- What are some little things
that you can do every single day to improve your memory
and to improve your thinking and your cognition,
and all that?
The first thing that I'd say is eat healthy, eat healthy.
Your body has something called serotonin.
Serotonin is gonna affect your moods and your thinking.
90% of the serotonin in your body
is found in your gut and your stomach.
The foods that you eat are going to impact your thinking.
Great brain foods are eggs.
Eggs have something in them called choline.
Eggs, fish, avocados.
Types of fish, salmon, specifically.
Spinach has antioxidants in it.
Blueberries has antioxidants in it.
Drinking plenty of water. Exercising.
These are all things that you can do on a daily basis
to improve your memory and your thinking and your moods.
Your moods are gonna affect your memory.
If you are depressed or you have anxiety,
your memory is gonna be poor.
But let me give you some specific things for memory,
and then let's circle back to the foods
to conclude this video.
One of the first things that you can do on a daily basis
to just exercise your brain is everything, every time
you hear a name, turn it into a picture.
You hear somebody named Brian and you think, Brian,
what's a picture for Brian?
Oh, I'll imagine a brain. Brain for Brian.
Ah, you meet a Lisa? Hey, what's a picture for Lisa?
I'll think of a Mona Lisa.
Just get in the habit of asking yourself,
what's a picture for that person's name?
Do you know why you remember faces and not names?
It's because you saw the face. You never saw the name.
The mind remembers what it sees.
So just get in the habit of every time you meet somebody,
turning their name into a picture
and trying to visualize that picture on their face.
That is a great brain exercise,
a great memory game to play with yourself.
Another thing that you could do
is turn numbers into pictures.
For example, you see the number 21.
Ask yourself, what could a two and a one be?
What could 21 be?
Ah, how about blackjack, a deck of cards?
My picture for the number 21 is a deck of cards.
That is a great brain game,
just turning things into pictures.
You see the number eight and you think what can eight be?
Oh, how about a snowman?
Because a snowman kind of is shaped like a number eight.
Start seeing abstract things that really have no meaning,
and numbers certainly have meaning,
but sometimes you're seeing a row.
We cannot assign them a meaning.
Assign them a meaning, but not just any meaning,
a meaning that you can see.
Turn things into pictures. Turn names into pictures.
Turn numbers into pictures.
Start learning and thinking in pictures.
At the end of each night, as you're falling asleep,
ask yourself, what did I do today?
And replay your day in reverse order or in forward order,
but just lay there in bed and think,
okay, what did I do today?
It's better than counting sheep to fall asleep.
The last thing I did was I took off my shoes.
What did I do right before I took off my shoes?
Ah, I brushed my teeth.
What did I do right before I brushed my teeth?
Oh, I turned off the TV, which it's not a good idea
to watch TV right before bed, but let's just say you did.
What did I do right before that?
Oh, I fed my pet bird.
What did I do right before that? Oh, I cooked a meal.
You go replay your day in reverse order.
You'll see what a brain exercise it is.
Or just replay your day in the right order.
Another thing that you can do to kind of practice
during the day, just a memory, engage your brain exercise
is put a bunch of coins in your pocket
and reach in your pocket and try to feel
and determine, oh, that's a quarter, that's a nickel,
that's a dime, without looking at it.
That kind of engaging engages your brain in a new way.
Maybe close your eyes and walk around real slow
around your home, and try and see
if you can remember where everything is
without knocking anything over or hurting yourself.
But that's another way to engage your brain
in a way that you're not used to.
So turn names into pictures. Turn numbers into pictures.
At the end of the day, replay your day
in reverse order or in forward order.
Close your eyes and walk through your house
with your eyes closed, slowly.
Don't hurt yourself.
Reach in your pocket and find, oh, that's a quarter,
that's a nickel, just by the feel on how it,
the touch of it.
Maybe close your eyes and have some spices,
a friend give you some spices, and smell the spices
and see you if you can identify.
Aw, that was cinnamon. Aw, that was peppermint.
See if you can identify things just by smells.
Maybe you want to write with your left hand
if you're right-handed, or with your right hand
if you're left-handed.
Engaging your brain in ways
that it's not normally engaged throughout the day.
And then I said I would circle back to nutrition.
I really think exercise is a great way to engage your brain.
As we age, our brains actually shrink,
the hippocampus, specifically.
One of the few things that can reverse the shrinkage
of your hippocampus is to get out there and exercise.
A great brain game is to exercise. Go for a walk.
Do some pushups, do a sport that you love,
tennis or even ping pong.
Or I do jujitsu. engage your brain.
Drink plenty of water. A dehydrated brain can't focus.
There are a lot of ways out there to engage your brain.
Do you want to learn another one? I teach memory training.
I'm a two time USA memory champion.
I'll put a link down in the description
to my Black Belt Memory course.
It's a course all about improving your memory,
remembering names, and I've got images for 1,600 names
in my memory course.
I have images for numbers up to a thousand.
So, it's a great course.
Click the link down below, Black Belt Memory.
I'll even give you a free gift if you click that link.
You can go to the website and check that out.
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Do not forget. Names, turn them into a picture.
Numbers, turn them into a picture.
Exercise. Play brain games with yourself.
You will see an improvement in your memory
if you exercise your brain.
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