of damage, the brain continues to use the old neuron but forms new connections in different locations to the existing neuron. — location: [322](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=322) ^ref-22310 --- Some elements are hardwired and are replicated from one generation to the next, while others are there to adapt to current circumstances. — location: [340](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=340) ^ref-52482 --- When you do deep reflection on any subject you are interested in, you are actually triggering activity in the neurons, neuronal pathways, and networks associated with the area you are thinking about. — location: [366](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=366) ^ref-22587 --- asking for a better memory is a powerful tool, — location: [379](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=379) ^ref-9455 --- encoding, storage (which includes consolidation), and retrieval. — location: [392](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07L38J95R&location=392) ^ref-10443 ---