I’m learning to challenge my perception of memory, as a mature student with menopausal brain fog 😶🌫️ I was convinced I’d flunk a 3 hour essay based exam. The single thing that changed this for me was learning some new memory skills, and an analogy about london cab drivers and brain plasticity. Before and after learning ‘the knowledge’ drivers brains change shape, with the hippocampus area becoming bigger to accommodate all that new information.
I’d definitely become complacent as I’d gotten older, I wrote stuff down less, our lecturer gave us a pop quiz.. I got 3/10 despite loving the subject! It was the nudge I needed to unlearn bad habits like trying to memorise things without prompts!
Making meaningful notes, putting in memory systems and using tech alerts have all helped. ☺️
I am also quite bad with names. I’ve not found a useful way to get better at that , so maybe that needs to be a future blog post!
I call it ‘sticky house syndrome’. I’m always late, no matter how much time I give myself. I think about it a lot but it just never works out.
On memory I’ve just come to accept that mine is terrible. Short term (24 hours) is usually ok but longer term I struggle with. I think it’s because I have too many things racing around in my head all the blumin time so nothing sticks. Sometimes I can’t even remember the most basic things like someone’s name who I know really well. It can be a problem when I’m teaching, trying to remember names of artists 😂 I rely on other people’s memories.
I like that sticky house analogy!
I’m learning to challenge my perception of memory, as a mature student with menopausal brain fog 😶🌫️ I was convinced I’d flunk a 3 hour essay based exam. The single thing that changed this for me was learning some new memory skills, and an analogy about london cab drivers and brain plasticity. Before and after learning ‘the knowledge’ drivers brains change shape, with the hippocampus area becoming bigger to accommodate all that new information.
Here’s a more thought out summary! https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/the-bigger-brains-of-london-taxi-drivers
I’d definitely become complacent as I’d gotten older, I wrote stuff down less, our lecturer gave us a pop quiz.. I got 3/10 despite loving the subject! It was the nudge I needed to unlearn bad habits like trying to memorise things without prompts!
Making meaningful notes, putting in memory systems and using tech alerts have all helped. ☺️
I am also quite bad with names. I’ve not found a useful way to get better at that , so maybe that needs to be a future blog post!
I call it ‘sticky house syndrome’. I’m always late, no matter how much time I give myself. I think about it a lot but it just never works out.
On memory I’ve just come to accept that mine is terrible. Short term (24 hours) is usually ok but longer term I struggle with. I think it’s because I have too many things racing around in my head all the blumin time so nothing sticks. Sometimes I can’t even remember the most basic things like someone’s name who I know really well. It can be a problem when I’m teaching, trying to remember names of artists 😂 I rely on other people’s memories.